END OF THE SEASON COMES EARLY

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report for Week of Oct. 24-Nov. 2, 2021

THE MEXICAN MINUTE VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Long-time friends of Tailhunter from Oregon, Bob and Fran Handegard spent a few days fishing with us and really did well. Take a look at the rack of dorado, palometa and pargo!

Crazy tuna! We’ve literally caught almost zero tuna this year, but Tak and Marlene Kikuchi from Los Angeles were with Captain Pancho trolling Rapalas trying to catch a bonito for bait (since there was no live bait that day) in the shallows in front of Boca de Alamo when they got slammed by these two 40-pound class yellowfin. Pretty good on the dorado as well!

Yes, amazingly, there are still some roosterfish hanging out, Big smiles from Catherine Bennett who caught this pretty fish just outside of Muertos Bay. The fish was released. Catherine is from Washington.

First-timer luck? Hysby Ramirez did pretty darned good with big dorado, snapper, pargo, cabrilla and big triggerfish!

Birthday dorado! Bill Smith from Santa Cruz CA spent his birthday with us in La Paz visiting us for the first time and put this nice bull in the boat just north of La Paz.

Armando gives Grant Nakagawa a hand for the dorado photo.

Quite a variety for Marlene and husband Taky of great eating fish including lots of pargo, cabrilla, snapper, palometa and dorado!

Ron gives Dan and Keith, both first timers with their dorado. Good to have the guys visiting. They were lots of fun.

From Washington, J.D. Fouts got his first roosterfish just off Punta Perrico with live bait. J.D. was able to release the fish after the photo.

Captain Armando with Juli and Grant before putting the fillets on ice with a nice variety for the day .

Good to see long-time amigo, John McVay from Lake Havasu AZ with his favorite Captain Jorge.

There are always feisty bonito to tear up the lines for some fun! Jennifer and J.S. show off a couple of these tough fighters .

More fish for the freezer! A good day for Henry and Hysby. Henry took some of the snapper home whole for some great eating.  Both live in Glendale CA.  Henry has been with us many times over the years, but it was Hysby’s first time and Henry says she outfished him!

It was an up-and-down week for fishing in La Paz.  At best.

Some boats do better than others.  Some days are better than other days.  Live bait is getting harder to find.

It’s clear that the season has definitely changed and we’ve moved into the transition towards cooler temperatures, windier days and nights and rougher seas. It’s a trend that will continue into the winter months.

We are definitely seeing fewer fishermen understandably and we consider November to April our off-season when there honestly are very few people on the water due to the erratic water and weather conditions. For instance, there are days this coming week when I’m glad we do not have any fishermen scheduled as the winds will be blowing up to 20 knots from the north.

No question, the sun is out and it’s very pleasant to be in town. Crowds are down as we approach the holidays, but the visitors now are mostly snowbirds escaping from colder climates.

However for fishing, it’s changing with the season. There are still warm water species around. In fact, some legit-sized 20-30 pound class dorado can still be caught as well as some stray sailfish and marlin. We even hooked a few rare tuna this weekend that were 40 pound sluggers. We haven’t seen much tuna or wahoo at all this year which is unusual and I pretty much wrote off both species this season. However, it’s been a great year for dorado, billfish and yes…even roosterfish are still around as well.

But these fish are getting harder to find so the bite on the warm water species is diminishing rapidly.

With the changing water, more focus is on the inshore and cooler water species like pargo, cabrilla, jack crevalle, snapper, triggerfish and grouper. We did hook a few of those big dog-tooth snapper in the rocks, but all the fish broke off. You know that any fish that can eat a whole bonito has to be huge! But, stopping them is another story.

Bonito and jacks rounded out the catch this week. With rougher water, live bait is getting more difficult to obtain and that’s a big key to where and how we fish and ultimately what we catch as well.

2022 BOOKINGS STARTING TO FILL

Dates for 2022 already filling!

It’s only November, but many of our 2022 dates are starting to fill up.  In fact, some dates are already sold out with reservations coming in daily.  Don’t wait.  Get in touch with me so we can get you set up.  My direct e-mail is Jonathan@tailhunter.com.   Especially if you want certain captains or hotel rooms, get in touch with me!  We don’t want to miss you or disappoint you!

That’s my story!