OUCH! TOUGHEST  WEEK

(THREE STORMS and a FULL MOON)

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!)

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO FISHING REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY….

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

I’ll get right back to you!

That’s my story!