THE VIDEO VERSION
WEEK AT A GLANCE- (1-10 being best)
Weather – 8 (great time to be here…cooler than normal, but sunny beach days!)
Water – 8 (gorgeous blue 85 degrees)
Quantity of Fish – 8 (if you’re fishing for dorado) 2 (if you’re fishing for anything else)
Quality of Fish – 4 (too many small dorado, offset by nice wahoo and larger tuna)
Jonathan’s Attitude – 7 (season winding down but fish still biting!)
Quote of the Week – “Lord grant me a fish so big that in telling the tale I won’t have to exaggerate!”
THE BIG PICTURE – FISHING REPORT
Firefighter amigo, Ken Campbell, finally got his dorado with Captain Armando this week. It was a good week for alot of our amigos to get their first wahoo!
Angelo Oliverio holds up some dinner…a nice yellowfin tuna and one of the huge triggerfish we were catching this week.
Tom Mullican has already been her in the springtime for 10 days of fishing and our Idaho friend is back again for two weeks and started off with a nice wahoo with Captain Jorge of our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet.
Captain Armando was on fire this week and loaded up on some of the better dorado with Steve Manney and Dana Murray from Washington.
Kelly Mizuno has been our amigo for many many seasons! Recently retired, he’s now an Alaskan fishing guide and shows off a dorado and Captain Gerardo has a tang! In my 20 years here, I’ve never seen one caught! They’re very good eating and Kelly caught several! Kelly and his wife, Stephanie are from the Sacramento CA area.
Gary Jackson from Oceanside CA only had one day to fish our Las Arenas fleet with us and made the most of it even though he only caught one fish! He rocked it with one of the larger wahoo of the week!
From the San Francisco Bay area, John McLucas and Bill Lee have fished with us for years and started their week of right with a nice rack of dorado, wahoo and triggers!
First time with us, Betsie Spoerke, from Denver holds up one of her bull dorado! Love this lady who is always smiling! She’s such a gamer!
Jim finally got his wahoo not too far from Punta Arenas after many frustrating years! They also had another one right to the boat ready to gaff when it broke off. This particular fish snapper Jim’s fishing rod too! You can see the Rapala in the fish’s mouth. Jim is from Moscow, Idaho.
Beautiful fish with Captain Armando (again) and Steve Manney and Dana Murray from Washington with their first-day wahoo.
Bev Idsinga from New Mexico has fished with us and caught many fish, but this stubborn bonito was the first fish that she baited, set the hook, and fought all on her own all the way to the boat! Well done, amiga!
Jim Adair’s got a yellowfin too!
Alex Dumbrowski with the tuna and Bob Manney with a huge dog-tooth snapper had alot of great fillets to put in the ice chest after their day at Bahia de los Muertos. Both live in Washington.
Our buddy, Dougie Idsinga, from New Mexico has a great shot of one of our La Paz dorado he hooked north of La Paz Bay.
Captain Pancho takes a photo with John Mc Lucas and his yellowfin tuna. There were definitely fewer tuna this week, but the ones we caught were respectable-sized fish.
WEEK STARTS SLOW BUT GOT BETTER WITH WAHOO TUNA DORADO
La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Oct. 2-9, 2016
With some of the best conditions for ocean and weather in awhile, the beginning of the week was pretty scary. Other than smallish dorado with our La Paz fleet, it was like the ocean shut off the fishing faucet. The ocean turned into a desert! There were no fish. We had trouble getting even a bonito, triggerfish or needlefish to bite! There was NOTHING! After several weeks of some pretty decent fishing, the fish just got lockjaw and showed no interest in anything we were throwing, dropping, chumming or dragging.
Fortunately, as the week went on we recovered!
Tailhunter La Paz Fleet
This has become our most consistent area. It’s pretty hard NOT to catch some fish if you fished with our La Paz Fleet. There’s a mess of dorado and 99% of all the catch were dorado. The problem is that some of them were awfully tiny and a good majority were under 10 pounds. So, honestly, it was easy to catch 10, 20 or more dorado and hook-and-release as fast as you could go which is what most of our clients did releasing a majority of their catch after having some fun. For several days some of our pangas were coming back to the beach well-before lunchtime and found our anglers already poolside with a cold one by noon and big smiles.
The downside of all that is the issue that regretfully there were so many small fish. I’d estimate that the largest fish were only 15 pounders at most.
The other issue we faced this week is that for the first time, there was zero live bait to be had. No mackerel, sardines or caballito to be purchased. That didn’t stop anyone from getting limits of fish or having a good time, but we were using squid, chunked bonito and also trolling more often than normal.
Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing
This is where the bigger fish were this week. But, it was anemic and unpredictable. As mentioned earlier, the first few days of the week were like trying to pull teeth from a chicken. There was absolutely nothing biting. But, it got better.
But, the catch was erratic from boat to boat or area to area and it changed daily.
It seems the tuna bite is over, but there continues to be a smattering of 10-25 pound fish that like eating the big chunks of squid that we’re selling. There are also some nicer 8-20 pound dorado…much larger than than the dorado we’re finding in La Paz. But not as many. Boats averaged only a handful of dorado per day.
The upside was that every day, we had a handful of wahoo hook ups of good-sized 30-45 pound fish. I’d say about 1/2 got lost, but the ones that made it to the beach were good chunky speedsters. The wahoo were a nice bonus and had a preference for trolled Rapalas.
TAILHUNTER DONATION NATION!
How to even begin to say thanks to the folks who brought down SO MUCH gear, toys, supplies and other things for our Tailhunter Outreach program! Several HUNDRED POUNDS of suitcases, ice chest and bags just filled with everything from school supplies, clothes, backpacks, hygiene products…even enough gear for a kid’s soccer team are just going to light up some lives…you have no idea! We try to distribute pretty evenly between an orphanage, women’s shelter and two underserved schools. Tailhunter Tribe…you’re the best! Take a look at the photos plus an extra shout out to Tim and Paula Campbell…I didn’t get to take your photo (I was cleaning fish!) but hugs as well to you!
Nash Johnson does his best to blow up wit his mouth one of the many soccer balls he brought down!
Here’s the Washington gang! It’s hard to tell about all the stuff they brought down but several hundred dollars worth of supplies, toys, clothes and other items. Thanks to Steve, Peter, Alex, Nash, Dana, John Erick Bob and John. Nash’s company alone donated over $150 of school supplies. Just incredible. Just bags and bags of much needed things!
What you see here, in addition to book bags, school supplies and clothes is basically enough shoes and soccer balls to outfit an entire youth soccer team! That’s Don Busse wit the soccer ball on his head, Brad Baker, Jim Adair, Angelo Oliverio, Ken Campbell and Wiley Randolph…always great to have the visit from the L.A. area! Gonna make alot of kids really happy!
The Okizaki brother, Gary and Danny came down with two soft ice chest filled wit dictionaries, book bags and so many other things for the kids!
The grow ’em differently in Indianapolis Indiana where Steve Summers and his friends come from, but none with bigger hearts…they brought down FIVE SUITCASES this week just jam packed with everything from clothes to bags and books to backpacks!!! Oh…and funny costumes too!
Awwww…Bev and Dougie Idsinga our New Mexico amigos came for just 3 short nighs, but hauled down so many great clothes for little kids! Thank you, more than you know!
That’s our story!
Jonathan and Jilly
Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter International
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