PHOTO 1: Leave it to the rookie to roll the big one! Just an incredible fish by Juan Martinez from Northern CA who made his first trip fishing to La Paz at the last minute and nailed this huge bull dorado near Espiritu Santo Island. Again, this week, dorado were the hot ticket.
PHOTO 2: One of our bestest amigos, this is “Coach” Don Rea who fishes with us several times a year. Every trip he fishes his brains out but never gets in the report. He always fishes with his favorite captain Marcos who’s helping him hold up the beast dorado. Coach took this fish on light tackle with a little Avet SX and fought the fish over an hour and admitted the fish slugged it out with him. Well, he finally made the report. Congrats, Coach!
PHOTO 3: Here’s another guy who worked like crazy for his fish. Rich Jones is an experienced long-range angler from Utah who came “just to get ONE roosterfish!” Well, over his first 3 days of fishing he put “60-70” roosterfish on light tackle and had a ball and finally nailed this beauty saying, “We saw it come into the shallow water after my ladyfish and it ripped into deep water!” Best of all…Rich released all his fish. He also caught dorado, snapper, cabrilla, and jack crevalle. By the way, knowing what this looks like, he wanted it known that he does NOT fish with a blue bonnet on his head. His boonie hat had the brim tilted back!
PHOTO 4: Tom Moon from Northridge CA put in a day with Captain Adolfo fishing off S. Cerralvo Island and put this mahi mahi in the panga while fishing with our Las Arenas fleet.
PHOTO 5: Ron Hepner put the gaff to a number of dorado and other species while fishing 5 days with both our La Paz and Las Arenas fleet this past week. He released all his roosterfish, but this dorado went into the box and onto the dinner table! Ron came to visit us from Utah in the Salt Lake area.
PHOTO 6: Coach Joey Fuschetti is high school track coach from Orange Co. CA who does lots of work with putting kids on fishing trips. He took some time out do some fishing of his own and comes to see us each year. Fishing with our La Paz Fleet, Joey got this dorado near Espiritu Santo Island. “We were w/ limits both days at Las Arenas w/ our famous capitan Jorge and the high boat out of La Paz w/ Capitan Boli. But, reality check on day three when the Pargo took us for a ride at Isla Partida and we landed 3 and lost a bunch of big toothed beasts to the rocks………” said Joey. Joey insists that chumming the waters with minced papaya is his secret to success.
PHOTO 7 – It’s always nice to know that someone caught their personal best fish when on one of our trips. George Higi has fished Baja for years, but got his personal best dorado fishing with Captain Jorge and our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet. George stands 6’2″ so this fish is the real deal!
PHOTO 8: Kodak moment with dorado, left-right, Bob Wood, Tom Moon, Tony Toven and Doyle Wood holding some of their day’s catch fishing north of La Paz with our La Paz fleet.
WEEK STARTS SLOW AND SCRATCHY BUT GETS BETTER AS MOON GOT FULLER!
It was a difficult week to put a finger on. In some respects, it was scratchy fishing as water temps seemed to have dropped and fish scattered. Let me put it this way, often you had to work hard for your fish! This was especially true for our Las Arenas Fleet. While there was a mix of fish that includes dorado, some billfish and a smattering of tuna, the “offshore bite” really wasn’t happening. Those anglers that worked inshore however, took advantage of some great fishing for roosters, pargo, jacks, cabrilla and snapper. In fact, they had an excellent time, especially on light tackle.
For our La Paz fleet, the bite was much more consistent. While there wasn’t much variety, the dorado more than made up for anything else School-sized fish in the 10-20 pound class made up most of the catch, but there were some monster 40-60 pound fish caught and many more lost to bad gear, busted lines or inexperience or simply bad luck. You might have a bad day here or there, but for the most part, limits or near limits of fish with many released were the rule more than the exception.
LATE breaking news…as the week went on and the moon got fuller…THE BITE GOT BETTER. Tuna and dorado started showing up again at Las Arenas and the La Paz dorado bite got more consistent!
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