Shhhh 🤫…IT’S ABOUT TIME!
La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report for Week of May 10-17, 2026
SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT
WEATHER: Daytime hi-to-mid 90’s, but a really hot wind blowing as well. Nights are comfortable high 60’s. That big wind predicted last week mellowed out.
WATER: Mostly, blue and warm but still recovering somewhat from the winds the previous two weeks that agitated the visibility. If the winds lay off, the waters will continue to clear.
FISH HOOKED THIS WEEK: Roosterfish, dorado, tuna, jack crevalle, hammerhead sharks, dog-tooth snapper, yellow snapper, amberjack, cabrilla, triggerfish, striped marlin, pompano, trevally, yellowtail (1)
FISHING on a SCALE of 1-10: 6.5
THE MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO FISHING REPORT
THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tim Nishimura has been fishing with us maybe 20 years or more, but now he brings son Kenny. They had a good 3 days fishing with us. Tim is a retired firefighter.
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If you look at all the great photos this week especially compared to previous weeks you would think we had a super week. It sure looks like it. Compared to previous weeks when we really struggled to get fish, you would think that the ocean was finally giving it up and the fishing is on fire!
It wasn’t. There were plenty of exiting moments, but it’s alway why I prefaced the title of this week’s report with a “Shhhhhhhh…🤫🤫🤫🤫!”
I DON’T WANT TO GET TOO EXCITED and if this is finally starting to turn around, I don’t wanna jinx things either!
Let me put it like this…Y’know on a Sunday night when they’re showing all the basketball, football or baseball highlights and you see all the touchdowns, spectacular catches, slam dunks and homeruns? What you don’t see are all the fumbles, stumbles, dropped passes, strikeouts and bloopers, right?
Well, that’s what this week was like.
Compared to previous weeks, it was spectacular! But, in the big scheme of things, we’re still way off the mark and for this time of year really sub-par.
It wasn’t a spectacular week. It was an OK week punctuated by some really great catches. Some great fish, but not great fishing. Hope that make sense.
For example, look at the size of some of these dorado! Almost all the dorado were mega-bulls in the 30-40 pound class. Trophy fish! I have never had a week of so many big bulls in decades. Until the end of the week ALL the dorado were slugger-sized fish!
Check out the tuna. Holy cow, these 40-60 pound fish are the kind that hurt you! Same with the big dog-tooth snapper.
But, these were honestly just a few boats. So that’s why I’m hedging my enthusiasm.
One boat could find the honey hole one day and the next day not get a single bite of ANYTHING. One boat couldn’t buy a fish but the boat right next to them would be bent all day long. Yes, the big roosterfish are right there, but getting and catching the big sabalo for bait was sometimes hit-or-miss. It’s difficult when you have big fish swimming right under the boat and you don’t have the right bait. One day everyone gets 40-80 pound roosterfish. The next day barely any because we can’t get the baits.
So, no…I wouldn’t say the dorado are full speed. The tuna…there were only a handful. I’ll concede that there fishing is actually GOOD when EVERY boat is catching fish. And that’s just not the case….yet!
So we got some big dorado. A smattering of big tuna. Some big dog-tooth snapper. We also got barred pargo, yellow snapper, one yellowtail, some smaller amberjack, trevally, pompano , one pargo liso, two marlin (one released), bonito, jack crevalle and at the end of the week some smaller 10 pound schoolie-sized dorado.
But, the weather continues to play a big part. It’s still very erratic and inconsistent. Warm days…cool days…hot wind…no wind…cold wind. Wind from the north. Wind from the south. Flat seas. Rough seas. I think the fish are as confused as we are.
This also affects the ability to get live bait as well. If it’s rough or too windy, it’s hard to catch live bait. Hard to fish if you don’t have bait.
So, we’ll keep plugging away and hope things catch up soon! All I can give you is an honest report.
That’s our story!
Jonathan & Jilly
755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico
U.S. Mailing Address: Tailhunter Sportfishing
8030 La Mesa Blvd. #178 La Mesa CA 91942


































































































