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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay / Bahia Suenos Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of June 22-29, 2026

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ALMOST LIKE SUMMER?

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report for Week for June 22-29, 2026

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT

WEATHER: Cooler than normal mostly in the low-t0-mid 90’s, but later in the week it kicked up another 5-6 degrees with a hot wind feeling more like summer. Problem is that strong unseasonal winds keep kicking up too hampering the fishing.

WATER: Cooler than normal. Patches of cold water on the surface and vertically as well. Really depends on whether the winds are blowing which can also make the seas alot rougher than they should be.

FISH HOOKED THIS WEEK: Striped marlin, blue marlin, sailfish, tuna, dorado, bonito, jack crevalle, pargo, snapper, roosterfish, dog-tooth snapper, pargo, sharks

THE MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO FISHING REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Captiain Moncho helps Andrew and dad, Charlie Mifsud after a good day with a singular marlin and two hefty bull dorado.

San Diego in the house! Maureen “Mo” Shinn had to be the happiest guest of the week. On her first visit here with her family, she had quite a week with several days of fishing . Nice dorado!

From Reno on their first visit, Sue and Brad Tucker fished for several days and on day 3, they battled this huge striped marlin. Maybe the biggest striper I have seen in years!

Steve Bryan is our “Roostefish King.” Every year, he comes down for about 3 weeks and all he fishes for is big roosters with his favorite captain Jorge Lucero. He has caught numerous big roosters. This year has been a struggle for him and everyone and and I was just about to concede that all the big roosters are gone. However, in the 9th inning of his 3 week trip, Steve finally hits a home run with this big-belly 100+ pound roosterfish! He releases all his fish!

Our long-time friends, Dave and Diane Kosnosky with grandaughter Jocelyn and Dave’s first marlin. Diane also got one that day that they were able to release. Joc lost a huge roosterfish right at the boat!

Three generations. Our long-time amigo for over 20 years, John Ehlers from Colorado brought grandson Tyler and great grandson Cooper (his first trip) to visit us! Young Cooper did not want to leave!

Andy Lauber hooked this big tuna on a light spinning rod and had a tough battle, but finally landed the slugger with Captain Pancho. Brother Jack poses along. Andy is from Louisiana. Jack is in Kansas. Great to see them each year and they bring about 2 dozen soccer balls for our charity to give to the kids!

Couldn’t be happier! Mo Shinn again. She had already battled 4 sharks when she hooked this striped marlin while fishing with Captain Armando.

There are the best times when it’s not about size or quantity, but making family memories! Damien Esparza from San Diego calls his sons “The Esparza Wolfpack” (Charlie, Augustine and Oliver) and is starting them young with big smiles and catching fish! They were with Captain Raul and had a fun day on the water!

Captain Hugo rocks again with Edwin Bird and Dave Andereson. Alot of meat…4 big yellowfin tuna and a big bull dorado!

Our favorite poster girl of the week is Jocelyn Trozelle from Washington. She always has too much fun down here and always a treat for us when she visits!

Jason Durst with his kids and one of their 2 days on the water with us. Nice catch of dorado for the freezers!

Brad Tucker gets a “hand” posing with his dorado. I think it’s Captain Armando!

While fishing with Captain Victor, Adrian Bailey and Eric Sabourin popped some hefty yellowfin tuna for the day and alot of fish cleaning for Captain Victor! Eric was celebrating his birthday with us.

Tyler Ehlers…trying to get a photos and a quick release of his roosterfish.

Mark and Jack Gentry with Captain Gerardo cradle a big pair of bull dorado!

He’s a few weeks away from starting high school and Carter Shinn was on his first visit to us from San Diego having a great time and showing off his first dorado. I think that’s Captain Armando giving him a “hand.”

Captain Pancho with Jack Lauber and a rarely seen white marlin taken off Punta Arenas!

Start ’em young! Cooper Ehlers first trip with dad and great grandpa to visit us. These are the best times forever!

Shane and Dave Woods from Santa Cruz CA with us for the first time landed this striped marlin with Captain Hugo.

Oh man…that’s alot of meat! Charlie and son Andrew Mifsud with a table full of yellowfin tuna and a couple of big bull dorado. Fishing with Captain Moncho.

Another dorado on the beach for some of Dave Wood’s guys!

Claire Shinn…just the sweetest cutest young lady to visit us ever! She told me “I’m living my best life here in La Paz!” Her first dorado! Claire lives in San Diego!

Andy and Captain Pancho with another marlin. Quickly released!

I’ve known Emily Duncan since she was about 4 years old! She’s now happily married living in Santa Barbara and still loves to fish. She apparently battled this tough jack crevalle for almost 20 minutes! It’s why the Mexican name for them is “toro.” (bull)

With us for the first time, Andy Vasquez was with Captain Victor and landed two dorado and this striper .

Jack Lauber with a pretty rooster…a photo…and then the release!

Matt Baranowski was here from Santa Barbara and poses with a colorful dorado while fishing off Cerralvo Island. Those aren’t mountains with snow in the background. They are a bank of clouds!

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Before I start a couple of caveats:

You’re gonna see alot of billfish photos. More than ever! These are just a fraction of the billfish we hooked this week. 90% of the fish either break off or the guests release them. When they decide to take them or can’t be released more-often-than-not the guests donate most or all of the fish to needy locals.
We are still releasing all of the roosterish
What you don’t see in the photos are all the sharks that were caught! The outside waters are full of more sharks than I have ever seen and our anglers are hookin up to a dozen a day. Some of the sharks have taken bites out’ve hooked marlin and dorado

So…let’s get started…

If you’ve been following the fishing reports for this season that I’ve been putting out every week or so, you know it’s been (pick one or more):

(a) Bad

(b) Weird

(d) Erratic

(e) All of the above

If you picked “e”, you would be correct. Did it get any better since the last report? I would say maybe yes. But I won’t fully commit to it. Read on and you decide.

On the downside…

We had some slow days. We had some windy days. We had some days when it was rough.

On the upside, we had some good fishing days. We had calm seas and blue water.

The problem is that there was no consistency. We had rough windy days when the fish bit . We had flat calm days when the fishing should have been good and the fish lock-jawed.

Some boats got fish and the boat right next to it got nothing. Not a nibble. Not a bonito. Not a needlefish. Not even a seagull or pelican. Every day there were boats that did well and others that struggled. I warn everyone that arrives that if you’re fishing with us several days, YOU COULD BE ONE OF THE BOATS that gets skunked one day. You COULD BE THE FISHERMAN that gets nothing!

On the other side, however, the next day you could very well catch the fish of a lifetime. Bottom line is that at the end of the trip, everyone catches fish. At the end of the trip, everyone who wants to bring fish home has fish to bring home.

Unlike normal years when there are alot of fish to catch, now, you might only catch one or two, but they could very well be huge. They could very well be trophies. They could well be the biggest fish you will ever catch in your life or something close to a world record!

If you have an off-day, it doesn’t mean you’re a bad fisherman. It doesn’t mean my captain was slacking or doesn’t know what he’s doing. It was just an off-day . Simple as that. Hang in there. Hold onto your shorts. You’ll be OK.

But, if you do get hooked up…hold on and strap in. Could be a lifetime fish!

This past week, just when I thought the big roosterfish had left, we had a few great jags of the big bruisers. Roosters running 40 to over 100 pounds apparently are still close up on the beach .

Dorado, are also of the larger variety with a typical bull going into the 40-pound range although more schoolie-sized fish are starting to show up finally especially north of La Paz and around the islands.

Tuna have been shifty, but when they show up, especially outside of Cerralvo Island they are beating folks up! The fish have gone 40-80 pounds and many larger ones are getting lost. We saw some fish that would’ve gone 100-150 pounds and there have been battles up to 2 hours just to fight and land the “smaller” tuna.

Additionally, in more than 30 years down here, I have never seen so many marlin, sailfish and sharks in the water. Some days, every boat is hooking 1-6 of some or each of these species and getting released or breaking off. For sure, we release all the sharks or quickly cut the lines, but in some cases, we have sharks take bites out’ve hooked marlin and dorado!

I had one day this past week where the guests came back with long faces telling me it was a “bad day fishing.” When I asked what happened, they told me all they could hook were marlin…1-3 per boat. But, because they released them all and didn’t have anything to put in the ice chest it was a “bad day” fishing! 😳

No wahoo to speak of this week although wahoo were seen and hooked.

Bottom line right now is that if you have a line in the water, I can’t tell you what you’ll catch. We hooked one marlin about 50 yards from the beach. A sailfish was hooked in 10′ of water. A wahoo was hooked (but lost) fishing in the rocks near shore! Roosterfish are in 10′ of water!

BTW…Live bait is still an issue buying or catching it but you have to put in the time to get the bait or it’s going to be hard to catch fish!

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 June 13-21, 2026

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SCRATCHY FISHING AS WINDS COME BACK!

Paz – Las Arenas / Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report for Week of June 13-21, 2026

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT

WEATHER: Strange weather continues. Cooler than normal by 5-10 degrees. Mostly sunny, but the bad part is the winds that should have been over and normally are over by April continue to plague us and adversely affect the fishing.

WATER: It is highly mixed up. Should consistently be about blue and about 80 degrees everywhere. Instead there are cold patches, warm patches, blue patches, cloudy patches. If the wind is blowing can be very rough. Weirdest conditions ever.

FISH HOOKED THIS WEEK: Dorado, tuna, striped marlin, blue marlin, rainbow runner, roosterfish, cubera snapper, jack crevalle, barred pargo, trevally, pompano, bonito, jack crevalle, cabrilla, yellow snapper, triggerfish.

SCALE of 5-10: 4

THE MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Captains all agreed that Hunter Stuart’s big roosterfish was over 100-pounds. He was down here fishing with his dad, Mark, as a graduation trip. This big fish towed the 22′ panga as they battled it. It was released. They also got another over 80 pounds

Our Kansas amiga, Candy Bunyard is all smiles with Captain Gerardo and this gorgeous colorful bull mahi.

Beautiful great-eating tough fighting barred pargo off the rocks for Ryan Zugell.

First-time visitors with us Steve an Allison Thatcher with a pair of big bull mahi.

Becca works with animals at the Virginia Zoo. But, this big rooster is a different kind of beast! Caught and released with big smiles.

Good to have Scott Stromberg back visiting from Utah. Nice wahoo on the beach!

Not a bad day. Not alot of fish, but these are big bulls for Tanya and Dave Smith. First-time fishing with us and they did well. Good to have them here!

Jeff Haywood has been smiling all week with us and done great. He’s from Glendora CA and shows off one of his dorado. Check the rest of the report for some of his other fish.

Diego Jimenez from Colorado has been our Tailhunter friend and visiting us for about 20 years during their anniversary week. Always does well. On this particular day, they released one marlin; released a salfish, but could not revive this striper. They donated the meat. They were fishing with Captain Pancho.

Myzon Zimmermann with Captain Armando and another huge roosterfish for a quick photo then back into the water! Nice catch!

Captain Hugo put Jeff Haywood on several huge roosterfish including this huge rooster that could easily have gone over 100 pounds. Jeff released all his roosterfish.

Becca and Nathan Sexton from Kansas were on their first visit to us and had themselves some good fishing like this one day with 4 dorado for the freezer!

Nathan Sexton from Virginia with a nice dorado to kinda match his shirt. Good fish!

Captain Jorge had the panga headed in at the end of the day when Dave Smith hooked onto this blue marlin just outside the entrance to the Bahia Muertos! We have hooked more striped and blue marlin this season than in the past 10 years combined.

Big bulls today! Kelly Jimenez has been catching big fish with us for many many years. This past week was no different. She’s such a fun and good fisherman with her husband Diego.

Barred pargo and more smiles from Jeff.

Henri Fourrier came all the way from N. Carolina needing to get just one roosterfish! Over 3 days he also got dorado and 3 marlin!

Tim Patry from Utah hit the jackpot on his first visit to us and hooked this massive rooster that was well over 100 pounds . The fish was released and Tim is having a fiberglass mount made for his home!

Yea, Kelly! You rock!

Doug Fulp and Jack Haynes were fishing with Captain Hugo who found a honey spot that produced 7 dorado their first day of fishing!

Captain Gerardo give a shaka sign over Billy Bunyard’s big yellowfin tuna! The slugger went 80 pounds. Billy is a bear and moose hunting guide in Alaska. His 2nd trip with us!

Terry Melhaff from Reno got the rooster he wanted. Pretty fish! Terry was able to release it to swim another day.

Dan and Oscar Zararte Brothers won a trip to fish with us off a donation we made to a yellowtail tournament in Ensenada. They make good use of 3 days of fishing. Check out the big dorado! The brothers are from the San Diego area.

Our bestie, John Washington has been part of our Tailhunter Family of friends for many years and it’s always good to see him down here. This 43″ dorado went home with John to Reno NV. He was fishing with Captain Pancho.

Mark Stuart from San Diego got his! Another big rooster maybe 80 pounder fishing with Captain Hugo. A photo and release!

Yes, there are other fish biting! Oscar and brother, Daniel, show off a couple of nice cabrilla caught over the rocks.

JD fished 3 days with us and his last day produced this sweet rooster for the photo and release .Always good to have him visit.

Candy and Billy…two dorado in hand and more on the cleaning table!

Just a great photo! Captain Armando with Sean Tomlin from Virginia who was visiting us for the first time. Big rooster in the shallows up against the rocks in shallow water! The gorgeous fish was released.

Maybe not as big as their roosterfish cousins, jack crevalle are mean fighters when hooked. Jeff battled this one right off the beach near Punta Arenas.

Somewhere behind the dorsal fins of this roosterfish is Amy Tomlin trying to get a good photo before she gets the rooster back in the water!

Ryann only had 2 days to squeeze in to try to get a big rooster! Day #2 paid off!

Nathan gets a hand with his rooster for the photo!

Shallow water fishing can be pretty productive near the rocks for fish like Mark’s trevally. Great eating and makes super sashime!

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Well…like I wrote in the last report, I can’t sugar-coat this. You can’t put lipstick on a pig. It is what it is.

And fishing is not real great right now. It continues to be erratic…up-and-down…and sideways. It is directly affected by the weather and the weather continues to be totally unpredictable.

Yes, there’s once again alot of great photos of big fish, but those are the highlights. We should be getting 4, 5, 6 or more fish PER PERSON PER DAY. Waters SHOULD be flat and blue. Temps should be HOT.

Instead, we’re mostly getting 1 or 2 fish per boat. But they can be monsters! Biggest fish I have seen consistently in over 30 years here. The dorado are bigger. The roosterfish are 50-100 pounds. We have hooked, released and busted off more blue and striped marlin the last month than I have seen in 10 years.

So, you might hook into only ONE fish on a given day. But, it could be a fish-of-a lifetime. It would be a trophy. It could be a world record (we had several roosters that might have been close to our world record 115 pound rooster). The wahoo have been 40-80 pounds. The tuna have been 60-over 200 pounds!

So, you might just have that one shot! If you miss it or aren’t ready…well…that’s your day.

Or, you COULD be one of the boats that gets absolutely NOTHING! Not a bite. Not a nibble. You are right next to another boat that is fighting fish all day. You get nothing .

It doesn’t mean you’re a bad fisherman. It doesn’t mean my skipper is bad or isn’t trying. That’s just the way it is right now. Hang in there. Everyone eventually is getting fish. Everyone is taking home fish that wants to take home fish.

Don’t get mad, angry or frustrated. I’m totally up -front with expectations. In 31 years here, I’ve never had fishermen actually get angry with me like I’m seeing the last few weeks. I have to tell them, it’s not ME. It’s not YOU! It’s not the captain!

I’ve had guests start telling me…”Well, this is what you should do. ” or “This is what your captain should try.” Or ” Why aren’t you doing this?”

Been at this most of my life, folks. We are ALL busting our backsides trying to find you fish. My skippers want to get fish as badly as you.

In every situation, by the end of the trip, eventually, they hung in there and got their fish. The boat that does great one day can get skunked the next day. And the boat that gets nothing one day is the rockstar boat the next.

It’s all affected by this weird weather. Winds should have stopped months ago, but there are days when it blows for an hour or 3 or all day or several days. Then it stops. The ocean gets rough when the winds blow and we’ve actually had to cancel some fishing because of the winds. The winds change direction day-to-day or even hour-t0-hour.

It affects the water as well in terms of clarity and temperature. Some areas are blue and warm. But right next to it is cloudy cold water. There can be cold water on the surface and warm water below or warm water on top and below that…I’ve had my scuba divers and snorkelers in wet suits tell me they have been shivering in some spots because it is so cold and they needed to get out’ve the water! Hard to believe in late June to hear that!

The conditions also affect getting live bait. Normally this time of year, it’s really easy. This year, it can take hours to hunt and peck to buy or catch bait. The bait spots keep moving. The type of bait keeps changing. So, a good portion of your morning might be just trying to get bait. It’s THAT kind of year. And the sardines we find are 2 inches long…can’t put them on a hook!

So I’ve just told folks to hang with the program. Let my skippers fish the way they know how and find fish. If you tell them you want roosterfish and get impatient and then say you want tuna…then change to marlin….you’re just shooting yourself in the foot.

Just be ready when that big boy hits. You might just have that one shot!

That’s my story!

Jonathan & Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter Sportfishing
www.tailhunter.comMexico Office:

Tailhunter Sportfishing

755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico

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

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of June 5-12, 2026

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WORST/ BEST FISHING EVER?

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report for Week of June 5-12, 2026

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN REPORT

WEATHER: Very erratic. Changes from day-to-day or even by the hour. Windy…calm…hot…cool…cold. Unpredictable and crazy. Big effect on the fishing.

WATER: Directly affected by the weather. Cooler than normal and some times very rough. Other times very flat. Can be clear blue or dirty. Strangest conditions I have ever seen.

FISH HOOKED THIS WEEK: Tuna, dorado, wahoo, roosterfish, blue marlin, striped marlin, sailfish, dog tooth snapper, yellow snapper, cabrilla, barred pargo, triggerfish, pompano, rainbow runner, amberjack,

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Now THAT’s a haul! No tiny fish for Ab and Ab Jenkins with Captain Armando!

Nice haul for the Millman family from Montana…Jonathan, Abby and Parker!

Gary Van Roekel with one of his roosters on the day for a photo and release.

Love this photo of first-timer Grant Grigsby from Oklahoma with this trophy cabrilla!

Captain Hugo with one of the TWO wahoo Jim Gibson and Bill Dargen hooked off the south end of Cerralvo Island. A nice tuna and dorado also on the cutting table!

John Eide with Captain Victor put this massive bull dorado on a handscale and it was just a shade under 54 pounds!

Yea…it’s a bit heavy after you’ve been fighting it and your arms are shaking! Esteban tried to get it off the deck for the photo!

Captain Victor and John Grigsby with his first (and fat) wahoo and a nice bull dorado as well. John was visiting us again from Kansas.

Our long-time amigo from Portland with Captain Pancho and a rooster estimated at about 80 pounds. Caught and released after the photo.

The Schultz family from San Diego, on their first visit with us, had a productive day on the dorado. Arnold Schultz with wife Crystal, son Austin and buddy CJ Surbey. They already booked a return trip for September!

This is a poster shot! Bob Peterson from San Diego just wanted one rooster…he got 7 over 2 days and 5 over 50 pounds and this one probably well over 80 pounds. All fish released.

Love this photo of young Hudson Millman with grandpa Ray Millman. Ray his fished with us numerous times from S.California, but Hudson came out to visit from Montana and helps young Hudson with his roosterfish before releasing it.

Mike and Kevin Vigil from Utah were part of the fun Kevin Shield group and started with a good run on 3 bull mahi for the day!

Texas in the house. Mark Hinds from Waco TX and Lee Barnett from Austin TX. visiting us for the 2nd time had a good start to the week!

All the way from Minnesota for just a quick 2 days of fishing, Pouyan Salehi brought his dad and son along and their first day was productive for big bull dorado.

The Dixon brothers had several days of big fish like this!

Captain Jorge was with Russ McLellan and Shaun Mulligan when Shaun hooked this big blue marlin on light tackle and battled it for 5 hours!

Roy Okimoto never stops smiling. Nice dorado right up against the entry at Bahia Muertos.

Terry and Terri Mehlhaff were visiting for the first time from Reno NV and are taking home a nice bit of meat after 3 days of fishing.

Esteban doesn’t get too many chances to get on the water, but made the most of it with a big bull dorado at at the end of the day this short fat wahoo! He told me a big blue marlin also busted the line!

Roger “Smiley” McCracken and Shelton Donnell…two of the bestest amigos to us at Tailhunter for more than 25 years! Both are from Oregon.

Carson and Matt…these two guys can fish! San Diego boyz and way fun. Good day on the bulls!

Always a great day when the youngsters get to pull on fish! Young Austin Shultz from Texas now living in San Diego with a sweet roosterfish. Caught and released. Well done, Austin!

Canada visiting us for the first time, Fraser Putnam was a hoot to have here in La Paz fishing with us. Pretty good day on the bull mahi!

Getting smacked in the face and hidden is Joe Treves from Beverly Hills getting some help from Fraser Putnam on handling Joe’s big 150 pound tuna! It’s a fat boy fish!

Just a great photo of Arnold Swartz with son, Austin, and best amigo, CJ…check out the big pompano and trophy cabrilla. They were with Captain Rogelio on the La Paz side fishing north of the bay.

Bob Peterson…just 1 of 7 big roosters! YEOW! Look at the calm water and how close to the beach they are! He was with Captain Pancho.

Gary Van Roekel battled this striper on light tackle that shattered his rod and he and Captain Efrain had to hand line the fish to the boat after an hour fight on the fish estimated at about 150 pounds. They were unable to relase the fish and donated the meat to the locals.

Our buddy, Andrew Harrison from Portland with Captain Victor and more dorado slabs to take home!

What a haul! George and Louie have been our Tailhunter family for decades. With Captain Victor…dorado..a striper marlin…and a big tuna!!! YEOW! Victor has some fish cleaning to do!

Happiest guy of the week…John Grigsby with the gaff and another big bull!

Ray Millman and grandson Hudson! Ray was just here 3 weeks ago with other friends. Then came back with family!

Big cabrilla in the boat for Tate Jennings! Great eating and this is a great trophy-sized cabby!

Tyson and Tim Patry were fun to have visit from Utah with a big group of great amigos!

Rusty with his big roosterfish. Quick photo then back in the water with it!

Alex went sub-surface with the spearguns and freedove for this big wahoo and then in the next photo a hefty amberjack. Great shots! These guys are great athletes diving down and holding their breaths while hunting!

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OK…here we go…good news and bad news.

Let’s do the bad news first and get it out’ve the way.

Fishing is not good. Fishing is not easy. So far, this has been one of the worst and most erratic seasons I have seen in 31 years here running our fishing operation.

Weather has been erratic. Totally unpredicatable. It should be hot and calm these days with a bit of afternoon breeze. Instead, we have cold mornings…warm mornings…windy mornings…calm mornings…flat seas…rough seas. Winds coming from the south, change to the west, change to the north. They can blow furiously. Then suddenly die. Then start up again for an hour. Then die.

Waters are blue and warm in some spots. Cold in others. We never got the sargasso bloom we expected.

This has all affected the entire fishing chain.

Bait can be extremely hard to find, get or buy. One day you get it. Next day you spend 2 hours looking for it or trying to catch it. One boat gets enough to fish. The boat next to it, can’t find anything.

So, right up the line…for catching fish.

Hard to do if you don’t have live bait or a limited supply. Gotta make every piece count. Or the baits are so tiny, they barely fit on a hook.

We are having to run for for bait. We are having to run abnormally far looking for fish. Again, we have some days where the fish disappear or lockjaw. Or one boat has an epic day and two other boats get goose-egged. Or the next day, the ocean blows up with fish.

Normally, this time of year, we should be getting limits or near limits of fish per boat. Anglers would be catching and often releasing 3, 4, 6, 8, or more fish each with a great mix. Now, the fish-per-rod count is about 1 or 2 on the average. Not so great.

Let’s get that out’ve the way right now. All the great photos in the fishing reports…those are all the highlight touchdowns and home runs on the Sunday night sports wrap up. You don’t see the foul balls, broken plays, fumbles, missed tackles, strikeouts and airballs. So, it LOOKS like great fishing. It’s not! You could come down and have some really junk days.

That’s fishing. That’s just the way it is right now.

NOW THE GOOD NEWS….

Everyone is catching fish. Everyone who wants to take home fish is taking home fish. In some cases they are taking home way more fish than they thought.

Why the paradox?

Well, you might not catch alot of fish. You might only catch 1 or 2 fish a day.

But, the fish you catch just might be the fish of a life-time. It might be the biggest personal best fish ever. It could be the biggest and longest fish-battle ever! You could hook into a trophy.

The fish are huge this year! They are on steroids!

Dorado are normally 5-15 pounds this time of year. Look at the photos! The dorado are runing 20-50 pounds. Last year, we barely had any dorado over 20 pounds. This year, 30-40 pound fish are the norm!

Tuna are usually football-sized 10-30 pounders. This year, there aren’t many, but we’ve taken a half-dozen fish between 100-200 pounds and several between 200-300 pounds that took hours and 2-3 persons battling the big fish.

Wahoo…we’ve caught more in the last 3 weeks than in the last 5 years combined. Like the other fish, they’re monster fish. Usually, they are 20-40 pounds. This year, we’ve had 50-80 pound wahoo.

Marlin are biting as well. So are sailfish. Striped marlin up to 150 pounds. Blue marlin in the 200-400 pound class. Sailfish over 100 pounds. More billfish this year than the last decade put together .(Most are getting released or busting off. We did have one get nailed by a shark as the angler was fighting it). We have several billfish break fishing rods in half!

Oh…and roosterfish…the small ones have been 40 pounds. The larger ones are pushing 100 pounds. Just off the IGFA record of 115 pounds. All are getting released so we’ll never know.

This does not begin to count the fish that are lost or broken off or released!

So, yes, everyone has fish to take home, but 1 or 2 of these beasts can easily fill an ice chest with huge slabs of meat! So, you may just have one shot at these fish so you need to bring your “A” game and be ready. You won’t get many chances!

Also, fortunately, most folks are fishing several days. So, you might have a crummy day or two, but then hit the honey hole on your other days. Just expect that there CAN be some bad days and keep hanging in there. The captains are working hard to put you on fish.

If you’re just fishing one day like some folks…well…then that’s your shot and hope for the best!

That’s my story. As honest as I can get it. I don’t wanna sugarcoat what can’t be sugarcoatesd. Just like putting lipstick on the proverbial pig. It’s counterproductive. But, if you don’t fish, you definitely won’t catch anything!

Jonathan

Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter Sportfishing
www.tailhunter.com

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of May 26-June, 4, 2026

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FULL MOON SLUGGERS

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report for Week of May 26-June 4, 2026

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN REPORT

WEATHER: It actually was cooler this week dropping down in the daytimes to the high 80’s or lower 90’s. Mostly sunny. Still dealing with problematic winds that should have dissipated over a month ago. Nights are still comfortable. Can be chilly and breezy in the mornings.

WATER: If the winds are blowing, it can be rough. Should be flat calm this time of year, but the winds keep popping up. Affects fishing as well as getting live bait.

FISH HOOKED THIS WEEK: Dorado, tuna, wahoo, striped marlin, blue marlin, sailfish, barred pargo, pargo liso, dog-tooth snapper (cubera), roosterfish, cabrilla, sierra, pompano, trevally, triggerfish, yellow snapper, jack crevalle, bonito.

FISHING on a SCALE of 1-10: 6

THE MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…(largest fishing gallery ever!)

Long-time Tailhunter fish brothers of ours…Jason Correia and John Stone from San Diego with plenty of dorado meat on the day!

Somewhere behind that dorsal fin is a very happy Sam Hernandez who finally got his big rooster! Fish was released. Maybe 80 pounds?

Captain Armando with Pepe Valdivia and Rich Glover from San Diego area on their first visit to us. Big dorado and a striped marlin that could not be released. They donated the meat.

Captain Pancho put Carlos Sanabria and Mike Shaw on the hat trick…a dorado…a wahoo and big yellowfin tuna! Carlos and Mike come every year.

Randy Choate…one of our bestest from Boise ID, spent several weeks with us. He already had the meat from a 230+ pound tuna and a bunch of huge dorado in our freezers. His last day fishing he went for “smaller fish.” Instead, he hooks this big blue marlin with Captain Julio!

These gents have been fishing with Tailhunter over 25 years. Roger “Smiley” McCracken and Shelton Donnell from Oregon hooked both these tuna at the same time with Captain Pancho and battled over 2 hours with fish pulling in opposite directions. Estimated 120-130 pound yellowfin.

Craig Wong…another big bull for the box. Caught at the buoys backside Cerralvo Island.

Twin brothers, Micah and Alex Cascone…Micah from Philadelphia and Alex from Orange Co. were with big group of friends for Alex’s bachelor party. Alex with the dorado and Micah with the unusual pargo liso (mullet snapper) which is usually a cold-water fish! Both tasty and ended up for dinner at our Tailhunter Restaurant.

All smiles. Captain Joel and Mike Shaw. Dorado finally starting to show north of La Paz.

Our flyfishers are having a tough time with the continuing winds and have persevered and been patient. Like Libby Wolfensberger from San Francisco finally got a rooster in the shallows.

Yea…even in this strange year…oversized wahoo south end of Cerralvo Island. All the fish seem over-sized this year. Not as many, but it’s quality over quantity. Captain Jorge lends a hand…and a thumb! Part of Alex Cascone’s bachelor group! Great guys.

Captain Gerardo has been hot putting guys on the big dorado like these 4 beasts ready to fillet.

Marty Levy cradles a big-girth roosterfish before releasing it after the quick photo.

Amigo, Al Beilstein has been with us many times and looks happy with this nice rooster or is straining to hold it for the photo. Either way, nice fish, Al! Quickly released too!

Trophy dorado! One more for the freezer for Mark Njaa from Reno NV area. His 2nd time with us.

Seb and Rich…two fun guys on their first trip withus…a striper and sailfish. Could not be released. With Captain Armando. Much meat was donated.

Captain Jorge with our attorney Ed Bull from Arizona and John Colborn a district judge in Nebraska. John isn’t smiling, but he was way funny here. His first time and Ed’s 2nd visit!

More of the great gang that came for Alex Cascone’s bachelor trip…look at the size of these bulls!

Micah Cascone really wanted that roosterfish. On the last day, after several days of catching other species, he finally got this nice fish for the photo and released it.

Smile says it all! First fish of the sunrise for Rich Glover. First visit from San Diego.

Captain Armando with Pepe and Rich…another day…more fish for the freezer!

Karen Scarpulla and Captain Moncho finally got one on the flyrod . Big continuing winds make it hard to get bait and throw the flyrod, but Karen and friends kept at it.

Bo Smith reserved this trip when he was in Japan! Not a bad way to start the fishing week. More big bulls!

Geoff Baynes was only able to fish a few hours, but made the most of it!

Roger and Shelton again…what a day. They still had 3 more days to fish!

Tatum Widmer and his dad, Treve got nice pair of mahi. Earlier in the week, Tatum battled his first marlin.

Jenn Devore and dad, Doug Fowler and her striper. Couldn’t be released and meat was donated. Jenn also fought a big blue for several hours before it busted of right at color next to the panga.

Pancho and Carlos Sanabria…striper! Quick photo and release!

Captain Hugo with Barb and Randy Choate with more slabs of dorado for the cooler! Huge bulls again!

Some nicer cabrilla and pargo hitting over the reefs now. Richard was with Captain Licho north of La Paz past Punta Coyote.

Gary Mouritzen pulled this big roosterfish just off the rocks at Punta Perrico. Photo and quick release with the big smiles! Gary is from San Diego on his first visit with us.

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YES YES YES!

I know this is a bit late. I’m getting e-mails and phone calls daily wondering what’s up or what’s wrong?

Listen…it usually takes about a day to put the report together. Doing the video takes about 3 hours…one take. No re-do. I turn on the camera. I shoot it. I throw it together, mistakes and all. it is what it is!

Since the last report…it has taken about 4 days to edit photos. I had over 200 fish photos to go through and edit! This is the largest weekly gallery I think I have ever had and you’re only seeing about 40% of the photos! There was JUST NO ROOM or TIME! I couldn’t wait longer to get the fishing report out! It had to go…

Oh plus, we’re running up to 20 pangas/day right now so lots of moving parts an 20-hour days!

So, apologies! I’m sorry it’s late and if you were fishing I’m sorry maybe your photo of your giant fish didn’t make it or I might have mentioned you were from Chicago instead of New Orleans! There are some honest mistakes! I was in a hurry!

So, about the fishing…

I’m still not going to say it was great fishing. That’s the double-dog honest truth. It is GREAT fishing for some incredible fish. I mean, look at the photos!

These are trophy fish! In 31 years, here, I’ve never seen so many BIG fish. Anglers are getting fish-of-a-lifetime. They are catching personal best fish. They are catching trophy fish . The are catching some fish that are close to world records! First-timers are getting giant fish that anglers would give a right arm to catch. We’re seeing epic battles with fish lasting 2…3…4…or more hours!!!

It’s incredible. My fish packing crew and I have been in the fish packing room for up to 5 hours each afternoon packing hundreds of pound of fillets. And this does NOT count the fish that break off…the fish they release…the extra fish they are giving away to captains and folks on the beach!

So…it’s been crazy!

But, here’s the reason why I say the fishing isn’t that great. For this time of year, we should be catching alot more fish. Maybe not so large, but surely alot more action.

For every boat that comes back loaded with giant fish…2 other boats got NOTHING! For all our Las Arenas fleet boats that are coming back loaded our La Paz Fleet boats continue to struggle to catch fish. So, not everyone is catching fish every day.

And boats that slam fish one day could blank the next day. Boats that get goosed one day could be heroes the next.

There are several reasons for that.

One is that the weather is still erratic. It’s hot. It’s cold. It’s flat calm. It’s breezy. It’s windy. Ocean is rough. Ocean is blue. Ocean is dirty. Take your pick! And this could all happen in a single day!

Right now, it should be flat, calm and hot.

But, every day…every hour things seem to change. And all of that effects the water conditions and ergo the fishing.

Secondly, bait is extremely hard to get. Again, affected by the compromised weather conditions. Sometimes, it’s taking 2 or 3 hours to find, buy or catch enough live bait to fish. That makes for a tough day. One boat can find all the live bait they need. The next boat can struggle all day.

So, it’s hard to have expectations every day that are consistent.

All I can say is that you gotta put a line in the water. If you don’t fish, you definitely won’t catch anything. You gotta just follow your captains lead. They’re trying like heck to find bait and find fish also! You can’t be jumping in a boat and say, “I want a wahoo!” or “I want a marlin.”

The fish we are catching are not targeted. It’s what’s biting at that moment…in that spot…at that time. Fish for roosterfish and catch a giant cubera snapper. Chase dorado and hook a sailfish. Chase giant dorado and a huge blue marlin or tuna hits. It’s an honest crapshoot.

More specifically, yes, the big roosterfish are still here. We’re getting fish between 40 and 60 pounds on the average, but some others easily in the 80-100-pound class! The problem is catching and spending the time to find the big lady fish to use for live bait. We are still releasing them.

Billfish…more than I have ever seen. We got several blue marlin between 200 and 300 pounds. One battle lasted 5 hours. Another was fought for 6 hours. Have never seen so many. Also striped marlin and sailfish being hooked as well. Most of the marlin and all the sailfish are getting mostly released, or if not much of the meat is getting donated.

Also, got a few more of the slugger 100+ pound tuna. No big bite, but if you can get ahead of a school of fast-moving porpoise, there are some beefy tuna running with them. But, hold on…expect 1-2 hour battles!

Same with wahoo. Some of the largest wahoo I have seen in these waters. Most of them coming off the north and south end of Cerralvo Island on jigs. But other guys are getting bit on live bait and getting cut off.

The big story is the huge dorado . All bulls. No females! Normally, this time of year, we should be getting limits of 5-15 pound dorado. Instead, if you get into them, you’re coming back with maybe 1-3 fish total. But, they could be 30-50 pound beasts! Or you get nothing!

Other species…bonito, jacks, pargo, amberjack, pompano, trevally, dog-tooth snapper, barred pargo…

Oh…AND ALL OF THIS ON A FULL MOON!

So, bottom line…there’s not alot of fish. But, there’s some really really BIG fish! If you’re fishing a few days with us like most folks…I think you have a good shot at catching one of the biggest fish of your life! But, you might have just one crack at it, so bring your “A” game!

That’s my (long) story and apologies again! I still have more fish photos to edit so some of them will have to be on the next report!

Cheers and best fishes!

Jonathan & Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter Sportfishing
www.tailhunter.comMexico Office:

Tailhunter Sportfishing

755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico

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

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of May 18-25, 2026

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WEIRD BIG FISH… NO FISH?

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report for Week of May 18-25, 2026

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT

WEATHER: Erratic. Anything from sunny and warm mid-90s daytime weather to cloudy day. The winds…never seen them so strong in May. One day they blow from HOT HOT HOT. Next day calm. Next day the wind are cold. We even had a rainstorm that was not predicted with lightning.

WATER: Dependent on the weather. There were times during the bouts of wind that it was very very rough. Other times, flat and blue. Surface temps around 80, but if the wind is blowing it can get tough to find patches of clear blue water.

FISH HOOKED THIS WEEK: Dorado, tuna, wahoo, marlin, sailfish, roosterfish, dog-tooth snapper, amberjack, cabrilla, bonito, jack crevalle, pompano, trevally, yellow snapper, triggerfish

FISHING SCALE 1-10: 4.5

THE MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO FISHING REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Triple-tag team! What a beast! Gary and Kirsten Holtberg and Captain Armando…they tossed their first live bait at 7 a.m. into the water. The big yellowfin tuna that many of my captains estimate at between 250-280 pounds bit and they battled it until after 12. p.m….MORE THAN 5 hours! They had quite a week. Scroll down for their other photos from 3 days fishing!

Randy Choate and wife, Barb, were with Captain Hugo at the buoys soaking a bait when this huge 100 kilo (220 pound) yellowfin bit both of their baits and took off! Both of them battled on 2 rods for over 2 hours to subdue the beast!

Another view of Randy’s large tuna with Captain Hugo

First time visit from Cian Stack from Reno and he had a great time. Nice bull dorado. Cian was on a quick vacation before heading back to start the football season where he’s the long snapper for the University of Nevada Reno football team!

Captain Hugo has been on a hot streak putting our folks om some big dorado like Steve and Grant! Alot of bull (dorado) for the ice chests!

Just one of many big big roosters caught by Brian O’Neil from Atlanta over 6 days on the water with Captain Pancho. All the fish were released!

That’s a happy fella! Captain Pancho and Eric Diegert from Eagle ID with the holy grail of fish here…a wahoo…taken off Cerralvo Island.

Brian Caughlin with us for the first time with a legit trophy cabrilla! Brian often runs the sport boats from San Diego and a good angler.

Just yards off the sand at Punta Arenas, Mark Bonsack with Captain Victor with another big trophy roosterfish for the quick photo and get it back into the water.

You gotta be kidding! Captain Armando and Gary Holtberg with a massive wahoo…maybe the largest I have seen in years estimated at about 80 pounds! Taken off the backside of Cerralvo Island.

It takes two! It was great to have Cian Stack and his dad, Chris come down to visit. They had 4 productive days and took some nice dorado like this one. The guys are from Reno.

Dr. Bruce Trapp with Captain Armando and his roosterfish. Bruce came all the way from Ohio to catch this one rooster finally! Photo and release to swim away strongly!

A good day and big smiles for Dean and Dawn Zamora visiting us for the first time from Idaho. They got some nice meat to bring home.

Brad Felger came all the way from Panama to take a shot at a rooster and got this fish estimated at almost 90 pounds. A quick photo and then a clean release for Brad and his prize!

Captain Gerardo doffs his hat to Doug Fowler and Tom Ames with two of their dorado after fishing with him.

One of the most delicious fish from our waters, Chris Stark was fishing with Captain Alfredo when he hooked this nice one!

First day out, young Tatum Widmer was with his dad, Treve when he hooked into this striped marlin for quite a battle. They were not able to release the fish and were with Captain Jorge. they also got the dorado you see on the cutting table.

That’s alot of rooster in his lap! Jim Stahlman with one of his 3 big roosters on the day. All released.

I think Randall Stitt was the happiest angler of the week! From San Diego, Randall was just tickled to be here and it was pretty infectious. Captain Rogelio stands behind him with a grin for the nice barred pargo.

Bruce Trapp came all the way from Ohio to hopefully get that one rooster! Here he is with his trophy with Captain Armando. The fish was released by Bruce!

Big smiles from Cian and an armful of roosterfish in the shallows off Punta Arenas. Cian released the rooster.

Mikel “Hawk” Hawkins from Texas was hoping to get at least one nice rooster and was with Captain Armando when he finally pulled on in! Photo and release! Great to have him visit!

Four marlin in 2 days for Gary and Kirsten. All but one released. Fishing with Captain Armando.

North Dakota in the house! Famed taxidermist, Brian Kadrmas, with his first of several bull dorado. Good to have him down. He fished alone, but comes back in 3 weeks with more friends!

We love Barb Choate from Boise ID. In all the years she has visited, she never stops smiling. All the more reason with Captain Hugo and this big bull.

Leif Dover has been coming 1 or 2 times for years to fish with us for a whole week and never fails to score big fish like this catch-and-release rooster. Just one of several he caught over the week. Leif is from Atlanta GA.

Mark Bonsack with a bull dorado for the box! Mark is from Cle Elum Washington and has been fishing with us for years.

Jim Stahlman from Idaho has been visiting us for years and this trip wanted to get at least one big rooster. He got three of them with Captain Jorge like this one and released all of them.

Two handed dorado for Cian on the beach at Muertos!

A good start on day 1 with 3 dorado for Mark and Mason Njaa. Good to have them back! They had 3 days of big dorado!

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No sense in sugar-coating it. Not my style after 31 years down here.

The fishing this past week and so far this season has been pretty sketchy. I’l even go so far as to say it has been bad. Not that doesn’t mean it will stay that way…this is (after all)…Baja! But, holy cow, this has been a strange and unpredictable season so far in these early weeks.

You would think that with all the great photos this past week, fishing has been crazy good. It’s not. To be blunt, it’s not great fishing. It’s unseasonably poor.

Yes, there are some spectacular catches of great fish…even historical catches…like the 200+ pound tuna this week or the 80-pound wahoo and all the giant dorado. But, for every boat that gets that trophy, there’s several others that get nothing. Not even a bite. Not even a pelican or seagull!

How is that happening? In 31 years, I’ve never had a start of the season like this one.

Also, for all the big fish you see, that could be the ONLY fish on the boat that day. So, if you hook up, it could be the catch of a lifetime. If you break off or lose it, well…that’s kind of the end of your day. You fishing buddy, might not get a bite.

Also, things change from day-to-day. Nothing is predictable.

A hot boat one day can go ice cold the next and vice versa. A hot spot of fish one day, can turn into an empty ocean the next. Blue water turns green. Flat waters get rough. Rough areas turn into glass!

The biggest variable is the weather.

It SHOULD be hot, sunny and calm every day now with blue seas.

It’s NOT!

One day it’s hot, but has cold mornings. ( I actually had to put on a sweatshirt and turn on my car heater in the morning several times. For the first time in decades). Or the winds actually blow HOT like out’ve a furnace.

One day the winds blow from the north. Then, the south. Then the west. Sometimes, it changes that much in the SAME DAY! So currents are affected. The ocean is affected. One day it’s flat and the next day for the first time, I have experienced anglers getting…SEASICK!

I don’t know what the weather is like where you live but this is crazy weather here. It even rained on afternoon when the forecast said nothing about rain. It rained in another area that had not had rain in over 2 years, but several miles up the road, not a drop fell.

Live bait…our bread-and-butter for fishing down here. One day, it’s available to buy or catch. The next day, it takes hours to get bait. Or the bait is right on the beach. The next day you’re driving the boat an hour to the other side of the bay to find bait. Or the baits are too big…or too tiny. One day, it’s sardines. Or tiny sardines. Or mackerel. Or frozen ballyhoo. Or caballitos. Or chunks of dead bonito. We’re scrambling to have bait.

All we can do is keep putting lines in the water.

Yes, we did get some big fish.

You saw the big monster tuna. In 31 years here, most of our tuna are the fun 10-40 pound size. Over the years, we’ve had maybe a dozen tuna around the 100-pound mark. But this week…you gotta be joking…two tuna between 200-300 pounds?? WOW!!!!

And a wahoo…80 pound wahoo? Most are about 20-30 pounds.

In fact the couple that caught the wahoo had an incredible week. Gary and Kirsten Holtberg from San Francisco area, went out the first day. They got a marlin, a huge dorado and the giant wahoo!

Quite a day!

Day 2 —hard to get bait, but they hook and release 2 more marlin.

Catch-and-release another one!

Day 3 —again with Captain Armando. They put their first bait in the water at 7 a.m. and it gets picked up by a freight train tuna estimated at maybe 280 pounds after battling it for more than 5 HOURS!

Those same days, other boats got…NOTHING…goose-egged. Fishing the same spots!

Same with the dorado. There seem to be no small dorado right now. They are all 20-40 pound fish. We put several on the scale that were almost 50 pounds! But, one boat might get 2 or 3. Another boat might get one. Other boats won’t get a bite.

Just the way it is. But, that’s the report. That’s the way it has been. Doesn’t mean it is staying like that, but I wish I had a better crystal ball. The captains are busting their butts. The guests are being patient. Not gonna catch anything if we don’t have lines in the water!

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 May 10-17, 2026

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Shhhh 🤫…IT’S ABOUT TIME!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report for Week of May 10-17, 2026

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT

WEATHER: Daytime hi-to-mid 90’s, but a really hot wind blowing as well. Nights are comfortable high 60’s. That big wind predicted last week mellowed out.

WATER: Mostly, blue and warm but still recovering somewhat from the winds the previous two weeks that agitated the visibility. If the winds lay off, the waters will continue to clear.

FISH HOOKED THIS WEEK: Roosterfish, dorado, tuna, jack crevalle, hammerhead sharks, dog-tooth snapper, yellow snapper, amberjack, cabrilla, triggerfish, striped marlin, pompano, trevally, yellowtail (1)

FISHING on a SCALE of 1-10: 6.5

THE MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO FISHING REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY

There were not alot of dorado this week, but a good majority of the ones we hooked were huge bulls like this! Never seen so many bulls in a long time. Dennis Fujii and Captain Hugo took two of these with Randy Haire.

Kenny Nishimura has a big smile with his slugger tuna! He battled it on 30 pound test for about 1/2 and hour to get it to the boat. He was with Captain Moncho.

I don’t know if this is an old roosterfish or simply got some strange markings, but he’s a good one and he was quickly released by Bill Malone who had a good week of roosters and other species.

Yes, this is a darned good day of big dorado, trevally, pompano and pargo for Leif Dover and Brian O’Neil, but it’s not often we catch Captain Pancho going out’ve character and photobombing a picture!

Self-explanatory! Pretty dorado coming aboard!

Ray Millman is a very good fisherman and comes down every year for 5-6 days of fishing. In fact, he just left but is coming back in 3 weeks! He had fun catching and releasing roosters!

Gerald Blackwelder from Colorado and Tony Gilyard from Florida have been buddies for 66 years! This was their first trip. They wanted at least ONE roosterfish. They caught FIVE. They wanted at least 1 dorado. They caught two monsters. This is one of them!

Always great to have Marc Bacon with us. He had some good days this week on the roosterfish!

Chris Chopelas from Pecos TX with Captain Gerardo took 2 legit roosterfish and this marlin in live bait. They were not able to release the billfish. Always good to see Chris here!

Marcus Yoo had 2 great days of fishing with us and caught THREE dog-tooth snapper with Captain Victor. These dog-tooth (cubera snapper) are tough fish hiding in the rocks and great eating!

Captain Hugo with Randy Haire with another of this big bull dorado we have swimming around right now. Check the flas waters!

I lost count of how many roosters Brian hooked and released this week but they were all good fish. His buddy Leif looks like he’s got one from the shape of that rod in the background . Both of our amigos are from Atlanta GA.

Alot to heft up for the photo! Steve Hirano got 2 of these bad-boys this day. Steve is from Sacramento.

Captain Hugo with Dennis Fujii and Randy Haire! One of the best big fish days I can remember. Two huge bull dorado and 2 fifty-60 pound class yellowfin tuna!

Texas in the house with Captain Victor. From Pecos TX, Smiley Wooten and Clay Taylor.

Bill Malone with yet another big rooster for a quick photo and release!

Just another day on the water for these two. Brian and Leif with a big batch of barred pargo and 2 more dorado for the fish box.

Ray Millman got several roosters to release, but kept this nice bull dorado for dinner at Tailhunter. Fishing with Captain Victor.

Are you kidding me? Take a look at what Captain Hugo did with our Texas amigos! Huge bull dorado!

Tim Nishimura has been fishing with us maybe 20 years or more, but now he brings son Kenny. They had a good 3 days fishing with us. Tim is a retired firefighter.

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If you look at all the great photos this week especially compared to previous weeks you would think we had a super week. It sure looks like it. Compared to previous weeks when we really struggled to get fish, you would think that the ocean was finally giving it up and the fishing is on fire!

It wasn’t. There were plenty of exiting moments, but it’s alway why I prefaced the title of this week’s report with a “Shhhhhhhh…🤫🤫🤫🤫!”

I DON’T WANT TO GET TOO EXCITED and if this is finally starting to turn around, I don’t wanna jinx things either!

Let me put it like this…Y’know on a Sunday night when they’re showing all the basketball, football or baseball highlights and you see all the touchdowns, spectacular catches, slam dunks and homeruns? What you don’t see are all the fumbles, stumbles, dropped passes, strikeouts and bloopers, right?

Well, that’s what this week was like.

Compared to previous weeks, it was spectacular! But, in the big scheme of things, we’re still way off the mark and for this time of year really sub-par.

It wasn’t a spectacular week. It was an OK week punctuated by some really great catches. Some great fish, but not great fishing. Hope that make sense.

For example, look at the size of some of these dorado! Almost all the dorado were mega-bulls in the 30-40 pound class. Trophy fish! I have never had a week of so many big bulls in decades. Until the end of the week ALL the dorado were slugger-sized fish!

Check out the tuna. Holy cow, these 40-60 pound fish are the kind that hurt you! Same with the big dog-tooth snapper.

But, these were honestly just a few boats. So that’s why I’m hedging my enthusiasm.

One boat could find the honey hole one day and the next day not get a single bite of ANYTHING. One boat couldn’t buy a fish but the boat right next to them would be bent all day long. Yes, the big roosterfish are right there, but getting and catching the big sabalo for bait was sometimes hit-or-miss. It’s difficult when you have big fish swimming right under the boat and you don’t have the right bait. One day everyone gets 40-80 pound roosterfish. The next day barely any because we can’t get the baits.

So, no…I wouldn’t say the dorado are full speed. The tuna…there were only a handful. I’ll concede that there fishing is actually GOOD when EVERY boat is catching fish. And that’s just not the case….yet!

So we got some big dorado. A smattering of big tuna. Some big dog-tooth snapper. We also got barred pargo, yellow snapper, one yellowtail, some smaller amberjack, trevally, pompano , one pargo liso, two marlin (one released), bonito, jack crevalle and at the end of the week some smaller 10 pound schoolie-sized dorado.

But, the weather continues to play a big part. It’s still very erratic and inconsistent. Warm days…cool days…hot wind…no wind…cold wind. Wind from the north. Wind from the south. Flat seas. Rough seas. I think the fish are as confused as we are.

This also affects the ability to get live bait as well. If it’s rough or too windy, it’s hard to catch live bait. Hard to fish if you don’t have bait.

So, we’ll keep plugging away and hope things catch up soon! All I can give you is an honest report.

That’s our story!

Jonathan & Jilly

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of May 2-9, 2026

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FULL MOON WINDS THROTTLE BITE

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report for Week of May 2-9, 2026

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN REPORT

WEATHER: The sun is out and in the mid-80’s, but those northerns winds came back and it was like February. It got pretty rough at times. Winds up to 20 knots especially in the afternoons.

WATER: If the winds blew, it got choppy . Winds cooled the waters and also made it tough to get live bait if waves were crashing.

FISH HOOKED: (There weren’t many)…Roosterfish / marlin (1)/ tuna (2)/ dorado/ triggerfish/ pargo/ cabrilla/ bonito/jack crevalle

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Marcus Yu has alot of meat to bring home with this hefty dog-tooth cubera snapper that ate a live ladyfish he was using for bait to try to catch roosterfish.

All the way from Wisconsin, Paul Raley wanted to get a roosterfish. He actually got TWO grandes! Both were released. See other photo below. This was Paul’s first time with us.

Humam Shihadeh just had one day to fish with us on a last minute trip, but was able to get several nice roosterfish right off the rocks. Humam skippers the charterboat “Nomad” out’ve San Diego. All fish were released.

Marcus with a pig of a roosterfish. A bit fat fish that was estimated at about 80 pounds, Marcus couldn’t stand up with it so posed sitting down. The fish was released!

Double dorado for Paul! There aren’t many dorado in the waters yet, but the few that are being caught are tasty table fare.

Beau Ballard from Robinson TX, was here during those few tough days of fishing this week, but hung in there patiently and worked hard at it. He did get this dorado and also hooked a hammerhead shark and a marlin came unbuttoned.

Biggest dorado of the season? Paul Raley stands this one up on the cleaning table! Big bull!

Marcus posing with his 3rd of 3 roosterfish on the day. A quick photo then release.

Captain Victor gives Paul an extra two hands to pose with this 2nd big rooster of the day before releasing it.

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Happy Mother’s Day to you and all you Moms!

Well, I wish I could say it was a great week, but you-know-me. I’d rather be honest. It was one of the weirdest and slowest weeks of fishing I can remember.

I don’t know if it was the residual from a full moon combined with strong winter (yes those ridiculous northern winter winds came roaring back) but It wasn’t only hard to catch fish. It was hard to FIND fish! It was even hard to find live bait!

Let me back up…

Usually, by now, the winter winds that keep us off the waters during the winter are kinda done or largely diminished. Oh, we might get a day or two or some strong breezes, but this past week, they blow almost the whole week bringing waves and chop to the fishing waters.

Not only did this bring chop, but it also brought colder cloudier green waters. It was hard to find clean blue water. Add that to the back end of the full moon and I have no doubt that the fish were affected.

It was even hard to find live bait with waves crashing on the shallow areas where the bait sellers catch the bait to sell. Often you had to scratch around to find or catch live bait or run long distances to find better spots where bait was located.

So before the day even starts, you’re hamstrung and limping!

The result was several days of literally a bite here or a bite there. Not even bonito and jacks. Needlefish sure…eating and tearing-apart what little good bait you had. And then, the pelicans and seagulls also looking for scarce food.

We caught roosterfish up to about 80 pounds (all released) that saved the day and one or two nice dorado to put on the cleaning table. But, one or two dorado a day doesn’t mean there was a dorado bite going on! A few big tuna way way way outside one day then nothing the rest of the days. Add in a few small cabrilla and generally speaking, that was the whole week! Hunt and peck. Hunt and peck.

The bad news is that it looks like the winds are coming back next week again.

It’s hard to put a finger on this weather. I think people all over the world are trying to get a handle on it. It’s in the mid-90’s during the day and comfortable mid-60’s at night, but we’re getting winter winds? Doesn’t make sense!

So…we’ll keep plugging away and I’ll keep you posted. Everything is cyclical and nothing stays the same forever!

That’s my story!

Jonathan & Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter Sportfishing
www.tailhunter.comMexico Office:

Tailhunter Sportfishing

755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico

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

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of April 25-May 1, 2026

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WINDY BUT ROOSTERFISH FINALLY LIGHTING UP!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report for Week of April 25-May 1, 2026

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN REPORT

WEATHER: Pesky winter winds came back this week making it less-than-favorable to be out, but after 5 days or so, they are finally diminishing. Air temps high 80’s. Nights are high 60’s.

WATER: When the winds blow it can get pretty rough. Otherwise, mostly nice blue water when the winds don’t blow. Surface temps mid-70’s. Thermocline maybe 60’s about 30′ down.

FISH HOOKED THIS WEEK: Roosterfish, dorado, tuna, sailfish, striped marlin, blue marlin, yellowtail, pargo, cabrilla, rainbow runners. triggerfish, amberjack, pompano

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO FISHING REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Nick Lowe from Sacramento has been chatting with us since about 2019 and finally came down and got his big rooster fishing with Captain Victor. Fish was released!

Darrell Manginelli always does well coming to see us several times a year. He boated and released two sailfish while using his spinning rod. He was with Captain Pancho. Both fish were released.

First-timers Tony Duran and Leo Fong from Fresno CA with Captain Armando show off one of their dorado . Early in the day, Tony hooked about an 80 pound yellowfin tuna that broke off.

Captain Victor seems to be struggling a bit to hold up Lorena’s fish for the shot! They hooked and released 3 nice fish this day!

Darrell releasing a 2nd sailfish on the day.

There are a few nice dorado showing up . San Diego’s Bob Francy had a nice two days of action fishing with Captain Gerardo

Slow day but Capt. Armando stayed out a little longer. They guys got roosterfish early and several decent dorado after having a slow several hours.

TWO DAYS…18 Roosterfish!

Bob Francy and Eric Graff only had 2 days to fish. They were just hoping to catch ONE roosterfish…fingers crossed. They hooked and released 18 fish between 40 and 90 pounds fishing with Captain Gerardo .

Eric Graff gives Bob Francy a hand!

Eric with a hefty fish right off the bat in the morning!

Bob has another one! First day Bob got 8 of the 10 fish. All released. Day 2 it was Eric’s turn to rock!

Eric with a happy Captain Gerardo!

Little video clip of Bob with a catch and release and a look of being a bit tired!

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Those pesky northern winds came back on us this week just to give us one more kick in the pants that we’re not quite out’ve the woods yet regarding the weather. But, these days there are more calm days than blustery days, but this past week, we had 5 days of 20 knot northern winds.

That makes it hard to fish. Hard to get to certain areas. Hard to get to the live bait or even hard for the bait guys to catch live bait if it’s too rough.

But, all that being said, we still found ways to have some fun and get some action.

Thankfully, it seems the bigger roosterfish have finally shown up! These are the big boys that folks come from all over the world to catch. Using big 12″ live sabalo for bait, these fish are generally really close to shore and were running 40 pounds our more. Our largest were 80 and 90 pound fish estimated by my captains. All fish were getting released.

Also found a few scattered dorado. Not alot. It’s not quite dorado season yet. We need to wait until the waters warm. But, the few we hooked were legit 15-25 pound fish. Mostly solo free-swimmers rather than school-fish. Hopefully, those show up soon. The fish this week are isolated prowling mahi.

Surprisingly, billfish have shown up early as well. Especially around Cerralvo Island, we’ve hooked some stripers and some sailfish, but I am hearing sightings of larger blue marlin also swimming in the area.

No wahoo this week, but my captains say the conditions look right. We did hook one big tuna off the south-end of Cerralvo Island, but it broke off after about a 20 minute fight. Again, just one isolated fish.

Inshore, there are pargo, cabrilla, snapper, dog-tooth, an occasional yellowtail or amberjack, bonito, jacks, triggerfish, rainbow runners and pompano.

The weather was a warm hazy sunshine week with highs in the mid-to-upper 80’s. Nights are really pleasant about 66 degrees. No real humdity…YET!!! (It’s coming!)

THANK YOU EVERYONE – TRAVELERS CHOICE AWARD from TRIP ADVISOR! (top 10%!)

We just found out this week that Trip Advisor awarded us the Traveler’s Choice Award for being in the top 10% of all travel businesses in the WORLD based on our ratings, comments and reviews. That’s zillions of travel operations and we are incredibly proud and grateful to everyone who has come down and been a part of our journey for 31 years now. Muchas gracias and many blessings to ya’ll!

That’s our story!

Jonathan & Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter Sportfishing
www.tailhunter.comMexico Office:

Tailhunter Sportfishing

755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico

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

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Bahia Muertos/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of April 17-24, 2026

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NICE WEEK FINALLY! ROOSTERS MAKE A SHOW WITH OTHERS!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report for Week of April 17-24, 2026

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT

WEATHER: Really a nice week. Day times were sunny with highs in the mid-to-upper 80’s and pleasant without much humidity. Night very comfortable in the high 60’s to mid-70’s. A tad nippy in the morning and can be breezy, but then settles down . Wind not much of a factor except the early mornings going out’ve La Paz.

WATER: Interestingly, about 3-6 degrees warmer in the surface than normal. But cooler water below the thermocline drops another 5-10 degrees! Mostly calm and blue and flat most days . Had a few bumps when the winds came up and it got breezy, but overall much better than it has been.

FISH HOOKED THIS WEEK: Roosterfish, pargo, cabrilla, bonito, dorado, jack crevalle, marlin, snapper, triggerfish, rainbow runners, amberjack, yellowtail, dog-tooth, wahoo

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO FISHING REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Mike Benkert from Sunnyvale CA made a last minute booking and pretty much had just one day to fish with his flyrod. He really wanted to take a shot at a rooster! It’s not really flyfishing season yet…but what the heck…give it a shot! He caught and released two nice roosters and also got 2 dorado! He was with Captain Moncho. Punta Perico in the background .

Yea! This is more like it. It only takes one when it’s a trophy! Booo-yaaa! Darrell Manginelli with Capt. Pancho and a massive bull dorado he fought on light tackle! On the hand-scale at 43 pounds!

Happy Birthday to me! Our amigo, Jimmy Williams hit the south end of Cerralvo Island on his birthday this week…it was slightly productive! LOL….huge wahoo and dorado! We cooked a bunch up at our Tailhunter Restaurant for him.

One day to fish! Ola Mork from Seattle brought his family and they got dorado and this striper on live bait out’ve bahia Muertos!

Mike knows he’s holding this big dorado out with his arms! We laughed about it together, but still a trophy in any book! Huge bull on the flyrod! Easily a 40-pound-class fish.

Yes…the bigger roosters finally showed up this week! Our amigo, Gary Wagner, who has the Rancho Costa at Muertos got this big boy just inside the bay and released it.

Clifford Ray was an all star with the Golden State Warriors! He came down to fish a few days out’ve Rancho Costa a Bahia Muertos and always does well. Rooster…caught and released!

Maybe, it’s because both guys showed up accidentally with orange shirts! Mike and Darrell were with Captain Pancho at the south end of Cerralvo Island and massive 80-100 pound yellowfin tuna started busting out all around them. They baited up and flipped their hooked sardines into the boils and this big-shouldered striped marlin picked up both lines and took off! They both fought the fish four about 20 minutes on both rods and were able to release it swimming strong . But by then, the marlin had pulled them off the tuna spot! Great photo and story! Check out the flat water!

Pretty water right next to the beach in Muertos Bay holding some nice legit roosterfish! Mike Benkert with a 2nd rooster on the flyrod. Fish was released.

Eric Smith poses with one of his dorado on the day.

Just what he wanted. Mike…his flyrod…and a dorado. A good day! With Captain Monchol

From Alaska, Ken Ward is back. Fishing with Gary, and they have a big slab rooster just off the beach that they released.

Shawn Hurley from Boston got his rooster too! It was a good roosterfish week. Caught and released!

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Good news and bad news report this week…

Good news…probably the best fishing week so far this season which normally doesn’t kick in for another few weeks . Big roosterfish finally showed up. Some quality dorado got caught. There’s marlin around. The winds layed down and the waters got flat and blue.

BAD NEWS…the winds are coming back! Probably as you read this, the winds are picking up again after such a fun week. And they are going to blow all week from the north. That’s really going to put a damper on things. Normally, these northerns blow during the off-season from late October to April. Well…the winds are cutting back, but we’re still not out’ve the windy season yet.

GOOD NEWS…fortunately, we really don’t have big crowds of our fishermen yet. In about 2 weeks, we go full speed, but given the erratic winds, I’m glad we don’t have many folks this week!

But, let’s talk about this past week…

What a nice week we finally had! After a few so-so weeks, winds finally layed down. The ocean went flat and blue and the fish got cooperative.

To be honest, there were NOT alot of fish caught! Not alot of quantity.

However, the QUALITY or the fish caught this week was the best I have seen all year. Lots of trophy-sized fish.

The bigger roosters finally made an appearance with fish running 30-almost 100 pounds off Bahia Muertos, Punta Perico, Punta Arenas and the surrounding areas that we call “Roosterfish Alley.” We’ve been waiting for them to go off. We’ve had the little 5 and 10 pounders around, but these are the beast-boy roosters. They are in shallow water in the sandy or rocky areas and using live lady fish is the ticket for hooking these slab fish! Especially with a trap hook-set up. We also had some fish get hooked on Rapalas while guys were trying to drag up cabrilla.

One of our guests said it was pretty awesome looking down into the water and seeing big fish swimming under the boat and as soon as he tossed a bait in the water …BAM! Hook-up!

All roosterfish got released!

As well, some trophy-sized dorado also came up. There are NOT many dorado as it’s not quite dorado season yet, but if you can find the patches of the warmer water, the dorado hanging out there or near the buoys were the larger models this week. Again, not alot of them, but our largest was put on the scale at 43-pounds!

Likewise…billfish in terms of sailfish, striped marlin and blue marlin have also shown up early. Usually, we expect them later in May, but we had a number of hook-ups this week and all of them were released. The largest was found in the middle of a spot of big 100-pound tuna that started boiling around one of our boats. When the guys threw baits at the tuna , a hefty striped marlin came outta nowhere the hit both lines and off they went…chasing a marlin with two lines in it’s mouth!

No hook-ups on the tuna which were at the south end of Cerralvo Island, but we know there’s some big fish moving around there.

That south end of Cerralvo is getting fishy. We also had some wahoo hook-ups off the high spot at the south end.

Inshore, the usual pargo, cabrilla, snapper, bonito, rainbow runners and triggerfish are there to be caught .

A word about the yellowtail…

Normally, this is yellowtail season. However, the waters have warmed really fast and they are saying we’re gonna have a huge El Nino season. Yellowtail need cooler water. So, to be honest, there’s no yellowtail. They’ve moved off. Last week there was a yellowtail tournament in town. Twenty-five boats hooked a total of THREE yellowtail! For all intents and purposes, yellowtail are gone.

Daytime temps are now in the mid-80’s. Nightime really pleasant in the high 60’s to low 70’s. Very little humidity relatively speaking. Surface water temps are in the mid-to-high 70’s now but the thermocline about 30′ down drops off precipitously another 5 degrees or so and the waters get colder down deep.

This coming week is gonna be windy…5 days-in-a-row. But then, it flattens out again. Hopefully, this is the last big wind of the year. We’ll keep you posted!

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/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of April 8-16, 2026

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SEASON STRUGGLES TO FIND A START

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report for Week of April 8-16, 2026

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO FISHING REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Jim Bovee is our good amigo from San Diego and he was just with us two week ago with his son, Daniel. Well, he came back again this time with daughter, Brittney. Couple of nice dorado on the day.

First time, Brian Mick from Oklahoma came down with a couple of amigos and got a mixed variety of triggerfish, cabrilla, snapper and a nice barred pargo

Jim and Brittney…unofficially our first wahoo of the season. South end of Cerrralvo Island seems be holding some ‘hoos on the high ridge!

Yellowtail have been pretty scarce and it’s hit or miss, but Captain Rogelio got a couple north of La Paz.

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The bad news…it wasn’t a great week.

The good news…we didn’t have many folks on the water.

It appears that the season is still transitioning. As I’ve harped so many times, we consider late October to April to be off-season because of erratic weather and especially because of the strong winds that can get the normally calm seas churning.

A few weeks ago, I thought we were done with the changes. I thought we made the quantum leap from winter fishing to summer fishing with just a little jag of spring fishing in between. Fish started biting great!

I mean, the weather is already sunny and warm with daytime temps in the mid-80’s and the waters have largely turned the waters warm and blue.

Well, I was wrong.

Since that initial jubilation, it’s hasn’t been so great. Despite the increased warmth, the winds keep coming up and stirring things up making it difficult on a number of levels. Some days it’s flat, but then we get crazy winds and stir up the chop.

So the fishing has been tepid at best the last few weeks. Gotta be honest.

It’s been scratchy fishing. Like I said, not many fishermen yet, but in a few weeks we’ll be packed with guests and anglers. But for now, the few fishermen we’ve had have worked hard for fish as have our captains. Hunt and peck.

A little bite here. A little bite there. At the end, OK action, but not alot of quality and a wide variety of fish. Not alot of quantity either.

Some jacks, bonito, barred pargo, snapper, dog-tooth snapper, cabrilla, but also some dorado and we got our unofficial first wahoo of the season. Yellowtail are hit or miss as the waters have warmed too much by now. No real rhyme or reason for now. It’ll come around, but there’s no crystal ball. Usually by May we’re back on track! So, maybe a few more weeks!

There’s reason to be optimistic. Friends have told me there’s a big pack of blue and striped marlin outside of Cerralvo Island and at the south end as well as at the 88. Tuna have also been spotted by the commercial pangeros.

Fingers crossed and we’ll keep you posted!

That’s my story!

Jonathan

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