Jeff Brown from Minnesota on the 2nd of two weeks fishing with us and Captain Joel scored his share of nice yellowtail like this one off Espirito Santo Island, but still left enough in the water for future trips (He comes every year!) as a number of fish took ’em into the rocks! Yellowtail are tough fighters!

Now that’s a nice day of trophy cabrilla! Fishing with Captain Hugo they’re posed just inside of Bahia de los Muertos, it’s our good friends Roger and Donna Thompson with their amigo. Some great eating!

Tanner Whitmarsh from San Diego had himself a good few days of fishing (see other photos below) while staying at Rancho Costa in Muertos Bay including a number of nice roosterfish like this beauty. Catch and release!

Our amigo, Gary Wagner, owner of Rancho Costa always gets fish and poses with a huge jack crevalle just off Punta Perrico rocks where nice schools of these jacks hang out. The fish was released.

Iron man, Roger Thompson from Long Beach and La Ventana was fishing the iron dropping a Salas 6X blue and white at the north east side of Cerralvo Island when he got chomped by this big boy cabrilla! Captain Hugo to the head to make the soup!

Kayak fishing can be pretty productive over the reefs just off the beach in Bahia de Los Muertos. Check out Tanner Whitmore with his two giant barred pargo! Thanks for the photos, Gary Wagner.

Two fishing brothers, Rod and Jeff Brown. Rods from Alaska and Jeff’s from Minnesota and always come to fish with us every year for a few weeks. They pose with a couple of nice yellowtail with Espirito Santo Island in the backgrounds. They also got cabrilla and snapper, but Rod tells me that over the two weeks alot of fish rocked them and busted off. All these fish hang out in rocky structure.

Donna Thompson with another big cabrilla makes the report again!

San Diego in the house! Trever and Tanner Whitmarsh with more of those nice barred pargo from just off the beach at Rancho Costa in Muertos Bay.

NICE MIX OF QUALITY FISH

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of April 2-9, 2017

Happy Easter everyone! 

In all honesty, not a bad week.  Not a great week, but not a bad week either.  Unless you counted lots of bonito for great action or a fun day to just get bent or take out the kids (lots of folks on Easter break), there were not alot of fish.  However, the quality of the fish we caught were pretty impressive. So it was a week of quality over quantity with some nice trophy fish taken.  For a good number of our clients, they got personal bests…largest fish ever!  

Also, week-by-week, the winds are diminishing from the crazy erratic winter we endured…as did much of the western continent.  So, although we had a bumpy windy day or two, for the most part, they were the exception, not the rule and looking at the coming week, that pattern looks like it’s gonna continue.  We’ll be having more calm days than windy let’s-just-stay-on-the-beach days!

If you’re coming down, keep in mind that Holy Week is really a busy week in Baja.  Not only are folks jammed down for spring break, but it’s also a really big holiday week for Mexico as well.  Many families travel back to visit friends and relatives in Mexico plus many locals take the week off and expect the beaches to be jammed with campers, picnickers, boaters and more.  This is probably NOT the week if you’re looking for piece and quiet at many beaches that are normally deserted so be prepared and join in the fun.

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Not much in the way of pelagic species.  We chased the tuna and wahoo and hoped for dorado, but nothing stuck.  However, the inshore action kept things interesting with some sweet rooster fish between 20 and 40 pounds plus some big-boy snapper and pargo…especially the cargo mulatto (barred pargo).  Just for fun and action, there were alot of bonito which folks had fun with “til’ my arms hurt!”  So that made for some good rod bending. 

Also, there’s some huge cabrilla (Mexican sea bass) and jack crevalle over the shallow reef areas near Punta Perrico and then at Cerralvo Island.  Our guys slow trolling Rapalas or dropping iron and jigging really did some great fish. 

Still no sardines to speak of but there’s ballyhoo, mackerel and caballitos. 

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This is where our larger fish were this past week.  Some hefty slugger yellowtail up to 40 pounds ended up in the boxes, but probably twice as many fish took guys into the rocks or ripped up the tackle.  Also some nice amberjack as well in the same areas up to about 20 pounds were in the counts.  One guy on his first trip told me, “these ocean fish don’t nibble!”  Right.  This isn’t trout fishing.  These fish slam and head right back down to the structure and if you don’t lean into them and pull hard, you’re already toast!

There were also some nice yellow snapper, pargo and cabrilla caught as well as some smaller dorado. 

That’s our story!  God bless for a safe, happy and peaceful Easter and Easter week!

Jonathan Roldan’s

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