Overall Catch Success Rate 83% BILLFISH: This week we kept receiving calls from concerned clients about a new storm they saw on the news, however, no sign of rain in Cabo, Thursday was a bit cloudy but no rain at all. The billfish count went up this week with almost 52% of the charters coming back with blue flags. We had an amazing start to the week when "Tracy Ann" released one blue marlin estimated at 250lbs and landed two yellow fin tuna for Larry Hemingway from Kingwood TX. Later on in the week the "Rebecca" caught a 300 lbs Blue for Rick Walsh, longtime friend andclient from Ohio. Next day, the "Adriana" caught a 220 lbs Blue marlin for our friend Edward John Friesen from British Columbia, Canada. On August 3rd the "Great Escape" released one Striped Marlin , one Sailfish and landed 8 Dorados for Allison Baumgarten from Dellaire, TX. "Tracy Ann " released 3 stripers on the 5th for Jillian Rifkin and Chanel Boyd from Los Angeles CA and on this same day "Ruthless" released 2 striped marlin for our good friend Dr. Jorge Garcia from Chicago IL, "Adriana" released one sailfish and one striped marlin for Kirk & Kristina Erickson from San Jose CA. A total of 23 Billfish were caught, 19 were released. This reports shows that clients in the know fish this time of year; practically all of our clients this week were repeat customers. OTHER SPECIES: Small game catches dropped a little bit this week, down to 56% of the boats catching Dorado and 20% catching yellow fin tuna. Dorado is scattered all over from Destiladeras on the Sea of Cortez to Elias Calles on the Pacific side. Average catch of Dorado was 4 fish per boat although "Ruthless" caught 10 of them for Peter Beatle from Tauranga, New Zealand. On July 30th "La Brisa" caught 6 dorados and a 45 lbs Wahoo for Lance Lerud from Great Falls, MT. LOCATION: Sea of Cortez; Destiladeras, Chileno Bay, Herradura, on the Pacific at Los Arcos, Golden Gate, Elias Calles. WEATHER CONDITIONS: Hot and sunny except for Thursday with 6 hours of clouds. AVERAGE WATER TEMP: 88F BEST LURES: Purple lures, live bait, cedar plugs. Based on the catches of Pisces by Jorge Narro & Tracy Ehrenberg