La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of July 5-12, 2015

July 13, 2015 by riplipboy

Amiga from Colorado, Dolores Ehlers has been coming to see us in La Paz for years and finally got to cross off a roosterfish from her bucket list. She got this beauty with Captain Pancho and lost an even larger one before this! Big rooster was released. See the video of the catch below.

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Tyler Vitale (without his shirt) had quite a day. From Escondido CA the eighteen-year-old was just about at the end of his fishing day at Bahia de Los Muertos with brother Brett and dad, Todd, along with Captain Rogelio when he got tagged with this nice blue marlin estimated at 160 pounds! On 60 pound test, he fought the fish for 2 hours! They also caught and released two roosterfish as well.

This is just spectacular! Randy Skedgel had an off-the-chart week on the flyrood taking 17 different species of fishing on the flyrod including dorado, roosterfish and on the last day…A WAHOO! Hard enough to do it on conventional tackle, but he knocked it down with a flyrod right off Punta Perrico!

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Tom Warbington has fished all over the world. He’s from Georgia and had two fish on his bucket list. One was a roosterfish…we got two of them. Then, he really wanted a striped marlin. He had already caught a blue and a black. So, we sent him off with Captain Chito. Well…he didn’t get a marlin. HE GOT THREE! He released two nice striped marlin and kept this estimated 225 pounder.

Oregon in the house. First day…first fish! Nicely done . John Titman holds up one of the few wahoo we got this week. Over several days of fishing, John got 10 different species of fish.

A really unsual catch! Good amigo, from Temple City CA, Norm Fulco fishes with us 1-2 times a year for many years and on light tackle with Captain Pancho got this very unusual white marlin. Only the 2nd time in all my years here that I’ve seen one. Great eating.

You never forget that first one! Danny Morales had never been to Mexico, let alone go fishing, but he gets a thumbs up for his first ever dorado. The first of a number of fish he caught that day.

Another of our guys who wanted to target a marlin, Devon Boatman with Captain Raul caught and released a lively striper fishing out’ve La Paz near Espirito Santo Island. Great photo.

Nothing wrong with this catch! John Ehleres with some HUGE triggerfish he brought back to the Taiilhunter Restaurant and had us whip it into a huge plate of ceviche that he shared with Captain Pancho the next day.

We were definitely seeing some better dorado action this week and some better fish like this one taken outside La Paz Bay by Marcelo Llerena. They got a nice limit.

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Another one on the flyrod for Randy Skedgel who has a huge citrus ranch in central California. Check out the size of the fish and how close to shore he caught it!

HUGE 30+ pound jack crevalle for our long-time friends from Santa Barbara Bob and Sergio off La Paz Bay. Tough fighter. Good amigos!

WINDY RUGGED SCRATCHY FISHING BUT MORE DORADO SHOW…FINALLY!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of July 5-12 2015

It wasn’t an easy week of fishing these past few days. Morning winds generated by some storms to the south and rain to the north put is in the middle of some blustery weather, especially in the mornings. This made for some over-turned greener waters and a tough time getting bait some days. But, even when we had bait, the fish seemed lock-jawed, but the fish were there, but some times just we not eating. Crazy because last week we had the full moon, the fish were on the chew much better. There’s a couple of storms to the south that we’re keeping an eye on to see if they’re developing into something.

LAS ARENAS

Once again, big fish or nothing. And there’s fewer bigger fish than smaller fish. So, you got a shot at a big one…or you didn’t. If you lost your fish, well, that might be it for the day. It was a struggle all week.

The epic wahoo bite of 2015 seems to have tapered off. There’s still wahoo in the area, but nothing like we had seen. They were hit or miss. We got a few. Lost a few. A few weeks ago, every panga was hooked 1-3 or more wahoo per day! This week, we only got a handful.

There were a few marlin hooked and lost and inshore small cabrilla and pargo. We get a nice blue at the end of the week (See Tyler’s fish above) and a rare white marlin (See Norm’s photo above). We keep hearing there some breezing tuna outside by the commercial guys, but the fish are fast-movers and don’t stick around long enough to get on them.

The best thing we had going were the rooster fish. That’s why they call this “Roosterfish Alley” and the “Roosterfish Capital of the World.” We didn’t get many but the ones we got were the larger 40-60 pound models. And some small schoolie fish as well.

There were a few more dorado around which says alot since we’ve had almost zero dorado out’ve the area all year, but most of the fish are punky 5-10 pound schoolies, but one day they are there and the next they are gone. Should get better.

LA PAZ

This is where our better action has been. The dorado schools are keeping the rods bent, but this past week was still scratchier than normal. Strong morning winds that didn’t slack off until late morning or early afternoon, didn’t help at all. So, if the bite happened, it was a late bite. The guys really had to work at it and our captains chased and moved constantly looking for the bite. If you found it, hours of boredom were suddenly topped by frantic minutes of madness when the whole school attacked. Some larger fish this week with 15-25 pounders around, but still lots of smaller fish. Hopefully, the bite will get stronger next week because this past week was off it’s game. It did seem that late in the week, the dorado got more cooperative with more limits of fish.

Inshore, some good spots of cabrilla, pargo and snapper still about and there were a few days when the marlin went nuts and almost every boat had at least one hook up!

PACK FOR A PURPOSE

Jilly with Mike “Sir Boy” Kelly and Barry Wood from Orange Co. CA who brought two huge ice chest full of school supplies for the kids!

Sam and his wife, Kelly Sybesma are both teachers and came down with a big laod of schools supplies and hygiene products. Jill has a big smile with Sam. Thanks to you both!

Since last year, Jill’s program that she instituded called “Pack for a Purpose” whereby angler fill their empty ice chests with things for charity has produced hundreds of pounds of things for the needy especially for the two orphanages and the Women’s Shelter we support. Every week, our anglers with big hearts keep us mindful of our blessings with so many great things for the foundations! Thanks to all!

That’s our story!