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

August 22, 2016 by riplipboy

THE MINI VIDEO REPORT

The quick-video re-cap:

THE QUICK REVIEW – (Scale of 1-10 being best)

Weather – 2 (thunderstorms on and off all week)

Conditions Overall – 2 (windy cloudy many times)

Water – 3 (bumpy at times depending on the winds and nearby storms)

Fishing Quality – 1 (big fish around but mostly all lost or broke off)

Fishing Quantity – 7 (if you were catching triggerfish easy limits)

Quote of the Week – “Fishing is my anger management”

THE BIG PICTURE

Jeff Sakuda, our amigo for so many years, was trolling a small Rapala on just 30-pound-test for pargo while fishing with Captain Jorge and got this 20-pound wahoo hooked instead just before the weather changed and they had to bring it closer in.

Dee Dee Radar was fishing not to far off Espirito Santo Island north of La Paz and got this trophy cabrilla into the boat.

Mike Zech and Aaron Warren from Portland OR with Captain Rogelio and a nice barred pargo. They also got lots of triggerfish and had a big blue marlin on for a bit that broke the line and took off with the lure.

Roosterfish like Vanessa’s fish here with Captain Jorge just inside Bahia de los Muertos were about the size of the roosters this week. This fish was released.

Surprisingly great eating and tough battling fish, triggerfish have been easy pickings the last few weeks especially around the rocks, reefs and islands. Thanks for Joey Fuschetti for the photo.

Clarence Cooper : John Sanchez dorado tags 9-15

Clarence and John showing off the kind of dorado we were hitting this week…when we could find them.

Joey Fuschetti with a china maru…also knows as a hawkfish.

THUNDERSTORMS ADD TO END-OF-SUMMER FISHING LULL

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

Not much to tell you this week. Weather wasn’t the most cooperative. Summer thundershowers or threats of showers, thunder or lightning were almost an every-day occurrence. It didn’t always happen or it rained and thundered in one area, but not another or the predicted precipitation lasted 5 minutes here and 10 minutes there. Very tropical overall. My point being that it wasn’t always “Chamber of Commerce” clear sunny beach weather.

For fishing, we had a lull. What can I say? After months and months of solid anglers every day, this past week, we just didn’t have many folks coming to visit and fish. Actually, it’s kind of typical this time of year.

It’s the end of summer. Families are headed back to school so it marks the end of our “summer vacation” visitors and families that come to La Paz. (Local kids also head back to school as well). Anyway, families have other things on their plates and it’s a rare dad who gets to slip away from home to go fishing while leaving mom back home to deal with back-to-school craziness! So, there just weren’t many fishermen and this was the slow week of the season. Given the weather, maybe that was a good thing.

For those that did fish, it was a mix. I’m sure the weather had something to do with it.

At Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay some rooster fish were caught, but they missed some of the big boys. The ones caught and released were the smaller 10-15 pounders. There are wahoo in the area and we hooked 2, but lost them. Our friend, Jeff Sakuda got one 20-pound wahoo…while trolling a small Rapala on 30-pound test for pargo! The dark Rapalas are still the trick. There were some tuna that hit earlier in the week.

For our La Paz fleet, the inshore fishing once again provided the most action with big triggerfish, pargo, cabrilla and smaller amberjack making up most of the catch. Offshore, a few dorado in the 10 pound class hooked and one of our pangas had a big blue marlin on the line that broke the line after awhile.

More intermittent rain and thundershowers are predicted over the next few days again. Remnants of Tropical Storm Kay that formed east of Cabo San Lucas, but moving westward out to the Pacific.

That’s our story!

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