La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of May 20-27, 2018

May 28, 2018 by riplipboy

WHAT A DIFFERENCE A WEEK MAKES! BIG FISH CRASH!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of May 20-27, 2018

MEXICAN MINUTE VIDEO REPORT

WEEK AT A GLANCE

Weather– Could not have been nicer. Sunny skies and nice breezers. First week without crazy winds. Got hotter and more humid as the week went on. You could definitely feel it!

Water – Getting warmer. Find the blue water you find the fish. About 80 degrees in some spots. Getting bluer and clearer. There was some big swell from the south for a day or two.

Fishing – Best fishing of the season in terms of quality fish. Lots of BIG fish…wahoo…tuna..marlin…sailfish…dorado. No roosterfish per se mostly because no one was chasing them! Not much inshore pargo or cabrilla either. They went for the bluewater species and trophy fish! Lots of BIGGER fish lost!

Catching – Could have been better. We lost so many big fish! But that’s why these are BIGGER fish! They’re stronger and tougher on the anglers as well as the gear! Great stories of fish that were lost!

Fishing got tougher later in the week as increased pressure on the fish plus a full moon seemed to lockjaw the fish. Much better earlier in the week.

BIG PICTURES and THE REST OF THE STORY…

YEA! Now this is what we’re talking about! Captain Victor with Jennifer Robinette and Kenny Thompson from Utah with a great trio including tuna and to big dorado!

Wahoo family! Captain Armando with Krista, Anthony and Anthony, Jr. of the Schmidt Family and some of the great wahoo this week! The family is from Lehigh, Utah.

Two of the best amigos and two of the best anglers! Fat wahoo…look at this log! For Roger and Donna Thompson!

It’s hard to get Captain Gerardo to smile, but he’s got double tuna for Steve Ritz and Larry Chastain!

Whew! Haven’t seen dorado like this in awhile! However, Kenny Thompson hikes up this pretty bull mahi with Captain Victor with all it’s great colors!

Texas in the house! Larry Dodson with this gorgeous striper that ate a trolled Rapala and swallowed it deep so it couldn’t be released! However, the meat was donated around to La Ventana.

Taylor Murphy with a huge cabrilla and her grandma who’s no slouch either and a big time barred pargo! Check those colors!

Pretty incredible catch with this big wahoo she handled by herself…Krista Schmidt from Utah with Captain Armando and an armful of speedy ‘hoo!

Yup…there’s still some cold-water fish around! Hard to believe! But Jennifer has herself an amberjack and Kenny has the biggest sierra I’ve seen all year!

Great colors on this dorado caught by Jeff Correia from San Diego and gaff honors by Captain Joel.

1…2…3 LIFT! Roger Thompson fishing with Captain Hugo poses with a thick slugger yellowfin tuna!

Another big smiles from Captain Gerardo and a legit yellowfin tuna for Steve Ritz and Larry Chastain!

La Paz Bay yielded some nice dorado not too far out like this one for Tim Weaver of San Diego!

Andale Captain Hugo! Hard to believe the size of some of the wahoo this week!

Our Texas visitors really had a good week! No shortage of fish taken home to the lone star state! Tami put the hurt on this big ‘hoo.

Captain Jorge from our Tailhunter Fleet lends and assist to Anthony Schmidt posing with another big wahoo and a good dorado as well as Jordan Schmidt.

Oregon friends just had one day to visit us but managed to hang a nice wahoo at the end of the week when the bite was diminishing. This is Zeb and Katrina Jensen from Oregon.

On the beach at Muertos, Captain Gerardo and Steve Ritz with some of that good-eating wahoo. Doubles!

The Pantuso boys from Colorado hung this nice striped marlin. The fish could not be released but the meat was distributed.

Early morning…nothing like starting out with a big wahoo for your fishing day! Another ‘hoo in the box! Al Dodson from Texas!

As the week went on, fewer fish, but the tuna still hovered around.

It was all home-run hitting this week. We had the best weather of the season and probably the best fishing of the season as well. Honestly, there weren’t many fish caught. And it got tougher as the week went on and more boats and fishing traffic hit the area as word got out. But the quality of the fish was outstanding, especially early in the week.

The anglers could have caught a lot more fish if they had opted to go small and fish inshore for all the cabrilla, jacks, pargo, bonito they wanted. However, as the week started, things blew up for our Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Tailhunter Fleet.

Nice fat 30-60 pound yellowfin tuna showed up. Wahoo in the 20-60 pound class blew up the rods. Dorado up to 40 pounds came crashing and even marlin and sailfish!

So, when this happened, everyone came-a-running!

It was swing-for-the-fences and hit a home run or nothing! But, folks got their largest fish ever or their first fish ever of this quality. Some folks got them and others didn’t. But, everyone wanted to take a shot. Also when you fight a fish for 45 minutes to an hour and it beats you up…for some, that was all they needed. For others who hooked up and had long battles…then lose the fish…just bad luck! That’s why these are bigger fish. It’s not bad fishing…it’s bad catching and we lost probably half the big fish that were hooked! Many of our anglers didn’t have that kind of experience on big fish or simple were over-powered or under-gunned in their gear! All part of the fun! It’s one thing to WANT a big fish and it’s completely different to actually HAVE a big fish on the line and you’re 10 minutes into the fight and realize the sun is blazing; your hands are already cramping; the line is stretched to breaking; the rod is completely doubled-over; and you’re sweating bullets! And the fish is STILL pulling line off the reel!

That’s fishing!

As I said, some boats got into them and a boat right next to them would blank. Next day vise versa.

But, al the fish were BIG! And as word got out, more and more boats came out and traffic on the spots increased. That scattered the bite and drove the fish down. So, the bite diminished a little bit each day although there were still some scattered fish. Also, the full moon came up with the weekend.

However, for those who got into it, they caught fish of a lifetime!

GRACIAS!

The season is ON! And many thanks going out to our Tailhunter Tribe members who have been bringing in donations for our Tailhunter charities! We have already distributed several hundred pounds of school supplies, clothes, shoes and other items! You’re the best.

Thanks for Tom Ames from Idaho (who also donated to our scholarship program) and brought a big box of kids toys and gear; The Sawaske and Forestiere families who brought school supplies and Jim and Brenda Bovee from San Diego who hauled stuff this week. God bless you all!

Jim and Brenda Bovee from the San Diego area came in with two ice-chests full of kid’s clothes!

That’s our story and hope you had or are having a great Memorial Day Weekend! God bless all who gave…all who served…and their families!

Jonathan & Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

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