Tailhunter Fish Report

PHOTO 1: Scott Brown and James Talley on their first trip to La Paz had an eventful few days of fishing despite less-than-perfect conditions. In addition to these dorado and fat cabrilla, they also got two sailfish (released); a striped marlin on 25-pound test (released); and a big roosterfish (released). AWESOME!

PHOTO 2: Earl Fiscalini gets a hand with his yellowfin tuna from Guy (Subchild) Fiscalini-Petree both from the Central Coast area of California. The tuna were tougher to get this week due to heavy north winds that really stirred up the waters and made fishing rough.

PHOTO 3: This is a sample of the nice mix of fish typical of a good day this week with our Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fleet. We really had to work hard for the fish this week. Alot of boats really had to scratch. Because of the tough conditions, we didn’t do much fishing north of La Paz.

PHOTO: 4: John Stephen made the best of difficult conditions with this nice yellowfin tuna right out in front of the old Hotel Las Arenas. The fish were definitely there, but it was hard to hold a drift or get the baits down to the fish because of the big winds and waves.

PHOTO 5: Captain Gerardo looks on behind Mary Busse with her yellowfin tuna taken before the winds came on and the tuna were running rampant. Most of the fish were 20-35 pounders.

PHOTO 6: Al Tesoro has made three trips to La Paz this year and finally got more tuna than he could handle, but shows off two of his yellowfin he caught near the Las Arenas lighthouse.

PHOTO 7: Captain Calamar put two of our best amigos, race car driver Art Savedra from Las Vegas
and long-time Tailhunter friend, Jeff Slater from Long Beach onto a pile of tuna and dorado earlier in the week.

PHOTO 8 : Dave Busse hoists up another yellowfin in front of Captain Gerardo. Dave and his wife Mary spent a few days fishing and diving with us.

GOOD START TURNS TO PICKY BITE AS NORTH WINDS RIP AREA!

La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of Oct. 25-31, 2009

The week started well-enough. All the dorado you could want no matter if you fished with our Las Arenas or our La Paz fleet. Not a lot of big fish, but solid numbers of 10-20 pound fish all-day-long and you could catch-and-release to your heart’s content.

As well, if you fished with our Las Arenas fleet, that school of 20-35 pound yellowfin tuna parked right off the beach between the Arenas lighthouse and Punta Perrico continued to kick out a nice bite with boats averaging 2-7 fish per panga and really putting on a show. As several veteran anglers said, “These fish fight a lot bigger than they are! They are amazingly strong.” Whether it was tuna or dorado, it wasn’t complicated fishing. You either fished with live sardines for the dorado or stripped slow trolled chunks of fresh bonito. The tuna came up mostly on handfuls of drifted dead sardines.

Later in the week, it got tricky. Strong northern winds kicked in and kicked our butts. In fact, it was ridiculous to try to fish out of La Paz and was had all our anglers fish with our Las Arenas fleet instead where it was still bumpy, but at least they could get out on the water and had a chance for fish.

Dorado were still the mainstay with a smattering of tuna and lots of big bonito, but the bite clearly had diminished, but at least guys got to fish. These are the type of seasonal winds we can expect now as the seasons change away from the warmer fall to winter-type fishing. Never can tell when it’s going to be crazy weather. As we hit the weekend, the winds diminished, but at the time of this writing, it remains to be seen how much of an effect it has had on the bite.

Actually, once the winds died, an interesting thing happened. The weather improved, but the bite got worse! We really had to scratch for our biters. However, all of a sudden, marlin and sailfish showed up. One day, out of 10 pangas, we hooked and released 9 marlin and one big blue marlin spooled one of our anglers on 50-pound test. As one of my captains told me, “We had three marlin just swimming around the boat waiting for us to feed them!” They were more than willing to jump on a little hooked sardine about 3-inches long. We’ll see if this continues.

VIDEO CLIP OF THE WEEK:

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That’s our story!
Jonathan and Jill

Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter International
Website: http://www.tailhunter-international.com
U.S. Office: 3319 White Cloud Drive, Suite A, Hacienda Hts. CA 91745
Mexico Office: 755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico
Phones:
from USA : 626-638-3383
from Mexico: 044-612-14-17863

Tailhunter Weekly Fishing Report:
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PHOTO 1: Tuna on the chew! Just a solid week of yellowfin tuna fishing for most of the week with some days the tuna were almost jumping in the boat. Friend and La Paz regular, Steve Marabella, shows off some of the quality fish that took up residence within a few hundred yards of the Las Arenas lighthouse near La Paz.

PHOTO 2: This is what ” WIDE OPEN” looks like on a panga! Ken Mitchell and Ken Gragg from Fresno CA flank Capt. Gerardo who’s trying to hold onto another fish in the middle. Boats were literally only a few yards away from each other often with every single rod bent on 25-35 pound tuna. You can see how close to shore our boats were fishing. Often anglers took limits of tuna within an hour or two!

PHOTO 3: Hacienda Heights CA resident, Sed Roldan (yes. .. my dad) came down for a visit and took more fish in two days of fishing than he had in several years of fishing with us. They simply had to stop. Within seconds of baits hitting the water, yellowfin tuna would rocket straight up and fight each other to gulp the sardine. Pangas were sometimes so close that several anglers hooked-up would tangle each other with fish!

PHOTO 4: After several trips this year to get tuna unsuccessfully, Lois Tsunoda finally put tuna in the box. She and husband Gary from S. California spent 3 days fishing with us of taking home doroado and yellowfin tuna while fishing with both our Las Arenas and La Paz our fleets.

PHOTO 5: Our friends, Richard and Jackie Yamada took time off from running their operation at the popular Shelter Island Lodge near Juneau, Alaska http://www.shelterlodge.com/ to chase some dorado and tuna instead of halibut and salmon. They got these nice yellowin their first day out fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet the day after Hurricane Rick left us.

PHOTO 6: Dave Prather from Arizona was on his first fishing trip down to see us and got into some fantastic fishing. In the middle of the tuna grounds’ve got an unusual bite and realized it was not fighting like a tuna. Instead, he pulled up this trophy grouper just yards off the Punta Perrico rocks.

PHOTO 7: Bob Dominguez said, “I” m done, let’s go home! “after tangling with his first tuna of the day. He was to go on and take tuna limits two days in a row as well as several dorado. Bob is from Hacienda Heights CA .

Photo 8 – Paul and Renee pose with just a few of their yellowfin tuna. This was Renee’s 2nd trip to see us this year. Last trip in the summer, he nailed a big wahoo. No wahoo on this trip, but he plugged the boat with Paul for several days with loads of yellowfin tuna and dorado.

PHOTO 9: Jeff Sakuda comes to see us about 2-3 times a year and always rips the fish. Under the tuna schools, Jeff found this grouper lurking and ready to eat! We got several big rock fish like this during the past week.

PHOTO 10: Shay Hamada and Kenji Yamada sometimes live in California, Hawaii and Alaska. He manages the Shelter Island Lodge in Alaska and also skippers clients and knows how to properly pose with a fish! Shay holds a nice dorado while Kenji hung this nice yellow fin.

PHOTO 11: Even though we had a Category 5 hurricane bearing down on us, Dan and Bob McPhee from the San Francisco Bay area said, they did not care and would take their chances about fishing. As it turned out, the storm by-passed us and their gamble paid off with several solid days of great fishing. They hold a handful of some of their yellowfin tuna.

PHOTO 12: All the way from the East Coast, Mike Bradley and Gerald Mulholland took so many fish their first day, they caught and released fish the rest of their days fishing.

PHOTO 13: An outsanding shot of Bob Sayre’s sailfish on-the-hook! Worthy of framing! The sailfish was released.

THE “PERFECT STORM” (thankfully) never materialized TEAR UP ANGLERS AND FISH!

La Paz / Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of Oct. 18-24, 2009

We appear to have dodged the bullet of “Hurricane Rick” a potential Category 5 storm that had been touted as the “Perfect Storm” and bore down towards Southern Baja. It had us all pretty much running for SANDBAGS with no real place to go. As it turned out, the storm turned south and diminished to a tropical storm and dropped only sporadic hard rain and some strong winds that cost us only one day of keeping the boats off the water.

The larger misfortune, aside from cancelations from many anglers understandably nervous about the impending storm, was that it dampered what had been the best tuna bite of the season and perhaps in many years.

Right in front of the beach between the Las Arenas lighthouse and Muertos Bay a line of 25-35 pound tuna literally took up residence and slashed and ripped anglers for several days. One concentration of the fish in perhaps only 50 feet of water had fish grabbing air and hang time while fighting each other to jump on live sardines, dead sardines and almost anything else thrown into the waters. If you looked down you could see the tuna shredding the water under the pangas and many of them were so close with every rod bent that many of the pangas were getting tangled up with each other.

Fortunately, the fish were so thick that anglers were laughing and shouting at each other because it took no time at all to get bit almost instantly! I’ve been here a long time and this was one of the funnest tuna fish bites … ever!

It was just way too much fun to look out over the area and see fish breaking water, boiling, coming out of the water like they had not eaten in weeks. You could throw a sardine in the water and within seconds … it did not stand a chance … two or three tuna would try to inhale it and literally crash into each other trying to be the first to hit it.

Between the boats, all you could hear guys were yelling and screaming and laughing and the sound of clickers and drags going off … such a sweet sweet sound! Those of you who have been in bites like this, know what I’m talking about.

As well, dorado went off nicely with fish in the 10-20 pounds and surprisingly, in the same areas, big snapper and grouper also showed up to mix it up with the bite. A few wahoo were hooked, but all lost.

After the storm, things got a bit slower and anglers had to work a bit harder for the tuna, but there was no slow-down on the dorado. Heck, it was almost like the dorado had something to prove after being ignored by the great tuna bite the last few weeks. The tuna did not charge as hard so the dorado filled in the slack. Easy limits if you wanted them! Bottom line … way too many fish! That’s what I’m talkin ‘about!

WEEKLY VIDEO CLIPS!

If you want to see more and see it live … check out this week’s video clips and turn up the sound! Click this:

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That’s our story!
Jonathan and Jill

Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter International
Website: http://www.tailhunter-international.com
U.S. Office: 3319 White Cloud Drive, Suite A, Hacienda Hts. CA 91745
Mexico Office: 755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico
Phones:
from USA: 626-638-3383
from Mexico: 044-612-14-17863

Tailhunter Weekly Fishing Report:
http://www.tailhunter-international.com/fishreport.htm

Tailhunter YouTube Videos:
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PHOTO 1: Just another lovely day in paradise. Paul Sipillian and Leo Avakian from Los Angeles just put in a really tough day of fishing! Yellowfin tuna bit hard all week just outside of Muertos Bay, actually just in front of the old Hotel Las Arenas. Our pangas were coming back to the beach after only 2 0r 3 hours on the water totally plugged with fish. Hey…who’s gonna clean all that tuna?

PHOTO 2: Two of the most prolific anglers we see each year, our amigos Steve Greanias and his dad, Chris, always stick the fish big time. They fished 3 days and spanked the tuna, but on their 3rd day fishing with our Tailhunter La Paz fleet they concentrated on dorado but then went inshore and went after the pargo! They got the fish boiling behind the boat, then Steve started heaving the surface iron and nailed some of these fish that most folks think only bite in the springtime!

PHOTO 3: All the way from Illinois! Bob and Bill Sayre did some fishing and SCUBA with us but on their first day on the water with rain threatening, they fished out’ve Muertos Bay with our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet and dog-piled on some really quality dorado and yellowfin tuna.

PHOTO 4: Martha Bell from Hacienda Heights CA wanted me to be sure to tell everyone that by 9:30 a.m. in the morning fishing with Captain Victor, they were completely limited on tuna and dorado like this one with Captain Victor in the background and the south side of Cerralvo Island. This was Martha’s first time fishing in La Paz.

PHOTO 5: Maybe on the of the larger dorado of the week, normally, we get alot of the larger bulls in the fall. However, this year, we’re getting more school-sized fish in the 10-20 pound class. Robert Marganian shows off his nice female mahi on the beach.

PHOTO 6: Naveed Ahmed, our buddy who says “The curse is over!” because he never caught fish did so on his first day on the water with us. Fishing with Captain Archangel and amigo, Dave Asman, from Chicago, they got limits of nice 20-30 pound yellowfin tuna “until our arms hurt” as well as a wahoo.

PHOTO 7: Eddy Bell holds two nice bull dorado from a day of fishing with our Tailhunter La Paz Fleet north of the city around the islands. Eddy is from Hacienda Heights CA.

PHOTO 8: The picture kinda speaks for itself. What a day! Robert and Toros Marganian from Lake Arrowhead CA jumped into a school of tuna that could be seen boiling from the shore in a frenzy. This kind of catch was not unusual this past week in what has been the best bite of the season for our fleet.

PHOTO 9: Every year these two brother get together for a fishing reunion in La Paz. They’re among our favorite Tailhunter amigos. They always get fish! On the left is Rod Brown fron Alaska. His brother, Jeff, on the right, lives in Minnesota! Over almost a week of fishing, the two brothers got an incredible variety of fish.

PHOTO 10: You’ve probably never seen one of these. I had never seen one either except when scuba diving. The locals call is a “mojarra.” It’s better known as a “porgy.” I”m told it’s great eating. Jeff Brown from Minnesota caught it.

PHOTO 11: Check out the quality of these yellowfin tuna we’re getting. Scott Brasier poses at Muertos Bay with these 35–30 pound sluggers that went raging this past week here. Scott was on his first trip with us and came all the way from the midwest.

PHOTO 12: The Sashime Club! The fish are barely in the boat and these guys usually have the wasabi and soy ready to go! Randy Nakayama, Derick Tagawa and Mark Kojima know how to eat them as well as put the tuna into the boat.

POSSIBLY THE BEST TUNA AND DORADO FISHING OF THE YEAR GOES BALLISTIC AS LA PAZ GOES ON HURRICANE WATCH!

La Paz / Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of Oct. 11-17, 2009

What a week! In between sporadic tropical showers, we had perhaps the best fishing of the season. Slugger-sized 25-30 pound tuna blew up on our panga fleet at Las Arenas/ Muertos in such a furious bite that on many days the boats were pulling off the school and headed back to shore at 9:30 or 10 a.m. in the morning or going out looking for something else to do because there was no more room in the panga fish boxes! At one point, I stood on the beach and I could actually see the fish foaming only about 100 yards off the beach with the bite only about 100-200 yards in front of the old Hotel Las Arenas.

The baits are really small and 20-30 pound test fluorocarbon leader with #1 hooks are the ticket using live or dead chunk baits, but you’d better hold onto your socks because a lot of the anglers weren’t ready for some of these fish. As one angler put it, “I’ve caught tuna before, but something about these fish has them ultra aggressive and put them on steroids or something because these fish do NOT quit!” Another angler said, “After two of these fish, I had to sit down, my arms were shaking. Stupid little 30-pound fish pull like no tuna I’ve ever run into.”

If you look at these fish, they’re just MUSCLE fish. Round, fat and feisty! They were fighting to the baits at times as if they hadn’t eaten…EVER! Just a blast!

On top of it, especially later in the week, it seemed that the dorado got tired of being second tier catches and moved right inshore with the tuna and the “dorado rodeo” went off with streaking dorado and hooked dorado surrounding all the boats. “Point-blank fish shooting” was how one of our Denver anglers described it. “I’ve never seen so many dorado flying around a boat. If the boats weren’t plugged with tuna, they were topped off with dorado! (Many were released and the flyfishers really had a blast!)

If anything else was biting, it was hard to know since everyone had jumped on the dorado or tuna schools. However, we did hook a few roosters (released) and three wahoo were hooked and lost.

FIRST PERSON REPORT

Thanks to our new amigo, Leo Bishop from Canada who took the time to write this:

“What a day !! we had only one day remaining on our vacation with so many things left to see and do. Jonathan went out of his way to “customize” a trip package for us that included fishing in the morning and snorkeling in the afternoon. We knew the weather was calling for rain, but we sucked it up and went anyway. By the time we had our eyes open, thanks to the free morning coffee, we had already loaded up with live bait and had lines in the water. 5 minutes later, bang-bang !! double hook ups on some nice sierra. After playing them in we moved about a half mile to a new location and dropped or live bait rigs over the stern and began slow trolling. Over the next 3 hours we boated 5 nice Dorado, lost 3, and landed numerous bonita. We didnt, even have a chance to notice the rain……………who cares ? Fighting fish is a great way to stay warm !! In fact just as the bite subsided a little, so did the rain. We reluctantly reeled up our gear and headed out to the snorkelling area. As we cruised along we agreed that even if the snorkelling was off due to the morning rain that we had already gotten our moneys worth, man we were blown away……we swam with huge sea lions, (they are very peacefull and non agressive) and their pups are so curious, a massive, mezmerising school of sardines, and spotted several species of large groupers including a rare golden grouper ! Long story short, we are so glad that we got out their despite the weather for a trip of a lifetime ! “

HURRICANE WATCH FOR “RICK”

As I write this, we’re watching Hurricane Rick form off the Baja Peninsula. We thought storm season was all over, but this one surprised us and could be headed our way by Wednesday or Thursday. We feel badly for all the folks who may have to cancel or postpone their fishing trip with us. If there was any way to foresee this or wave a magic wand, we would! For updates, click this: http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/ep200920.html

TAILHUNTER VIDEO CLIP

I know I always used to post a weekly video clip, but we’ve had some technical difficulties this season. However, here’s a good roundup of some of our hot bite the last few weeks. Click this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_g-jI-RJ0k

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If any of you have been with us and partied or dined and want to add a report, that would be great.

Have a great week! Hope we stay dry down here!

That’s our story…
Jonathan and Jill

Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter International
Website: http://www.tailhunter-international.com/

U.S. Office: 3319 White Cloud Drive, Suite A, Hacienda Hts. CA 91745
Mexico Office: 755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico
Phones:
from USA : 626-638-3383
from Mexico: 044-612-14-17863

Tailhunter Weekly Fishing Report:
http://www.tailhunter-international.com/fishreport.htm

Tailhunter YouTube Videos:
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PHOTO 1: Not a bad way to start a fishing trip. We’ve moved the pangas over to Muertos Bay and after a slow start because of winds, late in the week the bite finally turned on. Posing with a portion of their catch are Johnny Doumas, Jay Sanchez, Leo Avakian, Avo Agourian, Armen Minissian, Sam Henne and Paul Sipplian. The sailfish was an accidental catch by Avo (center). He was fishing a Megabait just jigging it for bottom fish and on the way down, he felt a hit. Suddenly, the rod blew up and he realized he had accidentally snagged a sailfish ON THE BACK! He had to fight it and while doing so, his partner (Armen) caught 2 yellowfin tuna. Avo was going to release the sail, but it came in dead having been dragged backwards. It was donated to the pueblo. Note the solid size of the yellowfin tuna! They’re only about 200 yards off the beach.

PHOTO 2: Here’s another great story. Dan Fink from northern California has been coming to Baja for over a doezen years trying to catch a wahoo. He brought his sister, Julie with him this year. They weren’t even at the wahoo grounds (which haven not produced in about a month!). They were in the middle of the tuna bite. Mary was fishing a little sardine on light line (with NO wire!). She gets bit and wham…wahoo on! She hooks it right in the corner of the mouth with a little #2 live bait hook! It gets better. This was Mary’s first time fishing on the ocean. They also got a number of yellowfin tuna as well as pargo.

PHOTO 2: One of our most successful anglers each year, Steve Greanias and his dad, Chris, show off a couple of nice yellowfin tuna and a handful of dorado. Steve also had on a big roosterfish that he fought and came unbuttoned.

PHOTO 3: Johnny Doumas holds up a sample of the nice grade of yellowfin tuna we have biting now out of Muertos Bay with our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet. The fish are ranging from 15-35 pounds and are from the lighthouse down towards Cardonal. Live and dead sardines fished with a small hook and flurocarbon leaders are a plus.

PHOTO 4: Dorado are biting right now, but not many of the big bulls we’re accustomed to this time of year. However, Fred Roupp, Jr. and Captain Rogelio with our Tailhunter La Paz Fleet pose with a 33-pound dorado they caught north of La Paz. This was our largest dorado of the week.

PHOTO 5: With Muertos Bay shimmering in the background, Captain Pancho with Jay Sanchez and Leon Sipplian on their first trip to fish with us hold up a handful of fat yellowfin tuna.

PHOTO 6: Two of the funnest guys who show up each year, Toros and Robert Marganian took time off from their plumbing business to pull on a few nice yellowfin tuna this week. The smaller sardines are working well on these fish. They were lockjawed early in the week when the winds were blowing, but came on stronger as the week went on.

PHOTO 7: All smiles, Johnny Wong and Tim Armstrong from Pasadena CA fished earlier in the week with us when we were still launching off Las Arenas Beach. Nice handful of YFT. They were fishing with Captain Victor.

PHOTO 8: Dr. Bruce Dodge from La Canada CA hit full limits of yellowfin tuna fishing with Captain Jorge and our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet. Cerralvo Island and Ventana Bay in the background. Bruce organized the annual Catholic Big Brothers & Big Sisters Charity Event and fund raiser with us and 3 days of fishing.

PHOTO 9: Sneaking away from his last year at Humboldt State College to get in some fishing, Andrew Campbell and mom Kirsten from Boise ID braved some strong winds and rain and still put some excellent fish in the panga. In addition to yellowfin tuna they also caught dorado over a quick weekend of fishing before Andy had to scoot back to class.

PHOTO 10: Dan Rubendall came down with the big group from Catholic Big Brothers and Big Sisters charity event and tournament and almost got big fish of the day with this bull dorado he caught in the channel between the Arenas lighthouse and Cerralvo Island.

PHOTO 11: You gotta love the unconventional. Rob Pinkerton and Mike Delaney pose with their catch of yellowfin tuna while playing in the sand. Mike…thanks for that pole dance at our TAILHUNTER BAR! We have it on video!

PHOTO 12: They always do well. Manny Avila and Tony Avila holding some of their catch this week of tuna and dorado. Thanks for the “Venturi wine pourer” guys. It works great!

WINDY WEATHER AND SPOTTY FISHING FINALLY GIVE WAY TO SUNSHINE AND SOLID BITE…MAYBE BEST TUNA BITE OF THE YEAR!

La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of Oct. 4-10, 2009

There were times early in the week where I was really pretty nervous. That bad weather cell that came through last week and dumped a bunch of rain on us and wouldn’t go away without spitting out the occasional shower finally gave way to sunny skies. That was the good part. The bad part is that behind the storm we got several days of incredible north winds. It’s certainly NOT what we’re’ accustomed to this time of year. I mean…it was ROUGH! We actually had some folks queasy which is pretty rare! One day, the captains didn’t even want to go out and it delayed us getting out.

That’s not too good when you’re doing a lot of topwater fishing. I felt badly for our flyfishers and some of our light tackle guys.

On top of it, the fish got squirrelly too! It was a pick bite at best. Normally, we’re going full turbo in October.

Anyway, as the week went on the winds calmed and …SURPRISE…the bite got better. Dorado finally decided to wake up and join the party although we’re not seeing a lot of the big bulls of fall. Most of the fish are the smaller 5-20 pounders. They can be found pretty much anywhere right now, but a lot of guys (and gals) come down this time of year expecting the big horses and they just haven’t been very prevailant this year. Live baits, of course, work well, but stripped dead bonito really get ‘em going. One thing we did find…there’s another good use for the pesky needlefish!

One of our captains…Boli…with our La Paz Fleet got resourceful and started using long strips of the silvery needlefish and slow trolling it behind the panga. Within 5 minutes…HOOK UP!!! He’s been doing it all week and getting dorado. Best of all…the other needlefish don’t attack it. I guess there’s finally something they won’t eat!

Besides the dorado, the best part of the bite later in the week took place with our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet. Because of the north winds we moved the fleet over to Muertos Bay. When the bite turned on, we got…well…look at the photos above! Tuna…wahoo…sailfish…as well as pargo, marlin…roosterfish…cabrilla…snapper…sierra…and others. Great variety! However, the tuna bite really want off-the charts! At times, you could see the tuna foaming if you were standing on the shore as the fish were really that close! Boiling 20-30 pound tuna blowing up on the baits and every rod in every panga double bendo! On one day, our pangas were back on the beach by 11 a.m. with the guys telling me that by 10:30 they had limits of tuna and could have gotten more. Hope this sticks around! Several nights we vacuum packed over 200 bags of fish for our anglers.

Weather has cooled tremendously. It’s great. After a season of 5 months of some of the hottest weather any of us can remember with almost every day over 100 degrees with roaring humidity, it’s now about 85…sunny…and really “Chamber of Commerce” weather! But keep an eye…possibly more rain on the way this week!

That’s our story!
Jonathan and Jill

Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter International
Website: http://www.tailhunter-international.com
U.S. Office: 3319 White Cloud Drive, Suite A, Hacienda Hts. CA 91745
Mexico Office: 755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico
Phones:
from USA : 626-638-3383
from Mexico: 044-612-14-17863

Tailhunter Weekly Fishing Report:
http://www.tailhunter-international.com/fishreport.htm

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

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PHOTO 1: Marissa Rendall from Hermosa Beach CA shows off the two main fish we caught all week…dorado and yellowfin tuna. This was Marissa’s first time fishing and she enjoyed the tuna sashime we made for her at the Tailhunter Bar that evening. She was fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet and Capt. Pancho.

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PHOTO 1: Megan Premoe from Washington State was on her first ocean-fishing trip as well as her first trip to La Paz. She made no bones about telling folks she was going ot catch the largest fish! Well, take a look at this estimated 60-pound toad yellowfin tuna. Not only did she catch this fish, but she pulled it in herself even though the fish was TAIL-WRAPPED making it almost impossible to turn and double-hard to bring in! She got this fish on live bait at the north end of Cerralvos Island.

PHOTO 2: Captain Adolfo (“Yofo”) poses with San Diegans Steve Vargo and Robert Thoma and 6 of their yellowfin tuna. The guys came back to the beach at 10:30 a.m. I thought something was wrong, but they told me, “Hey…we’re just tired! My arm is tired! This is plenty of fish!” Good reason. The fish ranged from 15-20 pounds and popped up just off the beach between the old Hotel Las Arenas and the Arenas lighthouse.

PHOTO 3: He’s become one of our poster-guys. This our amigo, Don Melucci and Tony Gabriola who got into the tuna and broke off a few as well using light tackle. These were nice fat fish in the 20-pound class and eat the smaller sardine baits.

PHOTO 4: The catch…a nice rooster caught by Terry Biggs this week…that’s one good part. (see below)

PHOTO 5: The best part…THE RELEASE! Captain Jorge releases Terry’s roosterfish to fight another day. Bravo to all.

PHOTO 6: Dorado are still the mainstay for our La Paz fleet. The fish are holding in several areas and these nice fish are typical of those held by Richard Keogh and Jim Davis from Northern Cal. Live bait and stripped pieces of bonito work best.

PHOTO 7: It’s only October, but we got ALOT of sierra this week. Normally, these are cold water fish that show up around November or December and hang out during the winter. However, there were a few days when you could catch as many as you wanted. These are great eating fish and fantastic on light tackle. If you wanted to go no further than stay in La Paz Bay all day, you could nail limits of sierra in short order. Jim Davis holds a pair.

TUNA AND DORADO MIX-IT-UP FOR SOME STEADY FISHING

La Paz/ Las ARenas Fishing Report for the Week of September 20-27, 2009

Overall, a pretty solid week of fishing here highlighted by the re-appearance of schools of 15-30 pound tuna right off the the beach near Las Arenas, near the old hotel as well as in front of Muertos Bay. Another school of larger fish in the 30-60 pound class showed up and busted up the anglers at the north end of Cerralvo Island. It made for some good catches.

However, the mainstay fish continued to be dorado. There were small fish in the 10 pound class, but some nicer 20-30 pound models with sprinklings of thelarger 30-40 pound bulls. The dorado were scattered in numerous spots all the way south from Punta Pescadero to the north end of Espiritu Santo Island. No one particular place seemed to be the hot spot. You could encounter dorado pretty much anywhere. Sometimes you would dink and scratch for a few fish here and there or you could blank all day then at the 11th hour run into a nice school willing to go on the wild chew and all hell would bust loose!

A few billfish were hooked and either released or lost. No wahoo to speak of. However, late-season roosterfish and pargo are still in the shallows with some of the roosters bring trophy-class 50-90 pound fish. Squid pop up for a day then disappear. No real trend to speak of with the big squirters. Everyone is getting fish is the bottom line. Even for the light tackle guys…small roosters, jacks, sierra, pompano and snapper can keep you busy all day long!

AUCTION FOR JACK VELEZ

We wanted to thank all of you who reached out and bid for the two custom rods that were being auctioned off for the family of Jack Velez.

The Whopper Stopper Mini rod went to Art Savedra of Las Vegas for $300.

The Seeker bait stick was won by Richard Winslow for $275.

You guys who kept up the lively bidding are awesome. Ed Robison of Whopper Stopper Rods http://whopperstoppers.976-tuna.com/

and Vic Ochoa who wrapped the Seeker blank, you also rock. Thanks, amigos!

In fact, just to bring you up-to-date, money for the family continues to trickle in. In a few weeks, the season will slow down and we plan to have a memorial dinner for Jack and will surprise the family with a check as well as a card with everyone’s names who donated. You’re the best! Mil gracias por todo!

That’s our story!
Jonathan and Jill

Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter International
Website: http://www.tailhunter-international.com/

U.S. Office: 3319 White Cloud Drive, Suite A, Hacienda Hts. CA 91745
Mexico Office: 755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico
Phones:
from USA : 626-638-3383
from Mexico: 044-612-14-17863

Tailhunter Weekly Fishing Report:
http://www.tailhunter-international.com/fishreport.htm

Tailhunter YouTube Videos:
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PHOTO 1: THIS IS THE KIND WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR! Bigger yellowfin tuna popped up at the north end of Cerralvo Island this week that bent rods, back and stamina! Brian O’Neill took down this 60 pound class toad yellowfin tuna fishing with Captain Adolfo and our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet . It was a long run to the north island, but it paid off in some of the largest tuna of the year.

PHOTO 2: What a week for Leif Dover who rolled in all the way from Atlanta GA . He booked 6 straight days of hardcore fishing just to catch a single roosterfish. He got a 35, 45, 50 and this fish estimated at 80-85 pounds. All the fish were released. He also go tuna and dorado on the week as well. The big roosters bit live ladyfish trolled behind the boat.

PHOTO 2: The man behind the fish is first-timer, Brian Meier, from Oregon hit this big boy on his first day fishing out of Las Arenas with Captain Adolfo. Estimated at more than 65 pounds (by the captain), it was caught off the Las Arenas lighthouse area and was released after the photo. It was a good week for the big roosters and most of them were caught fishing with our Captain Adolfo (Yofo).

PHOTO 3: Ladies Day! On the beach is Jillene Roldan of La Paz (tuna) , (Mom) Janille Todd from Spring Valley CA celebrating her birthday in La Paz (dorado): Captain Jorge holding jack crevalle; and “Lucky” (Auntie) Maryann Hendren from San Diego (tuna). There was a nice mix of fish out’ve Las Arenas all week.

PHOTO 4: Nice sized football tuna held up by John Brown from Eugene OR and Ray Miklich from Pueblo CO, holds a dorado. Most anglers this week took home a nice mixture of tuna and dorado. Most of the tuna were caught with our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet.

PHOTO 5: Quentin Abramo and Mike Koontz were on their first trip to La Paz this past week and hold up a few of the yellowfin tuna that poked up off Cerralvo Island a a few other spots this week.

PHOTO 6: Never too late to start! This is Frank Burgess from Kansas City. First time ever on the ocean. He showed ’em how it’s done and ran circles ar0und some of the other anglers here holding up just one of his fish. Frank came with his son Allen Burgess, who is one of our regulars. They fished 5 straight days and Frank just keep rolling…never getting tired!

PHOTO 7: Just an incredible shot of a marlin. This is John Chase’s striped marlin just after being hooked south of Muertos Bay. You won’t get many special shots like this with full action!

PHOTO 8: Charlie Gibson is actually really happy to have cuaght his nice female dorado fishing with Captain Chito and our La Paz fleet north of La Paz. The dorado fishing got better as the week went on. Stripped pieces of dead fresh bonito worked best to get the fish to charge the pangas.

PHOTO 9 : In this job one of the best things is that we get all kinds of folks. It’s what makes it fun. Jess Franco never has a dull moment. He came in with a big group of retired firefighters this past week and came down to the pool at La Concha Beach Resort wearing a bikini top. He proceeded to walk around the pool sending mothers and small children scurrying away!

PHOTO 10: Steve Linenberger retired from years working for CBS Sports and loves Harley’s and fishing. He got into our nice tuna bite earlier in the week. He holds a couple he nailed off Las Arenas near the old hotel.

GOOD WEEK OF FISHING HIGHLIGHTED BY 60-POUND TUNA and BIG ROOSTERFISH

La Paz / Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of Sept. 13-20, 2009

It looks like we’re finally back on track. Steady to good fishing for our La Paz fleet for dorado ranging in size from 5-40 pound fish.

The schools are scattered north of the city all the way from Las Cruces to the gap between the islands then on the west side of Espiritu Santo near Isla Ballena across the bay all the way over to San Juan de la Costa in front of the mining town. Quite a few smaller fish, but cruiser bulls seemed to join the party as the week went on. The better fishing came on our pangas that were able to get big bonito in the morning and use the carcasses or strips of bonito to chum up the schools to the boat or entice a bite on the troll then get the fish to bite on flylined sardines. Not a bad idea, if you’re coming down to bring some hoochies to small tuna feathers to catch bonito. The faster you get your bonito, the faster to the fishing grounds.

The big news for our Las Arenas fleet was the appearance of larger tuna. Over the course of the week, 10-15 pound footballs had teased the fleet with our pangas getting 2-5 fish each from various spots around Espiritu Santo Island mixed in with some dorado, pargo and cabrilla as well as sierra. Late in the week, 30-60 pound fish showed up at Northern Cerralvo that really tore into the anglers. These were bigger grumpier fish and fishermen had their hands full and rods bent! Only problem is that it’s a long boat ride from Las Arenas Beach all the way up along the side of the island to get the fish, but no one complained once they came back with those big fillets!

By the way, waters must be getting cooler! We’re getting alot of sierra all of a sudden. Normally, we run into sierra when the waters are cooler and generally not until November so, but some boats ran smack into schools of these toothy guys.

As a side note…roosterfish are still here, over 6 days of fishing, Leif Dover and Brian O’Neill specifically came to chase roosters. They posted smaller fish, but tallied an 85 pound beast as well as a 35, 45m 59 abd 65- pound fish that were all released.

FACEBOOK

Last week, I told you that I started posting up daily reports on FACEBOOK under my name, JONATHAN ROLDAN. However, I didn’t know that we already had an account under TAILHUNTER INTERNATIONAL. So, if you’d like to check out DAILY reports, get on as a fan of TAILHUNTER INTERNATIONAL on FACEBOOK. Over the past two weeks, I”ve posted photos and items about the fishing and our Tailhunter Bar that may not necessarily make it onto the weekly fishing report.

JACK VELEZ FUND

At this time, we have bids on the two custom rods offered to raise funds for the family of Jack Velez. On the mini-Whopper Stopper rods, we have a current bid of $140. On the Seeker bait stick, we have a current bid of $70. If you’re interested, we’ll hold the auction open for one more week. Just send me an e-mail to riplipboy@tailhunter-international.com

Have a great week!

Jonathan and Jill

Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter International
Website: http://www.tailhunter-international.com
U.S. Office: 3319 White Cloud Drive, Suite A, Hacienda Hts. CA 91745
Mexico Office: 755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico
Phones:
from USA : 626-638-3383
from Mexico: 044-612-14-17863

Tailhunter Weekly Fishing Report:
http://www.tailhunter-international.com/fishreport.htm

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

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PHOTO 1: Arizona resident, John Chase, came down to dive and fish with us and put this pretty bull dorado in the panga fishing with Captain Pancho and our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet. Great colors and a great photo. Dorado were on-again-off-again, but some spots produced limits or near limits. It changed from day-to-day.

PHOTO 2: Just another fantastic dorado photo that really shows out the colors of one of the prettiest fish in the water. Paul Mohklenbuhr is a retired firefighter from the Sacramento CA area and he put the hurt on this nice bull dorado fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet and Captain Jorge.

PHOTO 3: Yes…we got some tuna this week. Early in the week, Dave Bean got one of the teaser football tuna that kept popping up and then disappearing while fishing south of Cerralvo Island. There were some larger 40-50 pound fish lost. Late in the week, some 30 pounders showed up schooling and got everyone excited. Maybe by the time you’re reading this, we’ll be going full turbo on the nicer grade of fish. That’s Todd Rudaitis with his back to the camera on another fish!

PHOTO 4: Might be one of the larger dorado of the week when big fish weren’t real common so you’d think Aaron Hamilton would be smiling. But, he said it was hard to hold up! Normally, Aaron goes after his game and fish with a bow since he works for Martin Archery. He caught this nice bull north of La Paz with our Tailhunter La Paz Fleet and Captain Raul.

PHOTO 5: This is our gal, Jessie Pfost, who just moved to Las Vegas after just graduating from college. She came down and spent a week with us putting up not only with her two parents, but hurricane Jimena as well that put a damper on her vacation. However, once the sun came out, things got better. She got this bull dorado off Punta Coyote and then came back and her boyfriend, Brian Reid, proposed to her! She got a ring and everything! Congratulations, Jessie!

PHOTO 6: Ed Janas spent years coming down to Baja trying to catch “just one roosterfish” unsuccessfully. We sent him to the east side of Cerralvo Island where he slammed and released over a dozen roosters as well as dorado, pargo and other species all on light tackle! Notice how close they are to the island. All the fish were caught on live bait and released…except the dorado…which they brought back to the Tailhunter Bar for dinner!

PHOTO 7: Here’s another one of Dave Bean with a dorado he hung just south of Muertos Bay where he and Todd Rudaitis (battling his own fish) got limits earlier in the week.

PHOTO 8 : Sarah Hamilton from Washington State wanted us to adopt her. She didn’t want to leave after spending 3 days fishing and 2 days finishing up her open water PADI dive certification. We sure enjoyed her and her husband, Aaron. Sarah was a gamer…she could fish and dive all day and loved the Tailhunter mai tais at night. She loves the outdoors and is an accomplished bow hunter.

PHOTO 9 : Still swinging it’s tail, this big bull dorado wants to smack Pete Hansen from the San Francisco Bay area. Pete was fishing north of La Paz and got this fish on live bait. Best bait all week for the larger fish were strips of dead bonito trolled behind the boat to get the fish near then dropping a live sardine back onto them.

PHOTO 10: When Pete Hansen told me he was coming down with Sam Hansen, I figured he was bringing his son or his brother. It was his lovely wife “SAMANTHA.” Fishing with Captain Joel, she shows off one of her dorado she just gaffed.

FISHING ALL OVER THE PLACE FROM SLOW TO EXCELLENT AS AREA RECOVERS FROM STORM BUT EVERYONE GETTING FISH!

La Paz / Las ARenas Fishing Report for week of Sept. 6-12, 2009

A bit of a mixed week down here. At first, I thought that the hurricane hadn’t done much to us and on the surface, the waters and conditions seemed amazing. It wasn’t turned over or muddy or full of debris as is normal after a storm. Fish were still around. However, as the week went on, the bite got a little more spotty…a little more scratchy. Everyone got fish. The dorado are still bending the rods, but the fish seemed to move around a lot. They weren’t schooling up like normal. We had to work harder to find them and keep them around. One area could be red-hot on day and stone cold the next without even a bonito around. Like I said, it just meant we had to hunt a little harder. Dorado were the mainstay with fish about 10-20 pounds on the average, but larger fish showing up later in the week in the 30-40 pound class.

We did notice one thing. If you could get bonito early in the morning and use them for strip bait, you had the btter shot at gettting the larger dorado, especially for our La Paz fleet anglers. The dorado wouldn’t necessarily bite the bonito bait, but it would draw them in then you’d feed them back a live sardine and WHAM! By the way, weather is great…mid-90’s but it can be windy and rough in the morning so if you’re coming down, keep that in mind! Some guys got a little queasy.

One FLASH!

We did get a few tuna from our Las Arenas fleet. The fish were 10-15 pounds, but two larger fish estimated at 40-50 pound by our captain were lost. Then, late in the week…we hit a school of 30-40 pound fish that put the hurt on a few guys! (That’s why you come down here, right?). Anyway, hopefully, by the time you’re reading this, we’ll be into a regular tuna bit. I’ll keep you posted.

As well, we had a few marlin and sails come up. No calamari or wahoo to speak of, but we had some anglers who wanted to fish inshore and had an outstanding time on roosterfish, pargo, cabrilla and other rock fish with non-stop action.

NFL and COLLEGE BALL at the TAILHUNTER BAR

Just an FYI that we have NFL! It’s great to finally come into a season and have 7 flat screens carrying all the college and NFL games. Whooo-hoooo!!! After 15 years here to finally be able to watch AMERICAN football and have all our friends and guests and clients over with cold cerveza and good food is incredible for Jill and I.

We had on the USC vs. Ohio State game last night and were packed. Right now as I write this, we’ve got NFL on all the flat screens going and tomorrow night a double-header for Monday Night Football.

Also, we now have Tecate Beer Co. aboard. We’re excited because that brings us Tecate, Dos Equis, Indio and Sol Beer. We’ve been carrying all the Pacifico line…Corona, Corona Light, Pacifico, Pacifico Light, Bud and Bud Light, Estrella, and Modelo Dark and Modelo Light ON TAP in ice mugs!

Oh…and we also started serving breakfast as well and it’s been a big hit. We’ve got the best pancakes and huevos rancheros on the waterfront! And we plan to add chicken wings and sushi rolls to the menu this week too!

FACE BOOK

If you FACEBOOK Jonathan Roldan, I’ve started to be a little better. I’m going to be posting almost daily with little snippets that might not show up in the regular fishing report. All week, I’ve had mini-fishing reports and photos as well as things going on at the TAILHUNTER BAR. If you comment, I probably will not be able to respond to everyone, but will try. Don’t be offended if I don’t! But, I know many of you die-hards like to know almost daily what’s going on so I figured I’d better get better at FACEBOOK.

JACK VELEZ MEMORIAL FUND

Thank you to so many of you who donated to the fund for the family or our friend Jack Velez who passed away earlier this summer. The response has been fantastic. Money is still trickling in and at the end of the season, we plan to do a surprise memorial dinner for Jack for the family and present them with a check and a card with everyone’s names on it.

To that end…we have to great amigos who have donated their services to the cause

1. Ed Robison of Whopper Stopper Rods http://whopperstoppers.976-tuna.com/

and the famous mini-rod, has put one of his custom sticks up for auction. Starting price for the auction is $140.

2. Victor Ochoa, our long-time amigo, has also put up one of his custom sticks. It’s a 7′ Seeker stick double wrapped in blue. Starting bid is $75.

I”ll hold these open for 2 weeks. Write me directly at riplipboy@tailhunter-international.com if you have a bid and which rod you are bidding on. If someone tops your bid, I will write you back. The bidding starts Sunday, Sept. 13. Thanks for all your good thoughts!

That’s our story
Jonathan and Jill

Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter International
Website: http://www.tailhunter-international.com
U.S. Office: 3319 White Cloud Drive, Suite A, Hacienda Hts. CA 91745
Mexico Office: 755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico
Phones:
from USA : 626-638-3383
from Mexico: 044-612-14-1786

Tailhunter Weekly Fishing Report:
http://www.tailhunter-international.com/fishreport.htm

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

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PHOTO 1: Here it comes! It’s getting angry out there…Hurricane Jimena starts to roll into Baja.

PHOTO 2: I don’t have photos of La Paz during the hurricane because there was nothing really to take pictures of…moving palm fronds? Puddles of water? This, on the other hand, is Cabo San Lucas which dodged a bullet ,but still got some heavy winds and rains as well as big surf since it faces the open ocean, unlike La Paz.
Thanks to Bil Pulford for the photos.

PHOTO 3: Dave Duenas from Rialto CA took time off from his police work and got in some good fishing for dorado before the storm hit. He got this nice bull fishing north of La Paz with our Tailhunter Fleet.

PHOTO 4: Two of our best amigos who visit us yearly, Steve Huth and Billie Nash from the Glendora area new Los Angeles CA hold up an excellent “variety” of fish they caught earlier in the week fishing with our Tailhunter Las ARenas fleet. Steve holds up a barred pargo and roosterfish (the smaller ones taste pretty good). Billie hangs onto a handful of dorado and a pompano.

PHOTO 5: Sunny Chung from Santa Clarita CA is also a police officer and got into a really nice snap of dorado fishing with our Captain Chito with our La Paz fleet. Before the storm, the dorado bite had just started to pick up.

PHOTO 6: Eileen Dann from Los Angeles got a nice batch of dorado and here holds up a prized barred pargo mulatto.

FISHING INTERRUPTED BY HURRICANE JIMENA ALTHOUGH LA PAZ ESCAPES SERIOUS DAMAGE

La Paz / Las Arenas Fishing Report for week of Aug. 30 to Sept. 5, 2009

Not much to show you in the way of fishing this week. We spent most of the week in lockdown as Hurricane Jimena ran towards us with Category 4 written all over it. We taped windows, hoarded water and flashlight batteries and sandbagged our building and got ready to get slammed. And at the last minute it veered north of us and thankfully, hit us with only about 2 ½ days of intermittent rain and some strong winds doing little damage and only localized flooding. I think we dodged a big bullet! But, it also kept us off the water for 3 days.

Prior to the storm, the dorado bite had picked up nicely and I’m anticipating that once the water settles the dorado will come back strong given all the junk that gets washed into the ocean from storms. At the time of writing, we’ve been back on the water for two days and the waters are still a bit turned over and murky. It’s gonna take a bit for it to settle down and clear up because there’s still some residual chop. However, we did find some dorado up to about 20 pounds and normally that gets better assuming no other fronts come through. Looking at the forecasts, it looks like great conditions on tap.

That’s our story!
Jonathan and Jill

Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter International
Website: http://www.tailhunter-international.com
U.S. Office: 3319 White Cloud Drive, Suite A, Hacienda Hts. CA 91745
Mexico Office: 755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico
Phones:
from USA : 626-638-3383
from Mexico: 044-612-14-17863

Tailhunter Weekly Fishing Report:
http://www.tailhunter-international.com/fishreport.htm

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

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PHOTO 1: Sheryl Lucero doesn’t have many oceans in New Mexico where she’s from but got out on the water with Captain Victor and our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet and got this nice dorado not too far offshore on live bait.

PHOTO 2: From San Francisco area, Shannon Aurand and her husband got 10 different species of fish over 3 days of fishing. Captain Jorge from our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet help with gaff duties on a feisty yellowfin tuna. This past week, they ranged from 10-30 pounds.

PHOTO 3: My dive buddy from San Luis Obispo CA, Anthony Reynolds got into a nice snap of dorado fishing north of La Paz with our Tailhunter La Paz Fleet. He just racked this nice bull but buddy , Bob, pumps one to the boat in the stern.

ANGLERS AND CAPTAINS WORK HARD FOR THEIR FISH AS DARK MOON PHASE SEEMS TO HAVE SLOWED THE BITE THIS WEEK…OR SOMETHING…IT WAS DEFINITELY OFF…

La Paz / Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of Aug. 23-29, 2009

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