FULL MOON WINDS THROTTLE BITE

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report for Week of May 2-9, 2026

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN REPORT

WEATHER:  The sun is out and in the mid-80’s, but those northerns winds came back and it was like February.  It got pretty rough at times. Winds up to 20 knots especially in the afternoons.

WATER:  If the winds blew, it got choppy . Winds cooled the waters and also made it tough to get live bait if waves were crashing.

FISH HOOKED:  (There weren’t many)…Roosterfish / marlin (1)/ tuna (2)/ dorado/ triggerfish/ pargo/ cabrilla/ bonito/jack crevalle

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Marcus Yu has alot of meat to bring home with this hefty dog-tooth cubera snapper that ate a live ladyfish he was using for bait to try to catch roosterfish.

All the way from Wisconsin, Paul Raley wanted to get a roosterfish. He actually got TWO grandes! Both were released. See other photo below. This was Paul’s first time with us.

Humam Shihadeh just had one day to fish with us on a last minute trip, but was able to get several nice roosterfish right off the rocks. Humam skippers the charterboat “Nomad” out’ve San Diego. All fish were released.

Marcus with a pig of a roosterfish. A bit fat fish that was estimated at about 80 pounds, Marcus couldn’t stand up with it so posed sitting down. The fish was released!

Double dorado for Paul! There aren’t many dorado in the waters yet, but the few that are being caught are tasty table fare.

Beau Ballard from Robinson TX, was here during those few tough days of fishing this week, but hung in there patiently and worked hard at it. He did get this dorado and also hooked a hammerhead shark and a marlin came unbuttoned.

Biggest dorado of the season? Paul Raley stands this one up on the cleaning table! Big bull!

Marcus posing with his 3rd of 3 roosterfish on the day. A quick photo then release.

Captain Victor gives Paul an extra two hands to pose with this 2nd big rooster of the day before releasing it.

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Happy Mother’s Day to you and all you Moms!  

Well, I wish I could say it was a great week, but you-know-me.  I’d rather be honest.  It was one of the weirdest and slowest weeks of fishing I can remember.

I don’t know if it was the residual from a full moon combined with strong winter (yes those ridiculous northern winter winds came roaring back) but It wasn’t only hard to catch fish.  It was hard to FIND fish!  It was even hard to find live bait!

Let me back up…

Usually, by now, the winter winds that keep us off the waters during the winter are kinda done or largely diminished.  Oh, we might get a day or two or some strong breezes, but this past week, they blow almost the whole week bringing waves and chop to the fishing waters.

Not only did this bring chop, but it also brought colder cloudier green waters.  It was hard to find clean blue water.  Add that to the back end of the full moon and I have no doubt that the fish were affected.

It was even hard to find live bait with waves crashing on the shallow areas where the bait sellers catch the bait to sell.  Often you had to scratch around to find or catch live bait or run long distances to find better spots where bait was located.

So before the day even starts, you’re hamstrung and limping!

The result was several days of literally a bite here or a bite there.  Not even bonito and jacks.  Needlefish sure…eating and tearing-apart what little good bait you had. And then, the pelicans and seagulls also looking for scarce food.

We caught roosterfish up to about 80 pounds (all released)  that saved the day and one or two nice dorado to put on the cleaning table.  But, one or two dorado a day doesn’t mean there was a dorado bite going on!  A few big tuna way way way outside one day then nothing the rest of the days.  Add in a few small cabrilla and generally speaking, that was the whole week!  Hunt and peck.  Hunt and peck.

The bad news is that it looks like the winds are coming back next week again.

It’s hard to put a finger on this weather.  I think people all over the world are trying to get a handle on it.  It’s in the mid-90’s during the day and comfortable mid-60’s at night, but we’re getting winter winds?  Doesn’t make sense!

So…we’ll keep plugging away and I’ll keep you posted.  Everything is cyclical and nothing stays the same forever!

That’s my story!

Jonathan & Jilly