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LA PAZ – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of Sept. 12-19, 2023

TUNA WAHOO BILLFISH ROOSTERS FINALLY JOIN DORADO!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Sept. 12-19, 2023

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT

WEATHER:  The first week that we did not have a surprise rainstorm, thundershower, tropical deluge or hurricane.  We’re not through the season yet for these things to happen but the best fishing season has these surprise weather bumps.  Overall, temps in the high 90’s during the day with lots of sunshine.

WATER: Blue and looking good mostly.  Very fishable.  Some afternoon winds kick up and bring up some chop but most of our fishermen are off the water by then.

SPECIES HOOKED THIS WEEK:  Dorad0 / Tuna/ Sailfish/ Marlin/ Wahoo/ Pargo/ Roosterfish/ Jack Crevalle/ Bonito/ Grouper / Cabrilla/ Triggerfish/ Trevally

TAILHUNTER LAS ARENAS FLEET:  More variety with dorado, jags of 15-40 pound tuna, roosterfish, sailfish and other species.

TAILHUNTER LA PAZ FLEET:  Dorado land plus marlin! (But, for the first time in months…the dorado got picky the last few days of the week before this report).

FISHING on a SCALE of 1-10 (10 is best):  7 (some boats doing better than others or have to work harder for their fish!)

THE MEXICAN MINUTE VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Our Reno amigo, Mac Treasure, with Captain Joel doing the heavy lifting on this king-size bull dorado!

Oh yea…on his bachelor party, Taylor Sering (at the head) came out with his dad and brother and friend before he gets married. He has fished with us many times, but never caught a marlin. He did this time! Our first blue marlin of the season of about 200 pounds. It could not be released and the meat was donated by Taylor!

We haven’t caught many wahoo this year, but Chris Binkley from Oklahoma picked up this ‘hoo while fishing on the tuna grounds!

Frank Brooke runs a huge California hunting ranch and is usually cradling a big deer or something. This time, he racked this huge 80-pound class roosterfish! Very unusual. Frank sportingly released the big fish.

One of our favorite crazy guys. Jesse Franco has a yellowfin tuna on the gaff.

Just another day for Roger Laubsher and Chris Binkely. (yawn).

More sailfish popping up all of a sudden! Gary Wagner who owns the Rancho Costa in Bahia Muertos hooked this hefty sailfish.

Oh man! We just do NOT see these kinds of roosters this time of year. Big roosters are in the spring! But Larry Wilson from Montana with Captain Pancho sure landed one (and released it too!).

First-time  with us…amigos from the Houston area, Amy and Mario Rios, made the most of a quick 2 day fishing trip. Check out the big tuna and dorado!

Tracy and Mike Hunt from Oklahoma had just one day to fish with us and got themselves a nice day of action on the dorado spots!

Captain Arkie with Bill and Jeff from Idaho.

It has to be the colorful wardrobe! Our long-time Montana amigos, Sharon and John Virgin, with their one-day catch of tuna and a dorado. They fished 5 days with us!

North Carolina in the house with Hill Evans and Chuck Webber and Captain Jorge with another good load of dorado for the fish table.

It was a good week for tuna for the first time in many years! Larry and Deana Wilson from Montana with Captain Pancho.

Deana and her husband, Larry, hooked 5 roosterfish this day landing and releasing two of them. The 3 others busted off!

Amy and Mario with some of their first-day catch. Check out Mario’s blue tiger dorado!

Frank and Annette Brooke throwing fishing “gang sign” at my camera guy! All in fun after a full day of dorado action.

Great colors on this fresh one! Spencer Sering posing with another bull!

Even Captain Boli busts a smile over Marty Sering’s bull dorado! Always good to have Marty visiting us.

Doctor Ed Kahil, is a veternarian from Texas and on his first visit. Good to see him here as he poses with one of his dorado. He also hooked a sailfish on the flyrod! Exciting times!

You don’t hook any of these dorado in Oxford, England! That’s where Sarah Malone is from and has big smiles with Captain Armando.

John McVay from Lake Havasu has been fishing with us for many years and always seems to do well when he fishes with his favorite Captain Jorge.

Mac Treasure had a pretty successful week taking 2 giant trophy dorado.

Craig Yoder back with us again every year took home a nice load of dorado. Here on the beach at Muertos Bay.

Doug Biddle had one day to fish with us and went out with his buddy Oz. A good day.

Sarah and Steve! Enjoy the sunshine and another day on the water before going back to England!

Tay Sering seems to always get into the big bulls.

Steve and Captain Armando. Steve donated all their fish .

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I think the big news this was wasn’t just the fishing.  It was the fact that we didn’t have any surprise storms, tropical blows or…(shudder) hurricanes!  One of the things we just have to live with is that the best fishing times are often when the weather is warmest.  That is also when the heat gives birth to these crazy storms.

Duck and cover…at least for a few minutes until this passes!

But, after a couple of weeks of these little “mini storms,” we were all clear for once.  Nothing but hot sunny skies and good looking water.

I don’t know how much that had to do with it, but it sure did not hurt the fishing.

Overall, still pretty darned good dorado on the chew.  It’s been that way for months.  Just the best dorado bite I’ve seen in almost 30 years with lots of the 10-15 pounders around and, if look at the photos from this week, you can see that there’s some big bulls around as well.

I will say in all honesty, that the end of the week, the dorado bite seemed to take a bit of a dip.  Fish got a little stickier than they had been.  We had to work  harder to find the dorado schools or conversely, they just weren’t willing to bite. Some boats really struggled to fill the fish box here and there.

I don’t know.  I hope it’s not the end of the dorado season.

There’s no reason it should be.  Conditions have not changed that I can detect.

Nevertheless, we had some other species take up some of the slack.

For one, we just had the best run of tuna in years.  We have not seen much of any tuna since Covid years.  But, they started about 2 weeks ago and it’s been a bit up-and-down, but we’ve gotten tuna pretty much every day.

These are a nice grade of fish too.  These are not footballs.  These are healthy chunky 20-40 pound sluggers with some bigger fish mixed in.  Most of the bite has been just south of Bahia Muertos down the coast.  Not sure how long this will last, but we can only hope.

Another species that has been a surprise have been the appearance of roosterfish.  Normally, our big roosters are around in the spring from about April to late June.  That’s when the “hog” roosters are in the area.  As the year goes on they move off.

We will get some 5 or 10 pounders later in the year, but that’s it.  Great on light tackle.

However, in the last 2 weeks, we’ve run into some latent or early season chunky roosters up to about 80 pounds with others running 30-40 pounds!  Great fun and quite a surprise.

Lastly, we got a few more billfish since the last report.  Sailfish have shown up as well as somes striped marlin and we got our first blue marlin of the season.  Normally, we start seeing billfish around May, but there have been very few hookups this year.

Still lots of bonito around as well as inshore species like pargo, snapper, cabrilla and even some pompano and trevally.

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BAJA 1000 COMING TO TOWN – BEACH CONDO for RENT!

The huge Baja 1000 is coming back to La Paz and hotels have been sold out for months.  However, we have a 3 BR beach condo open from Nov. 13-19.  Get in touch with us if you are interested!

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That’s my story!

Jonathan

Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter Sportfishing

www.tailhunter.comMexico Office: 
Tailhunter Sportfishing

755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico

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

Phones: 
from USA : 626-638-3383
from Mexico: 044-612-14-17863

 

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of Sept. 4-11, 2023

TROPICAL STORMS KEEP BUMPING US

(BUT THE FISH STILL BITE!)

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Sept. 4-11, 2023

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT

WEATHER:  It’s that time of year.  Hot and muggy with day time temps in the high 90’s with lots of humidity (which is perfect fishing weather here).  However, it’s also that time when we get unexpected blasts of tropical storms that can last a few minutes to maybe an hour or so.  As long as it’s not a hurricane, we’re fine.  We just duck until it blows over.  But, this is also hurricane season.  Make sure you buy that trip insurance!

WATER: Despite all the turbulence from the few storms this week, water is still relatively blue and very fishable.  Not as clear as it could be, but has not affected the fishing too much.  Surface temps are the low 80’s.  Some rough days with the winds kicking in.

SPECIES CAUGHT THIS WEEK:  Dorado, tuna, sailfish, amberjack, rainbow runners, cabrilla, barred pargo, snapper, roosterfish.

LAS ARENAS : This is where the tuna are mixing it up with the dorado and a few roosterfish as well.  The most variety.

LA PAZ : Solid dorado bite.

MEXICAN MINUTE VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Joni McKinley and her dad, Dan, started the week out right with a nice rack of yellowfin tuna. Dan brought the whole family down and are from Washington.

Wes Wiles had a heckuva fight on his hand when this big dorado bit. He battled it for over 30 minutes in bouncy seas, but finally boated the trophy bull almost as long as he is tall!

Captain Armando with our newest Tailhunter friends, Nina and Fernando Delmendo with some great yellowfin tuna meat for the ice chest.

Captain Jorge has his famous “thumbs-up” for our Montana amigos, Andy and Shani Malone, who plugged the fish box with a great catch of dorado.

My San Diego “bruddah” Ray Cabales at Bahia Muertos with a pair of YFT’s on the table!

Terry Larson and Billy Smith could not have had a better day with Captain Gerardo starting their fishing week with a mess of mahi to fillet and get into the freezer.

Paul Nagata always gets great fish and takes great photos whenever he visits us. Once again, a good fish and great shot of this yellowfin on the gaff.

Oh wow…Captain Victor gives Marty Sering and Kevin Lister a two-handed assist with some massive bull dorado! A good start to their fishing week.

 

Paul Holmund visiting us for the first time with his brother, Mark, both from Austin TX took home a nice load of fishing including dorado and tuna like these.

Nice trophy bull dorado! Greg Saubolle has been visiting us for several years and always great to see him. Nothing wrong with this legit big-headed mahi!

Don McKinley is always fun to have down from Washington. He got the biggest cabrilla of the week.

The two Larson brothers from Jordan Utah show off their catch of dorado and a lone yellowfin tuna on the beach at Bahia Muertos.

Carrie McKinley is our sweet amiga from Washington who brought her family down for the week to fish with us. Here’s one of those big bonito that folks really love to catch (because they fight so hard) or hate (because they fight so hard!).

In all the years, Ray and Jeanne Cabales from San Diego have been coming down, I can never get them to take a straight photo! I hope that never changes!

Nancy and John Quring from Sacramento went back with a great load of tuna and dorado. I think this was their 4th time with us.

Captain Pancho with Paul Nagata and a solid day of tuna fishing. You don’t see Greg Saubolle who also bent a rod but had to take the photo!

Our old amigo, John McVay from Lake Havasu AZ with his favorite Captain Jorge.

All the way from the U.K. our English amigos, Steve and Sarah Malone are with us all week and started off with a fun day with Captain Armando .

Big smiles from Carrie and another dorado in the box!

Tay Sering from Oregon celebrating somewhat of his bachelor party with his brother Spencer, didn’t get any tuna, but sure rocked the dorado .

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If you didn’t get any further than the “Short Attention Span Fishing Report” above or only looked at all the great photos, you really didn’t get the whole story of the fishing this past week.

For numbers and action, EVERYONE got fish.  Maybe an off-day here and there for one boat, but everyone got into the bite at some point and EVERYONE who wanted to take home fish or at least bring some back to our Tailhunter Restaurant for us to cook up got into it.

Tuna were a big draw for sure.  After 3 anemic seasons of tuna, we finally had a pretty good bite going just south of Bahia Muertos.  The boats that wanted to chase tuna put 1-5 tuna in the boat with a nice grade of 15-30 pound fish.  Some larger ones were also reportedly fought and lost!

The thing with the tuna is that it was a swing for the fence.  You had to get your live bait and then you had to motor south along the shoreline as fast as you could to get to the spot. The bite didn’t last long.

If you were too late, you could miss the bite completely.  If you hung a fish or two and fought them, sometimes by the time you boated the fish or lost it, the school had moved on.  In that case, sometimes it was too hard and too far to go chase other species.

But, we definitely have tuna and it’s been a long time since I’ve said that.  Have no idea how long they’ll stick around!

The other bite with the spotlight remains with the dorado.  The dorado bite the past 4 months has been nothing short of outstanding.  Here-and-there an off day, but overall, it was not unusual to put limits in the boat before the morning hit mid-way then catch-and-release the rest of the day; go chase something else; or call it a day and come back to shore for lunch and the hotel pool.

Most of the fish are still running in that nice 10-15 pound school-size, but we continue to hang some great trophy dorado up to 40 pounds or so.

We also got a few billfish (finally) and to some degree a few rockfish like pargo, cabrilla and snapper with a few roosterfish thrown in for fun.

The part of the story you might have missed is these tropical storms that pop up from nowhere and really run us out and around.  This is that time of year for hurricanes (hopefully not) and these little blows that can last a few minutes and an hour or more before dissipating or moving off.

This is our prime time for fishing, so there’s nothing to do except roll with the punches that the weather throw at us.

They can bring thunder, lightning, and torrential winds and rains with heavy flooding.  Here’s a little video of Bahia Muertos where we launch the boats.  Waves here are usualy about 2 inches high!

(turn up the sound!)

One day, the La Paz port captain had to shut down all boat traffic in the bay so no one could fish. Another day, we started to fish and many of our boats got across the channel to Cerralvo Island under great conditions.

However, when they got there one of these storms rolled in and all the fleets had to hide on the lee side of the island away from the storm for several hours until the storm cleared out and the boats could get to the beach where we all launch,

(turn up the sound!)

So, just to be transparent about the weather.  This is NOT unusual for this time of year, but it seems the whole world is having wacky weather so just be advised.  Also, as per our numerous suggestions, do NOT come down without travel insurance.   Not only is the weather an issue, but with all the problems the airlines are having, we are seeing more flight changes and cancelations than ever before!

That’s our story!

Jonathan & Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter Sportfishing

www.tailhunter.comMexico Office: 
Tailhunter Sportfishing

755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico

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

Phones: 
from USA : 626-638-3383
from Mexico: 044-612-14-17863

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of Aug. 28-Sept. 3, 2023

CRAZY WEATHER MIXED WITH CRAZY FISHING!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Aug 28-Sept. 3, 2023

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT

WEATHER:  Typical for this time of year.  Days are hot and humid in the 90’s and there’s always a chance of a quick rain shower or thunderstorm…mostly in the afternoon.  But we got two gully-washers this week.  One dropped 2 1/2 inches of rain on us in 30 minutes.

WATER:  You would think after the rains they might be pretty muddied up with run-off, but waters are good.  Mostly blue and pretty good visibility and temps in the hi-70’s to mid-80’s on the surface.

SPECIES CAUGHT:  Dorado still the predominant species.  But we got a nice jag of 15-50 pound yellowfin tuna and our first sailfish this week.   Also caught:  rainbow runners, jack crevalle, bonito, roosterfish, triggerfish, snapper, pargo, cabrilla, trevally.

OUR LAS ARENAS FLEET:  Dorado, tuna and sailfish.  The bigger dorado caught here.  Tuna are early biters a bit of a drive down the coast.  If you’re late, you miss the bite.

BREAKING UPDATE…today Sept. 3 as I’m putting this report together something happened at Las Arenas…the bite shut off completely!   Hope it changes!

OUR LA PAZ FLEET:  Best for dorado.  Limits can come easily.  Decent inshore for rockfish

MEXICAN MINUTE VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

What a team! Captain Pancho and our amigo, John Ehlers from Colorado always rocking the big fish like this bull dorado.

That’s ALOT o’ meat on the table! Baja prime yellowfin tuna for Daniel and dad, Jim Bovee from San Diego.

Another good day for Karen and Chris Uyemura with Captain Jorge and more dorado to add to the fish ice chest to take home!

Andy Malone from Montana! On fire this week with his fishing took his first sailfish and our first of the season with Captain Jorge. The sail bit a live bait and Andy did a great job releasing the fish!

Darin Moriarity and Ron Wray with Captain Armando. This was not only Ron’s first trip with us, but the big bull was his first dorado ever! There are more dorado on the cleaning table plus some surprise rainbow runners…cousin to yellowtail.

Santa Clause on vacation! Our amigo, Rusty Cain with a huge bull dorado. The photo doesn’t do justice, but Captain Rogelio estimated this fish to roll in the 50-pound-class. The head is enormous!

Hi Taryn! Taryn Mitoma is always fun when she and dad come to visit and has a great pose with a day’s catch! Her dad says, “She catches all the fish!”

Whoa!!! Beast mode! Chris Uyemura and Captain Joel with a massive bull dorado and big smiles to go with it!

Dean Alvarez was here at the start of the tuna bite and has a couple fat ones to with his dorado.

Captain Jorge with Bill Lingo had a good day on the dorado spot!

Now THAT’s alot of variety! Mark and Alex Dirbyshire have been wanting to visit for a long time from Oregon and show off about 5 different species…dorado, snapper, triggerfish, pargo and trevally.

Sherri and Bob Rowe were way fun to visit us. Their first trip and they took home a nice load of dorado fillets. Here’s 1 day’s catch! They already plan to come back!

Montana in the house! First day on the water for Shani and Andy Malone. I think this is Shani’s fish! LOL

Big headed- bull dorado on the gaff for Travis Fries from Idaho. They had 3 nice days of fishing with us and his folks and family!

Herb Preszler and Iris are alway fun visitors and pose with a nice batch of tuna and a dorado on the beach at Muertos Bay. Herb is from the Sacramento area.

Captain Armando became new favorites with Shea and Nick Brown from Utah who had several good days including this one with a pair of slugger yellowfin tuna.

John and Nancy Quiring from Sacramento always do well. First day catch of big dorado on the beach.

Don’t let anyone tell you different! Tuna will tear you up. Good thing, Jim Bovee has some experience with big fish because he battled this yellowfin on a spinning rod for 45 minutes and runs maybe 50+ pounds.

Bob Rowe with his new buddy Captain Rogelio and Bob’s big dorado of the week!

The Laughon brothers from Bishop CA stuck some nice dorado posing on the beach at Bahia Muertos.

Tyler Ehlers with grandpa John and a quiver of mahi and one tuna for the day to add to the previous day’s catch!

Captain Jorge with two more of the Laughon Brothers (5 of them came down) on their first of 3 days fishing.

Love this photo! I think Andy Malone is pretty excited to catch his biggest-ever dorado with Captain Jorge.

Our Texas friends visiting us for the 2nd time this year. Randy Stolte and Brett Watts put a double pair of tuna on the cleaning table!

Day 2, John Quiring hit the tuna honey hole that produced 4 beefy yellowfin.

The excitement! A sailfish grabbing air. Andy Malone’s fish. Caught and released!

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What a crazy week.  Could not have been more hectic or erratic!  For those of you who know me, if I had hair it would’ve been on fire this week the way I was running around…except the rain woulda put it out!

Normally, any of these could have a big-time effect on the fishing:

NOT JUST A FULL MOON – BUT A SUPER FULL MOON

HUGE TIDE SWINGS

STRONG CURRENT

THUNDERSTORMS

TORRENTIAL RAIN

BIG WINDS

BIG WAVES

 

We had ALL of the above this week PLUS being pretty much completely sold out and packed with our fishermen!

But, here’s the thing…most of these things thankfully, all took place in the afternoon or evenings!  The daytime conditions were not affected…hot…blue water…eager fish!

We had a couple crazy afternoons where the heaven’s literally dumped on us.  Not sheets of rain!  It was like someone just opened a giant spigot.  In one storm, we got a whopping 2 1/2 inches of rain in just 30 minutes that turned La Paz into a giant river of mud and rushing water.

  • Cars and people swept away (fortunately no one seriously hurt and they rescued everyone)
  • Downtown streets were raging rivers with water up to car windows
  • Arroyos were category 5 rapids of mud and debris
  • Winds tossed waves 6′ into the air against the Malecon breakwater dousing cars driving by

Like I said, it was just fortunate that most of these things were AFTER everyone was off the water and could watch from safety with a cold one in their hands!  But, this is the time of year when these things can come up at any time.  Most lasted less than an hour (except for the full moon of course!).

As for the fishing, no effect!  It was a GOOD week on so many levels!

The dorado still bit strong with most fish running 10-15 pounds but the larger bulls still lurk up to 40 pounds or so.  Some real trophy fish still here.

We had some great surprises:

We finally got a consistent jag of yellowfin tuna!  We haven’t had much tuna in two seasons, but we had some nice-grade fish in the 15-50 pound class with our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet.  I try not to get too excited because you just never know how long the tuna will stick around.  They can be fickle and move fast.   But, we’re due for a good solid tuna bite.

The thing with the tuna is that it’s a long boat ride to the spot.  You don’t have to go out very far.  But, the honey hole is quite a ways down south along the shore/ coast.  And the bite is early.  You gotta jump the spot while the fish are chewing.  If you miss it…you miss it.  That’s the chance you take and you’re probably too late to get back north and catch something else.  It’s a swing for the fences, but can really be worth it.  Or not…

We also got our first billfish of the season.  I have no idea why the billfish haven’t shown up for months so hopefully, they’re ready to go.  It was as single sailfish and it was (good job!) released so maybe we’ll see more along with marlin.

The other surprise were the roosterfish.  Normally this is NOT roosterfish season. We get the big 50-100 pounders in the spring.  If any are around this late, they are the fun 5-10 pounders.  However, some of our anglers popped some 30-40 pound fish on the backside of Cerralvo Island.

Lots of bonito to bend rods all over the place.  Inshore, we got some nice cabrilla, several species of pargo, rainbow runners, jack crevalle and trevally.

BREAKING UPDATE…today (SUNDAY) Sept. 3 as I’m putting this report together something happened at Las Arenas…the bite shut off completely!   Hope it changes!

 

MEMOS:

BALANCES:  If you’re coming down soon, don’t forget that your balances are due 45 days out.  Get in touch with us.

BUGS:  Everytime we have a strong rain, for about 2 weeks afterwards, bugs hatch like crazy.  This means, flies, mosquitos, moths, butterflies, etc.  Bring some repellant.  Keep your hotel screens closed!

BAJA 1000:  Is coming back to La Paz the 2nd week of November and everything has been sold out for months.  However, we have a 3 BR condo on the beach with 4 restrooms available if anyone is interested.  Contact me directly:  Jonathan@tailhunter.com

That’s our story!

Jonathan & Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter Sportfishing

www.tailhunter.comMexico Office: 
Tailhunter Sportfishing

755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico

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

Phones: 
from USA : 626-638-3383
from Mexico: 044-612-14-17863

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishng for Week of Aug. 19-26, 2023

WHEW!…THAT’S MORE LIKE IT!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report for Week of Aug. 19-26, 2023

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT

WEATHER:  Hurricane Hilary has come and gone.  It’s back to hot, sunny and humid.  Day temps are in the high 90’s.

WATER:  It took a few days for the waters to clean themselves back up after the storm, but not it’s mostly back to blue and perfect fishing conditions.

SPECIES CAUGHT THIS WEEK:  Dorado, bonito, skipjack, pargo, cabrilla, snapper, roosterfish, jack crevalle .

LAS ARENAS FLEET:  It seemed that generally, there were fewer fish caught here, but more of the monster dorado were caught here.

LA PAZ:  Seems that there are more dorado on this side and more action than Las Arenas, but not as many trophy fish.

MEXICAN MINUTE VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Ralph Lopez used a gift certificate from his wife to fish with us all week and started the trip with some nice dorado like this one fishing with Captain Jorge.

Beast Mode!!! Captain Luis gives Dennis Cameron from Orange Co, CA a hand with this huge bull dorado. Dennis said he saw it swim by the transom. He flipped a bait on it and it turned…SLAMMED…then peeled off more than 100 yards of line in the first run!

Brian Chu brought the family of 4 down for a few days and started of the week with a nice load of dorado, here posing with just a few of their fish!

Bob Cowan and Jeff Loh have fished with us many times and always good to see them A good start at Bahia Muertos!

Craig Braswell is one of our Sacramento firefighters that has been visiting us for about 20 years. Great to have him down now that he’s retired and he cam with Dave Smith who is still with the department. Captain Pancho got them into a nice bite. “The Braz” is still able to fish even with bad gout (just had to toss that in there, Braz!) 😛

This is one of my new favorite first-timers! From Idaho, Ryder Lee had such a great time with us and us with him. He just graduated from 8th grade and poses with a hefty bull dorado with Captain Luis.

Cecilia Berumen says the bar is now set pretty high after 3 good days right after Hurricane Hilary. She did great on the dorado like this one!

The man behind the mask is Angel Navarro. First-time visitor with and gets to check a roosterfish off his bucket list. He released the fish as well! Good job.

Captain Armando poses with Tom Lelevich who got some nice filets to take home after 3 days fishing with his wife, Donna, celebrating their 30th anniversary with us!

Stefani and Steve Fries from Idaho are too much fun whenever they fish with us. They decided to take one day and fish the rocks and came back with quite a variety including, dorado, pargo, snapper and cabrilla. Oh and a bonito!

Captain Licho hoists this big-headed bull that Mike Zech (left) fought for the better part of an hour until his hands started cramping and he handed the rod to his buddy, Ryan, to finish off. In all Mike’s years fishing with us, this was his biggest.

It’s not always the size…it’s the moment. A lifetime smile from Ryder Lee and his first roosterfish. Caught and released!

We love having youngsters with us and there’s no denying that Hunter Lee is having a good time. Here posing on the beach at La Concha with one of his fish.

Ralph Burnett with Captain Jorge and a nice rack of fish to start the week!

After a good day of fishing, there’s nothing quite like that first icy cold one. Roy Trejo has the right idea.

Excellent eating variety on the cutting table! Cabrilla, pargo and dorado for Bobby Hira and Daryl Chang.

Yessir!!! Two pig dorado. Albert Leung and John Pak!

Shea and Nick Brown had a fun time with Captain Gerardo their first of 3 days on the water.

First-timer rocks it with Daryl Chang from Los Angeles with two of his dorado right after the storm.

Might be one of my favorite photos of the week! Just the sheer joy! Cecilia puts another one on the deck.

Good to have our 3 amigos back to visit us from Portland. Wes Perkins; Dennis McCleod and Roger Hall were with us all week and topped off their fishing with some massive dorado!

You know it’s a good fish when even Captain Boli smiles. Using his scale, Craig Braswell said they weighed this bull in at 38 pounds. The angle of the photo doesn’t do justice!

We had so much fun with Trisha Clark on her first rodeo with Tailhunter. She’s promising to come back!

Not a bad day at all! Steve Rons started the week with some medium bulls topped by this big boy toad dorado bull.

Ralph and Jorge!

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Well, Hurricane Hilary moved off without too much fuss after a few days and gratefully it wasn’t that big of a deal.  Some heavy rain and wind a times, but fairly “lightweight” as far as hurricanes go.  We’re very fortunate.  The biggest drawback was that we had a few days of not being able to fish.

After a storm like that leaves, you just never know how long it will take for things to bounce back. Fortunately, it didn’t take that long.  We were back on the water as soon as the storm moved of and although it started somewhat slow, within another day, it was full-speed again witht the fishing.

Once again, just as it had been before the storm, the dorado were stacked and limits were the rule rather the exception. Most fish were in the 5-15 pound class and many many fish were released.

The exciting part is that there’s still some massive fish that were hitting this week.  A good many were lost (that’s why their big). And the ones that were boated were easily 30, 40 and even 50-pound fish.

Live bait continues to be the best way to get bit.

Not much else in species mainly because the dorado are so prevalent, but we dig also catch pargo, snapper, cabrilla, jack crevalle, bonito and even some off-season roosterfish.

IMPORTANT NOTES

BUGS – The weather is back to being hot and humid and any time after we get any rain we have a big hatch of bugs.  Everything from butterflies to mosquitos for about 2 weeks is out. Normally no bug problem.  Good idea to bring some repellent.  Wear long sleeves.  Keep doors and windows closed.

 

BAJA 1000 – Will return again in November to La Paz.  Every room in La Paz is already sold out.  However, we have a 3 BR beach condo with 4 baths available for Nov. 13-19.  If you’re interested e-mail me:  Jonathan@tailhunter.com

COME GET YOUR STUFF – For almost 15 years, we’ve been storing fishing gear for our folks that come down so you don’t have to hassle dragging it on planes as well as the high cost.  However, we can no longer afford to store so much gear.  Some folks haven’t been down for years.  This is our last year we’ll be able to do it then anything left over we’ll donate.

GET YOUR BALANCES PAID – If you got a booking with us this year, don’t forget your balances are due 45 days from arrival.

That’s our story!

Jonathan & Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter Sportfishing

www.tailhunter.comMexico Office: 
Tailhunter Sportfishing

755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico

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

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Bahia Muertos / Suenos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of July 29-Aug. 7, 2023

BEST DORADO SEASON EVER?

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of July 29-Aug. 7, 2023

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT

WEATHER:  No doubt hot and humid!  Stay hydrated and covered up.  Common sense!  It’s in the high 90’s to low 100’s in the daytime…normal summer temps.  Actually maybe cooler than many parts of the U.S. strangely enough.  But, humidity is high as well.  Thankfully, the beach is right outside!

WATER:  Mostly warm and blue.  Surface temps on the water are high 70’s to low 80’s. Actually and strangely COOLER than normal!  But great swimming, snorkel and scuba conditions.

SPECIES HOOKED THIS WEEK:  Dorado, bonito, roosterfish, wahoo (lost), marlin (lost), pargo (2 types), snapper, cabrilla, jack crevalle, palometa, pompano

TAILHUNTER LAS ARENAS FLEET:  Primarily dorado.  Not as many as La Paz, but more of the bigger dorado.  Plus inshore species like roosters, pargo and cabrilla.

TAILHUNTER LA PAZ FLEET:  More dorado than La Arenas…usually…it changes all the time, but the LARGER of the larger dorado seem to be on this side.  (30-50 pounders)

IMPORTANT MESSAGES IF YOU’RE COMING DOWN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS:

  • It’s hot.  Dress accordingly with sunglasses, big brim hats, long sleeves, sunscreen and lots of water.
  • Your balances are due 45 days from arrival so get in touch with us if your balances are due.
  • The best part of our season is also hurricane season.  Usually NOT an issue, but you never know with this wacky weather around the world these days.  These are the tropis. TRAVEL INSURANCE is cheap and remember, there are no refunds for weather-related cancelations.   Weather is part of the sport whether it’s sunny, windy, rainy…whatever.  This is prime time for fishing and we are always sold out this time of year because fishing rocks,  I wish we did, but we also have no control over the weather.  Even if it’s a heavy rain storm for 1 hour or 1 day, it  COULD  affect your fishing; airline flight;

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Frank Kunze, our long-time Colorado, amigo, has been with us twice this year. We got him to put down the conventional fishing rod one day and only use his flyrod. Here’s his first fish of the day on the flyrod. It wasn’t his last! He released all his fish!

Captain Luis give Rose Vadnais a hand with a another big bull off the east end of Espirito Santo Island. They apparently had several other big boys on the line that got away!

Daniel always gets fish! This is Daniel Bovee’s 2nd trip this year to visit us and has been doing it for years. Great colors on this bull dorado taken near Bahia Muertos!

Yes! There are still roosters around. Maybe not the big pig slug roosters, but some fun 5-10 pounders can be lots of fun like this one that Darrell Manginelli hooked and released after fishing for dorado.

This is Sam Sybesma’s biggest doado every and he’s been fishing with us for years! Sam is about 6’3″ so you KNOW this fish is legit!

Always great to have Lee Carlson here with us. He got lots of fish on the conventional rod and reel, but took our his flyrod for this beauty. He released or donated all ths dorado this day.

Some good eating barred pargo that Daniel is holding. Winds came up, but still able to fish for a number of inshore species.

I lost count of how many big bull dorado Darrell Manginelli caught last week!

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It’s been an unbelievable dorado season now for more than two months.  After almost 30 years down here, I’d have to call it “historic” and hope I’m not jinxing the whole ball-o’-wax and shutting it off because our fisherfolk are having a ball.

They catching either the most fish ever.  Or they are catching the biggest fish ever.  Or they are catching maybe their first fish ever.  Or they are catching their limits of fish faster than ever.

Either way, the dorao are sure checking alot of the boxes!

Most of the fish are running 5-15 pounds.  Fun legit fish.  Lots of those are so voracious that they are crashing the boats which are ending up with some fast easy limits.  Many many of these fish are getting thankfully released.

But, wait…there’s also the big Mo’s out there as well.  The pigs. The hogs.  These bull dorado are all business and when you have a 20-60 pound fish pulling line and jumping and charging the boat, it’s more than most folks can handle and alot of fun.  But, we’re also losing alot of these fish which is just part of the sport!   You just never know when that next fish will or might be the fish of a lifetime.

But, the dorado continue to be the big story for our fishing.

That’s not saying there are no other species.  We’ve got shots at billfish, wahoo, roosterfish, bonito, jack crevalle, pompano, snapper, pargo and cabrilla.  The problem is that everyone is having way too much fun with the dorado and don’t care to invest the time or change tactics to chase the other species. Which is just fine as well!  Go have fun!

We did get a little rain over the weekend and some jags of southern winds made it a tad bumpy for a few afternoons, but otherwise, there were always fish to be caught and places to find fish less windy.

That’s my story!

Jonathan

Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter Sportfishing

www.tailhunter.comMexico Office: 
Tailhunter Sportfishing

755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico

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

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of July 13-20, 2023

DORADO STILL HUGGING SPOTLIGHT!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of July 13-20, 2023

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT

WEATHER :  Like seemingly the rest of the world, it’s HOT.  But the funny thing is that people come to Mexico to “get warm and enjoy some sunshine.”  We’re probably cooler than most places in the U.S. right now!  We’re 90’s to low 100’s.

WATER:  After that little weather blow we had over a week ago, things have cleared up and flattened out.  Waters are mostly blue and warm.  Surface temps in the high 70’s to low 80’s now.

FISH CAUGHT THIS WEEK:  Dorado are still 90% of the catch because it seems like they are everywhere. Can’t get away from them, but they are alot of fun.  Also got bonito, pargo, snapper, cabrilla, jack crevalle, roosters, pompany, trevally and triggerfish.  Commercial guys say there’s some tuna outside.

LAS ARENAS:  Dorado.  Most are medium-sized in the 8-12 pound class.  Larger ones are easily in the 30 pound class or larger.

LA PAZ:  Dorado too!  More school-sized fish, but this past week the larger ones came from here with 40-pound class fish, but larger ones lost!

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY….

Our long-time Utah amigo, Kip Slaugh, on the scoreboard with his own big bull dorado for the fish box!

First day on the water turned out to be a good one for Rob and Randy Gray with some nice bull dorado to start the vacation!

First-timer with us, Johnny Torres from Riverside CA area came inshore for his first roosterfish. Caught and released. Pretty photo too!

Captain Gerardo with Marie McClelland who had quite a week with us on big dorado. Scroll down to see more!

Always good to have Brett Bleichrodt visit us from Colorado. First day out he scores his big bull.

OH WOW! Captain Raul gives Becky Fry a hand posing with this beautiful bull dorado catch north of La Paz.

Flat water and another fish brought to gaff. This one on the troll. Brett got some big fish this week, but also a few got the best of him as well!

Our San Diego cousin, Andy Enright, kicked it off his first day with a legit dorado beast. He tells of another fish even larger that he fought and lost at color next to the boat.

We had a fun week with these two in the house. Bruce Bleichrodt and Johny Prexta with a nice rack of dorado for the freezer to take home.

Fresh one! I think Rich Hirasuna is trying not to get whacked as Captain Rogelio holds up a fresh-caught dorado that is still thrashing!

Taking a well-deserved break after their first year in law school up in Oregon, Lauryn Keller and Dawson Enright pose with the catch of dorado from their first day.

Two really sweet folks to have come down for their first-ever visit, Brian and Tami Clark are spending the week with us!

Marizol Torres arrived and asked me, I’ve never fished. Do you think I will catch a fish this week?” Captain Raul helps her with a bull dorado she fought for 45 minutes! Well-done!

Ed Haynes and Brian Forward pose on the beach with Captain Jorge.

Fun shot. Our newest family friends Rich and Cherie Hirasuna started their trip with alot of dorado fillets!

Call this a good day fishing! Captain Pancho poses with Jen and Andy Enright on the beach at Bahia Muertos with a solid day of dorado fishing.

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As of this past week…well the mad dorado bite is still on! Some boats doing better than others, but with most folks fishing at least several days with us, there’s no shortage of fish for sure!  If you hit that sweet spot in the ocean, you could limit on dorado in very short order with what some anglers are calling a “dorado aquarium” and “so many fish in the water” After that it’s catch-and-release as fast as you want to go!  Or…

  • Go searching for only bigger dorado
  • Go searching for different species like roosters and rockfish or marlin
  • Go back to the beach early and have lunch and a siesta!

Most of the fish in the schools have been voracious 5-12 pounders that are literally attacking anything thrown in the water!  This has been great fun on the lighter tackle we use with live bait and especially for many of the kids, families and couples we have this time of year who aren’t necessarily hard-core anglers. The fish will bend rods…run…leap…shake a hook…and are sp

ectacularly colorful. On the perimeters of the schools or swimming in more solitary packs are the larger beast dorado that can be anywhere from 20 to over 50 pounds!  I’ve never seen such a concentration of large fish like we’ve had for the last month-and-a-half.  It’s been a great time to tangle with a trophy fish.  Every day I hear stories from anglers who had a big fish on the beat them up and finally broke off or came un-buttoned.   That’s why they are big fish.  They are stronger and much more powerful and you just never know what’s going to hit your line. The biggest problem is that often you can see the larger fish, but the smaller fish are just so much faster to grab your bait that you don’t get the opportunity to hook-up the bigger boys! Still, it’s nice to hear that many anglers are releasing smaller fish and also females!

This is not to say there aren’t other fish in our ocean! We’ve got bonito, roosterfish, jack crevalle, pompano, trevally, cabrilla, triggerfish, snappers and several species of pargo.  It’s just that folks are having so much fun with the dorado that they’re not chasing the other species.  But, they ARE there.  Plus there’s been billfish around that have been hooked “accidentally” but nothing ever stuck. Don’t know how much longer this dorado bite will last, but we’re enjoying it for now!

Not a fish picture this time, but the prospects of a fishing day and an amazing flat Sea of Cortez full of fish and the start of another great day! It’s like glass! (Thanks for the shot, Jennifer Enright!) People ask us all the time if we think they will get seasick or will it be too rough! #jonathanroldan

 

That’s my story!

Jonathan

Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter Sportfishing www.tailhunter.com
Mexico Office: 
Tailhunter Sportfishing
755 Paseo Obregon,
La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico
U.S. Mailing Address:  Tailhunter Sportfishing
8030 La Mesa Blvd. #178
La Mesa CA  91942
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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of May 19-25, 2023

WHAT A DIFFERENCE A WEEK MAKES!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fshing Report for Week of May 19-25, 2023

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN REPORT

WEEKLY RATING – (scale of 1-10).  I give it a 6.  It was about a 3-4 for weeks!

WIND – Finally gave us a break from those gusty cold winds we’ve had for months!

WATER – As winds have diminished, water temps have risen. Water has also gotten clearer and less cloudy.

TEMPS – High 60’s / Low 70’s at night to High 80’s and Los 90’s in the day time.

BAIT – Sardines, mackerel, bullitos, caballitos, strips and chunks or fresh bonito

LAS ARENAS FISHING

Still lots of species, but increasingly more of the warm-water species as the temps rose and winds cut back.  Still getting pargo, snapper, cabrilla and others, but more and larger roosterfish, dorado and wahoo now.

LA PAZ FISHING

Waters stayed largely colder than Las Arenas most of the week, but late in the week temps rose a bit more and we’ve gone from rockfish to more dorado action.

FISH CAUGHT THIS WEEK:

Dorado, marlin, tuna, wahoo, pargo, snapper, grouper, bonito (3 kinds), jack crevalle, amberjack, yellowtail, sierra, rainbow runners, barracuda, cabrilla, triggerfish, roosterfish.

AMIGOS VISITING FROM:  Utah, Kansas, Oklahoma, Connecticut, Oregon, Texas, Washington, Montana, Colorado, South Carolina,  California,  Honduras, Michigan, Wisconsin. We had a full-house!

 

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO FISHING REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Finally, some of the larger roosterfish started to show with Captain Gerardo and Ron Woita from Oregon who spent the better part of a week chasing the roosters. Each day they seemed to get a little bigger. Here’s one of the larger models with lots of smiles! All roosters were released all week.

Captain Pancho gives Nancy Enright from San Diego a hand with a good-looking bull dorado!

Technically, our first marlin of the season caught by our long-time amigo, Art Flippin from Colorado who was on his 2nd visit to us. He was here in April as well. The marlin was deep hooked and unable to be released.

Now THIS is a healthy legit big-boy cabrilla! David Noble was on his first trip with us and took this guy just off Espirito Santo Island where we’ve found a number of these larger fish.

All the way from S. Carolina, Dr. Bob Garrison hooked this tasty barred pargo just off the shallow beach near Punta Arenas.

The right kind! It was a good week for the wahoo to finally show up. Lora Burke pulled this ‘hoo off near Cerralvo Island.

Armando with Karl Davis and Don Markus the day the dorado finally started to chew near Las Arenas! They were a little late this year, but finally arrived. Hopefully to stay around a bit!

Marie Wirtz just had the one day to squeeze in a day of fishing and boated a number of species like this roosterfish she photo’d and released!

Somewhere behind the gaff Sue Stanley from San Diego is smiling as she tries to lift her big cabrilla with help from Captain Alfredo.

Yup! We even had some football tuna show up of Cerralvo Island. That’s Ryan and his dad Bruce Bonsack from the Seattle area.

Here’s Ed Aguilar and Kent Markus with a nice variety for their first day on the water including dorado, snapper, cabrilla, pompano and trevally!

Talk about a banner day! On 2 pangas, they caught Mark, Ryan and Bruce Bonsack from Washington caught 5 wahoo and several more were lost!

Texas in the house! Good amigo Allen Cazier with Captain Licho holding the gaff on another of those large cabrilla off Espirito Santo Island.

That’s alot of good looking fish meat on the cleaning table! Matt Shipley from Texas and Kelly Kartchner from Utah have trevally, pargo and dorado ready to get into the ice chests!

First timers Michael and Louise McMichael always had the best smiles. They were on the water that day the dead whale was found floating offshore holding all the dorado anyone could want like these!

I can see Captain Gerardo with a big small and I think that’s Sam Woita from Kansas behind the mask and dorsals of another big roosterfish. (released!)

Bob Stanley from San Diego with a good-looking cabrilla for the fish box with Captain Alfredo lending a hand!

Marie Wirtz and our Captain Victor with a lengthy colorful dorado. She’s from Bend, Oregon.

The story I got is that Denise Peters hooked the fish and fought it, but finally it got the best of her and she handed it to my long-time amigo, Don Peters, who finished off the big dorado. They came to visit us from Oklahoma.

John Pooley and Billy Harrison with some nice variety after their first day on the water with pargo, snapper, cabrilla and triggerfish.

Of course, Lori Thorpe caught the “big one” a nice dorado with Captain Arcangel. Husband Jeff helps the pose. Other species on the cutting table.

Captain Victor and Arthur Wirtz and another rooster for a photos and release.

 

Diane Kosnosky knows how to fish and always puts fish in the box whenever she visits like this solid cabrilla. Diane is from Washington.

 

Ed Aguilar was fun to have visit this week and he nailed this trophy dorado out’ve Bahia Muertos.

 

On the flyrod! Dave Noble with a cute little roosterfish for the photo and release.

Guy Markus and Steve Wright on their 2nd trip visiting us in La Paz started their fishing week with a pargo liso (mullet snapper); a rare barracuda; 2 rainbow runners and a triggerfish.

Jim Elrod from Bakersfield was visiting us for the first time and gets a hand with this dandy bull dorado from his amigo, Luis, to get the great photo.

 

Lots of fine eating and a day full of action for Don, Karl and Captain Armando who has his work cut out for him cleaning all these cabrilla and pargo!

 

We finally strarted to see dorado with our La Paz fleet and around Espirito Santo Island. Asa has one for the fish box and dinner back at Tailhunter Restaurant.

You can’t see her, but Lora Burke is back there helping hold up her striped marlin. They couldn’t release the fish.

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Let’s start by saying that the fishing still is NOT up to where it should be at this time of year.

However, compared to what it’s been like for the past month, it’s a zillion-times waaaaay better!

Here’s the deal.  Just like the winter which was harsh down here, we continued with chilly weather, strong winds, cloudy overturned water and a chillier-than-normal ocean.  That meant really scratch fishing pretty much all of April and May when we should have been getting bit pretty nicely.

Well, this past week the sun got warmer.  The winds gave us a break.  The ocean turned bluer.  The rough current settled down.  And not surprisingly it made all the difference.

If you just look at all the photos or compare them to the previous reports, anyone could tell our fishing was markedly improved.

No doubt there’s still cooler waters down below the surface which produced cold-water species like yellowtail, rainbow runners, amberjack, several species of pargo, sierra, cabrilla (some huge ones!) plus the usual bonito and jack crevalle.

However, with the warmer water, we got more pompano, palometa (trevally), the larger roosterfish, but also the much-desired warm-water pelagic species like some wahoo,;our first few marlin of the season; and finally some dorado!

In fact, one day there was a dead whale near Cerralvo Island. According to one of our anglers, there were “hundreds” of dorado everywhere flashing through the waters and as many as 20 pangas were out there with everyone completely bent and dorado flying everywhere.  Everyone nailed limits of 10-pound class schoolie-sized dorado.

Then, as the week went on, the dorado got bigger with more 20-30 pound fish in the counts!

Then, there were the wahoo.  We knew they were there, but they sure were reluctant to bite.   Well, they finally came to the party.  One day we had 5 back to the beach and another 4-5 lost!  Some of these wahoo were conservatively estimated 50-60 pound fish or larger.

One day, we even had football-sized tuna show up as well.

Additionally, with the bigger ladyfish baits finally swimming along the shallows, not surprisingly the larger roosterfish in the 40-70 pound class also started biting.  We’ve been waiting for several weeks!  But, even without them, there were good numbers of 5-15 pound roosters to have fun.

If the weather continues to improve, I expect the fishing will also improve.

Additionally, the unusual fish arrivals continued!  A few weeks ago, we got rare totuava in the counts.  Illegal to keep so they were released, but those fish are usually found way up 1000 miles north in the Sea of Cortez and I’ve never seen totuava down here.

Then, we got a few more species that I’ve never seen down here in 30 years:

Captain Pancho with a red-bearded-brotula (brotula a la lengua).

A star-studded grouper caught by Mark Bonsack

Lora with another grouper also called a baqueta by locals.

All-in-all an interesting and much better week.  What a difference a week makes!

That’s my story!

Jonathan

Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter Sportfishing

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

U.S. Mailing Address:  Tailhunter Sportfishing

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La Paz – Las Arenas / Muertos Bay / Bahia Suenos Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of April 17-23, 2023

ACTION IMPROVES AS WINDS DIMINISH

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report for Week of April 17-24, 2023

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ FISHING VIDEO FISHING REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

The pargo or schooling and spawning in the shallow and exciting to see but real horses to try to pull out’ve the rocks. However, Mike Luna from Utah got this big guy out while fishing with Captain Victor! They are often willing to bite ,but most are lost because of sharp teeth and scales and they head back to the rocks! Nice catch!

We’ve know Cole Chavira since he was about 3 feet tall. He’s from the San Diego area and an excellent angler who has been in La Paz a zillion times. He picked up this roosterfish on the east side of Espirito Santo Island. Nice to see the roosters start to move in. The fish was released.

Our amigo, Doctor Art Flippin, had just one day to fish and was drifting the shallows over the rocks fishing for cabrilla and pargo and got surprised by this nice bull dorado. Art looks kinda happy! He did also get pargo, jacks, cabrilla and rainbow runner as well.  Art lives in Colorado.

Big smile from Sophia with a tasty barred pargo ready for the fish box. Tough fighting fish, but great eating!

Captain Victor has a smile as he tries to help Rita Luna with her rainbow runner. Cousins to yellowtail, the fish are schooling up over the shallow areas right now and make great sashime and cooked up as well.

Our long-time amigo, Mark Bonsack from Washington comes down several times a year and is an excellent angler. He had just one day to fish, but rocked it with two hefty pargo liso. Tough to pull out’ve the rocks and most fish are lost. As a matter of fact, Mark says they broke off 4 others!

I think I’m coming over for fish tacos. Our amigo, Jimmy Williams was with Phil Desautels and Phil Perrone and I see dorado, ca brilla, pargo and yellow snapper on the table. They got hit by the winds, but these guys have experience and were able to hide in a cove and found a honey hole of fish!

East side of Cerralvo Island is a light tackle mecca. Art Flippin has a slugger jack crevalle he caught and released. The jacks are cousins to the roosterfish and fight just as hard, but don’t have the “mohawk” dorsal fin.

Mike Luna with Captain Victor on the beach. Check out the two nice pargo liso and the rainbow runner on the table, but the HUGE palometa (trevally) on the table is also a trophy fish!

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It’s all about the wind.   It’s been that way all winter.

But finally, after a horrendous few months, the winds seem to be diminishing somewhat.  Fortunately, during those crazy rough months, I warn folks about the winds so we don’t have too many anglers.   But this week, the season started to kick in just in time as the winds cut back back on us a bit to allow for some decent fishing.

Early in the week, we got into quite a variety of fish.

It looks like the big pargo have come inshore to spawn.  These tough fish are schooling over the rocks and are difficult fighters but great sport.  Even the smaller 5-10 pounders can be brutally frustrating with their sharp teeth and scales plus their ability to get back into the rocks.  We did get some larger 15-25 pounders, however, and many were lost to the rocks.

The same areas also held rainbow runners, barred pargo, snapper, smaller yellowtail, amberjack, cabrilla as well as bonito and jack crevalle making for some excellent fulls-speed action.   As well, we’re starting to see some roosterfish in the area up to about 20 pounds plus a few free-swimming dorado moving into the area which keeps it promising.

Later in the week, the winds kicked in again and the only folks out on the water enjoying were the kiteboarders and windsurfers.

Check out this video of the channel in front of Cerralvo Island (turn up your volume)!

It was blowing even stronger before this video was taken.

It should get calmer with each passing week.  Fingers crossed!

That’s my story!

Jonathan

Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter Sportfishing

www.tailhunter.comMexico Office:

Tailhunter Sportfishing
755 Paseo Obregon

La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico

U.S. Mailing Address:

Tailhunter Sportfishing
P.O. Box 159
Hewitt TX. 76643Phones:
from USA : 626-638-3383
from Mexico: 044-612-14-17863

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of Mar. 18-27, 2023

WINDS BACK – FISHING NO BUENO AGAIN

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of March 18-27, 2023

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Honestly, not a tremendous amount to report other than to apologize that it took so long for me to put together a new report.   I try to do them weekly, but circumstances prevented it.

For one, since our last report, we did a nice show in Bakersfield CA at the Kern Co. Fairgrounds, but I was still suffering the effects from the show the previous week.  At the Orange Co. Pacific Coast Sportsmans Show, I lost my voice the very first day!

It reduced me to painfully trying to shake hands and squawk trying to be heard above the din.  My voice still has not recovered so it was difficult to make our weekly video.  Further, somewhere in the interim, I also caught some kind of upper-respiratory crud that layed me low.

So, many apologies!

But, to be up-front, you didn’t miss much.

The winds came roaring back in Baja and you wouldn’t have recognized some of the famous picturesque beaches that are usually flat calm…like lakes…but reporting 4-8′ waves crashing onto the shore and lots of white-caps.

We did have a handful of hearty folks who booked despite my warnings, but ultimately, had to cancel.  One that did make it out, just got a few bonito.

However, by the end of the period, there were some small windows allowing some of our folks to get out and get into that nice yellowtail bite we’ve been having as well as some sierra and other inshore species.

But that was pretty much it.

And as the umpteenth storm moves towards California again,  we’re expecting more wind in the coming week.

BART HALL FISHING & BOATING SHOW – LONG BEACH CONVENTION CENTER

Another big reason I need my voice this week…

After a 2 year Covid hiatus, the famous Bart Hall (formerly Fred Hall) Fishing & Boating Show takes place this week from March 29-April 2nd.  That’s Wednesday to Sunday.  A huge 5-day event in the Long Beach Convention Center.

This will be the 76th year for the show and it promises to be a super show for everyone.  Bring the family.  Kids are free.  Tons to see in fishing, boating, camping and the outdoors!

Jill and I will be in the booth all 5 days and would love to talk to you.

Also, for the first time on our show circuit this year, we will have a limited number of our logo t-shirst and hats in various styles and colors.  Long sleeve and short sleeves too!  Including our roosterfish logo and our O.G. Blue Mermaid that first appeared almost 30 years ago and is rarely offered.

When we run out…that’s it!

Everything $20 cash.

That’s our story!

We’ll see you in Long Beach!

Jonathan

Jonathan
 
Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter Sportfishing

www.tailhunter.comMexico Office:

Tailhunter Sportfishing
755 Paseo Obregon

La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico

U.S. Mailing Address:

Tailhunter Sportfishing
P.O. Box 159
Hewitt TX. 76643Phones:
from USA : 626-638-3383
from Mexico: 044-612-14-17863

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of Feb. 8-15, 2023

PORT CAPTAIN BLOCKS BOAT TRAFFIC

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Feb. 8-15, 2023

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ FISHING REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Not much to report from La Paz.  I wish I did!

A good portion of the week, the port captain shut things down for the port because the winds made it too precarious to be out on the water.  So, that meant no boat traffic coming or going.  Pretty hard to fish or do much else when you can’t get on a boat.  Even after the port was opened, most operators and outfitters in town had already cancelled scheduled trips not knowing when the port captain would open things up again.  So, unless you were a windsurfer or kite boarder, you really didn’t have many options except sit by your hotel pool with a cold one.
We don’t usually have many bookings between November and April because of the rough weather, but the few we had this week all had to be cancelled because of the winds.

THE PARTY IS BACK!

For the first time in years, they’re bringing back the the La Paz Carnaval!
It’s going to be a mega-party lasting until next Tuesday with food, rides, parades, concerts and the biggest street fair of the year.  After being shut down for covid, the town is ready to bust out for carnaval.
The parades go right by our Tailhunter Restaurant and having multiple stories, we have a great grandstand to the fun on the street!
If you’re in town this week, come by and come down to enjoy th festivities!

GREAT TO BE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AGAIN!

After a month of shows in snow, winds, ice, rain and hail,  it’s nice to be back in Southern California again and see the beach and put on the shorts and flip-flops!
From Thursday to Sunday, we’ll be in our booth at the Del Mar Fairgrounds in San Diego right on the beach for the Bart Hall Fishing and Boating Show.  You may remember these as the Fred Hall Shows.  After a 3 year-hiatus, the shows are back and we’re excited to be back for the first of 4 shows in Southern Cal.   So, come out and say hi and let’s set you up for visiting us in La Paz in 2023!
That’s our story!
Jonathan
 
Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter Sportfishing

www.tailhunter.comMexico Office:

Tailhunter Sportfishing
755 Paseo Obregon

La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico

U.S. Mailing Address:

Tailhunter Sportfishing
P.O. Box 159
Hewitt TX. 76643Phones:
from USA : 626-638-3383
from Mexico: 044-612-14-17863

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