VIDEO FISHING REPORT
WEEK AT A GLANCE (1-10 being best)
Weather – 8 (sunny low to mid 90’s / but cooler than normal/ humid)
Water – 8 (up to 88 degrees, but some cooler patches moving in)
Winds – 8 (not an issue)
Fishing Overall – 6 (not bad)
Quality of Fish – 6 (not alot of huge or trophy fish although some nicer tuna and roosters)
Quantity of Fish – 7 (limits of dorado / 1-4 tuna per day/ lots of bonito)
Live Bait – 2 (Dismal / We’re selling fresh squid for $30 per day and using other dead baits but all working good)
Jonathan’s Attitude – 7 (Optimistic but I can see the end of the season coming up!)
Quote of the Day – “Fish. An animal that grows in size between the time it’s caught and the story told to friends.”
THE BIG PICTURE
Our Colorado fish brother, John Ehlers comes every year and has caught a bunch of fish on his bucket list, but until this week, a wahoo has always eluded him! He made up for the lost time with this beauty!
John Pooley and Captain Victor with a good start to a fishing trip! Five nice yellowfin tuna! John and his wife Leslie were on their first trip to visit us from Tribuco Canyon CA
Hard to find a nicer couple than Monte and Marlene Aldridge who came for the SECOND TIME this year on a last-minute-whim! The also got into some nice tuna as well as dorado and other species. They’re from Annabella Utah. They also brought a load of stuff for our women’s shelter! (See photos way down the report!).
Captain Armando helps out a smiling Jim and Christi Brenneman from Idaho with their first fish of the trip on the beach at Muertos Bay. They also spent time with us snorkeling and swimming with the whalesharks!
Whoa! This is the “RIGHT KIND!” This is what ALL our dorado normally look like! Bill Stewart from Oregon and Captain Gerardo with a heck-of-a-nice bull dorado!
Neighbors from Folsom, CA, Jae Park and Mike Kingsmore show off a yellowfin tuna and a rainbow runner they caught near Punta Perico.
Not a bad day of dorado fishing for Kinh Duong who only had one day to fish! He’s from the San Jose CA area.
All the way from Wisconsin, Jeff and Wendy Elgin with Captain Armando started their trip with a bunch of yellowfin tuna.
Pacific Northwest amigos, Bill Stewart from Oregon and Dave Parker from Washington with some of their dorado they caught north of La Paz Bay.
Two of our favorites! (The people…not the fish although we love tuna!). John and Dolores Ehlers have been good friends of ours for years!
Some people have too much fun! This is Al “Bonito” Basye and Mike Witt who rocked the yellowfin tuna their first day out. I think they got 6 fish that day.
Mike and Dan from the Northrup Grumman Fishing Club came to fish with their amigos and take a knee to pose with 4 chunky yellowfin.
ANGLERS TARGET TUNA AND DORADO
La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Sept. 25-Oct. 2, 2016
It wasn’t a spectacular week by any stretch, but there was some good to solid fishing most of the time. Tuna and dorado were the main targets but the catches were rounded by billfish, wahoo and big rooster fish.
It was a pretty easy breakdown on where to fish and what you wanted to catch. The areas were pretty distinct. It makes for an easy report this week.
LA PAZ FLEET FISHING
If someone only had one day to fish…if someone wasn’t too particular and just wanted action and catch a fish, the areas around La Paz with our Tailhunter La Paz Fleet was the place to be. If you had a line in the water, you couldn’t help but catch a dorado.
They weren’t everywhere, but there were enough spots that sooner or later, you’d run into them and then it was “game on.” Sometimes, the bite was early. Sometimes it was late. But almost every one of our pangas this week that fished La Paz got limits or near limits of dorado.
The downside of all that is that alot of these fish were only 5-10 pounders. Great on light tackle, but a 15-20 pound fish would have been big…and unusual. Normally, during this time of year, that size fish would have been one of our “smaller fish.”
But, as I said, there was no shortage of action and you just had to weed through the short guys if you were to have any chance at larger fish.
The other side of so many small fish was that this is what billfish like to eat and there were several marlin hookups (nothing stuck for long) while anglers were right in the middle of fishing for the school dorado.
One other issue…
For the last two years as we’ve endured El Nino conditions, finding live bait has been a struggle. But, for our La Paz fishermen, more often than not, we found enough to go place scarce as it might be. Well, this past week, we couldn’t even find a minuscule amount. It was tough. We resorted to doing a little more trolling than normal and also using dead bonito and other dead bait. But, they all seemed to work just fine even without the live bait. Good thing dorado, aren’t too picky.
Like I told you…EVERYONE CAUGHT FISH!
LAS ARENAS/ MUERTOS BAY
While fishing out of La Paz was a sure thing and there were lots of dorado (albeit small) to catch, if you fished with our Tailhunter Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay fleet you were taking it to another level.
There weren’t many dorado at all. But, tuna were the primary targets and most days each panga got 1-6 decent-sized yellow”fun” tuna in the 10-25 pound size. Fun size for most folks!
The trick on these tuna were the fresh dead squid we have been acquiring for our fisher folks; cutting it up; bagging it and making it available for each of our anglers. This had to be fresh restaurant quality calamar and preferably the white bodies, to the tentacles. Picky fish! But, two or three of these fish would fill up an ice chest.
Other species that rounded out the Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay catch included a few wahoo and some 40-70 pound rooster fish that are still hanging around the beach areas.
UPDATE: SUNDAY – As this was going to print…easy limits of dorado for La Paz. Las Arenas, really slow. Only one tuna. One wahoo. One big roosterfish. Hope it’s just a one-day aberration. 😦
TAILHUNTER DONATION NATION
Big group of generous hearts! Jim and Christi Brenneman, Dolores and John Ehlers, Jeff and Ann Lilla hauled clothes, school supplies, bookbags and toys down for our charities!
The filled ice chests full of shampoos, soaps, toothbrushes, school supplies and other things for our women’s shelter and orphanage and filled ’em up with fish fillets! Big kudos to Marlene and Monte Aldridge from Utah for helping out! Much appreciated!
Quick shout out to our Tailhunter Tribe member show brought down stuff for the schools, women’s shelter and orphanage! More grateful than you can know and I only wish you could see the smiles when these things are delivered. You DO make a difference!
That’s our story!
Jonathan and Jilly
Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter International
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