EAST CAPE AND MAGDALENA BAY FISHING CONDITIONS EAST CAPE, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO IN GENERAL: While the wind surfers continue to enjoy one of the best seasons in recent memory, fishing has been – and continues to be – tough with the strong north winds. On the days that the boats do get out they are reporting fair catches of smaller dorado, a few tuna and marlin. Back inshore the sierra continue to be the best bet early morning before the wind picks up. AIR & SEA: Hi 82° Lo 61° Wind: N /7 mph Humidity: 36% Dewpoint: 58° Visibility: 15 Sea Temps: 67 - 69 degrees, look at the hard edge along 109 00 20W extending from Los Frailes almost to the 88. .. OFFSHORE: Wind has been up and down, but the boats did manage to get out. Best action for dorado and a few striped marlin was down outside of Las Frailes on the temperature break. .. INSHORE: Anywhere from Rancho Leonero to Punta Arena is producing good catches of sierra. Still a few yellowtail reported in front of La Ribera. The yellows are fairly deep and it is going to take some patience to work a Baja Deep Diver down deep enough to get a take. Use a 350-grain shooting head system and let the fly sink a long time before trying a strip, strip pause . . . retrieve. Up toward Punta Pescadero Jim and Betsey Donnely, of Scottsdale Ariz., did pretty well on the pargo and cabrilla bite near the tuna slide. Clousers did the trick and they ended up with a double-digit count for the day. .. BEACH: Not bad action for jacks between Rancho Buena Vista and the arroyo in front of the Pemex station. BILLFISH - Best down toward Las Frailes. YELLOWFIN TUNA - A few outside of Cabo Pulmo. DORADO -A fair number of smaller fish spread out Las Palmas Bay. ROOSTERFISH - A few smaller fish mixed in with the schools of jacks. JACK CREVALLE - Mostly smaller fish, every once and a while the larger ones show up slamming into a school of sardinia. BARRILETE OR MEXICAN SKIPJACK - A few outside of La Ribera. PARGO AND CABRILLA - Spend some time exploring the rocky shore in front of the tuna slide and you won't be disappointed. SIERRA - Plenty along the sandy beaches between La Ribera and Punta Colorada and don't forget the wire bite tippet! Catch of the Week Photo: http://www.bajafly.com/weeklycatch.htm MAGDALENA BAY, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO Wed., Feb, 27, 2002 IN GENERAL: Pompano and a few corvina where the mainstay up in the esteros. Out at the entrada, most of the catches were down deep with only a few yellowtail and other miscellaneous bottom fish. Outside the entrada in the Pacific, there are a still a few dorado and smaller yellowfin tuna. The number of whales has continued to grow inside the bay and the whale watching has been some of the best in several years. If you want to get up close and personal with the whales of Baja, now is the time. Here’s a new one for you: There was a yellowfin tuna caught in the esteros this week up toward Devil’s Curve that weighed an estimated 30 pounds (no, it was not on a fly). Like I keep saying, “It is not what bites, but what might!” Unanswerable Question of the Week: What was that tuna doing up in the shallow esteros? AIR & SEA: Partly cloudy skies and 69-62 degrees with some wind in the afternoon. YELLOWTAIL - Best near the entrada. CORVINA - Only the smaller variety. SNOOK - Colder water seems to have pushed them further up in the esteros. HALIBUT - Not very big, but pretty aggressive on a small Clouser. SIERRA - Best on the current seams near the entrance. Catch of the Week Photo: http://www.bajafly.com/weeklycatchmagbay.htm