Fishing tailed off just a tad this past week, but yellowtail were still up to bat with some nice fish like the two-fisted catch by Carl Lange from Bakersfield. Both fish fell to live mackerel. Muertos Bay is in the background.
Our local "ace" from La Ventana James "Hawk" Davis has been sticking fish every week since this yellowtail bite started back in January. Note the flat waters behind him and the towns of La Ventana and El Sargento. Hawk holds up a thick yellowtail.
Standing on the beach at Muertos, Travis Simmons fished with us for several days and holds up his biggest yellowtail of the trip. He was fishing with Captain Jorge and dropped a big mackeral in this guys' mouth!
I know this cabrilla caught just off the rocks at Punta Perico (in the background) ended up as dinner ,because the fisherman, Art Flippin, took it to our Tailhunter Restaurant specifically and had us cook it up for him! Great time for Mexican cabrilla...seabass!
TOUGHER WEEK ON THE FISH AND FISHERMEN AS YELLOWTAIL CONTINUE TO POP UP!
La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of March 26 to April 1, 2012
It was hard to put a finger on the fishing this week. As usual we had a little wind some days which didn’t help, but on the days the winds laid down, the fish were certainly there! Some nice yellowtail too! Friends on the beach and commercial pangeros I spoke to during the week said sometimes the yellowtail were so thick it was like “the old days!” Fish were foaming and crashing the surface and scattering bait in such big log jams of fish that it could be seen from shore…which sometimes isn’t too far off. Imagine 25-45 pound fish blowing up en masse!
Our problem was that we didn’t have a whole lot of anglers out there although everyone did catch a few of the big boys. Also, we had some rookies and God bless ‘em they had fun! But sometimes these fish can be pretty mean and we were losing more fish than we were putting in the boat. Still…they had fun but if you think back, most of us were there at one point where you’re new and you’re not sure which end of the reel is up and which way the handle turns. Then, the biggest meanest fish of your life suddenly yanks a 50 pound rod in half and your adrenaline goes zero-to-sixty in nano-seconds and it’s chaos as everyone is talking to you and yelling at you! And then before you know what’s up…ZING POWIE! No more fish! You thought you were ready but the biggest fish you ever caught before was a rainbow trout or steelhead. You weren’t ready yet for one of our Baja big boys! And so…maybe you lose a few as you get into the learning curve and get your chops down.
The problem is…for many folks this time of year…they are one-day anglers. They’re in town and decide to do a day of fishing. They’re our snow birds who are just getting out of the cold back home. They go out and catch a few fish….or lose a few fish…and just when they’re getting the hang of it…the day is over! And they were only fishing that one day! They go home with some nice bags of cabrilla or sierra and some chunks of yellowtail, but if they had fished just one more day, it would have made a huge difference and they’d be better prepared.
Anyway…
The fish were up around Ventana Bay, South and North Cerralvo Island and our usual stomping ground at Boca de Alamo just south of Bahia de Los Muertos. Often pretty close to shore and in shallow water. Getting mackerel can sometimes be a chore as those are the preferred “candy bait” for these big sluggers.
It’s hard to really get a read on the other species we usually catch this time of year, but we did show some smaller pargo, cabrilla, sierra and jack crevalle as well as a decent bite on bonito!
That’s our story!
Jonathan and Jilly
Jonathan Roldan’s
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