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La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of Aug. 29 to Sept. 4, 2010

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Tak Okamoto from Gardena CA shows off the type of football tuna that continued to rip around the waters close to shore for our Las Arenas Tailhunter fleet. The tuna have been around now for over a month with larger fish up to 100 pounds also in the mix, but clients unable to stop the fish after long battles.

Dorado for both of our fleets at Las Arenas and La Paz are here although we're still waiting for the larger bulls to show up. Normally, by this time of the year the larger 30-50 pound bulls are around, but so far, not much of a showing. Rich Schumar of Los Angeles, however, holds up on decent bull mahi caught off Punta Arenas.

Surprisingly, there are still some huge pargo running around the shallow waters and high spots despite the late season, but Craig Corda hangs one on the gaff in front of Captain Adolfo. The fish are eating chummed sardines and squid chunks.

Many are hooked...few are landed! This is one of the larger 60 pound models that we keep hooking, but so few are every landed. There are some fish that guys fight for several hours and NEVER EVER see color. And then the line breaks...or the hook pulls out. Quite a few anglers shake their heads after losing fish never realizing how powerful a tuna can pull and telling me, they only want "smaller" fish in the future. Watch what you ask for. Carlos and Captain Jorge hold the "tweener" (in between a football-sized tuna and a big toad tuna) on the beach at Las Arenas.

A good day no matter how you look at it for Chris Okamoto holding up a day's catch of tuna and dorado.

The head of a giant Humboldt squid. We're still using the big chunks for bait which has been effective on almost all our species...tuna, dorado, pargo, and cabrilla. Catching the squid has been the tough part involving pulling up the giants from as much as 1000 feet down.

It's that time of year when warm showers and tropical drizzle can show up at any time making for some great sunsets each day on the La Paz waterfront.

SOLID WEEK FOR MULTIPLE SPECIES OF FISH WHILE KEEPING AN EYE ON STORMS

La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of Aug.29 to Sept. 4, 2010

We spent a good part of the week keeping an eye on the computer wondering if a little “disturbance” about 600 miles south of La Paz was going to turn into a storm with a name. The other eye was kept on the fishing. Both turned out well!

The “storm” turned into nothing but some grey skies in the morning. The fishing turned into some of the best fishing we’ve seen. Yes, if you’ve been watching our reports this summer, you know we’ve had some stellar fishing. It actually got better this past week. Guys were getting limits of tuna so early that they spent the rest of the day releasing fish or chasing wahoo, pargo or big roosters (more on the roosters later!).

It was almost like fishing on a shopping list. You could almost pick out what kind of fish you wanted.

The tuna were nice and manageable 10-25 pounders or if you wanted to “man up” you went for the big boys that kicked your behind for 1,2 or 3 hours and generally beat you to a pulp and you lost the fish. They are still eating the chunked giant squid we’re getting or big cabllitos or cocineros or sardines.

Dorado? Lots of 10-15 pounders, but more in the 20-30 pound class that we have not been seeing most of the season. Real encouraging that we started seeing larger mahi.

Marlin? Several of our pangas caught and released multiple fish with most fish being released. Largest was about a 300 pound blue marlin caught with our La Paz fleet.

Roosterfish? Several days this week might have been the best days for BIG roosterfish we’ve ever had this year. Every panga that we had fishing Las Arenas that day hooked 2-5 roosters with the smallest being in the 30-40 pound class and the largest in the 60-70 pound class. “We had several multiple hookups!” said one of our anglers. “I’ve always wanted a rooster and that day we caught big ones but also lost several other large ones!” All roosters were released.

As long as the weather holds, we’re just coming into the high part of our season. Weather has been very very tropical the last 2 or 3 weeks. Little showers are almost a daily occurrence with some great evening lightning and incredible sunsets. So far, we’ve been lucky with no big storms All season, we’ve been talking about how the waters and weather are cooler than normal. That very phenomenon has kept the big storms away. As the storms come up from down south, they need the warm waters to keep them fueled. Instead, they are hitting the cooler waters of Baja and dissipating. Fingers crossed!

That’s our story! Have a great week!

Jonathan and Jill

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La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of Aug. 22-29, 2010

Light tackle big roosterfish for Caryn Aizawa from Pasadena CA. Captain Pancho put her on the fish near Muertos Bay just offshore. Caryn had a great 2 days of fishing taking roosters, tuna, dorado, and other species. The big roosters are still prowling the shallow waters off the beach. The big fish was released.

He came all the way from Vermont to get into the bite, but Ed Martinez nailed some great fish this week. He shows off a 70 pounder he took fishing with Capt. Jorge just off Las Arenas. Ed got another big tuna that day about the same size and his cousin dropped another big fish, but a bad back got the best of him in the middle of the fight. Ed also got several wahoo as well. The big tuna are still prowling and fresh dead squid chunks are still working, but most big fish are lost.

Tak Okamoto is "80-something-years-old" and he looks tired. But that's because he spent almost 90 minutes in the Baja sun putting the wood to this 39-pound-yellowfin as well as several other tuna. Tak is from Gardena CA

Oh to be 10-years-old again! You remember what that was like! Alex here from Sacramento holds up his first tuna on his first-time-fishing trip where he claims he "caught all the fish!"

Ron Lopez and Captain Adolfo ("Yofo") blew up the fish over 3 days. First day, Ron spanked the tuna. 2nd day he got more tuna and wahoo. Third day, Ron fought a marlin estimated at 350 pounds for the better part of the day only to have it bust off at the boat. (He was going to release it anyway). Then on the way back to the beach he dropped back a Rapala and got this wahoo!

Some guys come for years and make numerous trips trying to catch a big pargo. Luis Cardenas from Los Angeles comes down for the first time and on his first day on the water rips this huge dog tooth snapper. I can't believe we still have these big pargo running around here. Normally, pargo season is in the spring.

Just so you know we're still getting dorado...absolutely yes! Not alot of big dorado, but yes, there's dorado to be caught. Most fish are 10-20 pounders. Jack Kruse has a gaff in a decent bull. Most of the dorado fishing has been with our La Paz fleet. Our Las Arenas fleet is getting dorado as well as tuna, roosters, wahoo and other varieties.

Dave Rose from Colorado helps out his amigo, Jack Garcia from San Bernardino CA who was on his first trip to La Paz. This dorado was caught just off the beach near Punta Perrico.

Ernie Correa from S.California was also lucky enough to stick it to a big dog-tooth this week where first-timers outdid the veterans when it came to pulling on pargo. These fish are in really shallow waters right and willing to crash the surface when chummed with either live bait or dead bait.

On the flyrod! Mark Aizawa has come several times trying to get at least one dorado on his flyrod and finally succeeded on getting this one to hit his pattern and was kept for dinner. I get asked often how come I don't post up more flyfishing photos. It's not that we don't get flyfishers. It's that most of the catch gets released so unless the shot is taken on the panga, there's no fish to photograph on the beach! I personally rarely get on one of our pangas with flyfishers since with all the gear and all the lines shooting all over the place, there's no room for two flyfishers, me and the captain without me getting in the way. Plus, I'm a real hack on the flyrod anway. I stink. I play golf better than I flyfish! It's a real art.

For dorado fishing, ninety percent of our catch with our Tailhunter La Paz fleet has been on dorado. Karen Kruse from Sacramento poses at Balandra Beach for photos and fish cleaning with two of her limits of dorado.

This is the whacked fish story of the week. Take a look at this 45 pound fish and our Captain Armando. . For several weeks we've been telling people how close the big fish are to shore. No one believes us. Captain Armando was running his panga up onto the sand, he was trailing a chunk of big squid. Now...a bunch of clients saw this...suddenly a big tuna comes greyhounding out of the water chasing after the panga! The big fish was so intent on getting the squid and so hungry, the crazy thing charged right up onto the sand where a bunch of captains and clients tackled it like a fumbled football at the Super Bowl. Here's Captain Armando with the proof. Everyone was talking about the crazy tuna! This tuna was only about 20 yards off the beach when it got fired up and turned on the jets! That's Cerralvo Island in the background. Flat as a lake out here! As I heard the story again from several sources, some of the guys thought they saw a big marlin just off shore that appeared to be feading so maybe this tuna was just trying to get out of the feeding zone!

HURRICANE FRANK PETERS AFFECTS FISHING WITH WAVES AND WIND BUT NO RAIN AND MOSTLY A FAIRLY SOLID WEEK OF FISHING!

La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of Aug. 22-29, 2010

It’s the end of summer and town is almost empty as folks head back to school and higher humidity even keeps the locals indoors until late at night when the sun goes down and the breezes cool things down. However, there’s still alot of fishermen coming down and except for a few day when Hurricane Frank threatened, it was a pretty good week of fishing. Some guys had spectacular weeks of fishing. For others it was little scratchy depending on what you wanted to catch.

The hurricane popped up about mid-week about 600 km south of La Paz and kept us all glued to the news and our computers. It eventually petered out, but not before disrupting the fishing for a day or two with large swells and winds. We still caught fish but it was far off the kind of fishing we’d been having.

Except for that glitch, it was pretty good fishing. Wahoo continued to be a bonus at the north and south ends of Cerralvo Island. Using big chunks of giant squid, tuna between 10 and 80 pounds could be caught within yards of the beach. Marauding schools of free-swimming dorado could pop up at any time or be found in the current lines or around the buoys in a number of spots. Big roosters were in the surf and trophy pargo kept boiling. Great variety!

Live bait is still an issue for our Las Arenas fleet, but relatively speaking the fresh giant squid we’re using works just fine! Chunking the squid has produced almost all the fish you see here in the report with no complaints! The only part that’s a pain-in-the-crack, is catching the darned things. These critters can be up to 70 pounds and catching them 1000 feet down. It’s not exactly like pulling up a dead weight…these things will fight all the way up and it’s crazy starting your day dripping sweat in the Baja sun…I mean it’s fun…but this is just to catch bait! If someone offers to sell it to you…jump on it!

About the only things that aren’t eating the sqiud are the wahoo. Several days the wahoo were thick enough on the surface that guys said they were freeswimming around the pangas, but wouldn’t take any baits. Wahoo are a bit like cats. If you have a ball just sitting on the carpet, the cat isn’t interested. If you ROLL the ball past the cat, it attacks. Wahoo seem to be the same way.

It’s that time of year when tropical rain storms can come up at any time. Nothing big. But, it’s not unusual to get a few minutes of rain a day or enough to mess up your windshield of your car. It’s warm and usually doesn’t affect the fishing. But, we keep an eye on it every day.

That’s our story!

Jonathan and Jill

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