The offshore fishing has slowed this past week for the Zihuatanejo area and the boats are having to make longer runs for the yellowfin tuna and dorado, reaching out to the 40-mile mark or so. The captains are reporting a few sailfish strikes everyday, closer in, but not near as good as it had been over the past few weeks. While the water temps are good enough, the water clarity has been just so- so and has been changing from one spot to another from one day to the next. According to Captain Temo Verboonen, the area lacks "consistency" with significant current changes almost daily. Temo said the inshore fishing had improved this week, especially in the area around the white rocks at Potosi, (aka Morros de Potosi) and was producing good catches of Jack cravelle, amberjack, bigeye jacks and even a few wahoo. It's been very good action for the spinning tackle anglers using poppers thrown into the schools of small bonito that are being chased by the bigger fish.

IZ Climate: Partly cloudy but warm, toasty days and evenings, with temps from 69 nights to 88 daytime highs.

Sea Conditions: 80 degrees inshore and rising to 82.5 degrees at the 100 fathom curve and outbound from there. Greenish waters inshore and cleaning to a clean-green tint offshore at about 15 miles.

Best Fishing area: Offshore for billfish still is best at about 15 miles or so but tuna and dorado at about 40 miles, requiring a 10- hour fishing day.

Best Lure/Bait: Rigged bait still best for the sailfish and pencil poppers working very well for the inshore catches.

Bait Supply: Not reported but no mention usually means that all is good for the bait supply, both for live and dead baits for rigging.