Weather – 7 (Mid to high 80’s and sunny but can be very gusty)
Fishing– 6 (Some BIG fish out there!)
Catching – 4 (There’s some BIG fish out there…and we’re losing them!)
Bait– 4 (Work to get mackeral at Las Arenas / Better for La Paz)
Flyfishing Condition – 2 (winds + no bait to chum)
My Optimism – 6 (Getting better as these winds diminish)
THE BIG PICTURE FISHING REPORT
What a great shot! John Frederick just had a nice rooster on the flyrod, but hooked this one on bait and posed it for a great photo! Poster quality shot! John’s first time with us! John released the fish.
Triple shot of wahoo with Captain Victor with Mike and Chris Wilbur from Kansas. WOW!
Happy guy, Taylor Westberg’s first rooster is a slug! Right off the lighthouse at Las Arenas! Taylor is from Copperopolis CA and visted us for the first time. Taylor released the fish.
Her first dorado! San Diego in the house with Toni Hayden. She said it was “delicious!” Caught north of La Paz by the island!
Finally checked off his bucket list, Mark Jacklin hefts up a nice roosterfish and a big smile. Mark came to visit us from Oregon. Mark released the fish to fight another day.
Taylor Westberg helps grandpa Rick with his biggest dorado. It’a a nice bull from the Las Cruces area.
Bob Lederer, from Massachusetts, has been fishing with us over 10 years and loves fishing with Captain Jorge who helped him hold up another big roosterfish. The guys let the fish go. Bravo!
Stacy Florence from Kansas with the right kind! Good wahoo for our amigo on the beach at Bahia de los Muertos.
Captain Gerardo helps out our best amigo Glen Oclassen who has been fishing this area for decades and put the bend on another nice roosterfish! They released the fish.
Colton Atkinson had himself a memorable week visiting us for the first time including this colorful dorado!
One of the best eating fish around is the pompano and Robbie Shields got a couple of these big jacks!
Our San Diego amigos, John Stone and Jeff Correria with a pair of bulls with our Tailhunter La Paz fleet.
Robbie Shields and Captain Gerardo hoist a thick heavy roosterfish. The rooster was released.
Colton Aktinson with his first roosterfish. Punta Perrico in the background. He released the fish.
Captain Adolfo with a fresh wahoo taken by Chris Jolly from Kansas on his first trip with us.
Some huge jack crevalle this week! Jeff Correria has a fat one. Tough fighters!
New Jersey, Matt Lederer, has a pretty rooster. Cerralvo Island in the background. Fish was released.
Happy Birthday, Riley Florence with his dad, Adam and Captain Pancho finally got a wahoo after 4 days on his last day!
Carson and Colton Atkinson with some fine eating dorado and triggerfish. They also released a roosterfish as well.
Dave Sundgren tries to hold up his big rooster for a proper photos so he can release it! These fish are HEAVY! Especially after you’ve been battling them!
On a roll! Captain Gerardo and Darrell Blasi with Darrell’s roosterfish just prior to releasing it! Notice how close the beach is!
That’s alot of meat! Chris Jolly and Dave Sundgren with a mess of triggerfish and a wahoo for the frosting!
Captain Gerardo was on fire this week! Two more wahoo!
Carson Atkinson with dad, Dave, and two doubles of dorado!
I just had to post this! Rick Westberg and Captain Pancho with a beast of a needlefish!
FISHING SO-SO BUT GREAT FOR WAHOO and BIG ROOSTERFISH
La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of May 28-June, 4, 2017
Well, those winds came back on us again this week and didn’t help things. Fishing wasn’t great, but it was surely GOOD for some fish! Notably, two exotic trophy fish really lit it up for us, namely big rooster fish again and wahoo saved our week with some hefty fish; big battles; lost fish and some great excitement. The thing with this kind of fishing is that, it’s home run fishing. You get a big fish and you get one or two if you’re lucky but if you miss your fish or it’s just not your day, then there’s not much else. Big or go home. Trophys or trash. Late in the week, dorado showed up for our La Paz Fleet and that helped out a lot!
TAILHUNTER LAS ARENAS FLEET
As mentioned, above some of the pesky winds came back on us again. Still fishable mostly, but winds hampered the ability to get bait. Just the way it is. The fishing counts directly reflected that.
Early in the week, the wahoo were hitting. These were nice 20-50 pound speedsters. Some days almost every one of our pangas had a shot and there were some really big fish too that were regretfully lost. Often, to no fault of the angler. These are just big powerful fish with sharp teeth and it’s heartbreaking to lose a big fish but that’s part of the sport and especially with these prized wahoo. I think we probably lost 60% of all the hookups and like I wrote earlier, that might be your only shot of the day. There wasn’t much else. However, the fish we did get were beauties.
Later in the week the wahoo bite tapered. The captains told me there were a lot of spear fishermen on the wahoo spots and that pretty much killed the bite.
Fortunately, the big roosters came back and we had a nice great of 25-60 pound fish. I think one day we had 9 big roosters boated among our Tailhunter Fleet. For lots of the anglers, it was their first rooster or biggest personal best fish so a good thrill.
Not much else except some bonito, cabrilla, a few pompano and snapper. Big fish or nothing. Still no sardines for small baits. Still not very good for fly fishing.
TAILHUNTER LA PAZ FLEET
It was erratic. When fishing was good for our Las Arenas fleet, it was slacking for our La Paz fleet and vice versa. And it all had to do with the winds. If the winds were blowing, it made it tough. Winter continues to linger!
Inshore, it was lots of big triggerfish and a number of bigger cargo and cabrilla lost in the rocks.
However later in the week, we had some decent numbers of 10-25 pound dorado come around. Some larger fish lost, but it was nice to see better numbers and a better grade of mahi-mahi finally appear.
PACK FOR A PURPOSE SHOUT OUT
This is Shawn Westberg’s gang of merry men making faces at the camera with Jill after bringing about 6 ice chests full of school supplies, sporting goods, clothes, hygiene items and more for our “Pack for a Purpose” program.
Mike Kelly and Barry Wood have been our friends for years. They also brought down a bunch of stuff for the kids…but I accidentally deleted the photo!!! Thanks guys! You’re the best!
Quick shout out to our amigos who brought stuff for our charities! The items this week went to the Women’s Shelter, the orphanage in Los Planes and will also go to some of the outlying neighborhoods of La Paz. Thanks for the big hearts, everyone!
That’s our story!
Jonathan and Jilly
Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter International
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