FISHING VARIETY IN BETWEEN WINDS

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report for Dec. 12-23, 2025

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WEATHER:  Mostly sunny and pleasant in the high 70’s to low 80’s dropping to the 60’s at night.  Winds kicking 10-20 mph some days.

WATER:  Normally chilly, but since we’re seeing dorado, tuna and some billfish, there must be spots of warmer water.

FISH HOOKED THIS WEEK:  Dorado, pargo liso, dog-tooth snapper, tuna, sierra, cabrilla, jack crevalle, roosterfish, yellow snapper, jack crevalle.

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THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Nice dog-tooth snapper (pargo perro) for Greg Earles! These are beasts! Greg comes down from Minnesota each winter for about 3 weeks and can pick the best non-windy days to fish and always does well. He also takes great photos. That’s why all the photos this week are of him!

Roosterfish in December? Crazy, but still fun. He caught several and released them all!

Another species we don’t usually find in the winter! Dorado are warm water fish and usually the waters are too cold in the winter, but check this out! Also, Greg has a couple of nice cabrilla which are more typical of this time of year.

Some of the toughest fighters in our waters are these pargo liso (mullet snapper). Again, we usually don’t find these here this time of year. Mostly, they are a spring-time fish and can get quite huge into the 50 pound range or larger!  We have the world record 46 pounder, but I’ve seen them much larger.

Nice variety! Pargo liso, dog-tooth snapper, yellow snapper, a cabrilla and a white bonito!

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Lots of days are still too windy or rough to fish for most folks, but that’s fairly typical during the off-season from October to about April when the northern winds blow.

Again like I say, not much of anyone fishing and I turn folks away every day when the wind forecast on the day they want to fish shows that the winds are blowing or if the port captain has shut down the port.   There are some very nice days, but it can be very erratic and unpredictable.

Also, many folks who want to fish this time of year, aren’t hardcore anglers like all the folks we get during the season from May to October when we have 10-30 anglers fishing each day!  The folks in town now are here on vacation enjoying the town and Christmas holidays.  Many have families.

Suddenly, they decide they want to fish one day!  Often, after I tell them about the conditions they change their minds.  Not a bad idea, especially if they have kids with them.  We want everyone to have a good time, not get bounced and wet and cold and maybe ….SEASICK!

To that point, on the non-windy days, there’s some surprising fishing.

The variety is pretty surprising.  Warm water species like dorado a few tuna and we even saw a blue marlin show up.  It’s not a crazy bite, but here-and-there, there must be some warmer water around in spots since those are warmer water species.

But the cold water species are also chewing pretty well also.  Cabrilla, snapper, sierra and smaller amberjack are feeding, but also some big cubera snapper (dog-tooth) and the big pargo liso (mullet snapper) that we usually don’t see until March or April have appeared in our waters!

On top of that, there are small roosterfish feeding along the shallow sand beaches.

You just have to pick your spot and days carefully!

ROAD TOUR COMING UP!

In 3 weeks, we’ll be hitting the road for our 31st year!  Jill and I will be in our booth and it would be great to see you if you can make it to any of our shows.  Come say hi and let’s get you set up to come visit us in La Paz this year . Dates are already filling so it would even be better if you can let us know ahead of time!

Check out the schedule below!  The first two shoes are in Sacramento CA and Reno!

US TO YOU – Feliz Navidad y Prospero Ano Nuevo!

Hard to believe 2025 is almost at it’s conclusion!   But we wanted to wish you…all of our friends, guests and Tailhunter Tribe members a safe, happy and peaceful holidays and Christmas.  We are immensely grateful and we wish you many blessings always!  Hope to see you in 2026!

That’s our story!

Jonathan & Jilly