Young Caroline Coomber from San Diego hadn’t done much fishing before, but got her biggest fish ever fishing with Captain Victor although she’s reluctant to touch the big yellowtail on the gaff. She was fishing off Cerralvo Island.
Skip Coomber usually comes to La Paz several times a year, but had not visited in a few years, but made the most of it heading out to fish Cerralvo Island and using mackerel took 2 nice yellowtail like this one. Skip is from the San Diego area.
YELLOWTAIL HARDER TO COME BY BUT OTHER SPECIES FILL THE GAPS
La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of April 8-15, 2012
It was not our best week of fishing here for the most part. Given the great bite we’ve had for the last 3 months, this past week was disappointing mainly because we’ve been spoiled. So many big yellowail! So given the bar has been so high and the expectations so great, this past week was actually a “normal” early spring week of fishing, but compared to the previous weeks/months, it was a bummer.
For one, we had some hangover weather from Easter week. During that time, full moon and high winds, especially to the south pushed a lot of water around. This pulled up colder greener off-color water from down deep. In the long-run, this is good. The cooler water with all the nutrients are a naturally occurring thing and brings up a lot of nutrients that makes the fishies grow, but short term, it really shuts off the bite. Sort of like throwing the fish into a cold shower of off-color water. It sometimes takes awhile for them to shake it off and come around again.
And I think that’s what happened. Plus, the winds continued to blow. In fact, several days were darn-right bumpy out there and on one day we had to just bring everyone back to town. It’s the first day we’ve had to cancel boats in about 2 years. The sun was out and the weather was nice, but the chop and wind were just crazy. So, the clients were cool about it and it was just better to bring everyone in. It would have been nearly impossible to get bait anyway.
And that was another problem. With the winds battering some of our bait holes around the islands, it scattered the bait. Like looking for a needle in a haystack and the pangas would have a hard time just getting into the spots close to the rocks without some bit of risk.
So….well, like I said, it was more like a “normal” early spring bite. We did get some yellowtail but not as many as we had been getting. We also got some really nice cabrilla (Mexican seabass) and pargo (lost quite a few to the rocks) and some of the biggest sierra I have ever seen! Oh, and also lots of bonito. We had a number of families out so the bonito provided great action for many of the kids most of whom had never fished before. We also did get a few roosterfish as well in the 20-pound class which looks like they’re finally showing up!
We did have some flyfishers who were fishing Baja for the first time and they had a blast. In fact, as one of them told me “It’s not like steelhead or trout fishing. I’m sore! These fish beat you up!” he said with a grin. That day he got several jack crevalle, several bonito, a few sierra, needlefish and roosters. Great variety!
As I’m writing this, waters seem to be getting better daily so, as long as the winds keep diminishing, the waters will clear up. Even in Baja every now and then, there’s an off-week!
That’s our story!
Jonathan and Jill
Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter International
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