MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ FISHING REPORT for WEEK of Oct. 29-Nov. 5, 2017
Apologies for the sound quality this week. The wind was blowing pretty hard and I recorded it outside!
WEEK AT A GLANCE
Weather – Daytime high 80’s to low 90’s and mostly sunny or high clouds. Very very pleasant unless you’re on the water one of the days that the winds are blowing. Nighttime temps a nice 75 degrees
Water – It’s changing and getting cooler, but I’m still registering 82 on the surface and went scuba diving this week and at 30 feet down it was 74 degrees. Waters are less blue and a little more green and cloudy from the winds in some places.
Fishing – When the winds don’t blow, it’s still pretty darned good. Tuna, wahoo, dorado still the main catches.
Catching – Despite the full moon, everyone getting what they came for!
THE BIG PICTURE FISHING REPORT
He’s an ace! Roger Thompson and his wife, Donna (photo below) got 4 nice wahoo fishing with Captain Hugo off the south end of Cerralvo Island. Check out the nice size of this ‘hoo. The wahoo like the dark Rapalas.
Two hours of fishing with Captain “ten more minutes” Chito, resulted in limits of dorado and 7 nice tuna for Jill and Jonathan at the SE end of Cerralvo Island. We could have easily had many more. All the fish was donated.
Our Atlanta buddy, Leif Dover, squeezed in two quick days of fishing. Day one resulted in a box full of good quality dorado at the buoys off Bahia de los Muertos.
He came to get his big rooster this year and Travis Millspaugh from Roy, Washington, hooked and released this quality fish just off the arroyo outside Bahia Muertos.
Donna Thompson always gets quality fish! Nothing wrong with his quality wahoo across her lap!
Yes, they even let me fish this week. Tuna going into the box. The guy still has game!
Just a quick one-day trip for Brandon and Nick from San Diego who passed through on a surf trip and took one day to fish resulting in a big box of yellowfin tuna.
Day 2 for Leif Dover resulted in only 1 nice bull dorado…but 6 nice yellowfin tuna which is what he wanted.
Nice mix of fish for Greg Scialampo and Captain Armando posing on the beach at Suenos with tuna and dorado headed to the ice chest!
FULL MOON FISH BITE HARD SO DO NORTH WINDS
La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Oct 29-Nov. 5, 2017
The full moon didn’t seem to do much to dampen the fishing down here. There’s just not that many folks fishing these days which is fairly typical as the holidays get closer; families are doing other things but also as northern winds start to blow here and make it a big rougher to be out on the water. Things are definitely changing as the breezes get stronger; waters get cooler and and the days are shorter.
But, the fishing still remained strong…and not much traffic out there to get in the way!
Tailhunter Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fleet
I was worried with more winds and if the full moon would affect things, but apparently not! I had thought that the massive tuna bite of the last few months was finally over as we had a lull in tuna the previous week. However, with a few exceptions, if you wanted tuna, they sure seemed to be there with legs 15-30 pound fish willing to bite live sardines, dead sardines, chunked bonito or lures. The south end of Cerralvo Island, Punta Perrico and then Castillo not far off the Punta Arenas lighthouse were all good spots to find the yellowfin.
What’s really come on are the dorado. If you wanted the mahi-mahi, not only are they free-swimming around the bays and drop-offs, but just go to the shark buoys and there’s all the dorado you want. I had boats releasing 10-20 fish a day and some of them pretty decent size too! It was a case of easy limits then catch-and-release as much as you want for fun or go chase other species, especially wahoo that seem to get more active this week. Nice size ‘hoo at the south end of Cerralvo and near Punta Perico were willing to hit the dark-colored Rapalas but also hitting bait on wire with fish running 30-60 pounds.
Tailhunter La Paz Fleet
Earlier in the week, with the full moon, the winds also hit making it really rough to head north of the city, but then the waters laid flat for a few days and the bite took off
That area just east of Bonanza Beach near the south end of Espirito Santo Island held not only good number of dorado but for the last two weeks or so, several schools of 20-25 pound yellowfin tuna and wahoo as well. The fish are loving live and dead sardines and it wasn’t uncommon to get easy limits of dorado plus release a dozen more and catch a handful of nice yellowfin as well. Chunked and slow trolled bonito also worked well. Schools of foaming tuna like this haven’t been seen in years.
2018 Bookings!
After such a great season, alot of our anglers went right home and booked new dates for next year and dates are already filling. If you’re thinking about fishing in 2018; want certain hotel rooms or want certain of our Tailhunter captains, don’t hesitate. We’d love to have you visit us! E-mail us at: Jonathan@tailhunter.com . Or Jilly@tailhunter.com
That’s our story!
Jonathan and Jilly
Jonathan Roldan’s Tailhunter International
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