La Paz – Las Arenas/ Bahia Muertos/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report for Week of April 21-28, 2021
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THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…
Not bad for one day. 2 nice yellowtail, a snapper and some white bonito.
Biggest rooster of the season so far. Right off the Perrico Rocks in shallow water. Gary with a nice catch-and-release.
Jimmy Williams spent the day spanking the big cabrilla at the north end of Cerralvo. He and his buddies came back with full fish boxes.
Just when I thought the yellowtail might have left…double ‘tails plus cabrilla, pargo and bonito.
Captain Jorge had a good day with the boys…Bonito, big sierra and a yellowtail. No shortage of action.
The right kind! Gary Wagner with a big dog-tooth snapper just outside of Bahia Muertos and his place at Rancho Costa.
Hard to beat a cold Modelo after a good day on the water of a fat yellowtail, some snapper and cabrilla.
Nancy Enright from Lemon Grove CA has a tasty pompano just off the rocks.
Geoff Wilkinson from Lakewood CA has a big yellowtail ready to slice up for sashime.
Captain Gerardo mugs with Gregg Wurtz on a first-time trip with us. Lots of meat on the fillet table with yellowtail, big bonito, snapper and some good-sized cabrilla.
Tough fish…fun guy! Johnny Enright battled this feisty jack crevalle just outside of Bahia Muertos.
Gary sure had a good week. Check out this big big big cabrilla!
Like the week before, things started slowly despite really excellent conditions with air temps in the low 80’s during the day and high 50’s at night with just daily breezes.
The early week bite mostly consisted of inshore species like cabrilla, pargo, sierra and snapper taken over the rocky areas and shallow structure.
However as the week went on the bite got stronger with yellowtail once again jumping into the picture and fish up to about 25 pounds taken on baits and yo-yo jigs around Cerralvo Island. Even some tuna popped up, but quickly disappeared and getting everyone excited.
In addition to the yellowtail, lots of huge white bonito blew up plus some larger roosterfish caught and released to add to fish boxes of big cabrilla and even some dog-tooth, barred and lisa pargo.
I was surprised with the yellowtail. It has been on-and-off for the last 2 weeks and I figured that the fish might have moved off to deeper water since the ocean appears to be warming and more bluewater species expected. But, it was great to have the fish back in the counts.
It will be interesting to see what happens with the full moon!
BUT WAIT…!!!
Just as I was about to publish this week’s fish report…an update!
WINTER decided to kick back . Holy cow. It got cold and windy again.
This is how it looked one day:
Gorgeous. Beautiful. Not a cloud in the sky. 85 degree sunshine.
TURN UP THE SOUND!
Then this is what happened the next day. Blew us off the water. Could not even fish. Could not even launch the boats! Winds came out’ve nowhere. They were not even on the weather advisories. It was like someone threw a switch:
Hi there. Newbie to your site. I like it!
We just finished a 10 day catamaran sail from La Paz up to Isla San Francisco and Isla San Jose, April 19-30. What a beautiful place La Paz is. We trolled 8 hours a day at least. We came up with 1 yellowtail (25 pounds?) and one nice sierra. I tried every rapala in my arsenal as well as a few bucktails.
I searched for boils and birds. Not much action.
I fished bottom around almost every bay on Isla Espirito Santa from a dingy. Just some small triggers and 2 large coronet fish (interesting looking animal).
Fishing was not the reason for the trip tho. Experiencing the natural beauty was.
I fish mostly Bahia de Los Angeles and Gonzaga Bay and don’t know La Paz at all.
Any tips for my next trip down here?
Hi Dave! I’ve done that trip several times in a cat. Good on you. It’s awesome!
The number one thing is come DURING fishing season which is “generally” April to October. The other months can be very very windy. Your timing was just off. This year, especially, it’s been incredibly cold and windy. We’re not even fishing out of La Paz towards Esperito Santo yet. Waters are too cold and erratic water temps and winds. All the photos you’re seeing on my fishing report are all with my fleet at Las Arenas where we have our other fleet. We shuttle out there every morning and fish towards the south around Cerralvo Island where the waters are warmer and more protected.
It’s May 2 today and in 5 months, I’ve only sent out 4 total boats around those waters where you were fishing so far. Troll during the warmer months and you’d have been hooking dorado and other species! In this area, you will rarely see boils and birds. However, you can watch individual birds and watch how they are flying and you can tell if there are fish under them. There are tell-tale signs. Come back!!! Glad you had a good trip. You can write me directly: jonathan@tailhunter.com
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Hi there. Newbie to your site. I like it!
We just finished a 10 day catamaran sail from La Paz up to Isla San Francisco and Isla San Jose, April 19-30. What a beautiful place La Paz is. We trolled 8 hours a day at least. We came up with 1 yellowtail (25 pounds?) and one nice sierra. I tried every rapala in my arsenal as well as a few bucktails.
I searched for boils and birds. Not much action.
I fished bottom around almost every bay on Isla Espirito Santa from a dingy. Just some small triggers and 2 large coronet fish (interesting looking animal).
Fishing was not the reason for the trip tho. Experiencing the natural beauty was.
I fish mostly Bahia de Los Angeles and Gonzaga Bay and don’t know La Paz at all.
Any tips for my next trip down here?
Hi Dave! I’ve done that trip several times in a cat. Good on you. It’s awesome!
The number one thing is come DURING fishing season which is “generally” April to October. The other months can be very very windy. Your timing was just off. This year, especially, it’s been incredibly cold and windy. We’re not even fishing out of La Paz towards Esperito Santo yet. Waters are too cold and erratic water temps and winds. All the photos you’re seeing on my fishing report are all with my fleet at Las Arenas where we have our other fleet. We shuttle out there every morning and fish towards the south around Cerralvo Island where the waters are warmer and more protected.
It’s May 2 today and in 5 months, I’ve only sent out 4 total boats around those waters where you were fishing so far. Troll during the warmer months and you’d have been hooking dorado and other species! In this area, you will rarely see boils and birds. However, you can watch individual birds and watch how they are flying and you can tell if there are fish under them. There are tell-tale signs. Come back!!! Glad you had a good trip. You can write me directly: jonathan@tailhunter.com
Thanks for writing!
Jonathan
Tailhunter Sportfishing
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