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La Paz – Las Arenas / Muertos Bay / Bahia Suenos Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of April 17-23, 2023

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ACTION IMPROVES AS WINDS DIMINISH

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report for Week of April 17-24, 2023

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ FISHING VIDEO FISHING REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

The pargo or schooling and spawning in the shallow and exciting to see but real horses to try to pull out’ve the rocks. However, Mike Luna from Utah got this big guy out while fishing with Captain Victor! They are often willing to bite ,but most are lost because of sharp teeth and scales and they head back to the rocks! Nice catch!

We’ve know Cole Chavira since he was about 3 feet tall. He’s from the San Diego area and an excellent angler who has been in La Paz a zillion times. He picked up this roosterfish on the east side of Espirito Santo Island. Nice to see the roosters start to move in. The fish was released.

Our amigo, Doctor Art Flippin, had just one day to fish and was drifting the shallows over the rocks fishing for cabrilla and pargo and got surprised by this nice bull dorado. Art looks kinda happy! He did also get pargo, jacks, cabrilla and rainbow runner as well. Art lives in Colorado.

Big smile from Sophia with a tasty barred pargo ready for the fish box. Tough fighting fish, but great eating!

Captain Victor has a smile as he tries to help Rita Luna with her rainbow runner. Cousins to yellowtail, the fish are schooling up over the shallow areas right now and make great sashime and cooked up as well.

Our long-time amigo, Mark Bonsack from Washington comes down several times a year and is an excellent angler. He had just one day to fish, but rocked it with two hefty pargo liso. Tough to pull out’ve the rocks and most fish are lost. As a matter of fact, Mark says they broke off 4 others!

I think I’m coming over for fish tacos. Our amigo, Jimmy Williams was with Phil Desautels and Phil Perrone and I see dorado, ca brilla, pargo and yellow snapper on the table. They got hit by the winds, but these guys have experience and were able to hide in a cove and found a honey hole of fish!

East side of Cerralvo Island is a light tackle mecca. Art Flippin has a slugger jack crevalle he caught and released. The jacks are cousins to the roosterfish and fight just as hard, but don’t have the “mohawk” dorsal fin.

Mike Luna with Captain Victor on the beach. Check out the two nice pargo liso and the rainbow runner on the table, but the HUGE palometa (trevally) on the table is also a trophy fish!

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It’s all about the wind. It’s been that way all winter.

But finally, after a horrendous few months, the winds seem to be diminishing somewhat. Fortunately, during those crazy rough months, I warn folks about the winds so we don’t have too many anglers. But this week, the season started to kick in just in time as the winds cut back back on us a bit to allow for some decent fishing.

Early in the week, we got into quite a variety of fish.

It looks like the big pargo have come inshore to spawn. These tough fish are schooling over the rocks and are difficult fighters but great sport. Even the smaller 5-10 pounders can be brutally frustrating with their sharp teeth and scales plus their ability to get back into the rocks. We did get some larger 15-25 pounders, however, and many were lost to the rocks.

The same areas also held rainbow runners, barred pargo, snapper, smaller yellowtail, amberjack, cabrilla as well as bonito and jack crevalle making for some excellent fulls-speed action. As well, we’re starting to see some roosterfish in the area up to about 20 pounds plus a few free-swimming dorado moving into the area which keeps it promising.

Later in the week, the winds kicked in again and the only folks out on the water enjoying were the kiteboarders and windsurfers.

Check out this video of the channel in front of Cerralvo Island (turn up your volume)!

It was blowing even stronger before this video was taken.

It should get calmer with each passing week. Fingers crossed!

That’s my story!

Jonathan

Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter Sportfishing
www.tailhunter.comMexico Office:

Tailhunter Sportfishing
755 Paseo Obregon

La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico

U.S. Mailing Address:

Tailhunter Sportfishing
P.O. Box 159
Hewitt TX. 76643Phones:
from USA : 626-638-3383
from Mexico: 044-612-14-17863

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of April 9-16, 2023

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WINDS DIMINISHING (SOMEWHAT) – FISHING IMPROVING (SOMEWHAT)

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of April 9-16, 2023

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Our San Diego friends, Maureen and Skip got a couple of nice yellowtail to take home fishing with Captain Victor.

Russ Osterstein got a pretty early season dorado just off the rocks outside of Bahia Muertos where he was staying at Rancho Costa at Gary Wagner’s place.

Sometimes, it’s not the size or quantity, it’s just about having fun. Sage Fleener and his dad had just one day to fish and wanted to take light spinning tackle to fish the rocks. Had a kick with over 30 fish hooked including 7 or 8 species. They released everything except a few for dinner. See the photo below of Sage with Captain Jorge!

Just so much fun on light tackle! Another hook-up! This is all-day fun!

From Colorado, Chris Bee with a legit yellowtail headed for the kitchen at Rancho Costa in Bahia Muertos.

Skip and Maureen Coomber with some of their friends and a varietal catch. That’s FOG in the background!

With daytime temps hitting the low 80’s now, it finally started to feel like spring with a tinge of summer thrown in as winds (at least for now) diminished enough to get some folks out on the water.

As mentioned numerous times, this has been the windiest and roughest winter we can remember in our 30 years in La Paz. Normally, November to April is our off-season because it’s just too crazy on the water more-often-than-not. However, this past winter has been historic.

We’re not quite done with the winds yet, but at least for this past week, there were enough calmer days where the winds abated and we got folks out on the water.

We actually sent our first boats of the year with our Tailhunter La Paz Fleet to try fishing north of the city where there had been a good jag of big yellowtail. However, some boats got blown out one day and another day, it was calmer. But the fish just weren’t going to have any of it and lock-jawed on us resulting in just a few bonito. Not just us, but boats from other fleets as well.

By far, the better bite remained with our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet pushing out’ve Bahia Muertos.

Jack crevalle on light tackle will pull you out’ve your socks and great fun. Maureen has a big smile!

There was a nice mix of yellowtail, snapper, bonito, jack crevalle, cabrilla, pargo, sierra and even a few small roosterfish and dorado making for some nice action. No tuna to report, but that could also be because the yellowtail have been the focus being so close inshore or over the reefs and much more ready to bite.

A bonus included some spectacular whales breaching as well. Pretty thrilling to be so close to shore and seeing these great animals i the water!

Bonus whale breaching! Great shot and hard to catch on camera!

Looking at the extended forecast, the winds aren’t quite done with us yet. However, with each passing week, it usually gets a little better as we head towards the summer months.

One interesting thing happened this week. Crazy weather continuing as our anglers encountered FOG! Yup…real thick clinging fog! In my 30 years on the water in La Paz, I think I’ve run into Fog maybe twice. You just never know!

COMING HOME! FIND MY SHORTS ‘n’ FLIP FLOPS!

After almost 4 months on the road, we’re just wrapping up our final show here in Indianapolis, Indiana at the NRA Convention. That means I’m finally coming home to La Paz. Big thanks and shout out to everyone who came to see us at all the shows across the U.S. every week to say hi and all the crazy good hospitality, smiles, grins and laughs and for those of you coming to visit, we’ll be waiting for you in La Paz!

By the way…who knew? Never been to Indianapolis before and had no idea what to expect. Hey, Indy…we are totally enamored with you! What a great city to visit. Great folks. Great restaurants. Zero traffic. Incredibly clean and so much history as well. We’ll be back soon and hopefully not working. It bears much more exploring. Thanks for having us!

We still have some openings this year so get in touch with us before we’re completely sold out!

Write me: Jonathan@tailhunter.com

Also, thank you so much to everyone for all the good wishes ya’ll sent to Jilly on her birthday. We had to work and travel, but we had (and continue to celebrate all week) a great time! She just keeps getting mo’ bettah! I’m blessed!

That’s my story!

Jonathan

Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter Sportfishing
www.tailhunter.comMexico Office:

Tailhunter Sportfishing
755 Paseo Obregon

La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico

U.S. Mailing Address:

Tailhunter Sportfishing
P.O. Box 159
Hewitt TX. 76643Phones:
from USA : 626-638-3383
from Mexico: 044-612-14-17863

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for March 28-April 6, 2023

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UP DOWN (AND SIDEWAYS) FISHING ACTION

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Bahia Muertos/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Mar. 28-April 6, 2023

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO REPORT

A bit longer than normal because there was alot to catch up on, but hope you find it interesting!

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

These barred pargo can be awfully tough to pull out’ve the rocks and are great fighters, but super tasty on the table, especially cooked up whole. Russ Osterstein was staying at Gary Wagner’s Rancho Costa at Bahia Muertos when he got this pair.

Katie Delsaso and her amiga have big smiles posing with this legit pair of spring-time yellowtail while at Rancho Costa.

John Saggese had only one day to squeeze in for fishing and hit one of the least windy days when he was out with Captain Armando from the Tailhunter Fleet in La Paz. The day paid off with this legit yellowtail.

Debbie Jackson got her crew of amigos out with us on one of those lucky days when the winds gave us a little brake and resulted in a nice variety of yellowtail, sierra, bonito and dorado.

Some great eating as this nice sierra ended up as fish tacos in La Paz. It was caught by Sara McCarthy fishing with the Tailhunter Fleet in La Paz just off Punta Arenas.

Sorry this one is once again later than usual!

For almost 30 years, I’ve tried to do these every week, but as many of you know, we’ve been on the road now for almost 4 months doing the fishing and hunting shows and just finished our more recent show in Long Beach CA at the Bart Hall Fishing & Boating Show. The reports are hard to do after 4 or 5 days talking in the booth for 10 hours or so and coming back to a hotel room or driving several hundred miles a day.

Well, I lost my voice about a month ago at the Pacific Coast Sportsmans Show…I still haven’t gotten it back fully and then came down with a case of bronchitis, a low-grade fever and several other crazy ailments from just a little too much wear-and-tear from all those road miles and shows.

On top of all that, well…

Even I get tired of saying there’s really been no fishing because it’s been windy and rough plus, I wanted to wait a tad until I at least had something to report.

So, that’s my excuse. And I’m sticking to it. We have one more show to do (more on that below) and plus the weather is getting better and the fishing season will soon kick in full-speed so we’ll get back to our regular schedule.

Plus…I’m headed home to La Paz finally! Gotta get fishing!

In a nutshell…Fishing is still up-and-down relative and dictated by how much wind is blowing and how rough the seas happen to be. Not much of anyone out fishing which is few and far between trying to figure out which days will be the least windy and even then fishing can be difficult or, in extreme cases, simply having to cancel the trips completely. More wind on the way.

However, in most years, as we get closer to May, the winds calm down. Right now, the trick is figuring which days the wind won’t blow because there are definitely some fish to be caught and if the winds finally abate, would not be surprised if fishing blows up nicely!

For now…Catches have been mostly inshore to include sierra, jacks, bonito, snapper and some larger yellowtail from 10-30 pounds. Some dorado also thrown in here and there.

Oh…one exciting piece of news. Got our first roosterfish of the season!

Young Mr. Meadows had a bit of thrill with this roosterfish which he released.

LAST SHOW FOR THE TAILHUNTER 2023 ROAD TOUR

What a great time we had at the Long Beach Convention Center last week at the Bart Hall Fishing & Boating Show. After a 3 year-hiatus, the show was great fun and thank you to so many of our friends who came by to say hi and book with us to visit in 2023!

Now…our last show of the year is something really different.

We’re headed to the NRA (National Rifle Assoc.) Meeting and Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana this week for a 3 day show April 14-16 (Friday/ Saturday/ Sunday). It seems like a short show and awfully far from any ocean, especially us in Mexico. However, they are expecting some 90,000 visitors from ALL OVER THE WORLD at the show. YEOW! So, this should be interesting.