La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of June 24-July 1, 2018

July 1, 2018 by riplipboy

FISHING GOOD…

“CATCHING” NOT SO MUCH (read on)

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of June 24-July 1, 2018

MEXICAN MINUTE VIDEO REPORT

WEEK AT A GLANCE

Fishing – Still lots of big fish around like tuna, wahoo, dorado and billfish. Good on smaller species too like pargo, cabrilla, jack crevalle, bonito and still some yellowtail and amberjack around too. But the bite has been erratic. Sometimes fish like dorado and tuna all around, but won’t eat!

Catching – Sure lost alot of big fish this week or fish in the rocks. The big fish are tough. The smaller fish make it tough by being in the rocks and having attitude.

Weather – Sunny days in the low to mid-90’s mostly. Humidity seems to be climbing. Nights are cooled by the Corumuel breezes down to the high-70’s

Water – Still some cloudy cool waters around, but getting bluer. Finding the blue water is key.

Bait – Las Arenas it’s hit or miss. Mackerel and really small sardines. No problem for bait with out La Paz fleet.

THE BIG PICTURE and THE REST OF THE STORY…

Rob Baird from Oregon showing the nice grade of yellowfin tuna we got this week around Cerralvo Island.

From Carmel CA, Bill Mitchell fishes with the Tailhunter Fleet at least once a year and on a quick get-away with his flyrod fished La Paz and got this nice roosterfish just off the rocks as well as several others plus jack crevalle and bonito. He released all his fish.

Kurt and Brenda Gallow from Washington have come down several times to fish with the Tailhunter Fleet in La Paz. While fishing with Captain Armando, they always do well. Five minuts after dropping back some Rapalas near Cerralvo Island, Brenda got this fat wahoo followed by Kurt with the 2nd wahoo.

Another nice fish for our amigo, Gary Wagner and Miles Wagner from Colorado Springs. Gary owns the Rancho Costa Resort and also the Giggling Marlin Restaurant in Cabo.

Captain Armando with Jason Veberette and Greg Ponte from Herald CA showing off a first-day catch of wahoo and a dorado.

Captain Jorge, with Rocky Schneider and John Teply and a trio of nice yellowfin.

First-timer, Andy Kelly from Florida had never been fishing but battled this big tuna in the sun for over an hour! When it came time for the photo, his arms and hands were still shaking so he asked Captain Gerado to do the honors! Good job, Andy!

Our amigo from Loreto, Steve McGavern, put this big tuna on the boat at the 11th hour, but it’s a good one!

Miles Wagner from Colorado Springs CO had himself a pretty good week showing off another wahoo in the boat .

Favorite photo of the week! We call this “Dorado Envy.” From yesterday, Kevin Ritchie caught looking at Jason Beverette’s dorado is classic!

Rocky Schneider had the “touch” this week on tuna!

Check out the flat water and the big fish that Andy Bautista of Corona CA caught!

Another Oregon amigo, Mike Keser got the biggest amberjack of the week.

It was another of those weeks of either highlights or lowlights and not much in between. There were big fish and there were assorted smaller fish (for fun) and then…well, not much in that middle area. You either got fish…or you didn’t!

The big fish were big. No doubt! If you got one, it could make your day. Or your trip!

At Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Tailhunter Fleet, the action around Cerralvo Island and Punta Perrico again focused on the bigger grade of tuna that popped up about 3 weeks ago. And these fish were not pushovers! The tuna were big and grumpy. The smaller fish were 40-pounders. The larger fish (we caught) were 60 pounders. Anyone who’s fought Baja yellowfin of that size knows these aren’t little “football” tuna.

And we lost probably 60-70% of the fish that were hooked either through inexperience, busted lines or hooks…or simply bad luck because well…that’s fishing! Good fishermen lost big fish. Rookies caught big fish. No rhyme or reason. But either way, heart-breaking when you’re on a fish for up to an hour or two and it busts off.

And you never see it the fish…just hours with a bend rod…straining line…sore back and arms…wondering what you have on and praying just to get a glimpse.

Or it’s “at color” right next to the boat and “BINK!” The line snaps.

Or the fish just unbuttons.

Or someone gets over-anxious in the hot Baja sun and loses their patiences and tries to horse a big fish to the boat. And the fish is just too hot and green and strong to come in. And breaks off.

Some days, if you just looked at the numbers, it looked like a terrible fishing day. Very fish coming in.

But after you talk the anglers, almost all of them had a shot at a fish or two…or three! And dumped the fish! Good fishing…bad catching.

And, there were also days when the fish were crashing and breaking and just not eating.

On top of the tuna there, we also had a nice jag of wahoo as well . Some nice speedy ‘hoo meat. The wahoo were chewing on Rapalas and we did get some fish up to 50 pounders. But, again, fish were lost.

But, that’s part of fishing! Add in a lot of pesky feisty bonito, jack crevalle and a few others including a few marlin and there was still some action to be had even if no fish were put in the coolers.

For our Tailhunter La Paz Fleet…again, this was the fun area to fish. Not much in the way of big fish, but there wer some school-sized dorado. In the rocks there’s lots of snapper, big pargo and cabrilla and even some hold-over cooler water yellowtail and amberjack. Lots of fish lost in the rocks, but you could easily have 10-30 biters a day even if you lost most of those fish, you still got a nice chest of fish at the end of the day. I think I counted about a dozen different species out’ve La Paz.

Jonathan