WEEKLY VIDEO FISHING REPORT
WEEK AT A GLANCE
Weather – Cooler than normal, but lots of sun. Low 90’s and sunny in the day / High 70’s low 80’s night with breeze.
Wind – Was great all week until wind blow late in the week and screwed up the Las Arenas bite.
Water – Temps in high 80’s and blue
Fishing Quality – During full moon early in the week the bite was great for nice tuna, wahoo, roosterfish and dorado. Then at the end of the week it stank at Las Arenas. La Paz – mostly only small to medium dorado.
Fishing Quantity – Fewer but bigger slugger fish at Las Arenas with 1-6 fish per panga. La Paz, limits of small dorado most days.
Coming Week? – Waters cooling. Winter-type winds increasing. Catching more sierra and rainbow runners. Hope the tuna haven’t left us!
Quote of the Week – “To fish is human. To throw back is divine.”
THE BIG PICTURE
John Luker from Arroyo Grande CA has been our amigo for more years than I can count. Always a pleasure to have him here just like having a handful of nice fat yellowfin tuna!
I love this photo! Even Captain Arcangel looks like he’s in pain holding up these tough fish. Michelle was really really tired and said she had a sore back and arms from fighting fish! She and husband, Rudy, went home with 3 good days of fish in the ice chests.
Fresh on for the box! Great shot of Greg Hayes with a hot wahoo struggling not to get it’s photo taken!
Texas in the house! Kelli Hohn from Pipe Creek TX was fishing with Captain Hugo and has a colorful yellowfin tuna on the gaff!
This photo is frameable! Amigo from N. California, Tim Butterworth has been visiting us for over a decade and he got his biggest wahoo and a fine fine photo to prove it!
Like I said in the report, the tuna got a little chunkier this week. Julio Cornejo was fishing with Captain Gerardo and shows off one of his yellowfin!
From Lakewood CA, Tim Stansell got himself a really pretty ‘hoo fishing out’ve Bahia de los Muertos with Capitan Hugo on Roger Thompson’s boat. Check out those colors!
The Pfaff Brothers from Clovis CA started their trip off nicely with some yellowfin tuna out’ve Bahia de los Muertos! Best mustaches of the week, guys! Great to have you here!
You will be hard pressed to find funner folks who were real troopers this week! Shayna and Jason Andersen from Utah hung in there tough all week and fished harder than anyone and always smiling even when the fishing was slow.
What better way to spend your 11th birthday? Tristan Cornejo from Whittier CA with a nice dorado and big smile north of La Paz near Espirito Santo Island.
Captain Armando had himself a very productive week like these two nice yellowfin while fishing with John and Maryann Mussel.
This might be the biggest dorado of the year! Dana Hohn does her best to cradle the big bull for a great photo. She’s from Texas.
First timers with us, Russ and Lisa Alex went home with alot of fish including a bunch of tuna fillets that they caught with Captain Pancho. They fished most of the week.
Big smiles for John Mussel and Captain Armando and one of the larger tuna of the week.
Captain Gerardo helps with the photo shoot with Steve Long and Dana Milano with a couple of nice tuna and a wahoo from their first day of fishing.
Like I said, Armando had a good week! Wahoo here for Craig Brown and Bob Layko our good amigos from the Pacific Northwest. Bob always comes down to celebrate his birthday with us.
Here she is! Always in the fish. Donna Thompson holding a pretty wahoo on her boat with Captain Hugo. The wahoo were elusive this week insofar as I heard alot of stories of fish biting off the lures! This one wasn’t so lucky.
Holy cow! That’s a big roosterfish! Captain Victor and Greg Hayes share a laugh as they try to heft up the big gallo before releasing it!
Kyle MacDonald and his buddy Chad Kerley from Glendale CA hold up a couple of their yellowfin tuna caught with Captain Armando out’ve Bahia de los Muertos. One of the fish is especially girthy!
Kelli Hohn again this time with her wahoo on the Thompson’s boat with Captain Hugo. Big smiles!
Another great shot! We love families and the Andie family from Paso Robles CA…Brooks, Kristi and sons Tye and Cooper (kissing the fish) had some fun days fishing with us!
Joe and Francisco Schimeck from Grass Valley CA got into the tuna too. Joe came back a 2nd day and got wahoo and more tuna!
Hard to see it here, but Lisa Alex could barely contain herself when she hooked and landed this trophy rooster! It was a great catch! The big fish was released.
“You really want me to fight the fish AND lift them both up for a photo?” Cooper Andie from Paso Robles looks a bit worn out!
A pretty good day and alot of heavy fillets for the cooler for the Cornejo boys with three good-sized yellowfin and a wahoo to top it off!
Greg Hayes has one of the larger bull dorado of the week. Normally ALL the dorado this time of year should be AT LEAST this size!
No one worked harder for their fish this week than Jason Andersen. He finally got his yellowfin in the boat! He always hung in there!
One of the kind of dorado we were hooking directly north of La Paz. John Mussel does the honors on this bull.
Almost bigger than him! Ty Andie does his best holding up his fish with Mike Davis for the camera. One more fish lying on the ground too!
Shayna Andersen put a number of these dorado to the wood while fishing north of La Paz around Espirito Santo Island. Check out the water!
FULL MOON BRINGS IN THE BITE
La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Oct. 16-23, 2016
You would have thought the week would be exactly the opposite…at least the way alot of anglers feel. With the big full moon this past week, folks tend to shy away thinking that the bite diminishes during the big moon.
I’ve never been a big subscriber to that, at least as far as fishing down here in La Paz. There’s alot of other variables that can affect it like wind, current, etc. But standing alone, the full moon is just one factor. And crazy as many folks might think, we had one of the best bites of the year while that big moon was shining down. Perfect weather and water too.
Tailhunter La Paz Fleet
True to form as it has been for months, if you just wanted to “catch fish” and just wanted “action” there were plenty of dorado to play with if you fished with our La Paz fleet. For some days and some boats it was all you wanted and boats were back by noon and clients back on the beach having lunch before mid-day! It varied a bit from day-to-day, the overall, the dorado were hungry and willing to chew. A few days, the bite was delayed and didn’t happen until late.
So, we just told folks to be patient and sure enough, the schools would charge up at the end of the day with double and triple hook-ups and fill the box. Or catch-and-release as fast as they could go.
But no one didn’t catch fish…and all dorado. We did see and hook a few marlin, but nothing stuck.
Tailhunter Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fleet
This is where the magic happened this week. Fishing had been kinda stinky and sticky. A real pick bite.
Then, as the moon got fuller…so did the bite!
Bigger tuna…20’s…25’s…30’s Wahoo came on stronger with 30-50 pound fish. Roosterfish were mostly 40-80 pounds. We even got a few dorado too. The tuna, especially bit hard and put the hurt on some arms, backs and tackle. There were several fish fought for 30, 40 minutes or longer that never got to the boats because they were lost. The wahoo were biting through leaders and a few billfish came up on light tackle for a few minutes of thrill before busting off. All-in-all, some pretty decent fishing. Not off the charts, but good, steady and strong for most folks…most days.
Then, the moon started to slide on us.
And so did the fishing. And another variable…strong winds later in the week that virtually shut down the bite. There was one day when all of our boats at Las Arenas COMBINED…got ONE needlefish. Nothing bit. We used lures, live bait, chunked bait, dead bait…and only ONE needlefish! I can never even remember a day like that…EVER!
Anyway, hopefully by the time you’re reading this things have turned around!
TAILHUNTER DONATION NATION
Al Jones and Jeanne Sheasby always bring stuff and no different this year. School supplies for the kids.
We’re just about coming up to the end of the season after more than 20 years down here and I can see the home stretch. Just maybe one last shout-out to all of you Tailhunter Amigos and Tribe Members with the big generous hearts who came down and brought down donations for our charities here. Whether it was clothes, shoes, toys, school supplies, toiletries or other things for the orphanage, the Vista Hermosa Pueblo, Care for Kids or the La Paz Women’s Shelter, it was all gratefully accepted with more smiles than you can imagine.
For those of you who left cash for our FANLAP scholarship funds, I believe we kept 7 kids in school this year and enough money came in just the last 2 weeks to keep 3 more kids in school for a year. This is all done because of YOU and we cobble together those 20’s and 10’s and other denominations and just-like-that, aother kid is kept in school! GRACIAS!
Greg and April Hayes took home alot of fish this week, but they also left even more…great school supplies and clothes!
Pretty amazing that $300 keeps a kid in school who otherwise would have zero chance. That $300 buys a pair of Jordan Nike basketball shoes in the U.S. Here, it provides a uniform, books, school supplies, meals and transportation for a whole year for one kid. And that kid, in turn, must keep up their grades AND help mentor a younger child. So, kudos to all of you for making the world just a bit better and brighter!
I don’t have the exact weight, but this past fishing season YOU brought enough stuff to fill about 4 rooms from floor to ceiling with stuff for folks who don’t have it as well as you and I. I believe the tally was something like 4 TONS of very cool needed stuff. We are beyond grateful!
That’s our story!
Jonathan and Jilly
Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter International
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