Whoo-hooooo! Parks from Colorado came up with this nice yellowtail just outside of Bahia de Los Muertos where flat waters kept the hot yellowtail bite rolling with 15-30 pound fish!
Uno mas! A fat jurel (yellowtail) for Bob Day who scored with this off Cerralvo Island. Ideal conditions this past week helped keep the yellowtail bite on the roll, especially around Cerralvo Island.
James "Hawk" Davis is getting to be a regular poster child on the Tailhunter Fishing Report. Thanks to him also so often for such great photos like this one with another yellowtail over the rail.
Close cousin to the yellowtail (and some people say better table fare!) amberjack are also on the feed around Bahia de Los Muertos. Some of these fish can get over 100 pounds. This one by our amigo, Esteban Romero, isn't quite that big, but it's the right size for his grill!
The yellowtail have arrived a bit early this year, but the pargo are also in numbers inshore and on the spawn. Cindy Hunt holds up a tough hard fighting pargo liso (dog snapper). These fish are literally in just a few feet of water and catching one out of the rocks is quite a conquest!
A long way from North Carolina, Floy puts the gaff to one more yellowtail this past week.
Click the link above to get a video-clip view from the inside of the Tailhunter booth this past week at the International Sportsman’s Expo show at the State Fairgrounds in Sacramento. Thanks to everyone who came by to say hi and book their 2012 fishing trips to La Paz! The Tailhunter Road Show now heads north up to the Pacific Northwest to the Washington State Fairgrounds at Puyallup, Washington going on through Sunday. Stop by to say hi and pick up this year’s Tailhunter DVD and 24 page action brochure!
YELLOWTAIL and BIG PARGO KEEP BITING AS LONG AS THE WIND STAYS AWAY!
La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for the Week of Jan. 15-22, 2012
Great inshore fishing continued to dominate the La Paz/ Las Arenas fishing scene this past week again with continued bent rods on the featured yellowtail and pargo. The fish are surely here a bit earlier than normal. Fish of this quality and quantity usually don’t show up for another month or two! No one’s complaining…except those anglers seeing the reports lately and wishing they were in La Paz waters getting into this great bite.
The week started a bit sluggish for the big boys, but still some nice action on the bonito, cabrilla and smaller pargo. Buy any standards, half-way decent fishing action for this time of year! However, by mid-week the yellowtail were again crashing just off the inside waters around north and south Cerralvo Island plus a nice jag of fish just off Punta Perico in that rocky areas between Muertos Bay and the Las Arenas lighthouse.
These were a nice grade of yellowtail. The larger fish up to 30-40 pound seemed to be closer to the spots around the island. “Smaller’ fish (up to 30 pounds) were the ones taken near Bahia de Los Muertos, Punta Perico and Boca de Alamo just to the south.
Mackerel seem to be the prime bait, but sardines and casting yo yo iron on the fast crank using blue/white; brown bait; and scrambled egg patterns have been steady producers.
In addition to the areas of yellowtail those same rocky areas are still kicking out early-season pargo as well. Some of the fish appear to literally be mere feet from the rocky cliffs and shorelines. But that’s because they ARE that close. I often tell folks it looks like a Japanese kio pond with 10-50 pound fish gone on steroids as the big pargo (snapper) start roiling and boiling in the chum lines and many large fish we never see simply because they are too big and the rocks beneath the surface are too close and can shred mono leaders like mere thread. They’re a frustrating fish!
I’m still hearing reports from the commercial guys of some fast-moving tuna at the north end of Cerralvo Island with fish up to 100 pounds greyhounding. But, none of the sport pangas have been able to get on them. We’ll keep you posted!
That’s our story!
Jonathan and Jill
Jonathan Roldan’s
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