Tourists continue to arrive in the Los Cabos area to take advantage of the pristine winter time weather. Mostly sunny skies, with high temperatures reaching the mid 80s, the early mornings are now where you might want a sweatshirt or wind breaker. Northern winds have not been a problem yet and ocean conditions are very comfortable, especially so on the Sea of Cortez side of the peninsula. Water clarity has been very good, blue water found within a couple of miles of shore and ocean temperatures are continuing to be slightly warmer than usual for late November, now averaging 79 to 82 degrees.

Mackerel baitfish have been abundant on the Pacific and this is where the billfish action continues to be concentrated, the schools of marlin are starting to swift from the Golden Gate closer to Cabo San Lucas off of El Faro, double digit catch and release on striped marlin ranging 80 to 120 pounds have been common. Dorado action has been good throughout the area,

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Ideal fall weather conditions in the Los Cabos area attracting sizable crowds of visitors, many of them serious anglers, searching for billfish, dorado, yellowfin tuna, wahoo and other gamefish that might be present on the local fishing grounds. Sunny skies with high temperatures of about 85 degrees and morning temperatures in the 60s are pleasantly comfortable compared to many places in the north where wintry conditions are now prevailing. Winds out of the north have been slight, ocean swells are minimal and water temperatures are averaging 79 to 82 degrees, a couple of degrees above average for this time of year.

The fast and furious action for striped marlin continues on the Pacific, most notably on the Golden Gate Bank, where double digit catch and release for the billfish have been the rule, not the exception. Schools of mackerel holding in this same area are attracting huge numbers of the marlin, the recent full moon phase did not even seem to have an effect on the bite. We expect this action will start to shift closer towards Cabo San Lucas in the coming weeks, as the schools baitfish start to migrate in a direction towards the Sea of Cortez.

The action for yellowfin tuna, dorado and wahoo, all of the preferred eating species have been more consistent on the fishing grounds from Santa Maria, to the Gordo Banks and north towards the Iman Bank. Anglers have had to have patience trying to find their daily supplies of live sardinas, as the baitfish have become scarcer, with the main congregations now being found off of the Palmilla area, in rocky spots, difficult for the commercial pangueros to reach in the surf zone. Caballitos have been netted off of the rock jetties at the entrance to Puerto Los Cabos, these baits have worked for dorado and an occasional wahoo, but for the yellowfin tuna