A number of the ladies had banner a banner week on the fishing like Marianne Sugawara from Cypress CA who fishes with Tailhunter several times a year. With Captain Joel she was out east of Espirito Santo Island when she got into a really sweet bite of big amberjack including this 45-50 pound slug. The ambers get over 100 pounds and are great eating big-cousins of yellowtail.
It’s getting a little late in the season, but where there’s still areas of the cooler water, we’re still finding a few stray yellowtail. North of La Paz around Espirito Santo Island has been a good spot for fish like this one that Tyler Ehlers got. Tyler’s from Grand Junction CO.
One of my favorite photos! Just sheer exhuberance from Stacey Wellborn who battled this big roosterfish right off the surf near the Las Arenas lighthouse. The rooster was released. Captain Jorge from the Tailhunter Fleet has a big smile as well.
With the waters warming, we’re finally seeing some billfish with striped marlin and sailfish moving into the area. Even moreso than just seeing them, some of them are actually ready to feed and we had several hookups this week including one one a big blue at the 88 spot near Cerralvo Island. Roger Thompson took this beautiful shot and beautiful striper near the island and attempts to revive the fish were not successful. Quite a few fish were hooked and then fought their way off lighter tackle during the week.
With so much great inshore action along the beaches, the light tackle and flyfishers are having a blast…especially on the roosterfish! Mike Schoeder from Alaska came to enjoy some sunshine and had a great week bending his flyrod and nice roosters like this one taken off the Las Arenas lighthouse. (Thanks for the photo, Mike!)
John Ehlers has made a number of trips to fish with us here at Tailhunters in La Paz, but called his past trip “his best.” John, from the Denver CO area, spent the better part of a week on roosters, pargo, cabrilla, yellowtail and amberjack including this big rooster near Las Arenas.
The appearance of doroda the last week has given rise to optimism that the waters are finally warming and we’ll be seeing some of the blue-water species moving in and indeed this past week we saw more dorado in the water. Jeff Sakuda from Montebello CA got great color on this bull dorado when he fished with Captain Jorge of the Tailhunter Fleet out front of La Ventana across from Cerralvo Island.
Allen Wellborn from Northern California called this hefty amberjack one of the toughest fish he has ever fought. Allen took the slugger near Espirito Santo Island near Isla Ballena. Sardines, mackerel and iron jigs are working well on the big ambers.
These needlefish are the scourge and pests of our panga fishermen as they steal baits and rip up lines. But, most are 2-3 feet long . Check out this beast! Keep your fingers around from it’s mouth or you’ll find out why they are called “needlefish!”
ROOSTERFISH CENTERSTAGE BUT WARMER WATERS HERALD MORE DORADO AND BILLFISH
La Paz – Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of May 26 to June 2, 2013
It’s been a good solid steady week of fishing with pretty much a lot of smiles and grins and stories of “biggest fish ever”….”my first dorado”…”finally a rooster fish”…”so much variety”…”he busted off after an hour!”
That’s a pretty good week!
Again, the rooster fish were star attractions as we seem to be in the best rooster fish action I’ve seen here in almost 20 years. It’s been almost a month of multiple-fish per boat. Light tackle…flyfishers…spin fishermen…lure fishermen…bass fishermen…everyone is having a hoot right up close to the beaches and rocks with fish going 10, 20, 40…even larger.
Almost all the fish are getting released too but they just keep coming back! That speaks well of the survival rate of these fish as well as their tenacity and voraciousness as well as kudos to the anglers for letting so many fish go…to fight again the next day!
These fish are not far. Literally in just a few feet of water and just yards off the surfline in many cases. Tales of larger fish come back every day as well. It’s one thing if a fisherman says he saw or hooked an 80 pound rooster, but it’s quite a different story when it’s one of our captains saying that an “80 pound rooster was lost!”
In these same areas, there’s good schools of feisty jack crevalle, african pompano, golden trevally and other members of the jack family and still the occasional sierra although waters may have finally passed the warming mark and the cooler water fish have moved on.
However, in deeper waters, the big excitement were the school dorado that finally moved in. Swarming schools of fun 10-15 pound youngsters provided some great furious action late in the week but some 20-25 pounders were mixed in plus we got a few in the 30-40 pound class as well.
Add to that some marlin hookups lost as well as a few sailfish taken and released and it looks like things might be turning the corner to warmer conditions although we still had a great week on some yellowtail and super-sized amberjack north of La Paz where waters were still cooler below the thermocline.
We are still getting pesky early morning winds in La Paz that are making it a bit rough to go out in the morning from the Bay. We thought we had finally hit summer, but as normally happens in May, we get one more blast of colder temps. Towards the end of the week, the winds kicked in again and made fishing the La Paz side much more difficult and certainly more bumpy so most of our anglers fished the Las Arenas side where winds and seas were calmer.
If you’re going to be visiting us in the next week or so, it’s not a bad idea to bring that windbreaker or light sweatshirt. It’s better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it. You can always take it off!
That’s our story!
Jonathan and Jill
Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter International
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