The surface water temperature satellite photo from Terrafin shows a scrambled egg pattern from the shoreline to over 50 miles out, bouncing around between 82 and 84 degrees. However, this has had less of an effect on the fishing than the blue water moving out to about 20 miles. The clean water is still found at about the six-mile mark, but the game fish are mostly being taken in the blue water, meaning runs of 20 to 28 miles.

The boats not making the run are only averaging about o0ne sailfish or a striped marlin a day each. The boats going the distance are each averaging about three fish a day. Sometimes it is two sailfish and one striped marlin like Adolfo had on the panga Dos Hermanos, or two striped marlin and one sailfish like Cheva on the Dos Hermanos II.

The blue water has been pushed out this week due to the large volume of fresh water coming from the numerous nutrient rich streams and rivers we have here on the coast. This last week has seen rain almost every night, and even a couple of daytime rains. Some of the early morning rains were very intense, with one particular two-hour deluge of about 6" between 5:00 and 7:00 in the morning. The Terrafin satellite photo measuring the chlorophyll (pigment from organic plant life) of the water shows the results of this occurrence with high concentrations of chlorophyll in the vicinity of the rivers and streams, and out about five to six miles. And, because of the high concentrations of chlorophyll and stained water coming out of the rivers, the good roosterfish action we were having early in the week was disrupted substantially. It has come down to findin! g clean water where you find the roosters; Paul Ruzumna, of Chicago, fly fished with Cheva and me on the panga Dos Hermanos. We first tried casting to the two to three pound green jacks (cocineros) in the boiling waters off the rocks at the White Rocks. Then we went after roosters, finally getting one around 18 pounds about noon.