MEXICAN MINUTE VIDEO FISHING REPORT Aug. 13-20, 2017
WEEK AT A GLANCE
Weather – hot and humid. Days are mid to upper 90’s. Night’s mid-80’s. Very humid. Occasional tropical showers.
Water – mostly blue and mid-80’s on the surface
Bait – A mix of sardines, mackerel, ballyhoo. Requires different sized hooks if you’re bringing your own gear
Fishing – Good to excellent for dorado with our La Paz fleet. Picky to Variable for Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay (see report!)
Catching – Bigger the fish the harder to bring in (obviously!). Bigger tuna and dorado are rugged fish!
Joker in the Deck – Have no idea what this big solar eclipse Monday Aug. 21 will do! Screw with the currents? The tides? The Bait? The bite?
THE BIG PICTURE FISHING REPORT
Our good amigo, Jeff Sakuda from Cypress CA who fishes several times a year with us and his favorite, Captain Jorge, took this slug yellowfin tuna on 30 pound test to start out his fishing week at Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay.
Not bad…his first tuna…and his first fish!!! Nicholas Madrigal and Captain Armando and a tough 40-pound yellowfin tuna that put a serious bend in the rod!
Cold Chavira from San Diego CA has been fishing our La Paz waters since he was smaller than the dorado he’s holding and just one of those guys who has always had the knack of putting great fish aboard like this bull dorado caught north of La Paz.
If you’ve ever fought a tuna…and fought one on light tackle…it’s not easy hefting it up for a photo after the battle! Caryn Aizawa got this one up for the pose! I see sashime for dinner!
Another young guy from San Diego, Payton Gaston, did a number on this dorado to add to the box!
Yes, it’s Caryn again. This time with a nice dorado and Captain Pancho while fishing out’ve Muertos/ Las Arenas.
It’s been a while since anyone has hit anything on the flyrod, but Mark Aizawa managed a feisty bonito on the long stick!
That’s alot of fish to hold up so best to just let it sit on the cutting table for Johnny Sakuda posed here with his tuna and Captain Jorge and Caryn Aizawa. Check out the catch…another yellowfin plus a rainbow runner and some nice triggers. That’s alot of good eating there!
DORADO STILL HEADLINE BUT TUNA SHOW AT ARENAS/ MUERTOS
La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Aug. 13-20, 2017
This past week’s action can be summed up fairly easily in two words. Hot and dorado. The weather is as hot and muggy as you could want it with humidity sometimes running 60-80%…and that’s a 5 a.m in the morning! Thankfully, afternoon breezes blow it away later in the day.
As for the fishing, dorado seem to have taken center stage for all intents and purposes. It’s been pretty steady more-or-less for the last 3 weeks. There’s been an occasional bump or two where the schools either can’t be located or when found, just don’t wanna chew, but then the switch gets thrown and we’re all good again for a few days.
It will be interesting to see what the eclipse will do to the bite. I have no idea. It’s not like this happens every day! I believe the last time this happened was in 1918 and it won’t happen again for another 90 years or so. Will the fish be affected? Who knows? Will the tides and currents be different? I wish I knew!
I’ve had some reports that some of the port captains around Baja plan to close the ports for some reason that just isn’t apparent right now. Will keep you posted. We did have some folks who told us that they purposely booked other dates because they were worried about the eclipse and others who moved their dates. It’s just something no one has ever had to deal with!
I will say one thing…town is surely alot quieter this week. The local kids have all gone back to school. Tourists are also trickling out, especially the families as schools in other places are also going back to term and we head into the “low season” for tourism..but historically, the hottest part of the fishing season!
TAILHUNTER LA PAZ FISHING FLEET
The best action has been with our La Paz fleet. Limits or near limits of dorado have been the rule rather than the exception. The only issue pertains to size! If you hit a school of dinks…sure, you can catch and release a few dozen little grunts, but who wants to catch 12 inch babies? It gets old pretty fast. Hopefully, you hit the grown up batches of fish where you’ll get 10-25 pounders and then it’s bendo time.
Occasionally, it’s a day of one here…two there…one here…another one in a bit. And by the end of the day you realize you’ve got a nice batch of fish. Other times, you could be totally skunk all day then at the end hit that one spot and it’s madness for an hour of double and triple hookups…then it’s all gone. And you’re exhausted and your gear is all busted up and you know it’s been a great day and head back in.
Hard to say where the better schools are. They are in such a wide arc north of La Paz all the way from San Juan de la Costa to the west and El Rosario near Cerralvo Island to the eat and north to the Charro Bank. Bottom line is that there’s some pretty good dorado fishing to be had.
TAILHUNTER LAS ARENAS/ MUERTOS BAY/ SUENOS BAY
As for Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay…hit or miss. There’s quite a variety of fish again. There’s some dorado…some billfish…an or rooster fish. In the rocks some cabrilla, pargo, jack crevalle and snapper. Bonito can pop up anywhere. Every day just seems different.
But, late in the week…a surprise…TUNA!
Some nice little scattering of 10-40 pound fish poked up north along the west side of Cerralvo Island where also (surprise) some sardines showed up. Something definitely worth keeping an eye on.
Every panga seems to do something different. Had some crazy reports of some cooler water fish like sierra, yellowtail and amberjack popping up too. What a weird season!
TAILHUNTER and CARE FOR KIDS LA PAZ
Every week our Tailhunter amigos and tribe bring us donations and I don’t always have the opportunity to post up photos or get all the names posted up, but our gratitude is no less for all your thoughtfulness. We just sent over several hundred pounds to CARE FOR KIDS in La Paz that helps out with some really impovershed areas. Check out the photos of the stuff YOU brought down the last two weeks that’s about to get distributed. Thanks more than you know!
Our friends from Wyoming, Brandon and Tanya McGarr with a bunch of school supplies they hauled down.
A little goes so far when you don’t have much!
Lots of much needed treasures!
Getting the tables ready to distribute to the neighborhood kids!
That’s our story!
Jonathan and Jilly
Jonathan Roldan’s Tailhunter International
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