WEEKLY VIDEO REPORT

THE WEEK AT A GLANCE

Weather – low to mid 90’s in the daytime and sunny.  Very humid at times.  Nights comfortable mid-70’s

Water – mid 80’s warm.  Underwater visibility 20-70 feet.

Fishing Quality – Big wahoo 30-60 pounds / nicer tuna 20-30 pounds/ lots of small dorado

Fishing Quantity – If you fished Las Arenas very slow.  Big fish or nothing.  La Paz generally all the small dorado you want.  (HOLD EVERYTHING…As this was going to print on Sunday, our Las Arenas pangas blew up nicely on tuna and wahoo!)

Tailhunter Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fleet – One or two bigger fish or nothing especially earlier in the week. Slightly better later in the week  (Sunday after this was already written and produced, our Las Arenas pangas slammed tuna and wahoo!)

Tailhunter La Paz Fleet – Most days dum-bass fun action on lots of small dorado.  Great for kids, first timers, light tackle.  Fill-the-ice-chest-fishing.  Bite was later and later it seemed, but still good numbers.

Quote of the Week – “All fishermen are liars except you and me.  And I”m not so sure about you!”

The happy girl dance! Her 2nd wahoo of the trip and a great way to start the morning for Nina Duc Le from Albuquerque, New Mexico. You can still see the deep diver Rapala XRap hanging from the mouth. She also got tuna and rainbow runners.

Tom Mullican from Idaho is on his 2nd trip to us this year and I gotta say, he put the wood to the wahoo this week! I think I lost count of his wahoo…4? 5? 6? Here’s a photo of one of the big ones. There’s another photo down below of a larger wahoo and one of his tuna.

Our good friend, writer, author and musican and all-around-good-guy Tom Gatch from near the Ensenada area finally made it down to visit us with in La Paz and got in a few days fishing. He shows off a couple of nice yellowfin tuna on the beach at Muertos with Captain Pancho.

First time fishing with us, Greg Hayes and wife April with a badboy wahoo from Muertos/ Las Arenas. Captain Victor gets in the photo too!

I love this shot of our Sacramento buddy, Dave Wakabayashi who arleady has his cigar lit for this photo with his big wahoo.

From Denver, Dr. Betsie Spoerke could not be more fun or love fishing more! She was great, especially after landing her first tuna with Captain Gerardo!

Paul Saucedo has a big smile with this dorado he caught north of La Paz with Captain Raul. The fish along with the rest of the catch ended up for dinner at Tailhunter Restaurant for a birthday dinner!

Now THIS is a log wahoo! Mike Davis from Arroyo Grande put this big one in the boat near Muertos Bay and he’s all smiles! Parts ended up as sashime for dinner.

The first tuna for Cooper Andie from Paso Robles CA! I was told he stroked the fish with perfect rhythm all the way to the boat.

Double hands of dorado for Lloyd Okimura and Lon Tsukamoto, our buddies from Sacramento who ended up taking a couple of ice chests full of dorado home.

Here’s Tom Mullican again with one of the larger tuna of the week, a healthy yellowfin just off the beach at Las Arenas.

Captain Jorge and Nina Ducle and a beautiful wahoo…her first ever after several trips to fish with us, with the Rapala still hanging from it’s mouth! She even kept the head which has so much meat in it and often gets thrown away. She ended up catching 2 wahoo and several tuna!

His biggest wahoo ever, we think this one went over 50 pounds which is hard to tell from the angle of the photo with the fish headed away from the camera but this is a BIG wahoo and Tim Butterworth also a big guy! Our buddy spent a whole week with us and is from Sebastapol CA.

Jonathan Duc Le from New Mexico has fished with us many times, but I didn’t know he had never caught a tuna until this week with a hefty yellowfin fishing with Captain Jorge.

I think this is a totally frameable photo of Brooks Andie and his son, Tyler, and some of their dorado! Great shot.

It’s a wonder!!! One of my favorite guys of all time Jon Luker from Arroyo Grande CA and Cooper Andie from Paso Robles and a first-day yellowfun tuna.

Like I said, Tom Mullican had a great week. Here’s another shot of ANOTHER of his wahoo. This is a PHAT fish!!!!

Just a great colorful photo of Captain Jorge with Nina Ducle who had quite a week with three wahoo plus and other species. Here’s one of her tuna!

If these look like a yellowtail, it’s because these rainbow runners are cousins to yellowtail and are a good indication that waters are starting to cool as we’ve been catching more and more like these that Mike Davis caught.

BIG WAHOO LARGER TUNA HELP OUT A SLOW WEEK

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Oct. 9-16, 2016

We’re coming down to the last few weeks of the season and conditions are changing!

It was difficult to describe fishing this past week for anglers who visited La Paz.  In some ways it was great fishing.  In some ways, it was some of the slowest fishing of the season.  Weather was great. Water was great.  It all depended on where you fish and what you were fishing for.

TAILHUNTER LA PAZ FLEET

If you were simply looking for action… if you had kids…or first timers, fishing was really quite good relatively speaking.  The dorado bite had all the fish you could ask for most days.  The only problem was that often the whole day could be really slow then the bite blew up very late with crazy off-the-wall double and triple hooks-ups.  The other thing was that these dorado continued to be the 5-10 pound shorts we’ve had the last two seasons with only the occasional 20 or 30 pounder that simply dwarfed the other fish.

Still, if you just wanted to fill your zip-lock bags, it was hard to beat and still fun.  On some occasions, the bite would be early and our anglers would catch a bunch, release a bunch and be back on the beach with their toes in the sand at the hotel before noon and having lunch!  Kind of a nice day!

The biggest issue continues to be live bait.  There hasn’t been any for about two weeks, so the captains are making due with dead bait; catching bonito; and then we’re also selling fresh squid in the morning as well…and it all seems to work just fine.

One thing to note, is that the bite was super all week for the most part.  However, as we got into the full-moon, the bite slowed down.  It’s usually just the opposite.

That’s what happened at Las Arenas…it got stronger as the full moon came on.

TAILHUNTER LAS ARENAS/ MUERTOS BAY FLEET

For the 2nd week in a row, fishing was extremely slow in terms of NUMBERS of fish and ACTION.   Our pangas averaged no more than 1-3 fish per day, which is why I was glad we have two fleets so that I could send our clients to fish in La Paz where they could load up on dorado.

For Las Arenas, what we lacked in numbers we made up for in quality.  The few fish we caught were generally BIG fish.  But you only got that one shot, if you got it at all.  I won’t kid you that for some boats, they barely got bit.

For the ones that did get bit, they got the wahoo or their lives in some cases.  All the wahoo this week averaged 40-60 pounds!  These were huge ‘hoo that bit chunks of squid or dark Rapalas.   Some of these were simply free swimming fish near the rocks or shore that took a bit of dead bonito or a big fat slap of squid thrown at them.   We had one fish estimated at 60-70 pounds on the line for 15 minutes when a killer whale jumped in a grabbed it!

For other species, the tuna bite has slowed radically, but the ones caught were the larger 20-30 pound fatties that put the bend in some surprised rods.  Again, the chunked squid was the ticket.  However, we only caught 1-4 of these fish a day among several pangas.

There’s still some giant rooster fish around up to about 60 pounds.  There’s a smattering of 10 pound dorado and we’re also getting more and more big rainbow runners that are cousins to yellowtail and indicative that cooler waters are moving in as the season changes and starts to come to an end.

HOLD EVERYTHING! –  It was too late to get it into this report but SUNDAY our Las Arenas pangas got slammed with nice wahoo and tuna…under a full moon!  You’ll have to wait until next week for all the photos and details.  Hope it holds up!

TAILHUNTER TRIBE – DONATION NATION

This is so great! San Diego in the house! Joe and Sam Bina brought their family and friends and all kinds of toiletries, school supplies and and toys that are probably all headed to the women’s shelter here in La Paz!

From Moscow Idaho, our amigos Jim and Jeff with a big load of school supplies

Chris Kerley and his family filled up a bunch of really great toys and school supplies and educational materials that are probably going to Vista Hermosa Barrio.

Many thanks to all of our Tailhunter Tribe who brought stuff down this week…AND EVERY WEEK!  You make such a difference to so many lives here in La Paz and also to those of you who donated to our scholarship funds as well.  I think just from the little bits, three more kids will be able to stay in school for another year with clothes, books, transporation and food!  God bless you all!

That’s our story!

Jonathan

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

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