All the way from Florida, Tim Emory found our yellowfin tuna bite much to his liking. Note how close to shore they are! Yellowfin tuna continue to linger here and there although waters are cooling with some decent 10-25 pound fish still around. Amigo, Bob looks on...probably heckling Tim!
Warren Weisenberg sent me this photo of this incredibly fat wahoo he took just outside of La Paz Bay. According to Warrne, " It hit a dorado spread and nailed a 6 inch Paku Lua Caveman. Lucky I had beads over the mono as chafe protectors." Surprisingly, there have been some nice wahoo pickups really really close to shore and in shallow waters in the channel between the tip of La Paz peninsula and the south side of Espirito Santo Island.
Bob Sutke sports a good-looking bull dorado on the beach at Muertos Bay. Dorado continue to be the mainstay for most of the fishing around La Paz these days in terms of bluewater species.
Just a great photo! This is San Diego amigo, Jerry Davis "getting bent" which is what it's all about! (more on Jerry below)
Bent rods usually result (most of the time!) with a good fish. Jerry Davis posts up with his own bull dorado he caught off Muertos Bay. Live bait is still the ticket.
DORADO KEEP IT POPPING AS WE ROLL INTO FALL FISHING
La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of Nov. 14-21, 2010
Busy busy week here in La Paz. The Baja 1000 is here and town is packed. There has not been a hotel or condo available here for 2 months. Plus, the famous Baja-Ha-Ha sailboaters are also in town plus there’s a big local fishing tournament as well. So, town is packed!
Fishing has been great for dorado although you can tell conditions are changing. It’s cooler with daytime temps a very sunny pleasant 82 degrees most days and nightime we’re all wearing sweatshirts now at 61 degrees! But winds are getting more prominent, especially from the north which makes some of the fishing a bit choppier some days and certainly cooler out there on the water. However, water temps have not really started dropping yet so fishing for bluewater species has been pretty consistent, especially for dorado.
The mahi are the bread-and-butter fish right now with about 80 percent of the catch. Most fish aren’t real big, but fun 10-20 pounders are the norm with fish willing to charge the boat on dead bait, live bait or take a small feather dragged behind the boat or a strip of fresh dead bonito or squid. Quite a few of the anglers right now aren’t big-time fisherpersons per se. Many are vacationers here in town for the holidays or on vacation and just taking a day of fishing with little or no experience. So they’re thrilled to have a boat load of fun dorado to pull them all over the place. Easy to catch and fun to battle, not to mention great eating back on shore for dinner that night.
Other species we’re getting include some football sized yellowfin tuna, mostly with our Las Arenas/Muertos Bay fleet around the south end of Cerralvo Island and then on the drop off near Punta Perrico. There’s still some wahoo around the south side of the island, but not many folks have been fishing for them and there’s also been surprisingly some wahoo just outside La Paz Bay as well with some good hookups in the past week as well as marlin.
More sierra, pargo and snapper showing up as well now that things are cooling off.
That’s our story!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. We’re blessed and we hope you are as well. Stay safe and thanks for being part of the Tailhunter tribe!
Jonathan and Jill
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