BEST WEEK OF THE SUMMER UNTIL ILEANA CRASHES THE PARTY

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Sept. 6-13, 2024

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT

WATER:  Getting some surface temps of 86 degrees.  Mostly blue and warm but some colder water still down deep and some dirty cold green patches still clinging.

WEATHER: High 90’s and very very humid.  Stay hydrated.  Feel like 20 degrees hotter than the thermometer says it is!

FISH  HOOKED THIS WEEK:  Dorado, marlin, sailfish, small tuna, roosterfish, jack crevalle, bonito, trevally, pompano, sierra, amberjack, rainbow runners, pargo, cabrilla, snapper.

SCALE OF 1-10:  Fishing was a 6 …highest of the summer

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO REPORT

BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Tropical Storm Ileana has been a buzz kill.

Roger Laubscher and Chris Binkely from Louisiana have fished with us several years and had a banner 3 days with a load of fillets to take home. Unfortunately, they got caught in Cabo when the storm hit and got stuck overnight.

Leif Dover and Brian O’Neill are two of our better anglers who come every year and consistently rock big fish like this nice rack of dorado. They’re from Georgia. They are headed next month to climb to base camp on Mt.Everest for the 2nd time.

She’s been waiting more than 2 years for this trip. Veronika Sharikova loves to fish and fishes well! She just knocked roosters off her bucket list. Fish was released.  She lives in Yosemite!

Our favorite flight attendant Carrie McKinley from Washington with one of her dorado. Check the flat waters!

Ron Clouser out with his sister Jan Nesmith and Captain Victor started out with a nice load of dorado including these two. They gifted all their fish each day.

Roger didn’t even know he was hooked to this massive sailfish at first. His first and it was caught with Captain Luis with our La Paz fleet. They were not able to release the fish.

Leif and Brian…day 2…more quality dorado fishing with Captain Hugo.

Tough fighting jack crevalle for carrie.

We love Don McKinley who has visited us several times and is a former missionary. Don has himself a tasty barred pargo near the rocks off Cerralvo Island.

Captain Jorge with his iconic thumb and Anita Wilkens first rooster! Normally, roosters aren’t here this late in the season. The fish was released.

Nice way to start the day with an early morning striper for Chris Binkley. His first. They are not able to release the fish. Chris hooked the fish just outside of La Paz Bay.

A day for big grins! First day out for Ed Hayes and Brent Lockhart!

I’m surprised our good friend, Dan McKinley doesn’t have a cigar in hand to go with the trevally! Good fisherman! Caught about 10 different species!

Good start! First day for Bryan Forward and Phil Kennedy fishing with Captain Moncho. Nice rack of fish!

Yea! First time visitors Veronika Sharikova and Amanda Davies decided to leave the boyfriend behind and do a girls fishing trip themselves!

Jon Eide with Capt. Armando and one of several mahi on the day.

First-time visitors with big smiles showing off a few of their dorado from the day, Bill and Jan Nesmith.

Andy Harrison and Jon Eide from Mineapolis MN visit us every year and have fun with their favorite captain Gerardo who has his job cut out for him cleaning fish!

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Still not what it SHOULD be, but by far we just had the best week of the summer.

There were some rough spots here and there, but overall just a nice week of pretty decent fishing.  There’s some colder green water here and there, but for once the fish were around and not only around, but willing to come to the party!

Mostly, the dorado finally decided to bite with the best areas being with our Las Arenas Fleet.  Fish were school-sized 5-10 pounders, but also some legit bulls up to 30 pounds.  Just lots of fun and some days, hitting limits (not a word I’ve been able to use much lately!) before 9 a.m.

For our La Paz fleet, fewer dorado, but there was a tendency for them to be larger and also billfish like sailfish and striped and blue marlin also got more active with most fish being released or breaking off,  especially on the lighter tackle.

As well, there’s still some small to medium roosterfish around (all released).  Add in lots of bonito action, jack crevalle, good fishing for pargo, cabrilla and snapper and overall a good week.  Plus some unusual catches of amberjack, rainbow runner, yellowtail (small), and sierra which are all cold-water species.

It was going grand until INVEST 9-E from the south and turned into Tropical Storm “ILEANA”

At the time I’m writing this, the port has been shut down and we’re still waiting for the 3-5 inches of rain predicted but has not yet hit.  Further south, Cabo is experiencing flooding and mudslides and where we launch the boats at Bahia Muertos it’s rough with rain, big waves and strong winds which are forecast to reach 30-60 mph.

But, it’s frustrating because we had to cancel all the fishing today and looking out the window it’s ugly and dark, but the waters in the bay are flat.

Lots of cancelled flights arriving and departing which added to the frustration!

That’s my story!

Jonathan