Captain Temo Verboonen reported an excellent fishing week from Zihuatanejo with clean, blue water close in and lots of sailfish action, a good showing on the blue marlin and good catches on dorado, yellowfin tuna and skipjack tuna. Seems like all of the fish were congregating together in an area from 8-15 miles out in front of Ziuatanejo Bay and just looking for the anglers. The Henry Castillo family from Chino Hills, CA, fishing aboard the "Bloody Hook" with Captain Chiro Barrigan, landed 4 sailfish, a 200 lb. blue marlin, a skipjacck and a few smaller dorado for their two fishing days. The inshore action was still offering excellent roosterfish action with fish to 60 lbs. and still good numbers on the bigger jack crevelle. "Overall, it has been a fun fishing week for the anglers that did go out. Even better, the weather report had continued to report heavy rain but it did not occur. We had a small amount of rain during the Beatriz storm but after that, just a little in the nightime".

IZ Climate:
Mostly cloudy days and temps that ranged from 70 nights to 87 daytime highs. An occasional scattered nightime shower.

Sea Conditions:
Near excellent! Very good water temps that remain stable at 85 degrees, both inshore and offshore, and superb blue-water clarity from about 8 miles offshore.

Best Fishing Area:
Starting at about 8 miles offshore at the clean water break and offshore from there.

Best Bait/Lure:
Trolling baits best for the billfish. Live bait and poppers best on the roosterfish and also working well on the tuna & dorado.

Bait Supply:
Remains readily available.