When it comes down to it, this is what it's all about...THE SMILES! There's no cell phones. No interruptions. No traffic. No one yanking your chain except a big fast fish yanking your rod for all it's worth. The reel is screaming. The fish is actually towing the boat towards the horizon. It hasn't slowed down. You've already been on the fish for an hour and your rod and reel are awfully light! You're sweating and hot and you're wondering how you're gonna slow down this beast. Win or lose...you're having a blast! Tharon Ayde is a Sacramento firefighter in the busiest station in the city and couldn't be happier. He eventually got this 50 pound yellowfin tuna!
Craig Braswell just retired after a long career with the Sacramento Fire Department and has already made two trips to come fishing in La Paz since June! He holds up a big time 50 pound class tuna that ate a chunk of fresh squid dropped overboard. The tuna were so thick this particular day just off the beach that the boats were back by 11 a.m. completely full!
Pete Jensen from Orange Co. California kept trying for a big rooster each time he came to Baja. He finally got one. In fact, he got several large roosters, plus tuna, dorado and marlin fishing with Tailhunter International. This big fish was estimated in the 70-pound-class and caught on live bait. All the roosters were released. Captain Victor with the Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet lends a hand.
Captain Loreto and Jack McGuire are all smiles hoisting up another fat tuna they nailed in 5 days of fishing with both our Tailhunter Las Arenas and Tailhunter La Paz fleets. The fish started hitting for both our fleets with the bulk of the bite taking place just off the beach in shallow water near Punta Arenas.
Santa Barbara amigo, Bob Duncan goofs with a dorado carcass and his daughter Emily and Jorge Romero off Las Areans Beach after a good day of dorado fishing. More dorado were coming on strong this past week with larger fish finally starting to show.
All the way from Logan, Utah, Jerry Fickas first trip to La Paz produced numerous dorado and tuna like this one after 4 days fishing plus several fish that "couldn't be stopped" before busting off. Presumably larger tuna!
Jay Garcia fished several days with our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet and several days with our Tailhunter La Paz fleet. He got marlin, tuna, dorado, big roosterfish and several other species. He's holding one of the nice bull dorado he caught with our La Paz fleet which is getting about 90 percent dorado these days, but some yellowfin tuna showed up this week near Rosario.
It's that time of year when tropical storms can come up at any time. This ominous looking rainstorm showed up just off the La Paz waterfront one afternoon this week. But not even a drop hit the ground! Spectacular and even scary looking to watch as they get closer, it almost looks "nuclear." But often the rain dissipates or evaporates before it ever touches ground or you can simply walk or drive around the storms!
This is what a giant squid looks like. This is what we're using for bait right now for many of our fish...piece of it at least! They're fun to catch, but alot of work too as you might be able to tell from the face of angler Jerry Frickas. Lots of anglers are anxious to catch them until they actually go through it...then they want no more when it means pulling these things up from hundreds of feet down! Imagine starting your day drenched in sweat with aching arms even before you start REALLY fishing! Note the big squid jig held by Capt. Jorge.
FISH GO ON THE CHEW AND KEEP ANGLERS BENT TO END THE SUMMER!
La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of Sept. 5-12, 2010
The transition from August to September was seamless in terms of fishing. The hot bite continued like it has been for most of the summer in perhaps the best tuna and dorado season in a long time. You would think that with cooler temperatures and water and with bait being more difficult to find this year that fishing would have really diminished.
On the contrary. As in the past few weeks tuna in the 10-40 pound class are around almost daily and can sometimes be caught as stone’s throw from where we launch the boats. Dorado schools fire through and calm waters suddenly blow up with flashing gold, green and blue tipped mahi going after everything in the water fighting to get at whatever bait…be it sardines…dead chunks of bonito…or chunks of dead squid faster than anglers can cast. The dorado are getting bigger too! More fish in the 20-30 pound range were getting put in the boxes to the point where finally more of the smaller 10 pounders were getting released.
“At one point, we were releasing fish as fast as we could go and still had three rods hooked up!” said one of our anglers.
“We had so many dorado around the boat,” said another, “that we started to get ticked off because the smaller dorado would grab the bait before the big guy hanging just on the edge could get the bait. I’ve never been in a bite where we were actually pulling the baits away from fish that we didn’t want!”
“We were back on the beach by 11 a.m. because we were just tired and didn’t have any more room for more tuna. We fought some fish over an hour with two fish on at once. We released a bunch of fish all week and still don’t know what we’re going to do with all the fish!” one other angler told us!
As well, there continued to be a number of marlin hook-ups with all fish this wee either getting unbuttoned or released. Plus, the big roosters have not left! Fish in the 40-60 pound class are not uncommon in the sandy shallows and many reports of bigger fish and schools of larger fish have been reported daily.
Temperatures took a big switch this week. Most of August actually felt like Baja summer with hot humid conditions after a cooler-than-normal summer. We actually fired up the air-conditioners! Tropical storms and occasional warm drizzle and thundershowers were commonly encountered daily. But late last week it was like someone threw a switch. The temperatured dopped by 10 degrees. The humidity diminished. Cool breezes started cooling things down. It’s really comfortable again. But the waters have stayed warm the the fish are still biting!
That’s our story!
Jonathan and Jill
Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter International
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Mexico Office: 755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico
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