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

September 21, 2015 by riplipboy

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!