FISHING STILL PICKY ALTHOUGH NO STORM THIS PAST WEEK (FOR ONCE)
La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report for Oct. 19-27, 2o27
SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT
WEATHER: For once we didn’t have an impending storm on our shoulders. Weather sunny and pretty pleasant mostly, but still some hot days and pleasant evenings. But northern winds are starting to blow too and will become more consistent as the year rolls towards December. Daytime temps in the low to mid-90’s
WATER: Thankfully, not as hot as it was during August to most of October when it was in the 90’s. Now in the lower to mid-80’s. If it’s windy the ocean will kick up white caps. Other days calm until the winds start to blow.
FISH HOOKED THIS WEEK: Don’t be fooled by the variety. Fishing was tough. Sailfish, dorado, tuna, barred pargo, snapper, cabrilla, bonito, jack crevalle, dog-tooth snapper.
MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO FISHING REPORT
THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Mostly reef and rock fish for Marty Sering and John Grigsby, but all great eating plus a lone dorado along with the barred pargo and snapper.

Brent Hoshizaki came to visit from Canada and finally got to catch his first dorado after 2 tough days looking for them.

Captain Moncho helps a happy Wayne Riner on his first visit from Washington state with his first sailfish.

Two of our bestest amigos who visit us usually 2x a year and love fishing the rocks with Captain Pancho. They spent several days landing cabrilla, barred pargo, snapper and triggerfish.

Captain Pancho with our amigo, Leif Dover. They hooked the nice sail then spent 10 minutes pushing it back and forth to re-oxiginate the fish for a good release!

A big chunk of meat! Our amigos, Marty Sering and John Grigsby were with Captain Victor for 3 days and their last day got topped by this big dog-tooth cubera snapper.
Well…where do I start?
On the good side, this is about the first time I can remember in a many many weeks (or months) when we didn’t have an impendingly ominous storm on us or headed our way. We’ve had the whole gamut and pretty much almost gone through the whole alphabet of named storms. More than 20 storms recorded in the Pacific setting a record for the most turbulence in recorded history.
(Just for the record we’ve hit the letter “V” for storm names now and “Vance” is just to the south, but not predicted to both La Paz too much. But, I could be wrong…none of these storms has acted as predicted!)
So, air temps were a pleasant sunny 85 degrees on the average and water temps dropped finally after being in the 90’s for much of the last few months and chasing all the fish away. Temps have dropped into the low to mid-80’s.
On the bad side, it still hasn’t done a whole lot for our fishing. It’s still hit-or-miss and we’re struggling to be perfectly honest. Yes, there are fish to catch finally with some surprise varieties, but we’re working hard to find the fish or getting them to bite.
We suddenly have sailfish in the water. There’s a few scattered tuna here-and-there around Cerralvo Island. Every-now-and-then we find a small dorado or two.
There are some nice cubers (dog-tooth) snapper in the rocks along with triggerfish, barred pargo and cabrilla. A few bonito and jack crevalle also.
And that’s about it. It’s embarrassing. Usually, this time of year there’s 100% more action, but these last few months it’s been a desert made of water. Some boats get nothing. Some boats are lucky to have a fish or two or three. And that’s it.
Also, you can feel the season changing. The northern winds are starting up. Not yet full-time, but often by afternoons, they are blowing and sometimes gusting and kicking up white caps in the bay. Once they start up and blow consistently, the entire complexion of the air, water and fishing will change again often making it difficult to even get out fishing.
Just saying. Just being honest about expectations.
We’ll keep you posted.
BOOK IN THE WORKS
I could use a big favor…
I’ve had so many of you encouraging me to do this.
It’s been a project that has stopped and started and stopped and started for 4 years now.
After all these years and hundreds of stories and columns, I’m putting the finishing touches on what I hope to be my first book. It’s a compilation of over 20 years of writing. Lots of short stories and quick reads.
Many of you have written to me over the years commenting about my articles and I’m asking for a favor.
I’m kindly soliciting comments from you to include in the book. Basically, if you have something nice to say about my writing, I’d really appreciate a few sentences or a comment from you about it that I can submit to my editor for consideration. Just drop me an e-mail to: jonathan@tailhunter.com. Muchas gracias!
That’s my story!
Jonathan & Jilly
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