Yes, there are still some big tuna out at the 88 bank east of Cerralvo Island. Not alot. Not often but you might just be one of the hot boats that particular day! Steve McGavern calls San Diego and Loreto "home" but ran down to us for a quick shot at the tuna and got two nice fat chunks!
Dad Mike Akiyoshi brought sons Trevor (left) and Kevin (right) down for a few days fishing and got a mess of dorado the first day then put in some serious rail time two days at the 88 getting some 45 pound class yellowfin that ended up back at our Tailhunter Restaurant as sashime, Hawaiian poke and barbecued collars and bellies with garlic! Drove us all crazy with how good it tasted!
With all the tuna pictures this week, one would be inclined to think we had a great tuna bite going on, when in fact it was the dorado that really did the best although it wasn't until later in the week when we got into the groove. Early in the week the bite was stingy at best with fish all around, but not willing to chew. As we passed the full moon, the fish came to party. Mark Gillespie from Huntington Beach CA was on his first trip to La Paz with his buddy "El Al" Schneider and shows off some of their catch.
Putting the "wood" to his first big tuna of the day, Trevor Akiyoshi from Upland CA is rewarded with the nice tuna in the inset photo. When someone is on a big fish, there's not much the captain can do except look on like Captain Jorge with his hands on his hip! Smile Trev!
Not every fish can be a giant, but a first-time fish on a flyrod is what Chrs Daniels from Sacramento wanted. And a smile is a smile! She's holding a nice little dog-tooth snapper.
Rhonda McGavern from San Diego was another fortunate angler who got into the larger tuna this past week at the 88 spot east of Cerralvo Island.
SOLID DORADO AND SPORADIC BIG TUNA HIGHLIGHT THE FISHING WEEK
La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of June 12-19, 2011
The week started slowly with a combination of the full moon
and temperature spikes on the water. It seemed there were fish all over
breaking but they just didn’t want to eat. We’d toss baits at them.
Run lures over and around them…literally run over them with the boats and we
couldn’t get them to bite. Then, gradually as the week went on things got
back in the groove.
The good dorado bite out’ve La Paz got back on track.
Lots of little fish to be had, but there’s still some nice bull dorado ranging
from 20-50 pounds. The fish are in a fairly broad range and it helps to
know where to go. Best is to find some of the weed patches floating out
in the channels. Not all the weeds have fish. You can hop patch
after patch and not find anything. But, then one patch will blow up when you
throw a few baits at it and it’s one-stop-shopping as dorado come
crashing. Or, the alternative is that you pick up a fish here and a fish
there. At the end, you realize you’ve put a nice batch of fish in the
box. Another way is to slow troll an area with live or dead bait or fast
troll more water with lures and hope for a hookup. When you get that fish
to the boat, toss baits and try to get the school to follow the hooked fish to
the boat. The problem is that if you lose that hooked fish, often, it
will take the school with it so it’s a good idea to get that first fish to the
boat. If it’s small or you plan to release it, keep it close to the boat
until you get the 2nd hookup.
As for the big tuna bite, it’s still on-again-off-again on
the 88 bank east of Cerralvo. There’s still some fish there exceeding 100
pounds, but there’s been alot of boat traffic out there and either the fish are
up and interested or not around at all. Or, they’re boiling all around
but not interested in jumping your lines. Most of the fish that are
caught are in the 30-60 pound class, but given the number of boats out there
compared to how many are actually hooking fish, some days, it’s just not worth
running that far. But, then again, one of the days you run out there
happens to be one of the days that the fish come to the party!
There’s still a good roosterfish bite going on and the
roosters have been a fun fall-back species if nothing else is going on.
They’re not especially good eating so most are released, but it’s alot of fun
hooking these 30-80 pound exotics. Quite a few of the fish are over
80 pounds. There’s some nice marlin hanging out. Interestingly,
for the ones getting brought in, their bellies are full of little dorado!
That’s what they’re eating so if you’re trolling for billfish, dorado colored
feathers would certainly be in my trolling pattern!
That’s our story! God bless all you dads and Happy Fathers’ Day everyone!
Jonathan and Jill
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