June is when the warm water season starts properly. Blue marlin and sailfish arrive, dorado school up, tuna improve week by week, and roosterfish are at their best along the beaches. It gets hot and humidity builds late in the month, but the weather is still reliable. One of our strongest months.
June is when the season flips over. Water goes from the mid seventies to around eighty over the course of the month. Air pushes into the upper eighties and low nineties, and by the last week you start to feel humidity that was not there in May. Mornings are still pleasant. Afternoons get heavy.
Hurricane season is technically open, but early season storms rarely reach the cape and most Junes pass without weather worth worrying about. It is not something we would move a trip for. That changes later in the summer.
June days are long. Sunrise is early and the light holds late, so there is time for a full run offshore and a real day of fishing on the far end of it. The heat is easier to manage now than it will be in July or August, because the humidity has not fully arrived. Once it does, the same air temperature feels considerably worse.
The warm water fish arrive. Blue marlin and black marlin move in as the water passes the high seventies, and June is usually the first month you can target them with a straight face. Sailfish come with them. Dorado are on properly now, in schools rather than singles, and they are the fish most likely to fill a cooler.
The first blue marlin of the season are often raised on lures worked over structure and temperature breaks well offshore. Dorado are a different game and they gather around anything floating. A line of debris or a patch of weed can hold a whole school, and finding one is frequently the difference between a slow day and a full box.
Yellowfin tuna improve through the month. Striped marlin are still around, thinner than in winter but far from gone. Roosterfish inshore are at or near their best, which for a lot of anglers is reason enough to pick June specifically.
Gone or going: yellowtail, sierra, and the winter density of striped marlin. Wahoo are not a factor yet.
Offshore. June is a marlin and dorado month and both live out there. If a big blue marlin is the goal, June is the front end of the window that runs into the fall.
Inshore for roosterfish is as good as it gets all year in June and July. Short run, visual fishing, and the fish pull hard for their size. We release roosterfish.
For spearfishing the water is warm, the visibility is generally good, and the target list is longer than it was in spring. June is a strong month in the water as well as on it.
June also suits someone who wants to do more than one thing. Offshore one day, roosterfish inshore the next, time in the water on a third. Not many months on this calendar give you three genuinely good options.
June is a shoulder month and the prices reflect it. Quieter than spring, busier than September. Mexican school holidays start toward the end of the month and you can feel the difference in the last week.
It is hot on land. If you are not on the water you will be looking for shade or air conditioning between roughly noon and four. Build the day around the morning.
Yes. June is one of the strongest months on this calendar. You get the front edge of blue marlin and sailfish season, dorado in numbers, improving tuna, the best roosterfish of the year, and weather that is hot but manageable and still predictable.
Skip June if heat is a problem for you, or if you want striped marlin at their densest. If you specifically want the heaviest yellowfin tuna or the wahoo run, wait for the fall. June is a strong all round month rather than a specialist one.
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The short version of how a trip with Indigo Adventures works. Licences, deposits, boats and what happens to your catch. The full FAQ has the rest.
Read the full FAQ→Indigo Adventures is based in El Pescadero, on the Pacific side of Baja California Sur, a few minutes south of Todos Santos. Boats launch from three points: Punta Lobos beach in Todos Santos, San Jose del Cabo, and the Cabo San Lucas Marina. Which boat runs your trip decides where you meet us.
Custom fishing and spearfishing charters, freediving excursions, whale watching from mid December to April, and kayaking. Every trip is built around your group, your dates and the conditions rather than a fixed timetable, and almost every one goes out private.
Book online on the Book Now page, where availability is live and a 50 percent deposit holds the date. If you would rather we picked the trip, send an enquiry with who is coming, when you are here and what you want out of the day, and we will say which trip fits and which one does not.
No. Everyone fishing in Mexican waters needs a Mexican sportfishing licence, and each angler buys their own. We help you arrange it before the day so nobody is sorting paperwork on the dock. The same licence covers rod and spear.
Rarely. Almost every trip goes out as a private boat for you and your group. If a split makes sense for a small party we will say so when you enquire.
Three on the 24 foot Punta Lobos panga, up to four on La Ruca and La Morita, and up to six on Don Pancho and El Wahoo King. Whale watching numbers run a little higher because nobody is swinging a rod.
Yes. The catch goes home with you. Filleting at the dock, vacuum sealing and freezing are available, and most guests fly home with a cooler. Marlin are mostly released, with judgement on the day.
Yes, on fishing days. The crew rigs and handles the gear and hands you the rod when something eats. Guided spearfishing needs breath-hold experience and runs on a strict buddy system, which is the only legal way to spearfish in Mexico. Water, ice and snacks are normally aboard.
