An improvement for anglers fishing Mazatlan this past week as the water temperatures had made a noticeable increase throughout the offshore area. Still, the overall fishing days reflected the same trend as from Cabo San Lucas, with very few boat fishing days and short angler supply for what is normally a busy fishing period. The inshore fishing reflected excellent action that kept anglers at the rails and busy with catching. The overall offshore fish counts for 7 days reflected 1 striper, 2 sailfish, 8 dorado and 1 mako shark and the inshore action for 5 days fished reflected 25 jack cravelle, 36 corvina, 39 roncachos, 29 mojarres and 4 Vaquetas, (the first reported for many months).

Mazatlan Climate: Sunny during early week and moving to cloudy during the latter week. Temps from a cool 51 nights to 79 daytime highs.

Sea Conditions: Very light surface breezes from the northerly directions and little swell. Temps from 73 inshore to 75-77 offshore and the water had a greenish tint to about 10-12 miles, then bluing with good clarity.

Best Fishing Area: None reported as the boats worked many areas looking for concentrations of fish.

Best Lure/Bait: The rigged trolling baits were best for the offshore waters and shrimp and squid best for the majority of the inshore fishing with exception to the toro which bit well on live bait, poppers and rapalas.

Bait Supply: Both live bait & rigged baits were readily available.