It's hard not to be all smiles when you land a trophy yellowtail like this one that Darrell George of New Mexico pulled up in shallow water just off Punta Perico behind him. The big yellows are eating sardines and yo-yo iron.
Our amiga, Donna Thompson, out fished her husband, Roger, at the south end of Cerralvo Island, taking three of these big yellowtail to Roger's one! Live sardines did the trick. Reach Roger's first-hand account below.
Not bad for a first time trip...cabrilla (Mexican seabass) like this aren't easy to come by. Sure, they'll bite, but then you still have to get then outta the rocks! Ray Herrerra yanked this bad boy just out of Muertos Bay.
When you're hot...you're hot. Ray, from New Mexico, nailed two big cabrilla on his trip. Captain Victor looks on.
Big-eye jacks have moved into the shallow areas along the beaches and are great light tackle sport not to mention great eating. Lots of anglers confuse them with their cousins the jack crevalle which are also feisty, but don't taste very good at all so many anglers throw back the big-eye jacks. Our captains do a good job of telling our anglers which ones to keep! Speaking of good-eating, the seabass ready to fillet are great too!
Jill and I had a great time at the Portland Expo Center at the hunting and fishing show! We have so many amigos in Oregon. What a pretty state it is. But the Tailhunter 2011 Road Tour is on the move again! We set up in Phoenix Thursday to Sunday at Cardinal Football Stadium for the ISE show. Come say hi and book your 2011 La Paz fishing trip! We're filling fast! This is our friend Bob LeBeau the inventor of the Hunter Honer knife sharpeners goofing with us.
SOME BIGGER GRADE YELLOWTAIL FINALLY PUT A BEND IN THE RODS!
La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of Feb. 12-20, 2011
A more typical week of fishing this past week. At least in terms of weather. The near-freezing stuff we had two weeks ago has been replaced with days in the high 7o’s and 80’s like normal with fishing more typical of the season. Winds still blow northerly every few days, but overall, not an unpleasant week and fishing reflected it. In fact, we had some real exciting stuff!
Inshore species continued to be the mainstay with jack crevalle, sierra, yellow snapper, big eye jacks and some smaller roosterfish primarily. However, there were some other reasons to be optimistic as well. Some of the large pargo were hooked…and lost (which is not unusual) but at least we know the big boys are around. As well, we had some really trophy sized cabrilla taken (seabass) and finally a few of the larger homeguard moss-back-style yellowtail. There’s a few spots that just blue up nicely… All in shallow water not too far from shore. Literally within 50 yards off the rocky areas around Punta Perrico and near the south side of Cerralvo.
Roger Thompson’s wife (show above) got three nice fish and Roger had this to say:
” There is a HUGE school of yellowtail just off shore on the south east end of Cerralvo, where they are getting bait. We pulled up on 15 or 20 birds working the water and we saw hundreds of yellowtail in the water. ALL, 25 to 35 pounders! No shit! That was before we got sardinas. We trolled thru them with rapalas and tossed iron with no luck. We ran in and picked up bait and it was on!
We’ve got anglers going all week so hopefully, we’ll have more great reports to post up!
TAILHUNTER ROAD SHOW MOVES TO PHOENIX THIS WEEK!
The Tailhunter International 2011 Road Tour of all the best fishing and hunting shows in the West moves south this week. In 7 weeks we’ve been in 9 states meeting so many great folks and talking about fishing with us in La Paz. We have just left Oregon.
We’ll be in Phoenix this week at the Cardinal Football Stadium where the Cardinals play. We’re right there on the stadium floor. It’s a great place! We’ll be there Thursday to Sunday so come by and get our new DVD and brochures and talk to us about your 2011 La Paz fishing adventure!
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