We had a little lapse earlier in the week when the larger tuna seemed to be scarce, but by later in the week the bigger boys had returned! This is quite a catch for our amigo, Jorge Romero and his brother, Esteban, who many of you know as our van drivers and great friends. They are also excellent fishermen. They used sardines at the south end of Cerralvo Island and got these nice tuna to go on the chew, but take a look at the nice rack of barred pargo on the beach as well. Banner day!
It's going to be tough to find a prettier roosterfish picture than this one! I told John Riddell that he needs to frame it! He got this 60 pound rooster as well as tuna and dorado on a single day fishing, but the capture of this rooster on his camera might be the best part! The fish was released. John also said he was on a couple of monster tuna that he just couldn't stop! "I had 3 tuna that broke the line. One was after fighting it for at least 30 minutes. I will be back soon!"
Nick Kasheshian probably could not have had a better first-time experience fishing in La Paz. He jumped all over the tuna and dorado and also added this 40-pound wahoo to the count as well on a dark rapala near Cerralvo Island which kicked out a few wahoo finally this week.
It was a big week for dorado, but not a great week for BIG dorado! Probably 65 percent of this week's catch was dorado, but most fish were 8-15 pounders with occasional 20-25 pounders. So many tiny dorado were released. However, John Cleary, was fishing with us for the first time and got this nice bull dorado off Las Arenas.
Ron Burgess makes the trek every year all the way from Kansas to come fish with us. He had another good trip and shows off a nice trophy roosterfish of Punta Arenas that was released.
It seems we had alot of first-timers who had a GREAT week! For Dave Quan, it wasn't just his first time to La Paz...it was his FIRST time FISHING! He got tuna, dorado and this great wahoo as well!
One of the most colorful of the pargo family...the barred pargo (aka pargo mulatto) seems to be actively feeding right now...if you can get them out of their hiding spots in the rocks and reefs! Great eating table fare too. Bruce Dodge got his first one and said it was a real tussle.
Emma came all the way from New Zealand to try for a roosterfish on a flyrod! Got it! ...and released it! Yay!
Sometimes the fish gods smile...especially when it comes to wahoo. You can come for years and not get anything. Then, one day, one of the speedsters grabs your lure and you're on! It turned to to be a nice week for wahoo. Captain Pancho and Ray Miklich (his 2nd trip this year!) hold up a nice wahoo. These are reportedly the fastest fish in the ocean capable of 70 mph bursts!
Once again, we got in some great tuna fishing for our La Paz anglers. Normally, the tuna bite has been only with our Las Arenas fleet. Our good amigo, Mike Luberto brought his son, Stephen with him this time and the two pose in Balandra bay with their dorado and tuna!
Like I said...alot of 1st timers this week who got into some great fishing including Joshua Hyland with a great spread of tuna and dorado he got fishing out with our Tailhunter La Paz fleet.
OCTOBER BLASTS IN WITH GREAT DORADO BITE PLUS WAHOO, TUNA AND ROOSTERFISH!
La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of Sept. 26- Oct. 2, 2010
It wasn’t a spectacular week for big fish, but judging by photos and all the ice chests that went home loaded, it was a great week for ALOT of fish! Hard to ask for more than that! As long as you weren’t trying to hit a home run and try for an exotic fish, there seemed to be just about all the dorado and tuna you could want!
If you fished a few days, you might have one day that was less than stellar…that’s fishing! But the other days more than made up for it. At the end of the trip, guys were at the freezers still realizing that with all the fish they released they their coolers were sometimes still overweight and they were giving fish away to waiters, bellman, taxi drivers and anyone who wanted fish!
We want to give a big shout-out to the Catholic Big Brothers and Big Sisters Group who made their annual Randy Lee Memorial trip with us to raise funds for the organization. We had a blast. Dr. Bruce Dodge and National President Ken Martinet put on a great event.
We sent home 30 guys with over 1000 pounds of fillets…half-a-ton…and over 800 vacuum sealed bags of fish! (And that was AFTER these guys were releasing many of their smaller fish!). Some nights we were vacuum sealing fish 4 or 5 hours with a number of our staff going full turbo trying to get them all trimmed, labeled and bagged! Congrats on another great turnout!
Like I said, not alot of BIG fish this week. There were some of those big tuna hooked, but no one stopped them. I think the largest tuna we had barely tickled 50 pounds on the scale, but we still had a super number of footballs that kept everyone happy that were in the 10-20 pound category. The most surprising thing is that the tuna bite flip-flopped!
For the past three months all the tuna have pretty much been getting caught by our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet. However, starting a bit more than a week ago, our Tailhunter La Paz Fleet started to slam into limits or near limits of the tuna. Our Las Arenas fleet started to fill their boxes with mostly dorado!
This could have something to do with the fact that the giant squid, which were so prevalent these many weeks, around Las Arenas became harder to get. We have been using chunks of the big squid to chum up the tuna. Instead, we’ve had to resort to using sardines. But that almost doesn’t make senses because for our La Paz fleet that started hitting the tuna, sardines work just fine!
We did get some really nice wahoo, however. Some days you can go and go and go and…NADA! Then there’s a spot of days when the fish suddenly get with the program. The south side of Cerralvo was the better area. North Cerralvo usually holds fish as well, but everytime we went out there, freedivers/ spearfishermen were already in the water which wasn’t good for fishing in the same area. It’s a big ocean so first in the area gets the spot.
There were also some really nice roosterfish caught as well in the 50-70 pound class and all of them released.
WEEKLY VIDEO CLIP
Check out the week’s video clip on youtube. Some great stuff! Just click this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PxMVcGHD_s
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Jonathan and Jill
Jonathan Roldan’s
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