La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of April 9-16, 2023
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Our San Diego friends, Maureen and Skip got a couple of nice yellowtail to take home fishing with Captain Victor.
Russ Osterstein got a pretty early season dorado just off the rocks outside of Bahia Muertos where he was staying at Rancho Costa at Gary Wagner’s place.
Sometimes, it’s not the size or quantity, it’s just about having fun. Sage Fleener and his dad had just one day to fish and wanted to take light spinning tackle to fish the rocks. Had a kick with over 30 fish hooked including 7 or 8 species. They released everything except a few for dinner. See the photo below of Sage with Captain Jorge!
Just so much fun on light tackle! Another hook-up! This is all-day fun!
From Colorado, Chris Bee with a legit yellowtail headed for the kitchen at Rancho Costa in Bahia Muertos.
Skip and Maureen Coomber with some of their friends and a varietal catch. That’s FOG in the background!
With daytime temps hitting the low 80’s now, it finally started to feel like spring with a tinge of summer thrown in as winds (at least for now) diminished enough to get some folks out on the water.
As mentioned numerous times, this has been the windiest and roughest winter we can remember in our 30 years in La Paz. Normally, November to April is our off-season because it’s just too crazy on the water more-often-than-not. However, this past winter has been historic.
We’re not quite done with the winds yet, but at least for this past week, there were enough calmer days where the winds abated and we got folks out on the water.
We actually sent our first boats of the year with our Tailhunter La Paz Fleet to try fishing north of the city where there had been a good jag of big yellowtail. However, some boats got blown out one day and another day, it was calmer. But the fish just weren’t going to have any of it and lock-jawed on us resulting in just a few bonito. Not just us, but boats from other fleets as well.
By far, the better bite remained with our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet pushing out’ve Bahia Muertos.
Jack crevalle on light tackle will pull you out’ve your socks and great fun. Maureen has a big smile!
There was a nice mix of yellowtail, snapper, bonito, jack crevalle, cabrilla, pargo, sierra and even a few small roosterfish and dorado making for some nice action. No tuna to report, but that could also be because the yellowtail have been the focus being so close inshore or over the reefs and much more ready to bite.
A bonus included some spectacular whales breaching as well. Pretty thrilling to be so close to shore and seeing these great animals i the water!
Bonus whale breaching! Great shot and hard to catch on camera!
Looking at the extended forecast, the winds aren’t quite done with us yet. However, with each passing week, it usually gets a little better as we head towards the summer months.
One interesting thing happened this week. Crazy weather continuing as our anglers encountered FOG! Yup…real thick clinging fog! In my 30 years on the water in La Paz, I think I’ve run into Fog maybe twice. You just never know!
COMING HOME! FIND MY SHORTS ‘n’ FLIP FLOPS!
After almost 4 months on the road, we’re just wrapping up our final show here in Indianapolis, Indiana at the NRA Convention. That means I’m finally coming home to La Paz. Big thanks and shout out to everyone who came to see us at all the shows across the U.S. every week to say hi and all the crazy good hospitality, smiles, grins and laughs and for those of you coming to visit, we’ll be waiting for you in La Paz!
By the way…who knew? Never been to Indianapolis before and had no idea what to expect. Hey, Indy…we are totally enamored with you! What a great city to visit. Great folks. Great restaurants. Zero traffic. Incredibly clean and so much history as well. We’ll be back soon and hopefully not working. It bears much more exploring. Thanks for having us!
We still have some openings this year so get in touch with us before we’re completely sold out!
Also, thank you so much to everyone for all the good wishes ya’ll sent to Jilly on her birthday. We had to work and travel, but we had (and continue to celebrate all week) a great time! She just keeps getting mo’ bettah! I’m blessed!
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
P.O. Box 159
Hewitt TX. 76643Phones:
from USA : 626-638-3383
from Mexico: 044-612-14-17863
La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Jan. 8-14, 2023
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Our amigo and owner of famous Giggling Marlin Bar in Cabo, Gary Wagner (r) was hosting some friends at his place at Bahia Muertos Rancho Costa including former Golden State Warrior Clifford Ray had quite a day. They found a window between bouts of wind and got over to Cerralvo Island where they hit snapper, sierra and surprising yellowfin tuna.
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We had the usual windy rough conditions most of the week, but earlier in the week some windows of opportunity popped up and we got some friends out from Bahia Muertos. They tell me there’s a ton of sardines out there and the waters are loaded with sierra. They got out to the south end of Cerralvo Island and found some 50-pound grade yellowfin tuna on dead sardines. Plus added in some pargo and sierra as well. Winds came up later in the week again and shut things down.
It’s been mostly sunny with temperatures in the high 70’s in the days and in the high 50’s at night. The extended forecast is showing the winds will be down early in the week, but mid-week the winds will really ramp up and there’s a good chance the port captain will shut down boat traffic and close the port.
TAILHUNTER ROAD TOUR 2023 DOWN THE ROAD…
We’re just finishing up an amazing showing at the Wild Sheep Foundation Convention at the Reno Convention Center. Thank you to everyone who came to visit us in our booth and welcome to our old and new Tailhunter amigos. To many of you, thank you especially for your reservations! We’re looking forward to having you visit us this year in La Paz!
Here’s our show schedule for the next few weeks! Hope we’ll see you at one of our shows. But, don’t wait. We’re filling up really fast so get in touch with us so we can set you up for fishing with us in La Paz.
La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report for Week of Jan.1-7, 2023
THE MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO REPORT
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Gama Santiago (on the right) and his amigo, Ivan, bundled up and had a surprisingly good day and a great mix of fish including amberjack, dorado, yellowtail and bonito. The fish were caught with a mix of live sardines and also using vertical jigging.
Miles Wagner with dad, Gary, owner of Rancho Costa in Bahia Muertos were out jumping all over the sierra. Gary says there’s lots of bait and the sierra are thick!
Nice yellowtail hamachi of Gama. He was using a yo-yo jig on the fish.
A mostly sunny week with nice temps between the mid-50’s and mid-60’s, but still not many folks on the water because of northern winds roughing up the waters. We had to cancel several trips because of it.
However, here and there some folks got out and found some windows of opportunity to get out in between gusts. Many of the folks we do get out are locals who have the opportunity to have flexible schedules to find the better days or else tourists who have wiggle-room in their vacation agendas to avoid the windier times.
Surprisingly, there’s still some dorado around which are usually gone by October or November. That leads me to believe there’s still some warm water patches here and there. However, most catches were colder water fish like small yellowtail and numerous sierra as well as bonito, jacks and cabrilla.
There’s lots of live sardines around although yo-yo jigs have also been productive if you can keep them out’ve the rocky bottoms.
THANK YOU DALLAS SAFARI CLUB!
We just finished up the huge Dallas Safari Club Convention with over 1000 other outfitters, guides and charter operations from around the world and thousands of visitors over 4 days! It was incredible and thank you Dallas for all the hospitality and everyone who came to visit and chat about fishing with us in La Paz! We got alot of bookings for this season so we’re looking forward to seeing ya’ll later this year.
Me and Jill in the booth
Fun fun visit from Brad and Cheryl Richards. Thanks for all the goodies!
Over 1000 exhibitors, vendors, outfitters, guides and lodges. This is just one of 6 halls packed with lots to see!
Drove all the way just for a short visit with us and always good to see Chris and Valerie Burgin.
Me and my long-time amiga, Angie Robles, the wife of my long time hermano, Ed Robles.
NEXT UP…RENO WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION SHOW!
From Texas now to snowy Reno, Nevada for the Wild Sheep Foundation Show. It’s going to be at the Reno Convention Center Jan. 12-14. Last year was our first invitation to the show and we did super and met so many old and new friends and booked a load of visits to see us in La Paz. Come visit us!
La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report for Week of Dec. 13-20, 2022
MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO REPORT
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Keaton Lesnik and his dad had just one day to squeeze in some fishing and happened to pick that ONE day that was nice enough to be out! Got themselves a couple of dorado that they had cooked up at our Tailhunter Restaurant.
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Not much to report. About the only ones on the water this week seemed to be commercial guys who are working to catch fish to sell. Or they were captains feeding their family or catching fish for the holidays or a few locals. But, the thing with all of them is that they can pick-and-choose which days are better to be on the water. Or, they know they can get out for just a few hours then come right back in with whatever they can catch if the winds kick up…and they often did.
For most, the winds were just too strong and the waters too rough this past week with just a few little windows of opportunity. In fact, it was so windy the city of La Paz even cancelled the Christmas Boat Parade. And that was INSIDE the harbor and bay!
But, there were some interesting catches. Still seems to strangely be some dorado swimming around despite the weather and the fact that dorado season pretty much ended back in October. Some nice 20-25 pound fish are still getting hooked, but most are the fun 10-pound-class fish. As well, there are sierra, white bonito (good eating), jack crevalle, snapper and cabrilla reported this week. But, again, not many reports coming off the water since not many folks fishing and everyone getting ready for the holidays.
All is calm…all is bright on the La Paz Malecon
FROM OUR TAILHUNTER FAMILY TO YOURS…
“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”
Just hoping your holidays and Christmas is filled with blessings and all things good. You are all a gift to us with all the smiles you bring!
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
P.O. Box 159
Hewitt TX. 76643Phones:
from USA : 626-638-3383
from Mexico: 044-612-14-17863
La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muerto Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Nov. 24-Dec. 2, 2022
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Dave Wancyzk (middle) and two of his buddies are in town for work, but got away one day and found some nice dorado surprisingly.
More sierra like this one that Monty caught are showing up with more frequency now that the waters are getting colder.
Not much happening on the water. Mostly folks in town for Thanksgiving holidays. Had several folks interested in fishing this week, but winds changed their minds. This coming week doesn’t look much better with most of the days gusting 15-20 mph.
We did get a couple of guys out for one day. We had to juggle a bit to find a day that was least windy. He had them fish with our Las Arenas fleet which is more protected and the fishing grounds are closer. Surprisingly, so late in the season, but they got into some healthy legit dorado. Warm water fish! We figured dorado season kinda left us when things got cooler, but I guess there’s a few still hanging around. Nice surprise.
Beyond that…it’s mostly cold water species.
Some of the locals and commercial guys are out catching snapper, cabrilla and sierra inshore. Live bait is hard to get when the winds are blowing so mostly using frozen baits and lures.
Town is pretty quiet, but getting fuller for the holidays. It’s kind of a real nice time to be around!
La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Nov. 15-22, 2023
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This past week was pretty typical late fall type conditions. Lots of sunshine for the snowbirds with temps in the low 80’s to high 70’s and cool evening conditions in the mid-60’s. Some days really nice and others blustery and windy. Seems like each week the air temps are getting a tad cooler and the waters are getting just a bit greener as they cool off as well.
Honestly, not many folks in town as this is the lull before the holidays. I expect that to change this coming week with Thanksgiving coming up. So, not many tourists in town. It’s actually a very peaceful time.
There are even fewer folks interested in fishing. Just a few walk-in’s now and then. Not in town specifically to fish, but just looking for a day on the water. Unfortunately, the couple of bookings we had, were cancelled due to windy conditions on those particular days. Some folks don’t have very flexible schedules so we warn folks if the particular day they want to go out doesn’t look good. Or looks like it might get blown out.
Captain Armando got out with Miguel Campos and found a nice bit of dorado that wanted to chew on one of the least windy days. Miguel is from Puerto Vallarta.
On the other hand, the few days that conditions were amenable, there are still fish biting, although it’s mostly locals from La Paz in the boats.
There’s a few dorado here and there. As well, there were a few hookups on wahoo and billfish. However, most of the catch is turning towards cooler water species with cabrilla, snapper, rainbow runners, sierra and jacks. Most of this is inshore fishing. We even found small yellowtail under the tankers anchored in the bay.
Sydney Wagner with big smiles and a big cabrilla that I’m sure went to the dinner table at her dad, Gary Wagner’s place there at Bahia Muertos at Rancho Costa just south of La Paz.
With the rougher waters, it’s getting more difficult to find live bait, but that’s one of the variables with fishing this time of year. The coming week for Thanksgiving is looking like there will be strong winds from the north pretty much all week.
WINTER WHALE WATCHING NOW BOOKING
The annual migration of the gray whales to Bahia Magdalena will be coming soon and prime time to see them is mid- February to late March. This is the largest migration of animals in the world and this is a great opportunity to get about as close as you can imagine for a trip of a lifetime.
La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Nov. 7-14, 2022
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More and more of these rainbow runners showing up in the counts as waters get cooler. These are cousin to the yellowtail and Sidney Wagner caught this one just off Punta Perrico around from her dad’s place at Bahia Muertos.
Finally got a chance to get out with Jilly for just a few hours and we found some nice dorado under a couple of buoys in the channel in front of Cerralvo Island. You can tell the waters are getting colder and greener.
These four guys rocked it! Captain Gaby from Las Cruces was out with Marshall Hydorn, John Clayton and Carter Mack at the north end of Las Cruces dragging some Marauders and hit the hat trick of wahoo…3 nice ones on board. Gaby with the bonito!
JIlly with Captain Joel got the biggest dorado of the day on a live sardine. She totaled up 4 dorado and 3 cabrilla on the day.
Gary Wagner at his place at Rancho Costa in Bahia Muertos was able to get out one day and took this late season bull dorado!
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This is that big lull before the holidays. Town is pretty quiet. The folks that are here are mostly tourists and snowbirds looking for some sunshine. Not much of anyone here that is specifically here to fish.
If someone does want to fish, they are usually walk-in folks just looking for a day on the water. Nothing hard-core. Most of the savvy fisher-folk have left as the 2022 fishing season winds down.
The winter winds have started blowing from the north making a fish trip an exercise in trying to figure out which days the winds won’t blow you off the water. Two weeks ago, we had three days of the week that were too blustery. This past week, there were two days. As I write this, it appears that maybe 5 days will be quite windy.
Some of those days, you can probably get out and we would fish you in some of the more protected in-shore areas. But, if the wind is really howling, there’s a good chance the port captain will shut down all boat traffic departing or arriving.
There are still some dorado around. Most of the are the fun smaller 5-12 pounders with some occasional big toad bulls still lurking. One thing nice is that you could just go to the big tankers anchored in La Paz Bay and find some schools without having to go out too far.
There’s some wahoo at the north end of Cerralvo Island, but for the most part, the weather is cooling and so are the waters with blue waters starting to turn green and cloudy. Consequently, more cooler-water species are moving in.
This includes, sierra, rainbow runners, pargo, cabrilla, jacks and even a few amberjack and yellowtail. These will become more predominant as the waters continue to cool off.
Mostly, live bait (sardines) and cut bait (stripped bonito) have been the most effective attractants, but as waters get rougher, it’s harder to find the sardines. Also, the bait guys will be more reluctant to go find bait to sell if there aren’t many folks fishing.
La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Oct. 22-29, 2022
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What a smile! Sue Cross from Santa Cruz has been waiting for awhile to come visit us again and she got right back into it with some fun on the dorado grounds and this nice bull! (Thanks again for the empanadas, Sue!)
Jim Bailey from San Diego on a first-time visit didn’t do so bad with the dorado at Bahia Muertos! Good day!
Good to have Adam Florence from Kansas back to visit us. He was out with Captain Pancho and hooked this sailfish on light tackle and a spinning reel outfit! Even moreso…they were able to release the fish which swam away strongly! Well done!
First day for Sal Pamiza from S. Carolina with our son-in-law from Hewitt TX, Brian Reid and a good start on the fishing week including a rare blue tiger dorado on the end of the table.
Brent Ritchie and Tom Brewer have some mahi meat on the table to have cleaned up for them!
Thanks, Chris Bedsaul for the awesome underwater dorado shot!
Captain Rogelio gives young Ryder Jensen a hand with his bull dorado to take a photo! Ryder had a couple of fun days with us.
Wayne Vanzandt and Mike Jennings rocked it for 3 days with the dorado producing some good quality fishing with Captain Victor.
Great new Tailhunter amigos, Julie Hansen with sons Marcus and Alex had fun with the mahi schools.
Nothing wrong tangling with some of our feisty bonito that will pull you outta your socks! Ryan Jensen with Captain Rogelio and another catch-and-release!
Some awesome sierra caught by Michelle Rahn and Sue Cross who had enough dorado from the first day and decided to fish for something else! Sierra are a sure sign that waters are cooling off. Delicious eating fish too!
Jim and Brenda Bovee with their favorite Captain Pancho.
The Haltons…Belle, Brian and Liz squeezed in one day of fishing and did well with dorado to take and have cooked up in town.
Mike with Captain Jorge and some good color on the deck!
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Straight up…fishing was pretty good…when we could go out.
About half the day this week were bumpy and rough and windy and probably would have been best to not fish, but folks still wanted to get out. One day the wind forecasts were so strong, the La Paz port captain shut down all boat traffic preventing anyone from going out.
One day our boats pretty much got blown off the water after a brave effort to catch fish. I think we had 8 pangas out that day. They came back with 4 fish total for all those fishermen. This is what it looked like at Bahia Muertos where we launch.
Normally, what it looks like:
This is what we got in the video below. This is why all the windsurfers come to the area and love the coming months so much. These winds will only get stronger as winter arrives.
It rarely happens, because normally during the season it’s so calm, but we actually had some folks get seasick this past week which is unfortunate.
But with growing frequency, the winds will be increasing and why we consider November to April to be our off-season and why so few fishermen are out on the waters. (It’s why all the windsurfers and kiteboarders descend on our area in the winter). Plus, it’s getting cooler and our captains and I were actually wearing sweatshirts in the mornings.
However, on the days we did fish, the dorado are still biting nicely. Decent 5-20 pound fish were the average with limits or near limits most days. The fish are eating live baits, dead baits, chunked bonito strips and trolled feathers. The fish can be found in numerous places and often, not that far off the beach or shoreline or as close as the rocks and cliffs.
We still have a few billfish also being hooked as well as plenty of bonito, some jack crevalle, snapper and cabrilla. However, cooler water fish like sierra, pompano, trevally and rainbow runners are starting to show up in the counts with more frequency. I even heard that some of the commercial pangeros hung some yellowtail off the south end of Cerralvo Island.
So, warm water fishing is transitioning to cooler water fishing and species and we’re pretty much seeing the last of our fishing groups for the year now that the season is changing, but also as the holidays approach. More snowbirds coming to town looking for sunshine and not so much interested in being on the water.
BOOKINGS FOR 2023 – 30 years in La Paz!
Dates for 2023 filling faaaaast!
We are just coming off another banner year right now and we were booked up 3-6 months in advance. We had to turn many folks away or many of you were not able to get your favorite captain or hotel. We don’t want to miss you or have you disappointed.
Reservations are coming in daily and many folks left La Paz and went home and gave us dates for 2023 already. Don’t wait! Really!
We are NOT going to be able to do as many shows as we normally do. With the price of gas, it’s impossible to drive for 3 months and go 10-15,000 miles of driving so we have to cut down on the shows. So, don’t wait until show season to get in touch with us.
La Paz – Las Arenas/ Bahia Muertos/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Sept. 28-Oct. 5, 2022
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Another big-headed beast! Captain Pancho holds up the tail end of a huge bull dorado caught by Marlene Kikuchi!
Show me the meat! Good amigo, Dana Murray from Idaho, has a thumbs-up for 3 nice yellowfin tuna and a few dorado for the fillet table!
Honeymoon marlin for Terry Sandmeier and his wife Caroline with an assist from Captain Gerardo. The day before, Terry had a marlin on and it popped off. He want back the 2nd day and this time he rocked it. The fish was not able to be released. The Sandmeiers are from Colorado on their first visit to us in La Paz.
Yes! We finally found some tuna. Funny guys Nat Hargett and Steve Manney hung some nice yellowfin to go along with their dorado. The guys are from Washington and come visit us each year.
Paul Nagata has become a regular poster-boy over the years with all the great fish he has caught . Check out this pretty bull mahi! Paul is from San Francisco.
We finally got a visit from Stan Andre and Terry Hawk who fish with us each year until Covid got in the way two years ago then had to cancel again last year and earlier this year. However, they made up for it. They donated all of this dorado meat to the Captain Pancho and the pueblo.
First timer with us Ken Fritz battled this marlin on light tackle while fishing outside of La Paz Bay. He also put some dorado in the box as well. The marlin could not be released.
First timer who had never been to Mexico, Jim Gibson, was fun to have visit us. Nice day of dorado fishing on the sand at Balandra Bay.
Just a great photo that’s worth framing! Grant Nakagawa and Captain Armando with a legit bull.
Whoa!!! That’s some quality mahi. Wesley Peterson (middle) needs some assistance posing with his big bull dorado.
Jim Barlow from San Juan Capistrano with son-in-law Riley had 3 good days on the water like this one with a cleaning table full of dorado. Jim used to fish La Paz many years ago but hadn’t been down for years until giving us a try.
The hat-trick for Nat! A dorado…a tuna…and a marlin that he shared with his amigos. A good day!
Dale Ringer and Andy Hall pose with Captain Jorge and some of their dorado catch.
Double tuna. Double dorado! Terry and Stan…fishing buddies with us for many years.
First-timer from Oklahoma, John Grigsby had fun with his first time fishing for dorado . That’s Espiritu Santo Island in the background.
Big smiles for the honeymoon couple . Terry and Caroline Sandmeier took home alot of fish after spending a week with us scuba diving and fishing.
Ken Fritz with another bull for the fish box.
Les Bek from Oregon was with us for the first time this week and had some good fishing in the dorado schools.
Captain Armando with Dave Eady and Tom Fausnight after a day fishing out’ve Bahia Muertos.
Pete Walker from Washington got into the tuna that first day they showed up!
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Long story short…Dorado everywhere!
Although we nervously watched the approach of Hurricane Orlene, it veered off and went inland hundreds of miles to the south leaving us with excellent conditions all week and solid fishing with voracious dorado biting all week. Both our Tailhunter La Paz Fleet and Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet hit the mahi every day with easy limits most days and limits hit early that most of our anglers released more fish than they kept.
It seemed there were more but smaller 5-15 pound fish with our Tailhunter La Paz fleet scattered from San Juan de la Costa to Espiritu Santo Island to the channel between the islands. It can be a pick-pick all day to fill the fish box or BAM…hit the spot and it’s madness for an hour or pandemonium with fish everywhere like a trout pond hitting anything that hits the water.
That included sardines, strips of bonito, jigs and feathers and casting iron.
For our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet, fewer, but bigger fish. Good amount of school-sized fish, but larger 25-50 pound bulls were also evident with some of the best big mahi fishing of the year. Many of our anglers caught their largest fish ever.
As well, we had a nice bite of marlin and sailfish with the bills often swimming and feeding in the middle of the dorado schools or, in some cases, feeding on the smaller dorado and bonito. Several “small” blue marlin in the 100-200 pound class were hooked and lost, but several striped marlin and sails were hooked, landed and released. There were a few long long battles on light tackle!
The big surprise was the show of tuna with our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet. Fish up to 30 pounds hit baits for the first time all year! No idea if they’ll stick around, but it was alot of fun or a year when the tuna have been scarce. Mostly, it was an early quick bite south of Bahia Muertos. The fish would stick around until all the traffic showed but, but it has been a nice grade of fish.
La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report for Week of Sept. 18-27, 2022
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Our amigo, Tim Larson, has been visiting us for years, but this past week landed his personal best largest dorado. Great shot and a pretty bull mahi!
Captain Alfredo gives Steve Ritz a hand with this big-headed bull. Steve has been with us for years and usually makes two trips a year. He tangled with this dorado on light tackle and fought it for over an hour! Steve is 86-years-young!
First day meat day! Brian Rubino and Mike Martins stacked the dorado on their first day of fishing big time!
Love this photo and this lady! Lisa Hicks from Washington has big smiles with her favorite Captain Victor out’ve Bahia Muertos. We’ve know Lisa for almost 20 years of visits to Tailhunter.
Oh yea! Josh Robert was just here about a month ago from Nashville. He had so much fun he came back and had his way with several big bull dorado like this one.
Two of our long-time favorite characters. Jess Franco from Prescott AZ and Mac Treasure from Reno NV. Both retired fire captains.
Oh my! No, Josh did not catch this. He’s just helping with the photo. Actually, Julia his wife, caught this beast on 30-pound test and battled it for over an hour. She refused to give up the rod even tho’ she said her hands were cramping and her arms were shaking! Well-done!
Captain Victor with Tim Larson and Paul Jordan with a good start to 3 days of fishing.
Vonnie McGonigal is the owner of the famous Vonnie’s Fishing Fleet in Sitka, Alaska. At the end of the season, she treats her crew and lodge workers to a big trip and this year brought them down to see us! Sandy Cromley works in the fish packing area of their lodge and the two ladies cranked out some fun dorado fishing!
Dan and Sammy Hicks! Sammy is 12 now and Dan has been fishing with us even before Sammy was born. Great fun family from Washington and one of our favorites. Lots of meat on the table!
It’s been a few years, but Patricia and Phil Andreason came to visit us after several postponed efforts because of Covid. They made up for lost time with Captain Armando.
The start of 3 days fishing for Grant and Julie Nakagawa who are always fun every year. They’ve already given dates for next year with their favorite Captain Armando.
Love this shot! Gerry Hermosillo from L.A. is feeling pretty powerful after his day of fishing! LOL
Two of our newest Tailhunter Tribe amigos…Bruce and Tanner Robert came down to celebrate Tanner becoming a dentist. Check out the size of Tanner’s bull! Whoa!!!
Captain Jorge with another of our new amigos! Terry Suminski came to visit from Sitka Alaska for some warm-water style fishing.
Our Utah amigos, Bick Lessor has been with us before, but brought first-timer Scott Bowes to come fish with Captain Gerardo. I have no idea how that little pompano ended up getting caught with this good mess o’ dorado!
Two more of our great retired firefighters, Jimmy Andrews and Gary Bowie with Captain Armando got a cleaning table full of dorado.
Fishing with their favorite Captain Pancho, Marlene and Taky Kikuchi hooked up on a good batch of dorado plus a tasty barred pargo.
Josh…with another big bull in the fish box! He had a banner trip on the dorado.
Jon Eide has been fishing with us for years from Minnesota, but never ever got a roosterfish until this past week! It’s even more remarkable since this is not usually roosterfish season! Jon released the fish post photo!
Jeff Sakuda has been with us about 20 years and loves fishing with Captain Jorge! Jeff is from Cypress CA and a retired pilot for United and comes down twice-a-year.
Captain Alfredo approves of Wade White’s dorado he caught just outside of La Paz Bay.
Lee Hazelquist with his first sailfish! The fish ate a live sardine and Lee battled it on light tackle. The fish could not be released.
Rapid City, S. Dakota is a long way from the ocean, but it was fun to have Dick and Lucy Mahlendorf come visit us for the first time. They sure took home alot of dorado fillets to share with neighbors!
Two of the best! On their 2nd visit this year, Steve Ritz and Larry Chastain. The got into a swarm of dorado by the looks of it with their favorite Captain Gerardo.
Two more of our newest Tailhunter amigos who were out with Captain Jorge, Vicky and Mark Sherwood from Washington had a good day on the dorado schools.
Pretty photo and great colors! Juli has another dorado!
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We had a little “tickle” of a storm that was supposed to pass through that had us all watching nervously as it bounced outside to the Pacific and didn’t affect us as we had feared like other storms these past few weeks.
But, other than that and a few cloudy days, it was a wonderfully boring week for weather finally with just super conditions and it left us with some terrifically solid fishing. In fact, it was one of the better fishing weeks of the season.
Not much variety to speak of, but that’s because the dorado were so numerous and voracious! They weren’t giving any other species a chance, but no one was complaining. Some boats were done by 9 or 10 a.m. with full limits of mahi and had released even more fish than they had caught.
The fish were generally legit 10-20 pound fish with some in to the 30 and 40 pound class. Many anglers laughingly complained that they had dorado all around them feeding “like a fish pond” and would see some big dorado on the perimeter, but the “smaller” fish were so aggressive that the big ones never had time to grab a bait.
Still, everyone had fun. Everyone who wanted dorado or had never caught a dorado got into fish!
We also have some decent billfish hook-ups on sailfish and marlin as well, this week with about 80% of the fis lost or released. One big blue marlin actually snapped the rod in half!
Other species included cabrilla, rainbow runners, triggerfish, snapper and lots of tough bonito!
BOOKING FOR 2023 STARTING TO FILL UP!
Just a heads-up that we’re already starting to fill up early for our 2023 fishing season! We’re getting reservations daily and we don’t want to miss you!
In order to accommodate growing tastes we’ve broadened our hotel offerings once again. Lots of different choices depending on where to stay…
OUR OLD FAVORITE LA CONCHA BEACH RESORT – ON THE BEACH ROOMS
HOTEL GAVIOTAS – WATERFRONT BAY VIEW CONDOS ON THE MALECON
HOTEL MORO – OLD STYLE MEXICAN OASIS ON THE MALECON
CASA AL MAR – BOUTIQUE CONDOS ON THE MALECON WATERFRONT
MARINE WATERFRONT HOTEL (Formerly Hotel Marina) – Modern Vacationing
COSTA BAJA RESORT COMPLEX- 5 STAR LUXURY ROOMS VILLAS CONDOS
RANCHO COSTA – BAHIA MUERTOS REMOTE LUXURY
Get in touch with us and we’ll customize a fishing package just for you! If you’re already part of the Tailhunter nation and you want specific rooms or your favorite captain, don’t wait. We’re booking fast!
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