Tailhunter Fish Report

THE LA PAZ/ LAS ARENAS FISHING REPORT FOR FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Photo 1 : Yellowtail like this one caught by Bob Simpon of Paso Robles CA being helped by popular Captain Chito are starting to make their presence known early in the season

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WATERS WARMING AS PARGO START TO BITE BUT WINDS BACK UP TOO WHILE TUNA TEASE TO NORTH!

La Paz / Las Arenas Fishing Report for Feb. 18, 2008

Photo1 – These are the big cubera snapper or dog-tooth snapper generically called “pargo”

Photo 2– Beth is holding up another type of “pargo.” These are the “pargo lisa” or “mullet snapper.” Another tough fish to get outta the rocks. This is Punto Perrico behind her.

THE FISH REPORT

Waters warming rapidly. In some places from Espiritu Santo Island south to Cerralvo and Pescadero there’s patches of 70 plus degree waters. That’s unseasonably warm. However, after two weeks of really great weather, the winds kicked in again towards the back end of the week making the waters go bump. Sierra were the mainstay fish near the islands or anywhere there was a deeper drop off near rocks. We did have some of the big pargo start biting off Las Arenas. I say “biting” because “catching” is the other half of the equation and putting them into the boat after they bite is probably the toughest part. One of our clients had six “biters” but each time got busted in the rocks. The captains confirmed they were pargo and not rocks because the clients got pretty skeptical after awhile! Rocks don’t move!

I know we didn’t have many clients this week, but just by way of an outlook, with the way the water are warming, we could and hopefully will see more of the pelagic blue water species soon. From talking to amigos, that body of striped marlin that starts coming arond the Cape about November/December seems like it’s started it’s migration east and north up into the Sea of Cortez. If we do start to see them, many times they are just lying on the surface rather lethargically. It can get frustrating to see so many marlin being “flojo” lazy bums and not willing to take a bait, but it seems they’re just getting used to things. When they do start going, it can be all out pandemonium. There were times the last two years during the striped marlin run when we had 2, 3 and one time even five billfish going on at the same time. What a “firedrill” that was! Last year during May and June I could almost guarantee a billfish hookup. We’ll keep you posted if we start seeing them showing up. They’ll most likely hit the East Cape before we get them since the EC is about 50 miles further south.

Just a few notes:

Commericial pangeros had some 40 pound tuna come up on them at the north side of Cerrlavo Island. They were gone the next day and not worth the gas for us to check them out since there were no guarantees they’d still be there and the clients didn’t want to run that far for fish that might not be there.

Also, whales are really in nicely right now at Bahia Magdalena. We have clients out whalewatching this week and our clients last week had quite a few whales coming right up to the pangas.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS

Our next show is the biggie…Fred Hall Fishing and Boating Show at Long Beach. This is the largest show on the West Coast. It’s March 7-11 and always brings them out in droves. Alot of guys make an event of it and get a hotel room so they can spend a few days in the arena. I’ve usually talked so much that by the 2nd day, my voice is shot! Our booth is not in the traditional “travel section.” Look for us in our usual spot in the tackle area right next to Izorline and down from Calstar rods/Sumo Tackle/ Accurate Reels/ Avet Reels and Tady Lures. Come down to say howdy!

BOOKINGS FOR THIS YEAR

Maybe it’s because so many of you had to put off last year because of the Aero Cal fiasco. However, our bookings are WAY up over last year for boats so if you have any inkling of coming down this year, please let us know as soon as possible. Alaska, Delta and Aero Mexico are now flying into La Paz from the U.S. and our old buddies, Aero Cal, still have cheap flights out’ve Tijuana that many of our anglers found to be surprisingly easy to do. Alaska has had some great rates and now Delta is trying to match.

Let us know if you need some help with ticketing!

These are dates that are currently sold out on one side or the other (Las Arenas or La Paz) . We can always get you rooms, but the boats are critical…at least if you’re planning on fishing, right? When the boats are booked, as much as I’d like to just wave a wand and make more appear, that’s all the boats there are! I can’t make more appear. I’m just not that good…yet!

Sometimes, there are more boats and captains to be hired that are independents, but many of those guys are 2nd and 3rd stringers and there’s a reason they don’t get booked with the first team. I try to always give you folks our stars ONLY!

June 14 – No more La Paz boats only Las Arenas
June 15 – No more La Paz boats only Las Arenas

July 9 – No more La Paz boats only Las Arenas

Sept. 6 – No more La Paz boats only Las Arenas
Sept. 7 – No more La Paz boats only Las Arenas
Sept. 11 – No more Las Arenas boats only La Paz
Sept. 14 – No more Las Arenas boats only La Paz
Sept. 15 – No more Las Arenas boats only La Paz
Sept. 16 – No more La Paz boats only Las Arenas
Sept. 17 – No more La Paz boats only Las Arenas
Sept. 27 – No more La Paz boats only Las Arenas
Sept. 29 – No more La Paz boats only Las Arenas

Oct. 5 – No more Las Arenas boats only La Paz
Oct. 6 – No more La Paz boats only Las Arenas
Oct. 7 – No more La Paz boast only Las Arenas
Oct. 8- No more La Paz boats only Las Arenas
Oct. 12- No more La Paz boats only Las Arenas

PARTING SHOTS:

Jeff Holcomb is one of our amigos from the frozen lands of Wisconsin who sent this in in response to my reports that often bitch about how cold it is in La Paz.

We have a song we sing here in the Winter – to the tune of “La Cucaracha”…

“In Wisconsin, in Wisconsin
The weather isn’t very nice
In Wisconsin, in Wisconsin
We have to fish right through the ice”

Point taken! Thanks, Jeff!

That’s my story! Hope you all have a short 4-day week!

Jonathan

Jonathan Roldan’s Tailhunter International

Website: www.tailhunter-international.com

Phone: (626) 333-3355

FAX: (626) 333-0115

E-Mail: Riplipboy@aol.com

U.S. Office: 3319 White Cloud Dr., Suite A, Hacienda Hts. CA 91745

Mexico Office: Carr. a Pichilingue KM 5, Numero 205, La Paz, Baja Cal Sur, Mexico

“When your life finally flashes before your eyes, you will have only moments to regret all the things in life you never had the courage to try.”

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WEATHER CALMS AND EARLY DORADO POP UP AGAIN!

La Paz / Las Arenas Report for Feb. 11, 2007

Photo 1: Yellow snapper (pargo) like the one being held up here by Isaac Cortez, our amigo from Oxnard CA, are great inshore gamers and tasty on the table too. Up around rocks and reefs, these fish are highly prized by the commerical panga fishermen for the market and restaurants. Capt. Ramiro gives Isaac a hand.

Photo 2: Ok…they’re not the biggest dorado, but for dorado to even be around this time of the year when waters are still cold is quite a surprise. However, we got a few again this week like the two being held by Jeff Slater and Vic Ochoa of Wilmington CA. These fish were caught north of La Paz near Espiritu Santo Island.

Photo 3 : We drove this past week through the Columbia River Gorge on our way from Denver to the Portland show. We came across this “boat” in Hood River, Oregon and couldn’t resist goofing with it. It was pretty cool and looks like it actually had a motor in it at one time!

LA PAZ / LAS ARENAS FISHING REPORT

Things warmed up this week weather wise. Consistently good weather in the 70’s for once which was a welcome break from the winds. Water also seeming to get warmer too. I don’t know if it’s El Nino, but waters around Las Arenas and Cerralvo Island rose about 2-5 degrees into the low 70’s as well. Not too many fishermen, but those we had out all got something. Mostly it was snapper and sierra around the high spots and dropoffs, but a few boats out towards the island were surprised again by dorado! Still not sure if this is a freak or something starting up, but it’s awfully early for dorado but this is two weeks in a row

PASSPORTS!

Don’t wait until the last minute. If you’re even thinking about coming to visit us this year or flying anywhere in North America you’ll need a passport from now on. It’s an easy process, but it’s not exactly an overnight thing, especially because so many people are now applying and only 20 percent of the travelling population have passports. It’s taking a little longer!

Click here to the U.S. Government site that has all the info as well as forms to download: http://travel.state.gov/passport/passport_1738.html I hear Walgreen’s drugstores has discount prices on passport photos (smile!) and if you’re a member of the Auto Club, they offer disocount processing. Remember, it’s easy to get out of the U.S. , but you want to make sure they let you back IN at the border!

WHALE WATCH REPORT

We’ve been taking folks out to Bahia Magdalena now for seveal weeks for the annual migration of the grey whales. The whales are pretty stacked up now in the calm shallow lagoon waters and are often coming right up to the pangas. It’s a great experience. If you’re interested, the whales usually stick around through March, but you never can tell. If you’re like more info, give us a shout at riplipboy@aol.com

CABIN FEVER CLASSIC

Still have a few more spots on the 6th Annual Cabin Fever Classic April 12-16. It’s $630 per person double occupancy for 3 days fishing and hosted at La Concha Beach Resort. Let us know if you’d like more info. We always have a fun time.

THANKS PORTLAND!!!!

As I’m writing this, we’re wrapping up our latest show from the 2007 Tailhunter Road Tour. So far, we’ve been in Las Vegas, San Mateo, Sacramento, Denver and just wrapping up from an outstanding week in Portland. Thanks to all of our Tailhunter amigos who came by the booth and welcome to all our new friends. We had a great time. Next stop for us is the Fred Hall Fishing and Boating Show in Long Beach March 7-11 at the Long Beach Convention Center followed by Salt Lake City and Anchorage AK. See you then!

That’s my story!
Jonathan

Jonathan Roldan’s Tailhunter International
Website: www.tailhunter-international.com
Phone: (626) 333-3355
FAX: (626) 333-0115
E-Mail: Riplipboy@aol.com
U.S. Office: 3319 White Cloud Dr., Suite A, Hacienda Hts. CA 91745
Mexico Office: Carr. a Pichilingue KM 5, Numero 205, La Paz, Baja Cal Sur, Mexico

“When your life finally flashes before your eyes, you will have only moments to regret all the things in life you never had the courage to try.”

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WHAT’S GOING ON? TUNA! YELLOWTAIL! DORADO! GIANT SQUID!!!! IN WINTER!

La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Feb. 4, 2007

PHOTO 1: Mike Davis of Santa Maria CA came down figuring to catch some sunshine and some nice inshore fishing. Instead, he ropes onto a big winter yellowtail out of Muertos Bay!

PHOTO 2 : Just have to give a shout out to our amigo Doug Oclassen of Boulder CO. Doug came by our booth at the Denver ISE show this past week. Doug comes down all the time to La Paz and last May we got into some nice roosterfish and Doug got his first! Well, he just had to celebrate the Kodak moment and came by our booth to show off his new tattoo…a ROOSTERFISH! That’s hardcore!

PHOTO 3: Surely this doesn’t apply to me? We have seen some gorgeous land on this trip and while in Colorado came upon this sign I wanted to pass onto you. Obviously, I’m not in Baja. Actually the rivers and streams were all frozen over!

Photo 4 : Just like the good old days…this is from Denver, Colorado. A sign from a passing era. Gas under two bucks!

THE FISHING REPORT

WHOAAA! What’s going on here? El Nino? A freak of fishing? Well, after about a month of on again and off again weather, we actually had glorious sunshine and some nice days in La Paz and everyone came out to play. It was more than welcome…but the fish came out to play too!

Folks, it’s still winter, I don’t care what anyone says, but hijole! For our La Paz anglers this week expecting some nice inshore snapper and sierra fishing, they got hammered! I’m talking dorado (yes THOSE dorado!) and 40-60 pound yellowtail!!!!

This is pretty incredible. The dorado were right there the SE end of the island in that area where they were hanging out for the last 6 months of 2007…in COLD water! They’re not supposed to be there at this time of year. Is this remainder of last year? Is this something new for THIS year? Who knows? Who cares? But we just don’t catch dorado in winter! I might as well have said, we caught rainbow trout!

On top of that, yellowtail! That’s right the big jacks came crashing. These were slugger fish in the 40-60 pound class. We didn’t catch many but that’s because the anglers were missing their hook ups and fish were taking them into the rocks! Zing-powie! Dang…when the hamachi start running I get all amped up.

But wait…there’s more!

For our anglers that fished Las Arenas…again expecting some nice inshore fishing…

TUNA!!!!

That’s right amigos! Yellowfin tuna showed up. It was only for two days and then they were gone, but these were summertime footballers that erupted on the rods. Add to that a quick run of yellowtail and even more of those giant squid and that makes for some head-scratching rod bending fishing. Who knew? We’ll have to keep you posted!

WHERE ARE WE!

Well…we left a fantastic Denver ISE show last Monday and spent the week driving through the gorgeous Colorado gorges, through Utah, Idaho and now we’re in Oregon where the O’Laughlin Brothers Outdoor Show will be running Feb. 7-11 at the Expo Center in Portland. This is a huge huge show so if you’re in the area, stop on by. It’s a kick and there’s tons to see. We are finally out of the snow too! After more than a month on the road in temps that were anywhere from 18 degrees to 6 below zero for a whole month, we are finally in Oregon where it’s a balmy 36 degrees!

Our Denver show was incredible. I think our poor Denver brothers and sisters were just so excited to get out’ve their snow-bound homes that the show was literally wall-to-wall folks every single day. We almost ran out’ve brochures and DVD’s the last day. Our own Tailhunter booth was so packed it was hard to talk from all the noise and commotion. They even had the loccal NBC news cameras come down and tape us and interview us while this was all going on! We never got to see it air because we were in the convention center, but alot of folks came by and said they saw us. Great fun. But just the same, thanks to everyone who made the Denver ISE show such a great time!

CABIN FEVER CLASSIC JUST ABOUT FILLED

Our Cabin Fever Classic…the official kick off of our season is filling up! The dates are April 12-16 and is being held at La Concha Beach Resort. It’s great fun every year and looks like we might have some surprise fishing. Three days of fishing and a bunch of fun times, fun people and sunshine is $630 per person double occupancy. E-mail us if you’d like more details. riplipboy@aol.com

WHALES ARE IN !

We finally started our seasonal whale watching tours. The big mammals finally showed up and are in full showtime at Bahia Magdalena. This is a short run and they’ll only be around until March or so but it’s a great lifetime event to get close enough to touch these great creatures in calm shallow waters. I never try to miss it at least once a year! Great for the kids and family. February is prime time as the calves and females get used to the boats and will come right up! Give us a shout if you’d like more info.

SOME HUMOR

Couldn’t pass this one up so I’ll shar it:

This LAWYER SHOULD NEVER ASK A MEXICAN GRANDMA A QUESTION IF THEY AREN’TPREPARED FOR THE ANSWER.

IN A TRIAL, A PROSECUTING ATTORNEY CALLED HIS FIRST WITNESS, A MEXICAN GRANDMOTHER, AN ELDERLY WOMAN TO THE STAND.

HE APPROACHED HER AND ASKED,MRS SANCHEZ, “DO YOU KNOW ME?”

SHE RESPONDED, “SI, I KNOW YOU MR. WILLIAMS.” I KNOWN YOU SINCE YOU WERE A CHAVALITO AND FRANKLY YOU’VEBEEN A BIG DISAPPOINTMENT TO ME. YOU LIE, YOU CHEAT ON YOUR WIFE, AND YOU MANIPULATE PEOPLE. AND YOU THINK YOU’RE A BIG SHOT WHEN YOUAREN’T NADA. YES I KNOW YOU PENDEJO “

THE LAWYER WAS STUNNED. NOT KNOWING WHAT ELSE TO DO, HE POINTED ACROSSTHE ROOM AND ASKED, MRS. SANCHEZ, DO YOU KNOW THE DEFENSE ATTORNEY?

AGAIN SHE REPLIED, “CLARO QUE SI. I’VE KNOWN MR. RODRIGUEZ SINCE HE WAS A CHAVALITO TOO. HE’S LAZY, UNO PUTO, AND HE HAS A DRINKING PROBLEM. HE CAN’T HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH NOBODY AND HE IS THE WORST LAWYER IN THE STATE. HA! AND NOT TO MENTION HE CHEATED ON HIS WIFE WITH THREE DIFFERENT PUTAS, ONE OF THEM WAS YOUR WIFE, YOU MEMBER? YES I KNOW MR. RODRIGUEZ, AND HIS MAMA IS NOT PROUD OF HIM TAMBIEN .”

THE DEFENSE ATTORNEY ALMOST DIED.

THE JUDGE ASKED BOTH COUNSELORS TO APPROACH THE BENCH AND IN A VERY QUIET VOICE SAID, “IF EITHER OF YOU IDIOTS ASK HER IF SHE KNOWS ME,I”LL SEND YOU TO THE ELECTRIC CHAIR.”

That’s my story!
Have a great week and hope to see you here in Portland Feb. 7-11.

Jonathan

Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter International
Website: www.tailhunter-international.com
Phone: (626) 333-3355FAX: (626) 333-0115
E-Mail: Riplipboy@aol.com
U.S. Office: 3319 White Cloud Dr., Suite A, Hacienda Hts. CA 91745
Mexico Office: Carr. a Pichilingue KM 5, Numero 205, La Paz, Baja Cal Sur, Mexico

“When your life finally flashes before your eyes, you will have only moments to regret all the things in life you never had the courage to try.”

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