Billfish Baby Strikes Again EAST CAPE, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO Sat., May 26, 2001 TEMPERATURES: High of 97 with a low of 74 and some wind in the afternoon. STRIPED MARLIN - Plenty on the Eighty Eight as well as in front of La Ribera. A few blues and lots of sailfish. YELLOWFIN TUNA - Cabo Pulmo producing fair catches, but mostly down deep and not good for the fly-fisher. DORADO - From 10 miles off of Punta Pescadero to the Eighty-Eight is producing some of the larger variety, up to 50 pounds. .. ROOSTERFISH - Good show every morning in front of Rancho Leonero and Buenavista Beach Hotel. JACK CREVALLE - Good catches continue from both the pontoon boat and the shore. BARRILLETE OR MEXICAN SKIPJACK - A few scattered everywhere. PARGO AND CABRILLA - A Few in front of Rancho Buena Vista. .. OFFSHORE: Good catches reported by all the hotels. For the fly angler, it has been tough because the fish are just not real aggressive on artificials. .. INSHORE: Plenty of roosters every morning in front of both Rancho Leonero and the Buenavista Beach Hotel. However, with the huge amount of bait in the water it is tough to get them to take a fly. .. BEACH: La Ribera continues to hold lots of sardinia and the afternoons have been great for jacks chasing the sardinia. .. QUICK COMMENT - Mark and Becky Rogers, Gilroy, Calif., had a slow first day on the pontoon boat. But on their second day, the bites kept coming and coming and coming and when it was all over, they’d caught, roosters, jacks, sierra and pargo all within casting distance of Rancho Leonero pier. Glenn Starr, our resident fly tier down Mexico-way from San Diego to conduct saltwater fly-tying seminars for our clients, went out yesterday morning on Mosca 1 with our guide Jeff DeBrown and enticed an estimated 125 pound striped marlin with one of our "Billfish Babies" that he ties for us. A pink and white number was just what the marlin was looking for. See our new feature Catch of the Week http://www.bajafly.com/weeklycatch.htm MAGDALENA BAY, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO Sat., May 25, 2001 Temperatures: 78-degree high; low in the mid 60's. Fair skies with wind in the afternoon. TUNA - No catches reported. YELLOWTAIL - Fair catches near Santa Margarita Island on the surface. CORVINA - Good catches near Punta Belcher close to the sandy beach. SNOOK - Not much to report. HALIBUT - Not bad near Punta Belcher .. QUICK COMMENT - Good white seabass bite near Punta Belcher. If you had a white whistler with a red collar it was hard to go wrong.