THE GAVIOTA SPORTFISHING FLEET AND FISH CABO FLEET

Another difficult billfish catching week week and even the dorado counts fell off with the full moon phase. Throw in about 10 hours of hard rain on Tuesday and one could say it just isn't the way it's supposed to be when fishing from Cabo San Lucas at this time of year. The lack of fish has perpetuated into a lack of anglers and boats fishing. The overall fish counts for the offshore areas for 19 combined fishing days reflected 2 stripers released, 28 yellowfin tuna, 6 skipjack tuna, 37 dorado, 29 yellowtail and 42 sierra.

Cabo Climate: From a very rainy Tuesday (10 hours of rain) to mostly sunny and warm by the weekend with temps from 57 nights to 79 daytime highs.

Sea Conditions: Falling on the Pacific with temps from the Finger Bank to Cabo Falso at 72 and then rising to 73-74 by the Gorda Banks area.

Best Fishing Area: The boats are starting to search wider areas as no concentration of fish were showing up in the normal Pacific side area.

Best Bait/Lure: Live bait was best for the 2 stripers and dorado and for the yellowtail. Most of the tuna were taken on feathers & cedar plugs.

Live Bait Supply: Remained good through the full moon, but mostly caballitos.