The "talk of the town" is Hurricane Rick and even though there was a 3-day port closure, including the first day of the Bisbee Tournament, it looks like the storm has completely dissipated and was downgraded to a tropical storm. According to Roberto Marquez, owner of the Fish Cabo Fleet, the overall weather and conditions as of Wednesday, November 21, 2009, were easily fishable, even though the port was still closed. He says, "we were very lucky with this one. It fell apart, passed by many miles away and left us a lot of much needed rain and not too much wind. Pretty amazing how it could go from a category 5 hurricane to a tropical storm in about 48 hours. There was virtually no real damage to the boats or the Marinas or the town and the boats will be back to fishing come tomorrow morning. The Bisbee Tournament will now fish Thursday, Friday, Saturday, one day later than scheduled and it should work out perfectly for the anglers. The fishing was good before the closure and should be back to normal very rapidly". Up to that point, we reflected excellent fishing with dorado holding the limelight. Total combined counts reflected for 35 days fished produced 14 yellowfin tuna, ("Gaviota V" landed a 100 lb. yellowfin tuna at the Jaime Bank on a live caballito) 4 sailfish, 122 stripers and 287 dorado for the fleets.

Cabo Climate: Rainy & Windy during the early week and back to normal by Thursday, with temps from 74 nights to 86 daytime highs.

Sea Conditions: Golden Gate Bank to Cabo Falso was 81 degrees and from Cabo to Las Frailes, rising to 86 degrees.

Best Fishing Area: Continues to be along the Pacific side from Cabo Falso to the Jaime and Golden Gate Banks.

Best Lure/Bait: The dorado action continues to be good on both, artificials and live bait. The largest of the yellowfin taken on live bait and the billfish were mixed with sailfish on the live bait and a few marlin on the lures.

Live Baitt Supply: Remains good with mostly caballitos available.