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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of March 20-27, 2016

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Brian Walkerly with our Captain Boli show off a great catch of big cabrilla and a pig of a yellowtail they caught off Espirito Santo Island north of La Paz.

Captain Joel on the left doing photo ops with Miles Brown on the right from W. Linn, Oregon and his two boys Tai and Leo who got into a number of small dorado for a day of fun off the island. Nice to see dorado so early in the season.

Every indication that the waters are warming with the dorado moving into the area. Thanks for Gary Wagner for his underwater shot of this bull in Muertos Bay on the hook

Miles Brown and Captain Joel picked up a great eating cabrilla off the rocks.

SPRING ARRIVES and CONDITIONS IMPROVE

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of March 20-27, 2016

Spring and Easter week combined for an OK week of fishing. The winds largely left us alone. The sun was out and it was a good week for all the tourists in town for for spring break although La Paz doesn’t come close to being like many other Mexican destinations. Comparatively speaking it’s still a sleepy city. However, Holy Week (Semana Santa) is one of the busiest times for Mexican locals to travel especially to visit families and La Paz is a great destination to get some beach time away from the bigger cities in the mainland and the beaches can be quite crowded…much moreso than usual…with campers and picnickers.

In fact, during Holy Week, camping in Mexico can b a bit hectic. It’s not like in the U.S. where you have designated camping areas with facilities and a little ranger station house to enter and leave. The beaches in Mexico are all public. So wherever folks want to drop a tent and all the accessories, you can take up as much space as you want. Literally, sometimes the more popular beaches have tents and awnings just inches away from each other. It’s a big like mini-Woodstock! But, still very festive like any beach and you can smell the carne asada on the barbecues for miles! By next week, the beaches will be empty again!

Anyway for fishing, nothing spectacular, but steady OK fishing. Nothing really to write home about but we caught fish. They were a little hard to locate at times, but this is still very early in the season and we’re still recovering from a big cold windy winter that really tore up the area and made fishing tough. So, here’s how it broke down this week.

LA PAZ

This is the first real week or two that we’ve had our Tailhunter La Paz Fleet out since late October. It’s just been too windy so we’ve kept everyone fishing from Las Arenas. However, winds are down and folks don’t want to take the 1 hour drive with us to Las Arenas so we put out the boats.

It started slowly and still hasn’t gotten a full head of steam. Plus, some days it’s still pretty bumpy with winds.

However, inshore, we’re finding some decent-sized pargo and cabrilla along with sierra and off the drop-offs there’s some big yellowtail starting to poke up. But, finding the spot is still hit-or-miss. Somedays we find ‘em or one boat finds them. Other days it’s a miss.

The surprising bite is that we’re getting some nice schools of firecracker-sized dorado. With all the families and kids in town, this has been a hoot. The fish are 5-10 pounds max and can be very voracious if you hit the spot. Some days, there’s limits to be caught with the best spot being off Espirito Santo Island.

LAS ARENAS

Still the most consistent fishing. We’re still hoping that with the winds tapering the bait will come back up.

No doubt, there’s still wahoo in the area with some decent 20-30 pound fish falling to the darker Rapalas and Yo-Zuri lures. As well, the big red pargo liso are schooling in spawn mode off several spots near Cerralvo Island like Los Pilis and then also near Punta Perrico. Bonito, jack crevalle and sierra have rounded out the catch along with Cabrilla. It’s hard to judge Holy Week when there’s so many “non-fishermen” out whacking the waters. Some days it can seem like everyone and their brother has a boat on the water and 4, 5, 6 anglers have rods and not really knowing what they’re doing. So, there’s some traffic out there and that can spook the fish. But, if you’re with a real captain and/ or know what you’re doing, there’s fish to be caught.

That’s our story!

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Tailhunter International

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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

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of March 14-21, 2016

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From Los Angeles, Butch Tropez and his family had a great day on the water while fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet at Muertos Bay. Check out the great variety including yellowtail, big cabrilla, jack crevalle, sierra, and triggerfish. They only had one day to fish and made the most of it. The triggerfish ended up at dinner at our Tailhunter Restaurant in La Paz.

You always remember that first fish! Kogen Brown from W. Linn, Oregon is all smiles with his first roosterfish. The 11-year-old released his fish too!

Thompson cabrilla tags 3-16

LAS ARENAS PUTS OUT VARIETY – LA PAZ NOT YET READY

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of March 14-21, 2016

It was a pretty nice week for fishing this past week. Very spring-like conditions finally with temps in the 80’s and just a light breeze most days. The week was highlighted by a decent mix of fish and also for the first time, we finally sent pangas out’ve La Paz. We haven’t been sending out our La Paz boats since about November because of the severe winter winds we’ve been experiencing.

With better conditions, we had the boats out there with mixed results. Some yellowtail were seen and lost and none boated. There were some small rooster fish and cabrilla and triggerfish but that was about it. However, this week we’ll have more boats out and hopefully better reports as we work the waters better and if the winds continue to diminish.

The better fishing was still with our Tailhunter Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay fleet. There really was an amazing variety of species.

Along with some nice 20-30 pound yellowtail, we had some hookups around Cerralvo Island on wahoo which continue to seem to hang out around the island and some of the other high spots. Both species seem to have an affinity for slow trolled Rapalas, especially the dark ones. But, it’s a great welcome surprise that we’ve had wahoo around for almost a year now. No one is complaining!

Speaking of Rapalas and other crank style baits, it’s a good thing they’re working because live bait continues to be difficult to get in quantity so along with lures, dead and frozen bait is working but resulting in some nice catches of some of the biggest cabrilla I’ve seen in a long time as well as sierra, jack crevalle, amberjack, pargo, bonito and other species.

…BUT WAIT!!!

Just going to publication of this week’s fishing report today (Sunday) and some of our boats today that fished La Paz ended up finding fish! Schools of small dorado and pargo that were especially good for the kids. The fish were right off Isla Ballena a small outcropping off Espirito Santo Island where a bunch of floating weed was found. Check out this photo of Captain Boli with Ben Walkerly. Nice day!

Captain Boli poses with Ben Walkerly and some fun dorado and a barred pargo they found pretty much just off Espirito Santo Island.

HAPPY TRAILS AND THANK YOU!

My honey and I. What a grand time you have shows us! Thank you for an amazing 3 months! Now back home to La Paz!

We’ve been on the road since before Christmas. And now 3 months later, we’ve come to the end of the trail for this year.

We’ve criss-crossed the country through 11 different states and met and spoken with thousands of amigos at all the biggest sportsmans shows in the western U.S. After 21-years in this business, these trips continue to re-inforce what a beautiful country we have and moreso the wonderful folks who live there. We’ve been greeted with smiles and welcomed with hospitality no matter where we went. Jill and I cherish this time and each and every moment.

We started with our first show of the year driving to icy Billings, Montana. Then to Denver, Colorado. Then because of heavy snow, we had a 500-mile “detour” through New Mexico and Arizona to get to Sacramento, CA. After that, we drove to the Seattle area at the Puyallup Fairgrounds followed by the huge show in Portland, Oregon.

Then, it was onto Yakima, Washington. Then, Jill and I split up.

I did the Fred Hall show in Long Beach CA while Jilly hit the road to cover us in Boise, Idaho.

We got together again to do the ISE show in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Then, we finished out by splitting up again! Jill held the booth at the Del Mar Fairgrounds in San Diego. I spent the week in Salt Lake City.

And so we close this chapter with a huge MUCHAS GRACIAS to each and every one of you who took the time to say hi and chat with us in our booths. And we look forward to seeing so many of you in La Paz this year.

Let’s get onto the fishing season! Vamos a pescar!

That’s our story!

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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 March 7-13, 2016

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Brain O’Neil and Leif Dover from Atlanta GA pose with Captain Pancho earlier in the week with a solid rack of fish…wahoo…amberjack…bonito and Jack crevalle.

From Wyoming, Ridge Larsen holds a hefty sierra that’ll make some great ceviche!

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of March 7-13, 2016

Not many fishermen in town this week, but it’s kind of the little lull before the Spring Break and Easter Fishermen come in and the season kicks into gear. The big story this week was the weather…again! But not for the usual windy days we’ve had this winter. The big weather story was the fact that it SNOWED!

That’s right. Historically, no one can ever remember that happening! We’ve been having 85 degree weather for several weeks but then earlier this week, some cells came down from the north. There was rain. Then some areas like Los Planes near Muertos Bay got pelted with hail…I think I’ve only seen that happen once in 20 years! Some areas of La Paz also got hit.

But up in the higher areas like San Antonio, they actually got a good dusting of snow! An incredible first! It even stuck for awhile. Not enough to go sledding or anything like that or even make margaritas out’ve it, but more like someone took powdered sugar to everything!

Just another El Nino bit of craziness.

But, back to normalcy…there were some fish things happening too! Some fat yellowtail were taken at the south end of Cerralvo in Rapalas. Fish ran up to about 25 pounds. A few smaller amberjack were also taken and one fish estimated at close to 80 pounds was picked up and lost at gaff. Supposedly, the northern end of Cerralvo is holding some really big amberjack according to the commercial guys.

Inshore…yup..inshore, there are still wahoo up to about 40 pounds that are again falling to the dark Rapalas/ Yo-zuri type lures. Gotta be honest…there’s a real lack of live or dead bait right now. Hope that changes. But we’re able to scrape up some sardines and some mackerel here and there or use frozen stuff.

Smaller lures and cut bait are working on cabrilla and sierra and some big pargo up to about 20 pounds are in the spawn mode in the usual rocky areas, but especially off Punta Perrico and los Pilis near the east side of the island.

TAILHUNTER ROAD TOUR WINDS IT UP FOR THE SEASON – IN TWO DIFFERENT PLACES!

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Rick and Lisa Gibson just booked their first trip ever to La Paz after trying for 3 years. We’ll see them in August!

We’ve been on the road driving since before Christmas and our 2015 Tailhunter Road Tour has taken us from the chilly snows of Billings, Montana…to Denver…to Sacramento…to Seattle…Portland…Yakima…Long Beach CA…to Scottsdale AZ and now we wind it up 3 months later in two different places!

Jill will travel to the San Diego area to the Del Mar Fairgrounds for the awesome Fred Hall Fishing and Boating Show. I’ll be in Sandy, Utah just south of Salt Lake City at one of our favorite shows, the ISE show at the South Towne Expo Center. Both shows run Thursday to Sunday. We hope you come see us and let’s set up your 2016 La Paz fishing trip!

Our buddy, Sgt. Tom Rautert (ret.) is coming back in July to La Paz for a 4th straight year!

Craig Sanford brought the family to the show on his birthday just to see us! Wife Kathryn and daughter Ashley will are all coming back to La Paz in October!

But first, just a quick thank you to all our Arizona amigos who came by our booth at the Westworld facilities in Scottsdale and for all your hospitality.

Great amigos, Mike and Heidi Malano stopped in to see us. Mike was all-American center at San Diego State and played with the Vikings a few years, but now lives back in Arizona!

We really enjoyed your state and city and we’ll be back next year! For those of you that booked trips…we’ll see you in La Paz!

That’s our story!

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Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website:

http://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 Feb. 29-March 6, 2016

Now that’s a fish! Leif Dover from Atlanta GA visits us several times a year. He punctuated a week of great fishing with this 40-pound slab of wahoo just outside of Muertos Bay!

It’s not just the number of fish, it’s the fact that besides the nice wahoo, these are pargo..really tough fish to put in the boat for Lief and amigo, Brian O’Neil. They had several days like this during the week.

Nice cabrilla for Kim on the beach at Bahia de los Muertos!

More huge pargo! Great eating!

Whoa…those are pigs! Gato and his dad try to heft up two massive amberjack they got on yo-yo iron at the north end of Cerralvo Island.

Double good haul for Leif and Brian. Early in the week a big wahoo and big yellowtail to start the week!

PARGO LEAD OFF A GOOD WEEK

OF VARIETY

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Feb 29-March 6, 2016

For the first time in months, I can say that wind was not a factor in the fishing this past week. It might have been the nicest week all season. If you’ve been reading our fishing reports, you know that winds have plagued us for months as we’ve had probably the windiest winter in memory. You would also know that when the winds don’t blow, there’s some pretty good fishing to be had.

And that’s exactly what happened. One seems to follow the other.

But, again, there were some surprises. When the wind has lain down in the past, we got crazy warm water species of fish like marlin, sailfish, dorado and even tuna.

This time, we got more traditional winter fish. In fact, we got some of the most sought-after cooler water species in the list for our areas as the pargo liso (giant mullet snapper) rocked our anglers and bent rods. Historically, during this time of the year, the pargo come up in certain shallow areas and school up while they spawn. It’s quite a sight to often see an undulating mass of copper-colored water that’s really schools of 10-40 pound pargo much like a giant koi pond on steroids. Even more incredible when the big school starts to feed and blows up on the surface of the water. Ever seen those crazy TV movies of piranha ? Well, you get the idea except these are ham-sized slugger fish tearing up the surface!

Well, the pargo were that tough 5-20 pound size that confounds so many anglers because they bust off in the rocks. Believe me these are tough fish and generally over the years I tell people that if you hook 10, you’ll maybe get one to the boat! That’s how tough they are. I’ve never seen a fish piss off and frustrate like pargo!

In additon to the pargo, however, we also got other fish we normally see during these months This included cabrilla (sea bass), jack crevalle, amberjack, sierra, bonito and even a few dorado and wahoo…the latter two adding to the mystery because wahoo and dorado are warm water species. The cool thing is that these fish were not in deep water or far off-shore. On the contrary, like the pargo, those were shallow water catches!

The dorado weren’t big. Maybe 10 pounders which are a good eating-size. The wahoo were really nice trophies in the 10-40 pound class.

Looking at the forecast, winds might be coming up again this week. Surely stronger than this past week. There is even a chance of some rain early this week. We’ll see!

THANK YOU LONG BEACH and BOISE! HERE WE COME SCOTTSDALE, AZ!

Vinnie Sanchez and his great family came to see us in Long Beach!

Whew! What a week. Jill and I just had a spectacular week even though we had to split up. She was up at the Idaho Sportsman’s Show in Boise. I was at the Long Beach Convention Center for the 70th Annual Fred Hall Fishing and Boating Show. We’re a little goofy from the long week apart and from all the great folkw we talked to but are sure grateful to all the amigos who came by to chat with us about fishing in La Paz or even just to say hi! Thanks for all the smiles! We’re looking forward to seeing many of you this year in La Paz!

Now, after almost 3 months on the road, our Tailhunter Tour takes us to Scottsdale, Arizona for the International Sportsmans Expo at the Westworld Expo. The show has grown so large its now moved and will be combined with the Arizona Boat show and will run March 10-13! It’s gonna be great. Here’s a link to all the details: http:/http://www.sportsexpos.com/attend/scottsdale/

Come see us and let’s go fishing in La Paz.

That’s our story!

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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