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La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of June 12-19, 2011

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Yes, there are still some big tuna out at the 88 bank east of Cerralvo Island. Not alot. Not often but you might just be one of the hot boats that particular day! Steve McGavern calls San Diego and Loreto "home" but ran down to us for a quick shot at the tuna and got two nice fat chunks!

Dad Mike Akiyoshi brought sons Trevor (left) and Kevin (right) down for a few days fishing and got a mess of dorado the first day then put in some serious rail time two days at the 88 getting some 45 pound class yellowfin that ended up back at our Tailhunter Restaurant as sashime, Hawaiian poke and barbecued collars and bellies with garlic! Drove us all crazy with how good it tasted!

With all the tuna pictures this week, one would be inclined to think we had a great tuna bite going on, when in fact it was the dorado that really did the best although it wasn't until later in the week when we got into the groove. Early in the week the bite was stingy at best with fish all around, but not willing to chew. As we passed the full moon, the fish came to party. Mark Gillespie from Huntington Beach CA was on his first trip to La Paz with his buddy "El Al" Schneider and shows off some of their catch.

Putting the "wood" to his first big tuna of the day, Trevor Akiyoshi from Upland CA is rewarded with the nice tuna in the inset photo. When someone is on a big fish, there's not much the captain can do except look on like Captain Jorge with his hands on his hip! Smile Trev!

Not every fish can be a giant, but a first-time fish on a flyrod is what Chrs Daniels from Sacramento wanted. And a smile is a smile! She's holding a nice little dog-tooth snapper.

Rhonda McGavern from San Diego was another fortunate angler who got into the larger tuna this past week at the 88 spot east of Cerralvo Island.

SOLID DORADO AND SPORADIC BIG TUNA HIGHLIGHT THE FISHING WEEK

La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of June 12-19, 2011

The week started slowly with a combination of the full moon
and temperature spikes on the water.  It seemed there were fish all over
breaking but they just didn’t want to eat.  We’d toss baits at them.
Run lures over and around them…literally run over them with the boats and we
couldn’t get them to bite.  Then, gradually as the week went on things got
back in the groove.

The good dorado bite out’ve La Paz got back on track.
Lots of little fish to be had, but there’s still some nice bull dorado ranging
from 20-50 pounds.  The fish are in a fairly broad range and it helps to
know where to go.  Best is to find some of the weed patches floating out
in the channels.  Not all the weeds have fish.  You can hop patch
after patch and not find anything. But, then one patch will blow up when you
throw a few baits at it and it’s one-stop-shopping as dorado come
crashing.  Or, the alternative is that you pick up a fish here and a fish
there.  At the end, you realize you’ve put a nice batch of fish in the
box.  Another way is to slow troll an area with live or dead bait or fast
troll more water with lures and hope for a hookup.  When you get that fish
to the boat, toss baits and try to get the school to follow the hooked fish to
the boat.  The problem is that if you lose that hooked fish, often, it
will take the school with it so it’s a good idea to get that first fish to the
boat.  If it’s small or you plan to release it, keep it close to the boat
until you get the 2nd hookup.

As for the big tuna bite, it’s still on-again-off-again on
the 88 bank east of Cerralvo.  There’s still some fish there exceeding 100
pounds, but there’s been alot of boat traffic out there and either the fish are
up and interested or not around at all.  Or, they’re boiling all around
but not interested in jumping your lines.  Most of the fish that are
caught are in the 30-60 pound class, but given the number of boats out there
compared to how many are actually hooking fish, some days, it’s just not worth
running that far.  But, then again, one of the days you run out there
happens to be one of the days that the fish come to the party!

There’s still a good roosterfish bite going on and the
roosters have been a fun fall-back species if nothing else is going on.
They’re not especially good eating so most are released, but it’s alot of fun
hooking these 30-80 pound exotics.   Quite a few of the fish are over
80 pounds.   There’s some nice marlin hanging out.  Interestingly,
for the ones getting brought in, their bellies are full of little dorado!
That’s what they’re eating so if you’re trolling for billfish, dorado colored
feathers would certainly be in my trolling pattern!

That’s our story!  God bless all you dads and Happy Fathers’ Day everyone!

Jonathan and Jill

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

 

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FLASH UPDATE TUNA BITE! La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of May 29-June 5, 2011

Posted in amberjack, Bahia de Los Muertos, Bahia de los Suenos, Bahia de los Suenos fishing, baja fishing, Baja fishing reports, Baja sportfishing packages, Cerralvo Island Fishing, Chad Schearer, dorado, fish report, fishing charters, fishing tackle, fishing videos, flyfishing, jonathan roldan, la paz baja sur, la paz fishing, La Ventana Fishing, Las Arenas fishing, marlin, Mexican sportfishing outfitters, Mexican sportfishing packages, mexico fishing, Muertos Bay Fishing, pargo, roosterfish, sea of cortez, Shoot Straight TV, sportfishing packages, tailhunter, tailhunter international, tuna, wahoo, yellowfin tuna, yellowtail on June 6, 2011| Leave a Comment »

FLASH UPDATE - We got a few flurries of big tuna being lost, but finally, the fish came up and bit big time late...all out at the 88 spot. Big fish in the 80-200 pound class like this estimated 150 pounder that Roger Thompson got. We had two clients bust off on fish and another that lost a rod and reel (Penn International) that went overboard when he got tired and changed hands right when the fish surged during a 2-hour battle. No telling how long the fish will stay, but some big boys on the growl! Will keep you posted!

It's really hard to pose correctly for a good photo when a big fresh ticked-off bull dorado comes aboard on the gaff and is whacking you in the gut, crotch and kneecaps, but this big bull by Jon Luker of Arroyo Grande shows off one of the big dorado we got this week with dorado action heating up just-in-time for the summer bite with some 20-40 pound fish already in the mix! Jon is one of our best long-time amigos and he got this fish just north of La Paz where sargasso weeds and schools of mahi are starting to build up!

Sometimes they even let my rusty Baja bones in the pangas! It was another great week of roosterfishing! Check out this nice pez gallo that Walker Schearer nailed on light tackle just off the little cliffs outside of Bahia de Los Muertos. The 10-year-old caught many of his first and largest fish over the week including dorado, roosters, jacks and many others! Pretty good for a Montana kid on his first trip to Mexico!

Vince Acosta got his "personal best" largest dorado ever fishing with us and our Tailhunter La Paz fleet. The Pacific Beach angler was fishing near Espiritu Santo Island north of La Paz with his buddy, Jude Martinez (see photo below) when they ran into the big schools.

When you use a PINK reel and wear wild checkered shorts like Mike Davis, how can I not post your photo in the weekly report? LOL...Despite warming waters and air temps, we're still getting some yellowtail here and there. Mike got this one fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet just out of Bahia de Los Muertos!

Nice way to start the morning with barred pargo in the boat for Jeff Marston caught out of Muertos Bay fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet. Barred pargo have been a nice bottom species for us the last few weeks.

A mess 'o' pargo and cabrilla (seabass) meat is what Mike O'Neil and Joe Jacobs got going for them with this nice catch of barred pargo they nailed fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet. Wish Mike had looked up! Both are from the San Diego area.

There was a rumor that they had to wake Jude Martinez up when this big dorado bit as he was snoozing! But he did get it to the boat and that's what counted. It was a pretty solid week of dorado fishing especially for our Tailhunter La Paz fleet.

We were all this age! When you are 8-years-old every fish is worthy of a big smile and "show-and-tell." Wyatt Schearer came to visit us from Montana where he actually has a trout pond on the family property and knows how to fish, but couldn't be prouder of this nice yellowtail he got in Pilots Cove! He pulled on it like a veteran!

One nice surprise the last week or two has been the appearance of pompano...members of the jack family related to roosterfish, jack, crevalle, yellowtail and amberjack...these great eating fish are fun to catch and we've been finding them on the dropoffs next to sandy areas of the beach or rocks. Chip Chandler of San Diego holds up one he got out of Las Arenas.

This past week or so, many clients have been catching either personal best "largest" fish or personal best "first time ever" fish. Chad Shearer, the popular host of the outdoor show "Shoot Straight" http://www.shootstraightTV.com put down his rifles and bow to come visit us getting 19 different species in 3 days fishing many on the flyrod and light tackle including this rooster which was revived and released.

DORADO AND ROOSTERFISH COME ON STRONG TO START SUMMER BITE!

La Paz/Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of May 29 to June 5, 2011

FLASH UPDATE:

After I had posted up the fishing report we got all kinds of late reportr that I couldn’t get in on time.  The big boy tuna finally came up on us out at the 88 spot outside of Cerralvo Island. These are BIG fish up to 200 pounds and several guys had long battles only to lose fish . Others broke rods and reels.  Others just quit realizing they were overmatched.  Some of these fish are being fought for 1-3 hours!  We’ll keep you posted!  Exciting stuff and never sure how long this will last!

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And now back to your regular fishing programing…read on!!!!

No doubt!  Unless something drastic happens, I’d say
we’ve turned the corner and dorado season is finally here.  It’s about
time.  Air temperatures have been warm enough for several weeks, but it
took awhile for the waters to catch up.  A little over a week ago, they
edged over the 80 degree mark and like throwing a switch, fish that were only
mildly interested like marlin, sailfish, wahoo and especially the dorado
finally woke up!

Although the bite hasn’t been wide-open, it can be!

Several times our boats got into big schools of dorado with
non-stop action and other times, boats hit a fish here and a fish there and at
the end of the day…wow…uh…hey, Joe…we have a stack of fish in the
box!  Occasionally, there’s some slower moments and only a few are caught
but overall, this is looking really optimistic as we roll into June and the
summer bite.  The nice thing too, is that we’re getting some nice quality
fish mixed in as well!

Last season we had a good dorado bite, no doubt.  But
so many of the fish were punk 5-10 pounders…all year!  Sure, there were
some bigger fish, but a “big” fish last year was 20 pounds instead of
the big 30-40 pound bulls that we are used to hooking.  But this year so
far, in just the last 2 weeks, we’ve already gotten more 20-40 pound fish than
I remember all last year!  The bigger fish are getting taken more by our
La Paz fleet than our Las Arenas fleet as there appears to be a better
concentration of bait and floating sargasso weeds north and east of La
Paz.  But, our Las Arenas boats are getting dorado too.

Actually, quite a mix of fish.

Our La Paz fleet is getting more dorado and  collateral
hookups on big cabrilla , pargo, roosterfish, marlin and sails.

Our Las Arenas fleet is getting more of a “buffet”
with catches of dorado mixed with barred pargo, smaller cabrilla, the
occasional tuna and roosterfish and wahoo.

There’s some BIG roosterfish out there right now.  It
seems every week we’re getting (and releasing) roosters in the 50-80 pound category…many
after incredble battles on light tackle.  There’s several spots that have
been very productive with most fish in the 10-30 pound class and almost all of
them getting released.

Oh…and we’re still getting a few stray yellowtail too!

VIDEO CLIP OF THE WEEK

It’s actually a mixture of the last week-and-a-half, but hope you enjoy it.  I’m working with some new cameras and editing program so bear with me and we’ll work out the bugs.  Still…I think it’s not bad for a first effort with the new gear!  Got some nice footage for you to check out including some underwater shots too!  Just click the link!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hks6bWSXYI

That’s our story!

Jonathan and Jill

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

 

TAILHUNTER FISHING FLEET #1 Rated on Trip Advisor

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Website: www.tailhunter-international.com

U.S. Office: 3319 White Cloud Drive, Suite A, Hacienda Hts. CA 91745

Mexico Office: 755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico

Phones:

from USA : 626-638-3383

from Mexico: 044-612-14-17863

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https://fishreport.jonathanroldan.com/

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La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of May 22-29, 2011

Posted in amberjack, Bahia de Los Muertos, Bahia de los Suenos, baja fishing, Baja fishing reports, Baja sportfishing packages, Cerralvo Island Fishing, Chad Schearer, dorado, fish report, fishing charters, fishing tackle, fishing videos, flyfishing, jonathan roldan, la paz baja sur, la paz fishing, La Ventana Fishing, Las Arenas fishing, marlin, Mexican sportfishing outfitters, Mexican sportfishing packages, mexico fishing, Muertos Bay Fishing, pargo, roosterfish, sea of cortez, Shoot Straight TV, sportfishing packages, tailhunter, tailhunter international, tuna, wahoo, yellowfin tuna, yellowtail, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 30, 2011| Leave a Comment »

It was finally a week where the dorado decided to join the party and just-in-time for Chad Schearer's TV show "Shoot Straight" and his family to show up with the cameras. http://www.shootstraightTV.com Chad is the TV host of the program and usually travels the world with either a bow or muzzle-load rifle, but is quite a celebrity with the flyrod as well. He filmed all week with us and one of his sponsors is Cabela's Outdoor Stores. They wanted him to test out their new 6-piece travel flyrod that looked so thin and light a trout would've broken the 10 wt stick! Chad's intent was to get a big roosterfish on it, but when a big dorado charged through, it was GAME ON! Chad battled this monster 40-pound rooster on the light flygear for 1 hour and 45 minutes! He had never gotten a dorado before and this was a personal best...and all in front of the cameras!

Wahoooo! We finally got one to the boat. For weeks, I've been saying the conditions are right and Roger Thompson finally nailed one on a rapala at the north end of Cerralvo Island. He said te day was going slow (note the tuna boat in the back!) but he usually comes through and this 60 pound class speedster topped the day!

It was a stellar week for roosters for both our La Paz and Las Arenas fleets with fish up to 80 pounds. Sheldon "Doc" Schearer is a minister and sherrif's officer from Montana and this 60 pound rooster was a personal best. It ate a live sardine in about 10 feet of water near the Las Arenas lighthouse and took 1/2 an hour to battle. The fish was released. In fact, they caught 6 that day and all but one fish were put back in the water.

Tailhunter's own Jilly Roldan got into the nice dorado bite late this week posing with San Diego's Joe Jacobs in the blue waters of Balandra Bay north of La Paz. They also got roosterfish and small yellowtail, but ran into a spot of dorado that blew up on them and they lost count of the fish with double and triple hookups!

Tihs is the first week that dorado bit consistently. Not surprisingly, the waters edged over 80 degrees too and the winds calmed down. hmmmm...funny how that works! But the week started slowly, but by mid-week the counts were going up with mostly smaller fish in the 5-10 pound category, but as the week went on, there were more 20-40 pound fish in the counts and hardly anything prettier than a lit up mahi on the hook like this one taken off Espiritu Santo Island this week.

Even last season we didn't see many bull dorado over 20 pounds, but this week we had some fish in the 30, 40 and one that may well have been over 50 pounds! Jill got this one on the NE corner of Espiritu Santo Island just off the drop-off on live bait. Captain Joel holds it up for the photo! The waters are holding various spots of fish but they're scattered in all the usual places with many holding under building schools of sargasso weeds floating on the surface!

Even tho' waters kicked into "summer mode," there were still some "cooler water" fish around like this decent yellowtail held by Lisa Chandler of La Mesa CA. We actually took a few of these YT's this week.

Even when the fish weren't biting it seemed there were often schools of dolphin blasting through...wherever dolphin go! It was not unusual to see half the fleet suddenly stop what they were doing to follow the schools! This one was between Cerralvo and Espiritu Santo Island.

For alot of our clients and friends this week, it was their first time tangling with roosterfish and underlines why La Paz waters are called the "roosterfish capital of the world." Joe Jacobs from San Diego took this nice one in Pilot's Cove north of La Paz and released it.

The roosters were biting for BOTH our Tailhunter La Paz and Tailhunter Las Arenas fleets. Captain Jorge with our Las Arenas fleet helps Marsha Schearer pose with this slug rooster caught in shallow water just outside Bahia de Los Muertos.

SLOW START TO WEEK CRANKS UP WITH DORADO AND ROOSTERFISH!

Las Arenas/ La Paz Fishing Report for Week of May 22-29, 2011

Amazing what a difference a week can make.  Take away a
full moon; strong winds; green water; and inconsistent water
temperatures…little things like that…and WHAM…THE FISH BITE!  In
fact, water temps hit 80+ for the first time this year and it was a 180 degree
turn from the strange fishing last week.  In fact, it was a pretty decent
week of fishing!

It didn’t start out like that!  At the beginning, it was scratch fishing at
best.  I was pretty worried.  But…the conditions changed!

Hey, for the first time, dorado bit consistently with nice
patches of sargasso weed building up in the surrounding channels and while many
of the fish were firecracker punks in the 5-10 pound class, there were still
some nicer fish running in the 20-40 pound class (and even one or two that sure looked like 50-pound-class dorado)  that really got folks
excited.  In fact, we had Chad Schearer, nationally known host of the
outdoor TV show “Shoot Straight” filming the entire week  (www.shootstraightTV.com)  with us and
Chad, who had never flyfished Baja before and came to tie on a big roosterfish,
instead  threw a pattern at boiling bonito and a huge 40-pound class
dorado bit his 10wt rod and it was “fish on!”  And epic battle
lasted almost 2 hours as the fish bulldogged down on the light line but finally
Chad got the fish to the boat and was almost speechless in front of the
cameras!

As well, we got into some incredible roosterfish
action.  Some stops with both our La Paz and Las Arenas fleets resulted in
double and triple roosterfish hookups.  Fish ranged from 10 to as large as
80-pounds this week with some incredible battles on light tackle, flyrods and
spinning gear when anglers fishing for smaller “fun” fish instead got
blown up on larger world-class roosters that almost brought some anglers to
their knees on the smaller gear.

Overall, just a great week with additional species that
included some big cabrilla, jack crevalle, barred pargo, striped marlin (hooked
and lost and released); sailfish (hooked and lost and released), pompano,
bonito, barracuda and even some very very late yellowtail in the 10-15 pound
class.  We even got a huge 9-foot mako
shark that ate a small dorado hooked by one of our amigos.  They got it to the boat and wisely decided to
cut it loose!

That’s our story!

Jonathan and Jill

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

 

TAILHUNTER FISHING FLEET #1 Rated on Trip Advisor

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Website: www.tailhunter-international.com

U.S. Office: 3319 White Cloud Drive, Suite A, Hacienda Hts. CA 91745

Mexico Office: 755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico

Phones:

from USA : 626-638-3383

from Mexico: 044-612-14-17863

.

Tailhunter Weekly Fishing Report:

https://fishreport.jonathanroldan.com/

Tailhunter YouTube Videos:

http://www.youtube.com/user/pangapirate

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La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of May 15-22, 2011

Posted in amberjack, Bahia de Los Muertos, baja fishing, Baja fishing reports, Baja sportfishing packages, Cerralvo Island Fishing, dorado, fish report, fishing charters, fishing tackle, fishing videos, flyfishing, jonathan roldan, la paz baja sur, la paz fishing, La Ventana Fishing, Las Arenas fishing, marlin, Mexican sportfishing outfitters, Mexican sportfishing packages, mexico fishing, Muertos Bay Fishing, pargo, roosterfish, sea of cortez, sportfishing packages, tailhunter, tailhunter international, tuna, wahoo, yellowfin tuna, yellowtail on May 22, 2011| Leave a Comment »

This is a "pig" of a yellowfin tuna! Scott Shiminesky from Pacific City in Oregon was up at the north end of Cerralvo Island with Captain Pancho. They had already run out've live bait and decided to drop back a big mackerel-pattern Bomber lure. They had just gotten it into the water when the freight train hit. "I almost burned the hell outta my thumb!" But after a 30 minute fight got the fish to the boat and it weighed out at 72-pounds. His amigo, Larry Parnell got a 30 pounder as well. The tuna continue to tease. Everyone gets excited then the fish disappear! But, still a great fish!

 

FRESH ONE! Are there many shots prettier than this? Tuna...game over! Forty pounder coming to the gaff. At the end of the week a flurry of nice-sized YFT's showed up on the radar!

 
 

Roger Thompson is an excellent fisherman and if there's fish to be found, he's usually in the thick of it. Like I write below, the winds died and the fish came to play like this 42-pound yellowfin tuna. (See Roger's account below). I had to post up this photo because Roger is usually incredibly photogenic with his fish, but here he's in pain lifting up this fat fish!

 
 

The benefits of having TWO fleets! After two slow days at Las Arenas, we suggested that Kevin Blakely and his son Kevin and brother, Kim, (not shown) fish with our La Paz fleet and Captain Chito. Wow...what a difference a day makes! See his comments below.

 

The last few weeks have been some of the most consistently great weeks for BIG cabrilla that I have seen in awhile especially around Espiritu Santo Island. Look at this fat slug cabrilla that Donna Thompson is holding up! She was fishing with Capt. Chito.

 

First time visitor to La Paz, Bryan Graybill, got into the cabrilla bite with four of these trophy cabrilla landed.

 

All the way from Billings, Montana for his first rooster, Jess Landers escaped the snow and fished with Captain Juan and got this nice rooster. Roosterfishing has actually been a good fallback even when the other fishing has been off. Even if not good eating and most getting released, they're a blast to hook and fight!

 

Our buddy Rick Hosmer from S. California had another banner trip down here. He comes several times a year and had one day where they had non-stop action on these great eating barred pargo that are tough as any fish to horse outta the rocks near Las Arenas.

 

From Texas, Kevin Blakely holds up one of several yellowtail off the north end of Cerralvo Island north of La Paz. Captain Chito is hooked up at the stern. That's the sealion colony in the background.

 

Another of our regular die-hard good amigos who comes several times a year is Al Tesoro. He hung in there durring the tougher times this week but did get some pargo like this nice dog-tooth with Captain Yofo.

 

WEEK STARTS AND ENDS STRONG BUT SEVERAL DAYS MID-WEEK STRUGGLED!

La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of May 15-22, 2011

It’s hard to describe the week.  Started strong…then mid-week, it hit a bump….but then finished on a high  note!

The week started strong for fishing then as the full moon came up and the winds increased…well…it got pretty stinky as far as fishing is concerned.  That one-two punch of high winds and the full moon has really been a kick-in-the-pants the last two times it happened.  Normally, any one thing isn’t bad, but double-barrels doesn’t help.  The wind especially turns the water over not to mention making it hard to find bait which is kind of a good thing to have. 

 Early in the week to start out…wow!  Some smokin’ good fishing, especially if you fished with our La Paz fleet.   Big amberjack that ranged from 40-100 pounds (big cousins to yellowtail).  We got into some good yellowtail…maybe not as big as previous weeks…but 20-25 pound fish are still banner catches!  We also hit big snapper.  Big pargo as well plus trophy-sized cabrilla.  Guys could fill their ice chests in one day.  We thought it was finally going to be wide-open from here on out.  Take a look at this week’s big tuna!!! (We got pretty excited about that!)  

When things were working…everything worked.  Trolled feathers.  Live bait.  Dead bait.  Rapalas.  Yo-yo iron.  All clicked!  Oh…and we had small squid floating on the surface as well creating some real foamers when the fish went off. 

 But then the winds came back up.  Fishing went back down!

Just when we thought we were finally done with the winds, we got spanked. …late in the week, both our La Paz and Las Arenas fleets really had to scratch out some fish.  Some yellowtail, some pargo, a few cabrilla and lots of bonito.  That was almost it.  Three days of frustration and bumpy rides!

However, as I’m writing this at the end of the week…THE WINDS CALMED DOWN.  Gorgeous weather came back.  Seas laid down!   Today, we got our first decent dorado bite of the season with our Las Arenas fleet.  Nothing big, but fish to 10 pounds came swarming to the boats with double and triple hookups!  Plus some big roosters in the 30-50 pound class.  Additionally, take a look at some of the tuna we got…30-40 pound YFT’s!

 Four our La Paz fleet…again, what a difference when the wind isn’t blowing!  We got dorado, marlin, roosterfish, yellowtail and amberjack!  A complete 180 degree turnaround.  It’s all about the wind.  Hope the winds hold off and the fish stay ready to chew!

Kevin Blakely from Texas (photos above) put it together pretty well:

“We had a great trip.

First day was very slow. the second day we caught a few roosters, but nothing really to take home

so we decided to go to the LaPaz side.  Thank you for making that happen, as you can see we slammed it.

we caught over 25 fish – 10 Bonito, 4 Amberjack, 7 Yellow tail, 4 Triggerfish, and 2 Cabrilla

Kevin, my son caught a 50lb  and a 40lb Amberjack, again he pulled in the biggest fish of the group

I caught 2 massive Yellowtail – a 35lb and 25 lb.  My brother Kim, caught a 30lb Yellowtail.

My 35lb Yellow was caught on a blue and white jig

most of the fish were caught with squid that (Captain)  Chito caught for us.”

Roger Thompson (tuna photo above):

“We went fishin’ out at 88 … looking for dorado with not one fish seen after 4 hours of buoy hopping. However, we finally found lots of tuna hanging out with the dolphin. There were birds crashing the water where the tuna crashing on bait. We couldn’t get them to bite on live sardinas. They would crash on the chum, but no bites, even with fluorocarbon. We pulled blue mackerel pattern rapalas and they went on the chew!. The biggest was 45.6 pounds on the digital. We caught 5 fish in a matter of an hour and a half. Then it was 2:00 and we were still an hour out, so it was an awesome ending to what was shaping up to be one of those days you don’t talk much about.”

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Jonathan and Jill

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La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of May 9-15, 2011

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This was a week when the ladies sure shone! Donna Thompson didn't catch ALL these fish, but she sure put some numbers in the box fishing with her husband out've La Paz. Look closely and you'll see yellowtail, amberjack, cabrilla and others...pretty much the whole gamut of species that bit this week.

 

Another good day where the ladies rocked! Sylvia Lynn was fishing for her first time ever. She and husband, Jeff, visited La Paz for the first time for their 27th Anniversary and she caught the "biggest and most" of the fish including yellowtail, ambjerjack and snapper although Jeff did get his biggest amberjack (see below).

 

Probably one of the most colorful photos of the week given Mike Lee's shorts and the nice yellowtail he caught north of La Paz. Mike and his dad fished both our Las Arenas and La Paz fleets and in the back is pictured Espiritu Santo Island.

 

He only had one day to fish, but made the most of it. Jeff Lynn shows off a personal best amberjack he caught working "yo yo" iron "until my arms fell off" getting yellowtail and snapper as well.

 

La Paz fishing was definitely better than Las Arenas fishing, but Las Arenas definitely had some highlights especially for fishing barred pargo if you check out the catch by Rick Hosmer, Captain Mundo and Jorger Romero (who took the photo).

 

It was a dynamite week for these big cousins to yellowtail. Amberjack were big hightlights of this week up to 80 pounds. Roger Thompson stuck this big boy north of La Paz.

 

Dr. Desmond Sjauwfoekloy always does well. In addition to some nice yellowtail this week he also took home some nice slabs of barred pargo. Fishing iron was the ticket. "Cranked as fast as you can!"

 

Oregonians Scott Shimenesky and Jason Boykin pose on the beach Bahia de Los Muertos with a nice day of barred pargo.

 

Tony and sons, Mike Lee spent 3 days fishing with us this past week and got several great varieties of fishing but really did nicely on the yellowtail. Both are from Valencia.

 
 

BIG AMBERJACK 50-100 POUNDERS PLUS YELLOWTAIL and BARRED PARGO SHOWCASE the WEEK

La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for week of May 8-15, 2011

 

This was week was another wacky week and another week that I appreciated that we have two full-time fleets working.  For whatever reason…dirty water…too much bait in the water…bad luck…bad current…our LasArenas fishing continues to be scratchy at best.  There’s some good action to be had, no doubt.  If you fished this past week with my Las Arenas fleet, you got into cabrilla, some decent pargo, roosterfish,  lots of bonito, jack crevalle and snapper.  Good action, and fun, but just not alot to get excited about to be honest.  That’s the way fishing is.  By the time you are reading this, it might have changed and gone off the charts!   Sort of “minor league” fishing.  Get bent. Get a little sun.  Catch a few fish for dinner. 

Normally, this time of year, the better fishing is with our Las Arenas fleet, but not so for the past two or three weeks. 

 

If you wanted QUALITY..that’s why I’m glad we have both fleets.  We were able to switch many of our clients over to fish with our La Paz fleet.  And that’s where you fished if you wanted to put some fat fish in the boat and fat fish in your ice chest. 

 

In an unusual late-season bite 20-40 pound yellowtail again got active with fish eating sardines, larger baits like caballitos and yo-yo iron in scrambled egg and blue/white patterns. (“You just gotta wind that reel handle as fast as you can!  If you slow down or your arm ain’t hurting you won’t get bit!” said one of our anglers. ) Also, there were alot of spots of smaller 12-inch squid floating on which the yellowtail were foaming and crashing so we were netting the squid for additional bait.  Sending one down with a sliding egg-sinker would almost guarantee a bite.  For many of our anglers this week they got their first or largest yellowtail ever.  Some of our captains told us of larger fish up to 50 pounds breaking off as these are really horses when hooked!

 

As well, we continued to get some big amberjack, pargo and cabrilla as well.  Some of the amberjack this week…no kidding…40, 50, 80 and 100 pound beasts!  Some of the slabs of fillets were like hamhocks!  Plus, we lots some fish that were larger.  This could all switch around really fast again, but again, that’s why we have the two fleets going full -time to make these adjustments as needed! 

 

We’ve got more sargasso weeds building all the time so if temperatures keep warming I would be surprised if we didn’t start seeing some dorado real soon!

 FLASH – Just as I went to post this up, we have reports of several big 50-70 pound tuna caught by our Las Arenas fishing fleet!  Will keep you posted!

 That’s our story!

Jonathan and Jill

 

Jonathan Roldan’s
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Mexico Office: 755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico
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La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of May 1-8, 2011

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Oh-oh! Now what? After a slow week of fishing, the bite north of La Paz fired up and anglers like first-timer Erik Rose from Arcadia CA had the dilemma of wondering what to do with all the fillets they had to bring home. Seen on the beach are yellowtail, triggerfish, amberjack, cabrilla and snapper.Unbridled joy outta Keith Brownfield who came down from Washington just to catch a roosterfish and, although it was rough early in the week, he got a 30 pounder his first day. He followed it up the next day with this 40 pound fish taken near Espiritu Santo Island. He couldn't have been happier! All the roosters were released.

 

Unbridled joy outta Keith Brownfield who came down from Washington just to catch a roosterfish and, although it was rough early in the week, he got a 30 pounder his first day. He followed it up the next day with this 40 pound fish taken near Espiritu Santo Island. He couldn't have been happier! All the roosters were released.

It was a great week to kick into amberjack...the bigger tastier cousin to yellowtail. Dave Rose made a banzai run driving from Denver CO, to get in on the fishing. He does this several times a year and was rewarded with this trophy 50-pound class amberjack. Balandra Bay in the background and Captain Chito.

 

From San Francisco, Wade Ichimura was able to get into that late week bite north of La Paz where he got into some nice yellowtail, pargo and cabrilla on live bait and yo-yo iron.Fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet was difficult this week. Scratchy at best as winds, waves and cloudy water made fishing less-than-ideal. However, amigas like our "cookie queen" (she always brings us cookies from Oregon) put some nice jack crevalle and this good amberjack in the box.

 

A beautiful Baja Golden Group for Chris Pallemaerts that he took fishing near Espirito Santo Island. In almost 16 years here in La Paz, I've only seen about 1/2 dozen of these beautiful fish taken. Great eating.

A beautiful Baja Golden Group for Chris Pallemaerts that he took fishing near Espirito Santo Island. In almost 16 years here in La Paz, I've only seen about 1/2 dozen of these beautiful fish taken. Great eating.

 

Bill Redalen, all the way from Pittsburgh PA, on his first Baja trip holds up another one of the nice amberjack taken this week. That's Bahia de Los Muertos in the background.We had some colorful fish this week! Gilber Jue from the Bay Area poses with a red pargo (huachinango) taken with our Tailhunter La Paz fleet. Great eating rock fish and highly prized by the markets and restaurants in La Paz.

 

We had quite a few "first timers" this week including Richard Jacques from England with a fish he said "is by far the biggest fish I've ever caught" holding up a La Paz yellowtail that was so big, it didn't fit into the picture!He says he has the "Baja Bug" after his first trip here to La Paz, but who can blame Eric Rose, as he holds a freshly gaffed yelllowtail. It's a thick heavy fish! Most of the yellowtail this week were in the 25-40 pound class.

 

Fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet was difficult this week. Scratchy at best as winds, waves and cloudy water made fishing less-than-ideal. However, amigas like our "cookie queen" (she always brings us cookies from Oregon) put some nice jack crevalle and this good amberjack in the box.

We had some colorful fish this week! Gilber Jue from the Bay Area poses with a red pargo (huachinango) taken with our Tailhunter La Paz fleet. Great eating rock fish and highly prized by the markets and restaurants in La Paz.

He says he has the "Baja Bug" after his first trip here to La Paz, but who can blame Erik Rose, as he holds a freshly gaffed yelllowtail. It's a thick heavy fish! Most of the yellowtail this week were in the 25-40 pound class.

 

SLOW WEEK FINALLY KICKS IN WHEN WINDS SLOW DOWN PRODUCING YELLOWTAIL AND AMBERJACK

 La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of May 1-8, 2011
 
The early part of the week was as picky and scratch as could be imagined.  I mean…well…it sucked!  (for lack of a better word).  Winds were strong enough to generate big swells that actually threw waves on the La Paz waterfront and got cars wet and turned the fishing  grounds green and dirty.  Pretty frustrating fishing.  We got some bonito and some small pargo (lost some big pargo) and some really nice roosters …but no one really keeps roosters and smaller fish were getting released.  So the counts weren’t very encouraging and coolers looked slack.  Not much you could do except shrug and hope for better.  Credit to our anglers who hung in there!

I mean…honestly…for those of you who have been reading my fishing reports all these years…before Thursday…I HAD ONE PHOTO for the entire week to post in the fishing report!  It was THAT SLOW!!!

But then Thursday rolled up and winds started calming and waters went flat!

We stopped most of our anglers from fishing Las Arenas and switched them over to fish our La Paz fleet instead and WE FOUND FISH!!!

We thought they were gone, but BIG YELLOWTAIL, PARGO and CABRILLA bent rods and came to chew on baits and iron.  Big fish lost.  Big fish caught. Even some big amberjack too!  Empty ice chests started to fill and we started to see the smiles again.  For alot of our anglers, spending the last day fishing La Paz meant an 11th hour reprieve after several tough days fishing, meant going home with a successful trip to battle some larger fish!

It seems that as long as the winds stay down, we’ll be OK.  Very encouraging stuff!  Also, more sargasso weeds building so that could be a harbinger for dorado showing up soon!  This week looks like it might be a repeat of last week. The forecast shows stronger winds early in the week tapering off as the week goes on.  Will keep you posted!

That’s our story

Jonathan and Jill  

Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter International

 

 

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U.S. Office: 3319 White Cloud Drive, Suite A, Hacienda Hts. CA 91745
Mexico Office: 755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico
Phones:
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