THE MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ FISHING REPORT VIDEO for May 7-14, 2017
WEEK AT A GLANCE (1-10 with 10 being best)
Weather– 4 (Sunny, but so windy the early in the week we had to cancel trips)
Fishing – 4 (when the winds weren’t blowing there was action…when it was blowing not so much)
Fishing Quality – 4 (When we could fish there were some bigger grade yellowtail and other species available, but big fish are hard to put in the boat and some really big fish were lost too!)
THE BIG PICTURE
Wow! You don’t see many of these around unless maybe you’re diving! Jessica McPartin of San Diego caught quite the grouper just inside of Bahia de Los Muertos near La Paz in the shallow waters by the reef point fishing with Captain Hugo.
Kevin Shiotani of Thousand Oaks CA has a reputation everytime he comes to La Paz to fish several times a year. He put this huge horse yellowtail in the boat fishing out’ve Bahia de Los Muertos.
One of the best eating fish in our waters! Megan Richman poses with a beautiful cabrilla taken off the rocks just south of Bahia de los Muertos. She was staying at Rancho Costa there.
Winds were down! Lee Hance with a hand from Captain Victor got himself bookends of nice yellowtail today. Lee is from Colorado.
Daniel Shay from San Diego doing it the fun way. Standup on light tackle throwing a popper with his spinning rod rocks an awesome butt-kick jack crevalle! Well done!
I’m told this is Jessica McPatin again with another cabrilla. Kinda hard to tell! But yes, it’s a cabrilla!!!
More nice yellowtail for Megan and friends! Thanks for Rancho Costa and Gary Wagner for the photo again! Bahia de Los Muertos in the background.
MIXED WEATHER – MIXED FISHING
La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of May 7-14, 2017
A bit of an up-and-down week for weather and fishing with the two directly related to each other this past week. Winds were back up, especially during the early part of the week. They weren’t just up. They were strong enough that fleets either canceled boats or boats had to come back to shore. Fortunately, we didn’t have too many folks early in the week or they had enough vacation time so that they could make up the lost days later in the week when the winds diminished…somewhat.
Weather otherwise was pretty nice…except for the winds. Sunny and warm with highs in the high 80’s. Nightime lows in the mid-to-high-70’s.
On the days we got out, the bite was mixed. Again, we’re in that transition time between cooler and warmer conditions so the water conditions and the fish species are all over the map. Most of the catch this week reflected cooler water species since the winds generally kept the fishing closer to shore.
Some nice yellowtail popped taken on live bait or jigs. Schools of bonito and jack crevalle always made for great action. Along the reefs, we got into snapper, cabrilla and pargo and hooked (but lost) some larger amberjack. We saw a few marlin that weren’t quite ready to feed yet. Commercial fishermen saw some fast-moving schools of tuna and we did hook a few smaller bonito.
Forecast for the coming week show some slowing down of the winds, but there’s still some forecast for double-digit breezes and gusts.
That’s our story! Hope everyone had a great Mother’s Day and thank to all you mom’s out there!
Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter International
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