DOG-TOOTH! WAHOO! TUNA! CRAZY WEEK!
La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Sept. 23-30, 2018
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SHORT ATTENTION SPAN WEEK-AT-A-GLANCE
Weather – We expected some rain all week according to the forecasts especially with Hurricane Rosa not too far off in the Pacific, but other than some clouds and thunderheads, it thankfully never materialized. Mostly 95-99 in the daytimes, but can be very humid…80-90% humidity! Stay hydrated!
Water – Still showing mid-80’s on th surface which is where the blue-water species are hanging out, but the fact that we’re getting many species we only see in the springtime like pargo and pompano makes me think there’s cooler water down deeper.
Fishing – Pretty solid! Can’t believe all the different species that shows up this week. Highly unusual! We had tuna, wahoo, dorado, dog tooth (cubera) snapper, pargo liso (mullet snapper), barred pargo, jack crevalle, marlin, bonito, cabrilla, roosterfish and more! Have never seen so many big dog-tooth snapper this week. Plus tuna bit for our Tailhunter Las Arenas AND our Tailhunter La Paz fleets . We usually only get tuna around Las Arenas and more dorado out’ve La Paz. Wahoo showed up this week too!
Catching – Lost several marlin and some big roosterfish not to mention some big wahoo and tuna. But, everyone caught fish!
THE BIG PICTURE and the REST OF THE STORY…

With no wire on his Rapalas, Dave Lindell, our long-time amigo from Pendleton, Oregon hooked 5 of these wahoo in two days with Captain Armando. Three got off (understandably) but he was the only one getting bit and landed two big ones like this!

It’s not as big as it looks, but this is still a monster dog-tooth (cubera) snapper. Laura Hernandez of San Diego had a scale aboard and it was surprisingly only 37 pounds, but a stunning shallow-water catch. She was just off Punta Perico near Las Arenas when she hooked it in the shallows. She and her husband actually got two of these big pargo.

Cousins Ron and Steve Stocking started their first day of fishing with a nice rack of yellowfin and you can see a nice pargo at their feet too!

Whoa! Yea, it was an incredible week for these big doggie cubera snapper! Paddy Christopoulo and Roger Thompson were with Captain Hugo. For the day… Caught 6 tunas, 2 pargo and a 6-pound yellowtail.

Great shot of Clint Carey from Washington and Captain Jorge with a nice roosterfish. The fish was released.

Steve Corn from Newhall CA with dad, Ron, put the hurt on a nice batch of assorted-sized yellowfin tuna off Las Arenas!

We usually only see these during the spring-time, but Kevin Shields from San Diego got this pargo liso (mullet snapper) out’ve the rocks at Muertos Bay.

Two of our newest first-time, amigos…John and Angelica Waggy from Sacramento CA were celebrating her birthday and started off with some nice fat yellowfin.

Color!!! Nice little bull dorado on the gaff for Dan Lewis who caught this off Espirito Santo Island north of La Paz.

Nothing wrong with this model! Nathan Smith battled this yellowfin tuna on light tackle fishing with our Tailhunter La Paz fleet when the tuna unexpectedly popped up and started bending rods early in the week.

Rich Shepherd nailed this huge mullet snapper (pargo liso), but this our our Tailhunter Captain Ramiro posing with it on the beach at Bahia Muertos.

Happy guy…Jerry Kvaternik from Washington had a grand first day with alot of meat! Nice yellowfin tuna plus some trophy barred pargo!

Captain Armando was on fire with the wahoo this week. Gino Fronti and Don Goettling pose with a fat tuna and a speedy wahoo!

From Yorba Linda, CA, Hector Arroyo holds up a hugs dog-tooth for the camera. Hector’s first time with us!

Mark Buchanan from San Diego hooked a beauty of a dog-tooth snapper just off the rocks near the old Hotel Las Arenas using live bait. The fish weight 22 pounds on his hand-scale. They also caught some nice yellowfin tuna all right off the beach .

All the way from Wyoming, Barbara and Marlin Kendall have some great -eating pargo fillets to bring home!

“King” Gama Flores fishes with us twice a year and has a knack for pargo. He’s got some nice tuna on the table and a big pargo mulatto in hand that ended up as soup at our Tailhunter Restaurant for him!

Montana in the house and pompano on the beach for Lee LeVeque. These great-eating fish showed up in numbers this week and are related to the jack family of roosterfish, jack crevalle and yellowtail.

Paddy shows off the teeth of his pargo and why they’re called “dog-tooth” snapper . What a week of snapper fishing!

Steve Harrison looks out over a day’s catch while on the beach at Muertos. Tuna and barred pargo for the cooler! Steve’s from Washington.

Knock wahoo off their bucket list . Kevin Shields and Sean Rose from San Diego with Captain Jorge and their first wahoo.

Mark Buchanan saw a bunch of football tuna breaking so he grabbed his light spinning rod and flipped a bait. Of course, a 40 pound yellowfin grabs it instead and the fight was on . But Mark eventually won. The nearby rocks of Punta Perico in the background.

Another wahoo for Captain Armando and Oregon amigo, Dave Lindell who had a spectacular week of wahoo, tuna and dorado!
This is gonna be short…let the photos do the talking!
Crazy week of fishing!
In more than 20 years down here in La Paz, I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much variety in the catches during this time of the year. From day-to-day this week, and even from one panga to the next, I never knew what our anglers were going to be bringing in!
We had yellowfin tuna between 10 and 60 pounds.
There were schoolie-dorado up to 20 pounds
The wahoo at Las Arenas, Punta Perico and S. Cerralvo Island decided to slam Rapalas and the largest were 50 pounders.
We hooked several striped marlin and got a blue marlin.
Roosterfish between 30 and 70 pounds were caught and released!
And the inshore fishing is more like springtime. Huge dog-tooth (cubera) snapper/ pargo were caught up to 50 pounds in shallow water as well as the big mullet snapper (pargo liso) that we normally don’t see until the cooler waters of springtime. I have never seen so many big pargo come up like we had this past week. Plus an incredible number of delicious big pompano and cabrilla.
Add in bonito…jack crevalle…snapper and 3 or 4 other odds and end fish and it was a buffet of catches!
Occasionally one or another boat wouldn’t do well, but then just made up for it the next day. Everyone caught fish! And almost all the fish were pretty close to shore. And most were on live bait.
That’s my story!
Jonathan
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