Tak Okamoto from Gardena CA shows off the type of football tuna that continued to rip around the waters close to shore for our Las Arenas Tailhunter fleet. The tuna have been around now for over a month with larger fish up to 100 pounds also in the mix, but clients unable to stop the fish after long battles.
Dorado for both of our fleets at Las Arenas and La Paz are here although we're still waiting for the larger bulls to show up. Normally, by this time of the year the larger 30-50 pound bulls are around, but so far, not much of a showing. Rich Schumar of Los Angeles, however, holds up on decent bull mahi caught off Punta Arenas.
Surprisingly, there are still some huge pargo running around the shallow waters and high spots despite the late season, but Craig Corda hangs one on the gaff in front of Captain Adolfo. The fish are eating chummed sardines and squid chunks.
Many are hooked...few are landed! This is one of the larger 60 pound models that we keep hooking, but so few are every landed. There are some fish that guys fight for several hours and NEVER EVER see color. And then the line breaks...or the hook pulls out. Quite a few anglers shake their heads after losing fish never realizing how powerful a tuna can pull and telling me, they only want "smaller" fish in the future. Watch what you ask for. Carlos and Captain Jorge hold the "tweener" (in between a football-sized tuna and a big toad tuna) on the beach at Las Arenas.
A good day no matter how you look at it for Chris Okamoto holding up a day's catch of tuna and dorado.
The head of a giant Humboldt squid. We're still using the big chunks for bait which has been effective on almost all our species...tuna, dorado, pargo, and cabrilla. Catching the squid has been the tough part involving pulling up the giants from as much as 1000 feet down.
It's that time of year when warm showers and tropical drizzle can show up at any time making for some great sunsets each day on the La Paz waterfront.
SOLID WEEK FOR MULTIPLE SPECIES OF FISH WHILE KEEPING AN EYE ON STORMS
La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of Aug.29 to Sept. 4, 2010
We spent a good part of the week keeping an eye on the computer wondering if a little “disturbance” about 600 miles south of La Paz was going to turn into a storm with a name. The other eye was kept on the fishing. Both turned out well!
The “storm” turned into nothing but some grey skies in the morning. The fishing turned into some of the best fishing we’ve seen. Yes, if you’ve been watching our reports this summer, you know we’ve had some stellar fishing. It actually got better this past week. Guys were getting limits of tuna so early that they spent the rest of the day releasing fish or chasing wahoo, pargo or big roosters (more on the roosters later!).
It was almost like fishing on a shopping list. You could almost pick out what kind of fish you wanted.
The tuna were nice and manageable 10-25 pounders or if you wanted to “man up” you went for the big boys that kicked your behind for 1,2 or 3 hours and generally beat you to a pulp and you lost the fish. They are still eating the chunked giant squid we’re getting or big cabllitos or cocineros or sardines.
Dorado? Lots of 10-15 pounders, but more in the 20-30 pound class that we have not been seeing most of the season. Real encouraging that we started seeing larger mahi.
Marlin? Several of our pangas caught and released multiple fish with most fish being released. Largest was about a 300 pound blue marlin caught with our La Paz fleet.
Roosterfish? Several days this week might have been the best days for BIG roosterfish we’ve ever had this year. Every panga that we had fishing Las Arenas that day hooked 2-5 roosters with the smallest being in the 30-40 pound class and the largest in the 60-70 pound class. “We had several multiple hookups!” said one of our anglers. “I’ve always wanted a rooster and that day we caught big ones but also lost several other large ones!” All roosters were released.
As long as the weather holds, we’re just coming into the high part of our season. Weather has been very very tropical the last 2 or 3 weeks. Little showers are almost a daily occurrence with some great evening lightning and incredible sunsets. So far, we’ve been lucky with no big storms All season, we’ve been talking about how the waters and weather are cooler than normal. That very phenomenon has kept the big storms away. As the storms come up from down south, they need the warm waters to keep them fueled. Instead, they are hitting the cooler waters of Baja and dissipating. Fingers crossed!
That’s our story! Have a great week!
Jonathan and Jill
Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter International
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