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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of May 15-22, 2016

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First timer hits a big one! Jay Gibbons from Payette, Idaho got in the middle of a school of big dog-tooth snapper near Cerralvo Island with Captain Gerardo of the Tailhunter fleet and managed to get this big one to the boat and losing several others to the rocks and big teeth. He was fishing for rooster fish with a big sabalo (ladyfish) when the school of snapper came up from the rocks.

Kelsea Taylor from Kansas was visiting with her husband for the first time to La Paz and got in a day of fishing. She tangled with dorado, but locked into this nice yellowfin tuna that’s about as big as she is, but she battled it tough. She’s shown with her husband, Dave, and captain Jorge from the Tailhunter Fleet.

Jake Spencer wrestles with a big thick yellowtail to try to hold it still for a photo as the fish slaps him around! He got a great photo, nonetheless! He was fishing with our Tailhunter La Paz fleet out’ve La Paz Bay.

Captain Victor knows something is up. Jason hooked 2 wahoo and thought he had a “slow day.” He didn’t know how prized wahoo are. Anglers come for years and never get one. He also didn’t know how good eating they are and gave away all his fish! I told him a chunk of wahoo can go for as much as $50 a pound!

Just when we thought the cold-water fishing was done, the yellowtail came on strong this week for our La Paz and Las Arenas fleets for Tailhunter. Rick Choate from Boise, Idaho shows off a monster yellowtail he got on live bait near Espirito Santo Island. This was his first time fishing with Tailhunter and visiting La Paz

Randy Choate, our good amigo from Payette ID, gets a hand from Tailhunter Captain Boli with another big yellowtail. This is very big fish…I think Randy is about 6’4″ tall. Others were lost but Randy said the yellowtail were hitting baits right on the surface!

From McCammon, Idaho, Tom Mullican is making two trips to La Paz this year. He’s coming back in the fall, but this early trip paid off with a huge mullet snapper (pargo liso) that really went back and forth before he got it in the boat. He was using live bait.

Nice day and some really nice amberjack for Captain Armando with Al and Lisa Salmen who only had one day to get on the water with us and did well.

One of our favorite funny guys (“I am always in trouble with Jilly!), Tom Ames holds up another of the big yellowtail that decided to come up and bite this week with our La Paz fleet.

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Whoa! That’s a monster cabrilla for Eric Davignon from Sacramento CA with host Gary Wagner our amigo, who owns the Giggling Marlin bar in Cabo and the Rancho de Costa in Bahia de los Muertos.

Captain Jorge with our friends, Allen and Stacey Wellborn with a big sierra and an amberjack on the beach at Bahia de los Muertos.

This man can fish…and he can eat fish! Our amigo, Kevin Shiotani gives a thumbs up to 4 yellowtail on the concrete boat ramp at Bahia de los Muertos. The fish were picked up off Cerralvo Island.

Tom has had some kind of a week with a giant pargo, wahoo, tuna, yellowtail AND dorado in the boat! But see the photo below of how it was hooked!

Whatever it takes! Tom Mullican got a TUNA AND a TRIGGERFISH while trolling for WAHOO on the same lure! Go figure. The tuna is a bluewater swimmer. The triggerfish hang out near the bottom close to rocks! Captain Pancho tries to unhook them!

Whatever it takes! Tom Mullican got his TUNA AND a TRIGGERFISH while trolling for WAHOO on the same lure! Go figure. The tuna is a bluewater swimmer. The triggerfish hang out near the bottom close to rocks! Captain Pancho tries to unhook them!

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Someone saw this photo and said, “It looks like someone has found a new say to smoke fish!” Al Salmen plants a big wet one on his amberjack.

…and Jake Spencer decides NOT to give a full lip-lock kiss to this toothy barracuda!

FULL MOON BRINGS BIG FISH!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of May 15-22, 2016

I’m not sure if the big full moon did us any favors, but it surely didn’t seem to hurt us this week. We had some really strong winds come up early that were a bigger nuisance than the moon but when the winds tapered off later in the week, fishing cranked up. There weren’t ALOT of fish but the ones we seemed to get were TOADS and HORSES! Plus there were some surprise bites too!

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What’s going on here? I was pretty much writing off the cold-water bite for the season. It’s getting warm. The sun is out and the waters and air are showing summer everywhere. We had not gotten yellowtail in weeks. Even when they were biting, it was so-so. I would not have even called it a yellowtail season. With El Nino, our waters were just too warm to give us much of a cold water season.

Then, out’ve nowhere, the yellowtail start biting. And not little weenie firecrackers either. These were 25-50 pound sluggers that came pretty close to pulling guys outta their socks. We got a few, but probably lost 3 for every fish boated.

And these were NOT fish skulking down deep. These fish were FOAMING and crashing on the surface and were taking flylined (no weight) live and dead baits! Some guys had some epic battles.

I don’t know how long these grade of fish will be around. But, we’re enjoying it! Or getting frustrated by lost fish! Up to now, I’ve not hesitated sending guys out with light tackle because all we had was some smallish fun dorado. But these yellowtail are busting 40, 50 and 60 pound test, especially if the angler doesn’t pressure the fish to keep the out’ve the rocks! Or conversely, the anglers panic and horse the fish and break off by not letting the fish run a bit. (It’s a delicate balance that just makes it fun…until you lose the fish!).

Those little dorado are still around too and we’re seeing a bit more activity with pargo and cabrilla too! Billfish are around, but not yet willing to chew!

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Again, just like with our Taihunter La Paz fleet…it’s crazy! Cold water monsters came back!

Big yellowtail showed up to about 40 pounds…

Amberjack to 30 pounds…

Sierra, big cabrilla, jack crevalle, delicious white bonito…

And the return of the big dog-tooth cubera snapper and the mullet snapper (pargo liso)! We had big schools of them near the island spawning just like in the old days so that it looked like a “Japanese koi pond on steroids” with 20-50 pound fish swirling and crashing! We lost quite a few fish in the shallow waters, but the fish that came in were beasts!

And then, late in the week, not only did the 20-40 pound wahoo show up, but we also hooked some yellowfin tuna as well…footballs of 15-25 pounds! Again, we lost more fish than we caught, but you never knew what was out there.

Surprisingly, not many rooster fish were caught, but that could also be because we didn’t have that many guys out chasing them with the other species that have shown up.

That’s our story!

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Jonathan and Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website:

www.tailhunter-international.com

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

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

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of May 8-15, 2016

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Triple play for Kevin Shiotani, Rick Hosmer from Orange Co, California with Captain Mundo as they show off a big yellowtail, a trophy cabrilla and a yellowfin tuna taken from the north end of Cerralvo Island.

Dennis Miller takes a smiling glance at his prize catch…a big roosterfish off Muertos Bay! He released the fish too! Well done!

Tickled! Former Basque weightlifter Johnny Vergara is her with us this week for the first time and got slammed by a couple of yellowtail today and couldn’t believe the power when his arms started cramping up! “These fish don’t nibble like the trout in Idaho!” Different set of muscles too! Great to see a first timer lit up and light up and having fun!

Captain Pancho of the Tailhunter fleet on the beach at Bahia de los Muertos with a big late-season yellowtail for Dan Moreno from San Jose who took the big fork tail on live bait and 40 pound test.

Our Colorado flyfishing guys had a nice day of action on white bonito (very edible) and a big pargo mulato. On the beach at Muertos.

Barry Langley lives in Guadalajara now, but is originally from England and had one day to fish while visiting La Paz for the first time and got this nice wahoo on live bait just outside of Bahia de los Muertos fishing with the Tailhunter fleet.

We love this lady’s photos! Laura Page from Colorado always has the BEST smiles when she’s holding a fish like this dorado taken on the fly outside of La Paz Bay.

I don’t think Roger Thompson has ever been seen holding a small fish! On the yo-yo iron, Roger got this slugger of a yellowtail.

Lots of color on this fresh dorado that Tom Page got after lots of work on the fly from the area near Espirito Santo Island.

Captain Armando with more of our Colorado fyfishermen, but holding one of those surprise nice yellowtail that have popped up lately! Great eating!

MIXED VARIETY AGAIN EVERY DAY A MYSTERY!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of May 8-15, 2016

Overall, it was another mixed week of fishing for us. We had quite a variety of fish as both warm and cold water species remained in local waters as we transition to summertime conditions. Some boats did well. Others had to work harder for their fish. The next day, it could totally reverse with the “hot boats” going cold and the “cold boats” jumping the fish. Conversely, one day, all the fish would be cold water fish like cabrilla and pargo and some sierra or an occasional yellowtail. Next day we’d hit a tuna or wahoo and dorado, all warm water fish in pretty much exactly the same spots that produced the cooler water fish the day before. It was all mixed up!

Early in the week it got a little windy and we even had a touch of thunder, lightning and a sprinkle or two that didn’t deter anyone from being on the water. This week looks to be a little breezier according to forecasts, but overall, temperatures in the high 80’s and sunny.

However, strangely, as I’m writing this Sunday morning…it’s really windy and there’s some raindrops falling even tho’ there’s not a thing on the weather forecast!

One other note…I would have more roosterfish photos every week, but almost all of them get released so unless the anglers take a photo of it out on the water, I don’t get a photo to post up. But we ARE catching roosters!

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Our Tailhunter La Paz fleet continued to make it’s bread and butter on the other side of the bay by San Juan de la Costa where that school of mini-dorado has been good to us. We just wish the bigger models would show up. However, the bite wasn’t as generous as it had been when we usually got limits. This past week, maybe 3-6 fish was about it.

However, other areas started producing a bit bitter with some big amberjack coming off el Bajo seamount as well as Cabrilla plus rooster fish and some pargo and cabrilla biting around the open spots on Espirito Santo Island and around El Coyote. Bigger bait produced the bigger fish and for those who knew how to yo-yo iron, bigger fish were willing…especially some large yellowtail that we haven’t seen in about a month!

There was also a spot around La Reyna lighthouse and Punta Norte at Cerralvo Island that kept showing signs of tuna and some of our guys finally hit some as well as yellowtail and cabrilla for a fleeting bite. But that was one of the spots the was hot…then went cold the next day.

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This again, is where most of our variety came from. Bait is still an issue, but we’re using a variety of things including some sardines, mackerel, ladyfish, mullet and frozen and live ballyhoo.

Every day, it’s different. Yellowtail popped up again early in the week. Wahoo made a small showing as well. Round that out with jack crevalle, alot of white bonito (very edible!) cabrilla, pargo, sierra and roosters up to about 40 pounds. Late in the week some decent dorado showed up near the buoys for really the first time and there’s been flurries of fast moving tuna we’re seeing but no takers…all very promising!

The issue is mostly one of predictability. We never know what’s going to bite! I tell guys (and gals) to just let the captain take you to the fish. Fish for what’s possible, and you’ll have the best success. If you go for the home run, you COULD get some, but you could also strike out. If you have more than one day, that’s a good shot but if you only have one day and you have it in your mind that you ONLY want wahoo…that could be the day that only the bonito bite! Go with the flow and catch what’s biting. Everyone is getting fish!

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Jilly with (L-R) Randy Choate, Jay Gibbons, Tom Ames and Rick Choate all from Idaho in front of school supplies, soaps, shampoos, sports equipment, toothbrushes and toothpaste and many other items for the battered women’s shelter and the kid’s schools outside of town.

Another new season is on and thanks to our Tailhunter Tribal members who have started bringing down supplies, hygiene items, toys and clothes for our underserved school kids and the battered women’s sheleter here in La Paz! You rock!

That’s our story!

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Jonathan and Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website:

www.tailhunter-international.com

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

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

Phones:

from USA : 626-638-3383

from Mexico: 044-612-14-17863

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

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

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of May 1-8, 2016

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Lifting 2 Yellowtail Marcus Yoo 5-16 tags

Marcus Yoo got a break from his duties with the U.S. Army in Salt Lake City in between overseas deployments and raced down to La Paz on a last-minute fishing trip with only one day to get in some fishing. He made the most of it with some amberjack, small dorado and these huge double-fisted yellowtail from La Paz Bay.

Giant pargo liso (mullet snapper) pulled out’ve the rocks by Jacinto Garcia from Mexicali with Tailhunters’ Captain Victor running the panga. Jacinto’s amigo, Miles Reiter from Monterey CA, battled a huge tuna over two hours before it wrapped around some buoy and busted off!

Two of our flyfishers from this week, Rene Paul and Bruce Merighi from Washington on a double hook up with their flyrods got to pull on some bonito, but roosters remained elusive and the guys worked hard all week.

Two more of our flyfishers who were down for the first time testing the waters, Steve Pratt and Paul Anderson who owns a flyshop up there on the Hood River of Oregon in the Dalles put alot of effort into their sport this week. This beautiful palomita, a member of the jack family, was one result . Great colorful photo too!

Captain Armando with out Tailhunter Fleet there at Bahia de los Muertos had the hot hand for several days and putting our guys onto the big yellowtail. Here, he’s on the beach with Gerardo Orozco and Francisco Lopez and one of their two big ‘tails!

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Texas in the house! Kevin Hohn of San Antonio took this beauty on a blue and white iron!

She’s great fun to have visit us this past week! Laura Page puts a serious bend into her flyrod and was able to get several different species to the boat. Laura and her husband are from the Denver area.

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Young 12-year-old William Kelly from Laguna Beach came to La Paz for the first time and fishing with Tailhunter’s Captain Adolfo put the hurt on this beautiful rooster fish just outside south of Bahia de los Muertos close to shore. The fish was released!

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That’s captain Lorenzo back there, not trying to cover his identity, but wearing a sunshade mask posing with Ernie Loya and Jorge Ramirez with two of their big yellowtail caught this week.

Like all of our flyfishers this week, Tom Page, from Denver worked really hard at his craft and he kept smiling especially after finally working this tough bonito to the boat.

Potential world record tasted pretty good at Tailhunter Restaurant with chimichurri sauce on it. This hawkfish(china maru) caught by Dave Schneider yesterday of San Jose and held here by buddy Dan Moreno looked suspiciously large. Most that I see are about 3-5 pounds. The guys were fishing with our Captain Pancho and brought the fish for us to cook up. I went downstairs to our office to check the record books. Turns out the IGFA record is 9.7 pounds. We estimate this fish might have been 12 pounds! Dan is about 6’2″ and 250. The guys were just cleaning their plates up! I think this is the 4th potential world record in 3 years that ended up tasting pretty good!

First time visitor from San Diego area, Dave Houshar caught and released a pretty pez gallo out of Bahia de los Muertos. Captain Jorge helps out .

Greg’s a happy fella with this nice jack crevalle that he toughed to the boat. Big schools of feisty jacks have moved into the area to provide some great sport.

Ian Hudson from Hollister CA has a big dog roosterfish in his hands estimated at more than 50 pounds that doesn’t want it’s picture taken before he gets released. That’s Punta Arena in the background.

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One of our favorite amigas, Donna Thompson and her daughter Dana Hohn from Texas hold onto a chunky amberjack the hooked fishing blue and white yo-yo irons.

That’s gonna make someone a good dinner! Alfie Adams holds up a colorful barred pargo (pargo mulatto) on the beach at Bahia de los Muertos.

Dave Houshar and Captain Jorge give the thumbs up to another amberjack which started biting nicely this week.

WEEK of SURPRISES

La Paz- Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Reports for Week of May 1-8, 2016

What had another few “jags” pop up in this already-quirky season of fishing. Just when I figured waters had gotten too warm and the “cold water” fishing was done, nature proved me wrong and some species we had not seen in several weeks like big pargo and especially big yellowtail surprised all of us with some serious bent-rod action plus continued decent biters on rooster fish and other species.

LA PAZ

For the past few weeks, this has been a good fall-back area for us to fish. There’s a spot across La Paz Bay on the way to San Juan de la Costa that has held a nice little honey hole of smaller dorado. Nothing, but but worth a late-morning or early afternoon of good action of fish 5-10 pounds with limits not uncommon. There had been very little else going on although the conditions really have looked good.

However, this past week, our anglers hit into some cabrilla and pargo, amberjack and roosters to give up a little more variety, but the big surprise was some really big-shouldered yellowtail that I thought were long gone. These 30-40 pound fish were slugs and powerful fighters resulting in more fish lost than caught but finally good to see some quality-sized fish show up.

LAS ARENAS

It’s been hit or miss alot for our Las Arenas anglers during this early part of the season. It hasn’t been bad. It’s just been erratic and inconsistent. One day great. Next day so-so. One boat does great. The boat next to it can’t even buy a fish! One day it’s cabrilla and sierra. The next day in the same spot, it’s bonito. Next day rooster fish, but no bonito.

There’s just no way to pinpoint anything!

However, late in the week we had a rush of some of those big yellowtail up to about 40 pounds plus amberjack, larger rooster fish and even some big pargo liso (mullet snapper) that we haven’t seen in awhile…surely not that big! This one was a slugger!

One of our guys also tied into a big-boy tuna we estimate over 100 pounds that he fought for over 2 hours until it busted him off by wrapping around a buoy!

We had some great flyfishers here this week. They really worked hard at it, but no roosters came up although several were almost agonizingly closely caught. However, they did get into action on bonito, ladyfish, and triggers.

Bait is still an issue, but we’re using anything we can get our hands on!

WHALESHARKS

Warm shallow bay water is a great place for these youngsters!

It seems like they’re lethargic swimmers until you get in the water with them. When they want to move, they can scoot. Look closely and you can see the sandy bottom.

I remember back in the day when we would get excited if there was a single whaleshark in the bay. Now, we’re so non-chalant that we’re not even excited if there’s less than 5 or 6. Many times, there’s way more! This past week or two, we’ve had as many as 3 dozen small to medium juvenile whalesharks in the bay up to about 20′ long! And they are only in about 10 feet of water so we’ve been running daily snorkel trips to swim with them. It’s an incredible experience with these gentle animals Thanks to Marcus Yoo for the great photos.

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of April 17-24, 2016

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The man behind the mask is Garrett Sill from Utah who hurt this nice wahoo with a live mackerel just off the rocks at Punta Perrico. They had a pretty great day…2 wahoo and 4 released roosterfish between 20 and 40 pounds! They had several slabs cooked up at our Tailhunter Restaurant.

Big smile from Ann Armstrong from Washington and Captain Victor over her big roosterfish just out’ve Bahia de los Muertos. They caught and released 3 that day.

Gary Wagner and Ken Ward from AK yellowtail 4-16

Surprisingly some yellowtail still around even with the waters warming. Gary Wagner at his place at Rancho de los Suenos in Bahia de los Muertos with Ken Ward from Alaska.

Check out how close to the rocks Todd Wade is with his wahoo he caught this week! Shallow water ‘hoo! Todd is from Utah.

Garrett Sill with one of 4 roosters they caught and released that day. All the fish were 20-40’s.

Rick Thompson from Billings, Montana with Captain Jorge and a nice sierra that are still around

There have been some nice cabrilla lately like this one with Reuben Cornejo. Not many, but some of the ones being caught are decent fish.

THERE’S SOME LARGER FISH AROUND!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of April 17-24, 2016

OK week of fishing. Some hits. Some misses. Pretty much great weather except we dealt with a full moon plus winds later in the week that made it tougher than it needed to be. But, the opportunities were there! A number of folks will tell you they had fish on or just weren’t ready for the power; the hit; or just bad “fishing luck” and missed fish. It happens. All you can do is smile and realize it’s part of the sport and it’s still Mexico and everyone is still having a good time.

LA PAZ

Still holding lots of “promise” and I use that word loosely. The island north of us, Espirito Santo, still isn’t really kicking in like it should, but there was a spot of yellowtail that poked up just outside of Balandra Bay that got everyone excited then seemed to shut down just a fast. Perhaps because everyone suddenly descended on it and the increased traffic spooked the fish to lockjaw or move back to deeper cooler waters. These fish were slugger 25-35 pounders. I’m surprised they even showed up given the warmth of the water, but while they were around no one was complaining.

The most encouraging bite was the dorado just on the other side of the bay. It’s been a great fall-back for action as the fish are small 5-pounders that would go furious at times and produced easy limits. For alot of the “one-time-one-day fishermen” we have right now who only have one day to fish or don’t have alot of experience, it’s been good to send them there so they get bent and catch some fish and have a good time. Honestly, the fish are dinks by anyone’s standards and I’m happy to say that alot of them are getting released with clients bringing enough for dinner at our Tailhunter Restaurant or somewhere in town.

However, there’s more and more sargasso weed appearing in the area that make excellent cover for bait and draws in more dorado. And the dorado are getting bigger too with some larger “models” showing up in the catches. We’ll keep you posted.

LAS ARENAS

All I can say is Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay is “mercurial.” It changes from day-to-day. There’s no figuring it .

One day, some pargo and cabrilla, bonito and jack crevalle are the catches.

The next day, we get into wahoo, rooster fish, jacks, bonito, a few dorado, some yellowtail…There’s surely nothing written in stone or that you can hang your hat on.

Like I said at th beginning, the opportunities have been there. We LOST alot of fish. When the bigger and better quality fish hit, they’re beasts! A 40-pound rooster or zooming 25-50 pound wahoo is an experience alot of folks have never had. Our fish “do not nibble!” LOL They slam and they run and they battle like they’re possessed .

Several wahoo were lost. Several big roosters were lost. Two of our folks battled a marlin for 3 hours on light tackle and finally had to bust it off. They did a great job, but knew it couldn’t go on any longer and purposely buttoned down the drag and had the fish to the boat several times. We’ll call that a legal catch! But, the point is the number of “catches” did not match the number of “bites!” So, basically, fishing wasn’t bad. Catching was a bit more erratic.

Our flyfishers did OK this week. Some jack crevalle, some bonito and a couple of roosters and wahoo they got to take the flies, but weren’t able to set the hooks on! They had fun. Live bait for chum is an issue. Hopefully, looking for some improvement. The season is early.

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

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Few guys were as happy to finally get their first rooster fish as Taylor Rowland from Anchorage who works for Extreme Expeditions in Alaska as a hunting and flyfishing guide. He took this big boy just along the western rocks at Bahia de Los Muertos fishing with Tailhunter Sportfishing. The fish was released.

Anniversary sierra for Ann Armstrong from Seattle! This ended up as ceviche at the Tailhunter Restaurant. Ann is from Washington.

Tough jack crevalle (also known as “Toro” or “Bullfish” for their power) caught by another of our great Washington folks, Mark Bonsack. The fish was released as they don’t make good eating.

On the fly! Pro hunting and fishing guide, Jeff Pralle, put this dorado on the boat with his flyrod from the other side of the bay near San Juan de la Costa. Jeff heads up Extreme Expeditions in Alaska.

Jasmine poses with her big roosterfish just outside of Bahia de los Muertos where she was fishing with Captain Victor. The fish was released. She’s from Washington .

Damon Harvey flyfishing bonito tags 4-16

Damon Harvey from Prudoe Bay, Alaska got this tough bonito to eat the fly. He got several and released all.

Delbert Corson holds up one of the nice sierra we got into this week.

Whoa! Even with the camera angle, this is a HUGE triggerfish taken by Roger Armstrong from Alaska. It’s a giant! They can get pretty mean when hooked but one this size is a brute. They also caught and released several roosterfish between 20 and 35 pounds.

Alaskan amigo, Damon Harvey with one of the larger roosters of the week! He quickly got it back in the water.

The cabrilla are nice-sized these days. Gerardo has a double handful of two nice ones! These seabass make great eating.

MIXED BAG AS FISHING WARMS… A BIT

La Paz-Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for week of April 10-17, 2016

Not at all a bad week of fishing. It’s still early in the season and the fish are still trying to come on, but anglers this week were treated to quite a variety of fishing. Not great fishing…nothing spectacular as we’re still not up-to-speed, but there was some fun action to be had, especially on inshore species like rooster fish, cabrilla, pargo and sierra. The biggest issue, right now is getting live bait which has been difficult to find for all fleets. El Nino lingers.

Oh…and the winds came up again late in the week. Still some residual winter stuff so we kept folks off the water on Friday and Saturday and they made it up on other days when it was calmer.

LA PAZ FISHING

I’m surprised fishing isn’t better. In any other year, conditions look ideal. Warming clear blue water with tons of sargasso weed floating around which normally draws dorado and other species. However, Espirito Santo Island and the other usual spots have been rather unproductive. About the only spot is an area across the bay at San Juan de la Costa which has at least produced good numbers of small dorado which have provided some really good action. However, the fish are very small and anglers have been catching and releasing many keeping only some for dinner or so. But, that’s about the only action and I expect things to change.

LAS ARENAS/ MUERTOS BAY

Again, this is where all the variety is. Every day is still different and the bit can be erratic, but there are fish to be caught. It’s just difficult from day-to-day to know what’s going to be caught.

At the island and near Punta Perrico, there are some wahoo and yellowtail down deeper closer to the structure. As well, some of those same areas are producing snapper, pargo (several varieties), and some really exceptionally large cabrilla. As well, there’s larger-than-normal sierra, jack crevalle and bonito as well.

The best catches have been on rooster fish. Again, not everyday, but if that’s what you want to target and have a few days, chances are good for fish in the 20-40 pound class. Not the big boys yet, but plenty big for most folks and still full-of-fight. All the fish we got this week were released.

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

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of April 2-8, 2016

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Big smiles from Captain Gerardo and Mark Bevans from Kenai, Alaska enjoying some sunshine and a hefty roosterfish. He released three that day!

Verda Boyd and Captain Jorge teamed up for a nice speedy wahoo that’s going to make for some great eating. The ‘hoo took a live bait. Verda fishes with us twice a year now for about 10 years usually with her husband, Tim Zimmer, but this time, it was a girls trip!

Captain Pancho poses with Brad Sleder from Mt. Pleasant, S. Carolina and a nice big amberjack on the beach at Bahia de los Muertos.

Washington in the house! Heather Boyd, helps dad, Grant Darby take a photo of their roosterfish just outside of Bahia de los Muertos where they hooked three and released three roosters!

Hedbard wahoo armando 4-16

Our Las Vegas amiga, Yolanda Wheeler, recently retired from the Las Vegas Police Department and came down for an all-girls trip topped by her first wahoo. Captain Jorge does the honors.

You can tell a professional fisherman by the way he poses with his fish. You can also tell who the flyfishers are! Jeff Pralle left -55 degree weather in Alaska with Extreme Expeditions to enjoy a few days in the sun with his flyrod and friends. He didn’t get this one on the flyrod, but nevertheless, this jack crevalle (Toro or Bull in Spanish) is well-named for being a rugged tough fish and this one was no exception.

One of the funnest guys to fish with…the man with the “million dollar smile”… Rick Kasper from Wyoming with some really big sierra! I like Rick’s “stringer.”

Captain Gerardo was on fire with the roosters this week as he helps Helen Bevens with another rooster just outside of Muertos Bay. Helen is from Kenai, Alaska. The pez gallo was released.

Overall, in terms of quality fish, Mark Bonsack from Washington had one of the better weeks of fishing despite tough conditions. He hung in there every day and fished hard. Here’s one of his yellowtail. A couple of bigger fish during the week broke off.

Some of the best eating fish…Helen and Mark Bevans got a number of tasty huachinango off the rocks!

rooster Heather van Gerpen Gerardo tags 4-16

Well done, Heather! A big rooster for Heather Boyd and Captain Gerardo they quickly released.

Another pro who know how to pose his fish, Taylor Rowland is also an outfitter and flyfishing guide with Extreme Expeditions. He’s got himself a feisty bonito here that he got out’ve Muertos Bay.

Mark Bevans got quite a variety of fish this week including these two nice sierra that ended up as two big plates of ceviche at our Tailhunter Restaurant.

ANGLERS HAVE TO WORK HARD FOR FISH!

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

Fishing was a bit more promising this past week, but still not quite up to snuff and hats off to so many of our anglers who really kept at and worked hard and still kept smiling even when fishing was scratchy at best.

It’s hard to pinpoint. We are definitely transitioning from cooler to warmer water species so we’ve got quite a variety from sierra and pargo to wahoo and dorado. But the issue is the consistency. It’s just not the same every day. One boat catches fish, but another doesn’t. One day everyone gets something and the next day it’s like pulling teeth. One area has a good bite and the next day that same area can’t get a bump.

I will say one thing…you gotta be on your game. Fishing is fishing, but if you have a line in the water, you never know what’s gonna happen. The fishing would have been 180 degrees better if we hadn’t lost so many quality fish.

Some of that was just…well…that’s fishing! Big fish are tougher fish. Some of that was due to inexperience. Everyone wants a big fish and then it happens and they don’t know what to do with it. That’s part of the fun and learning process too! No one got completely skunked, but by the same token I felt their pain of losing fish or a tough fishing day!!! I appreciated all the folks who still came back laughing after a tough day and ready to go again the next day. You’re champs. You know who you are!

Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay

If you can call it that, our fleet here had the most “consistent” fishing. I use that term really loosely. Consistent insofar as there were fish to be caught and was the most productive. But it was erratic. There was no gauging if it were going to be an OK day or less than stellar. Some boats would do better than others. Nothing for certain.

There were surely ALOT of different species as is characteristic of this time of year. It’s like an aquarium list!

Wahoo

Roosterfish

Jack crevalle

Cabrilla

Amberjack

Pargo

Snapper

Bonito

Sierra

Skipjack

Huachinango

Big Eye Jacks

Yellowtail

Sailfish

About the only thing we didn’t connect on was a marlin or tuna this week!

It was encouraging to see us hit more roosters. They weren’t the big slugs, but fun enough fish in the 20-40 pound class close to shore and more than enough tug for most folks. Wahoo as well hit bait and lures and for the two we got this week, there were about 10 lost. The fish were 20-30’s. However, larger ones in the 50 pound class were seen and one fish was swimming around that two of my captains swore was over 70 or 80 pounds cruised the area, but just wouldn’t go!

Inshore near structure and the beaches, you never know what’s gonna come up. Really larger than normal sierra up to about 8 pounds…some trophy-sized cabrilla (sea bass) and huachinango (red snapper) made for good action.

Had our first flyfishers of the year and they really had to work hard. It was breezy and the bait supply isn’t very hefty, but they did get a few and are still here for more days so we’ll see how they do.

La Paz

Our La Paz fleet was either batting zero or getting a ton of “base hits.” What I mean to say is that our pangas that went over towards the islands or hit the seamounts looking for larger grades of fish like big yellowtail and amberjack simply struck out. Not only us, but some of the other fleets as well. This week it was just a desert there. Barely anything. It’s surprising also because sargasso weed is building up so you would think dorado would be rolling under the weed beds.

When I say, “base hits” there a whole bunch of teenie trout-sized dorado just near the outside of La Paz Bay. It saved us. Those fish are under 5-pounds and they’re massed there. Just for pure action, imagine schools of giant trout. That’s about it. Double and triple hook-ups. Several of our pangas got limits and were back by lunch time very happy. Our other veteran guys who ran into them smiled and moved on to something else, not wanting to bother with all these babies. However, for first-timers and families and kids, these fish were way fun. Lots of catch-and-release too! Some boats hooked as many as 20-25 fish and released most keeping just a few for dinner.

Tailhunter Community Outreach Program

Big hugs and gracias to Grant and Carol Darby and their family from Washington who brought down a full ice chest of school supplies and clothing for our local kids in the pueblo.

Over the last two years, our Tailhunter Family and Tribal Members have filled empty ice chests to bring down OVER ONE TON of clothing, school supplies, hygiene items, shoes, and other things for our needy school kids, the women’s shelter and other charities here in La Paz.

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As we kick off a new season, we just wanted to give a big shout-out to all of you who’ve helped so many and brought smiles with your generosity. Tailhunter amigos rock!

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of Mar. 27-Apr. 3, 2016

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Jasmine Bonsack from Washington first time fishing gets a nice yellowtail fishing out’ve Bahia de Los Muertos with Tailhunter.

Jasmine is from Washington and was with us for first time fishing. She gets a nice yellowtail fishing out’ve Bahia de Los Muertos with Tailhunter. The fish was hit deep. She also got a 40-pound roosterfish that she handled like a pro and released!

Lilla Ando from Texas had a fun day on the water for her one and only day to fish with this nice 20-pound amberjack and cabrilla. She was fishing with Captain Gerardo from the Tailhunter Fleet. Alot of the fish came back for sashime at our restaurant! She says she’s coming back to fish again later this week. She’s taking Spanish immersion classes at Se Habla La Paz school here in La Paz along with her family.

Jasmine and Mark Bonsack from Seattle show off a nice rack of fish including some good yellowtail; a big cabrilla and a snapper after a nice day out’ve Bahia de los Muertos with Tailhunter Sportfishing in La Paz.

Brad Sleder with Captain Jorge and a nice cabrilla headed to the dinner table at Tailhunters! Brad is from N. Carolina.

Ralph Brauer from Minnesota on his first fishing trip to La Paz is a bit tired as he struggles to lift this hefty striped marlin for a photo with Captain Joel from the Tailhunter Fleet. He has every reason to be tired. He fought the fish over an hour with a bad back and leg but was “thrilled.” The interesting story is that they were fishing a live bait down deep with lead. They lead got stuck on the rock down deep where they were looking for yellowtail. They managed to yank the lead out’ve the rocks when the marlin bit from down deep and it was “fish on!” They saw the marlin jumping in the distance but didn’t think it was this rod until the line went tight! The fish swellowed the big bait and could not be released.

SCRATCHY FISHING AT BEST THIS WEEK

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of March 27-April 3, 2016

Need to be honest. We’re in that “transition” period when it’s not really winter anymore and we’re moving into spring-like conditions. Air temps in the day are a really pleasant 83 or so but dropping to a chilly 52 at night! (Good idea to bring a sweatshirt or windbreaker for the evenings or early mornings). Winds have consistently been dropping compared to previous weeks although it can still be blustery and a bit of a hinderance to fishing and often finding bait. Live bait is an issue. If you’re bringing gear, some Rapalas are not a bad idea.

The week was up-and-down. It was hit or miss many times. One day it’s good. One day not. No reason. One panga does good. Two pangas right next to that one are slack. No reason. Basically… There’s alot of variety insofar as we have cold water AND warm water fish in the same areas and you really never know what you’re gonna catch. I think the fish are just as confused as we are.

LA PAZ

Seems to be improving weekly as winds calm down. Still not super. But… It looks promising for the next upcoming weeks as waters calm. There’s sargasso weed building in the current lines and some of them are holding good numbers of small dorado up to about 5 pounds or so. Hopefully, the bigger fish move in soon!

The cold water fish are still down in the water column. Not many, but yellowtail up to about 30 pounds and amberjack of about the same size are holding near the structures. Nothing wide open but they are there. I think however, as the waters are warming that these cooler water fish will follow the cooler waters down deep and out of range

Surprisingly, however, we’re seeing some early season billfish like marlin and sailfish in the area. I think they’re being attracted to eating the small dorado and bonito as well as the other small fish hanging out under the sargasso.

LAS ARENAS

Like La Paz fishing, it’s going through changes. There’s bottom fish like pargo, cabrilla and amberjack around lower in the water column with sierra and jacks closer to the surface. Warmer water fish like the occasional dorado and finally some 30-40 pound rooster fish made a showing as well this week. Commercial fisherman say there’s still some wahoo and yellowtail around the island, but nothing was hooked and the two days we tried to get there, the winds prevented it.

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of March 20-27, 2016

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Brian Walkerly with our Captain Boli show off a great catch of big cabrilla and a pig of a yellowtail they caught off Espirito Santo Island north of La Paz.

Captain Joel on the left doing photo ops with Miles Brown on the right from W. Linn, Oregon and his two boys Tai and Leo who got into a number of small dorado for a day of fun off the island. Nice to see dorado so early in the season.

Every indication that the waters are warming with the dorado moving into the area. Thanks for Gary Wagner for his underwater shot of this bull in Muertos Bay on the hook

Miles Brown and Captain Joel picked up a great eating cabrilla off the rocks.

SPRING ARRIVES and CONDITIONS IMPROVE

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of March 20-27, 2016

Spring and Easter week combined for an OK week of fishing. The winds largely left us alone. The sun was out and it was a good week for all the tourists in town for for spring break although La Paz doesn’t come close to being like many other Mexican destinations. Comparatively speaking it’s still a sleepy city. However, Holy Week (Semana Santa) is one of the busiest times for Mexican locals to travel especially to visit families and La Paz is a great destination to get some beach time away from the bigger cities in the mainland and the beaches can be quite crowded…much moreso than usual…with campers and picnickers.

In fact, during Holy Week, camping in Mexico can b a bit hectic. It’s not like in the U.S. where you have designated camping areas with facilities and a little ranger station house to enter and leave. The beaches in Mexico are all public. So wherever folks want to drop a tent and all the accessories, you can take up as much space as you want. Literally, sometimes the more popular beaches have tents and awnings just inches away from each other. It’s a big like mini-Woodstock! But, still very festive like any beach and you can smell the carne asada on the barbecues for miles! By next week, the beaches will be empty again!

Anyway for fishing, nothing spectacular, but steady OK fishing. Nothing really to write home about but we caught fish. They were a little hard to locate at times, but this is still very early in the season and we’re still recovering from a big cold windy winter that really tore up the area and made fishing tough. So, here’s how it broke down this week.

LA PAZ

This is the first real week or two that we’ve had our Tailhunter La Paz Fleet out since late October. It’s just been too windy so we’ve kept everyone fishing from Las Arenas. However, winds are down and folks don’t want to take the 1 hour drive with us to Las Arenas so we put out the boats.

It started slowly and still hasn’t gotten a full head of steam. Plus, some days it’s still pretty bumpy with winds.

However, inshore, we’re finding some decent-sized pargo and cabrilla along with sierra and off the drop-offs there’s some big yellowtail starting to poke up. But, finding the spot is still hit-or-miss. Somedays we find ‘em or one boat finds them. Other days it’s a miss.

The surprising bite is that we’re getting some nice schools of firecracker-sized dorado. With all the families and kids in town, this has been a hoot. The fish are 5-10 pounds max and can be very voracious if you hit the spot. Some days, there’s limits to be caught with the best spot being off Espirito Santo Island.

LAS ARENAS

Still the most consistent fishing. We’re still hoping that with the winds tapering the bait will come back up.

No doubt, there’s still wahoo in the area with some decent 20-30 pound fish falling to the darker Rapalas and Yo-Zuri lures. As well, the big red pargo liso are schooling in spawn mode off several spots near Cerralvo Island like Los Pilis and then also near Punta Perrico. Bonito, jack crevalle and sierra have rounded out the catch along with Cabrilla. It’s hard to judge Holy Week when there’s so many “non-fishermen” out whacking the waters. Some days it can seem like everyone and their brother has a boat on the water and 4, 5, 6 anglers have rods and not really knowing what they’re doing. So, there’s some traffic out there and that can spook the fish. But, if you’re with a real captain and/ or know what you’re doing, there’s fish to be caught.

That’s our story!

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of March 14-21, 2016

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From Los Angeles, Butch Tropez and his family had a great day on the water while fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet at Muertos Bay. Check out the great variety including yellowtail, big cabrilla, jack crevalle, sierra, and triggerfish. They only had one day to fish and made the most of it. The triggerfish ended up at dinner at our Tailhunter Restaurant in La Paz.

You always remember that first fish! Kogen Brown from W. Linn, Oregon is all smiles with his first roosterfish. The 11-year-old released his fish too!

Thompson cabrilla tags 3-16

LAS ARENAS PUTS OUT VARIETY – LA PAZ NOT YET READY

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

It was a pretty nice week for fishing this past week. Very spring-like conditions finally with temps in the 80’s and just a light breeze most days. The week was highlighted by a decent mix of fish and also for the first time, we finally sent pangas out’ve La Paz. We haven’t been sending out our La Paz boats since about November because of the severe winter winds we’ve been experiencing.

With better conditions, we had the boats out there with mixed results. Some yellowtail were seen and lost and none boated. There were some small rooster fish and cabrilla and triggerfish but that was about it. However, this week we’ll have more boats out and hopefully better reports as we work the waters better and if the winds continue to diminish.

The better fishing was still with our Tailhunter Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay fleet. There really was an amazing variety of species.

Along with some nice 20-30 pound yellowtail, we had some hookups around Cerralvo Island on wahoo which continue to seem to hang out around the island and some of the other high spots. Both species seem to have an affinity for slow trolled Rapalas, especially the dark ones. But, it’s a great welcome surprise that we’ve had wahoo around for almost a year now. No one is complaining!

Speaking of Rapalas and other crank style baits, it’s a good thing they’re working because live bait continues to be difficult to get in quantity so along with lures, dead and frozen bait is working but resulting in some nice catches of some of the biggest cabrilla I’ve seen in a long time as well as sierra, jack crevalle, amberjack, pargo, bonito and other species.

…BUT WAIT!!!

Just going to publication of this week’s fishing report today (Sunday) and some of our boats today that fished La Paz ended up finding fish! Schools of small dorado and pargo that were especially good for the kids. The fish were right off Isla Ballena a small outcropping off Espirito Santo Island where a bunch of floating weed was found. Check out this photo of Captain Boli with Ben Walkerly. Nice day!

Captain Boli poses with Ben Walkerly and some fun dorado and a barred pargo they found pretty much just off Espirito Santo Island.

HAPPY TRAILS AND THANK YOU!

My honey and I. What a grand time you have shows us! Thank you for an amazing 3 months! Now back home to La Paz!

We’ve been on the road since before Christmas. And now 3 months later, we’ve come to the end of the trail for this year.

We’ve criss-crossed the country through 11 different states and met and spoken with thousands of amigos at all the biggest sportsmans shows in the western U.S. After 21-years in this business, these trips continue to re-inforce what a beautiful country we have and moreso the wonderful folks who live there. We’ve been greeted with smiles and welcomed with hospitality no matter where we went. Jill and I cherish this time and each and every moment.

We started with our first show of the year driving to icy Billings, Montana. Then to Denver, Colorado. Then because of heavy snow, we had a 500-mile “detour” through New Mexico and Arizona to get to Sacramento, CA. After that, we drove to the Seattle area at the Puyallup Fairgrounds followed by the huge show in Portland, Oregon.

Then, it was onto Yakima, Washington. Then, Jill and I split up.

I did the Fred Hall show in Long Beach CA while Jilly hit the road to cover us in Boise, Idaho.

We got together again to do the ISE show in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Then, we finished out by splitting up again! Jill held the booth at the Del Mar Fairgrounds in San Diego. I spent the week in Salt Lake City.

And so we close this chapter with a huge MUCHAS GRACIAS to each and every one of you who took the time to say hi and chat with us in our booths. And we look forward to seeing so many of you in La Paz this year.

Let’s get onto the fishing season! Vamos a pescar!

That’s our story!

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Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website:

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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 Mexico: 044-612-14-17863

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of March 7-13, 2016

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Brain O’Neil and Leif Dover from Atlanta GA pose with Captain Pancho earlier in the week with a solid rack of fish…wahoo…amberjack…bonito and Jack crevalle.

From Wyoming, Ridge Larsen holds a hefty sierra that’ll make some great ceviche!

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of March 7-13, 2016

Not many fishermen in town this week, but it’s kind of the little lull before the Spring Break and Easter Fishermen come in and the season kicks into gear. The big story this week was the weather…again! But not for the usual windy days we’ve had this winter. The big weather story was the fact that it SNOWED!

That’s right. Historically, no one can ever remember that happening! We’ve been having 85 degree weather for several weeks but then earlier this week, some cells came down from the north. There was rain. Then some areas like Los Planes near Muertos Bay got pelted with hail…I think I’ve only seen that happen once in 20 years! Some areas of La Paz also got hit.

But up in the higher areas like San Antonio, they actually got a good dusting of snow! An incredible first! It even stuck for awhile. Not enough to go sledding or anything like that or even make margaritas out’ve it, but more like someone took powdered sugar to everything!

Just another El Nino bit of craziness.

But, back to normalcy…there were some fish things happening too! Some fat yellowtail were taken at the south end of Cerralvo in Rapalas. Fish ran up to about 25 pounds. A few smaller amberjack were also taken and one fish estimated at close to 80 pounds was picked up and lost at gaff. Supposedly, the northern end of Cerralvo is holding some really big amberjack according to the commercial guys.

Inshore…yup..inshore, there are still wahoo up to about 40 pounds that are again falling to the dark Rapalas/ Yo-zuri type lures. Gotta be honest…there’s a real lack of live or dead bait right now. Hope that changes. But we’re able to scrape up some sardines and some mackerel here and there or use frozen stuff.

Smaller lures and cut bait are working on cabrilla and sierra and some big pargo up to about 20 pounds are in the spawn mode in the usual rocky areas, but especially off Punta Perrico and los Pilis near the east side of the island.

TAILHUNTER ROAD TOUR WINDS IT UP FOR THE SEASON – IN TWO DIFFERENT PLACES!

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Rick and Lisa Gibson just booked their first trip ever to La Paz after trying for 3 years. We’ll see them in August!

We’ve been on the road driving since before Christmas and our 2015 Tailhunter Road Tour has taken us from the chilly snows of Billings, Montana…to Denver…to Sacramento…to Seattle…Portland…Yakima…Long Beach CA…to Scottsdale AZ and now we wind it up 3 months later in two different places!

Jill will travel to the San Diego area to the Del Mar Fairgrounds for the awesome Fred Hall Fishing and Boating Show. I’ll be in Sandy, Utah just south of Salt Lake City at one of our favorite shows, the ISE show at the South Towne Expo Center. Both shows run Thursday to Sunday. We hope you come see us and let’s set up your 2016 La Paz fishing trip!

Our buddy, Sgt. Tom Rautert (ret.) is coming back in July to La Paz for a 4th straight year!

Craig Sanford brought the family to the show on his birthday just to see us! Wife Kathryn and daughter Ashley will are all coming back to La Paz in October!

But first, just a quick thank you to all our Arizona amigos who came by our booth at the Westworld facilities in Scottsdale and for all your hospitality.

Great amigos, Mike and Heidi Malano stopped in to see us. Mike was all-American center at San Diego State and played with the Vikings a few years, but now lives back in Arizona!

We really enjoyed your state and city and we’ll be back next year! For those of you that booked trips…we’ll see you in La Paz!

That’s our story!

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Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website:

http://www.tailhunter-international.com

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

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

Phones:

from USA : 626-638-3383

from Mexico: 044-612-14-17863