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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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La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of June 5-12, 2011

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Look carefully at the size of these bulls! The larger dorado are estimated to be in the 50-pound class! We're seeing some incredibly big dorado early this season certainly a bit too big to lift up for the camera for Dwight Jaeger from Arizon and his 10-year-old grandson, Garrett Santana, from Simi Valley CA. The dorado bite all week for our Tailhunter La Paz fleet has been very very good!

Los Angeles angler, Jodi Marston always seems to do well when she visits and she got into a great day of dorado fishing with her husband, Jeff working that red hot dorado area north of La Paz.

We're having a stellar year on the roosters, especially around Las Arenas with more big fish still getting caught. Marty Davis gets a hand from Captain Raymundo before releasing this big guy.

Rich Santana from Simi Valley CA had a pretty good few days for his first time to La Paz with lots of big dorado like these fishing with our Tailhunter La Paz fleet.

When you catch a big fish, it's gonna be a great show-and-tell when you get home! Little Caleb Davis doesn't want to let go of his big sierra! Not only is this a big sierra but highly unusual to be catching sierra this late in the season. Sierra are normally cooler water fish.

It's always great to be a part of the action when a youngster gets their first fish and the youngsters had a great week, especially on dorado. Ten-year-old Garrett Santana holds his first dorado but later got into alot more including a 45-pound class bruiser bull he handled all by himself (see the video below).

They definitely don't have dog-tooth-snapper in Oklahoma, but that's where Mike Ballesteros is from and he took this great eating doggie fishing out've Las Arenas.

Oh, the joy! Chris Daniels from the Sacramento CA area wanted just one day to try fishing with the flyrod and she succeeded in getting a nice-sized rooster to the boat catch-and-release! It's been another great week for the roosterfish!

It beats working! Jeff Marston made a quick run down from L.A. for a fast get-away but it was enough to fill an ice chest full of dorado fillets like these he got outside of La Paz Bay after a day of fishing.

DORADO BITE TAKES CENTER STAGE ! BIG TUNA OFF and ON (again) !

La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of June 5-12, 2011

It was a good solid week of fishing here in La Paz
especially for dorado. I would have to say that it was also possibly the
first week that wind was not an issue. Breezy at times, but nothing like
the stuff we’ve had to contend with over the last two months. I’m sure
that had alot to do with the good bite!

We kept most of our folks who wanted to nail dorado and put
fillet in the ice chest fishing with our Tailhunter La Paz fleet. It was
a no-brainer. There’s lines of sargasso weeds out in the channel.
There’s schools of sardines and flying fish out there. We’re also
getting macks and caballitos by the buoys in the bay as well as under the two trawlers
anchored about 1/2 a mile in front of the city in the bay. Then, out to
the grounds where it can be explosive. I’d say that in the last 2 weeks
of fishing, we’ve already caught more BIG dorado than all of last year.

Last year, a “BIG” dorado was 20-25 pounds.
Very unusual for our area. We had alot of dorado, but just not many big ones.
This year already, I’ve seen good numbers of 30, 40 and even 50 pound bulls in
our catches with some larger fish getting away! There’s alot of little
small punk 5 pound fish too and it’s good to see so many of the anglers
releasing the little guys. Most fish, are in the 10 pound class with the
big ones mixed in. A good variety. As well, marlin and sailfish are
out there also naturally feeding on the small dorado as well as the schools of
bonito and skipjack also feeding on all the bait.

For our Las Arenas fleet, it was a little pickier, but
certainly not bad at all!

We had flurries ofthose big big big tuna between
100-200 pounds throughout the week out at the 88 spots east of Cerralvo
Island. The thing about that is it’s a long run in the pangas.
Often, there was alot of pressure from so many boats out there and the fish
were down. Only a few or no hookups. One of our guys said there’s 20-60 boats out there and it’s guerilla fishing with everyone chasing boiling fish or the porpoise schools crisscrossing each other in races to the fish or running over each other’s lines and chum lines.

The fish themselves would be there one day then gone again a day later. So many stories of fish being lost of rods
broken! Everyone wants a big tuna until they finally feel the power and
are sweating under the strain and the Baja sun for 1, 2 or 3 hours! And
then lose the fish! You don’t get many chances! The other thing is
that if the fish are not biting, you’re probably out too far by then and you’re
pretty late to go after anything else except troll around and cross your
fingers. So, it’s a gamble, but like all gambles, you’re a hero if it
pays off!

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However FLASH…just as I’m putting up this report the BIG TUNA CAME CRASHING AGAIN AT THE 88 SPOT! Lots of big fish. Maybe by the time you are reading this the fish are going full turbo or…got lockjaw again. However, the reports coming in at this very moment as I am typing this are tuna in the 50-150 pound class! Pictures as soon as I get them!

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Back to the regular report…

Inshore, Las Arenas has produced some nice dorado by the
buoys and the roosterfish bite continues to prove this a banner year for big
fish with roosters in the 30-80 pound class not unusual. As well, we’re
still getting both barred pargo and dog-tooth pargo which is a bit unusual
given how warm the waters are.

Video Clip of the Week

I only had a few seconds to work with this week, but watch young Garrett and his big dorado. Take a look at the leaps. It’s short, but you get the idea! Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BhfB_4aLZg

That’s our story!

Jonathan and Jilly

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

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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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