Wow! What an excellent photo. This is our amiga from Oregon, Debbie White, with Captain Pancho. She always seems to do well here and take great photos like this (actually, husband Don takes the shots!), but check out the colors on this big bull dorado she got fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet. There's some nice bulls out there!
It was a good week for the ladies to show the guys a thing-or-two! First timer amiga from San Diego, Leanne Pleasants, fished off Espiritu Santo Island for a day and took limits of dorado with her family including this nice mahi!
That's our son, Jarrett Pfost, with a nice dorado and standing behind him is first timer and new funny amigo, Gary Pleasants from San Diego. They spent a day working the sargasso weeds north of La Paz for some limits of dorado.
Yes...there's still tuna around. Check out Don and Debbie! Debbie was actually on a fish estimated over 100 pounds for an hour and it came off right next to the boat. The tuna bite has been sporadic at best. One day there's fish and then several days of nothing but empty ocean. Fish have ranged from 25-150 pounds and are around Cerralvo Island with some schools moving closer.
It was another good week for marlin and sailfish for both of our Tailhunter Fleets. Most of the fish are breaking off or are getting released. Rick Hosmer took this underwater shot of one that ate his jig. We had two fish estimated over 300 pounds bust off and we also had our spearfisher buddy, John Peretti, who has had several spearfishing records line up and take a shot on a fish estimated over 1000 pounds...and miss. The water was so clear he unfortunately misjudged the distance and the spear shaft dropped short! He said, "I missed the fish of a liftime!" He said he saw the big blue eating big bonito beneath the surface.
Fish Brother, Ray Laney, spent an entire week with us and fished every single day! He had a spectacular week fishing with our La Paz fleet hooking 5 or 6 mariln/sailfish and numerous dorado like this big bull!
Big smiles from Diana Pleasants with her first roosterfish which was released. It was another good week for the roosters, especially around the Las Arenas area. Diana is from San Diego.
Just after Stan Andre took this photo of his buddy, Terry Hawk and his dorado, he dropped his iPhone in the water. It started working two days later and they were able to save this photo of Terry and his nice bull dorado!
For those of us who consider needlefish the curse of the ocean, take a look at this beast being held up by Captain Raul!
PARTING SHOT! Everyone tries to take photos of leaping fish, but it's harder than it looks. First to take the photo. Second to make it look good! These fish are moving faster then it looks! Rick Hosmer caught this one perfectly in mid-flight!
VIDEO CLIP OF THE WEEK
Click the link to see some of the video and still images from the week:
Video 1: Debbie White struggles with a 100-pound tuna!
Video 2: Some summary shots and clips of the week
SLIGHTLY OFF-WEEK AS FULL MOON HITS BUT DORADO STAY STRONG WITH OTHER SPECIES FILLING IN!
La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of July 10-17, 2011
Maybe it was the full moon coming up on us, but it was an up-and-down week with the fishing here. It wasn’t bad. It just wasn’t exactly off-the-charts either. Weather was hot and muggy and very tropical and we had some little showers here and there ,but overall pretty nice weather, but the fishing was good some days and so-so on other days.
Like previous weeks, dorado led the way and were the predominant catch. Our La Paz fleet continued to do the best. There’s quite a bit of sargasso formed up along the current lines and you just have to find the right spots. The general pattern seemed to indicate that fish were all over under the weeds, but the best bite was usually late. A common comment from many of our anglers was that they were “bored” or “almost giving up on the day” as captains tried to get the reluctant fish to bite. All of a sudden somewhere between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. fish would start hitting. Maybe it was 1 at-a-time. Maybe it would be a whole slam school that hit the boat and all craziness would break out. But, at the end of the day, folks would look in the fix box and go “Hmmmm…I guess we DID get some fish!” and grin. Most of the fish were not big fish but there was alot of action and there were some spots where we hooked into some 30-40 pounders. We also lost quite a few fish as well for whatever reasons!
For our Las Arenas fleet, the elusive tuna continued to be the bug-a-boo for anglers. One day, they’d hit the 88 spot that has been producing tuna for several week and nothing would even sniff. Not a fish…not a bird…no porpoise schools…NOTHING! Next day, guys would go out there and 20-150 pounders would be all over the place! Go figure. So, it was either hit or miss with the tuna. There’s definitely some big boys still out there. We had several larger models get away and one fish straightened a hook on an angler of ours.
If the tuna weren’t working there were scattered dorado schools to be hunted out at the buoys just offshore from Las Arenas and pangas will leap-frog each other trying to find some fish that will bite. There’s also ALOT of billfish activity working all areas as well. A number of smaller striped marlin and sailfish were hooked and released this week and several blue marlin in the 300-pound category were also hooked and lost.
As well, if you want a roosterfish, those have been our saving species on days when other stuff just wasn’t biting. Find some sandy areas of beach or some drop offs and it’s been a good season for roosterfish, especially for the school-sized fish in the 5-40 pound class.
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