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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of April 19-26, 2024

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LITTLE OF THIS…LITTLE OF THAT

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Apri 19-27, 2024

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT

WEATHER: Chilly breezy mornings in the high-50’s or low 60’s (bring a sweatshirt or windbreaker) then hitting the low 90’s by daytime. A few clouds giving way to bright sunshine.

WATER: Getting warmer and more blue as it clears up . Temps ranging fromthe high 60’s to mid-70’s some spots. Warmer water is bringing in a sargasso bloom that will grow until warmer water burns it off.

WIND: Can be a bit gusty in the mornings and even kicking up some whitecaps in the bay, then it settles down. Still a bit choppy outside, but most of the winds are now from the south and not preventing us from getting to most fishing spots…this week!

FISH HOOKED THIS WEEK: Yellowtail, dorado, tuna, cabrilla, pargo liso, barred pargo, snapper, sierra, jack crevalle, bonito, roosterfish, skipjack, pompano, palometa(yellow trevally)

BAIT: Lots of sardines but the schools are moving around a lot. Some mornings, it takes a little longer to find the spots. La Paz has mackerel under the anchored tankers in the bay.

SCALE of 1-10: Four. (I think the full moon had a bit of an effect as fishing got better as the full moon faded.)

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Carlos Sanabria, Jr. just had two days to fish with his dad before heading off on his honeymoon then getting deployed to Kuwait. Big smiles…a flat sea…and a nice yellowtail he snagged with a jig! Doesn’t matter if it ends up in the fish box!

Darrell Manginelli, from Ventura CA, visits us several times a year and always does well. He got a nice variety here on his spinning rod with a pargo liso, some cabrilla and a dorado on the table.

Our two newest amigos, Peter Tobias and Eugene Wowk from New Jersey, spent the week with us and show off a few of the roosterfish they hooked. Nice double here! All roosters were released.

You don’t realize how tough pargo liso fight…even the smaller ones…until you have one hooked! Carlos Sanabria pulled this one from the rocks. Great eating and the fish are in the shallows spawning now!

Great first day for Johnny and Allison Hogan who visited us from Oklahoma. Nice variety! Cabriila, rainbow runner, yellowtail, snapper and dorado at Bahia Muertos!

He’s visited us several times, but Andy Lauber from Louisiana, had never hooked a rooster on the flyrod. He and his wife found a nice school of small and medium roosters right up along the beach and said, “We could have stayed there all day with the light tackle. It was way fun!” All roosters were released.

A few dorado creeping into the counts as the waters warm! Carlos got this just south of Bahia Muertos along the cliffs.

Peter Tobias all the way from New Jersey with Captain Hugo and a bull dorado. To me, more impressive are the big pargo lying on the fish cleaning table!

Cabrilla are the favorite fish for locals here in La Paz and the meat is tender and white! These are two legit fish for Darrell. He said he missed a few others in the rocks!

Captain Hugo posing with Peter and Eugene. Some legit-sized cabrilla and pompano on the cutting table and a nice bull dorado that they had a laugh over as the mahi ate both their hooks and a friendly argument ensued as to who’s fish it was!

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It was an interesting week.

Good action and lots of variety the entire time and everyone had fun, but earlier in the week, it was a bit picky…the fishing was somewhat scratchy. Everyone was catching fish, but it wasn’t as good as the previous week.

I couldn’t figure out why.

Then one dark morning as I was putting out the boats, I looked up…DANGIT…full moon! That had to be it. I’m not a big “full moon theory” person, but that was the only variable that I could point to. (And of course throw blame like any good fisherman!).

What else could it be? Because as the full moon diminished, the fish got better. I mean, it improved tremendously! Everyone was catching and taking home fish, but as the week went on and the full moon got darker, the fish got more active. We started getting more variety. The fish also got bigger.

The list of fish hooked this week was pretty amazing and not completely unusual for this time of the year:

Yellowtail

Amberjack

Jack Crevalle

Pompano

Trevally

Dorado

Sierra

White Bonito

Skipjack

Roosterfish

Barred Pargo

Dog Tooth Snapper

Mullet Snapper (Pargo Liso)

Yellow Snapper

Cabrilla

Grouper

Commercial guys also hooked some big tuna

It’s probably going to be like that for a few weeks as waters get warmer. The patches of colder water are producing the colder water species and the patches of warmer water are kicking out the blue-water pelagic species like the tuna and dorado.

Gotta tell you, it’s reflected in the daytime temps. The nights and mornings can be chilly sweatshirt weather with temps down to the mid-50’s and breezy. Then, within a few hours, the thermometer zooms up to the high 80’s or low 90’s. Frankly, it’s been mostly gorgeous sunny weather with minimal humidity. A really nice time to be here in town.

As the waters get warmer, we’ll be seeing fewer species, but more dorado (we hope) as well as tuna, billfish, wahoo and larger roosterfish.

The fun thing right now is that if you have a bait in the water, there’s just no telling what’s gonna bite. It could be any number of species! And each day can be completely different than the other days.

That’s my story!

Jonathan

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of April 11-18, 2024

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THAT’s MORE LIKE IT!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of April 11-18, 2024

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT

Weather: Quite a temperature swing some days. High 50’s at night to high 80’s or low 90’s at night. Mostly sunny although some mornings are cloudy and can be chilly. Winds cut back this week nicely.

Water: Much calmer this week since the winds cut back and much bluer and warmer which reflected in a better fish bite. You can tell the waters are warming since there has been a sargasso bloom which could last a few weeks until the water gets even warm and it does off.

Bait: Sardines and mackerel in abundance!

Fish Hooked This Week: Yellowtail, pargo, roosterfish, tuna, banqueta, cabrilla, sierra, jack crevalle and bonito

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Jorge has a big grin on his face with his catch of a gorgeous barred pargo. These are great eating fish and highly prized. The heads are highly valued for delicious fish soup! Jorge was using a live mackerel fishing over the rocks.

The big schools of big pargo liso (mullet snapper) have moved into the shallows to spawn and can be extremely aggressive and put up an impressive fight. Mark Bonsack from Cle Elam, Washington always fishes well with us.

Wow! Paul Nagata, another of our regular amigos for many years and visits us several times a year, poses with a trophy cabrilla he caught off Punta Perrico.

Another of the solid anglers who fish our area often, you can tell that it can be a bit nippy in the morning as Kevin Shiotani holds up an early morning jack crevalle. Another slugger when hooked.

Mark hooked this yellowfin tuna just off the beach just south of Bahia Muertos. On a scale, it logged in a legit 56-pounds!

Jorge was out with Captain Boli and headed north to El Bajo north of La Paz and using live mackerel scored a limit of yellowtail and were done fishing after an hour! The yellowtail have been on the chew around Espirito Santo Island!

Mark has a knack for these baquetas which are deeper water grouper. We don’t see many of these in the counts during the season!

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It seems every week…even every day is different right now. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s erratic. I’d say it’s pretty typical of this time of year.

Last week we talked about how the strong north winds came back and how that might have affected the bite along with the eclipse perhaps being another variable that affected currents, tides and surely the fish!

The bite was off and the northern winds returning caused us to have to cancel a few trips…like like in the winter when it gets too rough oftentimes to get out and fish or simply makes it too uncomfortable or even dangerous.

Well, this past week, the winds cut back again. Waters settled. Waters warmed. And all kinds of schools of bait showed up…en masse!

Those are a great combination for fishing and for sure, it reflected in the bite.

The big schools of pargo liso showed up around Punta Arenas, Punta Perrico, Muertos Bay and Cerralvo Island. These fish school up this time of year to spawn and can range from 5-50 pound “horses” in the shallow waters where sharp teeth, sharp gillplates, sharp scales, a rocky environment and simply a beligerent and aggressive attitude make them difficult and tough sportfish. They can be extremely frustrating and most fish are lost after rugged battles.

Pargo like these mullet snapper are now on the spawn in the shallows!

Also in the shallow inshore areas, there was a good bite of jack crevalle, bonito, cabrilla and even a few smaller roosterfish.

Smaller roosters have moved in. Waiting for the big boys!

Around the islands and especially north of Espirito Santo Island and the El Bajo Seamount the yellowtail have been putting on a great chew with fish going 10-30 pounds. In some cases, the fish were literally foaming and limits were coming in fast. The fish were eating live mackerel which we were easily caught using sabiki rigs in La Paz Bay under the tankers anchored just offshore, then heading out to the fishing grounds.

Yellowtail can pull hard. We had a good week for them!

The forktails were also chasing the yo-yo jigs in blue/white and green/yellow patterns as well as slow trolled deep running Rapalas, Yo-Zuris and Nomad lures.

Almost to the gaff!

But, like I said, things change every week. No dorado to speak of just when I thought the dorado bite might be taking off as per last week’s report. Strange because the waters were warming, but most of our catch this week was of the colder water variety.

I think overall, things will improve although we’re still going to get little episodes of wind for a few more weeks. And I’m sure for a few more weeks, at least, we can expect the unexpected which just means if you have a bait in the water, we’re not sure what we’ll hook!

But that’s why this time of year is called the “transition” period when we have both cold water fish and warm water fish and so much variety. The cold water fish will gradually be moving out and warm water fish like the dorado, tuna, wahoo and billfish and hopefully larger roosters will start moving in!

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
8030 La Mesa Blvd. #178 La Mesa CA 91942

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of April 3-10, 2024

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WIND AND THE ECLIPSE?

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of April 3-10, 2024

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT

WEATHER – Mostly warmer days, but winds came back up this week getting the waters back up to choppy and some days limiting where we could get to fish. Had to even cancel one day of fishing and snorkeling. Don’t know how much the eclipse affected things. It affected animals!

WATER – Getting warmer, but a bit choppier this week and rough when the winds kicked back up.

FISH HOOKED THIS WEEK – Yellowtail, dorado, bonito, jack crevalle, sierra, snapper, pargo

FISHING ON A SCALE OF 1-10 SINCE LAST REPORT (10 is best) – 3.5

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO FISHING REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

It’s been a few years since Gavin Chun has visited us, but he was out with Captain Boli and took this sizeable dorado off Espirito Santo Island north of La Paz. They hung a big yellowtail as well that they battled before it got unbuttoned.

First roosterfish for Kevin Lyons. They actually hooked 5 roosters all released. Kevin is from Long Island NY and grew up watching American Sportsman and dreamed of catching a roosterfish!

Captain Luis has a laugh with Jeff Pagliuca as they unhook a fresh yellowtail.

Dave Pollard and Hector Chacon started fishing with us about 25 years ago. Nice photo of their catch of dorado, snapper, a cabrilla and palometa.

Captain Armando helped put another dorado in the boat!

One of the larger dorado of the young season for Steve! His first time with us.

Kevin has a nice big sierra that’s going back to the freezers!

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Pump the brakes!

Despite my optimism over the last several fishing reports, the bite still isn’t quite ready to go full-speed. I kept warning that the winds would be coming back and this past week, it did get breezy again. Not enough to blow folks off the water like the previous months but enough to make it choppy and difficult to fish.

We had to cancel two fishing trips as well as a snorkel trip this past week because of the rough weather.

…and the fish weren’t exactly cooperative either.

Was it the weather? Was it the atmospheric changes caused by the eclipse? Maybe the combination of the two? I won’t discount that any of those could have had a major affect on things. I mean the moon has an affect on tides and currents normally. And news reports during the eclipse talked about how the zoo animals behaved…confused and agitated.

So, maybe the fish were affected too. Who knows? I don’t think it helped!

Not only were the counts down compared to previous weeks, but also the variety was reduced as well.

We did get some nice dorado…the largest of the season so far. And a few smaller roosterfish as well as pargo, cabrilla, snapper, jacks and bonito. And some large sierra. And not really many at that. And that was kinda it!

Things will change. Just being honest. We’re going to see more winds, but it’ll get better. It always does. In fact, the next few days after you’re reading this, the forecasts call for diminished winds.

That’s my story!

Jonathan

Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter Sportfishing
www.tailhunter.com

Mexico Office:

Tailhunter Sportfishing

755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico

U.S. Mailing Address: Tailhunter Sportfishing
8030 La Mesa Blvd. #178 La Mesa CA 91942

Phones:
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 Mar. 25-April 2, 2023

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THINGS ARE WARMING UP!

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

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN REPORT

WEATHER: Much improved the past 2 weeks. Getting warmer and sunnier although strong northern winds are still problematic but not as frequent.

WATER: With diminishing winds, waters are getting clearer and more blue.

SPECIES HOOKED THIS WEEK: Yellowtail, dorado, pompano, palometa, bonito, jack crevalle, roosterfish, snapper, sierra, amberjack, yellowtail, barred pargo, pargo liso, dog-tooth snapper

MEXICAN MINUTE VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

From Minnesota, Steve Powers had just one day to squeeze in fishing and landed a number of species including this hefty yellowtail. He also landed dorado and a roosterfish (released). Photos below.

That’s a great rack of tasty fish for Leif Dover, out long-time amigo from Atlanta GA. Big pompano, sierra, doado and a barred pargo in the mix.

John Turner and Brian O’Neil fished 6 days and although they hit some wind, the still put lots of fish in the box. Check out this catch of dorado, a big pargo liso and sierra.

Normally, we don’t see them quite so early in the year, but Steve landed and released this nice roosterfish.

Two more of our long-time Tailhunter amigos, Kip Slaugh from Utah and Jim Molinari from California with some quality yellowtail, dorado and sierra on the fish table!

One day to fish all the way from N. Carolina, Melissa Evans and her son, Jack, pose with a big palometa. They also caught snapper, cabrilla and pompano!

Find the right spot and there’s some dorado to be found like this one with Steve ready for the filet box!

These huge pompano have been with us now over 2 weeks and are great fighters and tasty eating! Captain Gerardo poses with one of the big guys.

John Turner and Leif Dover ran into some winds, but were still able to fish inshore and loaded up on the cabrilla and snapper.

Our amigo, Gary Wagner, owner of Rancho Costa at Bahia Muertos. He’s got a nice barred pargo.

More big pompano and dorado headed for the cooler!

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Hope ya’ll had a great Easter and Easter Week!

We’re not quite there yet…but things seem to be improving weekly with better conditions and a surprising number of different and unseasonable species.

Still seeing some really windy days, but we’re having more good days than better day as waters clear up and warm and it’s bringing in the fish. Not so many pelagic blue water species yet although there are a surprising number of dorado in the water if you hit those warmer spots or current breaks where there’s a temperature split.

However, the inshore species are sure bending rods.

In addition to some nice quality yellowtail up to about 25 pounds, the big pompano are still around and it’s unusual to be getting pompano like this so early in the season and for sure, I’ve never seen so many pompano of this size! The fish are close to the beaches at the drop offs.

In those same areas, the variety has been incredible…snapper, 3 species of pargo (pargo liso, barred pargo, dog-tooth snapper) cabrilla, sierra, jack crevalle, bonito, skipjack…and yes…even the occasional early roosterfish too! Just really fun live bait and jig fishing when you really don’t know what’s gonna bite!

And even cooler, most of the fishing is closer to shore without having to go very far even if the winds are kicking in.

EASTER WEEK IN LA PAZ

It was pretty packed in town the last 2 weeks! Spring Break and Easter are the busiests travel periods of the year and our tranquil little city of La Paz was a jammed with folks from all over. More Mexicans travel during this time than any other time added to all the Americans who descend on beach destinations like La Paz!

The line of cars waiting to be allowed into Balandra Beach which has a quota on the number of folks allowed in at one time. The rest of to wait.

Famous Tecolote Beach jammed with vacationers having a good time.

Tecolote Beach 17 miles north of La Paz had a 5 hour car ride back into town…to go 17 miles. A “conga line” of evening headlights.

Pichilingue Beach which usually has only a handful of cars stacked up with campers and picnic folks enjoying the sand and water.

ECLIPSE APRIL 8 – BEWARE!

If you’re going to be in La Paz for the eclipse like some of our anglers, don’t forget to bring eclipse glasses! Regular sunglasses are NOT good enough to protect your eyes! And there are alot of fake eclipse glasses out there too. Make sure the glasses you use are certified!

It will be interesting to see if the fishing and tides/ currents will be affected by this event too!