La Paz – Las Arenas (Muertos Bay) Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of June 21-28, 2015

June 29, 2015 by riplipboy

Spencer Sawaske started his fishing week out on a high note right off the bat with Captain Jorge by sticking this nice wahoo.

Captain Mike Gravert who runs Intimidator Sportfishing on the Sacramento Delta knows how to put fish in the boat and this pig of a pargo liso got yanked ou’tve the rocks…a pretty awesome feat…by Mike near Bahia de Los Muertos!

Our amiga, Michele Conklin from Spokane WA with her first big catch-and-release rooster. Here with Captain Jorge.

First-timer, Cullen Hennessey with dad, Brian, put the hurt on this big-time amberjack that went about 45 pounds. Captain Pancho poses up!

The man they call, “Ranchero.” Rich Sawaske with a tasty tough barred pargo he pulled from the rocks near Espirito Santo Island.

Dave Conklin tried to “lend a hand” with his wife, Michele’s big wahoo while Captain Jorge shows how to do it correctly.

Great amigo, Craig Corda, is always smiling especially when he’s holding a big fish like this fat rooster caught and released near Bahia de los Muertos.

Utah in the house! First timer, Lorna Gasser with Captain Armando and two dorado to start the trip!

Headed for the dinner plate! Two great eating rockfish…a dog-tooth snapper and barred pargo for Randy Forrestiere.

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Kudos again to Bill Jubb for the big heart. At our recent Western Outdoor News/ Tailhunter Sportfishing Panga Slam event and tournament, Bill won $600. He turned around and paid for everyone’s dinners at the last night dinner, but also donated the bulk of the money to our FANLAP scholarship fund with enough money to send two kids to high school. As a result several other participants also donated additional funds raising enough to send 3 kids to school who otherwise wouldn’t have a chance. We’re grateful and blessed. Thanks, Bill. Thanks, Malina, Dave, Michele and Dave!

ROOSTERFISH and MORE DORADO HIGHLIGHT STRANGE FISHING WEEK

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of June 21-28, 2015

Weather-wise, it’s been one of the best and hottest weeks of the year as we roll into summer. We had one day hit 114, but most days are about mid-90’s and blazingly sunny. School is finally out for all the local kids. More families showing up here to vacation.

Fishing success has been difficult to track however. Personally, it seem more like late May fishing if you look at the our daily fishing reports. Still alot of variety. Still getting some cooler-water fish. Warm water fish just seem to be getting up to speed, but not quite. Basically, however, there’s a big difference between fishing Las Arenas and La Paz.

LAS ARENAS/ BAHIA DE LOS MUERTOS

Usually, this time of year is where we see the most variety of fish. Not so this year. At least, not so far. Right now, I’ve been telling our anglers, it’s BIG OR GO HOME! This is home run territory. Other than some smaller bonito or rockfish, it’s either big rooster fish, wahoo, or billfish. If you get a shot and miss it, you get skunked. That’s it. Go home with a good story. And alot of our anglers miss fish or they bust off. It’s fishing. That’s why these are bigger fish. However, if you land one of these guys, then you’re the hero.

This past week, most of our roosters were 20-50 pound fish. Nice trophies. Nothing to bring home to eat, but a trophy photo and catch-and-release just the same. Some of our anglers landed 1-5 of these fish some days.

The wahoo…a bit more anemic this week. Is this the end? We’ve had one of the most dynamic wahoo bites in memory the past 4 or 5 weeks. Epic. We have caught more wahoo in recent weeks than the last 10 years COMBINED! But this past week, there were only a few hooked and even fewer landed. Chalk it up to angler error…hard-fighting fish…changing conditions? I don’t know. But, it’s been great and I hope it’s not done.

Marlin seem like they’re waking up. We got a few. Most released. Most about 100 pounds.

Late Saturday, tuna between 30-70 pounds were landed by commercial guys at the south end of Cerralvo Island. We’re exploring that as I write this report.

Again, nothing small. Anglers are either totally blown away when they land one of these fish or they come back disappointed. It’s the nature of fishing and at Las Arenas right now, you get 1 or two shots. If you miss it, that’s it.

LA PAZ

Fortunately, we have two fleets! Just for this reason so we can move our clients back and forth depending on conditions and the bite. Luckily, most of our clients are here for a few days so they have the ability to fish with both of our fleets!

Our La Paz action has been well…just that…ACTION!

Dorado have been more active and there’s schools of smaller to medium sized dorado now showing up. Limits or near limits of these smaller fish are not uncommon and we’re just waiting for some of the larger fish to show up. We did get a few in the 20-30 pound range and larger fish lost.

Also, inshore, even this late in the season, pargo and cabrilla in the rocks and reefs have provided plenty of fun, action and frustration as the bigger ones bust folks off in the rocks. But, this can be hours of fun. Here’s what Richard “Ranchero” Sawaske said about it:

“(Captain)Raul, Randy (Forrestiere) & I worked a stretch of Espiritu Santo on Fri. for pargo. If it wasn’t epic it was pretty damn close! I’m a Pargo Guy & we got em all…Dogtooth, Liso & Barred! Not huge, but they don’t have to be! We put a dozen or more in the boat, got our asses handed to us by at least that many more & after 4 hours of intense action..well, we were Zing Pow-ied!! It was great! We were Gassed!”

For larger species…Billfish and sharks also providing action with both species being released or lost.

That’s our story!