ANGLERS WORK HARDER FOR FISH in ERRATIC
CONDITIONS (But still catch fish!)
La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of May 19-26, 2019
MEXICAN MINUTE VIDEO REPORT
THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…
Captain Gerardo seemed to be on fire this week. He’s helping lift Ron Cutler’s big tuna. Ron is from Bend, Oregon.
We finally got Willy Moers from Denver to come visit. On the last day, he finally got his big dorado after a couple of misses. The smile says it all!
Tom Mullican our long-time amigo from Dallas TX, had 5 pretty successful days. He didn’t get many fish, but he made up for it with some quality species like this big yellowfin…and uh…a little snapper! 🙂
First timer, 18-year-old Ryan McConnell is down on a graduation trip before heading to college and his first day out he rocks this 57-pound log wahoo with Captain Armando. The photo doesn’t do justice because young Ryan is about 6’6″ tall. It’s a BIG fish. See below as they put it on a scale!
Yup…57-pounds on the scale for Ryan McConnell and Captain Armando who needs to stretch to get his arms high enough.
More marlin showing up these days. Captain Victor put Ron Cutler on this striper as well as the big dorado. The fish could not be released.
Tom Reed from San Diego only had 2 days to fish, but made the most of it with a big tuna and then this nice wahoo right at the end just outside of Bahia Muertos on a trolled Rapala.
Susie Williams is a gem of a gal. What a gamer! She pulled this tough dog-tooth out’ve the rocks with fishing shallow water with Captain Gerardo.
Good start and great action for Margaret Cummings from Austin TX and Willy Moers from Colorado. Fun folks!
Adam Toeniskoetter shows off a nice late-season yellowtail, which tells me there’s still some cooler water around as summer approaches. Adam brings the family back in two weeks!
Boy, did we have some fun with Blake Warren and Laura Brunell who was on her first real fishing trip and lit it up with about 20 different species over 3 days of fishing. Here with Captain Pancho posing with triggerfish pargo, amberjack, snapper and cabrilla!
Another big tuna to off-load to the cutting table for Ryan.
Striper on the beach for Paul Markowitz with an assist from Mike Boutin both from the Boise, Idaho area. The fish could not be released.
Just off the beach. Good start to the day for Mike Boutin and his roosterfish which was released.
Our amigo, Gary Wagner, owner of the Rancho Costa Resort dropped the hammer on this big yellowfin tuna, but only after he also dropped his line to 30-pound test and the fight was on! Looks like he also caught a foot!
Lots of great eating as Tom Mullican holds up his wahoo to add to his box of tuna.
First-day smiles with some pargo and amberjack from Susie and Bart Williams from San Diego.
I love this colorful photo of Raphael and Yvette Rios with Captain Jorge. A big barred pargo and yellow snapper and just great colors. They’re from Texas and visit us yearly.
Dog-tooth snapper (pargo rojo) are still around if you can get them out’ve the rocks and reefs. They get alot bigger. Tom has this one on the gaff and headed to the fish box.
Lots of jack crevalle around providing some super light tackle action on this feisty fish. Willy Moers does the honors with Captain Armando.
Oh the joy! Susie Williams has a nice dorado caught north of La Paz towards Espirito Santo Island.
We had a very different, strange, good, anemic, erratic week! It’s hard to describe.
I think the only thing we didn’t get was rain! Fishing changed from day-to-day and boat-to-boat.
Anglers worked really hard for fish one day and the next it was 180 degree difference. One boat would be bendo and pulling on fish all day and the boat right next to it spent the day eating lunch and drinking their beers waiting for a bite. One boat would catch tons of bonito. The boat next to it would have tuna, wahoo and a marlin and zero bonito. It would be windy and choppy one day and the next flat as glass…or calm in one spot and a mile away like a washing machine. We had winds from the north, south, west and east that changed daily!
A wild unpredictable week for sure!
There was no shortage of action or species, but for the most part, our anglers and captains had to work a little harder to find fish.
We still had great inshore action on several species of pargo as well as cabrilla, amberjack, jack crevalle, bonito, triggerfish, sierra, yellowtail, snapper, big triggerfish and those big pompano. If that’s what you wanted, you could do that all day long and have a blast!
Roosterfish for Paul Markowitz from Idaho. Fish was released. Punta Arenas in the background.
Roosterfish were still around although a little stickier this week than last where the roosters seemed to be everywhere and willing to chew. With all the winds, the waters were a little turned over with a lot more turbidity and a little green so the fish were more finicky. We did get more than a few, however, and all released.
The blue water species were a little trickier as well. We got more marlin in the water and had out best marlin week with stripers moving in. A lot of fish sighted, but weren’t quite interested in biting…just yet. However, we hooked several with most getting released.
Marlin for Dave Bergurud while Captain Victor lends a “big hand” holding the heavy spike! Someone forgot their Pacifico!
The tuna were a conundrum. The big 40-100 pounders were still there. Everyone saw them busting and breaking water and foaming ,but they weren’t always willing to eat. In fact, most of the time, they would eat everything but the bait that was on the hook.
Just another good day on the water for Tom.
Guys dropped down from 60…to 50..to 40…and finally getting fish on 30 pound fluro leaders. But, if you hang a 100 pound fish on 30 pound, you’re already at a huge disadvantage.
One of our guys hooked a big fish on 30 and fought it for nearly 4 hours and it towed the panga almost 10 miles up the island. They got it near the panga at color and my captain estimated it at almost 200 pounds! Just as they were near to gaff, the line broke! Heartbreak!
Wahoo are still around as well. But this is the normal time for them. I just have not had many photos to share because, although we get bit, most fish get lost. But they are definitely there and very close to the rocks just outside Bahia Muertos.
Man…that is a beast of a wahoo for Ryan!
More and bigger dorado around for both our fleets so they seem to be coming on with more sargasso weed building up north of the city and the dorado slowly building up. If we get just a few degrees warmer, I think it’s gonna bust open!
That’s our story!
Jonathan & Jilly
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