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Endless Season Update 12/01/2007
REPORT #1091 "Below the Border" Saltwater Fly-Fishing reports since 1996

East Cape

Beach action for small jacks and roosters, mixed in with schools of sierra feeding on small sardina, was found in shallow water from Rancho Leonero to La Ribera.
Sierra Tip: A sierra has a mouth full of teeth and will play havoc with your fluorocarbon leaders. Use flies tied on long-shanked hooks instead of wire. You may lose an occasional fly but you’ll have many more takes. Your choice in flies should “match the hatch.” Since we don’t have bugs in saltwater, the “hatch” is 2 ½ to 4 inch-long sardina. Olive, gray or beige-backed See Through Deceivers should do the trick, but bring a few Clousers in chartreuse or olive to round out your flybox.
In spite of a couple of days of rain, the tuna and dorado bite was outrageous this week. Even better news was that it was close. Saturday morning, Mark Rayor, Vista Sea Sports, reported “seeing porpoise feeding and birds diving, clearly visible from his front porch”. Of course all the action essentially goes unnoticed with few guests at the hotels to take advantage of the near shore fishing. Reports indicate the offshore billfish action finally choked.
Water temperature 75-80
Air temperature 60-77
Humidity 92 %
Wind: NNE 9 to 12 knots
Conditions: Mostly Cloudy
Visibility 10 miles
Sunrise 6:44 a.m. MST
Sunset 5:31 p.m. MST

Magdalena Bay, Baja Mexico

Magdalena Bay Shrimp Bait or Hors d'oeuvres
Pete Wishney, Foxy Lady, reported extraordinary action inside the Esteros for a mixed bag of critters including snook, corvina, snapper, halibut, pargo, pompano, and grouper. This mix was caught on fly and live shrimp purchased from the pangeros who used nets to catch shrimp commercially inside the bay.
Outside the Entrada, there have been billfish found all the way to the pinnacles outside Punta Tosca. However the best action reported was below Punta Tosca on the flats above the Finger Bank where wide open action with the billfish feeding on the surface was found. There are few yachts --- just local pangas reportedly fishing it.
Water temperature 67 - 75
Air temperature 60 -76
Humidity 99%
Wind: NNW 5 to 6 knots
Conditions: Fog/sunny later
Visibility 0 miles
Sunrise 6:55 a.m. MST
Sunset 5:36 p.m. MST
Zihuatanejo, Mainland Mexico
With the water in a cooling trend, the blue water is averaging about 12 to 15 miles from Zihuatanejo Bay. However, the currents have been changing daily, and going back to the same place you caught fish the day before has not been productive. We are having to locate the fish on a daily basis.

The fleet is averaging about two sailfish a day, per boat. But, because of the cooler water, the blue marlin are showing up again, and in decent numbers. We are averaging about 4 blues a day for the 20 boat fleet.

Adan on the panga Gitana II got a nice blue for his client Mark from San Francisco, and Santiago released another for Glenn Wittur of Kalona, British Columbia. Even though Glenn is an experienced fresh water fisherman, this was his first day ever on the blue water. Within the first two hours, Santiago had tagged and released a sailfish and the blue. I sure hopes he does not think every day is like that.

Adolpho reports the roosters are still up North, and yesterday (Friday) he took 4 for his French client. He also told me the dorado are hitting very well to the South, and in close to the beach.
Ed Kunze
Water temperature 80 - 84
Air temperature 74-95
Humidity 91%
Wind: S at 2mph
Conditions: Partly Sunny
Visibility 6 miles
Sunrise 7:01 a.m. CST
Sunset 6:10 p.m. CST