La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of July 3-10, 2016

July 11, 2016 by riplipboy

THE MINI-WEEKLY VIDEO REPORT –

This is our 2nd attempt at the weekly report in video. We’re still working out the bugs. I had to shoot it from inside our offices because it was too windy out on the beach and for lighting, I had to use some table lamps. So, that’s why I came out orange! I’ll get better!

THE FULL REPORT

What a week for Dr. Greg Miller from Oklahoma on his first visit to us in La Paz. He got FIVE big roosters (you’ll see other photos below…these are NOT the same fish!) and released them all. These were all 40-70 pound fish. As you can see he got his glasses knocked off and his hands full with the big fish trying to pose for the photo and release!

Reean Van Rooyen tags rooster archangel 7-16

Captain Arcangel gives Reean Van Rooyen a hand with this fat plug of a roosterfish. Reean is a big man so the fish is alot bigger than it looks in his arms. The fish was released. Reean is from S. Africa and now in Newport Beach CA

Captain Victor had quite a week with the roosters with multiple fish per day like this one with Vanessa Roost from New Mexico visiting us for the first time. She and her husband, Phililp got 3 roosters that day. Check out the flat waters at Punta Arenas Beach.

I love this photo of Captain Victor and 7-year-old Alyssa Stevens who was in on the roosterfish action this week!

Linda Joe Stevens Pancho rooster tags 7-16

More from the Stevens Family. Here’s Captain Pancho with the assist for Linda Stevens and 7-year-old son, Joe just off the rocks south of Muertos Bay with another big rooster that’s about to get released.

On the light tackle spinning rod! This is the way to do it with Rich Pomeroy from the Sacramento CA area and a great eating barred pargo off Espirito Santo Island.

A beast! The fish…not laughing Eric Delin who put the wood to this big dog-tooth snapper (check out the teeth) in the boulders off Punta Perrico.

OH my! Dr. Miller has another big rooster to try to hold for a photo!

Gotta love the hat! Todd Stevens brought his family to fish with us this week and got himself a nice rooster here for the camera and a quick put-back into the water.

Rick Pope can do this kind of fishing all day…and even into the night. After fishing and dinner, he would hang out on the docks behind La Concha hotel and keep fishing with his spinning rod and hooking all kinds of fish. This nice pargo is headed to the freezer off Espirito Santo Island north of La Paz.

Seven-year-old Alyssa Stevens. You always remember that first fishing trip!

From New Mexico, this is Philip Troost who scored 4 roosterfish his first day out with his wife. All fish were released.

Now THIS is alot of meat and a trophy cabrilla as well. Wow! Brad Charboneau was another of our first timers this past week and he sure scored with this slab of seabass!

A neglected to post this photo last week of Tommy Newman from Illinois and his big roosterfish! Sorry, Tommy! Tommy’s just 11-years-old and released the fish.

Vanessa Troost had a great week of fishing as she shows off one of her several roosterfish taken and released off Bahia de los Muertos.

Our good amiga, Sandra Welborn poses at Bahia de los Muertos with a big chunk of barred pargo!

The lone tuna of the week went to our amigos from the lone star state of Texas, Chris and Mika Lara.

One of the funniest guys in a long time, Eric Delin with about a 30-pound roosterfish fishing with Captain Ramiro out’ve Bahia de los Muertos.

DIVING VIDEO – ISOLOTES

Alot of even our regulars don’t know that we also set up snorkeling and diving adventures here in La Paz. We sent Dee Dee Pope out to the Isolaotes sea lion colony at Espirito Santo island and she got me some video footage that I produced into the following short video. Hope you enjoy it. Thanks, Dee Dee! Turn up the sound!

SAVED BY THE R & R’s…ROOSTERFISH & ROCKFISH!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of July 3-10, 2016

Thankfully, we’ve got rooster fish here! As one of the other outfitters in town told me, “Maybe we should start a marketing campaign to make triggerfish as popular as Chilean Seabass.” It’s honestly been that kind of fishing the last several weeks.

Although the waters are clearing up from those winds that hit us about 2 weeks ago, in many spots the water is still cold, been and murky. Although the air temps are nice and sunny, the water is 5-10 degrees below normal and that’s obviously going to affect the fishing. Normally, during this time of year, we should be thick into the warm water species. Dorado should be all over the place Billfish should be willing. Tuna and wahoo should be showing bending rods.

But, not right now. The species were getting are cooler water species like what we should be catching in April and May.

LAS ARENAS

There’s a reason they call this the “rooster fish capital of the world” and it lived up to it this week. Roosters really saved the day…they saved the whole week! Our roosters this week averaged 25-60 pounds and we had some fish going into the 60-80 pound category too! The best baits are the huge 12-18 inch ladyfish so, anything that can wrap it’s mouth around a bait that big is gonna be a big fish. But…you have to be able to catch the ladyfish and that sometimes takes awhile to catch them one-by-one. But, those are the hot ticket.

Other than the roosters, not much in the way of wahoo again. We had so many two weeks ago. There’s some marlin out there, but many of them just don’t seem very interested in chewing on anything other than sunning themselves. We almost run over them with the pangas they’re so lethargic. There’s an occasional tuna or dorado, some jack crevalle and white bonito and lots of triggerfish. And that’s been about it this past week.

But, there’s been some pargo, but all of them are big it seems and hooking them and getting them into the boat are two different issues. Bait is still an issue as well as it has been all season. Some days it’s there. Other days not. Or you really have to work for it. Or it changes from day-to-day as well.

LA PAZ

I won’t kid you. It’s been like a desert out there. We keep sending boats into the blue water looking for “what SHOULD be out there” and we’re coming back over and over to fish the rocks around the island and peninsula. This has produced some wild wild action on big pargo and cabrilla with many many fish just too tough or too cagey to pull into the pangas. We’ve had fish busting off 50, 60 and even 100 pound test line against the rocks and other impediments like sharp teeth, gill plates and scales. When the lines come it’s it’s not just cut…it’s shredded.

There’s the occasional dorado and we know marlin are out there because we can see them. But, not much interest this past week.

TAILHUNTER OUTREACH – GRACIAS!

Big gracias to Eric McFarland, Mackenzie Morrison, Martin Seiler and Parker Reed-Seiler for all the stuff they brought down including toys and school supplies!

Philip and Vanessa Troost brought down a load of toys and school supplies for the kids. They’re from New Mexico.

Our buddy from Arizona could not have a bigger heart. Every year he brings down a full chest of supplies for the kids, but also sponsors several of our kids through high school in our scholarship funds and took time to have lunch with the kids and their families this week at Tailhunter Restaurant to check on their school progress.

Chris Lara had a soft ice chest of school supplies that will go a long way in the classroom where even a regular pencil is a prized commodity. Chris and his wife are from Texas.

Thanks to our awesome Tailhunter amigos for all the things they squeezed into ice chests and suitcases to help us continue our Tailhunter Outreach program to help underserved kids, their families in barrio schools as well as the women and their families at the battered women’s shelter. God bless you all!

That’s our story!

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