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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of Oct. 24-30, 2023

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AND SO WE CLEAN UP AND SO DOES MOTHER NATURE!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report for Week of Oct. 24-30, 2023

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT

WEATHER – After taking it out on us by sending us Hurricane Norma the blast away at Baja, the subsequent weather was mild by comparison. Windy at times, but mostly sunny. Definitely cooler.

WATER – Mostly a mess. So much runoff from the heavy rains that waters looked like chocolate milk. It got a little better reluctantly each day, but water temps remained on the cooler side. One encouraging thing is the tons of debris in the water. Good habitat for dorado.

FISH HOOKED THIS WEEK – Not real great, and it took awhile to even have fishable conditions, but we did hook some dorado, sailfish, tuna, bonito. Not alot and not super, but not better than expected after such a tremendous storm.

TAILHUNTER LA PAZ FLEET – The whole bay and outlying waters were a mess of debris and dirty silty water that took awhile to clear up and is still slowly improving. The big problem is that the marinas sustained serious damages and there are many boats sunk. Fortunately, we had pulled all our boats out’ve the water. However, the ramps were destroyed so we couldn’t put our boats back in the water, even if we wanted to. Oh, and no live bait to be found was no help either. And it looks like those pesky north winds are starting up.

TAILHUNTER LAS ARENAS FLEET – Like everywhere else, waters were dirty and turned over. No bait to speak of. But, we had a few exploratory trips and at first nothing more than bonito, but then thing improved. And using dead bait and chunked bonito, some of the dorado started biting again.

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO FISHING REPORT –

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Ryan Brockway is a guide and owner of several lodges up in Vancouver, but still came down to fish after the hurricane and we’re happy he got into some dorado action his last day!

Check out the huge sailfish that Sara Jenkins hooked with Captain Pancho. Son, Ryder lends a hand. Sara fought this on light tackle the whole time and then made a great release as well!

Still a few tuna hanging out. Brandon Cowhey with a great photo of a chunky YFT!

Ryder…9 years old…Love to see this. Great form! This young man loves to fish. His 2nd trip to see us!

Ryan Jenkins was able to get out a few days just before Hurricane Norma dropped in on us and was able to get into some nice dorado biters!

More than a few ended up on the beach.

Many of the owners aren’t in La Paz which complicates the clean-up. Lots of boats piled right onto the Malecon by the fierce winds and waves of Hurrican Norma.

Lots of things in La Paz got turned upside down like these beach palapas after almost 3 days of battering. Fortunately, no reports of injuries.

All the marinas are a mess of sunken and damaged watercraft and trash.

Clean-up is going to take awhile. Especially hard to clean with no running water or power.

Many volunteer groups came down to the beaches to help clear off the muck.

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This is going to be somewhat convoluted for a fishing report because well…it was a convoluted week.

Basically, if you hadn’t heard, Hurricane Norma slammed directly into La Paz . It was alot harder then the experts predicted. It stayed around alot longer than predicted. It hit us with alot more rain and wind than anyone expected.

By the time it hit us it was a Category 2 hurricane with winds well over 100 mph. It dropped 8-15 inches of rain on us. Worse, is that it just sat and sat and pummeled the area for about 30 hours. It’s like getting hit by a boxer over and over. At some point, things start to break.

I’ve heard that over 100 boats were sunk or damaged including some huge yachts. All the marinas sustained extensive damage. Fortunately, all our captains pulled their boats out’ve the water ahead of time, but all the ramps were damaged and there was no way to launch the boats again.

Even moreso, hotels, businesses, restaurants, and homes took it hard. The popular restaurants at Tecolote Beach that had been around for decades, were completely destroyed. The front of our own Tailhunter Restaurant blew away and received extensive other damage.

The bigger issue might have been the loss of water and power with a good portion of the city in the dark (that included cell phone and wifi of course). Many folks were without it for days. Our restaurant had no power for 5 days.

It’s pretty hard to clean up when you have no water or electricity. As of writing this, there are still lots of homes and businesses waiting for the lights to come on.

As for fishing…

We had just started to re-bound after what Hurricane Hilary and the full-moon did to us. Dorado had started to bite again . Waters had cleaned up. Tuna were showing again as were billfish and even some nice-sized roosterfish.

Then up comes Norma.

Waters have been a mess. It’s a big chocolate-colored soup of silt, mud and floating debris. It has taken and continues to take days to clear up.

We have not been able to fish out’ve La Paz. The marinas were wrecked and the ramps were all torn up. There’s no way to launch our boats, even if the conditions looked more promising. I’m just glad we pulled our boats out’ve the water before the storm. Some marinas look like a boat graveyard.

For our Las Arenas fleet, waters cleared a little bit but bait remained difficult or non-existent. Bonito bit somewhat in the begining. As waters cleared, however, the dorado started to come back. Still not bait but we were using dead bait, frozen bait and chunks of fresh bonito.

Honestly, as the season is changing and it’s getting colder and windier, we don’t have that many folks on the water so not that many folks lost any days on the water.

A SPECIAL NOTE FROM US!

To everyone who offered their good thoughts, prayer and wishes and even offered to come down to help in the aftermath of Hurricane Norma, we appreciate you all! We’re all fine. That’s the most important. No one was hurt and this is not our first rodeo. We’ll be bigger and better on the other side.

NEXT REPORT MIGHT BE A BIT LATE…

The other thing…As you’re reading this, I’m headed for knee replacement surgery. I’m told I’m going to be out’ve it for awhile. I’ve done the weekly fishing reports basically every week for over 28 years. Please excuse me if the next report is a tad later than normal! I might be on “performing enhancing medications” according to my surgeon to alleviate the OUCH!!!

That’s my story!

Jonathan

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay / Bahia Suenos Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of Oct. 14-22, 2023

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FISHING KICKS BACK IN BUT

NORMA STOMPS US

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Oct. 14-21, 2023

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT

WEATHER – Things stabilized and we were back to some normal weather and sunshine, but seasons had definitely changed for the cooler. Daytime temps down to the mid-80’s and nightime to the 70’s. Pretty comfortable.

Then, Norma Hit. Much more potent and destructive than predicted. Almost 3 days of 8-15″ of rain. Huge surf and surge. 100+mph winds!

WATER – It had finally started getting blue again after the craziness two weeks ago when waters got hot and dirty (sounds like a rock song!). But, Norma has turned the ocean into a frothy looking morass that looks like whipped chocolate milk.

FISH HOOKED – Tuna, dorado, bonito, roosterfish, sailfish, sierra, pompano, trevally, and a random wahoo as well!

LAS ARENAS – Started to kick out a few tuna and the dorado came back pretty nicely. But live bait was non-existent. However, dead and frozen bait still produced.

LA PAZ – Definitely dorado-land! The fish were way way outside, but each day got closer. Until the storm messed it all up.

THE MEXICAN MINUTE VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Now, it’s Pacifico time! Carlos Sanabria, Dave Shaw and Juan Araya had a good opening day!

For many years, Judy Reber’s dad fished with us and his favorite Captain Victor before he passed. She came back with husband Mike and the three of them got a great run of dorado!

Just a great photo! First thing in the morning, Juan has a yellowfin on the gaff.

Mike Shaw with Captain Luis found the blue water and a good bite on the dorado like this one.

Dennis Gayman catches a wahoo right off the bat. We’ve only caught about 5 or 6 the whole season! Plus he caught this on live bait with no wire. A perfect hookset!

Rusty and Donny! Rusty has already been down to visit us earlier in the year and brought Donny down who had not fished with us for quite awhile.

A good first day for Mitch Gaymen and Ron Sierzaga.

A great way to spend a 14th birthday for Jackson Toeniskoetter with his Uncle Al fishing north of La Paz towards Espirito Santo Island.

Robert Hoffman and his son, Craig, with two legit yellowfin tuna, a trio of dorado and a trevally for the ice chest!

You love them until you don’t, but these big bonito like the one Mike has can be a handful and after hooking several, they can really beat you up. Lots of fun and their meat makes great bait for dorado although most get released.

Our first-time Arizona amigos Barrett and Dana Weinberger had some fun with Captain Jorge.

Mike Kloepfer and Steve Adams rocked a couple of hefty slug tuna their first day out fishing with our Las Arenas fleet.

Craig Hoffman with one of the larger bull dorado of the week!

Rob Hoffman with Captain Pancho. Rob battled this tuna for almost an hour on light tackle!

Big smile from Carlos and a great shot of his colorful dorado with Captain Luis!

Our long time friends, Bob Layko and Craig Brown, come to see us almost every year and they’re great fun. They love fishing with Captain Armando.

Love John Cain’s fishing shorts! Oh…and a nice tuna to go with them!

Good start to the day. Craig Hoffman with a tuna on the gaff!

Judy and Mike took back a nice load of dorado meat after fishing with Captain Victor for 2 days!

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This was like two completely different weeks.

We started out well. Coming off that horrible 10 days around the last full moon when we had some of the worst fishing of the year, things had started to really get back up to speed.

Waters started to clear and get bluer. The weather mellowed out.

Most importantly, the fish started to bite again. Our Tailhunter La Paz Fleet started to find those great schools of dorado again. Additionally, instead of running way far to get the blue water, the schools started getting closer to town again and they were fine 10-20 pound fun fish. Even caught a random wahoo one day (on bait with no wire!)

Our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet still had trouble finding any live bait, however, using dead and frozen bait as well as tiny tiny live sardines, the fish came to bite! Every day a few tuna were hooked. Most boat got limits or near limits of schoolie dorado. We even hooked a few sailfish (all released) as well as pompano, sierra, bonito, trevally and a few surprising roosterfish.

Things were really looking up as we headed into the last part of the season.

Until…

HURRICANE NORMA

Initially, “Norma” was just going to be another tropical storm. We figured maybe a few hour of rain. No biggie.

But, offshore and to the south, it gained considerable power growing to a Cat 4 Hurricane that barrelled into Baja. It lost a little steam, but still hit us with Category 1 forces. In fact, it pretty much rammed into Cabo then barrelled directly over La Paz.

@cabolife

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Norma rolled over us and it turned into one of the worst storms I’ve seen in almost 30 years down here. I’ve been through 16 hurricanes now. Some back home in Hawaii, but most while living here in Baja.

Most storms hit and move on after a few hours. Norma sat on us for almost 3 non-stop days and it was the constant hammer blows by 100 + mph winds plus 8-15″ of constant rain that just took it’s toll. She was violent, ferocious and nasty.

Turn up the sound!

Roofs flew. Walls tumbled. Trees were ripped by the roots. Extensive flooding. Airports closed. Sinkholes developed. I’ve never seen waves hit the Malecon that were splashing as high as the palm trees and throwing water and debris completely across the street.

Many of us lost all power and water. For us about 12 hours but some areas of the city for 24-36 hours.

We lost the front palapa of our Tailhunter Restaurant. Just ripped completely out of the concrete. It probalby weighed close to 1000 pounds.

There were landslides and from the cliffs. Trees fell on cars. Many of the boats in the marina were sunk or washed aground with extensive damage.

And of course, lots and lots of flooding. Jill and I spent two full night doing bucket, towel and mop brigade work as the massive force of the winds literally forced water through every window crack, cranny and door space and our floors (and others ) were covered in inches of water.

As you read this, we’re digging out. The winds are still blowing, but it looks like the sun is gonna be out all week. Not sure when we’ll be able to fish just yet. The port captain still has the port closed to boat traffic and the ocean looks like muddy chocolate froth and waves.

Thank you everyone who wished Jill and I well. Everyone is fine. Just alot of clean-up to do. Things to fix. Electricity to figure out. We got this. Still blessed!

That’s our story!

Jonathan and 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 Oct. 6-13, 2023

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WARM WATER FISHING AND SEASON COOLING OFF

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Oct. 6-13, 2023

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT

WEATHER: It has been erratic to say the least. Definitely cooling down a bit. Mostly now in the high 80’s during the day but feels hotter because of the humidity. Hurricane Lidia didn’t hit us, but it did send some torrential rain one afternoon with big floods. Winds and even waterspouts showed up this week. Cooler? Yes…I’m wearing a sweatshirt as I write this!

WATER: Overall, definitely rougher. More wind. Waters are hotter than normal and very very off-color requiring we find blue water to be able to fish. As the week went on however, each day got a little bit better as the waters cleared up.

SPECIES HOOKED THIS WEEK: Dorado, bonito, sailfish, jack crevalle, roosterfish, pompano, snapper

LAS ARENAS FLEET: It’s been the toughest two weeks I have ever seen. Waters are cloudy and hot. I think there’s very little oxygen in the upper layers and the fish have gone deep. Plus hurricane Lidia to the south of us pushed up waves and winds and more crazy water. Very little bait. Hope this changes soon. I’ve never had days where there were literally no fish. Just before this report, however, we started getting clearer water and the bite improved.

LA PAZ FLEET: Once we found the blue water way way up past Espirito Santo Island, we also hit the dorado again.

MEXICAN MINUTE VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Even Captain Boli gets a smile over Kenny Nishimura’s dorado caught near Espirito Santo Island. After the slow-down two weeks ago, fishing started to rebound for the dorado.

Two of our long-time Tailhunter Fish Brothers…Brad Baker and newly retired Jim Adair.

Two of our besties! John and Arla Washington from Reno come to visit us each year for their anniversary.

Alan Paonessa and his sister, Dru Toeniskoetter take a nice pose with a pair of dorado on Bahia Muertos Beach.

Kenny Campbell and Angelo Oliverio have visited us for years. The retired firefighters got a nice bull on the gaff among others! Ken’s in Arizona now and Angelo is in S.Cal.

Jim Bovee our San Diego, amigo, loves dorado fishing and this is his 4th trip this year to see us. Despite the rough weather, he still managed a nice rack of fish.

First-timing with us, Matt Malone, had a banner 3 days of fishing and went home with a nice batch of dorado fillets like this one with Captain Pancho.

Julie and Travis Millspaugh from Washington bring their extended families to visit us almost every year. Even with the tough fishing, they never lost the smiles.

Captain Hugo with David Wakabayashi and Gary Okamoto from the Sacramento CA area have visited us many times over the years and found a couple of dorado and a slug tuna even with the fishing being a bit sticky.

Crazy for it to be October, but we’re catching quite a few pompano which are usually caught in the spring like this one that Kenny Nishimura caught. The waters are cooling off.

The big bonito we have right now are either a super prize or a big PITA! They are vicious fighters that can beat the heck out’ve any angler. Brad Baker has a sample.

You’ve heard of “air guitar?” Colby Harris with his mom, Brenda takes a pose with “air dorado.” He just applied for college. They’re from Arizona.

Our amigo, Dana Milano, was out with Captai Raul and found a good jag of dorado north of La Paz near Espirito Santo Island.

Angelo and Kenny again. Kenny has one of those pretty all-blue dorado that we’ve caught a few times this season.

The Harris family had just one day to squeeze in some fishing. Sienna, Colby, Brenda and Neil did a line up with some of their dorado. Each boat got a nice limit.

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I’m not even sure where to start this week.

This fishing report will be all over the board and possibly as difficult to understand as the weather and fishing the past week or two…

I will say this. We’re hopefully emerging from some of the worst/ strangest fishing and conditions that I have ever encountered in some 30 years down here.

The genesis of this was about 2 weeks ago. We had a tremendous full moon which, in and of itself, is usually not a big deal. But this one created huge current and tide swings. Coupled with increasing winds as the seasons changed had a big effect.

Moreover, we had several big tropical storms…short but powerful coupled with big waves and a huge up-welling of tremendously warm water. Surface temps were unbelievably in the high 80’s!

What happened was that the waters turned murky and dirty. A huge plankton bloom went off. Apparently this chased to fish to other areas and also depleted the oxygen supply in the upper layers of the water columns. Fish went deep or just refused to eat. Live bait disappeared.

It was like the ocean had turned into a barren aqua desert!

I’ve never had so many boats coming back with zero fish! ZERO FISH! Think about that.

Sure, every now and then a boat has an off day. It happens. It’s fishing. But, they’ll tell me they caught some bonito or jacks or had a day of needlefish.

But we actually had boats coming back without even a single bite! Plus we had to resort to using dead bait, frozen bait or chopped bonito or squid to even make it through the day.

We went from having one of the best fishing seasons ever to a non-existent fishing season almost over night. On top of that, it was evident that the seasons started to turn. Normally, things start to cool down about the end of October or the beginning of November. But, it’s hard to deny that the northern winds are already starting to blow hard. It’s hard not to notice that the air temperatures and humidity are dropping. It’s hard to ignore that we have started to catch cooler water fish species now like sierra and pompano.

So, everything was pretty much dead in the water…no pun intended.

Oh, I almost forgot. We had Hurricane Lidia. It started to head out to the Pacific. It then made a crazy right turn right towards Mexico. It ramped up to a Cat 3 tempest and fortunately did not hit Baja directly. Instead it went to and crashed into Nayarit.

Still…some of those hurricane arms came over us and dropped some heavy rains and crazy weather on us. We got some big-time flooding.

Amazing how many people try to drive through the floodwaters.

Uh yea…30 minutes of torrential rain and wind do a number on our waterfront. Then the sun pops out again!

We had sunshine that would suddenly turn bleak and ominous.

The view from Bahia Muertos where we launch is looking kinda foreboding.

We even got some dangerous-looking waterspouts that had boats running in the opposite directions understandably. Then, it would disappear the and sun would pop out again.

Yeow! 6 waterspouts were seen this day.

However, little-by-little we started getting some breaks. The captains worked hard. The fishermen hung in there and kept their smiles and patience. And little patches of blue water started to emerge.

With the blue water, there were some decent biters or dorado again. Even a few tuna popped up as well. Still not up-to-speed, but at least boats started to find fish and some fish were making it into the fish boxes.

So, as of this writing, it looks like every day there’s a little improvement. We can only hope. There’s still a few weeks left of the formal fishing season before the big winds and big seas crash into us so I can only hope that it holds off for a little while longer. It all showed up several weeks too soon!

But, bottom line…I’ve never seen so many variables collide at one time affect the fishing so adversely.

That’s my story!

Jonathan

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of Sept. 29-Oct. 5, 2023

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WHAAAT? BITE GRINDS TO A VIRTUAL HALT!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Sept. 29-Oct. 5, 2023

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT

WEATHER: Noticeably cooler. Less humidity. Lower temps. MORE WIND. I’m afraid that the season changed on us about a month earlier than normal. The northern winds of winter have started too soon. Not to mention, a HUGE FULL MOON that wouldn’t go away. Hope it was just the full moon.

WATER: It was like someone switched things off. Waters went from blue to incredibly green and murky overnight. Usually, it’s because the waters got colder. but this is weird because the waters got WARMER! It’s almost like we had a secondary plankton bloom. The fish decided not to bite. Waters are HOT…86 degrees!

FISH HOOKED THIS WEEK: Dorado (fewer). Sailfish (fewer). Tuna (fewer). Pompano. Bonito. Cabrilla. Snapper. Some roosters. Tough pickings!

TAILHUNTER LAS ARENAS FLEET: Like night and day. It virtually shut off. Bait disappeared. Green dirty water that was so warm that it seemed like the fish all went deep and stayed there or decided not to bite. Caught a few pompano, a few dorado, bonito. A tuna or two and pargo.

TAILHUNTER LA PAZ FLEET: Went from super great to having boats coming back with almost nothing a few days. Not even a bonito or needlefish. Started to pick up again as the full moon waned and our captains found some rare patches of blue water. But now northern winds are increasing making it tough to fish.

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

This lady can fish! Lisa Hicks from Washington has been visiting us for years and despite tough fishing managed several nice dorado like this one fishing with Captain Victor, her favorite.

Wow! Another good-sized rooster caught when they SHOULD NOT BE HERE! Roosters are spring-time fish our long-time amigo, Jeff Sakuda with his favorite Captain Jorge got this beauty right off Punta Perrico. Jeff released the fish as well!

Our Denver amigo, Joe Hicks always bring his two boys, Hudson and Marco down as well as family friends. On the beach at Bahia Muertos with some of their catch. Joe is the one without the shirt!

There could not be a happier character than 88-year-old Raymond Ahner who lives in Yosemite. Love this gent and he said he wants to keep coming back until he has the record of being our oldest fisherman ever!

Tuna were few and far between this week, but Bob Pair got one. He’s been with us for many years!

Tammy Cousins from Oregon just wanted to catch “One dorado please!” She did better than that with Captain Luis, but this is a photo of her FIRST dorado!

Brothers-in-law, Adam Florence (Topeka KS) and Jim Bailey (San Diego CA) got some nice variety on the table including a barred pargo and dorado and a slug 68-pound yellowfin tuna that Jim battled dogggedly for over 90 minutes before getting it to the gaff!

When Al Jones comes down each year from his ranch in Idaho he’s always way fun. He wanted at least one tuna and got it fishing with Captain Gerardo.

Crazy to be catching pompano this time of year, but Hudson Hicks got this one. He’s headed off to college next year and has been visting us with his dad for several years.

Robert Peterson and a doardo on the gaff. Just a great photo . Suitable for framing! Great smile!

Whoa! When I first saw Robby Peterson’s fish it was so big, I thought it was a giant trevally (GT!). But it turns out to be a massive pompano! Great eating!

Andy Hall…our firefighter amigo who gets called to emergencies around the country visits us each year got himself one of the rare yellowfin tuna this week!

Pretty bull dorado for Marlene! She always fishes with Captain Pancho and had to work hard this week to even get this dorado. But, she never stopped smiling and fishing!

Marianne Sugawara has been fishing with Captain Jorge since…well…since before I had hair! LOL. Nice dorado, Ms. M! She filled the empty space in the chest this time with tamales to take home!

This is a super photo! Brian Guetz caught this good-looking roosterfish not far off Punta Arenas. Catch and release!

It’s our own photogenic Lisa Hicks showing off her barred pargo!

Neil Gansebom was with us this year and had a good day finding some blue water and dorado like this one north of La Paz outside the bay.

Jeff and Captain Jorge! Great shot and nice fat barred pargo for the ice chest!

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It was one of the strangest periods of weather and fishing that I can remember in almost 30 years down here. It was also one of the ugliest.

In the span of a day, things changed from one of the best fishing seasons ever…to suddenly fish zombie-land…ZERO FISH!

I’ve never seen this happen. My captains tell me they’ve never seen this happen. The ocean turned into a liquid desert. No birds. No fish. No bait.

Every now and then sure, a boat comes back and had a slow day. Maybe they missed the bite. Maybe they were just that one unlucky boat. It happens. But, usually, they tell me they still caught bonito or needlefish or a pelican or SOMETHING!

I actually had boats and anglers coming back telling me they didn’t catch or hook a thing!

It wasn’t like things just tapered off a bit or diminished. It was like someone threw a switch!

What happened?

Well, almost overnight, waters went from blue to green and cloudy. Usually that happens because the waters get cold. This time the waters got HOT! Waters were up to 86 degrees on the surface!

It was almost like there was a secondary plankton bloom. Or maybe the waters were so hot there was a lack of oxygen. There might be some creedence that. When there was no fish on the surface, some of the captains tied on sinkers and hit dorado 200-300 feet .

Let me say that again…DORADO at 200-300′ down! None of us have ever heard of that. Dorado are surface fish and we don’t do deep water fishing like that anyway.

The other issue…a big one…the live bait disappeared! If you got a handful of live bait, you were lucky. We resorted to dead bait, frozen bait and even squid.

OH…by the way, we also have the biggest crazy full moon…ever! And it stuck around the WHOLE week. Did the full moon cause all this or is all of this because of the full moon?

All we can do is wait and see how fishing is once the full moon disappears. I will say that things seemed to pick up a bit as the full moon dissipated. I hope it continues because we still have a few more weeks to go of the regular season.

And that’s the other thing. Usually, we can count on the weather to hold until at least the end of October or the beginning of November. That’s when the northern winds start to blow.

And they usually keep blowing until April or May. We stay off the water. Only the windsurfers and kite boarders love it. But that doesn’t usually start for a few more weeks.

Well…I gotta tell you…the northern winds seem like they already started. Waters are getting rougher already.

Again, a big effect on the fishing. Just a huge combination of alot of things:

Big full moon
Dirty water
Hot water
No bait
Northern winds
Rougher water

That was just too many punches in the nose for our fishing.

So, we got a few dorado. Some roosters. Pompano and jacks and some bonito and pargo and not a whole lot more. We can only hope that by the time you’re reading this we get back on track to some degree.

A big shout out to all our clients and friends and our captains who were on the water and visited us this week. It was really tough fishing. Our captains worked hard to find whatever they could find. Our anglers all hung in there and also worked hard and stayed patient. Not a single person complained or lost their smiles. We were awfully grateful for that. Cheers to all of you and hung tough!

Sorry this isn’t the usual glowing report, but gotta be honest.

Captain Luis turned a slow day into an outstanding day. He had his son, Dylan, with him and took the guys out to one of our deserted beach. He took some of their dorado and made sashime and ceviche then dove for some fresh clams to have with the guys as well! No bad days!

That’s my story!

Jonathan

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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 Sept. 20-27, 2023

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SEASON STARTING TO CHANGE AND COOL EARLY?

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Sept. 21-27, 2028

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT

WEATHER: Thankfully another nice week without any surprise tropical storms. Just clear blue skies. Seems to be cooling off a little as well which could be good or bad. Maybe the seasons are already starting to change. Humidity has gone down a bit. Daytime temps in the mid-90’s mostly.

Keeping an eye on the winds which are staring to blow stronger from the north which means yea…things are going to start cooling off and rougher waters.

WATER: Not sure if it’s a permanent thing, but good blue waters started to get a bit murky. Probably from increased winds. Patches of cooler water are starting to show up.

Bait was harder to get and find for the first time all season which is of concern. Maybe just an anamoly. Hope it is.

SPECIES HOOKED THIS WEEK: Dorado / tuna/ sailfish/ roosterfish/ cabrilla/ snapper/ pargo/ pompano/ trevally/ marlin/ triggerfish/ bonito

TAILHUNTER LAS ARENAS FLEET: Still the most variety. Not as many dorado as before, but that could be because most folks wanted to chase the tuna. The tuna bit got tougher as the week went on. Fewer tuna, but they got bigger and meaner! It might also be because the bait got tougher to find. Sailfish popped up and they’re bigger than normal. Also, wahoo as well. Long way to the island to find bait was an issue.

TAILHUNTER LA PAZ FLEET: Still the best spot to jump on some fun dorado fishing. Most fish 5-20 pounds and schooling. Big bonito and a few sails also bit. Had one day where the fish seemed to disappear.

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Whoa!!! Captain Armando helps our amigo, Leonard Post, from Oregon with a big sailfish he hooked…tried to photo…and ultimately released!

A nicer fatter and chunkier grade of tuna overall. Lots of fun, but they can also beat you up too!

First day out from Florida, Carol Geiger sticks this massive headed bull dorado. WOW!

Tim Gardner (at the head) was out with Captain Gerardo and battled this pig yellowfin tuna over 2 hours, but got it to the boat finally.

Tim Herald brought his 15 merry amigos from Kentucky and Arkansas out and absolutely did NOT want to catch a tuna. He went for a dorado and instead battled his personal best tuna that slugged it out almost 2 hours with him.

This is a GOOD day! Our first-time visitors from Texas, Mitch and Amanda Andrus have a rack of dorado and tuna that needs to head to the freezer!

Our very own Tailhunter’s Maite Palacio had never fished. She had never been on a boat. Her VERY FIRST FISH is a WAHOO!!!

The Okazaki Brothers from S. California have been visiting us for years and had their best trip with a nice batch of tuna as well as a few days of dorado.

More new Texas friends! Sharon and Tommy Purefoy get a hand from Captain Jorge on Sharon’s big bull.

North Carolina in the house. Hall Evans and Chuck Weber with Captain Jorge and an assortment of tuna and dorado.

Crazy to catch big roosters this time of year, but check out Jeff Geiger’s rooster! Legit! Jeff is from Florida and released his fish.

This is a BIG tuna! Chris Andreson is about 6’5″ and this 80 pounder pulled for all it was worth for 2 hours.

Arturo Becerril is also part of our Tailhunter Team and was so excited to get out on the water for the first time fishing and had great fun on dorado, tuna and feisty bonito!

Jonathan Geiger loves to fish and was able to check roosterfish off his list caught right off the beach at Las Arenas. He released his catch too!

Veternarians in the house! Paul Drewry from Michigan and his fishing buddy, Ed Kahil from Texas came to visit us for the first time and had a hoot. Check out their catch!

They call themselves the “Montana Virgins.” Our dear amigos, John and Sharon Virgin from Montana are never a dull moment whenever they visit. They took alot of meat home like these dorado and tuna!

Captain Victor grimaces trying to help Melissa Dean with one of her tuna! We had a fun week with Melissa, her husband and their friends from Texas and Louisiana.

Captain Hugo has his work cut out for him cleaning up these tuna for Jeff and Jonathan Geiger . Nice load!

More of our Montana friends, Deana and Larry Wilson with their favorite Captain Pancho.

Captain Armando with Leonard Post and Dave Lindell who have been with us many times and each got a tuna this day.

Heck of a good day for Ken and Melissa Dean with Captain Victor. A trio of nice tuna and a sailfish that they could not release and generously donated the meat.

Tim Herald’s guys from Kentucky started their 3 days with a hefty catch of tuna and dorado!

Another nice spread of fish. Filets for the ice chest coming up!

Les Bek visited us last year, but his son Kevin wasn’t able to make the trip until this year. Nice start with a couple of tuna, a white bonito a dorado and a big pompano!

Jim Andrews has some colorful dorado on the table and a huge triggerfish with Captain Armando.

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Summer just turned into fall!

We definitely have a tuna season for once…of sorts!

This is the most extended run of tuna that we’ve had in years. And everyone wants a shot at the tuna. EVERYONE! Until they get one. After one or two fish, it’s not unusual for some of our anglers to pull the plug and say, “No mas!”

For good reason.

When this all began, the tuna were legit 20-25 pound fish. Not footballs, but fun-sized tuna that fight hard but don’t lay waste to the anglers. Fun fish!

There have been fewer fish lately, but they have gotten bigger. Some of the fish are easily 40-80 pounders and some even larger. These are the kind of fish that can hurt you. We’ve had some anglers on the fish 1-3 hours. And then LOSE the fish. So you get broken line AND a broken heart!

There seem to be fewer dorado, but that could also be because more folks are chasing the tuna. But there are definitely dorado around. Maybe the biggest issue might be that live bait has gotten a bit harder to find lately plus possibly the season is changing sooner than expected and waters are getting colder and northern winds are starting to ramp up about a month earlier than normal. We’ll have to keep an eye on it and will keep you posted. We’ll know more as time goes on.

Actually, we’re finding some real cool patches of green water and the fish got sticky a few days (Not to mention a big fat full moon too!) It bares watching for sure.

Anyway…

Some nice surprises this past session with more sailfish on the chew. They are much larger than I’ve seen them in years. Mostly our sails run 70-100 pounds. Most of the ones now are well over 110-130 pounders. Mostly also, we’re able to release them all with a few exceptions and in those cases the anglers donated the meat.

Still got some of the larger roosterfish popping up. Generally, we don’t have the big roosters this time of year, but some 30-50 pound fish keep showing up, often when the folks are trying to catch dorado.

As well, some pompano and trevally have hit the decks as well. Normally, we get these in the spring. Maybe cooler waters starting to show up? We’ll see and keep you posted!

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/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of Sept. 12-19, 2023

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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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. 11-18, 2023

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HURRICANE HILARY BUMPS INTO US

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay / Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Aug. 11-18, 2023

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT

WEATHER: Before the storm, it was up to the mid-to-upper 90’s and humid. Has gotten just a tad cooler since the storm arrived, but humidity is higher and the air is very heavy and wet. Forecast keeps changing. Maybe 1-2 days of rain expected, but more worried about the winds from Hilary. It will be in the 20 mph range here…enough to keep us off the water, but outside, I hear it’s blowing triple digits.

WATER: The bay is calm, but outside it’s a washing machine you don’t want to be in. Had some folks in a sailboat tell me they had 20-25 foot swells.

FISH HOOKED THIS WEEK: Dorado and more dorado. One tuna hooked and lost. One billfish hooked and lost. Most likely a big striped marlin. Smaller roosterfish, jacks, bonito, rockfish inside.

LAS ARENAS FISHING: More variety of species, but not as many dorado. However, some of the larger dorado were coming up here.

LA PAZ FISHING: Dorado are as close as the tankers anchored in the bay!

NOTE: Saying it over and over. Our best part of the fishing season is also the time when we could see storms. Usually NOT a big issue, but you need to purchase trip insurance. Storms are part of fishing and there’s no refunds for weather-related cancelations, but the trip insurance will also help cover cancelled or delayed airline flight/ hotel rooms/ activities, etc.

MEXICAN MINUTE VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG (LACK OF) PICTURES and the REST of the STORY…

Hilary’s angry eye moving up!

Jimmy Williams knows how to pose with a big dorado!

Captain Armando was out with Andrew Fernandez at Bahia Muertos.

Daniel Bovee rocked a couple of nice mahi as well. Daniel visits us several times a year.

Well…the fishing continued reall good…until it wasn’t.

And it has nothing to do with the fish leaving or anything like that.

It’s THAT time of year and little storm “Hilary” turned into a Category 3 tempest with 165 mph winds, rain and big seas. The good news is that it’s NOT hitting us directly. It’s not punching us right in the nose. However, it has long arms and those arms are giving us a nice glancing shove.

It’s enough that we’re getting rain and wind and unfortunately is shutting down the fishing for anywhere from 1-3 days depending on how fast this storm moves through and whether the La Paz Port Captain allows any boats to go out.

It can’t be avoided. It’s just part of this wacky-weather that’s all over the place these days although tropical storms are not unusual down here especially this time of year. It’s our best fishing, but also the greatest chance of a storm. You just never know.

Actually Hilary appears to be headed right towards S.California which might get a taste of a real hurricane.

At time time I’m writing this, Hilary is several hundred miles to the south of us, but is already generating winds up to 140 mph and up to 20 foot seas into the Sea of Cortez. Definitely not the kind of weather we want to be out in.

But, before that, we still had that great dorado bite going on that we’ve been experiencing for the last 3 months. The best dorado fishing that I can remember in 30 years. Still lots of 5-15 pound biters with an unusual amount of bigger 30-50 pound bulls. I only hope that after this weather passes, things will be back on track.

I have to apologize because if you know me and you’ve been reading my reports these 30-something years, you know that I always have a ton of photos.

Well…I don’t know what happened, but we’ve been having power outtages down here lately and somehow the flash drive where I stored this week’s photos got ERASED! Dangit, am so sorry and there’s not enough time to round up all the photos again. Many apologies. I guess for once, you’ll just have to see the few photos this week and also take my word for it that we WERE INDEED still catching dorado before the storm hit.

We’ll just have to see what’s on the other side of Hilary!

That’s my story!

Jonathan

Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter Sportfishing
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Tailhunter Sportfishing

755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico

U.S. Mailing Address: Tailhunter Sportfishing
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AND SO WE CLEAN UP AND SO DOES MOTHER NATURE!

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A SPECIAL NOTE FROM US!

NEXT REPORT MIGHT BE A BIT LATE…

FISHING KICKS BACK IN BUT

NORMA STOMPS US

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HURRICANE NORMA

WARM WATER FISHING AND SEASON COOLING OFF

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THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

WHAAAT? BITE GRINDS TO A VIRTUAL HALT!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Sept. 29-Oct. 5, 2023

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THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

SEASON STARTING TO CHANGE AND COOL EARLY?

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TUNA WAHOO BILLFISH ROOSTERS FINALLY JOIN DORADO!

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BAJA 1000 COMING TO TOWN – BEACH CONDO for RENT!

TROPICAL STORMS KEEP BUMPING US

(BUT THE FISH STILL BITE!)

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CRAZY WEATHER MIXED WITH CRAZY FISHING!

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WHEW!…THAT’S MORE LIKE IT!

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HURRICANE HILARY BUMPS INTO US

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