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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of May 15-22, 2024
SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT
WEATHER: Sunny and getting warmer. Nights are in the 70’s and day time in the high 90’s but still very comfortable because the humidity isn’t here yet. Plus, if you get hot, jump in the ocean!
WATER: Getting bluer, but not as warm as I would expect as shown by all the yellowtail and other cold water species we’re getting. But you can tell it’s getting warmer by more warm-water species showing up.
FISH HOOKED THIS WEEK: Quite a lineup!
Dorado, yellowtail, amberjack, rainbow runners, marlin, tuna, wahoo, roosterfish, yellow snapper, pargo liso, pargo mulato, cabrilla, white bonito, skipjack, sierra, triggerfish
Note: More variety fishing with our Las Arenas fleet. Mostly nice yellowtail and a few dorado with our La Paz fleet.
FISHING ON A SCALE of 1-10 – 6 1/2. (pretty good!)
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THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…
Sanford Slack from Washington State had just one day to fish with us and knocked it out’ve the ballpark with two wahoo (see photos below), big cabrilla and two big yellowtail!
Julia Mitchell on her first trip to visit us is all smiles with her first roosterfish. She had quite a week down here. The rooster was released.
Captain Rogelio estimated this thick yellowtail caught by John Pechous to be about 40 pounds! John was a first-time visitor and came to us from Arizona.
Gary Wagner at his place at Rancho Costa has one of the best eating fish, a hefty cabrilla (seabass).
Ray Millman from Rancho Palos Verdes with a nice dorado and Captain Victor doing a photobomb. Ray rocked the week and went home and booked another trip with us in September!
Yes…bigger roosters have moved in! Mauricio Levy from Monterey CA has an armful of rooster! The fish was released.
We had a nice little jag of wahoo at the south end of Cerralvo Island this week. Sanford popped two of the speedy ‘hoos with Captain Hugo.
Julia’s yellowtail is bigger than her dad’s yellowtail, she claims! Captain Alfredo looks on. They were fishing around Punta Coyote.
Gary Wagner at Rancho Costa in Bahia Muertos with quite a rack of fishi. I can see yellowtail, dorado, barred pargo, yellow snapper and cabrlla. I’m sure they had a great dinner there that night.
Willy Moers is always fun when he comes down from Colorado! Quite a day here…cabrilla, yellow snapper, dorado and rainbow runner.
Bill Mitchell was one of my first Tailhunter clients almost 30 years ago. Good to have him back and here’s another yellowtail for the box. He and his daughter put 7 on the deck this particular day.
Tough-fighting pargo liso are still schooling in the shallows. Julia has another one!
That’a alot of sweet fillet meat for Sanford with a trophy cabrilla in the pose.
Julia and Captain Alfredo with another yellowtail.
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Just another good solid week of fishing down here.
Everyone got fish. Everyone ate fish. Everyone took fish home! That kinda says it all.
The “problem” is that I couldn’t pinpoint what kinds of fish were biting. Every day and every boat things changed. We caught so many different species of fish once again as the waters change from cooler to warmer and both cooler water species and warm water species mix things up.
Boats came back with different catches every day. Even if they fished the same spots. Boats next to each other caught different fish. One day fish were small. Next day all the fish were trophy.
It really made it fun. If you went out…if you had a bait in the water…you just never knew what you were going to catch.
It was quite a list:
Dorado…yellowtail…jack crevalle…bonito…skipjack…tuna…wahoo…cabrilla…sierra…amberjack…rainbow runners…pargo liso (mullet snapper)…barred pargo (pargo mulato)…dog tooth snapper (cubera)…yellow snapper…marlin…roosterfish…milkfish…triggerfish
I probably missed one or two! There were that many species!
I think as things get warmer, we’ll be narrowing down to dorado, tuna, billfish, wahoo and roosterfish among a few others. I don’t know how long the waters will stay cool enough to hold this kind of variety, but for now, it’s alot of fun.
Things are definitely getting warmer. Night temps are in the mid-70’s. Day time temp are in the mid-to-high 90’s. However, the humidity really hasn’t hit yet so it’s still very pleasant sunshine days with mostly flat warm 75 degree waters on the surface, but a cooler thermocline 20-30 feet below.
That’s my story!
Jonathan
Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter Sportfishing
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