Tailhunter Fish Report

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La Paz – La Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Aug. 14-21, 2016

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THE MINI VIDEO REPORT

The quick-video re-cap:

THE QUICK REVIEW – (Scale of 1-10 being best)

Weather – 2 (thunderstorms on and off all week)

Conditions Overall – 2 (windy cloudy many times)

Water – 3 (bumpy at times depending on the winds and nearby storms)

Fishing Quality – 1 (big fish around but mostly all lost or broke off)

Fishing Quantity – 7 (if you were catching triggerfish easy limits)

Quote of the Week – “Fishing is my anger management”

THE BIG PICTURE

Jeff Sakuda, our amigo for so many years, was trolling a small Rapala on just 30-pound-test for pargo while fishing with Captain Jorge and got this 20-pound wahoo hooked instead just before the weather changed and they had to bring it closer in.

Dee Dee Radar was fishing not to far off Espirito Santo Island north of La Paz and got this trophy cabrilla into the boat.

Mike Zech and Aaron Warren from Portland OR with Captain Rogelio and a nice barred pargo. They also got lots of triggerfish and had a big blue marlin on for a bit that broke the line and took off with the lure.

Roosterfish like Vanessa’s fish here with Captain Jorge just inside Bahia de los Muertos were about the size of the roosters this week. This fish was released.

Surprisingly great eating and tough battling fish, triggerfish have been easy pickings the last few weeks especially around the rocks, reefs and islands. Thanks for Joey Fuschetti for the photo.

Clarence Cooper : John Sanchez dorado tags 9-15

Clarence and John showing off the kind of dorado we were hitting this week…when we could find them.

Joey Fuschetti with a china maru…also knows as a hawkfish.

THUNDERSTORMS ADD TO END-OF-SUMMER FISHING LULL

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Aug. 14-21, 2016

Not much to tell you this week. Weather wasn’t the most cooperative. Summer thundershowers or threats of showers, thunder or lightning were almost an every-day occurrence. It didn’t always happen or it rained and thundered in one area, but not another or the predicted precipitation lasted 5 minutes here and 10 minutes there. Very tropical overall. My point being that it wasn’t always “Chamber of Commerce” clear sunny beach weather.

For fishing, we had a lull. What can I say? After months and months of solid anglers every day, this past week, we just didn’t have many folks coming to visit and fish. Actually, it’s kind of typical this time of year.

It’s the end of summer. Families are headed back to school so it marks the end of our “summer vacation” visitors and families that come to La Paz. (Local kids also head back to school as well). Anyway, families have other things on their plates and it’s a rare dad who gets to slip away from home to go fishing while leaving mom back home to deal with back-to-school craziness! So, there just weren’t many fishermen and this was the slow week of the season. Given the weather, maybe that was a good thing.

For those that did fish, it was a mix. I’m sure the weather had something to do with it.

At Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay some rooster fish were caught, but they missed some of the big boys. The ones caught and released were the smaller 10-15 pounders. There are wahoo in the area and we hooked 2, but lost them. Our friend, Jeff Sakuda got one 20-pound wahoo…while trolling a small Rapala on 30-pound test for pargo! The dark Rapalas are still the trick. There were some tuna that hit earlier in the week.

For our La Paz fleet, the inshore fishing once again provided the most action with big triggerfish, pargo, cabrilla and smaller amberjack making up most of the catch. Offshore, a few dorado in the 10 pound class hooked and one of our pangas had a big blue marlin on the line that broke the line after awhile.

More intermittent rain and thundershowers are predicted over the next few days again. Remnants of Tropical Storm Kay that formed east of Cabo San Lucas, but moving westward out to the Pacific.

That’s our story!

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Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website:

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 Aug .1-7, 2016

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TAILHUNTER MINI-VIDEO FISHING REPORT FOR WEEK OF AUG. 1-7, 2016

THE WEEK IN SUMMARY (scale of 1-10)

Weather – 7 (sunny but humid)

Wind – 9 (not an issue/ sweet breeze in the afternoon and evenings)

Fishing Action – 4 (More fish with our La Paz fleet, but smaller. Las Arenas fewer fish but overall larger)

Quality of Fish – 6 (Big Roosters / Nice billfish / Tasty rock fish)

Water – 6 (bluer and warmer)

Tailhunter Restaurant – 6 (good crowds/ cold beer/ finally something to watch…Olympics and NFL Football)

Jonathan Attitude – 6 (cautiously optimistic / a bit of tight shorts over possible rain coming)

Forecast – 5 (El Nino broke my crystal ball / watching this weather right now)

Quote of the Week – “I don’t go fishing to find myself. I got fishing to lose myself.”

THE FULL STORY – THE WHOLE ENCHILADA FISHING REPORT

Olga Atamanayk Pancho 2 rooster 7-16 tags

Olga Atamanyk is from Russia and she and her husband Anatoli walked into the Tailhunter Sportfishing office in La Paz speaking no English or Spanish. None of us could speak Russian! All she could say was “BIG FISH! BIG FISH!” and pantomime fishing with her hands and arms! So, we sent her fishing with Captain Pancho out’ve Bahia de los Muertos. She and Anatoli caught and released two huge rooster fish and a big jack crevalle plus triggerfish which they brought back to Tailhunter Restaurant to cook up. The big smile says it all. Captain Pancho from the Tailhunter Fleet lends a hand.

This photo of Eric Stefan from Kansas makes me smile on so many levels. It’s a great picture and a happy fella, but it’s also maybe one of the biggest dorado we’ve seen in awhile and they got several that day. Fingers crossed!

Wes Perkins from Portland OR found a speedy wahoo his first day of fishing with Captain Victor. Posing on the beach at Muertos Bay.

Lowen Hobbs and his girlfriend Heather, from Poway CA had only one day to fish with Tailhunter Sportfishing. They went out of Bahia de los Muertos near Las Arenas and hooked this big blue marlin right off the bat. They also hooked and released a big rooster fish. They were not able to release the marlin. They fought the fish almost 2 hours on light tackle. They were with Captain Pancho from the Tailhunter Fleet.

Got what he wanted! Captain Gerardo helps out young Earl Natrass from Cool, California who really wanted to catch a big rooster! Nicely done and they also released the fish.

She’s always laughing! Chelsey Stefan from Topeka KS with her first dorado that she battled mightily on Captain Chito’s panga caught north of La Paz near Espirito Santo Island. Check out the video of Chelsey below!

For one day fishing, it’s hard to top Lowen Hobbs from Poway CA. He got this nice roosterfish south of Bahia de los Muertos and released it then got bent on a big blue marlin (photos at the beginning of the report).

From Mesquite, Nevada, Darrold Stefan loves to fish. This jack crevalle yanked him around a bit before getting his photos taken and put back in the water! Darrold also caught a few marlin during the week.

Gary Wagner from Colorado Springs CO (owner of Rancho Costa Plenty at Muertos Bay) and Rush Whitmarsh from San Diego pose with a feisty jack crevalle just outside the bay. The guys released the fish to fight another day.

Great photo of Earl Natrass from Cool CA with his roosterfish still fresh and all lit up with great colors! Catch…photo…release…well done!

Captain Pancho and Bernie Stefan from Kansas with Bernie’s fat rooster from his first day fishing. Bernie released the fish.

Anatoly Olga Atamanyk tags 7-16 jack crevalle

Detante at it’s best! Hard to beat the smiles our our Russian friend who ony had one day to fish, Anatoli and Olga Atamanyk who also got 2 giant roosterfish!

Just had to post this one up! This tiny dorado was a hungry fella and grabbed Chelsey’s hook and gave it all he had! Captain Rogelio helps for the photo. They released the little tiger!

Rooster Anatoly Atamanyk 7-16 tags pancho

Not bad for just one day of fishing for Anatoli Atamanyk with Captain Pancho and his big rooster he fought and released. Great photo.

DORADO HIGHLIGHT A BETTER WEEK…BUT WAIT…

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Aug. 1-7, 2016

Not up to our usual summer standards by any stretch, but this past week was definitely an improvement over last week. The bite was more consistent. There were no weather related issues. The water was cleaner, warmer and bluer. This all added up to better action for our anglers.

And…(drumroll)…we had some dorado show up! These were quality fish too. Nothing spectacular. Nothing on fire. But given the dearth or mahi this year, this was very encouraging.

Hopefully, things will improve…but wait…

As I’m writing this, we’re on storm watch. Mother Nature is gonna maybe have another laugh at our expense and drop kick us to see how we roll. There’s a potential tropical storm headed our way which could be dropping some rain on us by the time you’re reading this. If I had hair long enough to grab, I might be pulling it out right now in frustration. More on that below…

LAS ARENAS

After a week or so of some iffy fishing I was wondering if our rooster fish had left us. Well, if they did, they came back nicely. Good to have the big gallos back to put on a show. We had some good roosters this week like normal.

Fish ranged from about 10 pounds to over 60 in some cases. Not good to eat so as far as I know, all of them were released, but hard not to get thrilled by a big fish in shallow water and that’s exactly what these big slab fish do. They kick your heart rate up a few notches.

That’s the good news.

The bad news from the area was that there wasn’t much more biting. We had a few billfish. There were a few wahoo bites that were lost, although we got a few. There was one solitary tuna and a few rock fish, jack crevalle, bonito, and assorted mixes. That was it.

LA PAZ

Our Tailhunter La Paz fleet surely had the most variety and best action overall.

Inshore fishing continues to be the highlight with some huge triggerfish, pargo, cabrilla, amberjack and parrot fish really surprising some of our anglers who often go to the rocks a big dejected when the blue water fishing doesn’t work out so well. Then, they hit the rocks and get schooled a few times by giant pargo and cabrilla or get triple bites on huge jacks or the triggerfish and realize they’re having a blast and filled the fish box with some quality fillets.

But, the big surprise was finding a couple pods of dorado…finally! We should be hitting limits of dorado every single day right now in a normal year. This isn’t a normal year. It’s been like this for 2 seasons now as we hit the tail end of the El Nino conditions. But, some of our anglers found some of the mahi schooled up and got a few handfuls into the boat that were quality 10-25 pound fish and some larger ones lost! We can only hope for more!

As for other species, the deep canyons and drop off areas still produced some good billfish action for stripers, sailfish and the occasional hookup (and loss) of bigger blue marlin.

THE STORM?

As mentioned above, we’ve got our eye on a tropical storm that might be hitting us with some thundershowers and wind starting Monday. As I write this on Sunday, wind is already stronger than normal although the sun has been shining. This is NOT a hurricane, but there might be some flurries of intermittent rain, thunder and lightning coming Monday and Tuesday.

This is Tropical Depression Eleven-E as of Sunday and the possible path it might take over the next few days. Or not…the diagram changes every few hours.

The advisories seem to change every few hours. It’s not really going to affect anyone here on vacation. The margaritas will flow and tacos will be eaten. I’m only writing this as to how it might affect our fishermen, divers and snorkelers that it’s just something we’re watching and might have to do some adjustments to fishing schedules and that waters might be a little rough A little rain here and there is no big deal. Fish still bite. But if it gets really windy that might be another issue.

TAILHUNTER DONATION NATION!

Wow! Don and Sue Ogden DROVE about 10 crates of school supplies down to us including books, teaching materials, about 50 completely packed pencil boxes and so many other things all headed to the orphanage at Los Planes. Incredible.

All the way from Topeka, Kansas, the Stefan Family brought down a big batch of things for our charities. Super fun family and their first time fishing with us in La Paz. The empty ice chests that brought all this down went home with about 100 pounds of fish filets! Nice exchange!

Our good friends for so many years, on their 2nd trip here in 2016, Grant Darby and son-in-law, Ben Van Gerpen from Washington brought down school supplies, toiletries, hygiene items and clothes, which I think we’ll deliver to the women’s shelter here in La Paz. You rock, guys!

All the items that came in this week literally filled the entire back and the inside cab of a truck! I think there was over 300 pounds of supplies and we are so grateful. The donations go to so many needy families and kids and are priceless.

Big shout out to the folks pictured above:

Don and Sue Ogden

The Stefan Family

Ben Van Gerpen and Grant Darby

And some great amigos we didn’t get pictures of:

Lee Carlos and Frank Kunze

Noe and Dante Fierros

Thanks for the big hearts, my friends!

That’s our story !

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Jonathan and Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website:

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

“When your life finally flashes before your eyes, you will have only moments to regret all the things in life you never had the courage to try.”

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of July 24-31, 2016

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TAILHUNTER SPORTFISHING – WEEKLY MINI REVIEW

THE WEEK AT A GLANCE

Conditions: 4 (cloudy, humid, a few passing storms, windy at times and choppy)

Sunshine: 3 (much of the week overcast, but finally sunshine late in the week)

Bait: 3 ( better for La Paz than Las Arenas)

Quality of fish: 5 (nice marlin and roosters)

Quantity of fish: 2 (sometimes there were only triggerfish caught)

Optimism: 6 (it’s gottta get better!)

Quote of the Week: “I have 99 problems. Fishing solves all of them.”

THE BIG PICTURE

From Puyallup WA area, fireman Seth Maxwell is on his honeymoon with his new wife Vann. Their first date was fishing. He proposed to her while they were fishing and now this! Nice amberjack off Punta Arenas!

C.J. Randolph with the big boy dog-tooth snapper (check out the choppers!) on the beach at Bahia de los Muertos! CJ is from Pacific Palisades CA

Gary Wagner and his daughter, Sydney, with her rooster caught not far from Gary’s place in Bahia de los Suenos…great lodge Rancho Costa (Plenty!). The fish was released!

Monte Adridge from Utah with a really gorgeous white marlin and Captain Pancho near the south end of Cerralvo Island.

One of the rare dorado caught this week. Van Maxwell, again in the report with Captain Chito north of La Paz.

Gary Wagner again, our amigo, with his son Miles’ roosterfish and captain Manny looking on! They are near Punta Perrico and released the fish.

Here’s Vann Maxwell again with big smiles and a huge roosterfish and Captain Pancho. The fish was released. Look closely and you can see the rain hitting the water in the background!

Pretty photo of Marlene and Monte Adridge visiting us for the first time from Utah and a big rooster just off the rocks near Baha de los Muertos. The fish was released.

Slug of a trophy cabrilla (seabass) for young Captain Randolph out’ve Las Arenas/ Bahia de los Muertos!

Dietmar Kruger with a nice barred pargo that’s going to get filleted!

You alway remember that first fish! Kudos to Marlene Aldridge for the fiesty bonito that was released and Captain Joel near Espirito Santo Island.

WEATHER AND FISH RELUCTANT PARTICIPANTS

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of July 24-31, 2016

It was a struggle this week. It’s been a repeated pattern all season. We have a week or two of really encouraging fishing and conditions when things look like they’re turning around followed by some really tougher fishing a week later. The last two weeks, the billfish really kicked it in and we were even seeing a few dorado finally.

This week the winds came in strong. So did cloudy skies and even some rain in the mountains and occasional showers on the water for our anglers. We barely saw sunshine. The billfish bite, while still OK was not as consistent as the week before. The dorado couldn’t be found. Even our reliable rooster fish were harder to find. It was like two steps forward…one step back.

We didn’t have alot fishermen this week, so maybe that was a good thing. We’ve been really solidly busy, but this week we had a few days with only a few pangas out. But, the guys really hung in there and worked hard. The captains were working especially hard. As I told my captains, when the fish are biting, all of us are superstars and the “best captains” in the world. When the fish are not biting, we have to prove we’re good by showing the clients that we work even harder. Some of our guys were staying out just a little longer than normal to give our guys as much time on the water as possible. We did whatever we could. Sometimes it paid off. Sometimes…well, that’s fishing. Not for lack of effort by the anglers or the captains.

LAS ARENAS/ BAHIA de Los MUERTOS

Roosterfish have saved us time-and-again all season. The fish are nice quality fish of 25-60 pounds. But this week even the roosters were harder to come by although we still got a few. As well, surprisingly, we got amberjack this week. We had not seen any for about a month and these are usually spring-time fish when waters are cooler. It’s really surprising to get any when it’s almost August!

A few billfish hooked and lost. Wahoo are apparently still in the area too. We had several inadvertent hook-ups but fish either bit-off or were dumped.

LA PAZ

Definitely our area this past week with the most action. Not great fishing, but the better area just to get your rod bent. There were billfish out there with stripers and larger blues getting hooked, but nothing like it was last week. Word is out now and there’s so much more boat traffic out there with alot of local boats all zipping back and forth across the marlin holes. So, I’m sure that had an effect on it too. A week ago, there were 1-3 billfish per boat some days. One day we counted 26 vessels criss-crossing the same patch of water over…and over…and over…

With the marlin action diminished…

Alot of our action has been inshore for pargo, cabrilla, jack crevalle, triggerfish, bonito and amberjack. Again, we would normally NEVER even be talking about these species of fish this time of year. These are spring-time species. We SHOULD be talking about dorado! But other than the occasional free-swimmer, there’s just not much out there for pelagic species. Other areas are also having their issues finding dorado as well so it’s not just us.

On the upside, the waters are warming and clearing up. Much bluer every week and there’s a bunch of sargasso weed about 10 miles north of town that’s moving south towards us so that’s very promising because the live bait situation is also improving. My captains are saying to give it 2-3 weeks and they think we’ll be getting dorado.

That’s our story!

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of July 16-24, 2016

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EXPRESS VIDEO FISHING REPORT

Sorry this is such a rough video this week. Only had time to do it in one take before the internet quit on me!

WEEK AT A GLANCE (Scale of 1-10)

Conditions: 6 – Better than it’s been

Fish Quality: 8 – Big fish with marlin in the spotlight

Fish Quantity: 2.5 Not many fish. Just big fish! Marlin or smaller triggerfish. More quality than quantity.

Water: 6 – Getting bluer and warmer finally

Weather: 8- Hot and muggy. Bits of rain at times. Just enough to mess up my just-washed-car. 😦

Storm: 2 – One to the south that went to Hawaii generated some waves to south facing beaches like Muertos Bay. Got bouncy.

Live Bait: 3 – Still tough. Gotta work for it. Some days better than others. We use whatever shows up.

Overall: 4-5

Jonathan’s Disposition: Much better than the week before. Saw lots of smiles this week.

Applause: To all the anglers who resisted the urge to kill their billfish and released them and to those that donated so much to others who needed the food! Cheers!

THE BIG PICTURE

Wow! What can you say, Robert “Pops” Henke from Montebello CA comes to see us every year. He’s 89-years-old and his first marlin turns out to be 370 pounds! With the help of son, Bo, they fought the fish for almost 3 hours. Captain Chito “ten more minutes” Martinez from the Tailhunter Fleet handled the boat. They also got a sailfish. There were some larger blue marlin hooked and lost this week as well! Additionally, bravo to Pops and Bo who only kept about 50-pounds of meat (to divide among a group of 14 anglers) and made sure that anyone of the locals who wanted or needed fish received some to eat. It fed many families!

The laughs are non-stop for anyone around Jerry Acosta from Phoenix whenever he visits us! There were so many billfish hooked this week, it’s hard to tell if Jerry has a striped marlin or a small blue there in the water. I think it’s a small blue.

Craig and Cathy Corda pargo tags Pancho 7-16

Captain Pancho wit Craig and Cathy Corda from Calexico, our amigos, who had a great few days of fishing and kicked it off with a bookend pair of big mean dog-tooth snapper (pargo perros).

Thomas only had 1 day to fish with us and got his first marlin too. It looks like a striper or even a small (dare-I-say) swordfish! I would tend to say a striped marlin but the captains called this a “white marlin” and indeed, the meat was white, not orange like a striped marlin and very meaty!

Luis Arandia finally got his first marlin…a striper. He also hooked a blue and a sailfish over two days!

And yet another big big dog-tooth snapper hits the beach. Usually, we get these big pargo in the fall and later fall. Mean fish. Big teeth too!

Craig Corda is all smiles with a nice wahoo. Craig has gotten a wahoo the last few times he’s fished with us…which is every year!

He has to head back in a few weeks for his 2nd year of law school in New York, but Marco Holguin did get this nice roosterfish before he released it!

Monster Jack Crevalle for Africa outfitter, out friend, Ken Khaplin who also got big roosterfish and marlin last week.

And here’s Cathy Corda with her first marlin too! Another one of the billfish I would call a striped marlin, but was told it was a “white marlin” even tho’ supposedly white marlin are only found in the Atlantic. The meat was indeed white when we packed it and striped marlin has dark reddish/orange flesh.

Yes, even I got out for just a few hours at sunset thanks to Gary Wagner and his great family for hosting us for the evening at Rancho Costa in Bahia de los Muertos. Out with his captain Manuel, we got bit off by a big wahoo; got some fat bonito; then ended the evening with a barred pargo headed to the dinner table at the lodge! It ate a purple Rapala XRap 30.

Marco Holguin again with his first striped marlin and Captain Jorge. Over 3 days he and his dad, Steve, got 4 striped marlin!

BIG OR GO HOME! MARLIN GO CRAZY!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of July 16-24, 2016

We just had maybe the best week of billfish I have ever seen here in the 20 years, we’ve had Tailhunters here in La Paz. Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen billfish all over, but with the colder waters, they just weren’t interested in much of anything. They were sitting on the surface and completely lethargic.

I kept saying that if the water temperatures came up just a few degrees, these fish will go. Well, the water temps came up and the fish suddenly got hungry. Every day, maybe 80% of our pangas hooked at least 1 billfish a day. For every one brought to the boat, maybe 2-3 others were lost or released. About 70% were released (way-to-go-guys!) and for those that came in or couldn’t be released, alot of the anglers donated the meat (double way-to-go!). But, alot of fun and for alot of our folks, it was their first billfish. In some cases, their 2nd and 3rd as well.

These fish ranged from smaller 50-80 pound stripers to our largest of the week which was a 370-pound blue marlin. There were also some sailfish as well. Plus there were 1 or 2 other billfish that would have been larger than 400 pounds, but we’ll never know as they broke off after long battles.

Several items…we’re getting marlin that sure look like striped marlin to me. Same shape and size. But our captains are calling them “white marlin.” But, white marlin are only found (supposedly) on the Atlantic. I was dubious and still am. They sure look like striped marlin! But, maybe a little slimmer. But white marlin generally are smaller and slimmer than striped marlin.

However, when I was packing fish, the meat of the “white marlin” was WHITE! Almost creamy white like the flesh of the delicious blue marlin. The striper flesh that I was vacuum sealing was the normal orange color and very fibrous like I expected!

The other thing…I think we would have been able to release more of these fish except that alot of these fish are really deep-hooked. Most of the guys are NOT trying to hook billfish. We don’t troll big lures like many areas. We fish live and dead bait. We’re fishing for dorado or even rooster fish and other species.

But, these billfish are just hungry. They come up…even in the shallow areas…and they are HUNGRY. They grab a bait and then swallow it! Hook goes deep. Some we can release. Others…well…not so easy. When you have a bait in the water, it’s not like you can pick-and-choose what bites the hook down under the surface. A number of guys did try really hard to revive their fish!

Let me also just add one more thing…for anyone who’s doesn’t like seeing photos of the billfish…

Mexican regulations allow a fisherman to keep one per day
For every photo you see, 5 or 6 billfish were either lost or released
Normally, about 90% of all billfish we catch are voluntarily released
Many times when anglers are unable to revive a fish, they donate the meat to folks who need food
Even when a fish is purposely taken, many times, the anglers still donate a good chunk anyway
Alot of the anglers that are catching the marlin aren’t really trying to catch the billfish and are trying to catch other fish but the ocean being what it is, if there’s a bait in the water, the billfish are eating it…even in shallow water. There’s no control of what decides to grab your bait under the water. And, unlike a lure, a small bait goes right down the throat with the hook and makes it harder to release although we are still able to release many and lots of guys spend alot of energy reviving their fish.

TAILHUNTER LAS ARENAS/ MUERTOS BAY FLEET

After several weeks of green cold water, the waters have improved dramatically! Our captains have commented that there are many more patches of clean blue water now although still some colder areas. Jill and I were out there mid-week and visibility and conditions looked extremely good.

There wasn’t alot of variety this week, but as stated above, we got billfish. There are stripers, sailfish, “white marlin” and smaller blue marlin (150 pounders) hooked.

As well, we’re seeing a little tick again of wahoo. I was out with Gary Wagner from Rancho La Costa only for about an hour or so at sunset and the first big caballito we had in the water got torn in half like a Ginzu knife got it. Too bad, we didn’t have a double-trap-hook set up on it because it was a huge 3 pound bait and it got cleanly severed. Several other guys during the week also hooked and lost fish.

Additionally, some of the big dog-tooth snapper got caught this week as well. Big fat doggies with the fangs!

TAILHUNTER LA PAZ FLEET

There were two kinds of fish. No in-between fish. They were either big. Or they were small.

There were only two kinds of fish. Rock fish (lots of triggers…smaller cabrilla and pargo…snapper). Or, they were big marlin 80-400 pounds!

That was it in a nutshell. No variation! A few dorado thrown in, but that was the whole enchilada. Guys either went inshore to the islands and rocks and knocked the heck out’ve triggerfish and rockfish. Or they went deeper and got billfish.

For sure the larger billfish were on this side as waters tend to be deeper and there’s more current and feed north of La Paz than Las Arenas. There were more sailfish on this side too.

TAILHUNTER DONATION NATION

Thanks to all of those who donated to our charities this week with school supplies and clothes!

Steve and Marco Holguin

Luis Arandia and Mario Salazar

Monte and Marlene Aldridge

Big smiles and thank you to Monte and Marlene Adridge from Utah on their first trip to La Paz managed to stuff a bunch of great school supplies into an ice chest for our kids!

That’s our story!

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Jonathan and Jill

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website:

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

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La Paz – Las Arenas/Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of July 10-17, 2016

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THE EXPRESS TAILHUNTER FISHING REPORT WEEKLY VIDEO!

For those who don’t have the time to read, take a look and listen to our express weekly fishing report version above!

RATING THE WEEK: (Scale of 1-10)

Variety: 7 Good (never knew what you’d hook up)

Action: 3-5 (Poor to OK on the number of hook-ups)

Quantity of Fish: 3 (Not so great)

Quality of Fish: 7 (some big fish out there which also had an effect on the Quantity of fish…lots of fish lost)

Weather: Hot (90’s)

Water: Cooler than normal, but getting warmer high 70’s-low 80’s

Beer: Icy

Overall: 3 (sad face waaaa…)

Jonathan’s Tempermant: Hopefully Anxious

Quote of the Week: “The best fisherman is the person having the most fun even if he has no fish”

THE FULL STORY

ROOSTERS STILL CHARGING BUT MARLIN WAKE UP

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of July 10-17, 2016

The big smile says it all! Becky Csutoras from Elk Grove CA never has a bad week of fishing with us. She hoists up a huge slab roosterfish south of Bahia de los Muertos with Captain Pancho. The fish was released!

Craig and Cathy Corda hit the home runs with a paid of magnificent dog-tooth snapper! Wow!

It was a good week to check of fish from the bucket list. Our good amigo, Ken Chaplin, is a hunting guide and this is his 2nd trip to visit us and he finally got the marlin off his list. He caught and released this striped marlin near Las Arenas and released it. He also caught a blue marlin and a huge roosterfish. See below.

Captain Chito and Terry Biggs with one of the only dorado we’ve seen all week. Hopefully, more on the way!

From Denver somewhere behind that dorsal fin is Ben Larkin who hefted this huge roosterfish near Boca de Alamo with Captain Adolfo. The fish was released.

McKenzie Pitts had some kind of week. Not only did boyfriend Josh propose to the Oregon gal, but her first day she gets a marlin right off the bat at Bahia de los Suenos/ Muertos. She got another one a few days later. They could not be released and meat was donated.

Rich Keogh has been fishing with us for many years and he had a tough week like so many other amigos. However, Captain Raul with our La Paz fleet put Rich over this big cabrilla north of La Paz.

Birthday fish for Buzzy Cook on his first trip with us and celebrated with this big roosterfish north of Boca de Alamo with Captain Pancho. The fish was released.

Rusty Cain Jeff Hampton marlin tags 7-16

Another guy who checked it off the bucket list…Rusy Cain with buddy, Jeff Hampton. Rusty got his first marlin and went home and booked to come back to fish with us at the end of October! He was with Captain Armando.

Shaka Brah! From buddy Guy Petree and Oscar Castro who cradles another roosterfish that got put back in the water right after the photo!

Terry Biggs chito tags cabrilla pargo 7-16

Terry Biggs with Captain Chito and some hefty good-eating rock fish including a barred pargo, dog-tooth snapper and a big trophy cabrilla (seabass).

Pretty good week for jack crevalle. Just think roosterfish without all the adornment on the back! Tough tough fish to battle. Guy Petree again with the pose.

Scott Brown of Santa Barbara with another striped marlin caught north of La Paz near Espirito Santo Island. The fish could not be released.

Amigo, Ken Chaplin fished hard all week. And, although the fishing was tough, he did get a striped marlin…blue marlin and this nice big roosterfish that he released. He also realeased some of the largest jack crevalle of the week also.

GENERALLY SPEAKING

Waters are still cooler than normal, but improving. Big rooster fish are still keeping anglers bent, but the marlin finally woke up after weeks of dis-interest. Things are encouraging although it’s summer and there’s still no dorado around! There was a big dorado tournament to the south of us and the winning fish was FIVE POUNDS! (He still won a big check so that’s awesome as long as it’s bigger than 2nd place!)

But…Either way, another real “iffy” erratically frustrating week of fishing.

It was also REALLY hot this week with some big temperature spikes for a day or two that went into the 100’s then dropped back down after a day. It produced some big afternoon winds on the backside low pressure and also gave us our first thunderheads and afternoon showers and bluster late in the day.

LAS ARENAS/ BAHIA de LOS MUERTOS

It was another week of hit-or-miss on the water. Like everywhere else, there’s no dorado to speak of other than the occasional 5-10 pounder when dorado should be 90% of our catch. Waters are still cooler than normal although warming a bit and getting bluer finally after 3 weeks of cold green waters. We are actually seeing some spots of 80-83 degree water although there’s still obvious patches of green, dirty colder water mixed in or down below the thermocline. I know this because it’s July and we’re still hooking some yellowtail and sierra…both cold water fish that we normally get in March and April or the wintertime and definitely not in the summer. This is the latests I have seen them.

No wahoo. No tuna. Had some guys out looking but got shut out.

Our best bet in the area is the rooster fish and again, they are hogs. The smaller ones are 25 pounders. The larger ones rolled up around 60-70 pounds and some possibly bigger as almost all the fish are getting released and we don’t always have photos of all the fish. Which is fine. I’m glad folks are releasing them and getting them back in the water as soon as possible. Given having a great photo or releasing a healthy fish, I’d rather have the fish swim away to go again another day and make more babies!

Other stuff around included some big horse jack crevalle, some white bonito and some pargo and cabrilla. And a small flurry of some really big dog-tooth snapper (again usually a cooler water fish!)

Still some sharks around too after that flurry for about 2 weeks when every boat seemed to hook up a shark. Bait has been an issue (again) until late in the week when the waters were filled with mackerel everywhere which might account for the lack of fish. They were too full! But, maybe this will also bring the sharks back following food source.

The other item of big interest are the marlin. They woke up! See below…

LA PAZ

Just like our fleet at Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay, there no dorado. No tuna. Not much of any pelagic species. Waters have been colder than normal the last few weeks. But…hold on…

They’re getting better! Patches of blue showing up and water is getting clearer. Also, one other indication is the marlin and sailfish finally started biting!

We’ve been seeing the billfish for several weeks. They have been totally lethargic and uninterested in much. Just finning and sitting on the surface. This is the kind of behavior we normally see in the early spring when waters are cooler.

I kept telling folks that if the water temps kick up just a degree or two, the fish will get active!

Well, sure enough the temps rose and the fish started to bite. We hooked more billfish this week than we have in the entire year. Every day there were 2, 3..5 billfish hooked. Many were lost after battles on relatively light tackle. Most of the ones brought to the boat were released. We had sailfish up to about 70 pounds. Striped marlin in the 100-120 pound class or larger. We even had a few smaller blue marlin to about 180 pounds. Fish that were kept and unable to release, a good portion of the meat was donated. But, for all the photos you see here, probably 95% were released.

The other indication of warming water is the algae bloom. Normally, again, this is a phenomenon that takes place in the early spring. As the waters warm algae starts busting out. Moss like stuff appears and starts clogging up the beaches. Waters can get cloudy. Then, as the waters warm the algae dies off and we come out on the other side with clean, blue fish-laden waters! So, this is a good sign. Plus, we’re seeing sargasso patches form up in the outer waters that are usually another good harbinger of warm waters and more dorado.

Other than the dorado, the inshore fishing has been surprisingly good. Big pargo. Big cabrilla. Big snapper. Regretfully, these are mean big fish. I’d say for every 1 fish put in the boat, 3-6 fish bust off in the rocks! For every 5 or 10 pound fish, 20-40 pounders just shred the anglers. They are alot for fun, however…and frustrating, but great action and good eating!

TAILHUNTER DONATION NATION

Ken Chaplin and John “Buzzy” Cook live way up by the Canadian border and spent the week with us, but still jammed several ice chests with a table full of school supplies, clothes and sports equipment.

Our railroad guys…Terry Biggs, Rich Keogh, Mitch Embry (with Jilly) and Ed Bird filled about 100 pounds of bags with toiletries, hygiene products, toys and school supplies for our program. Thanks, Guys!

If you ever wonder where your donations are going, check out Gary Wagner and his son. Gary’s the owner of the famous Giggling Marlin bar in Cabo, but does tons of charity work. He and his son came out to La Paz to pick up donations to distribute to the orphanage in Los Planes that you see stacked on the table. Thanks everyone. Thanks to the Wagners too!

Just this year alone so far, you folks have brought down over 1/2 a ton of donations for our Tailhunter Outreach Program benefitting kids and families of two outlying schools, the women’s shelter as well as the orphange in Los Planes. Ever bit helps and your thoughtfulness makes a big difference. Thank you sincerely for the big hearts!

That’s our story!

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Tailhunter International

Website:

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of July 3-10, 2016

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THE MINI-WEEKLY VIDEO REPORT –

This is our 2nd attempt at the weekly report in video. We’re still working out the bugs. I had to shoot it from inside our offices because it was too windy out on the beach and for lighting, I had to use some table lamps. So, that’s why I came out orange! I’ll get better!

THE FULL REPORT

What a week for Dr. Greg Miller from Oklahoma on his first visit to us in La Paz. He got FIVE big roosters (you’ll see other photos below…these are NOT the same fish!) and released them all. These were all 40-70 pound fish. As you can see he got his glasses knocked off and his hands full with the big fish trying to pose for the photo and release!

Reean Van Rooyen tags rooster archangel 7-16

Captain Arcangel gives Reean Van Rooyen a hand with this fat plug of a roosterfish. Reean is a big man so the fish is alot bigger than it looks in his arms. The fish was released. Reean is from S. Africa and now in Newport Beach CA

Captain Victor had quite a week with the roosters with multiple fish per day like this one with Vanessa Roost from New Mexico visiting us for the first time. She and her husband, Phililp got 3 roosters that day. Check out the flat waters at Punta Arenas Beach.

I love this photo of Captain Victor and 7-year-old Alyssa Stevens who was in on the roosterfish action this week!

Linda Joe Stevens Pancho rooster tags 7-16

More from the Stevens Family. Here’s Captain Pancho with the assist for Linda Stevens and 7-year-old son, Joe just off the rocks south of Muertos Bay with another big rooster that’s about to get released.

On the light tackle spinning rod! This is the way to do it with Rich Pomeroy from the Sacramento CA area and a great eating barred pargo off Espirito Santo Island.

A beast! The fish…not laughing Eric Delin who put the wood to this big dog-tooth snapper (check out the teeth) in the boulders off Punta Perrico.

OH my! Dr. Miller has another big rooster to try to hold for a photo!

Gotta love the hat! Todd Stevens brought his family to fish with us this week and got himself a nice rooster here for the camera and a quick put-back into the water.

Rick Pope can do this kind of fishing all day…and even into the night. After fishing and dinner, he would hang out on the docks behind La Concha hotel and keep fishing with his spinning rod and hooking all kinds of fish. This nice pargo is headed to the freezer off Espirito Santo Island north of La Paz.

Seven-year-old Alyssa Stevens. You always remember that first fishing trip!

From New Mexico, this is Philip Troost who scored 4 roosterfish his first day out with his wife. All fish were released.

Now THIS is alot of meat and a trophy cabrilla as well. Wow! Brad Charboneau was another of our first timers this past week and he sure scored with this slab of seabass!

A neglected to post this photo last week of Tommy Newman from Illinois and his big roosterfish! Sorry, Tommy! Tommy’s just 11-years-old and released the fish.

Vanessa Troost had a great week of fishing as she shows off one of her several roosterfish taken and released off Bahia de los Muertos.

Our good amiga, Sandra Welborn poses at Bahia de los Muertos with a big chunk of barred pargo!

The lone tuna of the week went to our amigos from the lone star state of Texas, Chris and Mika Lara.

One of the funniest guys in a long time, Eric Delin with about a 30-pound roosterfish fishing with Captain Ramiro out’ve Bahia de los Muertos.

DIVING VIDEO – ISOLOTES

Alot of even our regulars don’t know that we also set up snorkeling and diving adventures here in La Paz. We sent Dee Dee Pope out to the Isolaotes sea lion colony at Espirito Santo island and she got me some video footage that I produced into the following short video. Hope you enjoy it. Thanks, Dee Dee! Turn up the sound!

SAVED BY THE R & R’s…ROOSTERFISH & ROCKFISH!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of July 3-10, 2016

Thankfully, we’ve got rooster fish here! As one of the other outfitters in town told me, “Maybe we should start a marketing campaign to make triggerfish as popular as Chilean Seabass.” It’s honestly been that kind of fishing the last several weeks.

Although the waters are clearing up from those winds that hit us about 2 weeks ago, in many spots the water is still cold, been and murky. Although the air temps are nice and sunny, the water is 5-10 degrees below normal and that’s obviously going to affect the fishing. Normally, during this time of year, we should be thick into the warm water species. Dorado should be all over the place Billfish should be willing. Tuna and wahoo should be showing bending rods.

But, not right now. The species were getting are cooler water species like what we should be catching in April and May.

LAS ARENAS

There’s a reason they call this the “rooster fish capital of the world” and it lived up to it this week. Roosters really saved the day…they saved the whole week! Our roosters this week averaged 25-60 pounds and we had some fish going into the 60-80 pound category too! The best baits are the huge 12-18 inch ladyfish so, anything that can wrap it’s mouth around a bait that big is gonna be a big fish. But…you have to be able to catch the ladyfish and that sometimes takes awhile to catch them one-by-one. But, those are the hot ticket.

Other than the roosters, not much in the way of wahoo again. We had so many two weeks ago. There’s some marlin out there, but many of them just don’t seem very interested in chewing on anything other than sunning themselves. We almost run over them with the pangas they’re so lethargic. There’s an occasional tuna or dorado, some jack crevalle and white bonito and lots of triggerfish. And that’s been about it this past week.

But, there’s been some pargo, but all of them are big it seems and hooking them and getting them into the boat are two different issues. Bait is still an issue as well as it has been all season. Some days it’s there. Other days not. Or you really have to work for it. Or it changes from day-to-day as well.

LA PAZ

I won’t kid you. It’s been like a desert out there. We keep sending boats into the blue water looking for “what SHOULD be out there” and we’re coming back over and over to fish the rocks around the island and peninsula. This has produced some wild wild action on big pargo and cabrilla with many many fish just too tough or too cagey to pull into the pangas. We’ve had fish busting off 50, 60 and even 100 pound test line against the rocks and other impediments like sharp teeth, gill plates and scales. When the lines come it’s it’s not just cut…it’s shredded.

There’s the occasional dorado and we know marlin are out there because we can see them. But, not much interest this past week.

TAILHUNTER OUTREACH – GRACIAS!

Big gracias to Eric McFarland, Mackenzie Morrison, Martin Seiler and Parker Reed-Seiler for all the stuff they brought down including toys and school supplies!

Philip and Vanessa Troost brought down a load of toys and school supplies for the kids. They’re from New Mexico.

Our buddy from Arizona could not have a bigger heart. Every year he brings down a full chest of supplies for the kids, but also sponsors several of our kids through high school in our scholarship funds and took time to have lunch with the kids and their families this week at Tailhunter Restaurant to check on their school progress.

Chris Lara had a soft ice chest of school supplies that will go a long way in the classroom where even a regular pencil is a prized commodity. Chris and his wife are from Texas.

Thanks to our awesome Tailhunter amigos for all the things they squeezed into ice chests and suitcases to help us continue our Tailhunter Outreach program to help underserved kids, their families in barrio schools as well as the women and their families at the battered women’s shelter. God bless you all!

That’s our story!

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Jonathan and Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website:

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 June 5-12, 2016

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Whoa! First-timers with us! Mike Gonzalves, Jacob Curtis, Don Vegter from Torrance CA put the lures in the water and within minutes later all heck broke loose. Three wahoo…1, 2, 3 !!!! Two others were lost! As the guys tell me, one of the purple Rapalas must have been crashed by a beast…the split ring holding one set of treble hooks on the lure was torn apart by the impact. Never seen that happen although on two occasions over the years, I’ve seen wahoo hit so hard the Rapala was actually broken or cracked…and you know what it takes to bust one of those!

Young Alex Coleman had quite a week! Three roosters (released) and two wahoo! See photos below.

Doin’ it right! Ryan Williamson from Washington on his first trip here with Tailhunter dropped a purple Rapala with Captain Juan at the north end of Cerralvo Island near La Reyna and almost immediately got ripped by this toothy speedster! Wahoo blood on the deck! ‪

That’s alot of meat! Mike Donnelly and Ed Sorenson put the heavy wood to this big dog-tooth snapper and amberjack outside of Bahia de los Muertos.

Bob Sayre from Chicago and our own Jorge Romero hooked this striped marlin that Bob fought for about an hour on just 40 pound test line. After he got it in (could not be released and meat was donated), Jorge’s line went screaming. They thought it was a big tuna as the first run took over 400 yards of line. Jorge fought the fish almost 2 hours to find it it was a 300 pound shark.

Like I said, Alex Coleman from Bakersfield had a a great week of fishing. Here’s one of his two wahoo. Cerralvo Island in the background.

Our friend from Woodland, Washington Grant Jensen got a nice bull dorado with Captain Victor.

The “right kind” for Don Vegter and Mike Gonsalves from Torrance CA. This was Don’s first wahoo. During the week he caught about 5 different species that he had never caught!

Scott and brother Jim Damron from Portland OR with one of the nicer yellowfin tuna of the week.

Montana girl on the beach, Jessica Reeves and Captain Armando with a good looking bull dorado.

Always with a trophy fish, our own Donna Thompson fishing with Captain Hugo got this big barred pargo with a jig.

First day fishing and first trip to see us in La Paz, Jim Wilson from Marion, S. Dakota caught and released two nice roosterfish. Here’s the first!

Ron Lawver, Sr. and his son, Ron, Jr. from Phoenix with a striped marlin they caught right out’ve the chute their firsts day of fishing The fish could not be released.

He’s taking this one to our Tailhunter Restaurant. Tasty amberjack for Grant Jensen from Woodland, WA. These are great eating and relate to yellowtail.

Pretty fish for Dale Damron from Oregon. This barred pargo came back to the Tailhunter Restaurant for dinner.

Over 3 days of fishing, Mike Donnelly and Ed Sorenson caught about a dozen different species of fish including sharks, pargo, cabrilla, jack crevalle, bonito and others. Here, they’ve got a handful of pompano amberjack and a white bonito.

Captain Armando with Jessica and Shelley Reeves from Montana. Shelley has a dorado in her hands and Jessica has about the biggest rainbow runner I’ve seen in years. It’s cousin to the yellowtail and a good eater!

Tasty pompano for Carol Damron from Oregon. She caught a number of different species on her one day on the water with us.

Ken and Alex Gragg roosterfish tags 6-16 double

Ken Gragg and his stepson, Alex Coleman, did a double hook-up just off the sand at Punta Arenas on two pretty roosterfish. Both were released.

WINDIEST WEEK – LOTS OF VARIETY!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of June 5-12, 2016

Crazy windy week here which is nuts for June. None of us down here can remember it ever being this windy in June and surely not for so many consecutive days. It made for some really choppy unusual waters and some especially chilly mornings where us locals were wearing jackets, long pants and sweatshirts even though by afternoon, it broke into the high 90’s. Of course, all of that had an effect on fishing…and our anglers too!

Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay

Again, like other weeks there is just no way to describe the fishing there. It’s great. It’s bad. It’s super. It’s stinky. It’s up. It’s down. We’re catching this. But we’re not catching that. Weather as great. Weather was crap. Every day is different. Every panga is different. Every angler has a different opinion…EVERY DAY! Some come back with long faces and don’t talk when they get back. Others have a great day on the panga right next to it and can’t stop jumping up and down about the great day they had. The next day, it’s just the opposite. I’ve had clients just get skunked day-after-day. Regulars who normally do great. Then, I have rookies who go out every day and have banner days that are off-the-charts! This particular week has been a microcosm of the whole season…so far.

But, take a look at the photos this week. Hard to deny that there’s fish around. The other side of the equation is that…some anglers who come back with bad days…HOOKED FISH but lost them! Now THAT’s a different story. Some of these fish are BIG. If the fish comes off…if the line breaks…if the angler makes an error…or hey, sometimes that fish just wasn’t meant to be caught…well, that’s just fishing! And there were some big fish caught.

So, darn Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay sure has been kicking out alot of variety! If you want to go to a spot and catch a fish you’ve never caught before or want to cross a fish off your bucket list, we had as many as 14 different species this week! One day alone, I counted 10 different species. Some of the fish this week included:

Pargo – some dog-tooth up to 20 pounds

Yellow snapper

Bonito – white bonito that tastes like tuna with some great meat

Yellowfin tuna – firecracker footballs

Yellowtail – up to 20 pounds (just a few)

Striped marlin – 100 to120 pounders

Cabrilla – (Mexican seabass)

Amberjack – (like giant yellowtail) but most about 10-15 pounds

Barred Pargo – some big ones!

Jack Crevalle

Dorado – finally getting larger up to about 15 pounds, but not alot of them

Roosterfish – 25 to 60 pounders this week

Wahoo – Lost a few but the ones caught were about 20-40 pounders

Rainbow runners – same family as yellowtail and good eating

Pompano – delicious 5-10 pounders

…and SHARKS! Lots of sharks!

Holy cow…where did all the sharks come from?

We normally don’t catch many, and we’ve not had much of anything at all for the whole season. But this week, I believe we hooked over 25 of them in the pangas! Hammerheads…blues…thresher…lemon…mako…reef…Some of them were 200-300 pounders.

We call them the “grinning men in the grey suits!” We think they moved in to feed on all the bonito we have in the water right now. But, some days, every panga hooked 1-2 of them and the fights lasted up to 2 hours and just beat up the anglers! Of course, we release all of them and would never put them into our pangas as a security issue (I used to commercially fish sharks and even a dead shark can injure someone). But, they’re a great sport fish to hook up, but they will surely take the fight to you.

In the hot sun, it can really beat you up. Alot of the time, the angler gets slammed and really don’t know what they’ve hooked. A big tuna? A marlin? No telling on this first blistering runs! It’s not until the fish is close to the boat after agonizing time on a bent rod, they realize they’ve been fighting a shark!

LA PAZ

Like Las Arenas, our La Paz anglers have encountered some of the same things. The bite varies from day-to-day and from panga to panga and location to location. It’s a big ocean out there and a panga 100 yards away from another panga can have completely different outcomes. Wind had an effect on where we fished as well since fishing out’ve La Paz, there’s alot more open water and we have to travel further to the fishing areas.

The north end of Cerralvo Island produced some really nice wahoo and amberjack this week although a bit of a run to La Reyna and La Reynita. The wahoo were larger 40 pounders. The amberjack bigger than 50 pounds with some really big fish lost.

As well, there’s more dorado on the La Paz side than Las Arenas and up to about 18 or 20 pounds at times. Around the islands and reefs, decent fishing for bigger pargo, cabrilla and amberjack with big white bonito and jack crevalle around the drop offs.

MORE BIG HEARTS – (and some big hearts from small people…read below!)

Our amigo from Kansas, Marion Lawver, came down with a bunch of things for the kids stuffed in his ice chest.

Colorado gets a shout-out for special friends, Diego and Kelly Jimenez who have been bringing things every year for the kids and families. And there’s a special story to this as well. See the attached story!

These two toys have a remarkable story on how they ended up in Mexico with Jill and Catlyn, our Mexican pocket panther, giving their approval.

For 3 years, our wonderful friends and clients have been donating to our Tailhunter Outreach Program where we collect things for some underserved schoolkids as well as for the womens shelter here in La Paz. We’ve collected well-over 2000 pounds for Jill’s program thanks to you and more gets brought every week! On behalf of so many kids and families, we are incredibly grateful.

Take a look at the photo above. Good Tailhunter friends, Kelly and Diego Jimenez arrived with some great school supplies but when they dug into their own suitcases back at the hotel, they found two favorite dolls that belonged to their granddaughter.

The dolls had been hidden in the luggage. There was a note that said,
“These are my favorite, but maybe a little girl in Mexico needs them more and they will make her happy.”

Sigh…

You have a great week.

That’s our story!

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Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website:

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 Sportfishing for Week of May 29-June 5, 2016

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As pretty a picture as you will see of a roosterfish in Baja! John Dupre from Aliso Viejo CA came down this week to get a rooster and did it on the first day with Captai Archangel right off the Las Arenas lighthouse. This photo is pretty much frameable! The fish was released.

Always in the fish, Taylor Murphey from Lakewood CA, fishing with granpa Roger Thompson and Captain Hugo, stuck this beautiful amberjack off the south end of Cerralvo Island dragging a purple Rapala xrap 30.

These two amigos for ours, Randy Payne and Steve Artis, did a number for several days on the amberjack and other species like the snapper and pompano seen in the photo while posing on the beach at Bahia de los Muertos. The amberjack bit strong earlier in the week.

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Steve Magdaleno and Ed Guarderos tag-teamed this big gallo with Captain Gerardo off Las Arenas Point. Like others this week, they wanted to target a rooster. The big fish was released.

On the iron! Louie D’Esposito from Los Angeles hit tis big one at La Reyna at the north end of Cerralvo Island.

Spencer Timmons from Sacramento CA was staying at the Rancho la Costa and got this nice pompano just outside of Bahia de los Muertos.

Captain Pancho with two of the funnest guys of the week…brothers Robert and Jerry Rost from Idaho with a nice big dog-tooth snapper.

Right out of the chute, Ron, Sr. and Ron, Jr. Lawver from Arizona got this marlin with Captain Pancho. They didn’t want to leave it in the sun on the deck so brought it back to the beach to clean then went back out. The fish could not be released.

Captain Archangel had a hot hand this week for big roosters for sure. Check out another big one for him and Leah Dupre! If you figure he’s only about 5’3″ and she’s shorter than him…this is a toad of a fish. They released it!

Debbie Dunning got herself and amberjack fishing out’ve Bahia de los Muertos from the Rancho de la Costa resort.

Josh Dupre give Derreck Dupre a hand with his marlin they got mid-week. This is the first week the marlin have been willing to bite. They were unable to release the fish but donated the meat to the town.

First timers with us Carter and Tendra Andrews on the beach at Bahia de Los Suenos with their catch that included a dorado and an amberjack that ended up at dinner at Tailhunter Restaurant .

Taylor Murphey with another massive catch for the week. This big barred pargo fell for another purple Rapala off the shallow end at S. Cerralvo Island. Captain Hugo was running the boat.

That’s a good day in anyone’s book! Johnny Drucker said he was “really tired” after putting all these amberjack in the boat. Johnny is from the Phoenix AZ area.

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He came for one and he got one. Josh Dupre caught and released this nice roosterfish out’ve Bahia de los Muertos with Captain Adolfo.

Captain Gerardo gives Rob Yost a hand with his bull dorado, one of the larger ones of the week!

He’s gonna cook it up! Mauricio Lucero has himself a really nice dog-tooth snapper! Some of the best eating fish we have!

James Aultz from Oregon with Captain Armando had a good week. The first day not so good, but with each subsequent day his bite got better. Amberjack and this dorado started things off.

It’s really hard to take a good photo when you have a big fat roosterfish that’s not too happy and it’s slamming you around and you’re just trying to get a quick photo so you can let it go! Josh Dupre with the fish that made our area famous!

INSHORE FISH HIGHLIGHT THE WEEK!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of May 29-June 5, 2016

Again, it was a week full of variety as far as fishing. Weather-wise it was in that category too! We had some blazing hot days where we hit into the 100’s then other days when the winds blew, the seas were jacked and we were 20 degrees cooler! We even got a few raindrops and a tad of thunder and lighting. Fishing, correspondingly was all over the place. You put a line in the water or dragged a lure over the side and you never knew if you were going to catch or what you were going to catch. It could be crazy or not. Every day and every spot was different.

LAS ARENAS/ MUERTOS BAY

This was our most consistent fishing this week. We started off the week with a bang as the jacks put on a show. The amberjack ranging from 10-20 pounds came on strong in the rocky shallows where almost any bait or lure got smacked! These are great powerful fighters and good eating fish too! Larger fish in the 30-60 pound class were lost to the rocks or agonizingly close to the boat within gaff distance. As the week went on, fewer but larger fish took over. In those same areas schools of jack crevalle, another cousin, also bit the lines. Not so good eating, but still feisty on a rod and reel.

The other jack that took center stage were our famous rooster fish!

The bigger beasts moved in this week. We had some fish over 50 and close to 70 pounds hit the rods and some larger fish lost! The smallest fish we reported was “at least 30 pounds” this week. All the fish were released after some long tough battles, especially in the heat we encountered.

Other action in the area…the dorado aren’t crashing yet, but at least they’re getting bigger. They’ve gone from 2-3 pounders to 10-15 pounders ,but not many…just yet. As well, we got into a number of marlin that seem ready to bite. Most were the 100-120 pounders, but we had some larger blues in the 200 pound class that were lost on the light tackle and we also had several sailfish that were hooked. Most of the billfish that made it to the boats were released.

The bite was rounded out by wahoo…yes…they are still around and we hooked more than we caught or they broke off or short bit the lures. Also, the tasty white bonito provided lots of action as well as pargo of several varieties. Also, 3 sharks caught and released which is unusual.

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Erratically good and erratically bad! Some boats hit and others skunked. If you found the spot, it could be banner. If you searched and didn’t connect, then it could be a long day. Then there were days when all the boats found fish. I think alot has to do with the winds that have pushed warm and cold water all around. It has alot to do with the water temperatures ranging from high 60’s to mid-80’s. I think once the water settle down, the area will get into it’s regular groove. For now, it’s hit or miss. Oh, we also had some massive tide swings this week too.

The dorado for our La Paz fleet proved elusive. They’re bigger than previously, but just not around much or when we saw them this week they just didn’t seem interested. Our captains tended to take our clients into the rocks where they found some horse yellowtail, big tough pargo and cabrilla, amberjack, jack crevalle and even some big roosters that were lost. They guys who knew how to fish the iron did best. Bait is available, but it’s all big baits. Trap hook rigs helped the bite ratio.

TAILHUNTER OUTREACH

The Adlesperger Family from Utah…Diana, Samantha, Doug and Dennis! Thank you for the generosity.

Great Tailhunter Tribal regulars, Jim and Dan Bovee from San Diego with Jill and several tables full of kids clothes!

Washington in the house! Ryan Williamson and Matt Garrett with Jilly. Matt’s daughter even gave up her prized pony and his son, his soapbox racer because they thought some other kid would enjoy them! Wow.

I think Jill wants to keep this one for a future grandkid! But it’s headed to the battered women’s shelter most likely.

As our season is well underway, a quick shout-out to so many of our Tailhunter Family and Tribal members that have been stuffing empty ice chest and corners of their luggage once again with items for our Tailhunter Outreach Program! You’re the best!

For 3 years, your generosity has helped two underprivileged schools on the outskirts of La Paz; the battered womens’ shelter and we’ve just added a local orphanage as well. In the past 3 years close to 2000 pounds of much needed items have been shared and distributed to kids and families that barely get by. Thank you so much for the generous hearts, my friends! God bless. Above are just some of the photos from the last 2 weeks.

Also, one photo missing of John Dworak from Colorado who decided to leave his Apple iPad for us and said, “Some kid can make good use of this.” And he handed over the pad and charger. Wow!

That’s our story!

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Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

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La Paz – Las Arenas/Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of May 22-29, 2016

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If he looks a little bedraggled that’s cuz Mike just pulled in this huge wahoo estimated at 80 pounds that was a total beast. After we packaged the meat, the head alone weighed almost 20 pounds!

Wonderful guy, Roger Selner, from Montana was given this trip as part of his retirement package from Eastman publishing. You might recognize him if you go to the hunting and fishing shows. For more than 35 years, Roger drove the 30 foot long trailer that held all the Eastman hunting trophy elk heads to all the shows. He took this big trophy dog-tooth snapper after a long day right at the very end trying for a big roosterfish off the Punta Perrico rocks.

Tom Mullican had never made it into our fishing reports but now is in it two weeks in a row. His first yellowtail taken north of La Paz around Espirito Santo Island. Amigo Tom is from McCammon, Idaho. He got his first wahoo (see photos below), first yellowtail, a huge pargo and a tuna over 5 days fishing.

Persistence paid off for Mike Schoder our amigo from Alaska with Captain Efren. Mike was here flyfishing but decided to put a trolling lure out instead and ripped this wahoo up! Nice jacket, Mike! He told me later, it’s his wife’s jacket!

One of our newest amigas! First timer, American Airlines pilot Jan King from Phoenix with Captain Archangel and the biggest dorado of the week, a nice sierra and a white bonito (very tasty).

Dan Bovee and his dad, Jim, worked as hard as anyone all week with Captain Pancho for some scratchy fishing, but did get a nice sailfish out at the 88 spot (released) and this hefty roosterfish a few hundred yards off Punta Perrico. Also released! The guys are from San Diego.

Gary Wagner, owner of Cabo’s famous Giggling Marlin Bar and the Rancho and the Rancho de Costa in Muertos Bay got himself a really nice pompano that’s gonna be great eating!

Tom Mullican came down on a special trip just to get himself a wahoo and after losing two (including a monster) and burning his thumb, he finally put this beauty on the panga!

Wally King is already planning to come back in the fall after his first trip to see us. Really a fun couple to have him and his wife visit us from Phoenix. He got this surprising sierra…normally a cold-water fish, but great eating!

I don’t think I’ve seen a guy prouder to catch a roosterfish and our amigo, Roger Selner from Montana who got this big boy literally right off the rocks on a big live bait!

Taylor is always into fish. Trolling a purple Rapala off the south end of Cerralvo Island, she got this dog-tooth pargo plus a big amberjack and cabrilla. She never fails!

Utah in the house! Jim Dahl has his hands on a pompano as he poses at Bahia de los Muertos.

Nancy Hofecker from Pennsylvania had never fished in the ocean before and gets a roosterfish right out of the blocks! The fish was released.

Owen Hofecker and his wife on their first day fishing get a double-hook up on roosterfish! This nice one was taken on bait and released. Punta Arenas in the background Owen is from Pennsylvania.

TOUGH WEEK – TOUGH FISH

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of May 22-29, 2016

First off…Happy Memorial Day Weekend and a big God bless and thank you to all who serve or who have served and their families. We live here in Mexico, but never forget what you have all sacrificed. We hope you enjoy a safe and happy weekend. Times like this we especially miss these weekends so have some fried chicken and potato salad for us!

Well…

This week had pretty much a bit of everything. Good fishing and bad catching…full moon…lots of wind…even some rain and some hot sunshine to go along. And water temperatures are all over the place from the 60’s to mid-70’s! A true fish report would need comments by every single angler we had this week because it ran the gamut. And the comments would be as varied as the fishing.

Overall, it was rugged. The big fish of last week just decided pretty much not to play. Or something. Because the other side of the story is that there WERE some big fish HOOKED! There were some opportunities. But, fish were lost either because of “angler error,” inexperience with big fish or just plain bad luck. There was a big tuna hooked and lost . There were a number of wahoo lost. There were yellowtail and big roosters and amberjack lost. So, coupled with just some funky other variables like weather, winds, difficult bait and other stuff…well…dangit, it was a poor week of catching. It could have been so much better!

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We had those toad yellowtail pop up two weeks ago in the 30-50 pound class and it seemed the dorado were getting bigger. This week, there were fewer hook-ups and the dorado took the week off or something. The yellowtail we did hook were lost and there were just a few small dorado our guys worked hard to find. Our captains did find some nice spots of cabrilla and pargo inshore along with some big triggerfish. Again, more fish lost than caught. But, these pargo and cabrilla are always tough in the rocks. You know you’re gonna lose fish there when these fish are so powerful, but that’s part of the fun. Even the best angler knows he’s sometimes going to a gunfight with a pocket knife.

LAS ARENAS

We didn’t hook any yellowtail this week, but no doubt there’s wahoo and rooster fish roaming the waters. But, we were hampered by strong winds that I thought were gone for the season and even some heavy clouds and some rain as well! Plus, some nice hook-ups were lost. Oh well…that’s fishing. Still got some pargo, cabrilla and those tasty white bonito are still around. But, I won’t lie. It was a tough pull. If you got a bite and missed it, it could have been a big fish and you might not get another bite all day. I had to tell one guy who lost 2 wahoo…”Put down the beer and cigarette next time.” Both times his hands were occupied when the wahoo slammed him and of course, he ended up dropping the cigarette, spilling his beer AND missing the wahoo!

We also had a big tuna on the line for awhile, but it unbuttoned and the angler admitted he didn’t know how to fight a fish that big. Hopefully, as this full moon gets behind us, the fishing will get better. I’m not a big believer in the full-moon effect on fishing, but it could’t hurt if it went away!

CELEBRATING THE MOMENTS

We’ve been here now in La Paz over 20 years. We have come to know so many awesome people and the best part of our job is so many “clients” become our friends! Indeed, part of the Tailhunter Tribe.

John “J.D” Drucker from Portland, has been fishing with us for 18 years with his wife, Donna. They sometimes visited us twice a year, but every year they were here without fail. They were part of our family here.

After, last year’s trip in May, J.D. was diagnosed with cancer and passed early this year, but he and Donna had promised no matter what, they were coming back to La Paz this May for their 30th Anniversary.

Donna made good on that promise.

She brought him and 54r4 18 members of the family and John’s ashes to be spread in Bahia de Los Muertos using his favorite Tailhunter captains. They all remembered him.

So, this past Saturday afternoon we all climbed in vans and we brought J.D. on his last trip to Muertos.

When we got there, the winds were ripping and the waves were white-capping and I was worried how this was all going to happen with the ashes. Amazingly, as we reached the spot, the wind died and seas went flat…

Three floral wreaths were carried out to the mouth of Bahia de los Muertos by the 18 family members. Each of the 7 pangas had a small baggie of J.D.’s ashes.

The current also seemed to stop.

A few words. Some minutes of silence. The wreaths barely moved from their spot. Muertos Bay was one of JD’s favorite places. A round of applause to send him on his way before returning to the beach.

The Drucker family

The next day (today Sunday) in 6 pangas everyone went fishing! And in a week when almost very little was biting, the family posted up 3 marlin ( released). Quite a few nice-sized amberjack, white bonito, dorado, sierra, some big pargo and cabrilla too! Most had never fished before, let alone fished the area. But the fish bit!

Captain Jorge and Don Meade with two of his amberjack.

Donna Drucker and her favorite captain, Victor. I believe I was told the fish hit almost as soon as the line hit the water. Of the three hooked, this one could not be released.

JD’s son, Johnny Drucker and Uncle Jeff Drucker with a productive day of good eating species.

Captain Ramiro with Chris and Drew Fogg and some of their amberjack!

Fairwinds and flat seas on the journey to our fish brother, John “J.D.” Drucker. Your spirit along with our other fish brothers whose ashes have drifted in Muertos Bay will alway be with us. We’re honored that you shared time with us. God bless.

That’s our story!

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Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website:

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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