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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of June 19-26,2016

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Vickie Mitchell and a smiling Captain Adolfo with her biggest rooster fish estimated at 70 pounds as they struggled to hold it still for the photos so they could release it. It swam off strongly. They were fishing with off Punta Arenas Vicki is from Pebble Beach CA

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Brothers, Larry McNeal and Gary Whitaker were fishing La Paz waters for the and not 5 minutes after putting lures in the waters, got these two wahoo near Bahia de los Muertos. Larry is from Baker City OR. Brother Gary lives in Lynnwood WA.

Amigo Kip Slaugh from Salt Lake City UT with Captain Pancho and a trophy amberjack on the beach at Bahia de los Muertos. Beast of a fish. There weren’t many small amberjack this week.

Given the tough fishing this week. Kevin Suzikada and his buddy, Jeff, had one of the better 3 days of fishing of anyone catching white bonito, snapper, jack crevalle, big cabrilla, pargo and this big boy amberjack. It was Jeff’s first time ever fishing! They’re from Los Angeles.

He never fails to catch big fish on each trip to La Paz that he’s been making since he was a little kid, Cole Chavira, know how to bend a rod. Check out the big rooster caught north of La Paz and released. Cole is from Cardiff, Ca. Rooster was released.

This is Matt Lederer cradling a nice rooster in his arms just outside of Bahia de Los Muertos with Captain Ramiro. Matt released the fish after the photo.

Another Utah, amigo, Daylon Slaugh, got the biggest dorado of the week, this nice bull. Not many dorado around although June should normally be a great month for them. However, the ones we’re catching are getting larger.

Bill Mitchell from Carmel CA fishes with Tailhunter Sportfishing every year and got his personal best rooster off the rocks in shallow water near Punta Arenas. The big pez gallo was released. The fish looks a little surprised!

It was a good week for big roosters around La Paz, although tough for other species. Dan Gaston from Encinitas CA with a big gallo caught and released near Las Arenas lighthouse. Great photo. Thanks to Mitch Chavira.

Brian McClellan from Park City UT helps wife, Marie, with a big amberjack she caught fishing with Tailhunter Sportfishing just off the rocks near Punta Perrico. She’s a gamer and put this fish in the panga on her own steam!

I had so many photos from the previous week when the fishing was red hot that I screwed up and somehow left off photos of the best catch of the week by Sherman McDonnell from Rock Springs WYO and Jim Wilson from S. Dakota with Captain Pancho and FOUR nice wahoo. Several others were lost. Great day!

Rick Carlton and Bruce Hasson from San Diego caught the only two tuna of the week, a pair of football yellowfin tuna.

Whoa! Glenn Davis, one of our first-timers from San Diego hefts of a huge roosterfish with Captain Jorge. Glenn released the big fish after the photo.

Mike Cain gives Charles Koeleman a hand with another big roosterfish early in the week just off the Perrico rocks. We estimated the fish as 80-100 pounds (according to Captain Victor). A beast! The world record was caught in these waters of 114 pounds! Charles released the fish to his credit!

Another day…another rooster for Matt Lederer photo’d with his dad, Bob who is from Massachusetts. Matt was hot on the roosters and let this one go too!

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From Prescott AZ, this is Lucas Forray with a trophy cabrilla just north of La Paz in the bay.

When a big rooster doesn’t want to have it’s picture taken and you’re doing your best to keep it still so you can take the photo and get it back in the water, it’s a bit of a chore! However, amiga Sue Slaugh from Utah does her best with this thick big rooster!

Under the great mustache is a big smile for Robbie Nixon from Sacramento with his big roosterfish. This one was also let go.

Scott lost two wahoo before finally getting this gem of a fish. He also got a yellowtail on this trip as well.

Bobette Nixon gets in the lineup with a really big jack crevalle, cousin to the rooster and a great fighter. Husband Robbie helps out!

BIG WINDS – FULL MOON CHILL RED HOT BITE

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of June 19-26, 2016

Last week, I started out by saying “what a difference a week makes.” Well, I’m saying it again.

After such a phenomenal week previously, when the waters blew up with wahoo, roosters and others, fishing really chilled off this past week. Just more of the craziness we’ve had this season. It was tough. It was ugly. Maybe one of the most difficult weeks of the season. And like getting ice water tossed on us given how the week before it was fishing crazy!

Here’s what I think happened…

Last weekend, the winds that normally are done for the year, came up. Strong! On top of that, we had this huge full moon and big tide changes. I think they called it a “strawberry moon” that occurred over the Summer Solstice. Even when it didn’t blow and make things funky during the day, it blew at night.

What this all did is got the cold waters back up from down deep. What this did is turn all the pretty blue water we’ve had green and dirty. As a consequence, the fishing just tanked for the most part. Call it like it is. I’ve never seen it this late in the season. Even the species we did catch are more indicative of what we would catch in the cooler months of late April/ May than end of June bites.

Our captains worked hard. Our anglers worked hard and kept at it and kept grinning. But when Mother Nature is working against you, all you can do is keep at it…especially if it’s fishing.

On the upside, as the week came to a close, some of that green water is starting to come back to blue again and we were seeing more activity from the fish. At least a little bit. If only this wind would stay outta our business for awhile!

LAS ARENAS

Still the area where we’re getting the most activity and species. However, compared to last week when the ocean was simply alive, it was really scratchy fishing. The thing is, the fish were either big…or there was not much else! So, there were some big trophy fish to be caught but if you missed your shot or the big guys didn’t show up, there wasn’t much else. So, a panga would come back with one or two nice fish. And that as it. Or very small fish. There was no “in-between” fun fish. It made for some long days and stretches of not much action.

That being said, we still got into some wahoo that are around a liking the dark-colored Rapalas and Yo-Zuris. If you want to bring anything down, bring down the Rapala XRap 15’s, 20’s and 30’s. Or the Yo-Zuri Magnums. Clients are losing the captains rigs and it costs $30-40 to replace them and the lures have been so hot, the few tackle stores here simple don’t have any more to sell. So, alot of you ask me all the time what to bring down, these would be awesome and also clients have been gifting them to the captains as well.

Aside from the wahoo, the amberjack we’re getting have been beasts. Fish in the 30-60 pound class are not uncommon, but they’re tough fish and are boating maybe 1 our’ve every 5 or 6 bites. These are awesome big-boy cousins to the yellowtail and make great eating.

Not much in the way of dorado around which is surprising given it’s summer! That’s normally our bread-and-butter fish. The few we’re catching, however, have been nicer 15-25 pounders.

The fish that keep saving is is the fish that made the area it’s name of “Roosterfish Capital of the World.” Folks come from all over the world to try to get a rooster and especially on some of the days when not much else is happening, catching a 30-80 pound gallo makes for alot of big smiles. But the fish have been monsters and are right there along the rocks and the beaches. The biggest issue is taking the time to catch the ladyfish/ sabalo big-baits that they love. You can’t just snap your fingers and make the bait show up. So, understand that it takes some time some days. Another reason that putting 3 in a panga can be an issue with any kind of bait…you have to get enough bait for 3 guys and what little you have, you burn up pretty quickly.

More marlin and sails showing up too which is nice and most getting released.

LA PAZ

Erratic is the best word to describe the fishing straight out’ve the bay. Or anemic!

It’s been like this for about 3 weeks. The colder green waters moved in just about the first week of June and our captains have ventured all over the map finding the better water. Again, we should be into solid dorado right now, but the catch has been that mix of spring-time species when it’s a mix of cold and warm waters:

Dorado from 5-20 pounds (scattered)

Bonito and skipjack

Some rooster fish

Some yellowtail (still!)

Some amberjack

Occasional billfish (stripers up to 120 pounds)

It’s crazy. For our La Paz anglers, there’s bait but no consistent fish. At Las Arenas, there’s fish, but not consistent bait!

One of the nice things that’s unique to Tailhunters is we have both fleets. One in La Paz and the other at Las Arenas so at least we can move folks around between our two fleets depending on the bite, the weather, the species and how that all keeps changing to give folks the best opportunity to get fish even when the conditions aren’t always the best.

The full moon is moving off. Waters are getting bluer. Hopefully, this coming week will be better. Honestly, it was hard to be much worse. It was a tough week.

TAILHUNTER COMMUNITY OUTREACH – GRACIAS!

The Slaughs and McClellan family from Utah with school supplies and, of course, a new Utah Utes flag for the Tailhunter Restaurant!

Jilly with Larry McNeal and Gary Whitaker, two brother from Oregon and Washington respectively who had two full ice chests of kids clothes and hygiene products like toothbrushes, toothpaste, q-tips, deodorants and fem pads, combs and hair products! Wow. I’m sure alot of this will go to the women’s shelter here in town.

Well…maybe some of the donated clothes won’t go to the kids! Maybe an older brother!

They have been our friends for years and two-years in a row shipped down a huge heavy box of clothes and toiletry items for the school kids and the shelter! John and Katie Olson, recently retired from building Disneylands all over the planet are always a welcome set of vistors and dear friends.

Himself a schooteacher from S.Dakota, Jim Wilson and his wife Laura stuffed a bunch of school items into their ice chest for the kids.

You can take the 6-year-old out’ve some little girls, but not others. Jill tries on a cute pink raincoat and holds up some of the school binders that the Chacon family brought down.

Our friends for many many years, the Chacon family stuffed several ice chests full of donations. Many thanks to Fernando, Hector, Richard (dad), Lauren and Izzy! The best.

Leave it to the school teacher to know what to bring…Sam Sybesma from Orange Co, California, his wife, Kelly and their boys brough down sports balls and packs of boys socks underwear and other much needed things.

We can’t say thank you enough to everyone of our Tailhunter friends who bring us things in their suitcases and ice chests to donate to our Tailhunter Outreach program to help some of our outlying under-served schools as well as the woman’s shelter. You have no idea how even the smallest things make such a big difference. Above are just some of the examples of what we rec’d just this week and every two weeks or so, we send another few hundred pounds of supplies to some very needy kids, women and families. Additionally, many thanks to those of you who donate funds to our scholarship program by which $300 keeps a kid in school for a year and is enough to supply the child with books, lunches transportation and clothes. Tailhunter Nation is the best! God bless you all.

That’s our story! Have a great week…

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of June 12-19, 2016

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Captain Jorge from the Tailhunter Fleet was with Jason Lester on his first trip to La Paz with his brother and a bunch of amigos called the Pez Gringos who specifically look to catch rooster fish . Jason did pretty good right out’ve the chute with this monster rooster fish that he released.

This was just one of three days of this kind of fishing for these days and does not include the fish that busted off! Jacob Curtis, Don Vetger and Mike Gonsalves rocked it every single day like this.

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All the way from Cleveland, Mississippi…and with the great southern accents to prove it…Shay and Will House pose with Captain Adolfo from the Tailhunter Fleet to show off their wahoo, dorado and tuna. She proudly showed me her burned thumb and chaffed wrist from fighting the fish…her first wahoo! What a day.

Dave Lester specifically comes fishing with Tailhunter to catch big roosters and does it every year like this big boy just south of Bahia de los Muertos. Dave is from Los Angeles and the rooster was released.

Jacob Curtis started the day off right. He was still making bait in the bay in shallow water only a few feet deep when they put this big dog-tooth snapper on the hook and boated it! Jacob is from Torrance CA.

Shelley Armando tuna and wahoo 6-16 tags

Not a bad day at all. Captain Armando with Shelly Reeve from Rock Springs, WY with her wahoo and yellowfin tuna.

Another day…another giant roosterfish for Jason Lester. The fish was released.

A pretty nice birthday for Nicholas Koeleman and his girlfriend Brianna Seca from San Diego. For his 21st, they get two wahoo and there was also a sailfish.

He comes for so many years to get roosterfish, but “missed” this time with a wahoo instead, darnit! My amigo, Ron Burgess, and a rare photo of Captain Archangel smiling.

Mitch Chavira always does pretty good here every year. He was fishing the north end of Cerralvo Island with Peyton Gaston. Both from Encinitas, California. Working the yo-yo iron, they put the hurt on this big yellowtail and amberjack.

Happy Anniversary wahoo for Diego Jimenez who came to fish with Tailhunters in La Paz for his 25th wedding anniversary from Loveland, Colorado. He and his wife come every year, but he and never gotten a wahoo until this big ‘hoo came along. He gets photo help from Captain Jorge of the Tailhunter fleet on the beach at Bahia de los Muertos.

Note the purple Rapala hanging out of it’s mouth! Don Vetger with another wahoo in the boat.

Two days and four wahoo for Norm Fulco and Captain Jorge on the beach at Muertos with our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet. This was the first of the two days.

It takes three! James Boyd (holding the head) got two of these big wahoo fishing with Captain Gerardo and getting a hand from fishing buddy, Charles Koeleman, from San Diego CA. James was using a purple Rapala on the speedy fish.

From Portland, Oregon, James Damron had never fished in La Paz waters but took this big wahoo fishing with the Tailhunter Fleet and Captain Victor using a purple Rapala off Cerralvo Island.

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Jessica Reeve (in the middle) is a pretty tired lady. On light tackle, she battled this striped marlin for 3 hours! Right after this, she tossed in another bait and got slammed by a wahoo…then a shark. Long fun day. She’s helped here by Captain Armando and her mom, Shelley. They’re from Wyoming.

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Great early morning shot and the right way to start out a fishing day with a wahoo for Don Vetger and Mike Gonsalves from the Los Angeles area.

One of two wahoo on the day for Glen Davis and Roz Brower from San Diego. Their first time fishing with us at Tailhunter.

Dr. Bruce Mullen and Captain Archangel with a nice assortment for the day! A sizeable wahoo, a tasty amberjack and maybe the biggest sierra I’ve ever seen! Bruce hails from Del Mar CA

Robby and his wife, Bobette Nixon came down for the first time to La Paz from the Sacramento CA area and he wanted a wahoo and a rooster! He got both! The rooster was released, but he shows off the big wahoo on the beach at Bahia de los Muertos.

Mike Gonsalvez from Torrance CA was fishing with Tailhunters for the first time and got about a dozen species of fish over 3 days including this huge amberjack he caught just outside of Bahia de Los Muertos.

Day two brings two more wahoo for Norm Fulco from Temple City CA and Captain Jorge. Norm had been coming down for many years, but his first time getting wahoo…or this many on a trip. Four in two days is pretty remarkable.

From Cleveland, Mississippi, this is Will House with a fresh wahoo on the panga. He and his wife got two on the day with Captain Adolfo.

Largest dorado of the week from our amigo from Loveland, CO visiting us with wife, Kelly, on their 25th anniversary.

What a good week for Adam Toeniskoetter fishing with Captain Victor over 3 days with wahoo, tuna, roosterfish and white bonito.

This is a frameable photo! Jacob Curtis right in Bahia de los Muertos right off the beach with another nice roosterfish which got photo’s and released. Note his thumb in a bandage. That’s from a big dog-tooth snapper that got him!

Lifting for the picture AFTER the battle can be a little tough! James Boyd from San Diego hefts another wahoo on the gaff.

Happy Father’s Day weekend! Chuck Toeniskoetter and son Adam with a nice handful of wahoo, yellowfin tuna and white bonito. They’re from the Los Gatos area of California.

I think this has to be the largest rainbow runner I’ve ever seen one of our anglers catch. RR’s are related to yellowtail and make pretty good eating. Jim Wilson from S. Dakota is a school teacher there and is posing with his own high school buddy, Sherman McDonnell from Rock Springs, Wyoming.

Shelley Reeve from Wyoming with her favorite captain Armando and another nice yellowfin tuna on light tackle!

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Just another reason they call Las Arenas “Roosterfish Alley.” Captain Victor holds up the tail end of Chuck Toeniskoetter’s big pez gallo. The fish was released.

This is part of what 160+ pounds of fish fillet looks like ready to put in the ice chests to take home for Jim Wilson, Sherman McDonnell and Jessica Reeve.

WHAT A DIFFERENCE A WEEK MAKES! BEST FISHING OF THE SEASON!

BIG ROOSTERS AND WAHOO CHARGE!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of June 12-19, 2016

One for the books!

Maybe this week I should just let you all look at the photos and let the photos do the talking! In the 21 years that I’ve been doimg our weekly reports, I can’t remember too many times when I had TOO MANY PHOTOS OF SUCH GREAT FISHING!

These are just SOME of the photos this week. I could have added 20 more. You might look at some photos and say, “Hey, that’s the same guy just holding the fish differently!” Nope…that’s the same guy kicking butt and catching more fish on another day. A completely different photo!

Generally speaking…even without the fishing just great weather and water.. for once! No wind issues. No big waves to contend with. It was like the Baja Chamber of Commerce dialed-in pretty much the perfect week. Even our snorkelers and divers told us there was “so much life in the water, it was nuts!” Whales…dolphin…manta rays…turtles…sealions…the ocean was alive this week.

LAS ARENAS

This was the kind of week they used to write books about. This was the kind of historic week your father and grandfather would tell around the campfire with a cold beer and a glazed look in his eye.

It started about late last week. All of a sudden the waters came alive with wahoo. Our pangas were getting 1-5 wahoo per panga PER DAY! And losing almost as many to luck, experience, busted tackle…

Wahoo were free swimming around the boats while guys were fighting other fish. One panga LOST 7 wahoo one day!

These fish were running 20-60 pounds and I saw quite a few anglers come back with big smiles…and hold up a burned thumb with with a big red blister on it from reflexively trying to stop the reel with their thumbs! Even some of my experienced guys “forgot” and shot that thumb to the spool only to have it come back seared! But, this week it was almot like a funny “badge of honor” to have a burned thumb and a grin! It only didn’t count if you lost the fish! And there were plenty of fish lost.

If you’re coming down, bring those Yo-Zuri Magnums and the Rapala XRap 15’s, 20’s and 30’s. The stores have run out of them here in La Paz and if you lose one of the captain’s rigs, it costs about $40 to buy a new one…if one can be found!

Put on a short wire leader…maybe 60 pound multi-strand…and if you can, take off the treble hooks and put on a single 5/0-7/0 siwash hook. You’ll increase your catch-ratio! Purple and dark colors are best, but fire tiger and dorado colors are working too.

As for other species…where do I begin?

Look at the roosterfish! Our smallest were 25 pounders. The largest were up to possibly 80 pounds. It was a week for big pez gallos. If you’re coming for roosters just be prepared to spend some time catching the big ladyfish baits. You have to catch them one-at-a-time and that can take some doing.

There were also some huge 30-50 pound amberjack…scattered football yellowfin tuna up to about 18 pounds…and still lots of the tasty white bonito as well.

Dorado didn’t bite much, but the ones we caught were finally some legit 20-25 pound class fish. Finally! Last month, we were hard-pressed to find even a 5-pound mahi.

Some surprising catches including some of the largest rainbow runners I have ever seen. They’re cousin to the yellowtail and amberjack and also tasty table fare. There are still some sierra and pargo around as well.

All-in-all, there were about 15 species of fish we got this week in the area which made for alot of fun.

Oh, and there were still ALOT of sharks in the water and we’re hooking several a day from 80-200 pounders that included hammerheads, blues, silkies, white tip and makos. Don’t know why they started biting about 2 weeks ago, but they’re alot of fun to hook and a helluva battle. We’re releasing all of them. Far too dangerous to put in a panga plus illegal to take without a commercial licenses.

LA PAZ

Compared to the blitz bite going on this week at Las Arenas/ Muertos, La Paz fishing didn’t compare. It wasn’t bad. It’s just that most of our anglers switched from La Paz reservations to fish with our Las Arenas fleet so they could get a shot at the wahoo and big roosters.

But, La Paz fishing wasn’t bad.

Dorado are larger. The islands are holding some great pargo and cabrilla. Plus the north end of Cerralvo Island, especially if you know how to fish iron has some huge amberjack and yellowtail that are smokin’ some of the drags! Some of the larger stretches of beaches also produced some of the monster roosterfish that went 40-80 pounds.

We had one huge dog-tooth snapper (see the photos) that was caught right in La Paz Bay in shallow water while the anglers were trying to make bait!

PARTING NOTE – UPDATE

Saturday and Sunday…full moon and winds came up…not sure what happened…lots of heat too. Fishing on both sides came down a few notches. The fishing on the La Paz side Sunday was almost zilch…nada…really tough fishing… although Las Arenas continued to kick out big roosterfish and variety including some wahoo…but not at the full-speed it was going at during the week. Hopefully, picks back up again.

That’s our story for the week! Happy Father’s Day to all of you and your dads! God bless…

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of June 5-12, 2016

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Whoa! First-timers with us! Mike Gonzalves, Jacob Curtis, Don Vegter from Torrance CA put the lures in the water and within minutes later all heck broke loose. Three wahoo…1, 2, 3 !!!! Two others were lost! As the guys tell me, one of the purple Rapalas must have been crashed by a beast…the split ring holding one set of treble hooks on the lure was torn apart by the impact. Never seen that happen although on two occasions over the years, I’ve seen wahoo hit so hard the Rapala was actually broken or cracked…and you know what it takes to bust one of those!

Young Alex Coleman had quite a week! Three roosters (released) and two wahoo! See photos below.

Doin’ it right! Ryan Williamson from Washington on his first trip here with Tailhunter dropped a purple Rapala with Captain Juan at the north end of Cerralvo Island near La Reyna and almost immediately got ripped by this toothy speedster! Wahoo blood on the deck! ‪

That’s alot of meat! Mike Donnelly and Ed Sorenson put the heavy wood to this big dog-tooth snapper and amberjack outside of Bahia de los Muertos.

Bob Sayre from Chicago and our own Jorge Romero hooked this striped marlin that Bob fought for about an hour on just 40 pound test line. After he got it in (could not be released and meat was donated), Jorge’s line went screaming. They thought it was a big tuna as the first run took over 400 yards of line. Jorge fought the fish almost 2 hours to find it it was a 300 pound shark.

Like I said, Alex Coleman from Bakersfield had a a great week of fishing. Here’s one of his two wahoo. Cerralvo Island in the background.

Our friend from Woodland, Washington Grant Jensen got a nice bull dorado with Captain Victor.

The “right kind” for Don Vegter and Mike Gonsalves from Torrance CA. This was Don’s first wahoo. During the week he caught about 5 different species that he had never caught!

Scott and brother Jim Damron from Portland OR with one of the nicer yellowfin tuna of the week.

Montana girl on the beach, Jessica Reeves and Captain Armando with a good looking bull dorado.

Always with a trophy fish, our own Donna Thompson fishing with Captain Hugo got this big barred pargo with a jig.

First day fishing and first trip to see us in La Paz, Jim Wilson from Marion, S. Dakota caught and released two nice roosterfish. Here’s the first!

Ron Lawver, Sr. and his son, Ron, Jr. from Phoenix with a striped marlin they caught right out’ve the chute their firsts day of fishing The fish could not be released.

He’s taking this one to our Tailhunter Restaurant. Tasty amberjack for Grant Jensen from Woodland, WA. These are great eating and relate to yellowtail.

Pretty fish for Dale Damron from Oregon. This barred pargo came back to the Tailhunter Restaurant for dinner.

Over 3 days of fishing, Mike Donnelly and Ed Sorenson caught about a dozen different species of fish including sharks, pargo, cabrilla, jack crevalle, bonito and others. Here, they’ve got a handful of pompano amberjack and a white bonito.

Captain Armando with Jessica and Shelley Reeves from Montana. Shelley has a dorado in her hands and Jessica has about the biggest rainbow runner I’ve seen in years. It’s cousin to the yellowtail and a good eater!

Tasty pompano for Carol Damron from Oregon. She caught a number of different species on her one day on the water with us.

Ken and Alex Gragg roosterfish tags 6-16 double

Ken Gragg and his stepson, Alex Coleman, did a double hook-up just off the sand at Punta Arenas on two pretty roosterfish. Both were released.

WINDIEST WEEK – LOTS OF VARIETY!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of June 5-12, 2016

Crazy windy week here which is nuts for June. None of us down here can remember it ever being this windy in June and surely not for so many consecutive days. It made for some really choppy unusual waters and some especially chilly mornings where us locals were wearing jackets, long pants and sweatshirts even though by afternoon, it broke into the high 90’s. Of course, all of that had an effect on fishing…and our anglers too!

Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay

Again, like other weeks there is just no way to describe the fishing there. It’s great. It’s bad. It’s super. It’s stinky. It’s up. It’s down. We’re catching this. But we’re not catching that. Weather as great. Weather was crap. Every day is different. Every panga is different. Every angler has a different opinion…EVERY DAY! Some come back with long faces and don’t talk when they get back. Others have a great day on the panga right next to it and can’t stop jumping up and down about the great day they had. The next day, it’s just the opposite. I’ve had clients just get skunked day-after-day. Regulars who normally do great. Then, I have rookies who go out every day and have banner days that are off-the-charts! This particular week has been a microcosm of the whole season…so far.

But, take a look at the photos this week. Hard to deny that there’s fish around. The other side of the equation is that…some anglers who come back with bad days…HOOKED FISH but lost them! Now THAT’s a different story. Some of these fish are BIG. If the fish comes off…if the line breaks…if the angler makes an error…or hey, sometimes that fish just wasn’t meant to be caught…well, that’s just fishing! And there were some big fish caught.

So, darn Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay sure has been kicking out alot of variety! If you want to go to a spot and catch a fish you’ve never caught before or want to cross a fish off your bucket list, we had as many as 14 different species this week! One day alone, I counted 10 different species. Some of the fish this week included:

Pargo – some dog-tooth up to 20 pounds

Yellow snapper

Bonito – white bonito that tastes like tuna with some great meat

Yellowfin tuna – firecracker footballs

Yellowtail – up to 20 pounds (just a few)

Striped marlin – 100 to120 pounders

Cabrilla – (Mexican seabass)

Amberjack – (like giant yellowtail) but most about 10-15 pounds

Barred Pargo – some big ones!

Jack Crevalle

Dorado – finally getting larger up to about 15 pounds, but not alot of them

Roosterfish – 25 to 60 pounders this week

Wahoo – Lost a few but the ones caught were about 20-40 pounders

Rainbow runners – same family as yellowtail and good eating

Pompano – delicious 5-10 pounders

…and SHARKS! Lots of sharks!

Holy cow…where did all the sharks come from?

We normally don’t catch many, and we’ve not had much of anything at all for the whole season. But this week, I believe we hooked over 25 of them in the pangas! Hammerheads…blues…thresher…lemon…mako…reef…Some of them were 200-300 pounders.

We call them the “grinning men in the grey suits!” We think they moved in to feed on all the bonito we have in the water right now. But, some days, every panga hooked 1-2 of them and the fights lasted up to 2 hours and just beat up the anglers! Of course, we release all of them and would never put them into our pangas as a security issue (I used to commercially fish sharks and even a dead shark can injure someone). But, they’re a great sport fish to hook up, but they will surely take the fight to you.

In the hot sun, it can really beat you up. Alot of the time, the angler gets slammed and really don’t know what they’ve hooked. A big tuna? A marlin? No telling on this first blistering runs! It’s not until the fish is close to the boat after agonizing time on a bent rod, they realize they’ve been fighting a shark!

LA PAZ

Like Las Arenas, our La Paz anglers have encountered some of the same things. The bite varies from day-to-day and from panga to panga and location to location. It’s a big ocean out there and a panga 100 yards away from another panga can have completely different outcomes. Wind had an effect on where we fished as well since fishing out’ve La Paz, there’s alot more open water and we have to travel further to the fishing areas.

The north end of Cerralvo Island produced some really nice wahoo and amberjack this week although a bit of a run to La Reyna and La Reynita. The wahoo were larger 40 pounders. The amberjack bigger than 50 pounds with some really big fish lost.

As well, there’s more dorado on the La Paz side than Las Arenas and up to about 18 or 20 pounds at times. Around the islands and reefs, decent fishing for bigger pargo, cabrilla and amberjack with big white bonito and jack crevalle around the drop offs.

MORE BIG HEARTS – (and some big hearts from small people…read below!)

Our amigo from Kansas, Marion Lawver, came down with a bunch of things for the kids stuffed in his ice chest.

Colorado gets a shout-out for special friends, Diego and Kelly Jimenez who have been bringing things every year for the kids and families. And there’s a special story to this as well. See the attached story!

These two toys have a remarkable story on how they ended up in Mexico with Jill and Catlyn, our Mexican pocket panther, giving their approval.

For 3 years, our wonderful friends and clients have been donating to our Tailhunter Outreach Program where we collect things for some underserved schoolkids as well as for the womens shelter here in La Paz. We’ve collected well-over 2000 pounds for Jill’s program thanks to you and more gets brought every week! On behalf of so many kids and families, we are incredibly grateful.

Take a look at the photo above. Good Tailhunter friends, Kelly and Diego Jimenez arrived with some great school supplies but when they dug into their own suitcases back at the hotel, they found two favorite dolls that belonged to their granddaughter.

The dolls had been hidden in the luggage. There was a note that said,
“These are my favorite, but maybe a little girl in Mexico needs them more and they will make her happy.”

Sigh…

You have a great week.

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 May 29-June 5, 2016

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As pretty a picture as you will see of a roosterfish in Baja! John Dupre from Aliso Viejo CA came down this week to get a rooster and did it on the first day with Captai Archangel right off the Las Arenas lighthouse. This photo is pretty much frameable! The fish was released.

Always in the fish, Taylor Murphey from Lakewood CA, fishing with granpa Roger Thompson and Captain Hugo, stuck this beautiful amberjack off the south end of Cerralvo Island dragging a purple Rapala xrap 30.

These two amigos for ours, Randy Payne and Steve Artis, did a number for several days on the amberjack and other species like the snapper and pompano seen in the photo while posing on the beach at Bahia de los Muertos. The amberjack bit strong earlier in the week.

rooster magdaleno ed Guarderas tags 6-16

Steve Magdaleno and Ed Guarderos tag-teamed this big gallo with Captain Gerardo off Las Arenas Point. Like others this week, they wanted to target a rooster. The big fish was released.

On the iron! Louie D’Esposito from Los Angeles hit tis big one at La Reyna at the north end of Cerralvo Island.

Spencer Timmons from Sacramento CA was staying at the Rancho la Costa and got this nice pompano just outside of Bahia de los Muertos.

Captain Pancho with two of the funnest guys of the week…brothers Robert and Jerry Rost from Idaho with a nice big dog-tooth snapper.

Right out of the chute, Ron, Sr. and Ron, Jr. Lawver from Arizona got this marlin with Captain Pancho. They didn’t want to leave it in the sun on the deck so brought it back to the beach to clean then went back out. The fish could not be released.

Captain Archangel had a hot hand this week for big roosters for sure. Check out another big one for him and Leah Dupre! If you figure he’s only about 5’3″ and she’s shorter than him…this is a toad of a fish. They released it!

Debbie Dunning got herself and amberjack fishing out’ve Bahia de los Muertos from the Rancho de la Costa resort.

Josh Dupre give Derreck Dupre a hand with his marlin they got mid-week. This is the first week the marlin have been willing to bite. They were unable to release the fish but donated the meat to the town.

First timers with us Carter and Tendra Andrews on the beach at Bahia de Los Suenos with their catch that included a dorado and an amberjack that ended up at dinner at Tailhunter Restaurant .

Taylor Murphey with another massive catch for the week. This big barred pargo fell for another purple Rapala off the shallow end at S. Cerralvo Island. Captain Hugo was running the boat.

That’s a good day in anyone’s book! Johnny Drucker said he was “really tired” after putting all these amberjack in the boat. Johnny is from the Phoenix AZ area.

rooster dereck dupre 5-16 aliso viejo tags

He came for one and he got one. Josh Dupre caught and released this nice roosterfish out’ve Bahia de los Muertos with Captain Adolfo.

Captain Gerardo gives Rob Yost a hand with his bull dorado, one of the larger ones of the week!

He’s gonna cook it up! Mauricio Lucero has himself a really nice dog-tooth snapper! Some of the best eating fish we have!

James Aultz from Oregon with Captain Armando had a good week. The first day not so good, but with each subsequent day his bite got better. Amberjack and this dorado started things off.

It’s really hard to take a good photo when you have a big fat roosterfish that’s not too happy and it’s slamming you around and you’re just trying to get a quick photo so you can let it go! Josh Dupre with the fish that made our area famous!

INSHORE FISH HIGHLIGHT THE WEEK!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of May 29-June 5, 2016

Again, it was a week full of variety as far as fishing. Weather-wise it was in that category too! We had some blazing hot days where we hit into the 100’s then other days when the winds blew, the seas were jacked and we were 20 degrees cooler! We even got a few raindrops and a tad of thunder and lighting. Fishing, correspondingly was all over the place. You put a line in the water or dragged a lure over the side and you never knew if you were going to catch or what you were going to catch. It could be crazy or not. Every day and every spot was different.

LAS ARENAS/ MUERTOS BAY

This was our most consistent fishing this week. We started off the week with a bang as the jacks put on a show. The amberjack ranging from 10-20 pounds came on strong in the rocky shallows where almost any bait or lure got smacked! These are great powerful fighters and good eating fish too! Larger fish in the 30-60 pound class were lost to the rocks or agonizingly close to the boat within gaff distance. As the week went on, fewer but larger fish took over. In those same areas schools of jack crevalle, another cousin, also bit the lines. Not so good eating, but still feisty on a rod and reel.

The other jack that took center stage were our famous rooster fish!

The bigger beasts moved in this week. We had some fish over 50 and close to 70 pounds hit the rods and some larger fish lost! The smallest fish we reported was “at least 30 pounds” this week. All the fish were released after some long tough battles, especially in the heat we encountered.

Other action in the area…the dorado aren’t crashing yet, but at least they’re getting bigger. They’ve gone from 2-3 pounders to 10-15 pounders ,but not many…just yet. As well, we got into a number of marlin that seem ready to bite. Most were the 100-120 pounders, but we had some larger blues in the 200 pound class that were lost on the light tackle and we also had several sailfish that were hooked. Most of the billfish that made it to the boats were released.

The bite was rounded out by wahoo…yes…they are still around and we hooked more than we caught or they broke off or short bit the lures. Also, the tasty white bonito provided lots of action as well as pargo of several varieties. Also, 3 sharks caught and released which is unusual.

LA PAZ

Erratically good and erratically bad! Some boats hit and others skunked. If you found the spot, it could be banner. If you searched and didn’t connect, then it could be a long day. Then there were days when all the boats found fish. I think alot has to do with the winds that have pushed warm and cold water all around. It has alot to do with the water temperatures ranging from high 60’s to mid-80’s. I think once the water settle down, the area will get into it’s regular groove. For now, it’s hit or miss. Oh, we also had some massive tide swings this week too.

The dorado for our La Paz fleet proved elusive. They’re bigger than previously, but just not around much or when we saw them this week they just didn’t seem interested. Our captains tended to take our clients into the rocks where they found some horse yellowtail, big tough pargo and cabrilla, amberjack, jack crevalle and even some big roosters that were lost. They guys who knew how to fish the iron did best. Bait is available, but it’s all big baits. Trap hook rigs helped the bite ratio.

TAILHUNTER OUTREACH

The Adlesperger Family from Utah…Diana, Samantha, Doug and Dennis! Thank you for the generosity.

Great Tailhunter Tribal regulars, Jim and Dan Bovee from San Diego with Jill and several tables full of kids clothes!

Washington in the house! Ryan Williamson and Matt Garrett with Jilly. Matt’s daughter even gave up her prized pony and his son, his soapbox racer because they thought some other kid would enjoy them! Wow.

I think Jill wants to keep this one for a future grandkid! But it’s headed to the battered women’s shelter most likely.

As our season is well underway, a quick shout-out to so many of our Tailhunter Family and Tribal members that have been stuffing empty ice chest and corners of their luggage once again with items for our Tailhunter Outreach Program! You’re the best!

For 3 years, your generosity has helped two underprivileged schools on the outskirts of La Paz; the battered womens’ shelter and we’ve just added a local orphanage as well. In the past 3 years close to 2000 pounds of much needed items have been shared and distributed to kids and families that barely get by. Thank you so much for the generous hearts, my friends! God bless. Above are just some of the photos from the last 2 weeks.

Also, one photo missing of John Dworak from Colorado who decided to leave his Apple iPad for us and said, “Some kid can make good use of this.” And he handed over the pad and charger. Wow!

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/