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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.

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

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.

That’s our story!