Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Picante Sportfishing report for the week of 20-26 June 2011.

Summer is officially here, at least, according to the calendar. The
weather is definitely heating up. We are up in the 90's Fahrenheit, air
temperature, but we still have some cool water hanging around the tip of
the Baja, in the high 60's and low 70's Fahrenheit. The water on the Sea
of Cortez side has warmed up, with water on the Gordo Banks, the 1150
and 95 spots into the upper 70's and lower 80's Fahrenheit. With the
temps still around 80 the big Black and Blue Marlin are not here in
numbers, but there have been a few caught, but not enough to brag about.
And the Striped Marlin numbers have been a little down. That is probably
due to the boats targeting the Yellowfin Tuna. Catches have been good
with boats averaging about 3.7 tuna per boat. And the 3.7 number refers
to the average over the all the boats, even though there have been some
partial fish brought in because of Shark predation. The sharks have been
very active and around in pretty good numbers.

The Dorado fishing is starting to pick up with some multiple catches,
but few Wahoo are being caught. But the word is out that the Roosterfish
are around and one was caught while trolling for marlin last week. It
was estimated to be over 60 pounds. And with the continuing warming up
of the water, we can expect the Roosterfish fishing to heat up. Up the
coast there have already been some large Roosterfish being caught. And
now it is Cabo's turn.

Look for more numbers of the Blue and Black Marlin being caught in the
next few weeks and through to the end of the year. Tight lines.