La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of Oct. 28-Nov. 4, 2018

November 5, 2018 by riplipboy

FISH GET PICKY AS SEASON TRANSITIONS

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Oct. 27-Nov. 4, 2018

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Short Attention Span Week at a Glance

Weather – Beautiful sunny days, but winds are definitely up. Erratically so. Sometimes in the morning. Sometimes in the afternoon. Comes from different directions and sometimes several changes during the same day. So, it can be bumpy and rough some days…some places…but not others. Otherwise, it’s a really pretty time to be in town. Snowbirds starting to filter back to the city. Daytime temps low to mid-80’s.

Water – Winds are causing water temps to drop. Also, less blue water and water getting turned over now. The agitated water is also making it harder to get bait…very important in fishing production.

Fishing – Up and down. So many variables now. More wind. Cooler waters. More difficult to find bait. Big moon. By themselves not a big deal, but combined fishing very much affected. Fish are moving around. Different species biting. Still some tuna and dorado around. Still some of those big pargo. More cooler water fish inshore. Had a good wahoo week. Also, surprisingly strong for big roosterfish this past week.

Outlook – As the wind continue, things will continue to change towards the cooler, rougher water. We’re not fishing much out’ve La Paz anymore with more focus fishing from Muertos/ Las Arenas where it’s a little more protected.

The Big Picture and the Rest of the Story…

Sorry we couldn’t get Marcus his marlin although he tried really hard at it, but he finally got his roosterfish as he and Captain Victor struggle to get a photo and get the big fish released. Punta Perico in the near background.

Captain Pancho with our fun Montana friends who had a super day. Darrel Zauner and daughter, Marni got two wahoo and a tuna and had a big dog-tooth on the line too!

Smiles from George Shaw who finally hit the fish on their 3rd day.

Fat tuna in the hands of Darcie…her first tuna and she rocked it like a boss.

Good week for wahoo. Came up from the East Cape to find the skinnies.

Hi Renee! Fun week with Renee and her husband who hung in there during a scratchy week and finally got into the fish.

Johnny from Rancho Costa got himself a wahoo for dinner too!

Captain Victor watched Marcus hoist his catch from Bahia Muertos.

We had an up-and-down week here. We had some of the prettiest postcard days, but also some days when the sun was out but the winter winds were blowing making it tough to fish. Oh, and a full moon as well!

I will officially now say we have passed from the warm water season into the cooler off-season. Winds are starting to blow erratically now. Some from the north, some from the south. It changes from day-to-day and can even change several times during the same day.

The result is that the waters have cooled or are getting mucked up. Bait is getting increasingly harder to find and the bait guys either can’t find it or you have to wait until they get enough to sell. Folks get impatient, but what you gonna do? Go fish without bait? That’s the way it is this time of year.

We pretty much aren’t doing much fishing with our La Paz fleet the last week-and-a-half or so. The outside waters are just too unpredictable; fish are scattering now; and bait has become an issue.

So, most of our fishing is with our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet.

On the days when we could get bait, there’s still some stray 10-25 pound tuna hanging out. A few dorado here and there. Still some of those nice big pargo liso and big dog-snapper in the rocks, although we didn’t get any to the boat this week and lost all of them in the rocks on busted lines.

However, wahoo are still around. Dark Rapalas are still the best option to get them. We got some 20-40 pounders hooked up this week. Also, I was really surprised that we got so many and so many LARGE roosterfish as well. Really not a very prominent time for roosterfish, but I guess they’re still there. Pretty much any of our anglers this week who wanted to get one hooked up at least one and all of them were respectable legit fish.

That’s my story!