We received an excellent fish report from Mazatlan today, reflecting very good fishing though the week with the boats releasing 2-3 sailfish per boat day, along with good numbers of dorado and yellowfin tuna.  The dorado are averaging 25-30 lbs.  Also in the mix was 5 blue marlin, (3 releases) with the fish all about 200 to 250 lbs.

Mazatlan Climate:  Mostly cloudy this week with temps from 77 nights to 91 daytime highs and an occasional P.M. shower.

 

The fishing really did pick up this past week and best of all, it was just outside the entrance to the Cabo Bay.  High boat for the week was the "Gaviota VII", reporting 9 stripers for 5 fishing days, followed by the "Fish Cabo I" reporting 6 stripers and 4 sailfish for 6 fishing days.  Overall combined fish counts for 38 fishing days reflected 38 stripers, (35 released) 7 sailfish released, 30 dorado, 1 cabrilla and 78 yellowfin tuna.

 

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Bluefin TUNA Thursday Morning
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Wednesday August 20 - This morning we had a passenger who was having a medical problem and had to be airlifted off.  We were lucky as Coast Guard was near by rescuing some people off a sailboat.  So it was very quick and efficient.  Last report is he is doing well.  Fishing today was ok.  We got some jig strikes for a handful of tuna above the island.  In the afternoon we got the anchor down and continued to fish the tuna until a shark shut us down.  So we moved to another spot that had good signs of tuna.  But even though they were showing well they did not want to bite.  The yellowtail however did bite and we got some big hombart yellowtail for about an hour and a half until the shark found us from the previous spot and shut us down again.  So we tried to out smart him and swung back up to the original spot and got into some 20-55 pounders. 

Tomorrow we will be in a different area and should be fishing by 9:30 tomorrow morning.  Our weather is ok.  There was some wind going down, but not a bad ride.   And it was beautiful calm in the lee of the island.  Chef Rick is on board this trip and made a great roasted chicken with a garlic cream sauce, zucchini and rice.  And dessert was Death by Chocolate.  Really good.  Thanks for checking in.

Drew and crew

 

Cloudy in the morning....becoming mostly sunny.
Temperature 66s-74s F.
Light winds
Swells 2 ft
Water temp 62s F.

Simon Avalos (right) and his father Art Avalos from Rosemead Ca. fished on Vonny-I with Beto (left) on a afternoon run for halibut and they managed a limits of halibut on of which weighed 27 pounds on a drift.