Brandon and Tanya McGarr (next photo) were down to see us for their first trip and also celebrating their birthdays. They’re from Rock Springs, Wyoming. At the same time, they got this double-hook-up of big roosterfish and had to fight each fish simultaneously. Nice late-season roosters and both were released. They also got a wahoo to take home.

As mentioned above, Tanya McGarr tied up to this big rooster at the same time her husband, Brandon, also bit bit. It’s hard to hold up a fish for a photo when your arms are tired! She released the fish!

Wahoo, like the ones caught by Paul “LP” Hieb with Captain Pancho, are still around, but not sure for how much longer as conditions are changing.

FISHING MIXED AS WINDS INCREASE

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Nov. 13-20, 2016

Things are really sliding into different conditions with each passing week.  More wind.  Still wonderfully, sunny but cooler.   More snowbirds showing up, not so much interested in fishing as just finding warmer conditions than where they were coming from.  Fewer families right now as we  approach the holidays and families have other things on their plates. 

As far as fishing, there’s far fewer anglers than we had even a week or two ago.  This is that “gap” between the holidays and the start of our off-season when we don’t see so many anglers again until late March or April. 

There’s still fish out there, but it’s hard to get a great read on things when there are so few boats on the water.  That one boat fishing just one day, might find the fish and have a banner time.  Or, they could miss the fish but if they had been 500 yards away in a different spot, they might have hit a honey-hole.  One or two pangas can’t cover the whole ocean.  

So, one thing is for sure.  There’s not a lot of boat traffic out there!  Further, it’s a crapshoot for fishing.  We do the best we can and we go have fun.  

The other thing that’s guaranteed is that the winds are going to get stronger from the north.  We have already shut down our Tailhunter La Paz fleet for the season.  It’s just too unpredictable to be outside the bay when it can be blowing outside even when the bay looks calm.  But even in the bay, sometimes, there’s whitecaps these days. 

So, all of our fishing has been pretty much with our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet from Muertos Bay where at least the waters are a little more protected and the fish are closer.  

But, even that being said, we had four days this past week where I recommended that the clients not go fishing and fish a different day because the winds were too strong.  That made all the difference.  But, those were cases where the clients were with us for a few days and had flexible schedules.  

It’s different if some fishermen only have 1 day to fish or are walk-in clients to our store and want to go fishing…”tomorrow.”  I can only advise them that it might be pretty windy if that’s what the forecast says or completely tell them it’s not even safe to go out because the winds will be gusting. 

All that being said, out folks that went out this week got some nice variety out’ve Bahia de los Muertos.

There’s still some wahoo biting not too far outside of Metros and around Punta Perrico.  The fish are nice-grade 30-pound class fish most times.  Some a little bigger.  Some a little smaller, but still…a wahoo!  We’re still losing more than we’re putting in the boat.  These wahoo have gotten cagey.  They’re tough and fast and they’ve got those sharp teeth and are even biting off the Rapalas!

We also found a few tuna out there in front of the old Hotel Las Arenas too.  Just about 100 yards or so off the beach, there’s some breezing yellowfin of 20-30 pounds that are wiling to eat the squid. 

Near that same area, we also surprisingly got into some late season hefty 30-50 pound rooster fish as well.  I can’t remember getting roosters this late in the season, but that could also be because I can’t remember anyone fishing for them this late, but still…GREAT CATCH and another exotic tough trophy fish!

Rounding out, there’s some pargo, cabrilla, jack crevalle, bonito, snapper and sierra working as well. 

That’s our story!

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