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La Paz – Las Arenas / Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of AUGUST 2-9, 2015

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Scott Pitts is a pro fishing guide from Oregon and he and his wife, Sara, came down specifically to jump on some roosters! This particular day, they caught and released big fish including this great double hook-up!

Lots of Oregon amigos lately! Ken Chaplin is a hunting outfitter and did good on the roosters and dorado like this really colorful bull dorado!

Big smiles with Captain Joel and Scott Pitts for a big striped marlin they caught north of La Paz Bay and released.

The man behind the mask is our Seattle amigo, Dustin Chaplin, with another big fat roosterfish. Caught and released several nice ones.

NICE WEEK OF FISHING!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Aug. 2-9, 2015

I think this looks like the summer pattern for the season. Maybe in a few weeks it will change, but for now, it appears that the fishing reports are getting pretty consistent. Hot humid weather with occasional afternoon showers. Great beach days and fishing fairly solid for three main species…rooster fish…dorado…and billfish.

LAS ARENAS

Still earning it’s nickname as the “Roosterfish Capital of the World.” If you’re targeting rooster fish, it’s been an excellent season for them. Some days are better than others, but overall, if pez gallos are on your bucket list and you have a day or two, you’ve got a good shot at taking in a trophy. There’s some fun little dinky-guys in Bahia de Los Suenos running a 1-3 pounds that are a hoot on light tackle and flyrods.

Then…there are the beasty boyz!

The rest of the fish are tackle busters. The “smaller ones” are 25-30 pounds. The larger ones are up to 60 pounds. And they get larger! We have caught them over 100 pounds through the years and some big guys have been lost. The world record 114-pounder was taken in this area.

The key is having either sabalo (ladyfish) or caballito (jacks) for bait. On the days when it was a little too windy or bumpy to get the baits, those were the days when the rooster bite was off. But, if you have the baits in the tanks, then you’d better buckle in. The fish surprise alot of people to find fish this size literally just a few yards off the beach in shallow water. The baits themselves can be as big as 12 inches. So, anything that can put a 12-inch bait in it’s mouth is gonna be big!

Beyond that, some billfish getting hooked and a few school dorado and cabrilla.

LA PAZ

Fishing with our Tailhunter La Paz fleet, the dorado have been the highlight. There’s several spots north of La Paz Bay that are holding lots of fish. That’s the good news. The bad news is that so many of the fish are 5 pounders. Ready to eat anything you throw at them and there’s plenty of action. There’s larger ones hanging out up to about 20 pounds, but the little “doraditos” are so plentiful, the larger ones don’t get the chance. However, I will say that more of the bigger fish came up later in the week and it was a marked improvement!

Still, we’re hooking some larger ones each week and the smaller ones are providing lots of fun action so everyone gets bent.

For other species, with so many little dorado around, the billfish are feeding in the same areas on the small dorado so we’re hooking marlin and sails in the same areas as the dorado. Big bonito also that pull like freight trains.

Inshore, the waters are getting almost too warm, but there’s still some pargo and cabrilla along the rocks as well as smaller rooster fish.

GOOD HEART SHOUT OUTS!

High-five’s to this week’s big hearts who brought down stuff in their empty bags and ice chests for Jill’s “Pack for a Purpose” program to benefit needy kids here in La Paz!

Just-in-time for the school year for kids that can’t get supplies, John Christofferson, who runs a huge barbecue catering biz in Las Vegas showed up with some great stuff for Jill’s Pack for a Purpose Charity.

The Chacon Family (Rich, Hector, Lauren and friend Izzy) can give anyone a lesson in how to cram a ton of stuff into small places! Every year, they bring down clothes, supplies, school materials and so much more for the kids!

He’s got a sly smile, but a big heart…Paul Zech with son, Mike, from Oregon come to see us every year and pose with Jill and a big load of things for the kids! Thanks, guys!

That’s our story! Have a great week!

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website:

www.tailhunter-international.com

Mexico Office: Tailhunter International, 755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico

U.S. Mailing Address: Tailhunter International, 8030 La Mesa Blvd. #178, La Mesa CA 91942

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from USA : 626-638-3383

from Mexico: 044-612-14-17863

Tailhunter Weekly Fishing Report: https://fishreport.jonathanroldan.com/

Tailhunter YouTube Videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/pangapirate

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La Paz – Las Arenas / Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of July 26 to Aug. 1, 2015

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Big smile from amigo and hunting guide, Ken Chaplin from Oregon, who finally made it down to visit us and was able to check several boxes off his bucket list including “big roosters.” It was a good week for it. Ken caught and released several.

Wade Ralston is a pro fishing guide and light tackle expert from Washington (Happy Birthday, amigo!) and he had a kick on the light rods with dorado, big fast bonito and a bunch of other species out’ve La Paz Bay.

Dave Schneider was on his first trip with us here in La Paz from San Jose CA. He’s here with Captain Victor and a big roosterfish. He caught several this week and released them all, but this one swallowed the hook and couldn’t be released. He donated the meat. Roosterfish rocked alot of anglers this week!

Big rooster for Dustin Chaplin from the Seattle WA area. Dustin came down with his dad and they got into some nice roosters this week and caught and released several nice ones like this with our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet.

Texas in the house! Long-time amigo, Dave Hill spent the week parked on the dorado out’ve La Paz and poses with another fish while fishing with Captain Boli.

The man behind the mask is our amigo, Larry Barnard, from El Segungo CA! Larry got into the roosters this past week and shows off another fish he released.

He visits us every year! Captain John Seidensticker with our own Captain Jorge and some of the better grade dorado from Bahia de Los Muertos.

First-timer from the Bay Area, Joe Hill had a blast this week catching his first dorado fishing all week with our Tailhunter La Paz fleet and Captain Boli.

ROOSTERFISH…MARLIN…DORADO IN THE FULL MOON

La Paz – Las Arenas / Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of July 26-Aug. 1, 2015

Fishing was steady this week, if not spectacular. Everyone got fish, even with the big blue moon full on. There were some blustery days and a bit of swell generated by a big storm far to the south, but no rain or bad weather at all. On the contrary, it was hot and humid. Waters looked good. Like I said, everyone got fish with the three main species being roosters, dorado and marlin. The good thing is that for the most part, if you were hunting for a certain species and had a day or two to pursue them, you got what you were looking for. So, the folks that wanted a marlin, got a marlin…or a rooster…or had fun with dorado! That’s all good!

LAS ARENAS

Again, this is why they call it the rooster fish capital of the world. The roosters generally, did not disappoint. The “smaller roosters” this week were in the 30 pound class. The larger ones were good-sized 50-60 pounders with larger roosters lost! Most days, if you were looking for a rooster, you got one…or two…or three! Great to check off the bucket list! The only days when the roosters were tough were the days it was windy and it was hard to get bait.

And that’s the issue. Bait is still tough to get out there. The larger baits like caballitos, mackerel and lady fish are great and most days you can get a handful to try for a rooster or marlin. But the smaller baits like the sardines are hard to come by.

So, beyond the roosters, we’re getting some OK-sized 10-15 pound dorado. Many are the 5 pound class. There’s also small roosters in Muertos Bay around 5 pounds that are a hoot on light tackle or flyrod. There’s also some smaller pargo, cabrilla, triggerfish and such along the rocks that are great eating.

LA PAZ

If you want to put fillets in the ice chest, fishing with our La Paz Fleet is best. Most days, it’s limits or near limits of dorado around the areas north of La Paz and around Espirito Santo Island. The fish are slow to get bigger. Lots of dinks unfortunately, in the 5-10 pound class, but some are getting bigger. We finally got into a few in the 20 pound class, but few and far between. This is more like May fishing than August fishing! But, in terms of just action, it’s hard to resist a school of hungry dorado slamming around the panga.

Actually, the big bonito are larger than the dorado and surely a zillion times more powerful. Lots of 10-15 pound bonito around that are just beating the heck out’ve our light tackle guys mixed in with some 25 pound jack crevalle.

I think because we have so many little dorado around, it’s also keeping the marlin around as well. Like I said earlier, if you’re looking for a marlin, this past week was a good one to get it off the bucket list. Everyone who wanted a marlin at least had a hook-up or two and all fish this week were released. Most of the marlin were stripers going 100-150 pounds. We did have two blue marlin on for awhile that might’ve gone 200 pounds before they busted off.

There’s still some decent action on pargo and cabrilla in the coves around the islands and reefs although not sure how much longer that will last with the warming waters. Guys have a kick this week on the light tackle trying to pull them outta the rocks.

I BLEW IT!

Last week, I incorrectly said this was my amigo, Larry Barnard , holding the big rooster. FAIL! It’s Matt Iacabelli from Florida who was on the boat with Larry! Apologies to both amigos! Nice fish, Matt! It’s still an awesome photo! Larry is actually pictures above!

PACK FOR A PURPOSE

Shout out to Joe and Dave Hill who brought down a bunch of stuff for our kid’s charities. Thanks guys. Also, to Dave Schneider who brought down an ice chest full of stuff as well, but I didn’t have my camera with me! You guys are all great!

That’s our story!

Jonathan and Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website:

www.tailhunter-international.com

Mexico Office: Tailhunter International, 755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico

U.S. Mailing Address: Tailhunter International, 8030 La Mesa Blvd. #178, La Mesa CA 91942

Phones:

from USA : 626-638-3383

from Mexico: 044-612-14-17863

Tailhunter Weekly Fishing Report: https://fishreport.jonathanroldan.com/

Tailhunter YouTube Videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/pangapirate

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La Paz – Las Arenas / Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of July 19-26, 2015

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Gary Boote New Zealand rooster 7-15 tags

Making the most of just enough time to squeeze in a day of fishing, Gary Boote from New Zealand landed this hug fat roosterfish then released it. Big roosters have been great all week. e

From Washington, Kyler Whitlow got a great graduation present before heading to college next month. He came down with long-time amigo, Mike Whitlow, Kyler’s stepdad who also happens to be a pro-bass fisherman. They had a great week and we enjoyed them both!

Something to crow about! Big rooster for Larry Barnard from El Segundo CA who rocked this big rooster and did C.P.R. on it (catch…photo…release). Nicely done. He got several.

You gotta love Rebecca Jennings’ facial expression as Captain Luis hoist the biggest dorado of the week for her! The big mahi was estimated between 35-40 pounds. Rebecca visits us every year from Arkansas.

I know this is a BIG fish because Chris Barnard is a BIG GUY! Flat seas…sunshine…and big roosters! A good day. Caught and released!

This amiga can hang with the best of them! Wendy Ralston from Washington fished hard all week and out-fished many of the guys. Check out this nice mahi from La Paz.

Our “TEAM PROFESSOR.” Two of our favorites have been visiting us for years. Professor Mark Marcus now lives in Tennessee and Professor Llew Williams now calls Florida home. They got a nice rack of dorado and a pargo fishing out’ve Bahia de Los Muertos.

This is a great shot of Captain Archangel having a laugh with Mike Majors and Mike’s big roosterfish. Mike’s from Arkansas and he released this nice gallo.

Ungaro family John, Nicholas John Raul dorado tags 7-15

Nothing like starting ’em early and these school-sized dorado are perfect for the family! John Ungaro from San Pedro CA had two days on the water and shows off some of their dorado with boys Nicholas and younger John Raul.

Don’t let the size fool you. Pargo are some of the toughest fish to nail out’ve the rocks and they get much bigger, but even tougher on light tackle and Wade Ralston from Washington is a light tackle specialist. I think he must have gotten about 10 different species all week on light tackle and is shown here with Captain Raul.

I might have to frame this photo! I don’t have many photos of popular Captain Boli giving off a good belly-laugh but he and our amigo, John Olson recently retired from a career with Disney, got into a school of small jacks and roosters and had themselves a ball.

Tough kid! Aristotle Chang from Vancouver, Canada got a 450 pound marlin last year with his dad. Nothing quite so big this year, but he had fun with dorado and big bonito.

Katie Olson with another dorado and a picture-postcard photo after a day of fishing with out Tailhunter La Paz fleet. Always good to have her and husband, John, visiting us.

I promised Alex Trasvina that I would post his photo with Mario Ayala from Chula Vista CA on this week’s report with their dorado. So…there you go, Alex! Thanks!!!

Our buddy, Alex Trasvina from San Diego (white shirt in front) always brings a fun group of guys every year, but last year they showed up just as a hurricane broke on our heads and we all had to come back and cancel all the fishing. But this year…all went smooth so we toasted a bunch of beer in the Tailhunter store!

Shout outs to Mike and Diane Shyrock from Washington who came down with a bunch of great stuff for the kids and Jill’s “Pack for a Purpose” program. Thanks to you both for the big hearts!

I’ve known Ken Chaplin from Oregon for many years as Ken is a S. African hunting outfitter. He got to finally bring his son, Dustin, down to get some fishing in but packed a few ice chests with clothes, school supplies and sporting goods for the kids! Wow!

BIG ROOSTERS and DORADO BEND RODS!

La Paz – Las Arenas (Muertos Bay) Fishing Report for Week of July 19-26, 2015

Another “go figure” week as fish defied general logic, but at least were co-operative. The week also saw us watching another storm come and go (Leticia) that gave us a few rain showers and some wind, but that was it. Everyone caught fish. Everyone who wanted to bring home fish brought home fish. Maybe not the species they wanted or the size they wanted, but everyone pretty much having fun and leaving with smiles and good memories…so all-in-all-a good week! Just wish the weather would make put it’s mind! One day blazing sunshine. Next day clouds. Like I said, “Go figure.”

LAS ARENAS/ MUERTOS BAY

Bait continues to be a problem. Quite honestly, unless you’re chasing billfish or bonito and maybe a few dorado, there’s not much else going on. Of course, this could change any day! That’s just the way it is here.

But…as we say here “Gracias a Dios!” (thank God!)…the rooster fish are here. Man, the rooster fish have saved more than one fishing day or frankly, they have made an entire trip. Our “smallest roosters” this week were 35 pounders. Our larger ones were ticking the 70-pound range. Lifetime trophy fish! They are big and they are mean and most are getting released too. Anything that can chow-down a 12-18 inch ladyfish as bait has GOT TO BE BIG! There’s a reason they call this “Roosterfish Alley” and “Roosterfish Capital of the World.”

LA PAZ

Dorado are leading the charge. Limits or near limits for most of our fishermen most days. Some days coming back early. But good steady action. Dorado seem to be getting bigger each week. Fewer sinks and better 10-15 pounders (still small by our standards) but some larger 20-30 pounders getting hooked and occasionally brought in. Billfish also around as well. Inshore, some decent pargo and cabrilla fishing still available as well for those with the patience and hand-eye coordination to pull them outta the rocks!

That’s our story!

Jonathan and Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website:

www.tailhunter-international.com

Mexico Office: Tailhunter International, 755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico

U.S. Mailing Address: Tailhunter International, 8030 La Mesa Blvd. #178, La Mesa CA 91942

Phones:

from USA : 626-638-3383

from Mexico: 044-612-14-17863

Tailhunter Weekly Fishing Report: https://fishreport.jonathanroldan.com/

Tailhunter YouTube Videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/pangapirate

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of July 12-19, 2015

Show -and-tell! When 15-year-old, Brett Vitale from San Diego goes back to school, he might have at least one pretty good story to tell! With Captain Gerardo, he tore it up with this big time roosterfish that he caught and released! Same day, his brother caught a 180 pound blue marlin.

Flyrod grins for Randy Skedgel , who has citrus farms in Central California. Randy had a great week on the flyrod with dorado, roosterfish, cabrilla, pargo, and even a wahoo.

San Luis Obispo in the house with 3 big dorado days for Bill White and Mark Davis holding up a pair of young bull dorado!

Two of our long-time best amigos, Barry Wood and Mike Kelly, from Orange Co. California with some great eats! Barry is holding a prized pargo mulatto (barred pargo) and Mike is holding a bull dorado. Thanks to them as well for bringing a bunch of stuff for the kids and also some chocolate for Jill!!!

Andrea Reynolds 7-14 dorado rogelio tags

Andrea Reynolds from San Luis Obispo came for a week of diving with us, but took a few days for fishing and had a big smile with Captain Rogelio and another dorado in the boat.

Fire Captain Dave Castanon from La Verne CA has been fishing with us from the beginning! It’s always great to see him and his family. Dave has his fingers in the gills for a couple of nice dorado.

Good week for marlin. Jose Lopez and his dad, Sal, hold up a striper they took off Las Arenas on a bait. The fish was not able to be released and they donated good chunks of meat.

First timer, Dane Mrazek from the Sacrament CA area had himself a crazy week with limits or dorado every single day for 5 days! He’s got a nice pair here posing on the beach at Balandra!

HURRICANE DOLORES MISSES – BUT AFFECTS SOME OF THE FISHING! (BUT NOT ALL!)

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of July 12-19, 2015

No doubt about it, an odd-sort of week for fishing. Much of the week was spent watching the weather websites and satellite images wondering how Hurricane Dolores was going to unfold. Or not.

You just never can tell. Early on, it looked ominous as the storm developed and made it’s way north gathering power. We cringed a bit as this was one of our busiest weeks with a full house of fishermen, divers and families. Early predictions has as much as 4 days of rain coming down on us. Sure we need the rain, but we surely don’t need it in hurricane force and surely not ruining vacations. So, there was alot of trepidation and anxiety about it.

However, as the week went on, Dolores veered out and north. Thankfully. I’m sure up the Pacific Coast, surfers were ecstatic.

For us, it was a mixed bag. We ended up with a few windy and bumpy days, especially for our Las Arenas anglers and then we had about 30 minutes of hard rain followed by some intermittent showers on Friday. And that was it. More or less. Still beats a full-fledged hurricane!

LAS ARENAS/ BAHIA DE LOS MUERTOS

Really poor fishing this past week. I think the epic historic wahoo bite of 2015 is officially dead and gone. It’s been an incredible two months. There’s still a few fish out there, but we only hooked one this week. Bait has been an issue. Once again, like last week, there’s big fish…or there’s nothing. That meant some good action on marlin…blues…blacks and sailfish. Or big rooster fish. And that was pretty much it. The rest of the catch was triggerfish and bonito and an occasional dorado.

By the latter part of the week, wind and waves generated by Hurricane Dolores to the south made it pretty rugged to fish. It as pretty ugly. That didn’t help much. Which is also why it’s a good thing we have two fleets…so we can move folks around to where conditions and fishing are better.

LA PAZ

There were a few rough days as Hurricane Dolores got closer, but for the most part, other than some bump and a little rain for less than an hour, this is where all the action was happening. The nice thing about us having our two fleets is that when one side isn’t happening like the way Las Arenas was scratchy this week, we were able to move lots of our clients to our La Paz fleet and get into some good action.

Truthfully, still ALOT of smaller dorado…under 10 pounds. But crazy good action mostly! Some days catch and release as fast as you could go. A few days some of the boats were back before lunch with limits of dorado and having released another limit or two. Great light tackle stuff. Also, some of the larger dorado started to mix in with some 15-30 pound bulls getting hooked. Fishing got better as the week went on. Additionally, a few striped marlin and sails hooked every day as well as blue and hammerhead sharks plus a blue marlin as well. Pargo, triggers, cabrilla and rooster fish inshore to give some variety.

NOTE:

Just a head’s up…no hurricanes on the radar, but early predictions are showing maybe some thundershowers mid-week!

GOOD GUY SHOUT OUTS!

Our “Pack for a Purpose” program keeps rolling along and has been such a success now for almost 2 years. Another big shout-out on behalf of the Battered Women’s Shelter and the FANLAP orphanages to our generous amigos who filled up their empty coolers on the way down and brought much-needed things for Jill’s charities. Hugs to all of you!

Enough to start a school! Rebecca Jennings (Arkansas), Wade and Wendy Ralston (WA), our own Jilly, Mike and Kyler Whitlow (WA) and Mike Majors (Arkansas) standing with bags and bags of donations for the kids!

Just retired from a zillion years working for Disney all over the world, John and Katie Olson paid to have a huge box of toys and other incredible goods shipped down with them to donate to Pack for a Purpose!

Two of our best! Mike Kelly and Barry Wood, flank Jilly with a table load of school supplies they packed down as donations!

Big hearts from Oregon standing with Jilly…Gary, Bob, Jo and Phil always come visit us and we’re grateful!

Cheers! Two professors in the house! Mark Marcus (Tennessee) and Llew Williams (Florida) are retired college professors and long-time friends. Balls…hats…schools supplies and toys for the kids! Always great to seen them!

That’s our story!

Jonathan and Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of July 5-12, 2015

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Amiga from Colorado, Dolores Ehlers has been coming to see us in La Paz for years and finally got to cross off a roosterfish from her bucket list. She got this beauty with Captain Pancho and lost an even larger one before this! Big rooster was released. See the video of the catch below.

Tyler Vitale blue marlin family tags 7-15

Tyler Vitale (without his shirt) had quite a day. From Escondido CA the eighteen-year-old was just about at the end of his fishing day at Bahia de Los Muertos with brother Brett and dad, Todd, along with Captain Rogelio when he got tagged with this nice blue marlin estimated at 160 pounds! On 60 pound test, he fought the fish for 2 hours! They also caught and released two roosterfish as well.

This is just spectacular! Randy Skedgel had an off-the-chart week on the flyrood taking 17 different species of fishing on the flyrod including dorado, roosterfish and on the last day…A WAHOO! Hard enough to do it on conventional tackle, but he knocked it down with a flyrod right off Punta Perrico!

Blue Marlin Tom Warbington tags small 7-15

Tom Warbington has fished all over the world. He’s from Georgia and had two fish on his bucket list. One was a roosterfish…we got two of them. Then, he really wanted a striped marlin. He had already caught a blue and a black. So, we sent him off with Captain Chito. Well…he didn’t get a marlin. HE GOT THREE! He released two nice striped marlin and kept this estimated 225 pounder.

Oregon in the house. First day…first fish! Nicely done . John Titman holds up one of the few wahoo we got this week. Over several days of fishing, John got 10 different species of fish.

A really unsual catch! Good amigo, from Temple City CA, Norm Fulco fishes with us 1-2 times a year for many years and on light tackle with Captain Pancho got this very unusual white marlin. Only the 2nd time in all my years here that I’ve seen one. Great eating.

You never forget that first one! Danny Morales had never been to Mexico, let alone go fishing, but he gets a thumbs up for his first ever dorado. The first of a number of fish he caught that day.

Another of our guys who wanted to target a marlin, Devon Boatman with Captain Raul caught and released a lively striper fishing out’ve La Paz near Espirito Santo Island. Great photo.

Nothing wrong with this catch! John Ehleres with some HUGE triggerfish he brought back to the Taiilhunter Restaurant and had us whip it into a huge plate of ceviche that he shared with Captain Pancho the next day.

We were definitely seeing some better dorado action this week and some better fish like this one taken outside La Paz Bay by Marcelo Llerena. They got a nice limit.

rooster randy skedgel flyfishing tags 7-15

Another one on the flyrod for Randy Skedgel who has a huge citrus ranch in central California. Check out the size of the fish and how close to shore he caught it!

HUGE 30+ pound jack crevalle for our long-time friends from Santa Barbara Bob and Sergio off La Paz Bay. Tough fighter. Good amigos!

WINDY RUGGED SCRATCHY FISHING BUT MORE DORADO SHOW…FINALLY!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of July 5-12 2015

It wasn’t an easy week of fishing these past few days. Morning winds generated by some storms to the south and rain to the north put is in the middle of some blustery weather, especially in the mornings. This made for some over-turned greener waters and a tough time getting bait some days. But, even when we had bait, the fish seemed lock-jawed, but the fish were there, but some times just we not eating. Crazy because last week we had the full moon, the fish were on the chew much better. There’s a couple of storms to the south that we’re keeping an eye on to see if they’re developing into something.

LAS ARENAS

Once again, big fish or nothing. And there’s fewer bigger fish than smaller fish. So, you got a shot at a big one…or you didn’t. If you lost your fish, well, that might be it for the day. It was a struggle all week.

The epic wahoo bite of 2015 seems to have tapered off. There’s still wahoo in the area, but nothing like we had seen. They were hit or miss. We got a few. Lost a few. A few weeks ago, every panga was hooked 1-3 or more wahoo per day! This week, we only got a handful.

There were a few marlin hooked and lost and inshore small cabrilla and pargo. We get a nice blue at the end of the week (See Tyler’s fish above) and a rare white marlin (See Norm’s photo above). We keep hearing there some breezing tuna outside by the commercial guys, but the fish are fast-movers and don’t stick around long enough to get on them.

The best thing we had going were the rooster fish. That’s why they call this “Roosterfish Alley” and the “Roosterfish Capital of the World.” We didn’t get many but the ones we got were the larger 40-60 pound models. And some small schoolie fish as well.

There were a few more dorado around which says alot since we’ve had almost zero dorado out’ve the area all year, but most of the fish are punky 5-10 pound schoolies, but one day they are there and the next they are gone. Should get better.

LA PAZ

This is where our better action has been. The dorado schools are keeping the rods bent, but this past week was still scratchier than normal. Strong morning winds that didn’t slack off until late morning or early afternoon, didn’t help at all. So, if the bite happened, it was a late bite. The guys really had to work at it and our captains chased and moved constantly looking for the bite. If you found it, hours of boredom were suddenly topped by frantic minutes of madness when the whole school attacked. Some larger fish this week with 15-25 pounders around, but still lots of smaller fish. Hopefully, the bite will get stronger next week because this past week was off it’s game. It did seem that late in the week, the dorado got more cooperative with more limits of fish.

Inshore, some good spots of cabrilla, pargo and snapper still about and there were a few days when the marlin went nuts and almost every boat had at least one hook up!

PACK FOR A PURPOSE

Jilly with Mike “Sir Boy” Kelly and Barry Wood from Orange Co. CA who brought two huge ice chest full of school supplies for the kids!

Sam and his wife, Kelly Sybesma are both teachers and came down with a big laod of schools supplies and hygiene products. Jill has a big smile with Sam. Thanks to you both!

Since last year, Jill’s program that she instituded called “Pack for a Purpose” whereby angler fill their empty ice chests with things for charity has produced hundreds of pounds of things for the needy especially for the two orphanages and the Women’s Shelter we support. Every week, our anglers with big hearts keep us mindful of our blessings with so many great things for the foundations! Thanks to all!

That’s our story!

Jonathan and Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website:

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Mexico Office: Tailhunter International, 755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico

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La Paz – Las Arenas / Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of June 27-July 4, 2015

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WHOAAA! LAST MINUTE! Just when I was about to write off the awesome wahoo bite of the last 2 months as “over and done,” today Sunday, our guys found the wahoo again! Chris Settevendemie from Paso Robles CA and Captain Archangel might have had some special “help.” He was here at Bahia de los Muertos to spread dad’s ashes. Dad musta been riding along. Chris ripped 3 wahoo today!

On his first visit here last year, Rusty Cain got caught in the middle of Hurricane Odile last September! He’s back and nailed this gorgeous wahoo today with his wife Caroline just when I thought there were no more wahoo! Great catch just before I put this report to press!

Great roosterfish week and no one had a better one that Alecia and Bennett Clegg from Sacramento CA. In 3 days, they hooked and released 7 up to forty pounds and also lost another 7. Plus they got other fish too! (See below). They were having so much fun, the extended their vacation another 3 nights! Here’s Alecia with another big rooster and Captain Victor smiles on!

Retired U.S. Army Sgt. and educator, Tom Rautert from Tucson AZ started his week out right with two of these big roosterfish off Cerralvo Island that tuckered him out a bit more than expected (in a good way!). That’s Cerralvo Island behind him. All fish were released!

Despite the full moon, the marlin went pretty crazy this week. Most of the were released when possible. But, in some cases, they were so voracious they charged whatever baits were in the water or whatever lures were out there and fought each other to get at the offering…which also meant they were swallowing hooks and it made it harder to release. First timer from Utah, Dave Gasser had a great week including his first-time striper with Captain Armando!

An armload of forty + pound amberjack for Scott Hillier who took this fatty outside of Bahia de Los Muertos with Captain Adolfo driving the boat.

As mentioned above, it was a crazy week with marlin going voracious on the full moon! Diego and Kelly Jimenez from Loveland CO, had a double hookup simultaneously when trying to troll for wahoo! Both lines screaming in opposite directions! They got both to the boat, but both fish had swallowed the Rapalas with their treble hooks making release impossible. They donated the meat. With Captain Jorge.

In addition to a banner week on roosterfish, Bennett Clegg also put a striper in the boat that couldn’t be released. That’s pretty touch to hold up a marlin like that!

Not many wahoo this week, but Brent Hillier managed to get one landed! Nice fish for our amigo from Colorado!

Just a beautiful photo of another rooster before it gets unhooked and released. Pretty water. Pretty fish! Thanks for the shot, Bennett!

Beast mode! Another big rooster for Bennett…he got seven of them all released! Check out the flat waters!

Yes, dorado have been biting, but hardly any for our Las Arenas boats. All the dorado have been school-sized fish with our La Paz fleet! Alecia holds up a pretty one. They got near limits.

Big shout out gracias to so many of our folks who keep bringing in supplies for our “Pack for a Purpose” program that Jill initiated whereby empty bags and ice chests are brought down but filled with stuff for the kids and families in need at shelters and orphanages. Diego and Kelly Jimenez brought down a bunch of school supplies and also a gorgeous mermaid painting for Jill and I. Big hearts!

Sgt. Tom Rautert (ret.) always does it right. He stuff a suitcase full of kids stuff for our “Pack for a Purpose” program and our veteran poses with Jilly at Tailhunters! Thanks, Tom!

FULL MOON BUT ROOSTERFISH AND MARLIN REALLY LIGHT IT UP!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of June 27-July 4, 2015

Depending on what you were fishing for and whether you were fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas or our La Paz fleet, it was a pretty good week of fishing. Summer is definitely here with hot sunny skies and warm blue waters. Summer vacation has started for the La Paz school kids so it’s a pretty festive time to be here because everyone is out right now! And we also had a full moon that some think adversely affects the fishing. Not this week!

LAS ARENAS

Usually, Las Arenas is where we send our clients to catch variety…get bent…have a little fun close to shore. Everyone catches fish. It’s a good area to start fishing on a fishing vacation. There’s alot of species and lots of live bait to play with. After fishing here and having some fun and putting some fish in the ice chests, then we go fish with our Tailhunter La Paz fleet and look for bigger fish!

Well, this year, it seems just the opposite.

All the larger fish are at Las Arenas. And there are no “small fish.” Because it’s mostly the larger fish, there are fewer fish. You get one or two shots at at trophy and that might be it for the day. Or one boat might have all the luck on a given day while the boat next to it might get some needlefish, triggers and a bonito. You hit home runs or you strike out.

And that’s how it’s been.

But, the trophies are NICE!

This week the marlin woke up! For many of our folks they got their first shots at billfish and there were several days where each of our pangas hooked at least one marlin. Quite a few lost, but many others were caught and released. The problem is that it’s like the marlin woke up from a Rip Van Winkle Sleep! They are voracious! Guys have told me the marlin were everywhere and swimming around the pangas. They are actually trying to get away from them. The fish are charging just about any bait or lure in the water without hesitation and even fighting each other to get to a bait or lure. The problem with that is they we found the fish are literally swallowing everything WHOLE! That makes it tough to release when hooks and lures are so deep! One of our guys even told me that his hat blew into the water and as it blew away a marlin swirled on it!

Likewise, the rooster fish have been on fire! Not uncommon to hit 2, 3, 4 or 5 roosters in the 20-50 pound class each day with all fish being released. It seems the full moon turned them on also. Around Punta Arenas and on the south eastern side of Cerralvo there are some hot spots. There’s also some wahoo still around and we’ve taken a few fat amberjack and pargo too. However, I think our incredible epic wahoo bite that we enjoyed the last two months may have finally run it’s course! It had to end sometime…darnit! The past week or so only a smidgen of wahoo even biting.

HOLD EVERYTHING...just as I’m putting the finishing touches on my Sunday night fishing report, our Las Arenas boats come in from the day…AND THEY HAVE WAHOO! One panga had THREE (See above photos). One had another wahoo and another lost a wahoo. So, maybe all is not lost! WAHOO!

LA PAZ

Normally, this is the “big fish area” as mentioned above. However, the last few weeks, this has turned into the “action zone.” Dorado have finally come around nicely. Lots of little fish, but some larger 15-20 pounders now showing up and not unusual to get limits or near limits daily. Marlin and sails are in the same areas as the dorado since they are eating the smaller dorado plus quite a few sharks hooked as well. Inshore, cabrilla and pargo and big snapper as well as rooster fish have made for some nice variety.

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La Paz – Las Arenas (Muertos Bay) Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of June 21-28, 2015

Spencer Sawaske started his fishing week out on a high note right off the bat with Captain Jorge by sticking this nice wahoo.

Captain Mike Gravert who runs Intimidator Sportfishing on the Sacramento Delta knows how to put fish in the boat and this pig of a pargo liso got yanked ou’tve the rocks…a pretty awesome feat…by Mike near Bahia de Los Muertos!

Our amiga, Michele Conklin from Spokane WA with her first big catch-and-release rooster. Here with Captain Jorge.

First-timer, Cullen Hennessey with dad, Brian, put the hurt on this big-time amberjack that went about 45 pounds. Captain Pancho poses up!

The man they call, “Ranchero.” Rich Sawaske with a tasty tough barred pargo he pulled from the rocks near Espirito Santo Island.

Dave Conklin tried to “lend a hand” with his wife, Michele’s big wahoo while Captain Jorge shows how to do it correctly.

Great amigo, Craig Corda, is always smiling especially when he’s holding a big fish like this fat rooster caught and released near Bahia de los Muertos.

Utah in the house! First timer, Lorna Gasser with Captain Armando and two dorado to start the trip!

Headed for the dinner plate! Two great eating rockfish…a dog-tooth snapper and barred pargo for Randy Forrestiere.

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Kudos again to Bill Jubb for the big heart. At our recent Western Outdoor News/ Tailhunter Sportfishing Panga Slam event and tournament, Bill won $600. He turned around and paid for everyone’s dinners at the last night dinner, but also donated the bulk of the money to our FANLAP scholarship fund with enough money to send two kids to high school. As a result several other participants also donated additional funds raising enough to send 3 kids to school who otherwise wouldn’t have a chance. We’re grateful and blessed. Thanks, Bill. Thanks, Malina, Dave, Michele and Dave!

ROOSTERFISH and MORE DORADO HIGHLIGHT STRANGE FISHING WEEK

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of June 21-28, 2015

Weather-wise, it’s been one of the best and hottest weeks of the year as we roll into summer. We had one day hit 114, but most days are about mid-90’s and blazingly sunny. School is finally out for all the local kids. More families showing up here to vacation.

Fishing success has been difficult to track however. Personally, it seem more like late May fishing if you look at the our daily fishing reports. Still alot of variety. Still getting some cooler-water fish. Warm water fish just seem to be getting up to speed, but not quite. Basically, however, there’s a big difference between fishing Las Arenas and La Paz.

LAS ARENAS/ BAHIA DE LOS MUERTOS

Usually, this time of year is where we see the most variety of fish. Not so this year. At least, not so far. Right now, I’ve been telling our anglers, it’s BIG OR GO HOME! This is home run territory. Other than some smaller bonito or rockfish, it’s either big rooster fish, wahoo, or billfish. If you get a shot and miss it, you get skunked. That’s it. Go home with a good story. And alot of our anglers miss fish or they bust off. It’s fishing. That’s why these are bigger fish. However, if you land one of these guys, then you’re the hero.

This past week, most of our roosters were 20-50 pound fish. Nice trophies. Nothing to bring home to eat, but a trophy photo and catch-and-release just the same. Some of our anglers landed 1-5 of these fish some days.

The wahoo…a bit more anemic this week. Is this the end? We’ve had one of the most dynamic wahoo bites in memory the past 4 or 5 weeks. Epic. We have caught more wahoo in recent weeks than the last 10 years COMBINED! But this past week, there were only a few hooked and even fewer landed. Chalk it up to angler error…hard-fighting fish…changing conditions? I don’t know. But, it’s been great and I hope it’s not done.

Marlin seem like they’re waking up. We got a few. Most released. Most about 100 pounds.

Late Saturday, tuna between 30-70 pounds were landed by commercial guys at the south end of Cerralvo Island. We’re exploring that as I write this report.

Again, nothing small. Anglers are either totally blown away when they land one of these fish or they come back disappointed. It’s the nature of fishing and at Las Arenas right now, you get 1 or two shots. If you miss it, that’s it.

LA PAZ

Fortunately, we have two fleets! Just for this reason so we can move our clients back and forth depending on conditions and the bite. Luckily, most of our clients are here for a few days so they have the ability to fish with both of our fleets!

Our La Paz action has been well…just that…ACTION!

Dorado have been more active and there’s schools of smaller to medium sized dorado now showing up. Limits or near limits of these smaller fish are not uncommon and we’re just waiting for some of the larger fish to show up. We did get a few in the 20-30 pound range and larger fish lost.

Also, inshore, even this late in the season, pargo and cabrilla in the rocks and reefs have provided plenty of fun, action and frustration as the bigger ones bust folks off in the rocks. But, this can be hours of fun. Here’s what Richard “Ranchero” Sawaske said about it:

“(Captain)Raul, Randy (Forrestiere) & I worked a stretch of Espiritu Santo on Fri. for pargo. If it wasn’t epic it was pretty damn close! I’m a Pargo Guy & we got em all…Dogtooth, Liso & Barred! Not huge, but they don’t have to be! We put a dozen or more in the boat, got our asses handed to us by at least that many more & after 4 hours of intense action..well, we were Zing Pow-ied!! It was great! We were Gassed!”

For larger species…Billfish and sharks also providing action with both species being released or lost.

That’s our story!

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La Paz -Las Arenas (Muertos Bay) Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of May 31-June, 7, 2015

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Dustin Bremmer had only one day to fish and he made the most of it with this fat yellowfin tuna and also a wahoo with Captain Armando.

This should be on a Christmas card! Six-year-old Caleb Davis is genetically progammed to be a good fisherman. Dad runs a sportboat out’ve Orange Co. , California. Gramps is our amigo, James “Hawk” Davis who lives in La Ventana and is a stellar angler as well. Caleb rocked this big wahoo all on his own.

From Hawthorne CA, Candi and Mike Jimenez with Captain Armando did this nice wahoo with only 1 day to fish this past week. Nicely done.

From Sacramento, a really fun couple. Dani and her husband, Harry Gist, also got themselves a wahoo this week. Standing on the beach at Bahia de Los Muertos. They got a bunch of pargo and cabrilla as well on their 2nd day of fishing and spent a day snorkeling at the island with the sealion.

It was an incredible week for first timers and anglers who only had one day to fish! Dave Bosteter from Arizona only fished one day. He only caught ONE fish! But, check out his big striped marlin with Captain Pancho! He also did the fish on light tackle too! The fish could not be released.

Our son-in-law, Brian Reid, did a bit of damage this past week. He lives in Las Vegas AZ and this is one of his two wahoo he put in the tank off Cerralvo Island.

Our Sacramento amigos with Captain Victor, Henry and Becky Harvey managed to get a nice wahoo on but had several others almost to the boat. Henry also got himself his first marlin this week!

Our gal…also our daughter…Jessie Reid of Las Vegas. She’s funny. Slept on the panga all day. Woke up for 5 minutes when her rod went off. She hooked this nice wahoo and went back to siesta! She makes alot of things look easy. Love how she rolls.

Fun photo with Orhan Gurbuz and popular Captain Rogelio “Jolly Roger” Camacho and a nice cabrilla near Espirito Santo Island.

Just a darned fine photo! Capitan Gato at sunrise with another wahoo. Thanks for the photo, Hawk Davis!

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Two of our fun regulars and great fisherman, Kevin and John Nagy with a pair of ‘hoos!

STORM BLANCA IS A BUZZKILL!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Bahia de Los Muertos Fishing Report for Week of May 31 to June 7, 2015

At the time you’re reading this, we’ll know what, if any effect, Hurricane/Storm Blanca will have done to us. I’m writing this about noon of Sunday trying to get this up and posted before we lose power. We already lost power a few last night for short perdiods. I’m hustling to write so excuse any typos!

As I write this, everyone is watching to see what will happen. We have been tracking this for days. It has been like watching a roller coaster ride because it has changed up and down by the hour.

Right now…The storm sits a couple of hundred miles south of us where is seems to vary between a dangerous Category 1 and 2. (It was up to to a 3 and 4). The whopper that hit Baja last year was a Cat 4-5 with winds close to 200 miles and hour. Named “Odile”, it’s fresh in our memories and many of us are still recovering so we’re all anxious to see what nature has in store. But, it’s coming.

As of this moment, they CLOSED CABO AIRPORT and the La Paz marinas have been closed for two days. If you’re coming down in the next few days, I would suggest you call your airlines. This will probably last through Tuesday. Check! As of right now, the La Paz Airport is open.

At the moment, predictions have the storm diminishing it’s effect on us here in La Paz. The eye of the storm has it going west and north instead of directly overhead. It will make landfall much further north on the Baja Peninsula and probably bring California some much needed rain. For us here in La Paz, we’re probably gonna get a few inches of rain today and tomorrow with some winds up to 60 MPH by tomorrow. It’s not like Odile last year, but not to be taken lightly.

It’s NOT a hurricane, but it’s a very strong TROPICAL storm

For sure . strong winds in the 20-40 mph category are predicted to blow Sunday, Monday and Tuesday which is much more problematic. Even though the sun will likely be out, anything in double digits will make it impossible to be out on the water for our panga fleets here in La Paz. Even if it’s safe, it’s not gonna be fun out there. Plus, our bite has been so great for wahoo and roosters and our dorado bite just hit stride so I’m anxious to see how the bite will be affected post-Blanca.

To the government’s credit, the CFE crews are already out and marshalled in front of Hotel Marina. These CFE guys and their big trucks saved us all last year when the big one hit us and many of us were out’ve power for several weeks. The CFE guys are the power company guys and boat loads of the landed after last year’s hurricane and it was like the marines had landed or the cavalry showed up! With no power, they’re no electricity. No cooking. No pumps to pump water. Nothing! The trucks are already here now and ready to go. We talked to one of the CFE guys last night and he said they are actually parking themselves at various hot spots ready to immediately tackle problems.

Anyway, nothing to do but wait and see. Last year, Odile took the same track and at the last minute turned inwards and kicked the hell outta lower Baja, after we all thought it was going to pass us up.

Fingers crossed!

As of 11 a.m Sunday morning, this is Hurricane Blanca

As or Sunday, tracking Tropical Depression Blanca for the next few days.

ELECTION DAY

Another sidebar story…Sunday…today is election day. NO ALCOHOL SALES IN LA PAZ are allowed. So, with the storm and all, we figured we might as well close the Tailhunter Restaurant Bar and also let our employees spend the day with their families and taking care of their homes.

So, I ran out to the market Saturday night to stock up on batteries, tape, canned good, etc. We are always prepared, but never hurts to have extras. Last year before Odile, no one seemed to pay much mind and got caught flatfooted. So, this year, everyone would be making a run of emergency supplies at the market.

I went to the market and there were PLENTY of supplies. However, everyone was buying ALL THE BEER they could get a hold of! People were more concerned with enough beer to get through election Sunday and in case stores are closed for several days afterwards! I have heard that some stores have sold out of all their beer already! Viva Mexico! LOL

I have run into several friends who bought lots of beer on Saturday and stocked up their ice chests. However, they ended up drinking it all up and now are in a panic now trying to find beer!

Anyway, here’s what’s been happening. It’s been a solid week!

LAS ARENAS/ MUERTOS BAY

Wow, that wahoo bite…not much to say except that in the last 3 weeks, we’ve gotten more wahoo than in the last 5 years combined. I hate to sound cocky but this has been incredible. Pangas are getting 1-5 wahoo per day. The only clients of ours not getting a wahoo are those that are fishing for something else; flyfishers; or folks who are hooking them but losing the speedsters. These fish are all quality 20-50 pounders!

We’re getting a little spoiled. Some of our anglers have no idea just how we’re rolling in gravy. They’re starting to complain! LOL

“I only got ONE wahoo today.”

“I just had TWO wahoo today. The other boats got more than me!”

Yikes! Hahahaha…what can ya do?

Besides the wahoo, we’re still getting decent numbers of those tasty white bonito (meat like tuna!) and rooster fish have been in the 20-40 pound class. Plus, we’re seeing pompano, jack crevalle, the occasional sierra (must be some cold water around), plus hooking a marlin or two as well as the marlin and sails are starting to wake up!

The bite diminished towards the end of the week on Thursday, Friday and Saturday as big rollers from the storm to the south started coming in and bait got harder to find. We stopped fishing the area and see how things pick up after the storm.

LA PAZ

Our Tailhunter La Paz Fleet has been consistent for action. Inshore stuff for pargo, cabrilla, snapper, amberjack, rooster fish, jack crevalle and bonito has produced 20-30 fish days with lots of released fish, but lots of fun battling these fish in the rocks.

The best news is late in the week we finally started seeing some larger schools of dorado that we’ve been waiting for. Fish are small to medium…5 to 15 pounders with many of the anglers releasing the smaller fish, but it’s encouraging to finally see the dorado moving in.

Also more billfish in the area as well which should only get better with so many more smaller dorado around.

We fished La Paz until late in the week when the Port Captain closed the port and prevented all watercraft from leaving!

That’s our story!

Jonathan and Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

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Mexico Office: Tailhunter International, 755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico

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La Paz – Las Arenas / Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of May 24-31, 2015

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Pretty good first trip for Riley Florence from Kansas. Got his first roosterfish and this nice wahoo as well with Captain Jorge and our Las Arenas Fleet.

Roger Thompson doing what he does so well. Nail big fish. He’s had another giant week and check out the thick wahoo here!

Long run from Tennessee, with our Captain Victor, James Kilton and Kelly Donohue. Triple on the wahoo on the beach at Bahia de Los Muertos.

Charger nation! Our daughter and her husband from Las Vegas, Jessie and Brian Reid with quite a variety of fish. Wahoo…giant pompano…white bonito…rainbow runner and hugs triggerfish!

She catches fish and always takes great photos! Our amiga Donna Thompson with another big skinny! The ‘hoo bit great off the island!

Ash Ibrahim from San Diego probably had the most fun of anyone this week when he brought his family. Take a look at this roosterfish then watch the video below of how he released it!

Big smiles for Nicole Ibrahim showing off her rooster as she came down this week with her family to celebrate her graduation from college!

Nothing wrong with this photo! Anthony Ibrahim lives in San Diego is about to hit his 3rd year in college in Washington DC. He got himself a nice rooster that he photo’d and released!

Army buddies…friends for life! Owen Hofecker from Johnstown, Pennysylvania and Paul de Haan from Bountiful, Utah triple teamed with Captain Gerardo to put the hurt to three wahoo off Cerralvo Island.

Captain Armando with Doug Edwards wahoo and Penni De Haans striper. On the beach at Bahia de los Muertos. The marlin meat was nicely donated. After a 2 hour fight, the fish was not able to be released.

Nothing like the kids’ smiles! Sofia Ibrahim from San Diego got the biggest pargo of the day fishing around Espirito Santo Island. Brother Tony throws the photos bomb!

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First rooster for Riley Florence from Kansas with a nice catch and release with Captain Jorge.

The water must still have some cool spots in it! From San Diego, Jim Bovee with a huge sierra!

Ash and Tony Ibrahim with some great dinner stuff…cabrilla and snapper taken off the island in some great action!

WAHOO ROOSTERS AND ROCKIES CENTER STAGE

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of May 24-31, 2015

For the most part, great weather and great fishing conditions most of the week resulting in some pretty solid catches. Lots of sunshine and increasingly better looking water all-the-way-around helped our anglers put some bend in the rods for a 2nd straight week.

Our biggest problem was a scare that popped up on the radar about mid-week showing a big tropical storm headed our way that was going to bring rain and strong winds beginning this weekend. With so many folks still nervous about Hurricane Odile from last year and many people still smarting over the recovery, the last thing we need is a storm! As far as fishing is concerned, our bite has been so good the last two weeks, I surely wasn’t looking forward to ANYTHING that would mess up the waters or keep folks ashore! Had this storm hit us, it would have brought 2-4 days of intermittent rain.

However, the fishing gods smiled on us and other than some winds late in the week, the sun has continued to shine brilliantly in a cloudless sky and the storm moved off into the pacific without even casting shadow! Whew…

LAS ARENAS/ BAHIA DE LOS MUERTOS

That wahoo bite that kicked in two weeks ago continued again. As I said last week, I’ve never seen a wahoo bite like this here in our waters in the 20 years I’ve been down here in La Paz. Almost every day, each of our pangas got 1-4 wahoo and lost others. Most days, if a panga came back without a wahoo, it was because:

1. They weren’t trying for wahoo or

2. They lost the wahoo they hooked

I’ll let our amigo, Roger Thompson tell you best:

“We were on the water at 5:30 this morning and had our first wahoo on the boat by 6am. At 6:15, we had another. Next was a double hookup around 7am and we landed both fish. We also saw 1 giant free swimmer just under the boat while fighting these 2. We hooked 2 more wahoo and lost 1 just before 7:30. Hooked another around 8:15 and this one came unbuttoned 10 feet from the boat. I hate it when that happens! No more wahoo bites for an hour and decided we caused enough damage for one day so we stopped to reel in the Rapalas and head back to the ramp. I slowed down, put her into neutral, and shut it down…….then wham. The short one got slammed and the bonus fish was in the box after 10 minutes of high speed runs and wahoos!

I guess what I’m trying to say is it’s an early morning bite for sure. It reminded me of the “good ole days”!

These fish were all quality fish between 26 and 42 pounds. “

Some of our amigos who fished multiple days with us in the area actually got to the point where the didn’t want to fish for wahoo anymore! There were others who just didn’t want to take any more wahoo home and there were alot of very happy captains who were getting 1-3 wahoo as “gifts” to take home!

The other “fish” we’ve been doing pretty solidly on are the rooster fish. It’s not wide-open, but there’s some medium-sized 20-60 pound fish cruising around and if you wanted to catch a rooster, there was even-money that you had a good chance on any given day of hooking 1-2 fish. Way better than say, two weeks ago . All fish are getting released.

Also seeing a few more dorado in the area. I’m surprised there aren’t more around by this time of the season already. Normally, we’re thick with dorado by now!

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We had consistent fishing with our La Paz fleet headed straight out and working north of the city around Espirito Santo Island or around the corner between Tecolote and Las Cruces.

We are definitely seeing more dorado action with fish between 10-20 pounds at the largest, but again, I would have expected more dorado by this time.

The best bite has been inshore among the rocks. Good action on some really sweet pargo, yellow snapper, amberjack and big cabrilla. Lots of larger fish getting lost in the rocks.

We’re seeing a few more marlin around that are actually willing to bite. Several were hooked and lost.

That’s our story!

Jonathan and Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website:

www.tailhunter-international.com

Mexico Office: Tailhunter International, 755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico

U.S. Mailing Address: Tailhunter International, 8030 La Mesa Blvd. #178, La Mesa CA 91942

Phones:

from USA : 626-638-3383

from Mexico: 044-612-14-17863

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La Paz – Las Arenas Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of May 10-17, 2015

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Diana Statman tuna pancho tags small 5-15

Diana Statman from Marina del Rey CA had never fished in salt water and was a little nervous going out on “that little panga.” But, with Captain Pancho from the Tailhunter fleet, she had a bait in the water only a few minutes and got slammed! Her husband Jay was still rigging up. He got bit shortly after and they had a double hookup going. Here she is trying to hold the big fish still for the camera.

Nice rooster for Allen Burgess from Kansas wit Captain Jorge from the Tailhunter Fleet. Caught and released off Bahia de Los Muertos. He also hooked and released a 250 pound blue marlin after a 3 hour battle on 40 pound test and a spinning rod.

Pretty typical of the nice bite around Espirito Santo Island right now for some great pargo and cabrilla and some of the best fish on the grill or plate. Captain Joel with our good amigo, John Drucker.

From Washington, Nyle Miyamoto, with one of our early season dorado no the beach at Muertos. Waters are warming and we expect to see more dorado anytime now.

tags yellowtail travis craig and brett fair 5-15

Might be the last yellowtail of the season and caught by Brett Fair and Travis Craig from Portland OR off Espirito Santo Island on big mackerel.

Normally, he’s out white-water paddling, but Mike Dietzman from Oregon was just with us on his first time salt water fishing and he hooked into this nice sailfish north of La Paz.

Hard to beat for just getting pulled around on a fishing rod, there’s some big schools of jack crevalle running around right now. Great on light tackle! From Oregon, Joel Ulam and Brad Carlson with a pair or “toros.”

With Captain Chito trying to hook up another bait, Dave Cummins has a fresh one on the gaff. Nice bull dorado off Espirito Santo Island . Check out the great colors!

Captain Chito with Jay Statman from Marina Del Rey CA and two great yellowfin tuna out’ve Bahia de los Muertos. Jay and his wife were double hooked and had fish going when a boat load of spearfishing free divers jumped right in the water 10 yards off our panga despite being asked not to do it. That shut off the bite. C’mon…show some courtesy. It’s a huge ocean! Still a nice catch!

Mmmmm…one of the best eating fish here! Travis Craig with a huachinango (red snapper pargo) he pulled out of the rocks near Espirito Santo Island.

An unusual catch, but they are around here! Donna Drucker hooked this 80 pound hammerhead and fought it to the boat so it could be released.

ANGLERS WORK HARD FOR FISH…AGAIN…

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of May 10-17, 2015

It was another tough week after waters and conditions settle down from the strange crazy winds and waves we got the week before that just turned everything over and around. It brought in cooler, greener water plus residual winds and it’s taking quite a few days for things to settle down So, alot of this week was just scratchy fishing and hat’s off to all our anglers who kept grinning and kept patient and brought the smiles. I won’t lie, the fishing was way off what it should be this time of year.

There were some great highlights to be sure. But, alot of the week, it was either tough to find bait because of the waters or winds or, when we did find it, the guys had to work hard for their fish. However, with each day of better weather, the conditions were coming back. Each day the waters calmed and so did the winds and little-by-little the fishing seemed to inch better.

Las Arenas

Probably the toughest fishing the last two weeks. There’s bunches of little dorado around that are entertaining for awhile, but I mean “really little” five pounders, if that. Good for a fish or two to be released, then most anglers move on unless they’re playing and having fun with the light tackle. There’s also some good schools of white bonito around. Again, lots of fun and they’re getting 5-10 per day. These aren’t the “bad bonito” or skipjack. These are the whites that make great eating and can fool anyone on a plate that it’s actually tuna! The meat is not dark, but rather great pink meat perfect for sashime and cooks up white as well.

The highlights of the week for our guys…rooster fish. Hard to come by this week with limited smaller baits so we only had the big ladyfish to use, but that produced a few of the bigger 30-50 pounders along the shores. But, the bite was definitely off.

As well, we had some wahoo bites, but no fish landed. All from the south end of Cerralvo Island and near Punta Perrico. But, the wahoo are there. (Just as I posted this Sunday night, two of our guys landed 2 forty-pound fish and lost a bigger one!)

We also had more marlin swimming around and one big-time hookup by Al Burgess from Kansas. Allen hooked a fish estimated by our captain at 250 pounds! But, even more amazing, Al was using 40 pound test AND A SPINNING ROD! He battled the fish solo for 3 solid hours with a bad back and legs and they said the big fish bulldogged them and barely ever jumped…the worst and strongest kind…smart fish that don’t waste energy jumping around! It pulled the panga with 3 anglers and a captain in circles the entire time.

Sorry there’s no photos but what happened is the guys burned up all the batteries and memory during the battle! When the fish was finally alongside the boat, no one had any memory or batteries! Only great stories. And the fish was released!!! Well done!

The other highlight was a nice jag of 30-40 pound tuna. Another good story.

Diana Statman had never fished in salt water before! First time down here too, although husband, Jay, is a long time fisherman and has been down to La Paz many times before. Diana gets a bait and gets it in the water and minutes later she’s bit!!! Tuna on!!! Husband Jay is still rigging up! Then, Jay gets bit! Doubles on!

But what happens…some private spear fishermen pull up not 10 yards from their panga and jump in the water! Despite being asked to move somewhere else…they jump in anyway. The tuna get pulled in, but bite over! C’mon guys…some courtesy. It’s a big ocean!!!

LA PAZ

This is surprisingly where most of our action took place this week. And it wasn’t our usual bite.

Of all things, with the crazy weather, our captains have found some good spots for some big pargo and cabrilla near the islands and some of the reefs. It’s providing some pretty solid action and they’re losing some big big fish to the rocks and inexperience. Most of the fish that are coming back are delicious 3-5 pounders, but some great stories of 10-20 pound fish lost to the rocks. Plus some big amberjack up to 50 pounds caught at the north end of Cerralvo and larger ones being lost…some right next to the boat up to 70 pounds.

We did get a few yellowtail. Normally, we should be getting more this time of year, but waters are warming fast so I think the yellowtail we are getting might be the last of the season.

A few dorado around but of the larger variety and we should see more every week and we also hooked a few marlin and sails this week as well.

Again, not spectacular and not our usual. But every day seems a little better as long as the weather holds!

That’s our story!

Jonathan and Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

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