Tailhunter Fish Report

Lead off picture of the week was a "no miss!" What a great shot and great colors on this dorado taken by 18-year-old Jess Miller who was here as a graduation present with his grandfather. Captain Jorge adds and extra smile. There weren't alot of big ones this week, but there was enough activity with the dorado to keep folks happy. Jess caught this fish with our Las Arenas fleet.

Amy Sawaske from Bakersfield is our poster girl of the week. She told everyone (husband and father-in-law) that she was going to "kick everyone's backside with more and bigger fish". She talked up the smack big time. And...she backed it up! She actually did have a great week. Even when dad and hubby were getting queasy, she was still standing up and pulling on fish. Take a look a the collage we did of Amy below in the other pictures. Here she's got a decent dorado she caught north of La Paz. Fairly typical of the fish this week. There were some bigger dorado out there including some 30-50 pounders hooked...but not landed. Most tended to be school-sized fish in the 10-15 pound class which were great fun when they swarmed the boats!

This tuna held up by Captain Victor of our Las Arenas fleet and caught by Earl "Butch" Lawson might be the biggest fish of the week for us for reasons that have nothing to do with the size of the fish! About 20 months ago, Butch was on life support in a Las Vegas hospital and the doctors basically telling the family they were going to do a 6-way-by-pass but to say good-bye because he probably would NOT survive the surgery. His son, Earl had this to say, "He was in surgery all day and received a 6-way bypass. Sometime the next day he was starting to come around so I decided to try to lift his spirits. I held out a couple fingers and told him to grab my fingers with his left hand. I told him to pull them toward him, then (when he did) I said, "Reel! Reel! Yeah, you're gonna be okay." The smile on his face was priceless. Getting back to La Paz has been his goal during his recovery." So, this trip was his "coming out" party and he was all smiles! Congratulations, Butch. Gracias a Dios!

During the winter, our good amigo, Jim Newman from Chicago sends me pictures of frozen Chicago and frozen Lake Superior! I love the way he fishes...light tackle...inshore...and throwing lures! He gets hammered by fish like this huge jack crevalle that's one of the toughest fighters around. And he releases almost all his fish too! He got this badboy fishing with our Las Arenas fleet.

Mike Crisp from San Antonio, TX was one of the lucky guys who put one of the big-boy tuna into the boat. He got this nice fish near Cerralvo Island.

After you've fought a few of these big tuna, it's alot easier to just lie down next to them for the photo op then trying to pick them up when someone wants a photo! Will Long from San Francisco area got two nice tuna out by Cerralvo Island.

As I said above, Amy Sawaske from Bakersfield CA "walked the walk" and "talked the talk" when she came for the first time this week with her husband and father in law. She smack-talked them all week about catching more and bigger fish than them. Check the photos. Not bad for a first-timer! The rooster WAS released as were ALL the roosters she caught (I think about 8 of them). And truth be told, her family could not have been happier that she outfished them. She's surely this week's poster-gal!

After 9 days of diving over 100 feet and holding his breath up to an incredible 5-minutes each time and 6-8 hours in the water, Johan Jacobs from S. Africa shot these two pargo near the north end of Cerralvo Island. He said he has the "bug" for pargo now and said he saw so many fish down there hiding in caves and under ledges that he did not shoot or were impossible to shoot. Many days he did not shoot any fish. But says he is hooked on chasing the elusive pargo and cabrilla.