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