MEXICAN MINUTE VIDEO FISHING REPORT for WEEK of JULY 31-Aug. 6, 2017
WEEK at A GLANCE
Weather – Hot sunny and humid. Daytime highs 104. Nites 89. Some afternoon quick tropical showers
Water – Blue and 83 degrees on the surface
Fishing – (Las Arenas) – Slow and sticky like the heat. Good variety but tough fishing . (La Paz) . Best fishing of the year…maybe in several years for dorado!
THE BIG PICTURE REPORT
Whoa!!! That’s an armful of big dog-tooth snapper for our good amigo, Wil Dolinar from Wyoming!
First timer friends from Utah with Taihunters, Curtiss and Jeri Frost, got into the big dorado bite and started their week with a pair of nice bull dorado.
Steve Holguin sporting his famous Dodger hat every year back with his favorite Captain Jorge and a paid of nice yellowfin tuna from Las Arenas for his first of 3 days fishing.
Darrell Manginelli lives on the Ventura CA area and has already made two trips to fish with us this year! He’s posing here with one of the larger bull dorado caught this week with our Las Arenas fleet.
He didn’t get many fish this year, but he got some of the biggest! Our light-line specialist amigo from Rock Springs, Wyoming, Sherm McDonnell and his favorite Captain Armando looks pretty worn from tangling with this big barred pargo. But, we tease Sherm every year for fishing with 17 pound test…but to his credit he always well!
Big smile for Jonathan Alegria and one of a number of his dorado to start his fishing week with us. Jon lives up in Santa Barbara CA.
I love this photo of Captain Pancho all smiles with Stacy Dolinar from Wyoming and her first of several roosterfish for the week she caught and released. Note how close to shore these fish are caught!
Visiting us for the first time, Ryan Vorisek from Upland CA had quite a week topped off by this massive dog-tooth snapper he caught while fishing with our Tailhunter La Paz fleet and Captain Gerardo!
All the way from Jamaica, Nicholas Chen was able to get a rooster with us mid-week while fishing with his dad, James, who’s in the IGFA books!
Happy guy with another dorado, Matt Alegria from San Diego CA hangs another dorado with our La Paz fleet. He and his family donated all their catch to charity.
Wil Dolinar from Rock Springs, Wyoming finally got his big roosterfish on the last day and the last hour when he hooked and released this big guy fishing with Captain Pancho then suddenly the other rods went off and he got several dorado! Great way to wind up the week of fishing.
These two love to fish! Trevor Akiyoshi and Ryan Vorisek hold up a few of the dorado and big bonito they hung fishing with our Tailhunter La Paz fleet.
These two love to fish the light tackle and know what to do with it as they Sherman and Shelly McDonell show off a couple of their dorado after they limited on one of their days fishing with our La Paz fleet. Over the many years they have fished with us, they always manage some great catches!
Some new Tailhunter amigos from Colorado, Kent Williamson and son Brian found a few of the yellowfin tuna the day they fished with our Las Arenas Fleet and racked up some great dorado with our La Paz fleet over 3 days.
From San Diego area, Francis and Gina de Paolo had only time for one day of fishing and fortunately, we got them into some pretty nice dorado fishing with our Tailhunter La Paz fleet. Always good to make new fishing friends as this was their first time down.
Double pargo for Mike Akiyoshi and Ryan Vorisak on the beach at Muertos! Great eating fish!
Madi and her dad, Jim Denver, had only 1 day to fish and I just happened to have one of our pangas available at the last minute but hammered some great dorado. Especially good because it was Madi’s first time fishing in La Paz!
Such a fun lady! Sharon Alegria from Altadena CA could not have been more excited or thrilled with every fish she caught. It was her first time with us and we sure hope to have her and her smile back with us soon!
Captain Jorge and soon-to-be attorney Marco Holguin in his last year of law school in New York comes to visit us every year with his dad and poses for the camera with some of the larger Las Arenas dorado!
Always great to have first-timers with us! Captain Joel and Madi Denver show off a couple of their La Paz bull dorado after a full-day of great fishing.
Her 2nd roosterfish of the week! It’s Stacy Dolinar with Captain Pancho again right off the rocks south of Bahia de los Muertos! The fish was released too!
From Pasadena CA, Chris Alegria looks a bit serious after racking another dorado, but he and his brothers were great fun to have visit us this week and got into the wild dorado.
This “pirate” has been coming to visit us for years and can get a whole van load of guys laughing. It’s Vic Gildelmontes with his hands full of dorado!
DORADO…LIKE BACK IN THE DAY!
La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos / Suenos Fishing Report for Week of July 31-Aug. 6, 2017
We had some crazy fishing this last week. Actually, some of the best we’ve had in years if you were looking for dorado. I knew it had to happen eventually. All the signs were there. The water…the temps…the sargasso weeds…the bait…
AND BOOM! It went off this week. As one of our fishermen said…
“It was dorado fishing like back in the old days!”
But first…
TAILHUNTER LAS ARENAS/ MUERTOS BAY/ SUENOS BAY FLEET
Let’s go with the bad news. Or slower news.
Our Las Arenas Fleet had some really picky fishing. It just flip flops from week-to-week. This past week must have been Las Arenas’ turn to go slack. The clients and our captains really worked hard to get the bites. Everything looked good. The fish just weren’t biting that well. There were a few dorado here and there. A few rooster fish, but not many…but that could have been because everyone was chasing other species. We had a few marlin on and got a few more of those huge big cubera (dog-tooth) snapper. Add in some stray jack crevalle, bonito, pargo and a tuna here-and-there and that was it.
At best it was OK. At worst, it was dismal. And there was surely some variety, but it was hit or miss with a lot of misses!
That’s why it’s good we have two fleets and lots of our clients decided to switch over to fish with our La Paz fleet…
TAILHUNTER LA PAZ FLEET
I’ll let comments from our anglers tell the story…
“I’ve not seen dorado biting like this for years! It was wide open!”
“We started with one and before you know it there were dozens of dorado around us and we couldn’t get a rod out fast enough!”
“We had no less than 3 fish hooked at the same time!”
“For an hour, it was pandemonium and we were too tired after that and went back to have lunch!”
“Everywhere you looked there were dorado and all of them seemed to be hungry!”
“It was just like a fishing video! My wife kept screaming and we had to keep reminding her to turn the handle of the reel. She was laughing too much!”
“We released or lost more than half our fish the first day and still had enough to fill the cooler…and then I remembered we had two more days of fishing!”
Yes…it was that kind of a bite for many of our anglers and many days this week. There were a few bumps here-and-there, but for the most part it was the kind of wild dorado bite we’ve been waiting to happen. It really was like “back in the old days!” We probably have not seen this kind of bite in about 3 years and surely, it was our best week of the year in terms of quantity and quality.
These were all legit 10-20 pound fish too! The last few years, a 5-pound dorado was typical. This week, they were all healthy strong young mahi-mahi and tore up almost anything tossed in the water. We honestly did have boats back early on several occasions in time to eat lunch back at the hotels.
I don’t know if this will keep up. I hope so. We’ve been waiting a long time for this to come back!
MIL GRACIAS!
Our three amigos from Oregon who visit us each year Dennis McLeod, Roger Hall and Wes Perkins brought several ice chest full of kids clothes, shoes, school supplies and other donations that will go so far down here!
Many thanks for all our Tailhunter amigos who brought donations down this week for our Tailhunter Outreach Program. I’m sorry I didn’t get photos of everyone, but big shout out to Wally and Jeff Lee from San Francisco, The Williamson guys from Colorado, the Alegria family from So. Cal and also to the Dolinar Family and Sherm and Shelley McDonnell from Wyoming who each donated $300 to our FANLAP scholarship that takes care of one child each for an entire school year . Taihunter Tribe members are the best!
That’s our story!
Jonathan and Jilly
Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter International
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