Tailhunter Fish Report

What a great way to spend your honeymoon fishing in Baja! Chanpen Suwannate (now Blackard) spent her honeymoon with us fishing and got this nice dorado fishing with Captain Armando and our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet.

Great week again for roosterfish! The exotic fish have been solid now for several weeks with fish between 5 and 50 pounds along the beach areas. John "JD" Drucker from Redondo Beach comes down twiced a year and has had some great trips and had a banner week and shows off a nice rooster he released. He also got a number of wahoo (see below!)

Sacramento visitors Adolfo Cisnero and Kurt "I have another joke for you" Vorpagel show off a great mix of fish taken with our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet from Muertos Bay. They're holding a dorado (and lost several others!) and have a mix of pargo, cabrilla and sierra at their feet as well which is very typical of the type of fishing right now as waters transition between cool and warm.

He has a horseshoe hidden somewhere! Guys come down here trying to hook just one wahooo in their lifetime! John Drucker hooked 6 of these over two days with three busting off but putting three into the boat. Captain Victor strains to help him for the photo op!

These sierra are normally cold-water fish, yet even though waters are getting warmer, we're getting sierra in fairly decent numbers and most of them are pretty nice-sized like this one being shown off by Ryan Blackard. He got married and came down the next day for his honeymoon to go fishing with his new wife! That's Punta Perrico in the background.

Bill "Pancho" Evans enjoyed himself so much fishing down here, he moved here last year and has become quite a hot stick with the fishing especially taking trophy pargo like this excellent dog-tooth snapper!

Some nice pargo stuck into the fish boxes this week! Yes, the big red fish are still in the shallows! Jim Brignall from Arizona holds up a nice doggie.

DORADO GO OFF FOR LA PAZ ANGLERS WHILE ROOSTERS AND BIG PARGO TANGLE WITH LAS ARENAS ANGLERS!

La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of May 16-23, 2010

We had a full solid week of great weather.  It was the kind of weather you put on postcards.  But fishing has been like night and day between our Las Arenas and La Paz fleet.  It’s so different between what we’re catching around Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay and south Cerralvo Island compared to what our other fleet is catching around Espirito Santo Island and the waters north of La Paz!

Basically, al week, I’ve been telling our anglers, if you want variety of species, fish with our Las Arenas fleet.  For inshore fishing, you just can’t beat it with a dead needlefish!  Big pargo, cabrilla, snapper and even still some sierra and rainbow runners are in the rocky areas mixing it up with the “beach species” like pompano, jack crevalle (big ones!) and roosterfish. 

For one thing, if you’ve ever wanted a roosterfish, the stellar bite on the pez gallos has been in full swing for our Las Arenas fleet and boats fishing that area.  It’s two-sides of the spectrum.  You can get into a school of the 5-10 pounders and have a blast or go for the home run and try to nail one of the 30-60 pound beasts prowling the sandy spots.  For the last 3 or 4 weeks these big guys have been showing up and powering their way onto live bait, flies and even lures.  And, they get bigger! 

The world record was taken on this beach at 114 pounds and over the years, we’ve had fish approach that size.  I’ve personally seen fish close to the 100 pound mark (we will never know since we released them, but even the captains verified the sizes) but it’s pretty hard to fathom fish that large swimming around in sometimes only a few feet of water.

Anyway, the problem with fishing with our Las Arenas fleet is that this past week, other than bonito or the occasional dorado (very occasional) there was very little surface bite!  Very few dorado; no tuna to speak of and although we saw billfish, they were about as interested  in biting  as  cat wanting to attend a dog show. 

Contrast that with our La Paz fleet that fished north of La Paz and found dorado consistently almost every day.  Most days there were limits or near limits on all our boats.  Many of the fish were about 10 pounders and many were released, but there were still some 30-40 pound bulls in the box that really tore up some of our first-timers!  As an aside, we also got more of those big cabrilla and some pargo mulatto.

That’s our story!

Jonathan and Jill 

Jonathan Roldan’s
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