One of the better tuna of the week hoisted by Eddie Carvajal from Baldwin Park CA. First bite of the day. There weren’t many tuna, this week, but the was a nice slug yellowfin. Eddie also did great on dorado after 3 days of fishing with us for his first time.
Former firefighter Mac Treasure retired to Nevada to be a farmer, but brings his great group to see us every year to fish for a few days. On their first day of fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet, Mac stuck the biggest fish of the day with this big hefty bull dorado. Las Arenas had the better fishing this week.
Nice sailfish for Wayne Jarrett from S. Dakota catch-and-release after the photo. Sailfish have been fairly active the last few weeks with most getting released. Capt. Fabio holds the fish. (Thanks for the shot, Hawk!)
Jon Luker had a banner week of fishing with us. Our long-time amigo, fished 3 days and had big dorado as well as yellowfin tuan. He got this big female north of La Paz.
I’ve known Mike Harkins since he was a little kid coming down to fish with us in La Paz. He was always a talented fisherman and is now a sportboat captain on the “Western Pride” out of Davey’s Locker Sportfishing in Newport Beach. He holds a couple of yellowfin tuna taken off Cerralvo Island on the one day when the fish blew up…then disappeared the next day!
Musician Larry Cornwall has a house down here near La Paz but lives in near Los Angeles. Larry shows off a big time trophy bull dorado he caught just outside of Bahia de Los Muertos!
John Nagy and Rick Hosmer make several trips a year normally to La Paz from S. California. They took this photo with a pair of big dorado taken off the south end of Cerralvo Island near Las Arenas which had the much better fishing this week.
For a first timer fishing, Mayra Carvajal, had a stellar week of fishing with some big-time dorado fishing like this nice bull. She enjoyed bringing it back to our Tailhunter Restaurant to have us make them into tacos for dinner! The beach at Muertos Bay is behind her.
His personal best dorado for Tim Larsen from Dana Point, CA with some great colors fresh out of the water. Tim caught this near Espirito Santo Island. Buddy Dave Marino from Little Rock CA looks on.
Best hat-of-the-week award to Scott Luker with Captain Rogelio trying to photo-bomb from behind! Great shot of Scott and this quality bull dorado caught north of La Paz.
Barbette Davidson poses with her nice dorado she caught fishing with our Tailhunter La Paz fleet. Barbette was a first-timer with us from Washington and had some great fishing with both of our fleets.
Rob Brooks checks out his catch a hot bull dorado he got just south of Muertos Bay fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet. He got limits of dorado that day!
VIDEO CLIP OF THE WEEK
Pastor Mike Ray from California does battle with a nice trophy roosterfish in Bahia de Los Muertos. Check it out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNUInBioBPs&list=UUSN0xdz-El64xBXmMhl_yvg&index=1&feature=plcp
DORADO SOME TUNA GREAT WEATHER MAKE FOR STEADY FALL FISHING…SOME DAYS!
La Paz- Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of Sept. 16-23, 2012
Overall, a better week for fishing and weather since the previous week. At least on some levels. Not only did we have literally picture-perfect sunny weather (with no afternoon thunderstorms after 3 weeks of storms!) but dorado continued to be the solid biters, but the big change seems to be that Las Arenas is finally catching up and is turning out the better fishing.
In fact, not only did Las Arenas have the better fishing, it also had the larger fish as well. Plus there were scattered bites of yellowfin tuna as well. This is exciting given that the usually stellar fishing with our Las Arenas fleet has been scratchy all season. It’s about time we see it catch fire a bit!
I don’t went to get too excited then have it all fall flat as it has several times this year, but the overall trend for about a week-and-a-half seems to be that the Las Arenas fishing is finally getting some legs. La Paz fishing was a bit tougher. In fact, perhaps some of the slowest fishing we’ve seen all season as colder and greener water pushed the La Paz bite down and our anglers had to scratch for fishing north of the city.
As mentioned, dorado were biting on both the La Paz and the Las Arenas side. Fish were normally about 10-15 pounds for the schoolie-fish, but 20-25 pounders were not uncommon, especially around Las Arenas, Bahia de Los Muertos and Cerralvo Island. Still, both sides produced some 30 -40 pound class fish and larger fish were also lost. But there were some boats and some anglers that worked hard and even then…sometimes their efforts and the efforts of the captains just didn’t produce! Alot of the success this week was just a matter of luck or being right on the right school at the right time with the right bait when they dorado wanted to bite.
And then there was the tuna…
Yes, we did get some tuna as well. Little splashes here and there of yellowfin tuna between 10 and 40 pound kept popping up around Cerralvo Island, but nothing spectacular. Still, it’s always encouraging and we remain hopeful that the tuna will show up solidly at any time. But, it’s only a guess. I’m a bit worried about the water temperatures which are already starting to drop a bit closer to shore. The way I know that is we also hooked some sierra this week which we normally don’t see until the waters get chillier in November or December. It’s only September!
For billfish, not so great. They just had the big La Paz Gold Cup tournament this past week and not many qualifying fish were taken. We did get some sailfish hookups this week and some smaller striped marlin, but all either broke off or were released.
That’s our story!
Jonathan and Jilly
Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter International
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