BIG SPAWNING PARGO BENDING RODS IN SHALLOW WATER 

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of April 25-May 2, 2023

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN REPORT AT A GLANCE:

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WEATHER – 65 to 85 degrees.  Cold windy mornings

FISHING – (Scale of 1-10) – 4  but getting better.  Lots of variety.  Las Arenas has been better than La Paz

WIND – Still being a pain, but it’s now coming from the south instead of the north which are the real problematic winds.  South is manageable.  But it’s keeping the waters cool and somewhat cloudier than we would like.

TYPES of FISH CAUGHT THIS WEEK:

Yellowtail, amberjack, pargo liso, pargo mulato, dog tooth snapper, cabrilla, rainbow runner, triggerfish, bonito, jack crevalle, roosterfish, parrotfish, sierra.

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MEXICAN MINUTE VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Fresh one in the boat! Stan Andre has been with us numerous times over the years and he’s hooked ’em, but never able to land one of these tough pargo. He got several this week to break the jinx!

Oh the sheer joy! Great photo of Jan’s first fish with a photo assist from Captain Pancho.

Love these guys! Been coming for years. Steve Halgrimson and Chuck Toeniskoetter got quite a variety on the table of pompano, snapper, pargo and trevally! Threw back a bunch too!

Dan Shay always does well on his spinning rod. He chummed up some yellowtail at the island and cast his jig into the middle of the boils and had this nice forkie blow up on his lure!

These are horses! (The fish…not the guys!). Terry Hawk and Stan Andre with two more legit pargo liso in the boat!

Jan and Art…fished with us a week ago and came back to catch more pargo. Art made the mistake of trying to fish the pargo with light line and missed several other fish in the rocks!

I suppose the biggest news is that it’s still windy!

But this is different.  It’s not those dastardly northern winds that blew us around all winter and kept everyone off the water. These are southern winds that are alot more manageable.

That’s the good news.

The bad news is that the winds are making for some crazy chilly mornings even though it warms up to the mid-80’s the rest of the day.  All of us are wearing jackets and sweatshirts in the mornings.  I kid you not!  If you’re coming down soon, it wouldn’t hurt to bring something you can take off later!

What the winds are doing is keeping the waters on the cool side and making the ocean alot murkier than we would prefer.  That’s the part that’s affecting the bite.

That’s not to say we’re not catching fish.

We’re catching quite a variety of species!  However, where and when you fish has alot to do with the results.  This past week, the fishing out’ve La Paz was so-so at best.  The yellowtail largely got lock-jaw and wouldn’t bite which I think had alot to do with the winds and erratic seas.  So, most of the catch was a smattering of rock and reef fish.

On the other hand, our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet did remarkably better with a super variety of species that included jack crevalle, bonito, smaller roosterfish, sierra, amberjack, yellowtail, cabrilla, rainbow runner and several species of pargo including the big pargo liso (mullet snapper) that school up in the shallows this time of year and can give anglers fits.

In the photos, some of them might not look that big, but they can pull as big as fish 3x their size and are equipped with sharp teeth; sharp scales and gill plates plus quickly pull you into the rocks because these powerfish fish are in the shallows.  They also have a really bad attitude!  I often tell our anglers, if you hook 5 or 6 of them and get one to the boat, you’re doing pretty good!

This wasn’t from this week, but this is about a “medium” sized one just to give you an idea. This is the kind that can leave you in tears!

A few dorado swimming around.  A few tuna noticed by the commercial anglers and we’re seeing our first billfish of the season starting to sun themselves on the surface but not yet quite ready to chew!

That’s my story!

Jonathan