Captain Temo Verboonen reflected on the Christmas week as Santa's gift to the anglers. He reported "great fishing through the week as the blue water swung in toward the beach within 12 miles of Zihuatanejo Bay and brought the sailfish, dorado and yellowfin tuna with it". Adding, "the inshore fishing is very good and the big schools of sardinas are attracting all of the inshore fish, including the roosterfish, jack cravelle, Sierra and bonito. As always, the bigger fish are chasing the schools of bait and really do want to bite most anything that goes through the water." It's fun fishing for the light tackle anglers and offers good, fast action once the bait schools are located.

IZ Climate: Mostly sunny and warm days with a few passing clouds and temps that varied from 66 nights to 88 daytime highs.

Sea Conditions: The inshore waters have a clean greenish tint that fades out and starts to clean up at 7-8 miles and becoming very clean & blue at 10-12 miles. Temps range from 84 inshore and rise gently to 85 degrees at about 8-9 miles. Light surface breezes and flat seas.

Best Bait/Lures: The offshore catches were good on rigged baits, live bait and artificials, too, especially for the tuna & dorado. Inshore was good with streamers, bait strips, live bait and poppers all working well.

Best Fishing Area: Starting at about 12 miles, where the clean and warm water began.

Bait Supply: Good supply without interruption for both live and rigged baits.