Hot spots were at 95, Pozo de Cota and Migrino, with a few catches at Golden Gate and Jaime banks. Most of the catches were on the Pacific side and just a couple on the Sea of Cortez

September 29th to October 5th, 2006

WEATHER CONDITIONS: Temperature was between 94F and 97F but the humidity made it feel like 100F. Skies partly cloudy. Seas calm

AVERAGE WATER TEMP: 86F

BEST LURES: Live bait for sailfish and striped marlin, assorted lures for blue and black marlin and dorado

BILLFISH
This week was not that great for billfish with only 34% of the boats came back with marlin flags. Although it wasn’t very good in proportions, we had some boats that did great for their anglers, like C-rod that released a Blue Marlin and landed a 90lbs Sailfish and 4 Dorados for James Sua and Scott Duwitz from Tulsan, OK. The Falcon caught and released one Black Marlin and kept a 325lbs Blue for Dennis Skinner. Mextime released 2 Sailfish and landed 10 Dorados from 20 to 50 lbs for our British friend Mark Bayley. Valerie released 3 Sailfish for Ray Wetter, Sonny and Francis Warrington, that same day; Cabolero released a 290 lbs Blue Marlin for Todd Ryder from Warrenton, VA. On October 5th, Tracy Ann released 1 Blue Marlin and 1 Sailfish and boated 5 Dorados and 3 Yellow fin Tuna for Anthony and Susan Gonzon from Delaware. And Valerie caught a 100 lbs Sailfish and released 4 Dorados for W.J. Andrews. A total of 43 billfish were caught and 37 were released.

OTHER SPECIES:
Great week for Dorado with 69% of the boats coming back with flags, average was 4 fish per boat but we had a few boats with 8 and 10 of them.
Yellow fin tuna decreased a little more, only 12% of the boats caught tuna. A few boats did really good and came back with 5 and 10. Cabolero caught only 4 of them on October 2nd, however, one of them was 150lbs making a great dinner for Ken Cook and Glenn Dyessi from Mississippi. Wahoo decreased too with only 3 catches, we had a Lemon shark and a Juvenile shark both released.