Dentist Desmond Sjauwfoekloy, often calls us at the last-minute to book a quick get-away trip from his practice in Los Angeles and always does well. In two days fishing he slammed 4 big yellowtail every day in the 35-40 pound class fishing with our Captain Pancho. It was a wild week of yellowtail and pargo. Some days hit and some days miss, but overall, a solid week of fishing! Read Desmond's first-hand account below.
Take a look at the thickness of the bodies of these yellowtail that Greg Jaquez of Long Beach got fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet out've Muertos Bay. All these fish are 35-40 pound class fish!
Another of our amigos who comes running at the last-minute when he sees the fish are biting is Barry Mendelson who splits his time between Malibu and Cabo. In just a few hours, he spanked 3 yellowtail and pulled 3 nice pargo liso out've the rocks fishing with Captain Archangel.
Bill Zambriski from Long Island, NY, and Mark Martis from Redondo Beach CA have a long successful run of fishing in La Paz with us. In a matter of less than 2 hours their group caught enough yellowtail to send 6 guys home with about 100 pounds of fillets each! Check out these two fat yellowtail that were in the mix!
Not a bad day for Desmond! He fished two days and got 4 of these 35-40 pound class yellowtail each day! Slamming mossbacks just outside of Muertos Bay. He was fishing with Captain Pancho.
Take a close look at this photo! Yes...that's a yellowfin tuna and it's still WINTER! That's north Cerralvo Island in the background. Dan and Tony, members of the Ventana Fishing club live in the area and Gary Morris also on the boat sent me the photo. There had been rumors of some stray tuna around, but no one could confirm it! Well, the guys were fishing North Cerralvo and thought they had hooked another yellowtail and instead...SURPRISE! It was a YFT! So, yea...it's confirmed. There's some weird fishing going on with yellowfin tuna prowling around!
When I first posted up the previous photo showing the tuna, I got some sceptics telling me it was a "fish story" and that the fish had actually been caught at a different time of year. Well, take a look at this photo showing both Dan, Tony and Gary holding their tuna PLUS the yellowtail still wearing the same clothes as the photo above! Thanks to Gary for sending me the photos!
THE BIG SHOW is THIS WEEK! We leave the great sportsmans show in Boise, Idaho and drive to the Long Beach Convention Center for the Fred Hall Fishing and Boating Show this week. This is the largest outdoor show on the West Coast and goes from Wed. to Sunday. It promises to be crazy! Come check it...hunting, fishing, boat, camping...everything outdoor!
BIG YELLOWTAIL AND STUBBORN PARGO TAKE CENTER STAGE!
La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of Feb. 27-March 6, 2011
For the most part, it’s hard to argue with winter weather in the upper 80’s for fishing and even the low 90’s although some days were surely more windy than we would have liked. Still, overall some really solid fishing this week, especially with our Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay fleet. Some days were better than others. Some boats on a given day did better than others. However, we surely didn’t hear too much grumbling because the fish were definitely biting!
The yellowtail were trophy-size sluggers! Most fish were 35-40 pounders and a boat could hook 5 and only get one to the boat. The next boat would land 8. The next panga would land 6 or 7. The panga next to that one would lose 3 and show a zero (good fishing…bad catching!).
But there’s no doubt yellowtail were on the feed and after two weeks, we’re officially into yellowtail season. The fish were holding off high spots or up from dropoffs in several spots such as Punta Perico, South and SE Cerralvo Island, North Cerralvo and out of Muertos Bay. Live bait worked best with a little bit of weight or else fast retrieved blue and white or yellow/white yo-yo iron.
As well, it was a good week for pargo also. Lots of fish hooked. Lots of fish LOST to the rocks and inexperience or simply bad luck!
Just like the yellowtail, there were pangas that would hook 5, 6, 7 of these fish big fish and lose all of them or the next panga would hook 6 and land 4. Just the nature of these toothy-beasts! The largest of the fish we saw that made it back to the beach were in the 20 pound class but tales of much bigger fish were told by wide-eyed tired and frustrated clients.
But wait…there’s more!!!
We also had several small spots of yellowfin tuna show up! What? YFT’s in February and March? Yup! For several weeks, commercial pangeros have been taking a fish or two and some gringo locals have told us of seeing YFT carcasses on the beach where the commercial guys clean their fish.
Well, then several of our gringo amigos who live in the Ventana area actually got some of the tuna around north Cerralvo and it surprised the heck out of them as well. They thought they had another yellowtail hooked and then when the fish got to color…WHOA!!! What’s this? WTH…IT”S a TUNA!!!
As if to underscore the wacky bite this week, another of our local gringo amigos, Mike Madlock from La Paz, got into two days of 12-18 pound dorado as well to go along with his yellowtail.
Things are heating up! Here’s what our amigo, Desmond Sjauwfoekloy, from Los Angeles told us after 2 days and 8 big yellowtail:
“… I should have stayed another day, but not bad at all for a last minute impromptu get-away!The fishing was great. (Captain) Pancho got us out there and we put the hurt on the fish, or was it the other way around?
It’s been years since I’ve gotten a quality yellowtail, and it was just one specimen after another. The second day we left after another 4 yellows to get a few pargo. Frustrating when the seas are discolored all around you (from so many red pargo in the water) and they just won’t bite… Nonetheless, the beer was cold, the sashimi fresh, and I always get to talk to a few interesting folks in the van. Thanks for “hooking me up” and I’ll be down there again — no doubt another last minute phone call…”
TAILHUNTER TOUR BRINGS IT TO LONG BEACH CONVENTION CENTER THIS WEEK!
Finally, the big Fred Hall Fishing and Boating Show hits the Long Beach Convention Center this week! This is the oldest and largest of the outdoor shows and for us, after almost 9 weeks on the road and 8 shows, we’re looking forward to seeing all our amigos! Check this video clip out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqIkyz-cSnE
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We will be in our usual spot on Tackle Row next to Izorline. It gets really crowded so the best advice I can give you to finding us is to look for the palapa (grass) roof on our booth! That’s us! We’ll see you there!
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