The week started slowly, but finished with a nice roar with yellowtail pretty much hitting any bait or jig that hit the water. Our buddy, Jim "Hawk" Davis was in the thick of it and hung this beauty yellowtail off Cerralvo Island.
Ron Clark and his amigo, Mike Phillips, started the day with 10 mackerel and came back with 5 fat yellowtail out by Boca de Alamo south of Bahia de Los Muertos. Largest fish were just under 40 pounders.
The yellowtail bite since January has been so incredible that I think some of our regular season fish like pargo and cabrilla are feeling a big ignored since all the focus has been on the big 'tails. However, no doubt...the fish are there. Capt. Fabio holds up a hugs trophy cabrilla. Cerralvo Island in the background.
Famous Russian pianist Alexander Tutunov http://www.tutunov.com/ is a professor of music at S.Oregon St. University in Ashland, Oregon and took time off from teaching and a busy concert schedule to sneak down to fish with us. He shows off some of his catch taken early in the week.
It'a turning into one of the best yellowtail seasons ever. They fish showed up in January, months ahead of schedule and have been biting pretty much ever since as far down as the East Cape. Mackerel have worked exceptionally well but blue and white and also blue and chrome jigs have been deadly like the one hanging out've this big guy's maw! (Thanks JD!)
This yellowtail bite runs as far north of La Paz as Espiritu Santo Island and at times between the sport pangas and the commercial pangas, there can be several dozen boats on the spot but it hasn't usually mattered as the fish keep biting.
Jack Steele who lives in Ventana got out to work the northern end of Cerralvo Island which seems to be the magnet for these yellowtail and poses with the results!
Jill signs autographs on one of our Tailhunter T-shirts for Denny and Cheri Gallegos at the International Sportsmans Expo in Salt Lake City this past week. We had a great show and time. But this week, we're back after 8 years for our 11th show of the season and will be at the Fred Hall Fishing & Outdoor Show at the Del Mar Fairgrounds in San Diego. Thursday to Sunday! Come out to see us!
UP ONE DAY DOWN THE OTHER BUT YELLOWTAIL CONTINUE RIPPING RODS BIG TIME!
La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of March 12-19, 2012
It’s been a fairly steady week of yellowtail fishing in our area. Not as good as last week when we had perhaps one of the best yellowtail bites in recent memory, but our pangas fishing out’ve Bahia de Los Muertos still found good grades of fish. Maybe the fish were just resting up and re-charging from last week when during the full moon, they bit like mad dogs and there were several days last week when pangas were averaging 4-10 yellowtail per day in the 25-35 pound class.
This week, a little slower. Sort of…
On the slower days… Mostly 1-2 yellowtail per boat with some pangas getting up to 5 on the better days. A few boats did better than others. Skill and luck has a lot to do with it when tangling with these big fish. On the slower days, some of it was the wind. Some of it had nothing to do with the wind. Maybe it was because there were too many boats on the honey hole hot spot. Or maybe the fish were just tired and had lock jaw. I dunno.
But, on the better days this week, the guys said that once they found the spot or found what the fish wanted…whether live bait or jigged lures, the bite was one and every drop was a biter and, if not a yellowtail, then it was a pesky skipjack or bonito. Our largest of the week was a hefty 45 pounder on the scale. The fish were in several of the usual places. Boca de Alamo just south of Bahia de los Muertos was again the hot spot, but the south end of Cerralvo Island, the north end of Cerralvo Island and La Reina all produced fish. There seemed to be so many areas. Better bait fishing using mackerel were the predominant methods, but lacking that the old –standard blue and white jigs on a rapid retrieve were good as well.
One note…normally, we’re fishing pargo, snapper and sierra. But, they’re rarely appearing in our reports. I think those other species are starting to feel ignored. It’s not that they’re not there. It’s just that everyone has been concentrating on the big slug yellowtail! We did have one pair of our anglers decide they had enough with the yellowtail…”No mas!” and asked Captain Victor to fish for something else. They got a boat load of sierra and cabrilla as well as some pargo!
A footnote to this wacky season that’s been so good is that we did have a little flurry of yellowfin tuna in the 30-40 pound class come breezing through at the south end of Cerralvo. We’re trying to follow up on that but we also had two marlin hooked and lost this week as well. This is March!
TAILHUNTER TOUR HEADS TO SAN DIEGO
We had an incredible time at the International Sportsmen’s Expo in Salt Lake City this past week. Show number 10 in the books! Great to see so many of our amigos! Thanks to everyone who visited and booked their 2012 La Paz fishing trip! But now…after 8 years…we’re returning to San Diego for our 11th and final show of the 2012 promo tour season. Starting this Thursday through Sunday, come see us at the Fred Hall Fishing and Outdoor Show at the Del Mar Fairgrounds in San Diego! We are really looking forward to it and seeing all our San Diego amigos!
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