MEXICAN MINUTE VIDEO FISHING REPORT for WEEK of AUG. 20-27 2017
WEEK AT A GLANCE
FISHING – Very good! Both fleets scoring fish. Best of season. Tuna at Las Arenas. Dorado for La Paz
CATCHING – Pretty good! Guys still losing alot of fish, but there were alot of fish to catch so you lose one…catch the next one!
RELEASING – All roosterfish and lots of smaller dorado released! Yay!
WEATHER – Been a great week. Daytime mid to high 90’s. Night in the low 80’s. Humidity manageable.
WATER – Blue and warm. Just like the photos!
THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO Hmmmm : Might get some thundershowers and rain later this week. Buzz kill.
THE BIG PICTURE FISHING REPORT FOR THE WEEK
Captain Victor from the Tailhunter Fleet with Pierre Soyez from France and Arnaud Pasquet from Montreal Canada. Arnaud is the producer of the reality TV fishing show, “Chasing Monsters.” Shown here with some of their tuna and dorado caught off Las Arenas. Over 8 days of fishing the pair caught almost 20 different varieties of fish including dorado, tuna, rooster fish, cabrilla, cargo and others all on light tackle. Fun fun guys!
Daryl Boyd is a little camera shy? Buddy Larry Morse not so much! A good start to their trip with handfuls of dorado and tuna!
In 3 days, Jeff and Marianne Sakuda fishing with Captain Jorge of the Tailhunter Fleet caught numerous dorado out’ve Muertos Bay as well as tuna up to 35 pounds. They fish 2-3 times a year with Tailhunter for over 15 years. This is their 2nd trip this year. They live in Cypress CA
Two of our favorite guys that everyone knows here in La Paz, Jorge Romero took a day off from driving our shuttle vans to get out on the water and get in on the bite with Captain Moncho and coming back with a rack full of yellowfin tuna and dorado!
Captain Pancho with Mark Aizawa from the Bay Area with a couple of nice yellowfin and dorado headed to the ice chest.
Derek Scannell and dad, Mike, both Orange Co. firefighters had 9 yellowfin and 3 dorado to kick off their fishing trip!
Nicholas Madrigal from S. California on his first fishing trip ever was with Captain Armando of the Tailhunter Fleet and got tuna between 10 and 40 pounds plus a load of dorado all on light tackle and with a broken finger too.
Glen and son Jordan Boyd posing with one of the larger tuna of the week, but they also got a cooler fool of other tuna as well.
Captain Gerardo poses with Eddie and Johnny Sakuda with some double-fists of dorado plus a rainbow runner.
One of a couple of wahoo we got this week and showing it off on the beach at Muertos our guy, Jorge Romero!
Light tackle jig maestro, Arnaud Pasquet, producer of the TV show “Chasing Monsters” spent 9 days fishing with us and got numerous species.
This is just pure fun! Bonito on the flyrod for Mark Aizawa.
I inadertently forgot to post this great photo of a color Chris Sette and his son, Brian with just not enough hands for their dorado and tuna!
Jorge Romero and brother Esteban Romero told me they drank 3 cases of beer while fishing and lost “mucho atun” but still managed to have a great time and caught 9 football yellowfin.
Lots of you know Benny Munoz! He works at Tailhunter International and helps me process fish every afternoon. This is almost 400 pounds of tuna and dorado fillets we spent 4 hours vacuum sealing and labeling FROM JUST ONE DAY FISHING and now headed into the freezers! That doesn’t include all the fish that were lost…released…and got set aside for dinner that night at our Tailhunter Restaurant for us to cook up!
FISH GO ON THE CHEW!
La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Aug. 20-27, 2017
If I wanted, this could be the shortest report from La Paz in a long time. One sentence: “We got fish!”
I almost don’t want to get too excited because this is the kind of fishing like it should be. Like the way it used to be before El Nino. Like the way it looks in all the videos and magazines. This is what folks come for and we’ve been waiting for for almost 3 season. But, clearly, this is the best fishing we’ve seen in a long time and we can only hope it stays.
We have one pair of light tackle anglers this week fishing 9 days and in that time have caught almost 20 different species of fish! It’s been that kind of week.
Nature being fickle, who knows? For now, we’re sure enjoying the hot bite! We’re keeping an eye on the weather because this coming week there’s predictions for some thunderstorms and strong winds! Fingers crossed.
TAILHUNTER FLEET at LAS ARENAS/ MUERTOS BAY
Tuna! Tuna! Tuna! It started almost two weeks ago and has only gotten steadier. The key is finally finding some sardines for live bait. Not a lot, but surely more than we’ve seen in ages an sure enough, the tuna came up from the trench.
It’s a nice mix of fish. As small as 5-8 pounds but as large as 40-50 pounds as well. Most of our pangas were getting limits to near limits of footballs in the 10-20 pound class. Perfect for live bait fishing and having fun, especially for a lot of families and first timers that don’t have a lot of experience but great for more experience anglers that want to fish light tackle or jigs. Plus, the fish are pretty close to shore in flat blue water which just adds to a great day!
On top of it, we’ve got a nice mix of 10-25 pound dorado; some rainbow runners; rooster fish up to 60 pounds plus lots of bonito for action and throw in a few cabrilla, pargo, triggerfish and the occasional wahoo and it makes for a fun time on the water and a lot of variety.
Tailhunter La Paz Fleet
Our La Paz fleet has been rocking now for about 3 weeks. Dorado are scattered in groups across the bay and from Espirito Santo Island to Cerralvo Island. Limits or near limits of 10-30 pound fish have been common with some boats hitting the “honey hole” and catching and releasing enough fish to be back to the hotels by noon. Just good fun fishing!
As well, there’s been big blue marlin cruising in and out’ve the dorado schools also feeding on the smaller dorado which are raising a lot of interest but lots of other sealife as well to see including whales, dolphin, sea turtles and manta rays.
TAILHUNTER OUTREACH
Good guys…big hearts!…Mike Scannell, Larry Morse, Jordan Boyd, Daryl Boyd, Glen Boyd and Derek Boyd brought down several ice chest full of school supplies, clothes, backpacks, toys and clothes for our Tailhunter community outreach program.
Thanks for all our Tailhunter Tribe who brought down stuff the last two week for our Outreach Program. Several hundred pounds arrived and will be distributed. Last week’s donations went to the Care for Kids Program in one of the outlying disadvantaged areas as well as the Women’s Shelter.
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