COOLER WINDIER ROUGHER – SEASON IS
CHANGING!
La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Oct. 15-22, 2022
MEXICAN MINUTE VIDEO REPORT
THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…
That’s a good look! Kenji Yamada from Juneau, Alaska with another nice bull for the box. Mom, Jackie is on another fish. They own the Shelter Lodge operation up there in Juneau and always great to have them visit!
Ed Mitoma with a beautiful bull to match his shirt! Ed has been coming to visit us for years and only had two quick days to squeeze in a fishing vacation and hit this mahi his last day.
Oh man! Where have these tuna been? Leif Dover from Atlanta, GA and Kevin Todd who lives near Austin TX with Captain Gerardo and a trio of fat tuna plus a dorado and cabrilla on the cleaning deck.
Captain Victor poses with Doug Dickerson from Kentucky who brought his son down for two days of fishing and started out on the right track with a table of dorado.
As the waters cool off, we’re seeing more and more rainbow runners back in the count. These cousin to yellowtail are tasty eaters. Angela Ventura is all smiles.
Surprising to have roosterfish in the counts this time of year, but there are still some around. Richard Yamada, owner of Shelter Lodge up in Juneau, Alaska with a nice one off Punta Perrico that he caught and released.
Captain Jorge with two of our favorite folks from Henderson NV, Lois and Gary Tsunoda started 3 days of fishing with some dorado to put in the cooler.
First time, amigos from Utah, Colton Francis and his dad, Kent with Captain Jorge and one of several dorado on the day . Good to have them visit!
Adam Staible and Tony Riley with a colorful shot of dorado on the beach at Ensenada Muertos.
I neglected to post this last week, but Greg Saubolle from N. California has come to see us twice this year and was out with Captain Arcangel when he got this big dorado as well as a bunch of others and I also see a sizeable barred pargo on the cleaning board as well!
Just another good day on the water. Keith, Leif and Kevin with a good harvest of dorado and tuna.
Roy is pretty happy.
Ron Byrd with John and Nancy Quiring got on top of the tuna when they came up. Nice dorado and pargo too!
The right kind! Mike Jennings from Washington came back to see us on a last-minute trip and hit the dorado schools for 3 days including this nice bull mahi.
Cross a roosterfish off the bucket list for Joey Nawa. Caught and released!
Another sign of cooler waters. Eric has himself a little trevally!
One of the nicests and sweetest of our amigas, Jackie Yamada brought her crew from Shelter Lodge in Juneau AK for 3 days of fishing and gets a hand here from Captain Pancho on another bull mahi.
Two double fists of dorado for Dave and Candi Staigle on a first-time visit with us here in La Paz.
Captain Jorge with a thumbs-up for Brian and Chris from Atlanta who fished 6 days with us. Dorado, rainbow runner and a snapper on the cutting board.
Leif and Chris…another good day!
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It was another fairly good week of fishing, but there’s no doubt that the seasons are changing and our top-water warm-season fishing is tapering off.
Winds are getting stronger and breezier, especially from the north. It’s getting choppier and waters are starting to cool off. The result is a gradual change in the species of fish as more colder water fish start showing up. There are some areas where it is starting to get too rough and we will not be able to fish those spots any longer.
Not co-incidentally, fewer fishermen as it not only gets cooler and rougher but we get closer to the holidays. As we get fewer fishermen, we’ll start to see more snow-birds hit town who are just here to get some sunshine and not particularly here for fishing plus windsurfers from around the world as the winds increase.
That being said, the dorado are still biting with most fish in the 5-15 pound class and larger fish up to about 30 pounds. Both our Tailhunter Las Arenas and our Tailhunter La Paz fleets are finding the schools which range in a wide area. I would say there are more fish around La Paz and as close as the tankers anchored in the bay, however, the larger fish are found around Las Arenas and Cerralvo Island.
Oh yea! Wayne Vanzandt with Captain Jorge, did a “bait dump” on the way back into the beach at the end of the day and tossing all their live and dead bait into the water at the same time and the waters blew up with dorado including this big bull.
We did have a little jag or two of legit quality 25-40 pound tuna on-and-off. Nothing to denote a full “tuna bite.” However, a few fish showed up in the counts mostly from south of Bahia Suenos.
We still have some marlin and sailfish taking baits and lures plus inshore pargo, cabrilla, snapper, jack crevalle and lots of bonito some days. However, the presence of sierra, rainbow runners, pompano and trevally are all indicative of cooler colder waters that have moved in corresponding to the changing seasons.
Bottom line…our official 2023 season is just about tapering off. It’s been a helluva season!
That’s my story!
Jonathan
Tailhunter Sportfishing
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Lots of late dorados this year ! Nice
Rastuss
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