A little upward trend this week as the water temps reflected a little increase for the offshore areas and apparently inspired the fish to react. Overall fish counts for 26 days reflected 16 stripers, 1 sailfish, 13 mako shark and 3 dorado for the offshore fishing. The inshore fishing for 9 reported days reflected a wide variety of bottom critters that included 1 corvina, 97 barracuda, limits of mojarres, 1 mako shark, 25 pargo, 15 burros, 70 cochitos, 5 loras, 1 vaqueta and 35 roncachos.

Mazatlan Climate: Mostly sunny and warm condittions, temps from 57 nights to 84 dayttime highs.

Sea Conditions: Inshore temps at 75 and the offshore temps rising to 78 degrees, mostly calm with light surface winds.

Best Fishing Area: There is still no concentration of fish, albeit, most of the boats are now fishing out to the southwest of the Marina El Cid, 20-30 miles.

Best Lure/Bait: The slow trolled, rigged mullet, remain the best for this area and there was no mention of any artificials.