SEASON CHANGES STARTING?
…DORADO MORE SCATTERED AND PICKY
La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Aug 25-Sept 1, 2022
MEXICAN MINUTE VIDEO REPORT
THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of THE STORY…
Jimmy Williams (right) was out on the north end of Cerralvo Island with his neighbor Derrek when they hit these pair of jurassic bull dorado! Jimmy was fishing a live cocinero and Derrek nailed his fish on a flyrod!
Captain Ramiro helps Doctor Angie with her first dorado. First time visitor and first time fishing. She took home a nice load of fish.
Really fun folks visiting us for the first time and spent a few days fishing with us while staying at Rancho Costa. John and Sally Jongsma started their trip with a nice pair of just inside Bahia Muertos.
Steve Fajardo from Havasu City AZ looks like a postcard holding his bull there in Bahia Muertos!
A rare shot of Captain Arcangel smiling while helping Corey Giles from Utah on the gaff and photo. Arkie has worked for us almost 30 years at Tailhunter and a great guy and captain, but rarely smiles when the camera comes out.
All the way from Michigan, Jason Brown holds a legit bull dorado while uncle Brian McClelland looks on.
Steve has doubles! Both caught fishing just outside of La Paz Bay.
Always smiling, Sue McClelland has visited us many times from Utah and always gets into some nice fish.
Bringing back a nice load of dorado meat! Peggy Fry and Corey Giles headed back to the beach.
New addition to our Tailhunter Tribe, Brian Devlin from Colorado, spent 3 days fishing the dorado with us.
Big beast bull dorado! Captain Armando helps pose it with Tricia and Gary Bondoc.
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BOOM – LAST MINUTE UPDATE! TROPICAL STORM XAVIER HITS US
Just as I was about to publish this week’s report, Tropical Storm Xavier hit us. Well…mostly it glanced off the Baja and headed west to sea, but enough of it so that today (Friday Sept 2) it’s now raining and winds are blowing up to 30 mph. Some areas have lost electricity. In the video you can hear car and building alarms that got set off by the storm.
The port captain has shut down all boat traffic in and out’ve the port so we regretfully had to cancel all fishing for our guests. Hope we can get back on the water soon!
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It took a long time for summer to reach us down here with summer-time fishing as La Niña kept waters cool and fishing unseasonable until almost mid-July. Then, things finally hit stride and the fishing has been solidly summer and conditions more normal with sunshine, blue waters and typical Baja humidity.
However, this past week, it almost seems like the seasons are already changing to fall conditions. It’s been sunny but cooler. Warm, but breezier. We’ve had afternoon tropical showers. In fact, this coming week, the weather predictions show chances of thunderstorms here and there almost every day. (See update above…”tropical showers” turned into major tropical storm!)
Afternoon rainshower blows across La Paz Bay.
Hopefully, things aren’t changing too fast because the fishing has been mostly very good, especially for dorado. That being said, we even hooked some “cold water” fish like sierra that we usually catch in the winter and pompano and trevally that we usually see in the cooler spring! We’ll have to see…
It wasn’t a fantastic week of fishing, but overall pretty good. Some good days. Some not so much.
The mahi have been 98% of the catch with fish in a wide area. You can pick up fish here and there all day or you can hit that one school and have dorado pandemonium for an hour until your bait is gone and the fish box is full of limits and exhausted fishermen say they’re too tired! Many of the fish have been school-sized 10-15 pounders. Many smaller fish are getting kicked back. A few 20-30 pounders in the mix with larger ones breaking off.
Not much else showing up in the counts, but I think alot of that has to do with folks are fishing for and having fun for the dorado. They’re great fun and abundant and it’s not complicated fishing. So, no one is really chasing roosters, marlin, tuna, wahoo or the inshore species. We have had a few marlin and wahoo hookups, but nothing landed and the bites were incidental. (The anglers were fishing for dorado!). The few times that folks fished the rocks, they hit pargo, cabrilla and even some pompano, but everyone really is chasing the dorado.
That’s my story!
Jonathan
Tailhunter Sportfishing
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