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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

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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
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
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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

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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

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

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BEST DORADO SEASON EVER?

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

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

That’s my story!

Jonathan

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

Tailhunter Sportfishing

755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico

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

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of July 21-28, 2023

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MAHI MADNESS KEEPS ROLLING

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of July 21-28, 2023

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT

WEATHER – Hot and humid. High 90’s to low 100’s. Normal temps for this time of year, but just FEELS hotter for some reason. Everyone talks about the heat.

WATER – Strangely although the air temps are hot…the water temps are maybe 3-5 degrees COOLER on the surface than normal. Go figure! But, at least the waters are blue which is conducive to fishing!

SPECIES CAUGHT THIS WEEK – Dorado (5-50 pounds); Roosterfish (2-15 pounds); Pargo/ Cabrilla/ Snapper / Triggerfish (2-8 pounds); Jack Crevalle and Bonito (3-17 pounds); Wahoo (at least 5 hooked and lost of unknown size!); Marlin (2 hooked and lost of maybe 120 pounds each).

LAS ARENAS – Fewer fish than La Paz, but overall LARGER fish. Maybe 2-4 fish per rod and largest fish overall consistently more 15-30 pound bulls. Lots of releases.

LA PAZ – More fish than Las Arenas. Most in the 5-10 pound size with LOTS of releases. Not as many large fish as Las Arenas, but the chance for larger bulls up to 50 pounds is always there.

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Just a great dawn shot with the sun coming up and a big dorado to kick off the day for Darrell Manginelli who has been visiting us for years. Darrell had an incredible 5 days of fishing with lots of huge bulls. He filled enough for his ice chest after two days! He released lots of fish. Darrell visits us from Camarillo CA.

Big smiles as Jen Enright needs some help from Captain Joel to photo this big dorado. She battled the big fish and said afterwards her arms and hands were shaking too hard to hold the fish. Jen is from San Diego.

What a way to end their fishing week that was full of good fishing days. Rick and his son Steve Fling capped it with 3 big bull dorado. The guys were visiting us from Denver.

It was great to have Frank and brother John Marshall hang out with us for a few days. Nice bull after fishing with our La Paz fleet.

What great colors on this photo of Mark Melnick and his beautiful bull. This is frameable. That’s El Sargento in the back.

Always fun having Roger McCracken and George Hatziayiannis visiting us from Portland. Roger has been with us over 20 years.

First time family visitors Laryn Keller and Dawson Enright taking a break after their first year of law school in Oregon had a banner few days fishing with us with dorado like these.

Hito Nishikawa and Mark Melnick have alot of meat in the table to start their 3 days of fishing. Good dorado bite!

I just think this is a funny photo. Shelton Donnell and Louie Mogabgab have been our friends over 20 years fishing with us. We love these guys, but this is just funny because it looks like Shelton is trying to take a selfie. Only problem is that last time I checked, you need a phone camera in your hand to take a selfie! Shelton doesn’t have a phone!

Kirk Paterno is 18-years-old and got this 3 days of fishing as a graduation present from high school before heading to the University of Iowa. This is a photo from the first of 3 days fishing and each day got better and better!

Darrell with another big bull! He was king of the bulls this week!

Whenever Captain Gerardo gives a thumbs-up, it’s a good fish and Toshi Nishikawa looks a tad disheveled after battling this nice bull.

Oh yea…Our cousin, Andy Enright holds up another big bull dorado to go with the big smile! It’s a big fish because Andy is pretty tall.

Len Weaverling and Tatsu Watanabe posing on the beach at Bahia Muertos after their first day.

Bryan Forward is just a kick every time he visits us. He brought Eddie Haynes with him this time and they knocked out the dorado and took him a nice load of fillets.

Captain Alfredo grimaces a bit as he gives Tatsu a hand with a dorado they estimated at 50 pounds that Tatsu battled north of La Paz.

Darrell is in alot of photos in the gallery this week! But, he caught alot of big dorado!

Captain Jorge with George and Louie and a table full of dorado headed into the ice chest.

It never fails. The biggest fish bite the lightest line and Roger McCracken had a rod with 20 pound test line on it when this big boy bit and took him for a ride!

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Long story short…we’re still rolling in dorado. Little ones…medium ones…big ones…even bigger ones!

It’s been on for a good 2 months now and I don’t know when it will stop, but we’re enjoying the heck out’ve it and having alot of fun and I only hope it sticks around for another 3-4 months because will reiterate that this is the best and most consistent dorado bite I’ve seen in my 30-some years down here.

Both out Tailhunter La Paz and our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleets are into the mahi. Some boats might do better than others, but overall, since most of our anglers fish multiple days, they more than make up for it on other days .

Even having an “off” day is relative. The fishing has been so consistent that an “off day” these days used to be a “pretty good day” any other year. It’s just that we tend to get spoiled when the pickin’s are this good.

If you take a look at the photos, you see some great catches. But, this does not count all the fish that were released (too small) or broke off (too strong and smart!). Again, sometimes, the anglers are getting early limits and decide that, with the heat, they’ll call it a day and head back to the beach early to eat lunch and enjoy the rest of the day knowing they already got a full fish box for the day.

Others will catch-and-release or catch limits then go chase roosterfish or go fish the rocks and reefs for pargo, snapper and cabrilla or hit the shallows to have fun with light tackle on jack crevalle and bonito.

I will warn you again…it’s HOT!!! If you’re up in the U.S. you’re probably going through alot of the same thing. It’s a burner summer. We’re easily in the low 100’s right now, but with the humidity, it feels alot hotter and you’re really not being smart if you don’t stay covered and hydrated. So, bring big brim hats; long sleeve shirts; sunscreen; sunglasses and chug that water!

SOME NOTICES:

YOUR FISHING GEAR:

We’ve been storing the fishing gear for many of you for many many years so you wouldn’t have to haul it through airports not to mention the cost of the weight or oversize luggage. We’ve been doing it for free as a convenience to you. We have a whole warehouse of YOUR gear!

The warehousing is now getting way too expensive and they’re charging us an arm, leg and first-born every month. So we’re going to ask you to come get your gear. Some of you, we haven’t heard from in 5, 10 or more years. If you want us to hang onto it for a bit longer, no problem, but if you’re not coming back down or we don’t hear from you before the end of the year, we’re going to have to donate the equipment.

BALANCES:

Just a heads-up that if you’re within 45 days or coming to visit us, your balances are due. No stress. Just let us know it’s on the way. Or ask us for the most convenient way to get it to us.

Hope ya’ll are enjoying your summer!

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 July 13-20, 2023

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DORADO STILL HUGGING SPOTLIGHT!

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

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT

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

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

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

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

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

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY….

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

That’s my story!

Jonathan

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La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico

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La Paz -Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of July 5-12, 2023

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DORADO ROOSTERFISH STILL

CENTERSTAGE!

La Paz – Las Arenas / Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of July 7-12, 2023

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN REPORT

WEATHER – Mostly very hot and humid. Stay hydrated. It’s in the high 90’s and hot. We did have the one day storm Sunday the 9th of July that roared into here with high winds 20-30 mph and big waves. No rain per se, but it stirred things up.

WATER – See above. Mostly in the mid to upper 70’s now, but still some cooler water down deeper. The storm last Sunday turned the water over quite a bit, but each day away from the storm, the waters are settling.

SPECIES CAUGHT THIS WEEK – Dorado, marlin (hooked), roosterfish, rainbow runners, amberjack, bonito, cabrilla, pargo, dog-tooth (cubera) snapper, pompano, trevally, triggerfish.

LAS ARENAS – Larger dorado coming from this area, but also the most variety of fish.

LA PAZ – Mostly school-sized dorado, but you can blow up really fast with crazy action. Some larger fish around further out and there’s smaller roosterfish along the beaches.

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Jim Stahlman, our amigo from Idaho, visits us every year and enjoys fishing with his favorite Captain Jorge. Trolling a ballyhoo produced this incredibly colored bull dorado!

New friends from Texas, Andrew and Yssa DeWoody, fished with us 5 days and show off one of their big dorado.

Yeow! Captain Pancho estimated this rooster to be about 90 pounds and was alot of fish to heft for Smiley Wooten who caught this big one on a live cocinero of Bahia Muertos. The fish was released.

Captain Victor gives Jim and Jan Sibert a help posing this big bull dorado. Nice batch of fish for the filet table. Jim and Jan are from New Mexico.

Just a great shot of Clay Taylor from Pecos, Texas with his roosterfish. Clay was able to release this rooster strong!

Our first big dog-tooth of the season caught by our amigo, Jim Bovee from San Diego with Captain Pancho. Jim said he was almost pulled out’ve the panga when Pancho gunned the motor to try to yank the big snapper out’ve the rocks.

One of the best shots of the week! Captain Victor with 6-year-old Asher Pierson and his roosterfish. Caught and released!

Great colors on this big bull caught by Raymond King. That’s La Ventana in the background. Nice flat seas!

Two of our very fun first-timers, Richard and Piper Kelm with one of their dorado ready to put in the fish box.

It’s been a few years since Rex Smith has been able to visit us, but always good to see him. Here he is with Captain Gerardo and another big bull. Rex is from Arizona.

Corey Fujita and his son Owen with one of the best photos of the week and a big dorado to start the morning.

There must still be some cooler water down deeper. This is Gary Wagner, owner of Rancho Costa who caught this rainbow runner (cousin to the yellowtail) not far from his place in Bahia Muertos.

How can you not appreciate this awesome photo of 8 year-old Braedon Pierson with two-thumbs up!

More of our new Texas friends, Bridget Oliphant and her fiance Chris Chopelas who had a full week of nice fish including this big bull dorado to top the day’s catch.

Jan Sibert with some great-eating pompano, barred pargo and triggerfish. Fish tacos coming up!

Folks can’t believe the incredible colors of our dorado (means “golden one”) but this photo of Clay Taylor is one of the best examples. It almost looks like a mount the colors are so brilliant!

Andrew with a big smile for this roosterfish catch-and-release!

Brittany Pierson and Captain Victor with big smiles and dorado and flat seas to start the morning!

Great shot! This is 6-year-old Owen Fujita with Captain Joel and a nice cabrilla. Owen is turning into quite a prolific fisherman each year he comes to visit!

One of those rare all-blue dorado we seem to see more of this year than ever before. I think this is our 3rd of the season! Jim Stahlman with the nice catch and photo.

This is a double handful for Mika Diaz visisting us for the first time and fishing with mom and dad.

Andrew and Yssa with another photo of another day’s catch!

Captain Armando, Cathie and Dave Boos and their first-day catch of dorado. Always good to see them and have them visit us.

Smiley Wooten has himself another bull for the fish box!

Tanner and Kevry Pierson fished the day after the big storm and were fortunate to find some blue water and some dorado to start the week.

Owen with Grandpa Robert Fujita and Owen’s dorado!

Wow! Bridget Oliphant again with 2 more big bull dorado on her scorecard for the week! This lady loves to fish! She did 5 straight days on the water.

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We had a little “bump” in the weather over this past weekend (more about that “bump” below), but overall it was good summertime fishing typical of this time of year with sunny hot weather and some better than expected fishing! Hard to complain about that!

Once again, as it has been for about 2 months now, the focus has been on the nice dorado bite we’ve been having. Lots of school-sized 5-10 pound fish most days where you can knock out a quick and frenzied limit of fish in an hour or so if you hit the right school. After that, it’s catch-and-release as long as it goes on or go chase larger fish or other species.

Indeed, there are some real “beast mode” dorado in our waters.

We always get some big dorado down here, but in my 30 years, I don’t remember seeing such a concentration of bigger fish like we’ve had maybe the last 5 weeks or so.

These are fish between 20 and 50 pounds roaming the waters. Many of them getting lost after slugging-it-out with fishermen but that’s why these are larger and stronger fish! But, easily more big dorado than I’ve ever seen.

Also, if you had asked me 2 or 3 weeks ago about larger roosterfish, I would have told you the bigger boys had moved off because we’re seeing fewer caught.

However, now I’m thinking that there are still at least some of the bigger roosterfish still hanging out. It’s just that the dorado bite has been so prevailant and so much fun, especially for many of the families, first-timers, and kids that we’ve had, that everyone is focused on the dorado .

Sure, there’s the fun smaller-sized 5-10 pound roosters around, but the larger ones require alot more commitment.

First, you have to catch the larger baits that they like. That would be lady fish or cocineros. You have to put in that time. Then, you need to slow troll those baits along the the rocks and beaches where the big roosters hang out. Again, another commitment of time!

But, in a few cases where I’ve had an angler really wanting to go for the larger roosterfish, they’ve connected about 50% of the time resulting in 50-90 pound class fish! Not sure how long they will stick around, but at least for this past week or so, they are still here.

As for other species, lots of fun on bonito and there’s some big schools of larger-than-normal jack crevalle that will yank anyone out’ve their socks…or flip-flops. But, we’ve also had biters on cabrilla, pargo, a big dog-tooth snapper, a few marlin (all lost) plus trevally, pompano, triggerfish and even some amberjack and rainbow runners which tells me there might still be some cold water down a bit deeper. Go figure. It’s mid-July!

About that “bump” I talked about. . .

A BIT OF WEATHER:

Last Sunday, pretty much out’ve nowhere we did have a “weather situation. ” It wasn’t really a storm per se. But we got hit with big winds up to 30 mph from the south as well as huge waves that were described to me as “big as a house.”

We regretfully had to cancel all the fishing trips that day and I’m glad we did.

There was a big fishing tournament in town that day with over 150 teams. They ran smack into the teeth of the rough weather. A number of boats had to come back early. Several boats sank or had to be towed in that were swamped by the big waves and several others came close! Fortunately, as far as I know, everyone was accounted for.

This is what Muertos Bay where we launch looks like most days.

This is what it looked like last Sunday. Thanks Gary Wagner for taking the video from his place at Rancho Costa.

Looks like big rain coming across La Paz Bay, but it dissipated before hitting the metro. But big winds and waves preceded it.

Dramatic footage of one of the boats that went down with guys clinging to the bow (not wearing the one lone lifevest) and another in the water.

I was pretty worried about what a “storm” like that would do once we got back on the water. I was also worried that over 150 teams criss-crossing the ocean would scatter the fish as well.

However, we were able to get back on the water the next day and things had calmed down although it was still a tad bumpy and the waters were turned over. But, we did find fish in patches of blue water and it seemed that each day further away from the storm over the weekend, things continued to settle down.

That’s my story!

Jonathan

Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter Sportfishing

www.tailhunter.com

Mexico Office: Tailhunter International, 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 June 19-26, 2023

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BIG MAHI LIKE I HAVE NEVER SEEN

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

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN REPORT

WEATHER – Someone flipped a switch about 2 weeks ago and we went from cool to blazing hot. Even the winds are hot. Definitely shorts and lots of sunscreen with the biggest hat you can bring. It’s in the mid-90’s which doesn’t seem too hot, but the humidity is running 50-70% which makes the air feel really heavy.

WATER – Mostly blue although surprisingly not as warm as it should be. Water temps on the surface are only about 72 which should be closer to 80. However, mostly really calm and flat except when the winds kick up creating chop. Finding fish means finding the warmer blue water .

WIND– No more chilly gusts for sure. But, now it’s been replaced by a hot breeze. Usually the breeze cools things down, but not the ones we’re getting right now. We did have one day when the northwest winds jacked up for a few hours and the water got bumpy. Then, it disappeared in a snap and there wasn’t a ripple on the ocean.

FISH SPECIES HOOKED THIS WEEK: Dorado and more dorado. Then more dorado. Roosterfish, jack crevalle, bonito, amberjack, marlin, trevally, pompano, cabrilla, triggerfish, rainbow runners, pargo lisa, pargo mulatto, snapper.

LAS ARENAS REPORT – Most of the week’s bigger model dorado were caught fishing with our Las Arenas fleet. Fish well into the 40-pound class. More species caught on this side as well. Pretty much everything in the list above.

LA PAZ REPORT – Not as many species, but if you wanted to load up on school-sized dorado and easy limits, this was the spot. Often fast easy action and dorado madness. Some nice cabrilla and snapper caught and some schools of small to medium roosters fun on light tackle.

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Three days of big dorado for Doug and Penny Nuffer, our amigos from Utah. Penny fought one dorado well over an hour estimated at over 50 pounds that broke off at the boat.

I love this photo! Al Hed and Mike Jennings from Washington wanted big roosters so they figured they would get an “edge” if Mike wore a chicken head. They insist it’s a rooster head, but I think it looks more like a chicken! It worked. They got a number of our larger roosters this week.

Incredible colors. Chris Bedsaul with Captain Jorge got a fish to match his shirt! Nice dorado and always fun to have Chris visit us.

First-time visitors, Warren Stewart and his wife Krisele with son Austin display 3 of their big bulls.

…and then there’s Mari, Bedsaul. This lady can fish and always takes great photos. Nice little rooster fish for a CPR (Catch…Photo…Release).

First day out was a good one for Allan and Cheryl Herman. That’s quite a haul of dorado on the table!

Some of our funnest first-timers from Colorado had to cancel their trip last year, but Kindra and Brian McGregor roared back with a full week of good dorado fishing and some big bulls like this one posed by Kindra.

Joe Morse from San Diego, brought his group of 7 amigos down and their first day was a good one on the dorado spot.

Captain Joel give Lisa Leduc a hand with this good-looking bull caught north out’ve La Paz Bay.

Wow! That’s a great triple for Captain Pancho flanked by Mike Jennings and Al Hed.

Terry and Stepanie Martell with Captain Armando on the beach at Bahia Muertos posing with 3 of their dorado catch.

Captain Jorge with Mari’s barred pargo. Tasty fish for the fish box!

Andy Lauber from Louisiana went to town on the light tackle one day off Cerralvo Island on these palometas (trevally) landing about a half-dozen

Marcus Yoo is a major in the U.S. Army and in between deployments he usually finds time to pay us a visit and, you can tell, he’s kind of a fun guy to have around! He spent two days fishing and one day diving.

Randy Rimple and Brian Hyland with a nice double shot pair of big dorado. They’re from the Sacramento area.

Happy Birthday to me! Cory Mahan celebrated his 45th with us with some snorkeling and fishing and started things out with a pair of nice bulls on the first day of fishing!

Dion Hyland cradles an early morning bull to kick off the day of fishing.

Captain Armando give Terry and Stephanie Martell help posing with a couple of their first-day catch of dorado. They added more over the next 4 days!

First time visitors Vicki and Scott Shaw were great to have visit. On the beach with Captain Arcangel and more dorado on the table in the foreground too!

Captain Armando has alot of fish cleaning ahead of him, but doesn’t mind after a day like this with Randy Rimple and Brian Hyland and a table full of dorado.

Big jack crevalle in the hands of Big Mike Jennings! These are tough-fighting fish!

Just another day of big dorado for Doug and Penny! They had 3 days of this kind of fishing!

Big smile under that hoodie from Brian McGregor who hit the dorado schools big time with Captain Rogelio all week. Brian is from Colorado and stayed the whole week. First-time visitor!

It’s Mari again with another great catch. Captain Jorge hold the gaff and the dorado.

Captain Jorge, Steve Martin and Dion Hyland with a nice triple!

Whoa!!! This dorado stretches from one side of the panga to the other! Mike and Al with the pose and smiles!

Taller than him? Al Hed holds it up while Mike watches.

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OK…I guess you can figure out what’s been going on this last week-or-so just by looking at the photos!

We have dorado…and we have more dorado. The the surprising part is the amount of dorado and the sheer SIZE of some of these dorado. I’ve seen alot of big dorado down here in 30 years, but I cannot remember a time when we had such a concentration of BIG dorado. Fish running 20-40 pounds have not been uncommon and larger ones have been lost.

Take a look at the photos. These are the ones that were photo’d. For every one in the fish box, clients have told me there are some days when they are catching-and-releasing smaller ones as fast as they can get a hook into the water.

Some boats are finding huge schools of these smaller 5-10 pound fish and it can go crazy.

And then there are the larger ones cruising on the periphery of the school-sized fish or free-swimming solo or in small groups. These are powerful, crafty and acrobatic fish and folks are having alot of fun…and frustration catching them!

Some days folks are actually complaining because “We’re only catching small ones!” or “We only caught two larger ones!” I guess we’re getting a bit spoiled. All fun stuff.

I have no idea how long this will last, but we’ll ride it as long as it goes. There’s some big bunches of sargasso weeds building north and east of the city which continues to hold many of these schools plus the dorado are also gathering around the commercial shark buoys as well.

So….I’d say 95% of the catch has been dorado.

But that’s not the only fish around. There are alot of other species. It’s just that the dorado have been so prevalent and so dynamic, that folks are having too much fun and it’s too easy. There’s that old saying…”Don’t leave fish to find fish.”

So, that’s not to say there are no other fish biting. The roosterfish are still around. There’s pargo, cabrilla, snapper, trevally, pompano, bonito, jack crevalle and even a few billfish. However, most of these have been incidental catches. The focus is on these dorado schools right now!

I think alot has to do with the temperature. We went from cool and breezy weather that was actually cold straight to hot and humid summer weather. It’s like we skipped springtime weather. Temps are in the mid-90’s now and I think we’re in for a warm summer like much of North America.

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 June 11-18,2023

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DORADO-LANDIA!

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

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN REPORT

WATER – Continually clearing and getting bluer and warmer, but still a few degrees colder than it should be and alot clouder than normal. But overall improving.

WEATHER – Overall, a nice week. Some chilly breezy mornings giving way to warm days and evening breezes. On the water, mostly pretty calm, but had two days where the day-time winds really kicked in strangely and the water got bouncy.

SPECIES CAUGHT THIS WEEK – Dorado…and then some dorado…and more dorado. But also roosterfish, jack crevalle, bonito, pompano, trevally, snapper, cabrilla, barred bargo, rainbow runners, yellowtail, amberjack. A few tuna popped up outside.

LAS ARENAS – Some slower days, but this area has the most variety. Look at the list above and every one of those species is a possibility if you fish with our Las Arenas fleet. But, some days better than others. Some days, the dorado go nuts. Right at the end of the week, there were some huge dorado caught. All big bulls. Other days, it’s a rockfish day and not a dorado to be found.

LA PAZ – This was the dorado hot spot all week. Especially the area north of the city around Las Cruces. Schools of 5-30 pound fish. At the islands, the usual fun aquarium fish like pargo, cabrilla and jacks to play with on light tackle.

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Nothing like this in Montana! Brad Bennett fought this big bull dorado for over an hour on light tackle and finally boated it. Great colors!

First time from San Diego, Dave Jenkins started out his 3 days with us with some fresh mahi on the boat .

Always good to have Dave and his dad Bill Johnson from Colorado visiting us. Fishing with Captain Pancho produced some big bulls and they released others!

Double roosters for Grant Checa and his dad Gianni. Both fish caught and released. Gianni brought down a whole group of dads and kids from Colorado this past week.

Good way to start the day. Fishing with Captain Gerardo, Earl Lawson from Marina CA hooked and landed this pretty striped marlin for a quick photo and release.

Lots of variety of good-eating fish for Ed Pak with a spread of snapper pargo, triggerfish, rainbow runner, cabrilla and a nice amberjack too!

I think Randy Rimple’s facial expression speaks volumes about this big roosterfish that Captain Armando estimated in the 80 pound class. The fish was released.

I’ve known Emily Duncan since she was 5 years-old and coming down to fish with her family. How time flies. She was down this week to plan her wedding in La Paz for next year! I’m feeling old. This gal can fish! Note the nice bull. Cerralvo Island in back.

All the way from Illinois, Jim Newman, loves to fish. Even when he’s not one of our pangas, he’s hitting the water. This nice trevally hit a surface plug while Jim was working the beach with a light rod.

Just a darned good day on light tackle and the flyrod!

Cool photo on the beach at Bahia Muertos. Jonathan Bernardini with kids Julia and Christian.

John Lowdermilk has fished with us for years from Colorado. Just outside of Bahia Muertos, a nice photo of his rooster. Catch and release.

Just a great photo with great colors, flat seas and a big smile from Tim Jenkins from Utah on his first trip with us. Son, Drake contemplates the tail!

Right up on the beach, Mark Stuart from San Diego, with a fun rooster for a photo and release.

Dwight Ortmann might look a little tired. Make no doubt…for their size these jack crevalle are sluggers and put up a helecious fight! Dwight very sportingly released the fish to fight another day.

Dylan Williams with a La Paz bull to put in the box then to the freezer. Dylan is from Pennsylvania.

John Lowdermilk and Captain Jorge posing on the beach. Not the other “tails” in the lower part of the photo as well.

Jake and Scott Snapp with Captain Armando show off another nice mahi on the beach.

Not sure if Gianni or his son, Grant, caught this fish, but it’s still a good-looking bull dorado. Lots of legit bull dorado caught this week.

Dan and Jordan Le and a pair of mystery hands to pose on the beach with their dorado.

Christian Bernardini has a great smile to go along with his fish and an assist from dad, Jonathan.

Inshore fishing remains solid for anyone that doesn’t want to chase the bluewater species. Especially for pargo and cabrilla like this one especially on light tackle caught by Jim Newman.

Almost impossible to catch a fish jumping in the camera lens, but Earl Wilson nailed this shot of a fighting dorado. He said a moment later, the dorado spit the hook and got away!

Flyrod jack crevalle near the beach for Drake Jenkins. He also released the fish.

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The week had high spots and low spots. There was some wind and some rough waters came back. However, overall, there were alot more highs than lows. Alot more good conditions than bad and alot more smiles than frowns.

For sure, no question, we’re into dorado season solidly now. Lots of small school-sized fish for action and quite a few big pulls pulling people around and bending rods!

There’s a few spots in the channel between the La Paz Peninsula and Cerralvo Island that were just stacked with dorado for the last week or so. Crazy dorado fishing. You could get into a school of frenzied “kid” dorado or you could end up in a school of bigger bulls with attitude.

Actually, kind of a funny observation. There have been so many larger dorado that some folks have been complaining (seriously) that it was a “bad day” fishing because they caught-and-released so many smaller ones and didn’t catch any or enough big ones.

A week ago, they would have been keeping these fish!

Anyway…

That’s not to say there aren’t dorado in other spots. On the contrary. There are dorado that can pop up anywhere. There’s a good bunch of sargasso weeds bunching up on the surface now and that’s drawing the fish and as the waters continue to warm, I expect more dorado to show up.

The dorado bite was probably 80% of the catch, but that could mostly be because they were the easiest to catch and readily located.

However, we did get a few nice marlin hooks-ups and the roosters are still around and out although there were fewer in the counts. That could possibly be attributed to the fact that not as many folks are focusing on the roosters which you have to commit to doing and lots of folks would rather go chase fish that are easier to find and “funner” to fight and better eating.

Inshore, we still have a pretty good variety including pargo, amberjack, jack crevalle, rainbow runners, cabrilla and big bonito.

That’s my story!

Jonathan

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U.S. Mailing Address: Tailhunter Sportfishing

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