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La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of May 9-16, 2010

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Orange Co, CA resident Jeff Marston actually had two on the boat when he and his wife, Jodie, got ripped almost simultaneously by tuna that suddenly popped up outside of Cerralvo Island with our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet. Jodie couldn't lift her 50 pound-class tuna and Jeff couldn't lift BOTH fish for this photo. Both did their fish on light tackle and 30 pound test and live bait!

The capricious wahoo gods surely smiled on John "JD" Drucker from Redondo Beach CA. In two days of fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet, John got 2 wahoo the first day and had 1 or 2 others bite off. The next day, he got this big fat skinny 'hoo and had another one short bite! He was using a dark magnum rapala slow trolled at the south end of Cerralvo Island with Captain Victor

: It was a great week for roosterfish! There’s a reason they call this the “roosterfish capital of the world.” Steve Greanias and his brother George show off 2 of the 7 they hooked and released just south of Bahia de Los Muertos with our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet. They are just in front of Boca de Alamo. The fish this week went 10-50 pounds!

Dorado fishing slowed a tad this past week with winds moving the fish around, but Dee Dee Pope from Livermore CA holds up one with Captain Jorge just off Punta Perrico

George Greanias, on a short leave as a Captain in the Army, came down to get some lines wet and pulled out one of the elusive dog-tooth snapper that beat us up so often! This is just outside of Muertos Bay and George was fishing live sardines.

The wahoo made a brief appearance this week again dodging our best efforts. You have to be willing to commit the time and know that if you get a goose-egg, you probably are too late to do much other fishing. Our buen amigo Jorge Romero didn't even start fishing until 9 a.m. and had two of these scooter wahoo by noon and quit when the winds came up. He was trolling an orange/black Yo-Zuri you can see in the photo.

This has been an unusual year for exceptionally large cabrilla (Mexican seabass). This is Nic Bomicino of Woodland Hills with a 15 lb Cabrilla pulled from 8 ft of water on 60lb full drag on a slow trolled Cabillito. Had another bigger one bust off right after this one.

Another fat cabrilla in the panga for Jamie Smith of Malibu who fished north of La Paz with us.

Normally, Travis Barker is a canine police officer in the San Francisco Bay Area, but took the week to make his first trip to La Paz and got his first dorado which happened to be a nice female.

Like I said, roosterfishing the last week or so has really ramped up into prime time! Check out this beautiful pez gallo taken by our amigo Larry Parnell from Oregon with the help of Captain Pancho. The fish was taken just south of Bahia de Los Muertos and was released. They released several others that day as well.

Nice pair! Our amigo Gary Evans from Orange Co. CA went straight to the heavy artillery using 80 pound test and slow trolling a big ladyfish in the shallows to nail these two big dog tooth snapper (pargo perros). Even with the big guns, others were lost that couldn't be stopped.

This school-sized rooster has been alot of fun all week for guys with light tackle. This one by Richard Pope was actually caught with our Tailhunter La Paz fleet north of town. It could not be released.

This lady is way too fun...Lucy Shimenesky from Oregon hangs with the guys and has a great time. She's holding a nice schoolie-sized dorado. If you wanted to really focus on the dorado, the schools north of La Paz were pretty hungry all week except the days when the winds blew.

WEEKLY VIDEO CLIP:

Check out the tuna and wahoo! Althoug the voice-over says 45 pounds we learned the scale was about 7 pounds off. Click this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-2PtCHlPHA

FULL RANGE OF FISH KEEP ANGLERS BUSY…MOST OF THE TIME!

La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of May 9-16, 2010

It was another of those weeks when we ran the full spectrum from one end of the week to the other going from “so-so fishing” to” pretty-darn-good fishing” by the end of the week and some “Not-too-bad-fishing” thrown in the middle!

There’s just so much variation in the weather; water conditions; wind; and consequently the bite reflects that as well. One day up. One day down. One day the fish are close. One day way outside. The bait is easy one day and hard the next. One day it’s crazy wahoo. The next day nothing but needlefish. One day everyone catches dorado and the next day it’s nothing but bonito! So crazy. In the middle of all that, some hit the jackpot and nail big time tuna or their first wahoo or even 3 wahoo in a row or huge roosterfish while other boats are out there scratching!

All I can say is…come fish! It is what it is! If you put in time on the water and at least kick in more than a single day of fishing, you’ll get fish. If you fish only one day, that might be the one day of the week when the fishing just isn’t happening! But it’s rarely bad for TWO days! I just wish when people ask me what’s biting, I can tell them something more definitive than just shrugging my shoulders with a dumb-ss look and tell them, “I don’t know, but we’re catching fish!”

This kind of fishing really isn’t that unusual for this time of year. The seasons are in transition as are the waters. It’s not really winter. It’s not really spring. It’s not quite summer. There’s cool water. There’s warm water. There’s cold water fish still around and there’s warm water fish around too.

Nothing in abundance, but at the end of the day, there’s so much variety in the boxes. Just today, I counted 17 different varieties of fish taken or caught and released! Check it out…tuna (up to 50 pounds) , wahoo (up to 60 pounds) , dorado, 3 types of pargo, 3 species of bonito, cabrilla, sierra, jack crevalle, marlin, sailfish, pompano, roosterfish, rainbow runner (not to mention the junk fish like triggers, skipjack, trumpets, needlefish that were tossed away) plus several speciesl lost…amberjack, and dog tooth snapper to name a few! That’s JUST ONE DAY’s CATCH!

I guess the best thing to do is let the photos above do the talking! Check out the photos and the variety!

That’s our story!

Have an excellent week!

Jonathan and Jill

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May 9, 2010

: Late in the week, bruiser-sized 40-60 pound tuna showed up literally yards off Punta Perrico point. Dee Dee Pope, on her first trip to La Paz and first day fishing fought this big guy over an hour on light 30 pound test and a mini-Whopper Stopper rod. “The first run blazed 300 yards of line off the reel right down to the spool!” she said. Her husband, Rick, had another fish for 15 minutes before busting off. A number of fish were lost by anglers. Others INTENTIONALLY broke off their fish after long battles and realizing they they were way over-matched out out-gunned!

Travis Barker (right) is a canine police officer in the San Francisco Bay area and with his amigo, Rich Pope, they got into a nice snap of good dorado with our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet. This was their first fishing trip to La Paz

Our Cabin Fever Classic produced a variety of fish including this nice cabrilla that Becky Solee got just off the rocks with our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet

Stacy Amos from Los Angeles always does well and has a knack for pulling nice fish off the reefs like this nice barred pargo

Good to have our buddy, Jon Luker from Arroyo Grande CA back with us for the Cabin Fever Classic. He nailed this excellent dog-tooth snapper (Pargo Colorado) fishing with Captain Archangel on the first day.

Two of our favorite amigos, Tim and Angela "TPG" Farrell from Oceanside CA always lead the charge and laughs for our Cabin Fever Classic. Tim holds a snapper. Angela got this dorado and some big roosters they released.

Beth Sarachman Watts has been down several times but this time brought her new husband Dan Watts with her for hist first time and had a blast into a mutiple hook-up dorado bite fishing out of Muertos Bay with our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet

Not much prettier than a fully lit dorado in our blue waters on the bite! Becky Solee took this great photo.

There were so many varieties of fish this week. Grant Darby is enjoying his recent retirement from Washington and got into some nice fish including this nice barred pargo.

This has certainly been a year for larger cabrilla (Mexican seabass) as shown by the one held up here at Muertos Bay Beach by Stan Nelson of Arroyo Grande CA

John Neitzel from Oregon wanted badly to catch his first dorado which isn't very likely in May, but the dorado just happened to show up!

As waters have warmed tremendously in the last week, we might be at the end of seeing any more sierra, but we got some monster sierra like the one held by Oregon amigo Scott Shimenesky. He also got a 35 and 50 pound class rooster this day which were released.

Steve Marabella is a twice-a-year regular amigo with us and had just lost a huge cabrilla to a sealion that left him only a head, but shortly after took this big pargo mulatto to save the day.Bob Solee from Oregon always does well taking dorado this early in the season with Captain Adolfo "Yofo" looking over his shoulder. Great colors on this fish.

: Another of our great amigos from Oregon this week at the Cabin Fever Classic, Pearl Ireton was on her first trip to try out La Paz and has fun with this big snapper

: Craig Braswell is just weeks from retiring from the Sacramento Fire Department, but is already playing hookey from work and enjoying himself with fishing trips! Here he shows off a fat pargo mulatto he took north of La Paz

SLOW START TO WEEK KICKS IN LATE WHEN DORADO & TUNA SHOW UP!

La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of May 2-9, 2010

The week ran the gamut. Early we had really terrible winds carry over from the week before where it was just impossible to go out without getting wet and beat up. Even when we could go out, the bait was difficult to catch and you’d better have your jacket handy because it was COLD! Just freaky weather…like the type alot of the country has been having!

However, as the week went on, the conditions went 180. It was like a Baja postcard. Air temps a sunny 88 degrees. Blue water. Just a breeze! The only problem…the fish hadn’t fully recovered and although the waters were clear, the fish just weren’t very cooperative and anglers really had to work for their fish with a picky bite at best. That being said, there was still alot of variety in the water with the fish that were caught.

Some big roosters helped temper things with anglers fishing our Las Arenas fleet. There were some big schools of 5-10 pound fish that were just a blast, but some larger fish in the 30-50 pound class were also caught and released. The bigger fish were eating both the sardines and the larger sabalo as baits. As well, some nice pargo, cabrilla and a good number of sierra at least kept rods bent during the iffy bite and bonito, while not great eating were huge and could be counted on for some great sport…although that only lasts so long! Some other varieties we got were pompano, jack crevalle, amberjack and several marlin were hooked and lost.

The best news took place late in the week. With winds and conditions improving steadily, schools of 5-25 pound dorado moved in and provided an excellent rip on anglers with limits or near limits for both our Las Arenas and our La Paz Tailhunter fleets. The fish would readily eat slow trolled baits, feathers and jigs. No wahoo or yellowtail to speak of at all this past week so maybe we’re past yellowtail season now as waters appear to have warmed. However, just at the end of the week some larger sized tuna cruised in. We have been seeing these fish for awhile, but they were always outside and moving way too fast with the dolphin schools to get into them. Still, several 40-60 pounders were taken including one in the 50 pound class by Dee Dee Pope from San Francisco afrea fisihng with our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet just 30 yards from shore on live bait. She fought it for over an hour on light tackle.

WEEKLY VIDEO CLIPS

VIDEO 1: Click this for some highlights from the beach and shots of this week’s fish:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eguR8BryxM

VIDEO 2: Our Tailhunter Restaurant and Bar had it’s Cabin Fever Classic Taco Fiesta and the first of it’s live Blues Band nights! A great time as Bluz Explozion kicked out the jams:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw-yJi0uanw&feature=channel

That’s our story! Have a great week and God Bless for a Happy Mother’s Day!

Jonathan and Jill

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http://www.tailhunter-international.com/fishreport.htm

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FISHING DIFFICULT AS WINDS RIP LA PAZ WATERS

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Big Shoulder Yellowtail for Kwame Satterfield Fills Ice Chest With One Fish

PHOTO 1: Big yellowtail like Kwame’s phat fish were still hunkered north of La Paz around the island and would readily bite the big baits…when the we could get them and the winds weren’t causing folks to change their fishing days. Kwame came for big pargo, but surely did not complain about getting this huge hamachi!

: Actor Rick Kasper Holds Up His Big Cabrilla

PHOTO 2: Rick Kasper surely knows his way in front of a camera lens and poses pretty-like-a-postcard with this big-time cabrilla. Rick took 10 days to hang with us away from shooting his TV hunting show in Wyoming http://www.rawhidecreekranches.com/ You may have also seen him regularly on shows like CSI, Cold Case, Vigilante and Law and Order too. Having never caught a cabrilla, he had no idea he had a trophy fish until he started showing everyone the photo. He got this big toad on live bait at the cliffs at Partida on the west side of Espiritu Santo Island north of La Paz.

First Time for Sy Thomas Produces First Dorado

PHOTO 3: Sy Thomas from Thousand Oaks braved it out despite strong winds on his first fishing trip with us and the fish gods were kind with his first dorado and several other fish he had never caught! He said he also caught, “the biggest needlefish in the world!” Dorado continue to bite in small groups and singles north of town in an area where sargasso weed has been floating around. The fish aren’t big, but you can catch a limit or two. Many are getting released. They’ll hit sardines or about anything trolled.

: Dorado Bite Early This Year North of La Paz

PHOTO 4: By popular demand after last week’s photo, I got alot of e-mails asking for more pictures of dorado. So, here you go. Another boring dorado picture and a beach!

LA PAZ/ LAS ARENAS FISHING REPORT FOR WEEK OF APRIL 25-May 2, 2010

After last week’s bite, this past week had to be considered fairly scratch fishing. In fact, two days we didn’t even send anyone out because the winds were too strong and it would have been nuts to go out. Even if we did, bait would have been difficult to find. Even on the days when we did fish, it was fairly breezy but fortunately calmed down enough to fish.

Still, when we did get out, we did get into some biters. The most surprising bite continues to be the dorado…albeit small to medium fish in the 5-15 pound category that have shown up unseasonably early. They are right off the west end of Espiritu Santo Island not far off Ballena where birds, bait and bits of sargasso weed are floating around. It’s not uncommon to get a limit or two of the fish. Fortunately, quite a few of our fisherfolk are tossing back the small ones. Using sardines or trolling small feathers produces bites. You don’t get big schools of the fish, but you pick up 1-3 fish at every stop or else dink dink dink all day long then realize at the end you have a fairly nice box of dorado on ice.

In those same areas, we’re seeing more marlin. They are probably feeding on the smaller dorado as well as schools of swarming bonito. However, they marlin aren’t really biting. If they are eating the dorado and bonito then they’re just sitting on the surface sunning and we throw everything on them but dynamite and can’t seem to get them very interested. Give it a degree or two warm in the waters and hopefully, they’ll get the urge to chew.

We are still getting a few yellowtail, but it wasn’t banner like it was last week. Still, the fish are nice trophy-sized fish in the 30-50 pound class sluggers that like the larger mackeral and caballito baits.

For our Las Arenas fleet, it was hit-or-miss. Again, the bait and ability to get bait were the biggest factors. Add that to the wind factors and those are two big variables. . That coupled with luck and ability since the majority of the bite focused on the pargo and cabrilla. The pargo are right up in the rocks and either you gotta be lucky or good to get the fish. Being early before the rest of the fleet comes over doesn’t hurt either.

The rest of the bite there focused on sierra, snapper, jacks, pompano, bonito and roosterfish.

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Have a great week!

That’s our story!

Jonathan and Jill

Tailhunter Weekly Fishing Report:
http://www.tailhunter-international.com/fishreport.htm

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