MEXICAN MINUTE VIDEO FISHING REPORT FOR WEEK OF OCT. 10-17, 2017
WEEK AT A GLANCE
Weather – It was great until a little “rain in the forecast” suddenly turned into “Hurricane Norma” that had us all scrambling.
Water – It was good. I’m more interested in seeing what wind and rain will do to it this week.
Fishing – For the past 3 weeks, the best tuna fishing in several seasons. Dorado strong. Roosters still around. Until the storm.
Catching – Limits were the rule rather than the exception. Everyone going home with coolers
Forecast – Norma petered out and moved off, but still expecting some crazy wind this week that could make it tough on fishing and some rain showers and scattered thundershowers too. The La Paz port captain is very cautious. We’ve already been shut down for several days under the “threat” of a storm even though not a single drop has fallen. He might just open the port but then shut it down again and we can’t go out. Vamos a ver!
THE BIG PICTURE FISHING REPORT for WEEK of Sept. 10-17, 2017
A sample of some of the larger tuna that showed up! Ed Breuning put the brakes on this nice yellowfin.
A good morning of work! A fat load of tuna and dorado to start the fishing trip for our first-time amigos, Stephanie and Louie Torres celebrating retirement! These folks were a hoot all week!
Whoa! Big big roostefish for Chad Gasser from Utah while fishing with Captain Victor just of the sandy point at Las Arenas. Chad’s first after a bg week of tuna and dorado. The fish was released.
Fishing with our La Paz fleet and popular Captain Boli, Lorna Gasser added to the catch with another young bull dorado!
Big smiles from Captain Jorge with John Case and some of his load of tuna from Bahia de Los Muertos!
Bryant and Mindy Buttars already had a big load of tuna and dorado from the week so their last day, they went out with Captain Armando to see how many different species they could catch. It was a successful day with jack crevalle, snapper, dorado, triggerfish, cabrilla and pargo…all on light spinning tackle too!
A good bit of mahi-mahi fillets to cut up for our good friend, John Terbu and Captain Armando fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet.
Dick Gasser is a funny guy! He had us cracking up all week but did himself good with nice tuna like this one to take back to Utah!
His first roosterfish, Tim Schlander, picked up this hefty gallo just off the beach at Muertos Bay. He was able to release the fish too!
The man behind the mask is Rafael Rios sharing the day with his wife Ivette and Captain Jorge posing with just a few of their yellowfin. In 4 days, he took alot of fish back to Texas.
First day start for Fred and Lisa Cruz as they pose with some of their tuna just before the storm warnings descended on us! Hopefully, we can get them out a few more times this week!
Captain Victor got Jonene Gasser onto a pretty pez gallo in the blue water just outside the sandy shore-break by the Las Arenas lighthouse. The fish was released.
Hi Trudy! Captain Moncho put her on one of the better bull dorado!
You can see how close to shore the tuna are and the boats bunched up together on the spot catching yellowfin like this double from Jesse Miller and Bob Benjamin.
We had alot of Texas amigos visit us the last week! Mica Lara from Corpus Christi puts another tuna in the boat . That’s a heck of a gaff in her hand too!
Another load of tuna headed to the fillet board for Captain Moncho with Cam Davidson and Ed Breuning visiting us for the first time.
Canadian amiga, Natalia Beauchamin, only had one day to fish with us, but got a nice batch of dorado like this one.
Another of our good Utah amigos…Brian Buchanan on the beach behind La Concha Hotel with one of his nice dorado.
It happens. And it happened again, but fortunately, not as bad as Lidia 3 weeks ago.
STORM NORMA JACKS THE FISHING
La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Sept. 10-17, 2017
What’s up with the weather this year? Like I saw one person say, “It’s like Mother Nature said, ‘Hold my beer I’m gonna go cause some problems!'”
Sheesh…hurricanes…fires…earthquakes…
Well, we got our 2nd one in 3 weeks…Or did we? Storm Norma…the storm that tried to be a storm.
Major buzz kill. Sitting here at my desk looking out at sunny skies and flat seas and knowing we could be out fishing today, but anticipating the appearance of Tropical Storm Norma, the port captain has shut down all fishing and diving operations. No one allowed out. It is supposed to arrive with strong winds Sunday night and possibly the beginning of rain. Or will it?
The advisories are all over the place on this one. It started as some “rain in the forecast.” It became a tropical storm. Then a hurricane. Then back to a tropical storm. Then it disappeared. Then back up to storm proportions again. Then, it petered out and as of right now, we’ll get some strong winds and some scattered rain over the next few days.
Lidia two weeks ago was only a tropical storm as well, but it caused more devastation and casualties than Hurricane Odile in 2014 which was the largest in Mexico history and hit us with rain and 180 mph winds. So, the port is closed. It’s been closed for 3 days even though it looks really calm. There are some really strong winds outside the bay and at Las Arenas.
But, the airlines didn’t fool around this time. They started offering re-funds and suggesting they would not be flying. So, alot of folks canceled their vacations. We had alot of folks here on the ground that couldn’t go fishing and others we hustled off to the airport cutting their vacations short. Madness. Jilly and I had phones and e-mails going pretty much 24/7 adjusting all the changes, cancelations and postponments of rooms, boats, flights, shuttles, diving and snorkeling!
There’s just no way to know about something like this. You hope for the best but you have to prepare for the worst for everyone’s safety and err on the side of caution . We hated to lose so many of you to cancelations, but we think you made the right call.
It’s too bad because the fishing has been super.
TAILHUNTER LAS ARENAS/ MUERTOS BAY / SUENOS BAY FLEET
The “Tuna Stomp” of 2017 continued in full swing off Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay and Las Arenas lighthouse. Fish from 10-30 pounds were solidly biting most days and some of our boats were nailing limits by early morning and coming back or going to chase other species.
When the tuna took time off, the dorado filled in the gaps plus there’s plenty of bonito keeping the rods bent in between dorado and tuna hook ups. There were some off-moments here and there, but overall just a really consistent bite. No wahoo to speak of or billfish, but roosters between 20 and 60 pounds provided some nice diversion from the bluewater species.
TAILHUNTER LA PAZ FLEET
For our La Paz fleet…dorado…dorado…dorado. Oh and some big blue marlin too! The dorado schools were still out in force most days and it was just a matter of finding them. Once you locked in, it could be madness for 30 minutes or an hour until you fished ’til you dropped and caught limits and released a dozen or more fish! And then, here some “Mr. Blue” and the big marlin runs through the school and picks up a bait on 30 pound test and it wouldn’t last long, but the adrenaline buzz was fun!
Hopefully, the fishing returns quickly and by the time you’re reading this, we’re back on the water and full bendo!
BIG GRACIAS!
Every week we send out several hundred pounds of your donations of kids and adult clothes, toys, school supplies, women’s hygiene items, shoes and so much more to the orphanage at Los Planes, the La Paz Women’s Shelter and the Vista Hermosa Care for Kids Center rotating through a different location each week. Again, big thanks for so many of our fishermen who find a little space to stuff some much needed treasures.
Because of the storm, I’m not able to put up photos this week. The internet and phone signals have been wonky for the last few days and I can’t get the photos off my smartphone! However, I will post them in the next report!
That’s our story!
Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter International
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