THE WEEK DORADO WOKE UP AND BIG ROOSTERS

BLEW UP!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of May 15-22, 2021

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THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Steve from Seattle just wanted one big rooster…he caught and released 12 over 5 days of fishing like this big bruiser.

Two bulls on deck! Dave and Diane Kosnosky found a hot spot and their first day put 7 nice fish in the box and had some epic battles with others that got unbuttoned.

Pompano are still with us and great on light tackle! Gary and Ed Henry from Fox News and travelled all the way from Maryland show off another tasty pompano.

These two guys were way fun all week! John Hamilton and Jerry Hill with Captain Armando hold up a couple of nice yellowtail with pompano on the table.

Our amigo, Rick Kasper on the right with his friend Bruce Redmond a fishing guide from Wyoming put a huge variety of fish on the table including barred pargo, rainbow runner, cabrilla, red snapper, yellow snapper, pompano and pargo liso.

Steve cradles another of his big roosterfish of the week. He got really good at posing with these big fish. All released.

This is just a great photo with great colors and a super fish! Diane with Captain Alfredo fishing near Espirito Santo Island. Frameable photo!

John Hamilton fought this fish well over an hour and Captain Boli estimate it at well over 80 pounds. Despite the gaff the fish was released strong. The gaff is just under the tough skin near the dorsal and was only used to lift the fish so they could get the big hook out of it’s throat as the fish was thrashing too hard next to the boat in the water. This big boy is still swimming.

First day on the water for Scott Munday and Captain Gerardo who had an action-filled day with cabrilla, pargo, snapper and a palometa (with Captain Gerardo).

Love the pose and the fish! Jerry Hill has a nice dorado just off the rocks. Jerry is another of our fun Washington amigos.

Diane got and released a nice pair of roosters.

Steve has yet another big fella for a quick photo then back into the water!

Gary and Juan with a cabrilla that I’m sure made it back to the dinner table at Rancho Costa, Gary’s place in Bahia Muertos.

Dave’s barred pargo. Tough fish to fight, but tasty on the plate!

Probably had one of the better weeks of fishing this past week. Still some bumpy breezes on the ocean, but overall, just really pleasant conditions with air temps in the high 80’s to low 90’s but not much humidity and cooler evenings. Water temps in the mid to high 70’s and really cleaning up nicely. Lots of pretty blue patches of water all which corresponded to a much improved surface bite.

Alot of great variety to be had. I think I counted almost 20 different species caught this week, but the biggest news were all the big big slugger roosterfish that showed up in the counts.

A number of smaller 10-20 pound fish, but many of the fish hit the 50-90 pound class and were readily chasing live baits like the sardines, but the larger fish especially loved the larger ladyfish (sabalo) as bait. Some of the battles this week were well over an hour on the larger roosters and many were on lighter tackle. As far as we could tell, all the roosters got released!

Even Capt. Jorge got into the gallery this week!

The other big new was that the dorado finally decided to join the party. We’ve seen them around for several weeks dinking around, but not really participating as the waters got warmer.

Well, this week, things finally shook loose.

Double dorado fist with Dave Kosnowsky!

There were some spots where there were numerous dorado not ready to go, but then other spots where it was crazy fun with legit-sized fish in the 15-30 pound class bending rods and some larger fish lost as well. There are good spots of sargasso weeds north of La Paz that are holding some really nice schools of dorado that are chasing the bait, especially the flying fish, that are holding in the sargasso.

In addition to the roosters and dorado, the rest of the variety was great. We had a couple of marlin hook-ups finally that didn’t stick, but we know the billfish are here. There were also some great pompano, some yellowtail and amberjack, several types of pargo, cabrilla, jack crevalle, yellow jacks, red and yellow snapper, blue and white bonito as well.

All-in-all a solid week for us!

That’s my story!