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

March 14, 2016 by riplipboy

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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WHAT? SNOW AND HAIL IN LA PAZ?

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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