THINGS HEATING UP AND BITE IS CHANGING!
La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of June 11-18, 2025
SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT
WEATHER: Definitely getting warmer! Day time temps now in the high 90’s and humidity rising also. Surprisingly, however, mornings can be breezy and just a tad chilly. Had a few days that were actually unusually windy.
WATER: Surface temps into the 80’s now. Thermocline down about 30′ drops another 5-10 degrees.
FISH HOOKED THIS WEEK: Roosters/ marlin/ pargo liso/ barred pargo/ dog-tooth snapper/ sierra/ trevally/ pompano/ bonito/ amberjack/ jack crevalle/ snapper/ triggerfish/ dorado/ sailfish/ wahoo
FISHING ON A SCALE of 1-10: Solid 6.5 to 7
MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO REPORT
THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…
Nick Butler on his first trip to see us taking a break from being stationed at Fort Bragg in N.Carolina where he’s with the 82nd Airborne. He sure is holding a pretty roosterfish here just off Punta Perrico just outside of Bahia Muertos. Quick release also!
Captain Chito with one of our Ground Engineering amigos who came down from Denver. I see 5 mahi here. Hopefully, more soon!
They got married in Utah and came straight down from the reception to the airport to fish on their honeymoon! Jessica and Mitchell Kukson had 2 marlin on at the same time fishing with Captain Alfredo. One got released but the other was not able to release. They donated a bunch of the meat.
Our Utah amigo, Kelly Moore, first day fishing with quite a smorgasbord of species…barred pargo, triggerfish, tevaly, snapper and bonito!
The life of the party whenever I see him…Fritz Richards from Reno NV on his first trip to see us had some fun with roosterfish and dorado. Fritz is a master taxidermist and travels the country fixing and repairing other people’s taxidermy mounts!
Another Utah amigo, Tony Davis with his big rooster while Captain Victor tries to lend a hand. The fish was released!
Brian Hyland was back with us and started his 3 days with a nice batch of great eating snapper and trevally and released some roosterfish as well.
Ooof!!! That’s a big trophy cabrilla! Wow. Bert Butler from Maryland has some meat to put in the freezer!
I think I’ve known Rafael Rios for over 20 years. Always good to see him. Starting the morning with a rooster to photo and release. Rafa is from the Houston TX area.
Newlywed Mitchell Kukson had some nice variety including this barred pargo.
One of the toughest fighting fish in our waters, this pargo liso tangled with Holly Butler who put it in the boat with some gaff assistance from Captain Pancho .
Cory and Amy Mahan from Nevada with just one day to fish put 4 nice roosters in the boat for photos and releases. This is a fatty! Punta Perrico in the background.
He had never fished before and Eric was pretty surprised at how strong ocean fish are! One of his roosters for a photo and release! I think Rafa in the background is hooked up to another rooster. Check the flat seas!
Seattle’s own Steve Bryan our roosterfish king. Only big roosters for Steve! I think he got a dozen between 60 and 100 pounds over 3 weeks. All released.
Cute fish and fun amiga, Laurie Moore, with a great photo of her rooster off Bahia Muertos!
Captain Rogelio helps heft another of Holly’s big cabrilla for a photo then into the fish box to take back to Maryland!
Captain Armando with Jeff Butron’s striped marlin. Brian Hyland on the other end. The marlin was not able to be released.
Johnny “Reno” Standley from Reno NV wrestles with a hefty rooster hooked just off the Punta Perrico rocks for a photo and release. John was on his first visit to fish with us.
Julie Rios has a big smile and a rooster for the photo then release. Check the flat ocean. Punta Arenas beach in the background.
Steve with another pig of a roosterfish!
Dan Moore caught and released a bunch of roosters then put meat in the ice chest with this nice selection of pargo, snapper, triggerfish and trevally! Dan is from Texas and this was his first trip fishing with Tailhunter.
Captain Rogelio has a knack for finding big cabrilla. Eric and Tony with a couple of nice ones north of La Paz Bay.
Just one day to fish, Amy Mahan had quite a day with several big roosterfish like this one . Catch and release after a great photo. Amy visits us from Nevada.
Great photo and fish! Captain Pancho gives Bert Butler a hand with his thick rooster!
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I don’t want to start out saying we had bad fishing this past week. It was actually pretty solid once again, but it was different for some reason . Y’know like when something is off and you just can’t put your finger on it?
Everyone caught fish, but it wasn’t like it has been the past 4 or 5 weeks and I don’t quite know what it was how to describe it. There was a disturbance in the force!
I don’t want to get too dramatic about it because obviously everyone caught fish, but something was different.
I thought maybe it was the full moon.
But, actually, once again, the bite during the full moon was just fine. I looked at the calendar and realized the weird stuff kinda happened in the days AFTER the full moon.
Bait was a bit harder to find. The current seemed a tad off. The weather seemed to get more intensely hot. And there were several days when the winds were unseasonably strong.
Again, everyone caught fish, but we had to work harder to change tactics to find them and get them into the boat! Possibly, it was a combination of all those things put together that affected things.
Roosterfish were still around and biting nicely. Those 10-30 pound fish are still on the chew around Las Arenas areas. You can have fun almost all day catching and releasing like I have never seen. I would love it if someone put a GoPro camera underwater sometime there in the middle of the roosterfish schools!
The big 50-100 pounders were fewer, however. That could be a function of several things. One is that the big ladyfish baits were harder to find. Secondly, you have to commit to chasing those baits. The bigger fish love the bigger baits and you have to commit to getting those baits if you wanted to get the hog roosters. Fewer folks wanted to do that understandably. It’s more fun to go chase and get bit on the smaller roosters and other species!
Dorado are showing up in bigger numbers, but they’re not quite ready to bite yet. We were seeing them all week in the waters and chasing baits, etc. but just not willing to chew for the most part. We picked a few here and there and it’s definitely improving, but I think we’re going to need a little uptick in the water temps. That could be any day. It SHOULD be any day!
Same with the billfish. There are marlin and sailfish swimming around. You can see them on the surface. But, like the dorado, they just have not been willing to bite. Again, I’m expecting that any day.
In the meantime, the rockfish species like the pargo and huge cabrilla have kept the rods bent. Big pargo liso are still spawning and I’m still amazed at the size of the cabrilla this season which are grouper-sized fish! We are losing some big fish in the rocks!
That’s my story!
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