La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of May 27-June 3, 2018

June 3, 2018 by riplipboy

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of May 27-June 3, 2018

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Week at a Glance

Weather – Getting WARMER! Most days in the high-90’s. Nights in the high-70’s. Definitely some days you can feel the humidity creeping up. But mostly pretty pleasant. Still windy some days, but not as harsh. Nice afternoon Corumuel breeze cools down the time nicely!

Water – As weather gets warmer the algae is burning off and waters are getting dramatically bluer. Less winds mean calmer waters too. Pretty stuff. Our SCUBA and snorkelers are having a blast.

Fishing – Better every week. Still not full speed. Some slow spots and bumps. But everyone catching fish if you’re here a few days assuming you might have a slow day here and there. Las Arenas has fewer fish and slower action, but larger trophies. La Paz fishing has more fish, but smaller. Better action.

Catching – Lost some really nice wahoo, tuna and roosters this week that would have really made this week’s report explode. But, big fish are tougher fish!

The Big Picture and the Rest of the Story…

Nineteen-year-old Mia Pettey from Orange CO, California came down with her dad, John Pettey, well-known goldsmith and jeweler to the Southern California fishing industry as a high school graduation present to do some SCUBA and fishing in La Paz with Tailhunter. She was slow-trolling a bait just north of La Paz when this big rooster fish rolled up behind the boat and hammered the bait. We estimate it in the 60-70 pound class and she said, “It kicked my butt!” She released the fish.

Tom DeLeon from Los Angeles came down to La Paz to fish with Tailhunter Sportfishing specifically to knock a rooster fish off his bucket list. He got this beast north of Punta Arenas on a live bait on a double hook-up. This fish was released and estimated over 65-70 pounds.

Laura Hernandez from San Diego always does well in our area and was fishing outside of Bahia de los Muertos with her husband Mark when she landed this nice wahoo, one of two she caught that day.

Quality dorado for Captain Jorge and our long-time amigos, Doug Oclassen and dad, Glenn Oclassen. Doug is from Colorado near Denver and dad’s in the San Francisco Bay area. Good size on these bulls!

Good first day for Stan Andre who picked up this nice wahoo not far outside of Bahia de los Muertos.

That’s a legi bull dorado for Terry Hawk. Usually, this quality of dorado don’t show up until later in the summer and the fall but the fish seem to be here already although not in huge numbers…yet!

Jim Bovee from San Diego gave his wife a trip to La Paz for Christmas and their last day she put wood to this thick yellowfin tuna fishing with our Tailhunter La Paz Fleet north of the city . Jim will be back in August and again in October!

Easy to see why they are called “dog-tooth” snapper. Hard to catch and pull from the rocks, but Doug Oclassen got this one into the boat not far off the Punta Perrico rocks.

Hefty bull dorado headed for the grill for Diane Deleon from Los Angeles. She two of these big guys this day. Scroll down for her other fish!

Rhonda McGavern is from Northern California, but they spend a good part of the year at their place in Loreto and drove down to La Paz for a little change-of-pace. The did the number on a fat yellowfin tuna and this dorado as she poses on the beach at Muertos Bay.

Like a boss! John Stone from San Diego had himself a good several days with our Tailhunter Fleet! He poses here with one of his bull dorado.

Another big rooster for Tom Deleon from Los Angeles. Part of a double hook-up on live bait he came specifically to get a rooster. This one regretfully could not be released and the meat was donated.

Good buddy Randy Forestiere had several days of fun on light tackle hooking great cabrilla and pargo like this pargo mulatto north of La Paz.

Still some cooler water fish hanging out! Captain Armando put his folks on this amberjack, but also jack crevalle and dorado.

These two guys are making a habit of nice roosterfish over the years. Stan Andre and Terry Hawk with a slugger rooster near Cerralvo Island. They got several and all were released.

John Mc Lucas from the S.F. Bay area has been fishing with us for years and loves the light tackle inshore stuff. Check out the variety he has including yellow snapper, china maru (hawkfish), cabrilla and pargo liso (mullet snapper). All great-eating fish!

Happy fella with a fish! Long-time Tailhunter Tribe member, Bill Lee with another cabrilla from up-tight in the rocks where they hang out. He loves the light tackle battles!

That’s alot of fish! Diane Deleon poses with a heck of a bull dorado she caught with our Tailhunter La Paz Fleet fishing around Espirito Santo Island.

Couple of great eating trophy fish for Terry Hawk including a big cabrilla and a yellow snapper. All highly-prized.

Early morning biter! Another dorado for San Diego, John Stone!

Another big wahoo in the boat for Laura Hernandez and Mark Buchanan from San Diego!

Right in the bay! Jeff Correia from San Diego hooked this mahi with the city still in view behind him!

It’s getting warmer down here. The waters are getting bluer and the fishing is getting more consistent. Still not great fishing, but there is some pretty good fishing to be had with some speed bumps here and there. Still some funky water conditions around. Still the occasional bout of wind and waves. But, overall, the improvement every week is noticeable in conditions and consequently the fishing.

Not as many big fish this week, but some fun fishing nonetheless.

For our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet at Muertos Bay, it was like last week. Not a lot of fish, but quantity was trumped by quality. The fish we caught were generally larger and fiestier models. Larger rooserfish were running 30-80 pounds. Wahoo are still around in the 20-50 pound class. The dorado came in as small as 8 pounders, but some nice bulls in the 20-30 pound class as well. A few smattering of 20-30 pound tuna as well. Plus, mix in a few nice pargo, cabrilla, jack crevalle, bonito and even some holdover cold-water species like amberjack and sierra.

The thing is, you got a home run fish more-or-less or it was really scratchy and slow. Few fish, but the fish were generally larger. One boat could hit money and the boat next to it could blank. Or with these larger fish, you get hooked, but the fish (being larger and tougher) busts off. That’s not bad fishing. That’s just unlucky “catching” and part of the sport.

For straight action and fun, the better fishing was with our Tailhunter La Paz Fleet. Not as many BIG fish as Las Arenas. But for just a day of action and getting bent, this past week the action around the islands north of town were a lot more entertaining. In addition to great action on snapper, several species of pargo and some real fat cabrilla, toss in some occasional tuna, some big rooster fish and some 10-25 pound dorado and you have the makings of a fun day and some great fillets for the cooler.

Alot of the algae that’s lining the beach is now starting to burn off leaving behind it warmer blue waters so expectations are high for better fishing as we head towards summer.

Jonathan Roldan’s

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