The Magbay Madness has begun as the lighter crowds and prevailing North winds are the tell tale signs that winter is not far away. Moderate day time temperature with cool mornings are delightful but, definitely the early indicator of transitioning from our summer pelagic fishing to our traditional cold water species. That being said I just want to remind everyone that last year we were blessed with a incredible winter Tuna fishery that lasted thru March. Just maybe we’ll get a repeat of that craziness.

Thursday was our first real winter northerly wind lasting for 5 days and closing the port for 2 of the days. The water is starting to green up, inshore temps are around 80 degrees, offshore 81-83 degrees. Magbay has been safe from the winds that stirred up the water in the Cortez side, and the visibility is great in the pacific’s deep blue.

Sardines are still available near Tecolote, unfortunately they’re small and we’re having to drop down to #4 circle hooks and light leaders to accommodate these little pinners. We haven’t seen any signs yet of mackerel in the bay but they should start to show up as the water continues to cool.

Chihuili and Bolitos are widely available on the seamounts. These baits slowed trolled with wire leaders are still bringing a few wahoo to the docks daily. Dorado are still feeding on the current lines, although the numbers are dropping off the fish are still nice quality. We had a boat this week find a small tree drifting in one of the current lines that was holding hundreds of Dorado. They caught their limits in literally minutes.