La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report for Week of Mar. 31-April 7, 2026
SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT
WEATHER – Getting up there. Mostly warm and sunny as we head towards summer with temps pretty steadily in the 80’s during the day. However, I thought we were done with winds. They are still kicking up every other day or so.
WATER – Water is bluer and warmer on the surface with surface temps running 72-75 degrees, but there is still cold water around as evidenced by colder water fish species still holding. Waters can still get a tad rough if the winds kick in. There are both northern and southern winds consider these day.
FISH HOOKED THIS WEEK- Roosterfish, dog tooth snapper, pargo, bonito, jack crevalle, tuna, pompano, rainbow runners, yellowtail, amberjack, triggerfish, yellow snapper
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THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…
Megan Hales had never fished with us before and only had one day to fish. Just when I think there are no more yellowtail in the area she bags two hefty fish on the boat with Captain Moncho!
Jim Molinari with a dog-tooth snapper that came up to bite a Rapala! Captain Pancho has the gaff.
Captain Armando with Nori Funaki and one of 3 roosterfish they put on the boat. All were relased!
Quite a variety of fish for Kendra and daughter, Savanna, with a table of rainbow runner, triggerfish, cabrilla and snapper!
Enzo really wanted to get a rooster so Captain Armando got him 3 on the day. All released!
Kip Slaugh is our good friend from Utah. He’s been coming for 20 years. He’s caught everything in our water except a tuna. Wanted one really badly until he hooked this 75-pounder off Cerralvo Island on bait. He and his amigo, Jim, and Captain Pancho battled the fish back and forth with the rod for almost 90 minutes. Nice fish!! Lots of fillets!
Caleb, Luke and Captain Jorge on the beach at Bahia Muertos with rainbow runners, triggerfish and snapper .
Sidney and Megan had some fun on a variety of fish like these cabrilla headed for the dinner plate at Tailhunter Restaurant.
Funny photo! Maybe Megan doesn’t like holding the fish? Fun little roosterfish just outside of Punta Perico. The fish was released.
Nothing better than watching the kids having fun. Brigham Hales with a tasty snapper!
Megan and Sidney with a nice cabrilla just outside of Bahia Muertos.
Kip, Captain Pancho and Jim…a really good day!
Megan, dad Ryan Hales, help Sidney with one of her two yellowtail on the day. They were visiting from Utah and only had 1 day to fish!
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About 2-3 weeks ago, I thought we had flipped a switch and turned the corner and gone from wintery-fishing right into summertime full-speed turbo fishing! Temperatures got warm. Water got blue. Everything was biting! WOW!
But, my enthusiasm was short lived. Within days, reality and mother nature hit back and popped the brakes.
It’s NOT quite the season yet. It’s getting there, but not quite there yet. Normally, we say the official season begins about the end of April/ beginning of May so although temperatures are warmer (in the 80’s now usually) and waters are bluer (surface temps in the mid-70’s in some spots)…we’re still not out’ve the winter-stuff just quite yet!
The season is sure trying to jump start, but to be honest, it’s erratic.
That’s not to say the fishing is bad. It’s just unpredictable just like the weather and to an extent the fishing is dictated by the weather.
The winter winds are not quite finished with us yet. They are better, but some days can still be blustery with both northern and southern winds and that means the ocean can be pretty choppy.
Other days, it lays down flat.
If the wind is blowing and it’s choppy, it makes it more difficult to find live bait. Also, it restricts some of the areas we can fish so it means more fishing over the protected rocky areas. This is producing the usual characters like cabrilla, snapper, triggerfish, rainbow runners, dog-tooth cubera snapper, barred pargo, jack crevalle and even some smaller roosterfish.
Also, just when I told everyone the waters have gotten too warm for yellowtail, we hooked a few this week!
If we can get out a bit further (still in sight of land), there’s some tuna in the 10-100 pound class as well as dorado. Also, we didn’t hook any this past week but we know there are marlin, sailfish and wahoo in the area. We just didn’t get any to come up on our rods.
Every day can be different. Every spot can be different. Two boats next to each other could catch different fish. Make no mistake, there’s fish to be caught and some fun action, but just unpredictable!
I will say that it seems to edge better and better each week. Still not really many anglers on the water just yet, but by early May, we’ll have alot of our guests starting to fish.
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