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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“We had a great trip.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Roger Thompson (tuna photo above):

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Jonathan and Jill

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La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of May 1-8, 2011

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of May 1-8, 2011

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Jonathan and Jill

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La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of April 23-30, 2011

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Monica Beehn from San Francisco has fished our waters here in La Paz often and usually shows the rest of us how it's done like with this trophy-sized cabrilla she holds up in front of Captain Archangel and eat a live sardine near Bahia de Los Muertos.It would be hard to find a guy who is such an enthusiastic angler as Rich Jones who visits us all the way from Utah. I'm glad he got into the tail-end of our great yellowtail bite we've had the last two months. There are still a few YT around up to about 40 pounds, but they're picky now as the waters warm. Rich got this north of La Paz.

It would be hard to find a more enthusiastic angler than Utah fisherman, Rich Jones. He's always on fire for fishing! Glad he got into the tail-end of our great yellowtail bite with this nice forktail he got north of town. There's still a few around up to 40 pounds, but as the waters get warmer we're seeing fewer of the big jacks.Big kisses from our amiga, Lisa Cruz, from Washington who outdid so many of the frustrated veteran anglers by nailing this fat pargo liso on her first try fishing with our Tailhunter fleet of Las Arenas.Mitch Chavira is our San Diego amigo who always rips fish down here, but even he admitted it was "scratchy" compared to other trips. Still, he hung tough and put several nice yellowtail aboard with Captain Juan.

Mike and Mike ("Mike Squared") show off a pretty typical catch with our Las Arenas fleet right now...smaller yellowtail (great eating size!) and pargo! They brought the fillets over to our Tailhunter Restaurant on the malecon for a big cook-up!

Our San Diego amigo, Mitch Chavira makes several trips a year here to La Paz with his son, Cole, and has had many an epic trip, but admitted that it was a bit "scratchy" this past week and they had to work hard for their fish but they still managed several nice yellowtail.

It was a good week for roosterfish for both of our Tailhunter Fleets. The only problem is that I don't have many good photos this week since most of them get released! (which is a good thing!). But the roosters have been 10-50 pounders!A young sealion from the sealion colony north of La Paz checks us out. With waters warming, it's a great time for diving and snorkeling in La Paz. A visit to the sealion colony is always a kick. (See the video clip below)

A MIXED BAG OF FISHING TO FINISH OUT THE MONTH !

La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of April 23-30, 2011

It was an interesting week of fishing in La Paz waters. It surely seems like summer already with air temperatures already in the mid to upper 90’s and water temperatures not far behind. To put it mildly, I think fish are confused…and so are the anglers! No one know what to make of the early season temperature spikes. The cold water fish like the yellowtail seem to have gone to deeper water. The warm water fish like marlin, sailfish and dorado are acting like the curtain came up too early on showtime! They’re not sure if they are quite ready to bite!

So, bottom line, we’re getting alot of different varieties of fish. No species in overwhelming numbers and every day seems different. Some days it’s better for roosters. Other days, it’s a pargo day. Another day, it’s a smattering of this and that with each panga coming back with a different story about what they caught.

For our Las Arenas fleet, we go into roosterfish up to 40 pounds…pargo up to 24 pounds (with many lost to the rocks)…cabrilla…a few dorado…some sailfish hooked up and quite a few bonito. There’s still some firecracker yellowtail around as well in the 10-12 pound class. Although not good eating, the roosterfish have really been fun this week and a welcome biter when other fish aren’t really going off.

For our La Paz fleet, it appears that we’re about done with the fantastic yellowtail bite of March and April. It has been replaced with pargo, roosters (some big boys too!) and big cabrilla with lots of marlin and sailfish cruising around and seemingly on the verge of biting. In fact, may be by the time you’re reading this, they will be on a full-blown chew. I’m seeing quite a bit of sargasso weed floating in the channel plus sardines and flying fish in abundance. All the conditions seem like they’re coming together!

FLASH NEWS!

Just as I’m writing this, I got a report of some wahoo at the south and north end of Cerralvo Island as well as some slugger yellowtail and some tuna that showed up on the north end! Plus squid floating as well with the commercial guys throwing nets on them! Will keep you posted. We’ll go do some recon!

VIDEO CLIPS OF THE WEEK

Fred and Lisa Cruz put this quick clip together for us of their first ever experience with dorado and pargo fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkmyv36qaQY

On Easter Sunday, we put down the rods for the day and were invited for a day of diving and snorkeling at the sealion colony at Isolotes north of La Paz. I’ve dove with the sealions numerous times over the years and they are always fun. Never the same twice and the young ones are always clowns. It’s a great day activity for a non-fishing day!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrBBNw5KbKY

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Jonathan and Jill

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La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of April 16-23, 2011

This trophy pargo bruised him, beat him and nearly pulled him out've the boat, but Al Jones got the last laugh (plus a big plate of grilled pargo at the Tailhunter Restaurant that night!) taking this bad boy out've the rocks just outside of Bahia de Los Muertos where the pargo continue to crash and shred and frustrate anglers.

: As the waters got warmer we had alot of billfish (sailfish and striped marlin) show up. As one person described it…”there were dozens and dozens just sitting on the surface.” Many weren’t willing to bite having gorged themselves during the full moon, but we did get some biters like this one that Rich Jones holds…his first striper and among three that he and his partner, Ron Hepner, hooked but got released. Rich got this one on 40 pound test and swallowed the hook.

: Not a bad first day for a first timer to La Paz, but Fred and Lisa Cruz from Washington put 4 of these nice YT’s in the boat (and a trigger fish) plus had a marlin come unbuttoned. Later in the week they got dorado and pargo (see the photo below).

: Blue water, white sand and a good day of fishing is a great combination here in La Paz. Felix Basadre and his dad fished 4 days with this this past week putting some nice yellowtail like this one in the boat .

: Being from Washington, Fred Cruz is more used to pulling on ling cod and salmon but got to feel the power of the big red pargo that are ripping lines near Punta Perico these days.

: It’s pretty hard not to have fun when this guy is around because he’s just so enthusiastic about his fishing and even when he’s not catching a fish, he never has a bad day! Rich Jones really works at his fishing and got one of our first nice dorado of the season out of Muertos Bay. He also got his first striped marlin ever as well.

: 85-years-YOUNG from Anaheim CA, Felix Basadre, Sr. can still pull fish and took some nice yellowtail this past week. The fish were more finicky this week and we had to work harder for them.

There weren't alot of them around this past week, but the yellowtail we got into were all quality fish like this one held by Ron Hepner at Balandra Beach taken on the El Bajo Seamount. Ron is from Salt Lake City UT.

FULL MOON WITH WIND PLUS WARMING WATER MAKE ANGLERS WORK FOR SOME GOOD FISH!

La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of April 16-23, 2011

With air temperatures now in the 90’s it’s looking like we’re transitioning out of our cool water fishing to our warm water fishing. Unfortunately, that means we’re probably at the tail end (no pun intended) of our fantastic yellowtail season we’ve had although I’m sure we’ll still get a few strays here and there. Looking at the Terrafin water charts, there’s warm water south of Cerralvo Island and then also just east of Espiritu Santo Island.

Interestingly, that’s where we’re seeing marlin and sailfish seeming by the dozens sunning themselves and, although some are biting I think if we kick it up just a degree or two more, it’s gonna bust out WFO. Let the full moon stuff pass and the water warm just a hair and BOOM! It’s gonna be billfish rodeo time! In fact, by the time you’re reading this, we might already be in it. We have had a few flurries and fortunately, most of the billfish are getting released, but a few have been taken and we’re seeing that their bellies are full of squid like the schools balling up on the east side of Cerralvo Island and I think with the full moon that just passed the squid were coming up from the deep and the marlin were “on the chew” all night long stuffing themselves! So…maybe we better get ready! When the buffet table gets taken away, the billfish might just come charging!

Oh…yea…we also had to deal with some big rolling swell…higher and lower tides from the full moon…some days of strong winds…plus the changing water temps mentioned above. By themselves, any one of two of those events would normally be no problem, but we got the multi-spanking whammy from mother nature and props to all our anglers this week for putting a great face on it and still coming away with some great fish!

As for other species, like I said, we’re seeing perhaps the last hurrah for the yellowtail, but other cooler water species like pargo (barred pargo/ dog-tooth snapper/ mullet snapper) are still rolling in the shallows frustrating anglers as thehy take anglers to the rocks time-after-time. Still, we did get a few nice ones this week…interestingly, the rookies did so much better than the veterans! As well, we also got into some nice fat cabrilla (Mexican seabass) some amberjack, nice roosterfish and maybe not surprisingly some decent-sized dorado given the warmer waters!

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La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of April 9-16, 2011

Every reason to strike a pose when you nail a fish like this big yellowtail taken by Bob Robbins from Arizona fishing north of town at the El Bajo Seamount where yellowtail put on a world-class show this past week and were the highlight of a week that had its ups and downs.

John Bolton from San Luis Obispo CA has fished with us many times, but it was a first time for his amigo, Doug Fulp from Texas. The two of them got into that epic yellowtail bite north of town where they estimated they caught and released or lost close to 20 fish in just several hours!

Theres a reason they call the La Paz area, the "roosterfish capital of the world." This fish isnt quite as large as the world-record- roosterfish caught in La Paz at 114 pounds, but this is an incredible beast of a fish caught by our own Jilly Roldan of Tailhunter. (See the video clip below). Jill hooked the fish just south of Bahia de Los Muertos on a slow trolled live sardine and fought it for about 20 minutes in a spectacular battle on 40 pound test with the fish estimated at 30-35 kilos (70 pounds). Jill had an incredible day on the water getting her first pargo liso (mullet snapper); pargo pero (dog-tooth snapper) and this world-class roosterfish which is her personal best largest fish! Even better, she worked extensively to revive the fish and get it swimming away strongly! Not 5 minutes after releasing this fish, she hooked another that may have been even larger and it went "dorado" on her leaping completely out of the air which is unusual for roosters. The tough fish then went into the rocks (like a pargo) where Jill battled back and forth until the big rooster sawed finally sawed her off. Capt. Gerardo lends a hand.

Its a good day ANYTIME you get one of these great fish outta the rocks! Gary Palese says it almost pulled him outve the boat twice and his fishing partner had to hold onto his shirt tails as he struggled to keep the fish out of the rocks fishing just several yards from the Perico cliffs. This dog tooth snapper (pargo perro) makes great eating!

Sometimes they even let me fish! I hooked 4 pargo this day just outside of Bahia de Los Muertos with fish crashing all around, but only managed to get this one pargo liso (mullet snapper) to the boat. Fish are tough and can humble anyone very quickly!

A FRESH ONE on the gaff! Gary Palese holds up on of the slugger yellowtail that exploded north of La Paz this week. The trick was having caballito or mackerel for bait although sardines and iron worked well also.

Dr. Desmond Sjauwfoekloy from Los Angeles makes last minute trips to us when he can get away from his busy schedule. Whenever he shows up it just seems the bite goes off for him and he nailed 8 big yellowtail this week like this one. I dont know if the fishing gets good because he shows up or he just shows up when the fishing is good, but he always does well!

Theres always something special about a first fish no matter the size. Its all about the smiles. Abby Oclassen from Colorado holds onto her very first fish...a sierra...caught fishing out of Bahia de Los Muertos.

CRAZY YELLOWTAIL FISHING NORTH OF LA PAZ BUT COULD THIS BE THE GRAND FINALE?

La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of March 19-17, 2011

There’s good news and bad news. First, for our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet, things just went flat this past week. And I’m not talking about the water smoothing out. It was still a bit bumpy out there especially at the beginning of the week making it tough to get to Cerralvo Island and sometimes difficult to get sardines for bait. Waters also got warmer which meant the algae bloom went off making the waters green and dirty. None of this helped the bite except for pargo. And you’d hook 10 and “maybe” get 1 to the boat. That didn’t make for very good numbers of fillets to take home.

Now for the good news! I’m glad we have two fleets…one in Las Arenas and one in La Paz! We were able to switch many of our anglers to our La Paz pangas (where the fishing normally isn’t rolling full turbo just yet), but nonetheless was better than Las Arenas mainly because this past week we hammered some of the BEST yellowtail fishing in recent memories. It wasn’t just the numbers of yellowtail, but also the size of the fish and the ferocity of their bite that made this so exciting.

I don’t use the word “ferocity” very often but heading north to the El Bajo Seamount north of La Paz, the fish were FOAMING…yup…crashing the surface in displays we don’t often see. According to some of our anglers, they were in such numbers at times that they were fighting to get any bait thrown in the water. Double and triple hook-ups were the norm and the “smaller” fish were 25 pound class the the “larger” fish were in the 50-pound class (this is my captains talking…not the anglers! To fishermen EVERY fish is 50 pounds!). Getting the big baits early in the morning like the caballito and mackeral were the key and then chumming with sardines to get the yellowtail crashing and on the chew. Anglers just had to be patient at times as it’s not easy to get the larger boats as they have to jig the up in the bay before going out to the fishing grounds. You can’t just drive up to the bait man and order up a scoop or two!

Anyway, these fish were busting off 60 and 80 pound test at times, but normally 50 pound test with flurocarbon leaders worked well. Here’s the rub…I’m not sure how much time we have on these things! The way the Terrafin satellite images are showing the waters are warming up fast. To the south at Las Arenas it’s already happened. Once the waters get warmer, the yellowtail will shut down and I’m not sure what we’ll have after that. Maybe great. May it will hit a lull for a week or so until the waters keep rising and all the muck cleans up and the fish get acclimated and hungry again in which case it will be more blue water species rather than the yellowtail. But, that’s just my guess. Who knows?

For Las Arenas, as mentioned, the waters already have gone up a few notches. Fishing isn’t bad. It’s the ‘catching” that’s bad. When the pargo are rolling in the shallows stopping them is sometimes just ridiculous. I fished 3 days this week myself and broke off 8 fish and only got one 15 pounder to the boat. But there are 20 and 30 pound fish moving in the school and all of them are horses! But, there’s still sierra, some very good cabrilla and we also got some big roosters biting just south of Muertos Bay up to 70 pounds close to the cliffs. Check out the photos and attached video!

VIDEO CLIP OF THE WEEK

Click this link to our youtube video clip of some of this week’s fishing action including some pargo and the big roosterfish! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4S31HJffFU

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La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of April 3-10, 2011

In a strange early season showing, striped marlin in abundance showed up in La Paz waters giving anglers an unexpected bonus, especially just north of La Paz where one angler said, "They were thick and pesty. It seemed like dozens of marlin were seen every day!" Normally, we don't see stuff like this for about another few weeks or next month.

Our La Ventana buddy, recently from Long Beach, Roger Thompson was at it again. He was out with Captain Chito and had one of those banner days with limits of big yellowtail, a striped marlin, and huge cabrilla (see photos below).

Not bad for a first-time trip for Paul McBeth to La Paz. One day fishing...two striped marlin...5 yellowtail including this nice forktail on the gaff.

Perhaps even more prized than other gamefish for it's great eating...this trophy cabrilla (Mexican seabass) was taken by Roger Thompson who scaled it at 18 pounds!

This is just too pretty a picture not to post up. This is about a 140 pound striped marlin still underwater. It's a fat one if you check out the shoulders on this guy. If you've ever had one on the line, you can feel the power. Great shot! Thanks Roger!

Many of our readers wanted some samples of the artificials that we're using right now on some of these yellowtail when we're not using live bait. Across the bottom are samples of "iron"...basically what we call candybar type lures. Many companies make them but favorites include Tady, Ironman, Sumo, Salas, Raider and others. All of these are "heavy lures" and across the bottom from left to right are colors: scrambled egg (white, yellow, brown); blue and white; blue/ white; and dorado color (green, white, yellow). Also, above is a CD-18 size Rapala Magnum in green mackeral pattern that has also worked well slow trolled across the high spots and reefs. (Note the scratch, teeth and dried blood...these lures have all caught fish!)

APRIL ROLLS IN WITH SOME UNUSUAL FISHING!

La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of April 2-10, 2011

Except for some occasional strong winds that seem to diminish every week. We’re into some great fishing weather with sunny skies and days in the mid-70’s. Water temps, however, are really variable which might account for the really mixed fishing. Not bad fishing…just “mixed fishing!”

How else to explain catching yellowtail (cold water fish) in the same spots as marlin and dorado (warm water fish)? What we figure is that the surface temps are warming faster as we get to the spring time conditions. The warmer water at the top has the blue water species while down deep, it’s still chilly which is where the yellowtail are hanging out. In fact, I know for a fact it’s warmer on the top because the water vis has gone-to-poop. It was great blue for a bit, but as is customary this time of year, when it hits a certain temperature, the algae bloom kicks in so the waters gets green and cloudy. Not always the best for diving or fishing but it’s a temporary thing. The water keeps getting warmer then WHAM…it hits a certain gradient and all of a sudden all the algae dies and disappears. And the waters turn blue again.

As far as the fishing, it’s not been as great as it was a week or two ago, but certainly not bad. The anglers who went-with-the-flow did pretty well. Yellowtail still bit and we put some nice 20-40 pound fish in the boat mostly around the high spots and the island reefs but also the seamounts in deeper water. Nice grades of moss-back fish! In those same spots, the pargo are schooling up (if you can get through the schools of bonito) and we got some nice cabrilla as well. But, the pargo are really frustrating…as many folks know. If the yellowtail aren’t biting then and the wind is blowing, you’re relegated to chasing the crazy pargo. They bite, but they kick your butt too! Most fish are lost and that makes for a long day! Along the beaches, schools of small roosters and jacks kicked in which is great on a small spinning reel.

The real surprise are the marlin, especially north of town. As one angler said, “It felt like there were hundreds out there!” Some fish are still pretty lethargic…so much so that one of our captains said he accidentally ran over two of them that were just sunning themselves. He felt “bump bump” both times and saw the marlin skittering away. Just not interested in baits, lure or anything

Then, you run into another group of stripers and they almost fight each other to get to the bait. We’re encouraging catch-and-release and most of the caught fish are getting let go. But, for us to even be seeing marlin this early willing to bite is pretty great! Normally, I would never suggest to anyone about coming in April to get a marlin! But, that’s fishing!

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La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of Mar. 27-April 2, 2011

Big smiles for Ken Gragg who landed this yellowtail fishing the El Bajo Seamount north of La Paz. The yellows are still there, but warming waters may change that as we saw more dorado and even marlin show up in the fish counts this week!

Someone has some fillets to bring home. That's Carl Lange and Gary Bray posing on the sands at Mogote with 8 yellowtail they caught north of La Paz. Sardines and iron still working!

Sometimes everyone is chasing the "trophy" fish that folks forget about all the other great species to catch like this excellent cabrilla (Mexican seabass) that Carl Lange got.

Not bad,young lady!... for first time fishing for Brady Davison getting a hand with his big yellowtail from Capt. Hugo out of Muertos Bay.

Gary Wagner knows he's got hamachi on the grill tonite with some yellowtail! Note the flat waters of Muertos!

YELLOWTAIL MIX IT UP WITH MARLIN AND DORADO…IN MARCH!

La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of March 27-April 2, 2011

I’m not sure how to characterize the week of fishing. It was a good week of fishing. Everyone caught fish. The yellowtail bite has been fantastic, but some folks who wanted yellowtail caught other fish. People who wanted “other species” got yellowtail! So, there was just the “hint” of disappointment here and there!

Look… Everyone caught fish, but there’s so much variety out there right now that some guys wanted one species and caught others and vice versa! I think the waters are warming and the bad news is, this may shut down the fantastic yellowtail bite we’ve had, but the good news is, we’ll be into the surface blue water species like dorado, billfish, tuna and wahoo before long. The other bad side is that when we hit a certain water temp level the algae bloom kicks off. Waters get cloudy. Good for our divers because that’s when we get whalesharks, but sometimes, not the best for fishing, at least for surface species. Then, the waters go up a degree or two and BOOM…just like that the water clear to blue and the fish blow up again! We’ll have to wait and see.

This week, we did get into more of that trophy-grade yellowtail. These are those really nice 30-40 pound moss-back-golden-silver slugger fish that just hammer you when they bite! They were still in the usual areas like El Bajo north of Espirito Santo Island and in various places around Cerralvo Island and Punta Perico. In those same areas, we also got bit by pargo, cabrilla and amberjack with some nice shoreline action along the beaches by sierra, pompano, jack crevalle and roosterfish. No shortage of bonito around either!

The problem was (if you can call it that) is lots of anglers are here to nail the rock species like the yellowtail and pargo and cabrilla. So, what do you do when dorado or billfish bite? Well, that’s exactly what happened this week. It’s still barely out of March and we had several hookups on striped marlin and well as dorado that really surprised the anglers as well as the captains. Again, that just leads me to believe that waters might be warming up faster than normal!

We’ll have to keep an eye out for that as well as reports of sargasso weed already starting to build up in the channel which become haven for the dorado plus reports again of tuna at the north end of Cerralvo Island.

C’MON MAN!

One problem we did have was that so many boats from the East Cape to the south of us by 60 miles were running all the way up our area to fish. That made for alot of traffic a few days. One day, it was reported that as many as 50 boats were on the water (between cruisers, private boats, commercial pangas, sportfishing pangas) ! Sheesh. C’mon.

Our little pangas and a lots of cruisers jumping on our fishing spots. Love the guys down there and wave at them all the time on the water, but some of their captains will drop right on our fishing spots even where commercial guys are just trying to eck out a meager living and the big cruisers with their thumping engines will just shut down the bite. Lose-lose for everyone. It’s not everyone…just a few rude captains.

Or, on more than one occasion, I’ve seen the big cruisers just thoughtlessly criss-cross back and forth right in our panga chumlines. It’s just a few idiots, but it doesn’t make for good relations. I did hear of one set of commercial pangeros going at it with one cabron cruiser and started throwing things at them this week. It’s a big ocean. There’s more than one spot to fish. We’re there at 6 a.m. and the cruisers show up at 8 or 9 and will just jump right on our spots. Shuts down the bite for everyone. Bad ju-ju. Bad form. I have seen rude bahavior from panga captains too. Plenty of room for everyone. Just all have to be aware and courteous to each other.

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La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of Mar. 20-27, 2011

It was that kind of week! Rick (aka "Rock") Hosmer, our amigo, from Manhattan Beach, gives us the big smile and pose after he and his buddy, John, knocked out the yellowtail fishing out've Muertos Bay. Once again the yellowtail bit strong this week!

As good as it gets! Check out the size of this pair of yellowtail by La Paz Yellowtail Tournament Champion Jorge Romero, who many of you know as head of our transportation services with Tecolote Transporation. Even he had to jump in on the hot action as he holds the "jurel" on the beach at Muertos Bay.

Not all the action was on the yellowtail. The pargo are up in the shallows schooling right now, but although we hooked alot of them this week, not many got put into the fish boxes as fish-after-fish busted guys off in the rocks. However, this one didn't get away. John Nagy of Marina Del Rey hoists one up with the help of Capt. Mundo.

You know it's a big fish when you can only hold up one, like Daryl Valdez from Fresno, is doing. The average size of these yellows was 25-45 pounds this week.

Another big dawg! This pargo liso didn't escape Gary Bray. Only about 1 out've 10 pargo makes it to the gaff but these powerful fish are schooling right now and it's pretty amazing and frustrating fishing!

We've had roosters around for a few weeks, but this is our first official "big rooster" of the season. The fish looks big in it's own right but Brad Davison from Long Beach is 6'4" tall so we figure this might be a 60-70 pound pez gallo! It was released.

These are BIG yellowtail. Our Canadian amigo, Leonard Bishop stuck these two bad boys fishing out've Muertos Bay in the early morning.

Even on days where bait is difficult, the Davison Family from Long Beach, on their first Baja trip and first day fishing got 7 yellowtail off Cerralvo Island WITH NO BAIT! The trolled deep running Rapalas and stuck 7 of these and were back on the beach by 11 a.m.

Ken Gragg is checking something out but the camera still captured Gary Bray and the two of them with some of the yellowtail they ripped while fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet this week.

MAYBE SOME OF THE BEST YELLOWTAIL FISHING ALL SEASON!

La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for the week of March 20-27, 2011

It was another pretty solid week of fishing for us here in La Paz. Still some north winds pretty typical of this time of year made it bumpy and we could have done without them , but that’s also why we’ve been doing 90 percent of our fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet out of Muertos Bay. Air temps have been in the low 80’s and sunny for the most part so conditions continue to be ideal other than the winds!

Around Punta Perico and the south end of Cerralvo, we’re still jumping these nice Baja-grade yellowtail. That’s been the big story. A 20-pound class fish is small! Most of these fish have been easily 30-40 pound sluggers and they’re eating the yo-yo iron on the fast retrieve as well as live sardines with a little bit of weight to get them down. Also, some of the guys have been slow trolling mackeral-patterned crank baits like Yo-Zuri Magnums, Rapalas and Bombers over the shallower areas and getting strikes although, they’re also losing alot into the rocks too!

There’s actually quite a few spots where the big yellowtail are holding. North Cerralvo near La Reyna and La Reynita have fish. El Bajo Seamount has them as well as the SW corner of Espiritu Santo. The problem is getting in there to fish in between the wind gusts or traveling there. That’s why we’re doing the majority of our fishing with our Las Arenas fleet so that we can fish either closer to shore or on the lee side of the island with as much protection as possible. But no doubt, the fish are here! And, if one place is tough to get to…go fish another! The fish were stacked this past week!

In addition to the yellowtail, and often in the same spots, there’s a growing number of the big pargo liso…mullet snapper. But, getting them in the boat has been a more difficult proposition than the yellowtail. It’s pretty exciting to see them all balled up like an undulating mass of copper and red just below the surface. Then, tossing a handful of live sardines at them, the whole things explodes or the boils on the water looks someone dropping 30 pound boulders from the sky! When the guys get bit, however, if they can’t turn the fish away from the rocks within the first few seconds…FORGET IT! These horses can’t be stopped before getting into the reefs and we’re losing 90 percent of the hookups. The ones we are putting into the boats are the “smaller” 20-30 pounders! There’s larger ones down there. Guys were snapping off 50 pound test “like it was nothing” according to one of our fishermen.

“It was like trying to hold into a moving car over the side of a building!” said another. “Not a thing I could do except wait for the line to pop!”

“It was fun getting hooked up on these big fish but so frustrating watching them take the baits and losing fish-after-fish!” commented his buddy.

Oh…just a teaser…I know it’s March but…

We hooked and lost our first marlin of the season north of La Paz!
There was a sailfish that was caught!
Commercial guys are reporting more tuna…big ones…at the north end of Cerralvo Island
We got some dorado this week too!

Wow…hope this is just the beginning!

Will keep you posted!

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La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of March 13-20, 2011

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Roger Thompson had a banner day fishing El Bajo seamount north of La Paz with our Captain Chito taking a boat load of big yellowtail. The only reason they stopped was because they ran out've bait! The latter part of this week, yellowtail literally blew up the waters around La Paz!

Dan Fedorka of Monrovia CA used to make yearly trips to La Paz, but hadn't made a trip in awihle, but brought his family back for spring break. Dan took this nice pargo liso just off the rocks near Las Arenas.

Donna Thompson from Long Beach and La Ventana and Judy Davis from Hercules, CA had quite a day north of La Paz taking 11 big yellowtail like this one between two of our super pangas.

Another shot of Donna and Judy...this time with the beach line-up of big forkies!

SLOW START TO WEEK ENDS WITH YELLOWTAIL GOING FULL TURBO IN LA PAZ WATERS!

La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of March 14-21, 2011

Y’know…if it weren’t for a few things like wind and bait, it would have really been a pretty outstanding week of fishing this past week! With temps in the high 80’s and mostly sunny blue flat calm waters, it could have been banner. However, there were a few days when the winds just whipped. That, consequently makes it harder to get bait. We need those live sardines to get going. Sure, lures work, but nothing like a live squiggly to get the bite into gear.

Our captains worked hard…the commercial guys worked hard…the clients were as patient as could be expected. But when the winds are rolling, then it often crashes waves into the shallow beach or rocky areas where bait is netted. It scatters the bait. Makes the waters cloudy too. Or, it’s so rough the pangas can’t get into the rocks to throw the nets. We did the best we could. Fortunately, not EVERY day was like that and since most of our clients this week fished more than a day or two, well…there were some really nice fish to be caught with some great action. Especially as the week went on…

As a matter of fact, as the week went on we had perhaps some of the best yellowtail fishing we’ve seen in a long time!

Yellowtail seemed to have busted out in numerous places! Nice homeguard mossbacked 25-45 pound fish! Real quality stuff.

Roger Thompson, our amigo from Ventana (photo above) had this to say:

“We caught 11 yellows today between our two boats. Bait was a struggle, but El Bajo was on fire again. If we had more bait, we would have caught more fish for sure. No wind, temps in the low 80s on the water.”

There’s nothing like first-hand reports!

Another of our good Tailhunter amigos, James Davis jumped in with this:

“The weather has been fantastic and the fishing is awesome. Being down here right now is Crazy Good, wouldn’t want to be anywhere else….Guys are coming back into Muertos with so much fish that after they get their ice chests full of fillets they are giving the rest of their fist away…. More and bigger….I weighted one 47 pound Yellowtail yesterday….Been fishing the back side of island, south side, pulling these big brutes right off the beach…..Heard some reports of huge Tuna off the north end of the island….my neighbor and one of the captains from Muertos (Fernando) hands are thrashed from trying to hand line them….”

For our La Paz fleet, the fish were found as far north as the El Bajo Seamount where fish were holding 30-60 feet off the top of the mount. As well, the north end of Cerralvo Island near the drop off plus off Isla Ballena at the SW side of Espiritu Santo Island we found a nice grade of fish. (By the way like James Davis confirmed above…commercial guys again spotted finning yellowfin tuna again at the north end of Cerralvo moving too fast to get on top of them!)

For our Tailhunter Fleet operating off the Muertos Bay, Las Arenas area, the yellowtail were working off Punta Perico, the Las Arenas lighthouse where the boulders are; and the SE corner of Cerralvo Island. In all cases the fish are eating live bait, but yo-yo ing the heavy lures in blue/white ; yellow/ green/ and yellow/white also generated some viscious hits!

In addition to the yellowtail, we’re seeing increased numbers of pargo in the shallow areas by both our fleets and got action from sierra, cabrilla and snapper.

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