Tailhunter Fish Report

Roger Van Steenkiste from Arizona is "80-something" years young! He visits us usually twice a year and outfishes most everyone else when he is on the water. Twenty-two years ago, he fished with our Captain Victor and enjoys his twice-yearly re-unions with Victor who heads our Las Arenas fleet. Roger had just put his line into the water outside of Muertos Bay when this 45-pound class yellowfin ripped him! There weren't many tuna this week, but some of the ones we got were a nice grade.

THE BANANA CURSE! San Pedro CA resident Steve Tomota has fished in La Paz before but brought his buddy Thom Jordan with him this time. Just before they got on the water, Thom was caught eating bananas! He was warned about the banana curse and ate not one...but he ate THREE bananas before getting on the boat! Thom said the curse was silly. Well, Steve hooked this nice wahoo off the south side of Cerralvo Island. Thom hooked two other wahoo and LOST BOTH of them strangely...both bit right through wire leader...very unusual and he is now a big believer in leaving bananas at home! Thom's been a good sport about the ribbing and re-bounded with better luck the next 3 days.

There have been very few of the bigger dorado this year. Most have been less than 20 pounds so this 40 pound class beast caught by Stan Andre north of La Paz might just be the largest dorado of the year for our fleet. He was fishing with Captain Boli on "Little Sister."

It's a long way from Minnesota to Baja sunshine, but our good amigo, Jeff Brown makes it down every year. He's holding a 40 pound-class yellowfin tuna he fought on light tackle for about 45 minutes with his favorite Captain Jorge. The fish were right outside Muertos Bay.

Corona CA resident Mike Recchia was fortunate enough to get his live sardine through the voracious schools of bonito and got TWO nice yellowfin tuna just outside of Punta Perrico. That was a big problem this week...getting through the bonito so the big-boy tuna would have a chance!

Normally, she and her husband work on their dairy farm in Oregon, but made their first trip to fish with us. Sonja Zawadney has some great colors in this photo with a beautiful dorado taken very close to shore. Reports this week had dorado taken in just a few feet of water at times!

Nice start to a pretty good week for Dave Wakabayahsi from Sacramento CA. He got this big tuna plus added in a handful of dinner-sized dorado.

Reuben Mejia got into this nice tuna fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet. Not many tuna this week as weather and water conditions seemed to be changing but the few tuna caught were usually a pretty nice grade.

This is a quality bull dorad caught by Mark Zawadney from Oregon. He got this fishing with our Tailhunter La Paz fleet north of La Paz which kicked out some better sized dorado this past week.

A good first day for Jeff Lepak and Greg Van Steenkiste who pulled up on a nice school of dorado that ended up as dinner at the Tailhunter Restaurant that night!