BIG FAT YELLOWTAIL were again the story of the week. Gary Morris got into this toad jurel out front of La Ventana east of La Paz.
A happy guy! Jack Steele poses with one of the yellowtail anglers were getting into this week where the range of fish went from 10-45 pounds.
The better fishing for the yellowtail moved up this week to focus on the area in front of La Ventana and Cerralvo Island. Winds did not make it easy. Juan kept his slickers on while out fishing but was rewarded with this sweet yellowtail.
After a great week at the International Sportsmen's Show in Las Vegas, we move it back up to Oregon for the Pacific Northwest Sportsman's Show at the Portland Expo Center. Show is Wednesday to Sunday. Jill took this photo of me and some of our amigos, Gama, Chalres and Rey goofing in the Tailhunter booth!
But wait! While Jonathan is in Portland this week, Jill will break off and does the massive Western Hunting and Conservation Show at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City. They're expecting 30,000 visitors from Thursday to Sunday! Go say hi to Jill!
FOCUS ON YELLOWTAIL AGAIN THIS WEEK DESPITE WINDS BUT SOME SURPRISES!
La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of Jan. 28 to Feb. 5, 2012
The week started kinda slow. Good action, but not a lot of quality. We get into the usual small pargo, cabrilla and tons of bonito. Nice slightly breezy days, but the quality just wasn’t there. Then, Wednesday things got exciting!
The yellowtail bite we’ve enjoyed the last 3 weeks came back although the area changed somewhat. Whereas the chew had been mostly around the island and just outside of Bahia de Los Muertos, instead, it spread towards the area in front of La Ventana with fish up to 45 pounds and anglers hanging 1, 2…5 and even 6 nice fat yellowtail at a time! These were a nice chunky grade of fish and taken on live mackerel or deep running crank baits like the big Rapalas, Yo-Zuri’s and Bombers in mackerel patterns.
But the big excitement was the crazy appearance of tuna! Yea…tuna in February…WINTER! We had reports sporadically over the last few weeks of tuna boils at the north end of Cerralvo Island, but nothing to substantiated. Then, mid-week, we got a couple of hook ups and reports that 30-60 pound fish were traveling with the bonito schools at north end. Several big fish were farmed. Nothing put in the boat! By end of the week, we had fish in the 100-120 pound class blowing up all around the pangas…but they wouldn’t eat the sardines! One of our amigos said he had fish around for 20 minutes crashing and nothing bit. Said it was crazy, but some of the commercial pangeros hooked 40 pound yellowfin. This was the same day that we got some bigger 30-40 pound yellowtail at the south end of the island!
(Oh…there were also some unconfirmed reports of sailfish and dorado breezing our waters as well!)
All this during a week when everyone was saying the ocean looked like “glass” because it was so smooth! (It did change as the weekend came up and winds started blowing from the north.) That might have reflected on the fishing, not just in the number of biters, but also in size of the fish we were catching with most of the fishing being the younger smaller 10-15 pound yellowtail.
So, lots of exciting stuff happening that we’ll keep an eye out for!
PACIFIC NORTHWEST SPORTSMAN’S SHOW COMING UP IN PORTLAND…SO DOES THE WESTERN HUNTING & CONSERVATION SHOW IN SALT LAKE CITY!
Thanks to all the amigos who came to see us in our booth at the Las Vegas International Sportsman’s Expo this past week. Spectacular show and we had a great time.
But now we do something really different. Jonathan will head back north to the Pacific Northwest. From Wednesday to Sunday, he’ll be at the Portland Expo Center for one of the biggest shows of our tour. These are great fun for the whole family with fishing, hunting, camping, boating and other outdoor fun with lots of booths offering trips and products, great seminars and demonstrations, off-road vehicles, RV’s and boats and much more. A great way to spend the day and this is always a great show. We’ll see you there! We always have a great time in Oregon and always great to see all our amigos from the area. Come by the booth and say hello. If you’d like more information and info on how to get discount tickets, click this link:
http://www.thesportshows.com/pnwss/
While Jonathan is in Portland, Jilly will be jetting to Salt Lake City to cover the Western Hunting & Conservation Expo at the Salt Palace Convention Center. Yup…that’s right, we split up!
The Salt Lake City Show is a massive expo right in the heart of Salt Lake City. It’s an experience just to walk among the booths offering fishing trips to everywhere from S. Africa to the Arctic Circle! Last year they had Ted Nugent as a guest speaker. This year, they have Jeff Foxworthy! Jilly will be manning the booth so come say hello and talk to her about coming to visit us to fish in La Paz! Here’s the link:
Gonna be a fun week!
That’s our story!
Jonathan and Jill
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