Pacific side on Jaime Banks and Old lighthouse. Sea of Cortez on Land’s End, Chileno Bay, all the way up to San Jose and Destiladeras

July 6th to July 13th, 2006

WEATHER CONDITIONS: Lots of white caps this week with some strong winds from the southeast, waves were 3 to 7ft on both the Pacific and Sea of Cortez, mostly sunny but it turned a bit cloudy at the end of the week

AVERAGE WATER TEMP: Pacific Side from 75F to 81F. Sea of Cortez from 81F to 83F

BEST LURES: Lures worked better starting the week but live bait was better at the end

BILLFISH
This week we have an overall success rate of 77%. Billfish catches dropped down to 46%. A total of 50 Billfish were caught and 44 were released. July 8th, Rebecca released 3 Striped Marlin and 1 Blue Marlin for Steve Drapeau & Penny Horowitz from Berkeley, CA. On July 10th Ruthless released 2 Striped Marlin and boated 1 for Robert Widing & Noelle Panczel from Grover Beach, CA. On July 11th Valerie released 3 Striped Marlin for Ann Snyder, Mike Zuest, Melissa Lango and Gybelle Guerrero, Rebecca released 2 Stripeys, a grouper and 4 Rooster fish for Kyle & Danny Ziemmer from Lakewood, CA. Ni Modo caught 4 Striped Marlin for Richard Wilson, unfortunately 2 of them died, the 31ft Halcon released a Blue Marlin, a Striped Marlin and a yellowfin tuna for Edward Johnston & Steven Podsednill from Sacramento CA. On July 12th, both Adriana and Rebecca released 2 Striped Marlin, and Ni Modo released 1 Stripey and landed a 180lbs Pacific Sailfish for Roger Thom from Burnet, TX. Adriana released 3 Striped Marlin and kept 2 30lbs yellowfin tuna for Reinhold & Trevor Gartner from San Carlos, CA. and Valerie released 2 Striped Marlin and 2 Dorado for Spencer With & John Infante from Coppell, TX.

OTHER SPECIES:
Dorado is still very slow with a success rate of 16%, average size 40lbs. Tuna is getting even better, with a success rate of 42% and some boats did excellent on the catches like Andrea on July 9th, caught 18 yellowifin tuna between 15 to 30 lbs and 3 Dorados for James & Kathy Horn and Keith & Candi McConnell, that same day, Rebecca caught 10 tunas for Robert Widing and Charles Hotchkiss. C-ROD released 15 tunas on July 12th, and Cabolero gets the first place with 20 tunas between 20-30lbs for Marc Lee.
We had a small improvement on the small game like Roosterfish and Grouper.