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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of Sept. 20-27, 2015

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Our own Tailhunter Poster Girl, Angela Farrell, from Oceanside CA did it again this past week. The story is very special. She had just spread her dad’s ashes out at Muertos Bay when she got hit on 30 pound test and a mini Whopper Stopper rod. She battled the fish for 90 minutes…estimated 250-pound blue marlin. Her daddy was watching! It could not be released and the meat was donated to feed the pueblo. Husband Tim and Captain Moncho with the assist! (Tim drank beer while she battled!)

Shane Summerhays from Utah has the great face on for this picture almost like he’s saying “WAHOO!” which is exactly what he’s got in hand with a nice fish he took just off the rocks near Punta Perrico. He actually hooked two wahoo that day.

sharon john virgin dorado jorge 9-15 tags

Good way to start the trip for our Montana amigos, Sharon and John Virgin from Montana with Captain Jorge on the beach at Muertos with 4 of their 7 dorado. Some of the nicer-sized dorado for the week! Nice to see they’re getting a big bigger!

We get some of our nicest folks from Utah and we were happy to welcome two of our newest Utah friends, Keith and Brenda Sargent. They had a double-hook up on sailfish with both of them pulling on fish at the same time! The majority of the meat was donated to the pueblo.

Amigo Carl Lange from Bakersfield CA put the wood to this much-prized good eating barred pargo. The trophy-sized fish is tough to get out’ve the rocks!

Check out the size of the bonito Captain Raul is holding for Trudy Grove, another of our fun Utah folk. While not especially good eating, the big members of the tuna family have been beating up on our anglers fishing out’ve La Paz Bay.

He’s been fishing with us since he was 9 and now he’s all graduated from college and living in Arizona. Aaron Hasson knows how to fish too! He’s with one of the bigger bull dorado of the week and poses with Captain Jorge.

I have an affinity for goofy fishing photos like Rick Connell standing in the warm clear waters of Balandra with a couple of his dorado mugging for the camera. Thanks, Rick!

flyrod bonito shane summerhays 9-15 tags

He took some time to pull out the flyrod and had some fun with dorado and bonito! Shane Summerhays got pulled around by this tough bonito while fishing near Punta Arenas with us.

There’s a reason, the Mexican name for jack crevalle is “TORO.” It means “BULL” and when you get a jack crevalle on your line, it’s a tough fighter. Carl Lange shows off a sturdy guy. Great fighter but poor eating so they get released .

First timer with us from Oregon, Josh Swanson, got the better of this nice bull dorado posing on the beach at Muertos. He took this guy on live bait.

It’s not just the first fish she’s ever caught…it’s the first fish she’s ever held! Ewwwww! Good sport, Shawna Blackburn with her first one!

Kathy Van de Venter armando tags 9-15 pargo

Whoa! Big barred pargo and an assist from Captain Armando for Kathy Vande Vender who caught this not far outside of Bahia de los Muertos. Great eating!

Clarence Cooper : John Sanchez dorado tags 9-15

Our two new amigos from Washington, Clarence Cooper and John Sanchez with some of their dorado caught just inside of La Paz Bay. The bay can be pretty thick with dorado some days!

Dave Enge Josh Swanson sailfish tags 9-15

Dave Enge from Oregon brought his grandson, Joshua, down for a week of fishing and was rewarded with a nice sailfish their 2nd day out. They donated much of the meat when the fish could not be released. They also had a good week on dorado and other species as well.

You gotta love it! Trudy Grove got her toes all dolled-up in style for her La Paz trip with a roosterfish and a dorado!

NUTTY WEEK OF FISHING – SUPER MOON – ECLIPSE – GREAT WEATHER – WHAT A MIX!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Sept. 20-27, 2015

It was a mixed week of fishing and difficult to pinpoint why some fisher folks did well one day and poorly the next or why Las Arenas would be better than La Paz then the next day La Paz would be better than Las Arenas. It was really the luck of the draw. Same with the weather. Early in the week, the weather was quite tropical with lots of humidity and always the chance or rain and wind interrupting the day or putting a damper on the fishing. As the week went on, the weather got to be incredible with some of the prettiest days in weeks, but the fishing seemed to diminish somewhat. One day good. Next day so-so. One boat goes crazy and next boat struggles to get one fish.

I’m not a big believer in the full moon thing and how it adversely affects fishing unless a number of other factors are involved. However, as the week went on, it got closer to the “super full moon” (larger and closer than normal) combined with an eclipse. Water levels were much higher and lower than normal plus currents and tides were higher and lower than normal. Could have been the reason for the hot/cold fishing.

LAS ARENAS/ BAHIA de LOS MUERTOS

Fishing out of Bahia de los Muertos was “anemic.” Just like I said above, it differed from panga to panga. It differed from day-to-day. The early part of the week the weather was difficult with sunshine then abrupt rain showers and wind. As the week went on, the weather looked like it was off a “postcard.”

But, it was really a matter of luck with the fishing. One day, we’d get marlin and sailfish, dorado, pargo, cabrilla and roosters as well as other species. All our clients would want to fish there the next day. That next day…it was like someone turned off the spigot. Guys would work hard to get 2 or 3 fish. Some skunked. No real change in conditions. Just the fish changed their attitudes. The following day, the fish would blow up great again.

One note…more billfish and larger dorado on this side (still not saying much since a “big dorado this year is 12 pounds), but a few weeks ago, all the dorado were less than 5 pounds!

LA PAZ

There were a few off-days or off-boats. However, overall, if you wanted to put fish in the cooler and get bent, this was the side to fish. The fish are not big. They are tiny by our standards. The “small fish” this time of year should be 15-20 pounds. This year, most of the fish are under 10 pounds. But, there’s alot of them. And they are close…literally you can find fish right in La Paz Bay.

In front of the Pemex station north of the city, only minutes from the city, there’s been a big tanker sitting out there that’s holding all kinds of dorado. About a mile out of Balandra again, there’s another big spot of dorado. Some days, all the small dorado you can catch-and-release. We had some boats this week get 20-30 fish releasing most of them. The folks fishing light tackle are having a blast.

FISHING LICENSES

As of this past week, the Mexican government will not print out any more fishing licenses for authorized dealers like Tailhunters to sell. Therefore, everyone MUST purchase their fishing licenses online. Here’s the link: www.bajasursportfishing.com

I know, it’s crazy, we don’t have any other options.

LATE SEASON SPECIAL

As we wind down our season, we’ve got a few limited openings left between Oct. 10 and 31st and we’re offering some quick get-away prices:

We customize all trips so if you want to change something or add in snorkeling, SCUBA, extra nights or fishing, we can do it as long as we have availabilities. Check these out:

5 days/ 4 nights ocean front hotel/ 3 days panga fishing – $899 per person double occupancy

8 days/ 7 nights ocean-front hotel / 5 days fishing- $1589 per person double occupancy

4 days/ 3 nights ocean-front hotel/ 2 days fishing – $725 per person double occupancy

These prices are all based on availabilities and are cash/ check prices. Credit cards subject to 3% processing fee

By the way, the new road from Cabo should be opening up any day now which would mean the travel from Cabo to La Paz will now only be about 1 hour 40 minutes intead of 3 1/2 hours!

BIG THANK YOU to “PACK FOR A PURPOSE” AMIGOS AND AMIGAS

These two have been Tailhunter family members for years. Aaron Hasson started fishing with us when he was about 9 -years-old and his dad, Al was bringing him down. The two hauled down a full load of school supplies, sports equipment and bags of clothes for our charities!

Best amigas, Trudy Grove and Kathy Terbu and their respective families packed up a bunch of great supplies for our kids! Thanks, ladies! Muchas gracias for the big hearts!

Sharon Virgin and her team at Keller Williams Realty in Great Falls MT put together all kinds of good stuff that’s going to the underprivileged kids as well as some great stuff for the ladies at the battered womens’ shelter here in La Paz. Muchas gracias more than you know!

Thanks to all our friends this week who found a little extra space in their luggage to bring down much needed school supplies in our “PACK FOR A PURPOSE” program to help underprivileged school kids, orphanages and the battered women’s shelter in La Paz! You all rock. Thanks for the big generous hearts!

That’s our story

Jonathan and Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website:

www.tailhunter-international.com

Mexico Office: Tailhunter International, 755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico

U.S. Mailing Address: Tailhunter International, 8030 La Mesa Blvd. #178, La Mesa CA 91942

Phones:

from USA : 626-638-3383

from Mexico: 044-612-14-17863

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La Paz – Las Arenas/Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of Sept. 13-20, 2015

Carl Lange visits us at least once a year and he had a pretty remarkable week of fishing with us and hooked a number of species, but perhaps none as spectacular as this big dog-tooth with Captain Pancho just outside the corner at Muertos Bay.

They’re finally getting bigger at Bahia de Los Muertos and Las Arenas. First time fishing with at Tailhunter, Rick Murray from Idaho, shows off a nice bull.

Another one of those fish we normally don’t catch when the waters are so warm is the amberjack and Ken Gragg, our Bakersfield CA amigo put the stop on this good-eating member of the jack family.

Jeff Herringer and Craig Yoder tags 9-15 marlin

It was a pretty decent week for billfish! Jeff Herringer and Craig Yoder were fishing with Captain Moncho and the Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet. They actually had two on. Released one , but not able to let this one go.

Larry Hance was alot of fun to have visiting us from Denver. His very first day out, he hit a home run with a fish he had always wanted with this big roosterfish that has Captain Victor grunting for the photo. The fish was released.

Danny Kadota from San Pedro CA is an excellent fisherman and good amigo of Tailhunters. He’s got the knack for good fishing and shows off another of those crazy species we’re getting…a pargo liso..mullet snapper. We normally get these in the springtime!

Wiley Smith from Mill Valley mugs for the camera while holding his big roosterfish on the backside of Cerralvo Island. The fish was released.

Captain Armando with Frank and Anthony Micknak who boated this marlin just outside of Bahia de los Muertos along with some dorado. The fish was not able to be released.

These guys were alot of fun and good to have them down to fish with us for the first time. They took a mess of dorado over several days of fishing…Don Kaiser, Chris Evans and Dave Gilette on the beach at Bahia de los Muertos.

All the way from Minnesota! Tammy Platt with Captain Victor and her first rooster…in fact…her first fish! The rooster was released.

Carl Lange has fished with us many times over the years, but it wasn’t until he got this rooster and let it swim, that I found out it was his first and he had never gotten a rooster before in all those years!

Oregon in the house! It’s always good to see Ken Mitchell fishing with us from Portland. Fishing with Captain Gerardo, here’s one of his dorado for the day.

CRAZY WEATHER AND VARIETY MARK THE WEEK

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Sept. 13-20, 2015

It’s been a strange kind of week for fishing in La Paz waters. It’s like everything is mixed up and it’s impossible to put your finger on it. Everyone caught fish, but it was crazy knowing what was going to bite. The weather was un-predictable as well. We make jokes about the weatherman being always wrong, but from one day-to-the-next the weather varied or even from one spot to another. Blazing sun…clouds…humidity…wind…flat seas…rough seas…rain…lightning…thundershowers…thunder and lightning (with no rain!)…could all be experienced IN THE SAME DAY! It has been THAT kind of year and this past week just epitomized everything because as variable as the weather, the fishing was a perfect reflection of it as well. Variety every day as the weather dictated where, when and how we fished!

LAS ARENAS/ MUERTOS

There were several days when we just couldn’t fish the area because of impending storms that sometimes happened. Sometimes never did materialize. However, insofar as we watch the weather every day…several times a day…sometimes there would be nothing on the radar and the weather would chase our fishermen back to shore early. Other times, we would err on the side of caution and not sent out any boats and make our guys fish with our La Paz fleet. And then we would find out no storm ever happened! It’s just the way it is right now. I’m glad we have our two fleets to be flexible enough to move our fishermen around and put them where the best bite could be found and usually the better weather!

Surely, if you were looking for variety, Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay had it. Our anglers this week got some yellowtail and amberjack (to 60 pounds)…normally cold water fish. We got dog-tooth snapper (pargo perros), cabrilla, pargo liso (mullet snapper) and pargo mulatto (barred pargo) up to 40 pounds! Again, normally cooler water fish. Really crazy because the water is about 90 degrees right now. We even got some sierra which we don’t see until about December!

On top of those species, we had some marlin and sailfish, bonito, jack crevalle, skipjack, rooster fish and even a big tuna hooked! Nothing in abundance, but kind of a “sampler plate” if you will… of about a dozen species that are common to the area, but normally at different times of the year About the only thing we didn’t hook was a wahoo!

Also, the last two or three weeks, with more bait in the area and the buoys offshore attracting more fish, more dorado have been showing. Nothing big, but with maybe normally sized fish about 10 pounds, it’s encouraging that after a year of a dearth of dorado, the fish are showing in better numbers every week. It’s about time.

LA PAZ

Again, with our Tailhunter La Paz fleet, this is where we put folks that want to put fish in the ice chest. All year, it’s been the hot spot for dorado. Again, nothing big. Our “small fish” this time of year, should be 20 pounders. However, this El Nino has really racked us. This year, a “big fish” is 15 pounds. Tons of smaller fish. It’s like a nursery out there in some spots. All the 5-8 pounders you can get! Great for kids, families, first-timers and everyone is having a blast. Our light tackle and flyfishermen are really enjoying it.

The hot spot, as the week went on was right in front of Balandra Bay about a mile. That’s a 5 minute boat ride off the beach, at most. There were few days when the anglers caught-and-released as many as 20-50 dorado per panga! “We’d each have a dorado on. There would be two other rods hooked up and the captain would be handing us another rod with a dorado on it! And while we were fighting fish, there would be schools of dorado flashing around the boat and jumping all around!” said one of our anglers. “Craziest dorado fishing I have ever seen, “ said another. “They are almost fighting each other to get at a bare hook tossed in the water!”

Out at the island and around some of the other areas, north of town, we hooked (and lost) a few striped marlin and released two sailfish this week on light tackle. Huge big bonito are really busting up some of the clients too! Same areas are holding big schools of jack crevalle and there’s some smaller rooster fish on the long beaches.

That’s our story!

Jonathan and Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website:

www.tailhunter-international.com

Mexico Office: Tailhunter International, 755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico

U.S. Mailing Address: Tailhunter International, 8030 La Mesa Blvd. #178, La Mesa CA 91942

Phones:

from USA : 626-638-3383

from Mexico: 044-612-14-17863

Tailhunter Weekly Fishing Report: https://fishreport.jonathanroldan.com/

Tailhunter YouTube Videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/pangapirate

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of Sept. 6-13, 2015

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Leif Dover from Atlanta GA is our frequent amigo and frequently on our fishing reports as he fishes hardcore for a whole week every time. It paid off again with this big boy amberjack off Punta Perrico. Crazy fish because most of our ambers are caught in cooler water in the springtime. Great eating!

Another fish that we usually only find in the cooler waters of the winter and spring are the yellowtail, but if someone is gonna get one, Roger Thompson is probably the guy. Using blue and white jigs and bait, they hooked 5 and got 2 to the boat. He tells me if they had more bait, they would have gotten more. The area off the Las Arenas lighthouse is still the hotspot where the water drops off deep.

Carol Hathaway Stauffer from Washington was visiting us for the first time and had herself quite a week. First dorado. First bonito. First time swimming with whalesharks and then, this fat roosterfish caught with Captain Victor and then released!

Don’t ever bet against Donna Thompson. She’ll probably always outfish you! She was working that deep water off Cerralvo Island and put the hurt on this great eating amberjack.

One day there were these guys on the beach selling mustaches! So, Kevin Todd, our Texas amigo did some goofing for us and posed with his amberjack on the beach at Bahia de los Muertos! Or maybe he as hoping his boss wouldn’t see the photos and recognize he wasn’t at work!

Pretty good week for roosterfish! Not as many around these days, as it’s late in the season for the exotic fish, but the ones that are around are good quality. Just like Leif Dover’s nice fish here (released). With all the rain lately, check out how green the hills are!

More dorado this past week. Decent steady dorado catches like Bob Pattersons fish here.

From Delta, Utah, Rick Wagstaff shows off one of his nice dorado.

STEADY FISHING WITH VARIETY OF SPECIES

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Sept. 6-13, 2015

Except for one day when it was “too calm”, we had pretty steady fishing all around. Pretty typical of this time of year. In addition to “too calm” (having a little current and breeze is important to get the fish to feed. Too calm and they get lethargic. ) We did have some afternoon showers and frankly much of the week was overcast too, but hot and muggy.

Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay

On the days we fished there, everyone caught fish. There was one day when everyone caught limits or near limits of dorado, but had to rush back to the beach a tad early when one of our tropical rainstorms came rushing in. But it didn’t affect the fishing. And the next day, we didn’t send any pangas out there because the waters were turned over and the road to the beach was a mud track. (So we sent everyone to fish La Paz and they all caught dorado anyway!). But other than that, the dorado were fairly cooperative and a steady bite as the area gets more active than it has been this past summer.

Commercial guys got the occasional tuna, but none of the sport boats seemed to find them. However, we did find the rooster fish willing to go. Some nice ones again i the 20-50 pound class and we had anglers this week with light tackle and bass rods and throwing top-water lures so they had a hoot plus there were jack crevalle and bonito close to shore as well.

Update: Just as I was writing this (Sunday) our Las Arenas boats had to come back early and get off the water when weather came up on them unexpectedly. One of those quick tropical storms. La Paz weather stayed good although some rain and breeze also hit and they kep fishing.

La Paz

Still our go-to spot. If you want action and you want to catch a fish, you can spend almost all day on some of the areas holding dink 5-10 pound dorado. The larger ones are more scarce, but they’re out there. We lost a number of larger fish this week. Hopefully, we’ll see more of them.

We also hit a few sailfish (released) , jack crevalle, big bonito and some smaller rooster fish. Interestingly, also hooked a few sierra as well which is strange since they are cooler water fish that we normally catch in the winter. Maybe it means the waters are cooling. Again, it seem everyday there’s a possibility of afternoon rainstorms that come and go.

HIGH FIVE’S

Bud and Lisa Wagner with an ice chest full of school supplies!

Quite a stash. Thanks for Jeff and Carol Stauffer for the thoughtfulness! Not only school supplies but much needed hygiene things like toothpaste, toothbrushes, soap, deodorant and other things that will probably go to the battered women’s shelter.

My good friend since 1st grade, Jim Weitkamp and his fiance Valerie Reyna brought us some great stuff for the kids.

Thanks to all our amigos who brought stuff down for our “Pack for a Purpose” program benefitting needy schoolkids as well as our battered women’s shelter. Muchas gracias also to amigos who didn’t get their photos taken, but also brought much needed supplies including Ken Gragg and Carl Lange.

That’s our story!

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website:

www.tailhunter-international.com

Mexico Office: Tailhunter International, 755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico

U.S. Mailing Address: Tailhunter International, 8030 La Mesa Blvd. #178, La Mesa CA 91942

Phones:

from USA : 626-638-3383

from Mexico: 044-612-14-17863

Tailhunter Weekly Fishing Report: https://fishreport.jonathanroldan.com/

Tailhunter YouTube Videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/pangapirate

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of Aug 31-Sept. 6, 2015

Yes! There’s some tuna out there. Rick Wagstaff from Delta UT, on his first day out fishing with us wrestled this tuna on light tackle for almost an hour at the south end of Cerralvo Island. Rich was fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet from Muertos Bay. He also got a limit of dorado as well.

Bob Patterson from Los Angeles and his son, Travis from Sacramento had a good week of fishing, but on their last day the bite was off. Not much happening. But then they were headed back in and decided to put all 4 trolling feathers out and ended up getting a big 40-pound class wahoo! Captain Pancho here with them. They also got a few dorado, but the rest of the week limited on dorado.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

You gotta check out this great video from Larry Barnard of Los Angeles CA who was recently with us. He did a great editing job of some big roosterfish hookups with some super underwater clips as well. Good job, Larry!

EVERYONE CATCHING!

La Paz / Las Arenas (Muertos Bay) Fishing Report for Week of Aug. 31-Sept. 6, 2015

A good solid week of fishing as the kids here in La Paz head back to school and the town quiets down. A little cooler this past week, not quite so muggy with some brief afternoon thundershowers but otherwise sunny and warm skies and water. Everyone who wanted fish got fish…a good thing!

Las Arenas/ Bahia de los Muertos

It’s been awhile since I’ve lead our reports with Las Arenas/ Bahia de los Muertos. Regretfully, our traditional hot spot has had an off-year with lack of bait leading to spotty fishing or southern storms making for rough waters for our pangas and clients.

However, things are really turning around…happy to say.

Two things. We’re finally getting some bait showing up. Sardines…our lifeblood for fishing are being found. Plus, we also getting some mackerel, caballitos and ladyfish (for the roosters).

Secondly, about 2 weeks ago, the sportfishing captains put several dozen buoys just offshore to act as fish attractants. Just to try to get things going.

It appears to be working. Every one of our boats this week took limits or near limits of dorado. School-sized, but nonetheless great action with the largest fish running about 15 pounds and others breaking off. The fish are being found at the buoy and lighthouse. There was really only one “off-day” when the fish didn’t bite well and that was because it was “too calm.” Yes, there is such a thing.

Folks, especially first timers, tell me all the time they are worried about the big waves and rough seas and I tell them that the Sea of Cortez is often like a big lake. Plus to get fish, we don’t have to go out very far and we’re also not trolling for fish a zillion miles offshore. Well, one day this week the water was like glass. Literally. Wonderful day on the water. Just flat flat flat.

And the fish were really stubborn!

You see, you want just a little current. You want just a little breeze. It stirs up the water. It moves bait and nutrients. It gets the gamefish going. It’s like a hot muggy day on the porch. The last thing you want to do is move. Too hot to eat. Too humid to think or want to do anything. Same with the fish. That day the fish just weren’t real active. But, fortunately, that was only one day.

But in other days…

The lighthouse has also been the site of some deepwater yellowtail and trophy cabrilla and some amberjack as well. Surely a hotspot this past week. We’ve also been getting rooster fish and billfish hookups in the same area.

The bigger news was that tuna have moved into the area. The East Cape just to the south of us encountered the tuna schools a few weeks ago and we were hoping the fish would be moving up. This past week, we did get into a few that ran about 40-50 pounds. A great grade of fish and about the size that most anglers can handle! The commercial guys got into a few more so we’re keeping an eye on that and got our fingers crossed.

La Paz

Again, just like in previous weeks, this is our go-to spot! If you only have one day to fish, or you want a sure thing, you can’t miss with the dorado just straight on in the bay and just outside. Limits are pretty typical and some days the pangas are back by 1 p.m. (which means they stopped fishing before noon!). This has especially been great for first-timers, families and couples and kids. Everyone has fun. With the dorado, there’s also tough larger bonito, jack crevalle, smaller rooster fish plus shots at billfish.

THANK YOU!

Thank you this week to Bud and Lisa Wagner who are fishing with us for the first time, but still brought down for our “Pack for a Purpose” kids with a whole bunch of great school supplies. Thanks for the big hearts, amigos!