WARM WATER FISH WAKING UP!
La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of June 10-17, 2024
SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT
Weather: No doubt summer is here! It’s WARM and HOT in the daytimes. High 90’s to low 100’s, but not as much humidity as I might expect. Mornings surprisingly can be cool. I had to wear a sweatshirt some morning when putting folks on boats. Evenings are in the mid-70’s. Bring a light windbreaker or sweatshirt!
Water: Mostly blue and warming. Got some surface temps in the low 80’s now, but about 20-30′ down there’s a cooler thermocline and that’s why I think we’re getting fish like yellowtail and amberjack and other cold water species still hanging around.
Fish Hooked This Week: Roosterfish (up to 90+ pounds), jack crevalle, yellowtail (20-25 pounds), marlin, sailfish, amberjack, bonito, dorado, pargo, trevally, pompano, sierra, cabrilla, needlefish, triggerfish, rainbow runners.
Scale of 1-10: 6.5 to 7
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THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…
Somewhere back there is Gerry Eichhorn! He and his brother Vern came down all the way from Edmonton Canada and fished 6 straight days for big roosters! They caught and released 11 with Captain Victor!
Kelly Jimenez from Aurora Co, can fish! She and her husband have been fishing with us over 20 years. She always rocks it. Check outh the big yellowtail. They caught 10 of these hog ‘tails and others were lost in a crazy bite.
First-time visitor, Eric Granados with his first roosterfish not far off the sand at Punta Arenas. Fish was released.
From Ontario CA, Bruce Sakamoto was also visiting us for the first time and got quite a variety of fish like this slugger yellowtail.
Baltazar Sakamoto battled this striped marlin on light tackle for THREE hours! Jorge Soto helps out. They were not able to release the fish and hooked many other species as well.
One more for the camera! Vern Eichhorn and his brother, Gerry, from Canada hooked and released 11 of these brute roosterfish over 6 days with Captain Victor.
Behind that rooster dorsal fin is a happy fella named Keith Mitchell who really wanted to catch a big rooster this trip! He caught and released TWO! Keith is from Texas.
These guys worked like crazy over 3 days with their flyrods! Roy Yoshida and Norm Fujimoto with a couple of tough jack crevalle on the flyrods near Punta Arenas.
Nice pair! Jorge from Texas and Bruce from California got these fishing near Espirito Santo Island.
What a pretty photo and fish! Chris Sommer with Captain Jorge and a fresh bull dorado.
Travis Moore had just one day to fish and really wanted a rooster! BINGO! An armful of roosterfish. The fish was released!
Can’t find nicer or funner folks than John and Arla Washington from Reno who fish with us numerous times. Nice rack of fish including dorado, cabrilla and snapper!
From Miami after meeting us at the Nashville Safari Club Show, Roberto and Cathy Padron were a joy to have visit us for the first time. Nice table of dorado headed to the freezers!
First time fishing and first time fish! Tino Dileon got himself a nice bull fishing with Captain Chito!
DiChiarro boys from Texas all came down and got into dorado and roosterfish with us!
More happy Texas boys with the DiChiarro family and more nice dorado to take home!
Chris and Jan Sommer with Captain Jorge and a colorful bull mahi.
Diego Jimenez was a bit tired after he and his wife Kellly got into a wild bite of yellowtail near Punta Coyote. Check out the lineup!
Captain Luis and Captain Chito give Kelly a hand with another hefty yellowtail!
Al Hed from Oregon gets a laugh from Mike Jennings. These guys always crack me up. Al has TWO striped marlin on two rods. Mike has another! They hooked FIVE marlin on the day and were able to release 4 of them. One didn’t make it, but they donated the meat. The photos below are two of the marlin. They were with Captain Pancho.
ANOTHER ONE? Yes, that’s Captain Victor with Vern Eichhorn and yet another big rooster for a quick catch…photo…and release!
From Wyoming to visit us for the first time, Stacey Sanger and Chad Beers had a nice day on the water!
After you battle a fish and your arms are shaking, it’s hard to hold it up for a photo. Enter Captain Victor to give Gerry an assist with this beast roosterfish before they released it.
Keith got TWO of these the same day and was ecstatically happy. All fish were released.
Vern Eichhorn with another roosterfish. 11 of them on the week caught and released with Captain Victor.
A good day on the dorado for Diego and Kelly, our long-time amigos from Colorado.
Baltazar and his dad, Bruce, with quite a variety at Bahia Muertos including snapper, cabrilla, trevally and dorado.
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It was another good solid week of fishing down here.
I won’t say it was good all the time for everyone. There were some ups-and-downs, but overall pretty good. Maybe some boats did better than others or there was an off -day or so. However, since most of our guests fish multiple days, at the end everyone had fish. It might not be the exact species they were hunting, but the bite was definitely there.
Plus, once again, we had so much variety, you really never knew what was going to end up in the fish box. It was a buffet of species again:
Marlin, sailfish, yellowtail, dorado, roosterfish, amberjack, sierra, wahoo, pargo liso, barred pargo, cubera snapper, bonito, jack crevalle, cabrilla, pompano, trevally, rainbow runners and triggerfish.
Boats right next to each other could have completely different days!
Also, although the waters are getting warmer…up to about 80 degrees…there’s a thermocline about 20-30 feet down where the waters are a good 5 -10 degrees colder. That’s why we’re still catching yellowtail, amberjack and some of the other cold water species.
Each week, I think the yellowtail bite is over, they come back! So, we’re still getting 20-40 pound forkies! Not sure how much longer they will be around, but they are real horses! I can’t believe they are still here this late in the season!
But, it’s evident that the summer bite is getting stronger.
More marlin and sailfish are getting hooked, but the best indicator is the increased presence of dorado. More dorado are showing up in the counts.
Roosterfish still here too! Some big 50-100 pounders are still bending rods!
BAHIA MAGDALENA
Our long-time friend, Jim Stahlman, has fished with us for years. He just retired and decided to drive his new RV down from Idaho down the Baja and fish along the way. He wet lines at Bahia de Los Angeles as well as Loreto.
He finally spent 4 days fishing with our good friends Judith and Rigo in Bahia Magdalena. Check out the photos from fishing 3 days inside the mangroves in the bay and 1 day outside on the high spots. Jim said he probably caught 10 different species. Lost count of how many fish they released where it was non-stop action and broke off on some huge beasts that took him deep!
Snapper, grouper and halibut!
big smiles. Tasty grouper!
Double corvina in hand!
Jim’s wife is gonna love what he brings home. These grouper are great and she loves the head and collars…the whole fish if possible!
Captain Rigo with Jim. Yea, these guys have toothy choppers!
Day 1 – 14 grouper and numerous releases.
Hook up!
That’s my story. Again, this fishing report is dedicated to Jilly.
Jonathan
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