PHOTO 1: Some of the best light tackle fishing to be found. This is a sierra. Think of a baby wahoo. Fast and voracious with razor sharp teeth, these fish school up in shallow areas and along ridges as the waters cool down. They’ll hit anything shiny or that moves across them and will attack without hesitation. Wire is a good thing to have on your lure. They also make incredible eating and have a reputation for making the best ceviche and taste like they were basted in butter when cooked. Jeff Sakuda comes down several times a year from Monterey Park CA and holds up a beautify.
DORADO START THE WEEK WHILE SIERRA AND CABRILLA COME ON STRONG AT THE END!
The La Paz / Las Arenas Fishing Report for the Week of Nov. 16-22, 2008
PHOTO 2: Now here’s a nice day of fishing. Check out the sierra and cabrilla (seabass) Story is below. This is Jeff Sakuda, Marianne Sugawara and popular Captain Jorge. This is the catch for 4 people. During the day they released as several dozen other fish as well. Most of these fish were caught mere yards from the beach.
PHOTO 3: Mark Martis from Redono Beach is another of our great amigos and regulars here. His wife is gonna love him for hugging this giant squid to his clothes that she’ll be washing! The big squid were here early in the week again. Captain Victor stands nearby.
PHOTO 4: Andrew Lindsay from Yorba Linda was on his first trip to see us with his dad and younger brother and hung this great looking dorado as well as several other species. The dorado were abundant and eager early in the week, but tapered off later in the week.
PHOTO 5: Miyako Ito and Captain Victor hold up a little roosterfish caught near Muertos Bay. Despite the lateness of the season, the waters are still warm and roosters are still along the beach. This was Miyako’s first trip with us and the rooster was released.
PHOTO 6: A rather disappointing photo. This is the front of Hotel Los Arcos all boarded up. See the details below. It was shut down late this week by a labor strike.
PHOTO 7: NO, this isn’t fishing, but I just had to post this up. Jim Allen is 700 feet ABOVE the Los Angeles downtown. Ever wonder about those guys who operate those giant cranes at construction sites for skyscrapers waaaaay up there? Looks like he’s in an eenie-meenie tower? Well, Jim was up there reading our La Paz fishing reports and blog and decided to send me an e-mail to tell us he was enjoying reading on the job 700 feet up in the sky! To prove it he sent this photo taken with his cell phone camera! Thanks, Jim! THE FISHNG REPORT
This past week, dorado continued to bite although the better bite for us were the spots closer inshore for our Las Arenas fleet. Limits or near limits of dorado between 10 and 15 pounds were hit a few days. Other days, it was a mix of dorado as well as inshore fish such as sierra, cabrilla and pargo. Some wahoo at the south end of Cerralvo Island and there were rumors of tuna at La Reyna.
As the week went on the bite got more stingy for the dorado, but whoa…all of a sudden we have cabrilla and sierra all over the place! Not kidding this is really fun fishing. During the week I went out with our good friends Jeff Sakuda and Marianne Sugawara fishing with Captain Jorge and probably had one of the best light tackle days I can remember in all my years here. See the photo above!
Seriously…I think we may have hooked and released almost 60 fish! It started with the bait catching…really small sardines…but we were waiting for the bait man to bring some over so Jeff and I started casting little crank baits and wham! We were on! Jeff put in 3 nice size cabrilla right off. I got one as well plus we released another 3 or 4 as well as released maybe 5 big ladyfish that were a hoot on my 6 pound test spinner.
Then, we moved around the beach past the Arenas lighthouse to Las Cucarachas in about 6 feet of water and the sierra just boiled. Double hook ups for Jeff and Marianne for several hours of slow trolling. We got over a dozen plus lost others and were bit off a few times as well. Moving over some rocky areas with the crank baits (Mirrolures and Yo-Zuri’s) we hooked cabrilla after cabrilla (seabass) and released almost all of them. Plus we got an amberjack or two as well. Best of all, not a needlefish in sight! I think we only caught one all day! Just a real kick inshore fishing!
RANDOM THOUGHTS
1. Quite a few reservations for 2009 are already coming in. Good spots and your favorite captains are already getting their numbers called. We want to be able to get you dialed-in so get in touch with us. Once we start doing the fishing/hunting shows in January across the U.S., the reservations usually start rolling in pretty fast. Right now, Alaska flies down here Monday/ Wednesday/ Saturday. Several others fly out of Tijuana and are fast becoming favorites for many of our anglers. Ask us how to get that together.
2. The 2009 Whale Watching season as also coming up fast. Usually the best time to see these great creatures is January to March with February being optimal. Get right up next to these gentle giants over in Magdalena Bay. We can set this up for you.
That’s our story!
Jonathan
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