The blue marlin have shown up and moved in close, inside the 20 mile mark. High boat for the week was Captain Victor Nunez, aboard the "Aries II", with 3 blue marlin for the week. According to Geronimo Cevallos, the numbers of charters is very slow but the fishing has improved considerably. The fish counts for the offshore waters included 6 sailfish and 7 blue marlin, along with good numbers of dorado in the 15-20 lb. ranges. The inshore super pangas are doing very well with the dorado at the shark buoys and the action continues to be fast with most having easy limit fishing.

Mazatlan Climate: Raining the past two days, but no wind and calm seas, temps from

Sea Conditions: Calm, temps from 82-83, both inshore and offshore.

Best Fishing Area: At the shark buoys for dorado and for the blue marlin, too.

Best Bait/Lure: Live bonito for the blue marlin and even for the dorado. Sailfish mostly on the rigged baits.