Orange Co, CA resident Jeff Marston actually had two on the boat when he and his wife, Jodie, got ripped almost simultaneously by tuna that suddenly popped up outside of Cerralvo Island with our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet. Jodie couldn't lift her 50 pound-class tuna and Jeff couldn't lift BOTH fish for this photo. Both did their fish on light tackle and 30 pound test and live bait!
The capricious wahoo gods surely smiled on John "JD" Drucker from Redondo Beach CA. In two days of fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet, John got 2 wahoo the first day and had 1 or 2 others bite off. The next day, he got this big fat skinny 'hoo and had another one short bite! He was using a dark magnum rapala slow trolled at the south end of Cerralvo Island with Captain Victor
- It was a great week for roosterfish! There’s a reason they call this the “roosterfish capital of the world.” Steve Greanias and his brother George show off 2 of the 7 they hooked and released just south of Bahia de Los Muertos with our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet. They are just in front of Boca de Alamo. The fish this week went 10-50 pounds!
Dorado fishing slowed a tad this past week with winds moving the fish around, but Dee Dee Pope from Livermore CA holds up one with Captain Jorge just off Punta Perrico
George Greanias, on a short leave as a Captain in the Army, came down to get some lines wet and pulled out one of the elusive dog-tooth snapper that beat us up so often! This is just outside of Muertos Bay and George was fishing live sardines.
The wahoo made a brief appearance this week again dodging our best efforts. You have to be willing to commit the time and know that if you get a goose-egg, you probably are too late to do much other fishing. Our buen amigo Jorge Romero didn't even start fishing until 9 a.m. and had two of these scooter wahoo by noon and quit when the winds came up. He was trolling an orange/black Yo-Zuri you can see in the photo.
This has been an unusual year for exceptionally large cabrilla (Mexican seabass). This is Nic Bomicino of Woodland Hills with a 15 lb Cabrilla pulled from 8 ft of water on 60lb full drag on a slow trolled Cabillito. Had another bigger one bust off right after this one.
Another fat cabrilla in the panga for Jamie Smith of Malibu who fished north of La Paz with us.
Normally, Travis Barker is a canine police officer in the San Francisco Bay Area, but took the week to make his first trip to La Paz and got his first dorado which happened to be a nice female.
Like I said, roosterfishing the last week or so has really ramped up into prime time! Check out this beautiful pez gallo taken by our amigo Larry Parnell from Oregon with the help of Captain Pancho. The fish was taken just south of Bahia de Los Muertos and was released. They released several others that day as well.
Nice pair! Our amigo Gary Evans from Orange Co. CA went straight to the heavy artillery using 80 pound test and slow trolling a big ladyfish in the shallows to nail these two big dog tooth snapper (pargo perros). Even with the big guns, others were lost that couldn't be stopped.
This school-sized rooster has been alot of fun all week for guys with light tackle. This one by Richard Pope was actually caught with our Tailhunter La Paz fleet north of town. It could not be released.
This lady is way too fun...Lucy Shimenesky from Oregon hangs with the guys and has a great time. She's holding a nice schoolie-sized dorado. If you wanted to really focus on the dorado, the schools north of La Paz were pretty hungry all week except the days when the winds blew.
WEEKLY VIDEO CLIP:
Check out the tuna and wahoo! Althoug the voice-over says 45 pounds we learned the scale was about 7 pounds off. Click this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-2PtCHlPHA
FULL RANGE OF FISH KEEP ANGLERS BUSY…MOST OF THE TIME!
La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of May 9-16, 2010
It was another of those weeks when we ran the full spectrum from one end of the week to the other going from “so-so fishing” to” pretty-darn-good fishing” by the end of the week and some “Not-too-bad-fishing” thrown in the middle!
There’s just so much variation in the weather; water conditions; wind; and consequently the bite reflects that as well. One day up. One day down. One day the fish are close. One day way outside. The bait is easy one day and hard the next. One day it’s crazy wahoo. The next day nothing but needlefish. One day everyone catches dorado and the next day it’s nothing but bonito! So crazy. In the middle of all that, some hit the jackpot and nail big time tuna or their first wahoo or even 3 wahoo in a row or huge roosterfish while other boats are out there scratching!
All I can say is…come fish! It is what it is! If you put in time on the water and at least kick in more than a single day of fishing, you’ll get fish. If you fish only one day, that might be the one day of the week when the fishing just isn’t happening! But it’s rarely bad for TWO days! I just wish when people ask me what’s biting, I can tell them something more definitive than just shrugging my shoulders with a dumb-ss look and tell them, “I don’t know, but we’re catching fish!”
This kind of fishing really isn’t that unusual for this time of year. The seasons are in transition as are the waters. It’s not really winter. It’s not really spring. It’s not quite summer. There’s cool water. There’s warm water. There’s cold water fish still around and there’s warm water fish around too.
Nothing in abundance, but at the end of the day, there’s so much variety in the boxes. Just today, I counted 17 different varieties of fish taken or caught and released! Check it out…tuna (up to 50 pounds) , wahoo (up to 60 pounds) , dorado, 3 types of pargo, 3 species of bonito, cabrilla, sierra, jack crevalle, marlin, sailfish, pompano, roosterfish, rainbow runner (not to mention the junk fish like triggers, skipjack, trumpets, needlefish that were tossed away) plus several speciesl lost…amberjack, and dog tooth snapper to name a few! That’s JUST ONE DAY’s CATCH!
I guess the best thing to do is let the photos above do the talking! Check out the photos and the variety!
That’s our story!
Have an excellent week!
Jonathan and Jill
Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter International
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