Hurricane Henriette Leaves Mud & Dorado

Henriette dumps plenty of water
Endless Season Update 09/08/2007
REPORT #1079 "Below the Border" Saltwater Fly-Fishing reports since 1996
East Cape
In spite of assurances that Hurricane Henriette would head out to the west missing Baja Sur, she made landfall on Tuesday on southern Baja leaving plenty of mud and debris in the wake of strong winds and lots of rain. Damage was minimal except for a couple of arroyos that filled up and all the main streets in town that had been dug up to replace the sewer pipes turned into a muddy mess.
Before the storm the fishing had been reasonably good and the action has once again picked up where it left off.

While the sailfish seemed to have taken a powder, the “stripeys” and blues provided the best action in the billfish department this week with the better action down to the south.

All the debris which was washed down out of the arroyos was just the cover needed to attract the dorado in closer to shore. Yellowfin tuna action remained close to shore but has moved farther down outside of Punta Colorada.

Don’t bother looking for much along the beach until later this week as they took a pretty good hit from the large wind waves that thrashed the beach.

Water temperature 78-87
Air temperature 76-96
Humidity 85%
Wind: NW 8 to 11 knots
Conditions: Mostly Cloudy
Visibility 7 miles
Sunrise 7:01 a.m. MDT
Sunset 7:38 p.m. MDT

Magdalena Bay, Baja Mexico

According to Diana Hoyt, our Clients, Tom St. Pierre and his friend from Orangeville, CA, fled the East Cape with Hurricane Henriette on their tail but found excellent dorado and yellowtail action offshore while the East Cape dealt with the wind and rain.


Water temperature 64 - 76
Air temperature 72 -92
Humidity 77%
Wind: WNW 16 to 21 knots
Conditions: Partly Cloudy
Visibility 6 miles
Sunrise 7:08 a.m. MDT
Sunset 7:47 p.m. MDT

Zihuatanejo, Mainland Mexico
The heavy rains from late last week did just about as predicted. The fishing has been fairly slow this week, due to the water conditions being affected by the 9 inches of rain we got in a 24 hour period.

On Thursday, Santiago, on the panga Gitana, went 24 miles and still had yet to find blue water, nor did he get a strike from any kind of a fish. He told me this morning (Saturday) he was heading out to the 1,000 fathom line (30 miles) or beyond to find the fish.

There were several reports of lots of dorado being taken by the commercial pangeros, but all of them were 30 to 35 miles.

The inshore is still murky and probably will not clear up for another week.

Ed Kunze
Water temperature 80 - 84
Air temperature 70-90
Humidity 95%
Wind: E at 21 mph
Conditions: Cloudy (rain)
Visibility 8 miles
Sunrise 7:32 a.m. CDT
Sunset 8:01 p.m. CDT