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

April 3, 2024 by riplipboy

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!