Sherriff's Officer and good friend from the San Francisco Bay area, Verda Boyd always makes it down for her birthday at the beginning of December and does well. She's holding a trophy-sized sierra here and got limits of the toothy fish...cousins to wahoo...while fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet.
We try not to get anyone's expectations too high when it comes to the kind of fish they might catch right now especially with the winds blowing, but when the winds are down, there's still some good blue water fishing here as shown by Ed Runyon who poked up some quality dorado fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet.
Captain Tim Zimmer is a fishing veteran so he knows all the tricks...like holding his sierra close to the camera to make it look bigger. (The giant hands are the giveaway) Nice try, Tim!
DORADO and SIERRA KEEP WINTER FISHING INTERESTING
La Paz/ Las Aernas Fishing Report for Week of Dec. 7-12, 2010
This week was more typical of December fishing in La Paz. Seasonal winds are the biggest variable right now in where we fish ; how we fish and what we catch. But, this is not unusual for winter.
If the winds are not blowing, we can fish both our La Paz and our Las Arenas fleets. But, that’s not usually the case and since my crystal ball doesn’t predict winds, we do about ninety percent of our fishing with our Las Arenas fleet. Not only is the fishing closer, but if the winds do kick up, at least we’re not far and generally more protected.
Likewise, if the winds aren’t blowing , the waters are still warm enough to fish for pelagic species like dorado, some tuna, wahoo and billfish. They’re not abundant, but there are still scattered blue-water fish around with dorado being the most prevalent. The nice thing about dorado is that they will come close to shore so even if it’s windy, the possibility of nailing a dorado or two while fishing close to shore is not out-of the-question.
But, if it’s windy, well…that changes the gameboard. I’d say right now about 3-5 days of the week are blustery. So, we’re fishing inshore for lots of sierra, pargo, snapper, bonito, cabrilla and other species of rock fish. There’s an occasional roosterfish as well. These are not necessarily small fish either. Some of the sierra are 5-8 pounds. Pargo and snapper can be up to 20 pounds. Bonito are…well, bonito…they act about 3 times bigger than they are!
ON A SADDER NOTE
Our condolences to the Van Wormer family. Earlier this week, Bobby Van Wormer, the Baja icon who came down when Baja was just a desert smudge as an engineer to fix boat motors and went on to build the East Cape empire that includes Hotel Palmas de Cortez, Playa de Sol and Punta Colorado passed away earlier this week. He had been battling cancer and respiratory problems. Bobby was a giant which is what it takes to survive down here and turn patches of desert into an oasis in the days when there weren’t even roads and electricity. He was a pioneer and one of the first to promote environmental conservation of the fisheries as well. And, for me, he always had a smile and I was privileged to have broken bread with him a time or two. Sadly the end of an era.
That’s our story! Stay warm!
Jonathan and Jilly
Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter International
Website: www.tailhunter-international.com
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