Perfect weather. Perfect water. Sunny days. Just a hint of breeze. Very little humidity. Could not ask for better conditions. It has been some of the best weather of the season. Like a postcard for the Chamber of Commerce!


So...what happened to the fish?


The week started well with a nice jag of wahoo and a smattering of tuna mixed in with decent dorado, especially around Cerralvo Island. Dark-colored deep-running Rapalas put the hurt to the wahoo...up to 50 pounds...live bait enticed the tuna...while the dorado ate pretty much anything. Some sailfish and marlin were hooked. The week looked promising!


Then, it sort of just fizzled. It was like the fish took a holiday or something. We struggled to get even a single dorado to bite and we resorted to having to go inshore for sierra, pargo and cabrilla. Mix it up with some rooster fish and jack crevalle and that's the bite.


I wish I knew. Last week when we had a full moon...in fact we had a full lunar eclipse...the fish bit pretty nicely. This week with a minimal moon, the fish are all lock-jawed.


Maybe things are cooling down a little too fast. You can feel a bit of fall/winter in the air and northern winds are starting to creep in. So, maybe the fish are adjusting. But the middle of the week the bite literally just seemed to die.


As we turned the corner into the weekend, thankfully things picked up! For no explainable reason. I didn't notice anything that had changed. But... Dorado started crashing again plus a few wahoo, billfish and rockfish (pargo and cabrilla) so that rescued the latter part of our week. Hopefully things stay on the upside for awhile as we head down the backside of the season.