La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report for July 28-Aug. 7, 2026
SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT
WEATHER: We had some hot hot weeks hitting 115-120 with the humidity. Then we had Hurricane Genevieve come up. It didn’t hit us directly, but it did get windy and really rough a few days and dropped a bit of rain here and there. Took a few days to get back to regular weather.
WATER: Got rough while the hurricane passed us by and the waters got cooler and cloudy for a few days which affected the fish which took a hit until things cleared up.
FISH HOOKED THIS WEEK: Tuna, dorado, wahoo, sailfish, striped marlin, pargo, bonito, roosterfish, jack crevalle, cabrilla, pargo.
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THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…
Captain Mykel with first-timer Adam Gil de Montes who has every reason to smile after battling this slugger tuna!
Adam and Levi Bellinger told me they battled this big bull for almost a 1/2 hour with Captain Jorge running the boat and trying to keep the fish out’ve the props! Maybe the biggest dorado of the week.
I think Nancy Novotny is getting smacked in the face by the dorsal fins of this big rooster as she tries to take a photo! Nice fish and she released it too!
Two of the nicest guys every year they are here. Jeff Schlesinger and John McLucas have been friends since grade-school and John has been fishing with us over 20 years. Nice brace of yellowfin tuna!
Captain Armando with one of our first-time visitors, Rich Chalmers who started their vacation with a trophy bull dorado .
Marcus Yoo and Captain Victor make quite a pair. Marcus fishes all over the world and visits us 2 times a year. He put 3 big yellowfin in the boat in less than 20 minutes each! It’s all about technique
Not big, but alot of fun catching them! Sal Lopez and Bo Henke. Good eating mahi meat!
Jim Boswell stuck two of these big yellowfin tuna the same day…it’s what he came for! These are the right kind.
Captain Moncho put Chet and Lisa Sater on this fatty yellowfin tuna that fought for over an hour to get it in the box!
Ahhh…always a pleasure to have Victor Gil de Montes here. I think Victor has been with us over 20 years. One more dorado to put in the fish box!
Randy Walk from Utah was with us for the first time and got a big tuna and a dorado with Captain Armando.
Rich Sevaly with Captain Victor’s son, Jesus, take a pause for a photo after a long tuna battle!
Junior Lopez brought his boy, Esteban for his first La Paz fishing trip and got one of the larger tuna on their 2nd day at Las Arenas .
One of our favorite amigos for so many years, Jerry “El Diablo” Acosta from Arizona…looks like he’s losing his pants! But he has a fresh dorado on the gaff.
Another unusual catch! Sal Lopez and Bo Henke were with famous Captain Chito at the north end of Cerralvo Island when they hit this wahoo. We don’t get many wahoo in this area!
Roger Markussen was out with Captain Boli and nailed a big bull dorado…or two!
The sharks got a couple of nice chunks of sashime meet of these two tuna. Lots of sharks when anglers are fighting struggling fish for so long!
Geo looks pretty happy about another batch of dorado fillet to bring home.
That’s alot of tuna meat for fillets for Gio Lopez.
Marcus always seem to have a lucky horseshow or something. He was trolling a little dorado feather in open deep water in the channel north of La Paz and got hit by this 80 pound roosterfish! He released the fish after the photo.
Great photo of Jeff and John (flexing his muscles) after a day with Captain Pancho.
Love this great photo. It was Jason Markussens first trip down with his dad and he cradles a tasty barred pargo!
Michael Novotny was out with Captain Hugo and wrestled this fat roosterfish off Las Arenas . The fish was released.
That’s Jeff Schlesinger behind the dorsal fin of the roosterfish before he released it with some help from Captain Pancho.
Andale, Victor! Another dorado for the box!
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True to form…why should anything be any different!
This erratic and unpredictable fishing season continued to be erratic and unpredictable as we hit the half-way mark of the season.
We had pretty decent fishing in July. For the most part, some of the most consistent fishing of the season with some solid fishing. The big tuna continued to crash on the far side and north side of Cerralvo Island with fish running 40-100 pounds or larger giving most of our anglers much more than they baragained for but alot of fun on these trophy fish.
Big dorado as well continued in many areas scattered from La Paz through Espirito Santo Island and the channels toward Cerralvo Island. Good-sized bulls in the 20-30 pound class were not unusual. The cool thing is that more school-sized 5 -10 pounders were showing up. Maybe not the big trophies, but for many of our less-experienced anglers…sure alot of fun hooking a dozen or more of these (releasing many) and just continuous action compared to hooking just one gigantic fish for the day!
Surprisingly, also we’re still getting some big 50-pound clss roosterfish. This is unusual. Usually the big roosters are pretty scarce about now, but we hooked and release several this last period. Add to that the occasional marlin, sailfish, wahoo plus feisty bonito and hard-charging jack crevalle and it made for some fun days of fishing on the water most of the time, despite the occasional boat that just didn’t hit the right spot at the right time. Most boats on most days hit fish and everyone who wanted to take home fish or have us cook some up, took fish home .
All-in-all good times!
Then, Mother Nature came along in the form of Hurricane Genevieve . Gave us quite. scare as it came roaring up the Pacific Coast. This beast of a storm became a category 5 blaster with winds up to 150 mph!
Fortunately, it roared up towards us then veered out into the Pacific Ocean. Nonetheless, it did bring some strong winds and big waves into the Sea of Cortez and surrounding areas even though the storm did not directly hit us.
We’ll take some cloudy skies over a hurricane direct hit any day! However, there was enough disturbance for a few days to send in big waves and strong winds that kept us from fishing certain areas, not to mention made it rough on our anglers on the water.
It certainly affected the fishing as waters got cooler, rougher and bumpier. Big fish scattered. The schools scattered. We still got a smattering of fun fish, but the hot bite we had before the storm diminished quite a bit. It took a few days to get back on track and for the waters to settle down and for us to find the fishing spots again.
But, as I write this, things are slowing coming back online.
BTW…it’s been hot as heck! With the humidity we were hitting 115-120 degrees some days. It’s gotten a big “cooler” lately. Only 108 yesterday…LOL. Stay hydrated and in the shade as much as possible!
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