Last week, we thought the billfish may have already turned the corner, rounding Cabo San Lucas, and headed up into the Sea of Cortez, but now, I think those thoughts were a bit premature given this weeks fishing report. However, it does reflect that the billfish are not holding in a concentrated area as they should be at this time of year. While the better billfish ara continued to be in the Golden Gate Bank area on the Pacific side, the boats also caught billfish on the 1150 fathom spot and Chileno on the Sea of Cortez side. Most all of the smaller game fish, dorado, tuna, etc, came from the Pacific side, once again. The overall combined fish counts for 23 days fished reflected 8 billfish, (7 released) 15 dorado, 5 yellowfin tuna, 11 skipjack tuna, 1 Sierra and 1 roosterfish.

Cabo Climate: Sunny & warm during the early week. Then, partly cloudy days with temps from 56 nights to 81 daytime highs.

Sea Conditions: Cooler waters moving throughout the area on both sides of Cabo. Pacific side has warmest temps from 5 miles above and outside the Golden Gate Bank and running southerly, down across the Jaime Bank and on, outside the 1000 curve, was all at about 70 degrees. This is about a 15 mile wide swath of warmer water. Everywhere else on both sides of the peninsula was in the 67-68 degree temps.

Best Fishing Area: Continues to be on the Pacific side in the Golden Gate Bank area.

Best Lure/Bait: Live bait was by far the best for the billfish.

Live Bait Supply: A good week for bait. Mostly caballitos with a few mackerel.