La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of Mar. 21-29, 2026

March 29, 2026 by riplipboy

PUMP THE BRAKES…I WAS TOO OPTIMISTIC!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report for Week of Mar. 21-29, 2026

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN REPORT

WEATHER: Well, I thought the winds were done, but they came back. Mostly from the south this past week, but it didn’t help fishing. Made it difficult to even get live bait!

WATER: Rather warm for this time of the year. Surface temps in the high 70’s but waters got a big rougher this week with the return of the winds.

FISH HOOKED THIS WEEK: Earlier we had some nice dorado, a few tuna, wahoo and even some marlin. When the winds kicked back in we were fishing mostly inshore for pargo, snapper, dog-tooth, barred pargo, bonito, cabrilla, jacks and roosterfish.

THE MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Big bull dorad in March? Jim Bovee from San Diego with Captain Pancho.

Some larger roosterfish starting to show along the beaches. Captain Hugo got this one which was released.

Gerry is pretty happy with this nice table of cabrilla!

Daniel Bovee from Costa Mesa with Captain Pancho

Long time Tailhunter amigo, Jeff Sakuda with a pargo liso.

In my last report, I kinda went off the rails with enthusiasm.

Out of nowhere, the air and water temperatures rose. Waters got blue. Wind died down. We had several day of the most spectacular fishing all season and the best fishing in March that I have seen in over 30 years.

We had blue marlin, striped marlin ,tuna, wahoo, bonito, roosterfish, cabrilla, barred pargo, dog-tooth snapper, jack crevalle, big dorado and more! It was like the ocean blew up a whole variety of fish.

It was like we had fast forwarded from spring-time fish right into summer fishing. It was the kind of fishing we usually se in June or July. No…it was even better!

After so many winter month of wind and erratic fishing, I went a bit overboard in my enthusiasm.

I was wrong.

Winter wasn’t done yet.

A few days after I posted the last report, the winds came back. Waters got rough again. It was bad enough that it became tough to find live bait. Fishing got sticky at best.

For the past period since the last report, we’ve gotten back to cabrilla, dog-tooth snapper, a few dorado, snapper, pargo, bonito and jack crevalle sprinkeled with a few roosterfish. Not much in the way of “glamour fish” like the previous period. Our captains and anglers really had to work hard to find fish.

We know the fish are there. We just need the weather to stabilize a bit more.

BAHIA MAGDALENA

We sent out our first trips from Bahia Magdalena “Mag Bay” this past week. Fishing inside the bay among the mangroves, our guys found some great action and a spectacular variety of fish. Using live bait and fishing light tackle in the roots and eddy’s of the bay produced: Corvina, grouper, spotted bay bass, triggerfish, snook, pargo, cabrilla, snapper and more. Many fish were released and donated.