La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of July 8-15, 2018

July 15, 2018 by riplipboy

FEELS LIKE DORADO WEATHER

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of July 8-15, 2018

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WEEK AT A GLANCE

Weather – Hot and humid! Temps in upper 90’s during the day. Low 80’s at night. Bring shorts and don’t forget your hat and sunglasses and sunscreen. Warmer weather means better fishing! Before we whined about too much wind. Now some days we wish we had a breeze!

Water – In the 80’s, but last week water temps dropped from the mid-80’s to low 80’s and it seemed to affect the fish with the abrupt change. Cooler waters got a bit dirtier. Find the blue warmer water for the best bite and to locate fish. Got better as the waters cleared up later in the week.

Fishing – Dorado are 70% of the bite right now. More fish schooling up which is great and very typical of warm summer fishing. Seeing more marlin these days. Still tuna, roosterfish and wahoo around. But more folks targeting the mahi.

Catching – Alot easier to catch dorado than other species!

The Big Picture and the Rest of the Story…

Chance Wallis all the way from Kentucky was dragging live bait close to the rocks near Las Arenas when he got this big roosterfish to roll up on it. The fish was released.

Nice start to a fishing vacation for John Vondrak and his buddy, Kirk. A table full of dorado fillets!

Greg Garrison from San Diego always does well with the fish when he’s down fishing La Paz and took this speedy wahoo trolling a Rapala just outside of Bahia de los Muertos.

Hard to find a prettier photo than this! Nice wahoo for Gary Wagner, owner of the Rancho Costa in Muertos Bay and the famous Giggling Marlin bar in Cabo. Thanks for all the photos, Gary!

She didn’t have to go out far for this nice tuna. Sydney Wagner from Colorado Spring CO staying at Rancho Costa in Muertos Bay hung this nice tuna just around the corner relatively close to shore.

Captain Joel poses with Bennett Clegg’s big bull caught just off Espirito Santo Island north of La Paz…dorado-landia!

Matt Wallis has his hands full with this fat yellowfin tuna off Cerralvo Island.

On the flyrod, Tom Zelibor from Colorado got this nice dorado to his his pattern.

Matt and Jackson Duystschaever with their striped marlin with Gary Wagner at Rancho Costa. Muertos Bay in the background. The fish could not be released.

Jackson Duytschaever is all smiles with his roosterfish. Jackson is from Colorado and released the fish.

Another happy Colorado fisheman, Paul Milewski has a big tuna to hold up for his photo.

It was a decent week of fishing down here. Like seemingly everywhere else on the west coast, weather was hot, dry and humid although water temps took a bit of a dive for some reason dropping from 85 to 81 degrees and getting a little cloudier and greener.

Still…everyone caught fish. Not as many tuna or wahoo as the previous week, but the dorado bite seemed to fill the gaps with more dorado being caught each week. This is a typical summer pattern.

Y’know how in California people say, “It feels like earthquake weather” when it’s hot and humid and still? Down here, we say, “Feel like dorado weather.”

Some boats did better than others and some days were better than others. However, for most of our anglers fishing multiple days, the could count on getting bit.

The secret is finding the right spot. There’s a lot of fish, but the fish are not everywhere. Locating the right current line (warmer water); or bluer water was key. But also finding structure like floating and clumping sargasso weed on the surface could make the difference.

In addition to the dorado, there’s still some chunky tuna around. The smller fish are 40 pounders. Not many folks looking for roosterfish, but they’re along the shores and good sized between 40 and 70 pounds .

Wahoo are still hanging out as well, but we’re losing more than we’re catching and we also saw more hookups on striped marlin this week than any other week with most fish either busting off or getting released.

That’s our story!