Mazatlan is having some excellent billfish action with the Pacific striped marlin and most of the boats are reporting multiple opportunities for the billfish on a daily basis. According to Fleet Manager, Gernonimo Cevallos, the boats are having 4-5 shots at billfish everyday but only about 20% of the billfish are interested in chasing the rigged baits with most of the fish just sinking out on the presentations. Still, it appears that the action will continue for awhile and it probably reflects some billfish movement from the Cabo San Lucas side, across to the mainland side. Charters have been considerably slow this past week and only reflected 4 offshore fishing days that resulted in 7 stripers and 1 mako shark for the angler efforts. The inshore fishing produced some good small game action and reflected 14 jack crevalle, 1 corvina, 1 striper, 25 white snapper, 16 red snapper and 35 perch for their 5 days fished.

Mazatlan Climate: Partly cloudy days with light & variable surface breezes and temps that ranged from a cool 48 degrees at night to 81 daytime highs.

Sea Conditions: Overall, very good sea conditions that kept the area nearly flat calm with inshore temps at 70 degrees and rising to 74 degrees offshore, at about 20 miles or so and bluing up to good billfish waters.

Best Fishing Area: The better billfish area is now about 20 mils out to the southwest of the Marina El Cid and outbound from there.

Best Bait/Lure: The rigged baits, slow trolled from the outriggers, were best for the billfish.

Bait Supply: Remained very good throughout the week for both, live bait and fresh dead baits for rigging.