La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Oct. 15-21, 2025
THE SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT
WEATHER: Maybe my favorite time of year. Daytime high 80’s and nighttime in the high 60’s. Just really great weather. Humidity is pretty much gone compared to even 2 weeks ago. Nice breeze most of the time. Like a postcard. The only problem is the north winds are starting to blow and will get stronger and stronger as we go forward. Nice to be on land, but not necessarily a good time to be on the water.
WATERS: Still pretty warm, but cooling down as indicated by some of the cooler water species we have started to catch. Can get bumpy and rough in the afternoons now that the northern winds have started. As the waters cool, the fishing will change.
FISH HOOKED THIS WEEK:. tuna, yellowtail, dorado, sailfish, striped marlin, wahoo, black marlin, sierra, pargo, snapper, dog-tooth (cubera) snapper, roosterfish, cabrilla, triggerfish, trevally.
FISHING ON A SCALE of 1-10 (10 is best): Was a 3 earlier, but by later in the week was up to a 7.
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A good day! Our long-time amigos from Atlanta GA, Leif Dover and Brian O’Neil said they hit a spot and the tuna were boiling all around the boat just south of Bahia Muertos!
Andrew Bowman was with Matt van Sickle and Captain Joel when he hooked this late-season sailfish on light tackle and live bait. His first and he donated most of the meat.
Mike Jacobson was fishing down 400 feet off Cerralvo Island trying to find elusive tuna and to get away from all the bonito when he hit this nice yellowtail. Crazy to catch one in October as these are usually cooler water fish that we see in the springtime!
Kayla Lespade from the Central Valley of CA has fished with us before and brought down Josh Thomas who had never fished on the ocean, but got his first taste of salt-water fishing with limits of tuna and a dorado plus lots of bonito!
I call this “Pargo Envy!” Brian O’Neil has a big dog-tooth (cubera snapper) while buddy Leif Dover has a little snapper! In all fairness, over 2 days, they lost several of these big dog-tooth while using whole bonito heads for bait.
Kevin Shiotani is a pretty prolific angler and always does well. He had 60 pound test on just outside of Bahia Muertos when this 300 pound black marlin grabbed the bait!
Double-fisted dorado for Matt!
Two of our favorite people, Rusty and Carolyn Cain with their favorite Captain at Las Arenas, Armando. They came back so early back to the beach ,I thought they had a bad day . Rusty says, “No, it was a great day and we had fun and decided to just come back early!”
Andrew with one of his yellowfin tuna!
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Whenever we have storms, you just never know what the fishing will be like afterwards. You don’t know when or if the water and fish will come back. During that one week when we had storms Octave, Priscilla and Raymond, we were either in lockdown or the fishing was about as bad as could be.
Well, it did take a few days for things to clear up. Fishing was pretty picky. A few fish here. A few fish there. Nothing to shout about. Bonito and needlefish were being pests.
A few little dorado around and we were even doing the unheard of thing and fishing deep like 200-400′ down just to get away from bonito an needlefish. Found a few tuna way down and even a weird yellowtail which we don’t see until March or April in cooler waters which confirms for me that the deep water is indeed much cooler than the surface temps which are right about 78-80 degrees right now.
However, with each progressive day, fishing got a little better and a little better. More tuna started to break again. Fun-sized footballs and some larger around Cerralvo Island and south of Bahia Muertos. More dorado schools popping up and willing to chew and even a few wahoo bites (none in the boat).
Nothing big or spectacular, but some really fun fall fishing.
Also, some marlin and sailfish as well as some smaller roosterfish, cabrilla, snapper and some really big dog-tooth (cubera) snapper ripping rods while using whole bonito as bait. Really a fight trying to get these ferocious 40-70 pound beasts outta the rocks. Losing alot more than are getting to the gaff.
Overall, the fishing season is in transition. The seasonal northern winds have started to blow and they will get more consistent and stronger now as we head towards winter. Waters are getting cooler and rougher, especially in the afternoons, but we will soon be hitting days when it will be impossible to fish so not many fishermen in the coming months. The windsurfers will start showing up because we have world-class winds during the winter.
La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report for Week of Oct 7-14, 2025
SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT
WATER: The sea was pretty agitated as the storms passed through us last week (we had 3 storms), but not alot of rain runoff so the waters cleared pretty quickly. Still staying warm with surface temps in the lower 80’s but you can tell the season is changing as waters are starting to cool down.
WEATHER: Ridiculous week. We had 3 storms in a row head toward us and not quite hit us but cause enough calamity that we couldn’t go fishing and the port was closed. We had Octave then Priscilla then Raymond. Only Raymond really dropped rain on us, but the other storms hit other areas pretty hard. Temps are cooling now. Daytime temps are now down to the 80’s and humidity has dropped as well.
FISH HOOKED THIS WEEK:. Really ugly week of fishing because of weather, but when fish bit, we hooked tuna, dorado, marlin, roosterfish, dog-tooth snapper, bonito, jack crevalle, sierra, triggerfish and too many needlefish.
FISHING ON A SCALE of 1-10 (10 is best): 2-3 (at best!)
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Long-time Tailhunter amigos, Bob Layko and Craig Brown with their favorite captain Armando . Because of the weather only got to fish one day unfortunately.
Mary Soucie definitely gets a shaka thumb for her wahoo caught while staying in Bahia Muertos at Rancho Costa.
First-timers from Easter Oregon Gary Bracelin and his son, Trey had some nice days on the water before the weather turned including this good day of tuna.
Ben Chapman and Tricia Kidman finally hit the honey hole of tuna on their 3rd day. Tricia has fished with us before, but it was Ben’s first time.
Jen Ferguson from Colorado at Rancho Costa has every reason to smile over this trophy wahoo! Alot of great meat!
Two sweet sisters! Rio Jensen and Bryn Bailey on their first time visiting us really caught the “fishing bug” after fishing with us for a few days! They are from the Salt Lake City area.
Mike and Mary from Colorado have double hands of dorado. Thanks Gary Wagner for the photo!
After many years, I finally got Rob Magargal down here to fish with us. First day produced a nice rack of tuna and tasty blue bonito before the storms hit and things got tough. Rob kept smiling the whole time.
Gary Wagner (3rd from right) with some of his guests at Rancho Costa in Bahia Muertos and a nice fish pose!
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No sugar-coating it. This was a rough tough week. Maybe the toughest and worst fishing week of the season. Tough way for the season to taper off as the northern winds are starting to blow and things are cooling off now.
It was like getting gut-punched by Mother Nature.
Things were going alot pretty well. Tuna were biting around Bahia Muertos and Cerralvo Island. A few wahoo were popping up. Dorado were there to be caught as well as hooking a few billfish. Everyone having fun. Lots of smiles.
Then, as is often happens…a storm develops out’ve nowhere. And it’s headed for Baja.
“Priscilla” started small, but soon developed into a hurricane.
The good part is that it started for La Paz, but then veered off and took a path up the Pacific Coast of Baja. Other areas got whacked pretty badly. We escaped the major part of the storm, but the bad part is the arms of the storm still reached us.
We didn’t get rain, but it was enough to agitate the ocean and send out the precaution flags as bg winds and waves pummeled the areas outside the bay. The port was shut down. There was no way to launch boats from the beaches.
(Turn up the volume and you can hear the wind and waves)
The big issue was that Priscilla barely moved. It stuck around on the outside just creeping along. So, it affected our area for days. No one could go out. No one could go fishing. Lots of our guests were stuck twiddling thumbs and doing their best to be patient.
Then, while Priscilla took her sweet time leaving, it was joined by Storm Octave that was headed out to sea, but decided to team up with Priscilla.
So, we were shut down for several days. No rain, but again, with the port shut down and beaches in a mess, no one could get out.
Then, the full moon popped up just as those two storms moved up and away north. We got folks out fishing again. Many of them, this was their only day of the week.
…and it was terrible fishing. Pretty much not even worth it to go out. The waters were still agitated and only a handful of fish hooked if that. Maybe the worst fishing day of the season.
TROPICAL STORM RAYMOND RIGHT OVER LA PAZ
Then, Raymond came up and went right overhead dropping rain and bringing winds and shutting down the port again!
So, pretty much over the last 7 or 8 days, the port was shut down 5 days and the other two days were total picky scratchy junk fishing days!
In 30 years, I’ve never had 3 weather events line up like that plus the bonus atmospheric event…big FULL MOON!
Major props to our guests who hung in there all week with patience and smiles. For some of them, they never got to fish. For others that got out, the fishing was a struggle. But, not a single one gave any grief and made the best of it and it was much appreciated. I wish I had control over the weather.
The forecast is finally showing that we have clear sunny days ahead and my captains tell me the waters look good, but as we finally got a few boats out, the fishing remained scratchy at best with winds starting to blow stronger from the north in the afternoons.
I think to be honest, the warm-water fishing season is pretty much done. We’ll keep you posted.
FISHING IN 2026
We have quite a few bookings coming in for 2026 already and some dates are filling up! A few are sold out already. May to October is prime time. We have some special discounts we are offering if you book before the end of the year. If you have a favorite captain or hotel, don’t wait! Let’s get you set up! You can e-mail me directly: tailhunterfishinglapaz@gmail.com
La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report for Week of Sept. 27-Oct. 6, 2025
LAST MINUTE UPDATE HURRICANE
Just as I was publishing this, the weather has taken a turn. What was supposed to be “scattered showers and thunderstorms, has turned into Hurricane Priscilla. Very late in the season to have something like this.
It’s not going to hit us directly, but it could still be problematic. It might combine with Tropical Storm Octave which was headed out to the Pacific, but now has done a complete right turn back towards Baja and may combine with Priscilla for a double whammy storm that I have never seen before in 30 years.
Rain was not supposed to hit us for several days although big waves and winds have already started, but just this morning, rain has started falling. The government has closed the port and we have had to cancel all water-related activities unfortunately. Don’t know how long this will last. Will keep you posted!
SHORT ATTENTION SPAN REPORT
WEATHER: Seemed like things are getting cooler and the season was changing. Then it got a bit warmer again. Mostly pretty nice. Hot and muggy again. Some scattered rain later in the week (see update above)
WATER: Pretty water. Very very warm. Surface temps in the mid-to-upper 80’s
FISH HOOKED THIS WEEK: Yellowfin tuna, wahoo dorado, marlin, sierra, jack crevalle, bonito, amberjack, roostefish, pargo, cabrilla, blue bonito, pompano.
FISHING on a SCALE of 1-10 (10 is best) : 5-7
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John Gibbs and Angelo Oliverio have been our Tailhunter amigos forever and always good to have them here and they enjoy fishing with Captain Armando. Nice batch of tuna to start the trip!
Captain Jorge gives Richard Stasse a thumbs-up with one of the larger model yellowfin this week.
New Reno friends for us! Scott and Thaelyn Van Patten had a nice day on the water with a good batch of yellowfin tuna to put in the freezers to bring home!
Gene Jancek just had one day to squeeze in for fishing and wanted to be sure I could get him into to the report! Nicely done, Gene! He was with Captain Armando.
A fun trio from San Diego that were here for an 80 person birthday bash for fellow members of the Elks Club. Jonathan and dad Tim Backlund up front and funny Joe Herkelroad holding up the back! Some good-sized yellowfin plus blue bonito to take home.
First timers with us this week, Kyle Woo and his dad hold up some of their dorado after a day fishing out’ve La Paz towards Espirito Santo Island. They fished 4 days and did pretty well! Kyle just graduated from the University of Hawaii.
They just wanted to get dad (Luis Sanchez…3rd from the right) a marlin! They did but also lost several and released several. They donated the meat and also got several tuna and dorado while here during the week. They were with Captain Chito when they chased the marlin. Fun guys from northern California near Lake Shasta. First time visitors with Tailhunter. Left to right, Mark Sanchez, Mike Sanchez, Luis Sanchez (dad) and Luis Jr.
All the way from New York, Valari and Gary Biccum were also first-time visitors and she poses here with one of her dorado while fishing with Captain Boli on the beach behind La Concha Hotel.
Funny shot…Captain Licho poses with Wes, Tony and Leon after one of their two days fishing with him out’ve La Paz. Always good to see these guys in town!
Marty Matsuda and Clay Harada pose on the beach at Bahia Muertos with 5 nice tuna and a big triggerfish!
Mike and Pam Ryan found a dorado hole while fishing out’ve Las Arenas and added a nice barred pargo to the rack as well!
When Gary Biccum told me he was going to catch a wahoo, I grinned and rolled my eyes. Guys come for years and never get one. Guess what…Nice catch Gary!!!
Captain Jorge with a really sweet couple from S. Carolina, Sheron and John Cosh who just happened to be celebrating his birthday. Really enjoyed their company this week.
Vahe Simonian with a nice tuna and a really big wahoo! He never said much after coming back from fishing…then I see the photo!
Randy Mayne and Nick Healy came to visit us from Salt Lake City for the first time. They had an eventful week! Started out with a good jag of yellowfin tuna at Muertos!
Some of our Tailhunter besties! Wiley Randolph and Eric Pennington have been Tailhunter nation amigos for years. Cheers to a da of tuna, dorado and big triggerfish, amigos!
Nick Healy came back from fishing with a long face. He said, “I only got two bites all day and only got two fish!” I didn’t know what to say until I saw the photos and then he broke into a big grin! Nice day! He was pulling my leg.
Here is the catch-of-the-week! My fish brothers, Kenny Cambell and Buddy Malone were with Captain Pancho. Check out the catch…TWO wahoo…a huge dog-tooth snapper…several tuna…a blue bonito…and a dorado! Spectacular day!
Pam and Mike again! Another good day of fishing!
MIke Kouyoumdjian and buddy, Raffi Ohanian pose with a trio of dorado and really fat yellowfin tuna.
Nice to have first-time visitors, Garrett Matsukiyo and dad, Irving fishing with us for the week. After 4 days of fishing, they want home with a nice load of fillets. Here on the beach with 2 of 6 dorado.
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Overall, it has been a pretty good week. Everyone caught fish. Everyone lost some nice fish too and had shots at some real trophies. Others actually caught trophy fish! Lots of smiles.
Some days were better than others. Some boats did better than others. But most of our guests fish several days so if one day was off, the next day made up for it.
It was fall fishing as nice as it gets mostly.
The tuna are still around Bahia Muertos and Cerralvo Island in the best tuna bite I have seen in several years. Mostly fun-sized 5-15 pound fish with some larger 30 pounders thrown in. Plus some surprise wahoo also caught. Some on iron. Some on bait. Some on the troll.
Sprinkle in some dorado between 5-15 pounds that are pretty much all over and it makes for some fun days on the water.
Also had some billfish on the line as well. Stripers up to about 120 pound were hooked or released and some larger blue marlin were hooked and lost with estimated weights up to about 300 pounds!
Overall, I would say that the seasons are changing. There is a cooling trend happening with air temps with less humidity and heat. That doesn’t mean it’s cool. It’s just not quite as hot, but the northern winds are already starting to blow and we’re catching occasional species like sierra, pompano and trevally which are all cooler water fish we usually see in the springtime.
Once the northerns blow consistently, the complexion of fishing will change and waters will get rougher and colder and for the most part shut down the season.
In the meantime, pretty enjoyable fishing right now!
(P.S. See my update above about Hurricane Priscilla)
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