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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of Dec. 20-27, 2015

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That’s about what a mix of fish looks like right now. A little of this and that…some snapper…pargo…cabrilla…maybe some dorado! All good eats. It all depends on windows of opportunities between the winds.

Another “juvenile” whaleshark like the kind in La Paz Bay that everyone wants to swim with. This young fella is about 15 feet long. Thanks to Carl Zalinskii for the great photo. It’s great when the waters are calm, but tough to find if it’s choppy!

Another of Carl Zalinski’s photos snorkeling with one of the whalewharks in La Paz Bay. Don’t worry. They’re very gentle and don’t have teeth!

You get the idea of the scale of these big fish next to a snorkeler. These are the youngsters! The adults in the open ocean can reach lengths of 40-50 feet.

NICE TIME TO BE IN TOWN BUT NOT MANY FISHERMEN AROUND – STILL WINDY TOO!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Dec. 20-27, 2015

Regretfully, not much activity to report. Only two days were fishable this week that didn’t have strong winds. There was even a bit of rain our there on the water. Of the two days, we had some folks get out one day and that was it.

It’s Christmas week. The town isn’t really busy and those that are in are snowbirds just catching some sunshine or having a winter get-away. It’s off-season and most of the captains have their boats out’ve the water as well. It’s pretty. It’s just really breezy.

Lots of folks are trying to swim with the whalesharks as well, but like fishing, it’s incumbent on the ability to get out there in between the winds. Although the whalesharks are right in the bay in shallow water, if it’s windy and choppy, it’s difficult to find them, let alone trying to snorkel with them. However, the popularity of swimming with the whalesharks has grown exponentially since the city of La Paz started protecting them. At times, there’s been dozens of whalesharks in the bay and honest, it’s a once, in-a-lifetime experience with these gentle “juveniles” that run 10-20 feet long and are true “sharks” but they have no teeth per se and feed on plankton and other itty-bitty things…not people and mammals! Sometimes, there’s literally a whole fleet of boats out there with folks swimming with the whalesharks.

But, the disappointment is that so many folks are coming but don’t understand that during this time of year, you can’t go swimming with them EVERY DAY because of the wind. Other parts of the year, you just pick your day.

However, I get so many folks this time of year who say, “We’re from Canada and we are driving up from Cabo for one day and want to go swim with the whalesharks” or “We just drove 1000 miles to swim with the whalesharks and have just one day.” Then, they show up and it’s a day no one can get out!

Anyway, as far as fishing, there’s still a surprising variety of fish out there on the days we can fish. Cold water species like sierra are becoming more frequent. Inshore species like pargo and cabrilla are around the rocky and reef areas and always make great eating and don’t discount trigger fish for great eating as well. Plus, a few pelagic species like dorado and billfish too.

Some of the commercial guys are still finding yellowtail and amberjack off the drop off by the lighthouse. Those guys gotta make a living so they’re a little more inclined to go out even when it’s less than favorable conditions. But that’s a different ballgame than folks who want to sport fish. But, even then, it’s hard on the commercial guys because the winds limit their access to the waters as well. But, when they can get out, they’re finding the fork tails in the deeper water.

Hope everyone had a great Christmas and a continuing great Holiday Season! Happy New Year for 2016!

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Jonathan and Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

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

U.S. Mailing Address: Tailhunter International, 8030 La Mesa Blvd. #178, La Mesa CA 91942

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of Dec. 13-20, 2015

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From Virginia, they made the most of having only one day to fish, Richard Dyer on the right got this striped marlin and gets and assist from his buddy, Josh Saitelbach, on the beach at Bahia de los Muertos. They were not able to release the fish and donated the meat.

world record pargo Matt Deischel 10-15 tags

It’s official. This barred pargo /pargo mulatto shot in October this year north of La Paz has been certified but the International Underwater Spearfishing Association (IUSA) as a new spearfishing world record. It was weighed on the certified scales at Tailhunter Sportfishing at 38.5 pounds and was shot by Matt Deischel who lives near Denver, Colorado. After weighing the fish, he and his buddies donated all the meat to the local orphanage. In Mexico, spearfishing with tanks is illegal and elite athletes, like Mark, are all free divers who hunt while holding their breaths and diving to great depths. Matt was diving with Pistoleros de Mar in La Paz.

Nick Jones tags world record pargo scale tags 10-15

Photo of Nick Jones, Matt’s buddy, outside the Tailhunter offices with the scale, showing the 38.5 pound reading. The fish would have been heavier except it was not weighed immediately after it was boated since the scale is located back in La Paz so the fish had already been dead for several hours and dehydrated.

WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY TO FISH PRODUCES…FISH!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Dec. 13-20, 2015

Another week of double-digit winds. Only 2 real days that were even remotely fishable. Other days would’ve been miserable if we tried to go out and, I guess we could’t fished if we really had to, but why?

Fortunately, this time of year, we have snow birds who are more inclined to seek sunshine instead of fish. If they want to fish, it’s maybe a day or two. Therefore, we can tell them to postpone trips or wait until the forecast shows the best days with the least wind. But, it’s pretty easy to calculate. If there’s storms north of the border, chances are there’s wind down where we are in La Paz. Overall, it’s been cool by our standards with daytime temps in the mid-60’s and lows to the low 50’s! Where the blankets?

For the fishing, the inshore stuff is the best deal. Working the rocks and shallow areas, there’s some decent cabrilla with barred pargo around. They can provide some good action although for inexperienced anglers, it can be frustrating trying to pull the stubborn fish from the rocks. As well, there’s some sierra around and bonito. There had been yellowtail biting at the drop off at Las Arenas but with the winds we weren’t able to check out those areas this week.

Offshore, surprisingly, there’s some dorado breezing through and commercial guys tell me there’s still some wahoo around plus we did hook a marlin that was either late in the season or way ahead of his friends for the year.

FELIZ NAVIDAD!

Feliz Navidad…Mele Kalikimaka…Merry Christmas…Happy Hanakkuh…in whatever language, God bless and have a great Christmas and holiday season.

As we pull up on another Christmas, Jill and I (and our rescued kitten…Catlyn!) wanted to wish all of you and your families a safe, happy and peaceful Christmas. God bless you all and thank you for being a blessing in our lives.

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Jonathan and Jilly Roldan

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website:

www.tailhunter-international.com

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

U.S. Mailing Address: Tailhunter International, 8030 La Mesa Blvd. #178, La Mesa CA 91942

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/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of Dec. 6-13, 2015

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A nice time to be in La Paz. It’s pretty quiet these days. The city returns to being a sleep beach-side pueblo in many respects. I think it’s that lull before Christmas. The video was taken from the 2nd floor terrace at out Tailhunter Restaurant. Not exactly rush hour traffic. Sun’s out and it’s breezy but some days can be very windy.

This is about how choppy and windy it is…even in our normally flat water bay! This photo is from Baja Joe’s over in Sargento. This is their high season.

A view of the new CBX pedestrian bridge that just opened up this week that allows passengers in San Diego to check in and now walk directly from San Diego to the new Tijuana Airport making it even easier now to fly to La Paz, and other Mexican destinations, especially for S. Californians.

NOT MUCH HAPPENING – Fish and City Hunkered Down for Navidad

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Dec. 6-13, 2015

Not much to tell you this week. About the only ones who seem to be having a great time on the water are the windsurfers and kite boarders who come down this time of the year specifically because it’s windy. They’re having a great time and a big reason they flock to the area. But, their high-season, is also the reason it’s the off-season for fishing. It’s chilly and windy! That area between Las Arenas and Cerralvo Island is like a wind FUNNEL making it world-class for the windsurfing crowd. When the winds die down, and they leave is when the fishermen start rolling back in. So, yea…good wind are blowing…again!

And, generally that’s how it was this week again as it has been now for over a month. We didn’t have many anglers this week and when we did, well…it was windy. And wind and fishing usually aren’t a good recipe for fishing success.

There were some small cabrilla and pargo caught. We did have two marlin hooked that got off. Some bonito and trigger fish and that was about it.

As I said, not many fishermen these days and town is quiet. Peaceful. Very nicely so, in many respects. It might surprise many of our regulars. Not much traffic. Everyone is getting ready for Christmas. It’s a good time to be here. Even if you’re not fishing. Or catching. Still beats working. Just come and hang out. And escape the snow, rain and cold from wherever you area!

NEW SAN DIEGO / TIJUANA AIRPORT BRIDGE FINALLY OPENED!

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The Cross Border Xpress (CBX) will operate just like a regular terminal on the U.S. side where you check in then walk across the bridge to the Tijuana Airport already checked in!

The new CBX pedestrian bridge just opened this past week to much anticipated fanfare. It’s great. So many folks take advantage of flights out of the new Tijuana Airport for great flights direct to La Paz and other Mexican destinations. Previously, you had to take a shuttle or taxi across the border; drive yourself; have someone else drive you; or take a connecting flight from somewhere else. Not always the most convenient.

With the new bridge, it’s just like an extension of the Tijuana Airport. You can part on the San Diego side. There’s long-term parking. You can check in at the terminal just like normal. Then, there’s a small toll to walk across the bridge to the Tijuana Airport to board your plane. Easy! This will be great for us in La Paz.

Here’s more info about it. Click the link:

http://www.cbs8.com/story/30707627/bridge-linking-san-diego-to-tijuana-airport-opens

Have a great week!

That’s our story!

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Jonathan and Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website:

www.tailhunter-international.com

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

U.S. Mailing Address: Tailhunter International, 8030 La Mesa Blvd. #178, La Mesa CA 91942

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/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Nov. 22-29, 2015

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Huge trophy cabrilla for Michael Nuttbrock from West Linn, Oregon, who was down with his dad, son and brother and got in some good fishing this past week.

Off the lighthouse, Myles Panze got into the yellowtail bite with some nice slug forktails that were in the 25-30 pound class. They said the bite was early. They also got a big striped marlin and lost another one.

Thirteen-year-old Ayden Nuttbrock had himself quite a week of fishing with dad, uncle and grandpa. From Oregon, he got yellowtail, pargo, marlin, bonito and even this dorado!

Captain Jorge with our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet helps Riley and Brady Dunn from Boulder, CO, who were able to squeeze in one day of fishing with us and made the best of it. Brady hooked this nice striped marlin while Riley said he “drank beer!” It was their first time fishing in La Paz and they donated all the meat to the pueblo.

Three generations…Michael…son Ayden…grandpa Don from Oregon started their fishing week off with some nice yellowtail. They’re standing on the beach posing at Bahia de Los Muertos.

Ken Errair got in some fishing before the winds started coming up later in the week and stuck it to this really nice amberjack. You can tell by the jacket and rough water behind him it’s started to get chippy!

She always does well anytime she comes fishing. Taylor Murphey from Long Beach holds up two of yer nice yellowtail she caught earlier in the week.

First timer, Andy Nuttbrock, holds up his striped marlin he caught off Muertos Bay. The fish could not be released and the meat was donated. He and his family actually hooked three marlin.

WHAT A DIFFERENCE A WEEK WITHOUT WIND MAKES!

(Enjoying It While We Can!)

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Nov. 22-29, 2015

What a crazy week! With the winds all month literally blowing everyone off the water, we could only hope for the best and prepare for the worst. Fortunately, being off-season, we don’t have alot of fishermen these last few weeks when it was hard just getting bait or standing up in the pangas…or even getting out…let alone catching a fish.

Well, this past week, we finally got a break and the winds took it easy on us and took a week off. What a difference a week makes!

We got quite a variety of fish. Nothing crazy, but some really nice fishing especially for alot of our first timers. We got just about everything except tuna! Talk about variety, we had cold and warm water species mixing it up.

There were striped marlin and sailfish between 100 and 120 pounds . We had some medium-sized 30 pound rooster fish near the shore. There were 20-30 pound yellowtail and even some amberjack off the deep hole near the Las Arenas lighthouse and at the south end of Cerralvo.

There were some big-boy pargo and cabrilla plus bonito and some sierra. We even had a few dorado and some wahoo biters that broke off.

From day-to-day, we never knew what was going to bite or what the anglers would come back with. It was a surprise every day and in between each panga.

And that was our week. Right at the end, things started falling apart again as Hurricane Sandra started forming up to the south of us. It never showed up, but it did send up winds and some rains to the area and well…there went the fishing. As I write this, the winds are slated to blow again through about mid-week before it lets up again.

Hope everyone had a safe, happy and peaceful Thanksgiving!

That’s our story!

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Jonathan and Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

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

U.S. Mailing Address: Tailhunter International, 8030 La Mesa Blvd. #178, La Mesa CA 91942

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of Nov 15-22, 2015

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From Napa CA, Danny McPhee gets an assist from Captain Victor on another big roosterfish they caught close to shore near Punta Perrico. Dan and his brother, Bob, got 5 big roosters between 40-60 pounds and released all of them. These were their first roosterfish.

In rough water near the Las Arenas lighthouse at the drop-off, Taylor was jigging and hooked this color-ful amberjack. She was with her uncle, Roger Thompson, who says commercial guys using bait were catching yellowtail nearby.

Here’s a fish you don’t see often. A tasty sheephead caught by Joel Zarmati. I don’t think I’ve ever posted a sheephead photo in the 20 years that I’ve posted my fishing reports! I’ve seen them occasionally when scuba diving but never seen one caught. Joel lives in El Sargento.

Bob McPhee gives a grimace as he and Captain Victor try to hold onto a struggling roosterfish long enough to take a photo and releasing the big fish. Bob and his brother Dan had a double hook-up on the roosters with both anglers bent simultaneously.

BIG ROOSTERS HIGHLIGHT ANOTHER DIFFICULT WINDY WEEK

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Nov. 15-22, 2015

Winds were again the big story this week. Two weeks in a row, the northern winds ripped in with speeds over 20 mph and some gusts over 30 mph. Fortunately, it’s already off-season. Not many fishermen and those that did go out knew it would be rough and perhaps not very productive. Many of our folks right now are coming from colder areas so they’re just happy it’s not snowing! The sun is still out and it’s honestly a pleasant 84 degrees most days. Except for the winds if you’re on the water.

All week the La Paz port captain had his yellow warning flags out, but honestly, if you’d seen what our calm La Paz bay looked like all week, it was like a froth. Waves crashed on the malecon waterfront tossing spray on passing cars. There were wind-driven waves on some beaches that were easily surfable on a boogie board and one of the huge navigation buoys was torn from it’s chains and tossed up on the shore. We have many friends who are sailboaters in La Paz and even they thought it was best to just tie up to the docks and drink beer!

However, as mentioned, we did have some hearty folks out there who did brave the elements and still had a good time. Not much going on offshore and frankly too rough. Plus bait is an issue when big winds make waves. Big waves make it hard to get bait. But, inshore the were decent catches of pargo, cabrilla and some huge triggerfish. Plus a few yellowtail hooked (and lost). Best bite was on the rooster fish. Towards the end of the week as the winds calmed down, commercial anglers using live bait were hooking some yellowtail so we want to keep an eye on that. But roosterfish produced the larger fish of the week.

I’m really surprised that they are here this late. Still, some 10-60 pound fish hanging out close to shore. If you’re not looking to bring home any meat, these fish are great sport and there’s nothing like tying into a 40-50 pound beast on light tackle. But all of them are getting released for the most part as the meat isn’t very good eating.

This week, winds look like they might calm down a bit so hopefully fish will be more cooperative.

That’s our story!

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Jonathan and Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

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

U.S. Mailing Address: Tailhunter International, 8030 La Mesa Blvd. #178, La Mesa CA 91942

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La Paz – Las Arenas Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of Nov. 1-8, 2015

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Roger Thompson puts another one on the boat. He was dragging his favorite dark Rapala and this nice wahoo bit. He was dragging on the SW end of Cerralvo Island. There’s still some wahoo around but no regular biters. Normally, November is a good time for wahoo hunting.

Ed Sorensen from Monrovia CA spent 3 days fishing with us and Captain Gerardo. He got 4 nice roosterfish between 30 and 50 pounds on live bait and all released.

Great shot of our Tailhunter Team this past week in Cabo San Lucas at the Los Cabos Western Outdoor News Tuna Jackpot. Thanks for our amigos, Bob Sayre, Bob Duncan, Jorge Romero and Omar Osario (Capt. Boli) and the Fin-Addict Sportfishing.

In three days fishing, our Tailhunter Team guys picked up one marlin, 5 dorado and 1 wahoo. Well done and gracias!

Sky view of the long-awaited new toll road from the Los Cabos Airport towards La Paz.

Fast and new!

FISHING and WEATHER TAKING ON A CHILL

La Paz – Las Arenas/Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Nov. 1-8, 2015

Seasons have definitely changed, not just for us in La Paz, but from what we’re hearing in other areas of S. Baja as well. Northern winds seem to have moved in and are blowing pretty consistently which is indicative of cooler air and water temperatures. It makes for rougher fishing and fewer warm-water species. Winter conditions aren’t far behind. If the winds continue, we’ll be fishing mostly inshore species before too long. It’s still a pretty time to be in Baja. It’s great vacation temperatures with daytime temps comfortably in the mid-80’s and nighttime temperature pleasantly in the mid-60’s.

La Paz

We haven’t really sent out too many of our fishermen and boats out’ve La Paz now for almost 2 weeks. It’s been tough fishing. Northern winds have made it choppy and rough. Even tho’ it might look calm in the bay, outside it can look like a washing machine. Bait has also become a problem. Some days, no bait is available until late in the morning. Even moreso, the fish we’ve been finding have been far on the other side of La Paz Bay near San Juan de la Costa. That’s a long long run after already a long run looking for bait. San Juan de la Costa is over an hour run to get there. Then…when we have fished the area, we’re finding only 1-3 little dorado or some sierra.

More or less, unless something dramatic happens, I think we’re done fishing La Paz side and Espirito Santo Island for the rest of the season.

Las Arenas/ Bahia de Los Muertos

This is where we’ve been doing most of our fishing recently. Having our boats launching out’ve Bahia de Los Muertos they are at least more protected from the winds blowing from the north since it’s a south-facing bay. However, it has still been bumpy out there some days once the winds start up.

The winds create another aspect. The winds make it hard to get bait. If waves are battering the bait areas, the bait scatters or makes it hard for the pangeros to get in close to throw their nets. Without bait, it makes it harder to fish or we revert to fishing for lures…or trolling…which isn’t much fun anyway if it’s rough and you’re in a panga.

The other side of the coin is that winds force us to fish closer to shore for pargo, cabrilla, jacks, and sierra. All good fish, but surely not the glamour pelagic species folks come for.

That being said, we were still getting some decent rooster fish the last week or so that ran 30-60 pounds (all released). There were also a few sailfish and marlin hooked and released. Rapalas near Cerralvo Island and not far off Punta Perrico produced a few wahoo as well as some really early season yellowtail in the 20-pound class.

New Road Now Open

Well, it finally happened. We’ve been waiting for them to open the new road from Los Cabos Airport. It’s been completed for several weeks, but required Mexican President Nieto to do the official ribbon-cutting ceremony. He was in town last week and the deed was done!

The new toll road from the Los Cabos Airport bypasses the slower tourist corridor between San Jose and Cabo San Lucas. For those anglers and tourist traveling to La Paz, the 100 mile trip has been taking 3 to 3 1/2 hours. The new road should cut down the trip to approximately 1 hour 40 minutes! Cost is about 70 pesos, I understand…about 6 dollars.

That’s our story!

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Jonathan and Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website:

www.tailhunter-international.com

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

U.S. Mailing Address: Tailhunter International, 8030 La Mesa Blvd. #178, La Mesa CA 91942

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/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of Oct. 26-Nov. 1, 2015

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Not just the best catch of the week…maybe one of the best of the season! When someone catches three or more kinds of sportfish in a day, we call it a GRAND SLAM! Richard and Sue Marksberry from Herndon, Virginia had never fished in the ocean before. They had never fished in Mexico. They got 5 tuna, then caught a sailfish; then caught a wahoo! On top of that, they got pargo, cabrilla, bonito, jack crevalle and roosterfish. They let most of their fish go or donated fish to the pueblo. Nicely done! They set the bar pretty high for future trips!

Nice way to end the trip for Kyle Herrera from Kaysville UT and his dad Channing. The got into the tuna early in the week then topped things off their last day with a nice wahoo as they were coming back to the beach with the panga!

Tom Mullican, from Idaho, is one of our great Tailhunter amigos. He spent the last two weeks here struggling through the difficult bite, winds, hurricane waves and lack of bait and never gave up and kept smiling. During that tough bite, he and Captain Archangel suddenly found themselves with THREE sailfish hooked up at the SAME TIME!!! He said it was wild. All on lighter tackle. One got unbuttoned right next to the boat. Another was released and swam strongly. The last one could not be revived which is shown here on the beach. Tom donated the meat! Once-in-a-life-fishing! Good job, Tom!

Early in the week when the tuna cooperated, Dave Codding with Captain Armando and a nice rack of yellowfin tuna that Dave caught with wife, Gail. They donated all the meat to families in San Pedro. They also left donations of money for our FANLAP scholarship program.

Despite tough fishing all week, Barbara Choate, was gonna keep fishing and outfish her husband and the rest of the guys. She’s got the best laugh! Well, she came through on the last day with Captain Jorge and caught what might be the largest dorado of the season. We’ve caught alot of dorado this year, but a fish over 10 pounds has been rare. It’s been a strange year. But this one might be in the 20-25 pound category!

Dave Codding from Idaho and Captain Armando with a nice marlin. Dave had caught other billfish, but had never done it like this on light tackle and it battered him for almost 2 hours. The fish could not be released and he donated the meat to folks in the pueblo.

A beast! Matt Deichsel shot this huge barred pargo while freediving and it might be a new spearfishing world record. They brought the monster to Tailhunters where we have a certified IGFA scale and it topped out at 38.5 pounds almost 2 pounds heavier than the current world record. The papers have been submitted and hopefully qualifies!

Two of our newest amigos! Tammy and Donnie Van Ness from Texas came looking for a trophy rooster that evaded them, but they did get some of the yellowfin tuna.

With Captain Gerardo of our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet, John came to us all the way from New Jersey and shows off a few of his yellowfin tuna.

From Oakland CA, Dave and Lou Hong with a couple of their yellowfin tuna.

ANGLERS PUSH THROUGH TOUGHEST FISHING WEEK OF THE SEASON

La Paz – Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of Oct. 26-Nov. 1, 2015

Without mincing words, this was by far the toughest week for fishing of the entire year. Honestly, a struggle for the anglers and the captains. The way we’re set up, we have two fleets. For those of you who have fished with us, you know how we’re set up.

Our Tailhunter La Paz fleet fishes north out’ve the bay and then around Espirito Santo Island

Our other fleet is our Tailhunter Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fleet that fishes around Cerralvo Island.

This time of year, both sides are usually producing some fantastic fishing with everything from billfish to wahoo and tuna to dorado and others in between. This is prime time right now. On the rare occasion that one side is not doing well (either because of wind, weather, bait, etc.) , the other side is always productive and we easily move our clients to the other fleet so they can continue to get bit. It’s worked like that for the 20 years we’ve been here.

I don’t know what happened this week, but the ocean turned into a desert for fishing on both sides. Poor fishing doesn’t even begin to describe things. The week started out promising with tuna and billfish for our Las Arenas fleet and then dorado for our La Paz fleet. About Tuesday, the whole place just sort of shut down. We had trouble buying a bite. It was ridiculous. What happened?

LAS ARENAS / MUERTOS BAY

For the last 3 weeks or so, football-sized yellowfin tuna between 8 and 20 pounds have been a real nice treat in that area just south of Muertos Bay. As well, sailfish and marlin have been moving through the areas and providing a great bonus bite. Wahoo were also in the area. So were rooster fish! We were getting 3-10 tuna on the average per panga per day. That was the bread-and-butter-fish.

Then, it just shut off. Nothing. Nada. Boats were catching nothing or coming back with a cabrilla and a trigger fish!

Several factors seem to have been involved.

1. No bait. Our lifeblood is having live bait. The sardines and other baitfish just disappeared or became nearly impossible to find. No bait. No bites! After a few days of futility, word among the captains was that commercial boats and pangas from “down south” had swooped in during the night with small-mesh nets and taken all the bait. Lovely.

2. Residual wind and waves from Hurricane Patricia didn’t help. Patricia late last week that hit the Puerto Vallarta area was the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the western hemisphere. It had winds over 200 miles and hour and rains are still being felt up in Texas. We’re 500 miles away, but lots of water got pushed up our way and created big rolling swells that also pummeled the shallow areas where the sardines are often found. Plus, the rollers got people seasick that normally don’t get seasick. I think I had more people seasick this week than the entire year put together. The winds from the south added chop to the area and then seasonal winds from the north that start up this time of year anyway, turned the waters into a swirl.

3. Full moon. Huge full moon. I usually don’t put much stock in the full-moon superstition. You either fish or you don’t. Some of our best bites have taken place during the full moon. However, combined with everything else mentioned above, it was a sorry combination. I saw big tidal surges and low ebbs along with strong currents that made the water look like a flowing river at times.

LA PAZ

Our go-to area. All year long if nothing else was biting, we could always fish with our Tailhunter La Paz Fleet and 9 out’ve 10 times, the dorado would charge and fill the coolers and put smiles back on everyone’s faces. The dorado weren’t big, but they were feisty and fun.

This week, in combination with the things mentioned above, the bait was hard to find and our boats would spend most of the morning look for bait. Then, the fish were all the way over the other side of the bay near San Juan de La Costa…about 20 miles away! So, chase bait all morning then a long boat ride to the other side.

Then…the pangas were coming back with only 1 or 2 little dorado. Not even worth the gas. Even my captains were telling me not to fish the area! Waste of time and gas.

Add to that rough seas and you have a perfect combination of bad things making for bad fishing.

Hopefully, things settle down by the time you’re reading this.

MORE BIG THANK YOU’S!

We we head toward the end of the season, just another big shout-out to all of our Tailhunter Tribal Family that brought down hundreds and hundreds of pounds of school supplies, clothes, shoes, dry goods, hygiene items, toys and sports items for our needy kids in schools and also our battered women’s shelter. As well, to those of you who donated money to our FANLAP scholarship program to help keep a child in school, you all rock. Thanks for making a difference everyone!

Cannot find nicer folks and have more fun with this group for amigos from Idaho! Barbara and Randy Choate; Claire Ames; Gail and Dave Codding and Tom Ames. Thanks for the big hearts and smiles and thanks for spending your vacation with us!

We are blessed and grateful more than you know!

That’s our story!

Jonathan and Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

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

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LA PAZ – LAS ARENAS/ MUERTOS BAY FISHING REPORT FROM TAILHUNTER SPORTFISHING FOR WEEK OF OCTOBER 11-18, 2015

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First timers from Washington! Great to have Bill Bigelman and John Stendra with us and have them get into the tuna bite at Bahia de los Muertos.

One of our favorite amigos! Firefighter Ken Campbell says La Paz is his “happy place” and he had a great week. He got his first sailfish off Cerralvo Island. They tried to revive the fish, but were unable and he donated all the meat to the pueblo. He fought the fish for 90 minutes on 20 pound test and tells us the fish was actually tangled and had lassoed itself into knots of line around it’s head. Also interesting because he was fishing deep down with weight to get away from the bonito on the surface!

I just found out that our amigo, Chuck Fiola, from Yakima WA didn’t catch these fish! His buddy, Cal Lambert from Denver caught the fish, but Cal walked away up the beach when the camera came out! This photo with Captain Gerardo is especially interesting because Chuck is holding a yellowfin tuna while Gerardo is holding a rainbow runner…related to yellowtail (cooler water fish!)

Captain Jorge protects his hands with the boat sponge and Wiley Randolph’s first sailfish! They got it on live bait and Wiley nicely released the fish after the photo. He got the fish in 30 minutes on a small bullito (bonito mated with a tuna).

John McVay comes every year to fish for a week and always does well. He’s posing with two handfuls of some of his yellowfin tuna.

It was a good week for sailfish. Steve Manney with amigo, Dana Murray and Capitan Adolfo hold up the large sailfish. It was Steve’s first and much of the meat was donated.

Brad Baker and Jim Adair with their first tuna. Jim, upheld the tradition, and ate the heart of his first tuna. “Tasted like copper!”

From San Rafael CA, Kris Honkola got a personal best striper and an assist from amigo, Jeff Klassens for the photo shoot on the beach at Muertos.

Yes! There are still wahoo in the water. Claudio put a shaft into this fat wahoo early in the week while freediving in the 90 degree water.

It’s not that there aren’t dorado around. It’s just that we don’t have many photos because the dorado are so small. However, Captain Victor took a moment to pose with one of the larger bull dorado of the week.

More of our good Washington guys with tuna…Jim Brower and Robert Larson fished 3 days with us in their yearly trip to La Paz.

Our friends Jeff Sakuda and Marianne Sugawara have been fishing with us for many years. They had some tougher fishing earlier in the week when we had rain storms, but did manage a few tuna to put in the box!

TUNA DORADO SAILFISH KEY UNPREDICTABLE FISHING

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Oct 11-18, 2015

We’re about 3 or 4 weeks from the end of our primary season and I guess it’s about time I figure that I will never get a handle on what’s happening this season. I should just give in and give up trying to predict anything other than every day is different and this is an El Nino Year. It’s just fishing and just because something happened yesterday is no bellwether on what will happen today or tomorrow.

We had dark nights (really pretty sliver moon!) and great water conditions all week. But the fish, well, they were as erratic and unpredictable as always. There would be in one spot and go crazy one day. Next day, same spot, fish all over…and they would refuse every bait or lure in the water. Or, one boat would sit on a spot and all rods would be bent. The boat next to it couldn’t buy a bite. The next one over also bit. The one next to that one, struggling.

Or, one boat catching dorado. The next boat on a sailfish. The next one over on a pargo or cabrilla or yellowtail.

It has been that kind of a season. Erratic. Unpredictable. Great. Crappy. Unbelievable. Crummy. Pretty much anything you wanted to say. You just go fish. It’s surely not for lack of effort on the parts of the captains or the anglers. They’ve been going at it hard. It’s just been that kind of a crazy season.

LAS ARENAS/ BAHIA DE LOS MUERTOS

Again for the 2nd straight week, happy to say that the yellowfin tuna were the highlight. Football season for the first time in 2 years kept 8-20 pound fish around the pangas and anglers having fun.

Just two problems…

First, everyone knows about it now, so the waters are getting alot more traffic. Our boats. East Cape boats. La Ventana/ El Sargento boats. Commercial boats. Just like anywhere else in the world. Everyone finds the honey hole sooner or later. So, the numbers-per-rod are down. Most boats getting 1-5 tuna per day. Some better. Some worse.

The 2nd issue is that there’s a ton of bonito all over the place. It makes for great action, but after the first one or two, a big nuisance if you’re trying to get through the bonito to the tuna. As soon as a bait hits the water, it gets slammed. Lots of fun. Great on light tackle, but if you’re trying to put some fillets in the box, it makes it difficult.

By the way, the sardines are really really small. If you have #4 or #6 hooks…straight “J” style hooks to bring down (if you’re bringing your own tackle) that would be a bonus. Flurocarbon leader is also a plus.

The other highlight was that a number of our anglers got their first billfish this week as well. Some striped marlin hooked but also some unusually large sailfish were hooked in the same spots as the bonito/ tuna.

LA PAZ

This has been our go-to area just for action and filling the cooler because the small dorado have been everywhere all season. The only issue is that they weren’t as cooperative this week and the schools seem to be moving further and further out as the waters start cooling. Also, a few days there were dorado everywhere, but they just wouldn’t bite. It was hit or miss and every day there were different results. I’ve kinda given up thinking we’re gonna see larger fish this year.

Normally, our “small” dorado are 15-20 pounders. This year, we rarely see anything over 10 pounds.

MUCHAS GRACIAS!

We’ve been receiving fantastic donations for our schoolkids and the battered women’s shelter all year. Our anglers have brought in over 1000 pounds of donations just this year. Well, this past week we were completely overwhelmed and blown away by several hundred pounds more of much needed supplies of shoes…clothes…school supplies…hygiene items…toys…books…sporting goods. Just unbelievable. I regretfully, don’t have all the photos of everyone as some of the items were dropped off when we weren’t in the office. However, please know that we appreciate all of you and all your thoughtfulness!

Wiley Randolph and Ken Campbell with dozens of pairs of new kids and women’s shoes…school supplies…hygiene things for women…just bags and bags of things! Good shoppers!

Year-after-year regular good guys…Don Busse, Jim Adair and Brad Baker flank Jilly behind a table full of school supplies…(and a beer?) LOL

Mike and Dena Vonderahe with Heather and Mark Chism from Oregon had so much stuff packed into boxes we couldn’t unpack it all! It just tumbled out. Thanks folks!

Al Jones and Victronda Sheasby are here to visit us again this year and we appreciate all their great donations of clothes and school supplies!

Just having too much fun! Kevin Pereira and Kris Honkola from San Rafael CA got some warm clothes for the winter months (yes, it gets chilly here in Mexico) for the kids plus school supplies. I think pink is Kris’ color. Gracias, amigos!

I think Jill wants one of the dolls that Cal Lambert and Chuck Fiola brought down with school supplies and books for the kids! Cal is from Denver and Chuck comes to us from Yakima Washington.

NEW ROAD-FINALLY?

By the time you read this the new highway COULD be a reality. Right now, in La Paz, we have no direct flights from the United States, even though, La Paz is the capital of the State of Baja Sur. (Southern Baja). So, pretty much everyone must fly to Cabo San Lucas followed by a 3-4 hour drive up north to La Paz. It’s a pretty drive. But it’s tiresome. After an already long-day of travel, adding 3-4 hours of driving isn’t the most fun thing in the world.

However, they have completed a new highway that could cut that time IN HALF! Yes…down to about an hour-and-forty-minutes! The problem is, the Governor hasn’t done the official ribbon cutting ceremony! That’s the only thing holding it up! So, they powers-that-be are saying THIS is the WEEK when it could finally be open! We’ll keep you posted. It will surely be great to cut down all the travel time.

That’s our story!

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website:

www.tailhunter-international.com

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

U.S. Mailing Address: Tailhunter International, 8030 La Mesa Blvd. #178, La Mesa CA 91942

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/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of Oct. 4-11, 2015

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Stan Andre got 6 tuna at Las Arenas then was just inside Muertos Bay only about 70 yards from beaching the boat. He was dragging a Rapala in 10 feet of water when he got slammed by this toothy wahoo!

Just a great photo of Leslie Pilkington and one of her yellowfin tuna. Great colors! Leslie is from Orangevale CA

Captain Victor is flanked by some of our regular amigos…Dave Wakabayashi and Lloyd Okimura from Sacramento CA and their yellowfin at the start of the week.

From Cypress CA, brother Danny and Gary Okizaki hung some nice tuna as well as rainbow runners (yellowtail cousins) while fishing out’ve Bahia de los Muertos.

Terry Hawk had to postpone his trip last year when we got smacked by Hurricane Odile. He more than made up for it with a great week of fishing. His first day with Captain Pancho he posted a nice rack of tuna.

Captain Armando with some of our newest Tailhunter amigos. Dennis and Sue Matheson from Kennewick, Washington hold some of their tuna. Dennis used to be an Alaska guide.

Hard to find nicer guys than Gary Pilkington. Gary started his week with some good yellowfin fishing out’ve Bahia de Los Muertos.

Sacramento brothers, Joe and Dave Kevin were on their first trip with us and had a good first day before weather set in and hold 6 of their tuna with Captain Armando lending a hand.

A wahoo is a wahoo, right! Nicole Lawver was fishing for the first time with us and including tuna also posted this nice little great eating wahoo! Husband Ron got one later in the week.

Captain Jorge poses with Lon Tsukamoto and Walt Menda both from Sacramento.

ERRATIC UNPREDICTABLE FISHING AND CONDITIONS!

La Paz – Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of Oct. 4-11, 2015

It’s pretty much a repeating record these days as far as fish reports are concerned. Fishing and weather this season are simply unpredictable. It rains when it should be sunny. It’s blazing hot when the weather predicts thunderstorms. Dorado bite like crazy in one spot then the next day it’s like looking for a missing sock in the dryer. You go fishing for pargo and you catch a wahoo. A spot that hasn’t yielded fish all year starts raging with foaming fish out’ve nowhere. The water is about 90 degrees and we catch fish that are supposed to be in cooler winter and spring waters. Fish like tuna that we haven’t seen in two years suddenly pop up and go on the chew. Extreme high tide. Extreme low tides. Eclipses and giant full moons. What next?

A sign of the apocalypse? Nah. Not quite that serious. Alot of it has to do with the El Nino. You just go fish. It is what it is. It’s a cycle we have to push through until the next cycle. The world has been doing it since…well…a long time. It still beats working.

Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing

If a spot had been worth fishing this past week, for once, it was with our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet at Muertos Bay. Historically, this time of year, the area is on fire. But, the past two years because of El Nino, bait has been an issue. Fish have been sporadic. Until about 3 weeks ago.

Bait showed up. And we started getting more dorado. More billfish. More pargo, cabrilla, sierra and yellowtail (wrong time of year, but who cares?), more jack crevalle and bonito too. The baits are very very small, but it’s better than nothing. They worked. Still not wide open by any stretch and there are THOSE days when it truly is scratchy, but comparatively speaking, there was action to be had most days.

And then, the football yellowfin tuna appeared about a week-and-a-half ago.

And that changed the game. We haven’t seen tuna in 2 years.

We started getting 4, 7, 9 or more tuna per boats. Nothing huge, but still fun 8-20 pounders. Perfect for most folks! Mix that in with a few dorado, lots of bonito, some billfish and it made for a fun day. I have no idea where the rooster fish have gone to. But no one eats rooster fish. And the tuna and other species filled ice chests nicely! Plus lots of our anglers were bringing us tuna to the Tailhunter Restaurant to cook and make into sashime and poke!

La Paz Fishing

All season, La Paz has been our go-to spot. If nothing else, there was always bait and the dorado were always accommodating. There was always action because even tho’ the dorado are small by our standards, they bit ravenously many times, or at least by the end of the day, you had a full box of them plus the huge bonito (larger than the dorado) were worth the battles.

This week, I could only describe the dorado bite as anemic. One day every panga would be slammed and many back early with good numbers of dorado. The next day the pangas would be back telling me they barely scratched out a handful of fish. The day after that, half the boats would have solid numbers and the others fishing the exact same spots would struggle. Again, that word…unpredictable. Oh…and one panga got a huge wahoo. Out’ve nowhere. First one of the season. Why? Where? Why now?

And, as I write this report, the sun is out. But it’s raining. And the stupid weather report said no rain at all and it would be sunny. They were half right.

That’s our story!

Jonathan and Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website:

www.tailhunter-international.com

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

U.S. Mailing Address: Tailhunter International, 8030 La Mesa Blvd. #178, La Mesa CA 91942

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/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of Sept .27-Oct. 4, 2015

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Looks what popped up! We haven’t seen anything like this in several years! Tuna! Ben and Shawn Kirk from Timnath, Colorado and ROGER ( “aka GEORGE”) and Marilyn Young from Mountain View, Missouri with several handfuls of yellow”fun” tuna footballs taken just south of Bahia de los Muertos.

From the Portland, Oregon area, first time visitors, 13 and 15-year-old Matt and Josh Mitchell had a pretty good day fishing with dad out’ve Bahia de Los Muertos taking tuna, rainbow runners, pargo and cabrilla.

Cross one off the bucket list for Mark Smith with Captain Adolfo as Mark hoists his first wahoo that he caught on a purple and black Rapala. Mark also got his first tuna as well.

One guy who had one of the best times this week was Dan Corcoran. From Folsom, CA, Dan dialed up a nice trophy yellowtail which is very unusual to see these fish in such warm waters!

Striped marlin Jorge tags mike corcoran 9-15

MIke Corcoran had some kind of week with about 7 different species of fish including this striped marlin with Captain Jorge. He also got a sailfish later in the week. The marlin was not able to be released ,but meat was donated.

Sacramento firefighters Greg Quick and Greg Lack with a couple of their mid-week dorado. More dorado showing up some days out’ve Las Arenas.

Nish and Eric Munson tags tuna dorado 9-15

First tuna of the week that started things. I thought it was no big. Just an isolated thing but then the tuna came strong a few days later. However, good amigos Tim Nishimura and Eric Manson show off a couple of footballs and a dorado.

All the way from Montana, Curtis Wells and Captain Pancho with some of the nicer dorado of the week. Curtis ended his week with his first sailfish.

Tom Cox from Colorado was visiting us for the first time with his family and poses with a couple of yellowfin tuna that are headed for the freezer.

ERRATIC UNPREDICTABLE WEATHER AND FISHING…AND TUNA?

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Sept. 27-Oct. 4, 2015

I’m not sure where to start with the report this week. There were so many changes…so much variation…so much variety…so much unpredictability and ups-and-downs that each day deserved it’s own report. It was great fishing or bad fishing depending on who you talked to. It was great weather or bad weather depending on who you talked to and where you fished.

There were so many variables that affected the fishing every day.

Super full moon (fullest and biggest all year)
An eclipse of the moon
super high and low tides
super currents
water that was too calm (yes…that’s bad for fishing)
water that was too rough (bad for fishermen and pangas)
a mini-chubasco that blew in for 2 hours and drowned La Paz in 4 inches of rain (and dirtied all the waters with run-off)
totally clear blue sunny days
too much bait in the water (fish weren’t hungry for anything on a line)
not enough bait to be found (waters too rough to catch bait)

So, you add in all that stuff and it was impossible to tell what the fishing day would be like. That’s not to say it was bad. There was some really good fishing actually with some big surprises! But, there were some really slow days as well. Captains worked hard. Clients worked at it hard. But the fish just wouldn’t go.

LAS ARENAS

Holy mackerel??? …er TUNA!!!!

For the first time in two years…TUNA!!! We got a little tickle early in the week and I didn’t get excited. However on FRIDAY, the tuna schools blew up on our pangas just south of Bahia de los Muertos. Fun footballs that we call “yellow’fun’” tuna! These were 8-12 pound fish and it was WFO…all you wanted. We have not seen a day like that in two years! All live bait. Now that was something to get excited about.

But then…the next day Saturday is the day the weather changed on us and we had the big rainstorm. Guys told us the fish were “foaming” and biting everywhere. They just weren’t biting the hooks! We only got 2-5 tuna per boat. As of the writing of this, I have no idea what will happen. On Sunday, the day after the storm, we couldn’t send out any pangas from Muertos because the roads were all washed out and the beach was a mess plus the water was all turned over and dirty. Stay tuned!

On the other news…there were numerous marlin and sailfish hooked up during the week and while the tuna were there. Plus dorado and some inshore rock species. Oh and few unexpected wahoo as well.

The rub was that, it changed from day to day. One day crazy good. Next day you had trouble buying a fish! Or, two pangas would have fish of a lifetime catches and the other pangas right next to them would be sitting there trying to scratch out a single fish.

LA PAZ

Like Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay, the fishing was unpredictable and erratic.

You could load up on all the dorado you wanted and be back on the beach by noon drinking beer in the hotel. Or…you could be the boat right next to it and get two dorado and a bonito all day. Or be the panga that hooked 2 billfish, but couldn’t find a single dorado. Or be the day that La Paz fish just weren’t biting and you find out you should have fished with our Las Arenas fleet instead! Luck of the draw. Luck of the weather.

I really felt badly for some of our folks who just happened to be fishing on the wrong side on a given day or were the boat that worked hard for fish, but it just never went off. You could have a group of guys and some go home needing extra ice chests for all their fish. Their buddies end up barely filling a single ice chest! Felt bad for the anglers as well as the skippers who worked really hard to put fish in the boats.

BIG LITTLE STORM

This video was taken 10 minutes after the storm started from the front of Tailhunter Restaurant. The bay in front has disappeared and the streets are already flooding

The photos above, courtesy of Clima La Paz are from downtown and show what a few hours of torrential rain can do.

All the weather reports predicted was there was a “chance of a thunderstorm” Saturday afternoon. Wow…what an understatement.

It crashed like a mac truck into the city. It rained in sheets and buckets with huge rips of thunder the lightning. Within 10 minutes, the storm drains were backed up. The force of the water was blowing manhole covers up into the air. Cars were stalling in the streets that turned into roiling rapids. Motorists were stranded and people were swimming across parking lots. There were landslides, falling holders and collapsed roofs. The water was coming down so thick that visibility was cut to only a few feet. Some vehicles were swept away. There were crazy kids riding tubes, boogie boards and kayaks down the rushing streets that flowed into the ocean. People became trapped in their homes, buildings or on blocks that became isolated by flowing rivers of water.

Then, it suddenly just stopped.

THANK YOU!

Dan and Gary Okazaki from Cypress CA with a big load of school supplies for the kids.

Josh and Matt Mitchell from Portland Oregon…thanks for the thoughtfulness, guys!

Many thanks to all of our amigos who brought down supplies, clothes and other great items for our “Pack for a Purpose” program to help disadvantaged school kids and also the local women’s shelter! You have great hearts. Not shown, but thanks also to Shawn and Ben Kirk from Colorado and George and Marilyn Young from Arkanasas and Ken Cavellon from Washington.

As well a big shout-out to Vic Patton who made a cash donation to our scholarship program as well!

You’re the best!

That’s our story! Have a great week!

Jonathan and Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

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