FISHING DURING THE HOLIDAYS

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report for Dec. 5-21, 2024

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT

Weather:  Mostly nice and sunny and really pleasant with temps ranging from the 60’s to 80’s. However, winds from the north continue to be problematic with gusts between 10 and 30 mph

Water: Getting cooler, but there’s some nice patches of surprising blue/warmer water here and there. Can be extremely rough if the winds are blowing

Species Hooked This Week:   Dorado, sierra, small yellowtail, triggerfish, snapper, snapper, bonito, jack crevalle, roosterfish, marlin, amberjack,

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO FISHING REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST OF THE STORY…

Our friends, Bob Sayre from Chicago and his friend Jim Fanscher weren’t able to get outside the bay because of winds but still found a dorado and a sierra…a warm water fish and cold water fish as well as a big bonito.

Enjoying some sunshine escaping from Minnesota, Greg Earles had a great star with 4 dorado, a big sierra and some white bonito plus released a bunch of small roosterfish.

Beto is going to make some great ceviche with this saw!

Our La Paz friend, Jimmy Williams always does well. Nice barred snapper!

Greg caught and released about a half-dozen of these fun little roosterfish right in Bahia Muertos on live sardines.

Some good eating on the table for Jimmy and Phil with several types of snapper plus triggers and a saw.

Once again, apologies for the late response.

With the increasing northern winter winds, I was really waiting for something to happen so that I’ve have some “meat” to the report rather than just continuously telling you that the winds are blowing and not much of anyone fishing during the winter months.

But, honestly, in the last 3 weeks, some days the winds have been kicking 10-30 mph and not a great time to be out on the water unless you’re a windsurfer. I’ve had a number of folks wanting to go out and I’ve had to flat out tell them, “I’d love the booking and money, but the reality is that you’re going to get blown off the water or seasick !”

These aren’t hardcore fishermen. They’re just in town for vacations and decide they want to try fishing for a day. Often they have youngsters with them and I would just rather be honest and transparent about expectations and the weather.

I’ve also had to cancel a few trips for fishing and snorkeling as well.  It’s a great time to be in town as the weather is really pleasant and sunny with temps into the 60’s -80’s but just not a great time to be on the water.

However, we did actually get a few folks out whenwe found some windows when the winds backed off a bit. Also, we had some of our local friends get out fishing and got me some reliable reports.  Other than that, most of the reports are coming from friends who are commercial fishermen who don’t have a choice.  They’re not fishing for fun or sport.  They’re out on the water no matter what trying to make a living.

Waters are getting cooler and rougher, but there are surprisingly still some warm patches of blue water holding dorado.  Crazy to see dorado in December but there are some school-sized 5-15 pound fish still in the area plus some larger 20 pound class free swimmers.   Live bait is difficult to come by because of the rough waters so frozen dead ballyhoo or striped bonito slow trolled has worked most effectively.

The warm waters have also been cited as the reason that there are still some billfish like striped marlin, sporadic tuna and wahoo have been hooked.  Again, it’s very unusual to see these species in the winter and likewise, to get to some of the spots, it has to be calm enough on the ocean.

Inshore, is where the majority of the action has been found, especially if you can’t get across the channels to the islands.  Big bonito, sierra, some smaller yellowtail, pargo, cabrilla, amberjacks and jack crevalle have provided decent action.

Another surprise, however, is that we’re seeing roosterfish!  Not very common this time of the year, but smaller 5-10 pounders have been hooked (and released) along the shallow sandy beaches and some of the bigger 50-100 pounders have been seen cruising the drop offs.  We usually don’t see those for another 3 or 4 months!

TAILHUNTER SHOW SEASON COMING UP!

We’re getting ready to hit the road again for our 30th year.  We’ll be doing 4 shows this year and they’re all big ones.  We had hoped to do more shows, but so many are on conflicting dates and it was hard to pick and choose:

RENO – Wild Sheep Foundation at the Reno Convention Center (Jan. 16-18)

NASHVILLE – Safari Club International at the Nashville Convention Center (Jan. 22-25)

SALT LAKE CITY – Western Hunt and Conservation Show at the Salt Palace  (Feb. 13-16)

ORANGE CO. – Pacific Coast Sportfishing Show at the Orange Co. Fairgrounds (Mar. 6-9)

We’ll be there and we’re looking forward to seeing you and getting you set up to see us in La Paz in 2025.

However, don’t wait!  Dates are filling up pretty fast and reservations are coming in daily.  You can write me directly:  tailhunterfishinglapaz@gmail.com

We don’t want to miss you, especially if you have a favorite captains or hotel!

That’s our story!

Wishing you many blessings for the holidays, Christmas and the New Year!

Jonathan & Jilly