Down from the S.F. bay area, brothers Glenn and Richard Chun fished a pretty much a whole week with us in that hot spot north of La Paz and found out how tough these yellowtail are losing quite a few fish, but having a blast taking 5-7 yellowtail each day.
Nothing better than a kid with a big smile holding big fish! Even the kids got into it this week for the thrill!
Even the La Ventana guys were in on the great bite especially since Cerralvo Island is right across the channel! Famous Capt. Fabio poses with some amigos and a nice rack of fish! (Thanks for the shot, Hawk!)
This surely is not a salmon! Rena Hunley lives along the Columbia River in Oregon and fished with us for the first time getting in on some of the big yellowtail like this one that she hefts on the beach at Bahia de Los Muertos.
Big big slug of a yellowtail! Just off Cerralvo Island, Scott Johnson from the Dalles in Oregon stuck this beautiful yellowtail on a live mackerel.
With Tailhunter International for the first time, Greg Hunley, fished two days with us taking solid numbers of yellowtail in the middle of the big bite taking place off Cerralvo Island.
FULL MOON PRODUCES MAYBE BEST YELLOWTAIL OF SEASON!
La Paz – Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of March 24-31, 2013
What full moon? Yea…I was worried…but…
This has perhaps been the best yellowtail fishing of the year and maybe the best week that many of us can remember in a long time!
Both our La Paz and our Las Arenas fleet got into fish with some nice quality slugger fish running 20-40 pounds as waters cleared up in all spots, especially north of Espiritu Santo Island where the waters had been green and cold for awhile…plus windy…and now things have opened up nicely!
The pangas are getting 4-10 big fish each but…LOSING…just as many! Here’s the kind of comments I’m getting:
“Man, these fish are way stronger than salmon!”
“I can’t believe how hard these fish can pull. If you don’t turn their heads forget it. You can’t just hold the bent rod and wait for them to get tired! You’ll lose ’em every time!”
“I lost 4 on the iron until I figured out what I was doing wrong and finally started to listen to my captain who showed me that I can’t stop turning the handle. They hit like a freight train!”
For our Las Arenas pangas, the hot spot is still that NE side of Cerralvo Island by the backside. It’s solid with bait and fish and one of my captains counted more than 30 fishing boats out there one day including sporty’s, private boats, cruisers from the East Cape and commercial guys. The good thing was that it looked like everyone was bit! Mackerel and iron worked best!
For our La Paz anglers, the run to El Bajo…probably the most northern spot we’ll get to for daily fishing is the seamount north of Espirito Santo Island and the place almost exploded with fish. We had some guys cancel their 2nd days of fishing because they got too many fish the first day and were just whupped! But these fish are horses coming up off the edge in deeper cold water…grabbing baits and irons…then turbo jet back straight down! Most of these fish were short fat thick guys with big shoulders and bad attitudes!
The key right now is if this will continue. As I’m writing this, the advisories show that the winds will be kicking back up again this week. We’ll have to keep an eye out.
Also, totally ignored because of the yellowtail, but outside there’s some big dorado to be caught and inshore, cabrilla, pargo and sierra as well as roosters are running around!
P.S. As I am writing this on Sunday night a little story…we had 6 pangas out today. 4 pangas got into fish except two. BOTH PANGAS HAD BANANAS ABOARD!!! They lost yellowtail and big pargo!
NEW AIRLINES FOR LA PAZ…FINALLY!
After months of speculation and many promises, Aero Mexico has finally announced its new routes to La Paz flying directly from Los Angeles. As of April 6th, Alaska Airlines terminates it’s flights to La Paz, but Aero Mexico has stepped into the gap. However, flights don’t begin until June 20th from Los Angeles. But this is still good news. As of now, flights from LAX to La Paz will be on Sundays and Thursdays!
That’s our story! Happy Easter and God bless!
Jonathan and Jill
Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter International
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