Tailhunter Fish Report

PHOTO 1: Pargo are starting to show up more these days. These popular snapper (aka pargo liso or mullet snapper) usually start schooling up in numebers in the spring, but we’re already getting them. Or I should say, they’re biting! These tough fighters usually break off lines in the rocks before we can stop them!

PHOTO 2: Inshore fishing is great right now and surprisingly, there’s still roosterfish around! I don’t know if they’re holdovers from last season and just never left or they showed up early for 2009. But the shallow inshore waters are still holding some fun fish like this one which was released.

END OF YEAR BRINGS OUT SOME GREAT VARIETY AND INSHORE FISHING!

The La Paz/Las Arenas Report for the week of Dec. 20-28, 2008

FISH PARTY EARLY LEADING INTO CHRISTMAS WEEK WITH SIERRA-SNAPPER- DORADO- ROOSTERFISH- AND WAHOO BITING!

The La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for the Week of Dec. 13-20, 2008

First and foremost…

Feliz Navidad and Happy Holidays to everyone! This is a special time of year and we wish you and yours a safe and peaceful Christmas and holiday season!

Sorry to have missed last week’s fishing report. For only about the 5th time in 12 years of doing the reports weekly, I missed. I begged off. I was on my honeymoon! For those of you who wrote in asking, yes…Jill and I got married finally and had a grand time and appreciate all the good wishes from you all! Life is good and I got myself a great lady!

OK…for the fishing down here…surprisingly good! Yes, it’s winter, but I’m really surprised at the variety of species. It’s windy and chilly most days, which makes it choppy and we surely aren’t fishing out of La Paz. However, we’ve been sending all of our clients out of Muertos Bay. Fishing is CLOSE! Don’t have to go far to get fish so no biggie about the winds!

And, like I said, there’s some nice variety and good action. For example, the boats we had out this week came back with 7 to 12 sierra each; a handful of seabass (cabrilla); some snapper and small pargo; some roosterfish up to 10 pounds; some jack crevalle; bonito; and even some dorado (go figure!). A bit like a smorgasboard! All the fish are eating live sardines so this is nice easy fishing. No casting needed. Just kinda hold onto the rod and get bit. The boats are no more than 100 yards off the beach this past week. There were some reports of breezing tuna off Cerralvo Island earlier in the week, but when we tried to check it out, the winds were up and it woulda been crazy wet and bumpy to go over there. There were also two wahoo hooked south of the island on one of the days when the winds backed off. We’ll keep an eye on that and let you know what happens.

HAPPENINGS IN LA PAZ

Here’s some changes I thought you’d be interested in for the coming year

Alaska Airlines – Is now flying out of Los Angeles to La Paz on Monday/ Wednesday/ Thursday/ Saturday and Sunday for 2009. This is great news and presents many more options for the coming season.

New Water Slide Water Park – It’s just about finished and is located at Caimancito Beach between Hotel La Concha and Hotel Marina. They’ve been working on it for almost two seasons and just had the big inauguration party this past week with the governor and mayor and about 500 people. It’s not officially open, but it’s close and they’re thinking by Spring Break 2009 it’ll be all set. It’s pretty nice.

More New Restaurants and Changes –

Tres Virgines – The popular upscale restaurant was closed for several months, but has now re-opened with some new management changes

Los Michoacanas – Just found the place. Everyone asks about carintas tacos. This place rocks!

Azul Marina – Located in the new Costa Baja Marina, it has slowly been growing popularity and now it’s often packed. Some of the most creative and killer good seafood, steak, pasta and imaginative upscale food in town.

Cafe Molina – Old and funky near the Marina La Paz. They have live music and a throwback lounge, but it’s our new favorite Italian place. Hey…four beers and a big pesto pizza for 10 bucks can’t go wrong!

La Paz is bustling with new places including the area around the Buffalo Grill. There’s another new high-end restaurant on the street (can’t remember the name) but it’s packed. There’s a Thai/Chinese fusion place now and another breakfast house owned by Americans that serves biscuits and gravy and sausage!

WHALE WATCHING NOW BOOKING

We’re now booking for the 2009 whale watching season at Mag Bay. This is from mid-January to March. Best time is February because by then the calves and females are used to having the pangas around them in the shallow lagoons. This is great fun for the whole family and an incredible experience to have whales come right up to the pangas. Get in touch with us ASAP and we can set up the whole package!

CABIN FEVER CLASSIC

We’re booking fast for our 7th Annual Cabin Fever Classic set for April 30 to May 4th. This is our unofficial kick-off for the season and we’re holding it just a tad later this year to get into more variety of fish. It’s not a competition. It’s a fun 3 days of fishing and a chance to bust out of your cabin and get some sunshine, sand and wet some lines. It’s $775 per person double occupancy. Quite a few couples book this one every year with us.

WALMART AND SAM’s CLUB

Yes, it finally happened. The world is changing. Lots of excitement about it on some levels. But after visiting, all I could say was (yawn)…what’s the big deal. Walmart is like a big dark warehouse. Looks nothing like a U.S. Walmart. Not even much inside of it. Poor selection. Even the locals have already found it to be a big thud. When I was there, the place was almost empty…one week before Christmas. Same with Sam’s Club. Duds!!! I didn’t want them in La Paz, but was looking forward to buying fishing gear and hardware in the same place! NOT!

HOTEL LOS ARCOS

It’s still closed now for 3 weeks. It’s a shame that the hotel and union can’t get it together. Bad for everyone. No signs of movement. The whole place remains boarded up. A deadline to resolve the impasse came and went. We’ll keep you posted. We’re putting folks in La Concha Beach Resort and Hotel Marina only until further notice.

ON A CHEERIER NOTE…

For 2009, Tailhunter International will be offering some off-the-water activities including horseback riding; ATV tours; and swimming with the dolphins!

That’s our story. Merry Christmas all!
Jonathan and Jill

Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter International
Website: http://www.tailhunter-international.com/
Phone: (626) 333-3355
FAX: (626) 333-0115
E-Mail: Riplipboy@aol.com
U.S. Office: 3319 White Cloud Dr., Suite A, Hacienda Hts. CA 91745
Mexico Office: , 755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Cal Sur, Mexico

“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.”

PHOTO 1: Belmond Mann, came down for his anniversary with his wife for their first trip to La Paz and surprised everyone with not one..but TWO prized wahoo fishing with Captain Archangel south of Cerralvo Island. You can see the purple/black Rapala hanging from the mouth of the wahoo.

COOLER TEMPS BUT SOME NICE INSHORE FISHING AND SOME SURPRISING OFFSHORE BITES FOR ANGLERS

La Paz / Las Arenas Fishing Report for week of Nov. 30 to Dec. 6, 2008

PHOTO 2: Amy Mann and Captain Archangel hold up a nice late-season dorado. Surprsingly, for such a late time in the season, there are still dorado holding in some lingering warm water spots of water. Amy and her husband fished two days and landing sierra, permit, dorado, wahoo and roosterfish (released).

PHOTO 1: Marianne Sugawara and Captain Jorge grin over another sierra coming over the side. Marianne is from Cypress CA and comes to La Paz several times a year. She says sierra are among her favorite eating fish as the sleek speedy toothy fish have now moved into the shallow areas and are making for

PHOTO 2: Here’s a good sample of some of the variety available right now. This is the catch by Amy and Belmond Mann who came down to celebrate their anniversary with us. On the right are several nice sierra; then a pompano and a dorado. They also got a couple of wahoo the day before!

PHOTO 1: Some of the best light tackle fishing to be found. This is a sierra. Think of a baby wahoo. Fast and voracious with razor sharp teeth, these fish school up in shallow areas and along ridges as the waters cool down. They’ll hit anything shiny or that moves across them and will attack without hesitation. Wire is a good thing to have on your lure. They also make incredible eating and have a reputation for making the best ceviche and taste like they were basted in butter when cooked. Jeff Sakuda comes down several times a year from Monterey Park CA and holds up a beautify.

DORADO START THE WEEK WHILE SIERRA AND CABRILLA COME ON STRONG AT THE END!

The La Paz / Las Arenas Fishing Report for the Week of Nov. 16-22, 2008

PHOTO 2: Now here’s a nice day of fishing. Check out the sierra and cabrilla (seabass) Story is below. This is Jeff Sakuda, Marianne Sugawara and popular Captain Jorge. This is the catch for 4 people. During the day they released as several dozen other fish as well. Most of these fish were caught mere yards from the beach.

PHOTO 3: Mark Martis from Redono Beach is another of our great amigos and regulars here. His wife is gonna love him for hugging this giant squid to his clothes that she’ll be washing! The big squid were here early in the week again. Captain Victor stands nearby.

PHOTO 4: Andrew Lindsay from Yorba Linda was on his first trip to see us with his dad and younger brother and hung this great looking dorado as well as several other species. The dorado were abundant and eager early in the week, but tapered off later in the week.

PHOTO 5: Miyako Ito and Captain Victor hold up a little roosterfish caught near Muertos Bay. Despite the lateness of the season, the waters are still warm and roosters are still along the beach. This was Miyako’s first trip with us and the rooster was released.

PHOTO 6: A rather disappointing photo. This is the front of Hotel Los Arcos all boarded up. See the details below. It was shut down late this week by a labor strike.

PHOTO 7: NO, this isn’t fishing, but I just had to post this up. Jim Allen is 700 feet ABOVE the Los Angeles downtown. Ever wonder about those guys who operate those giant cranes at construction sites for skyscrapers waaaaay up there? Looks like he’s in an eenie-meenie tower? Well, Jim was up there reading our La Paz fishing reports and blog and decided to send me an e-mail to tell us he was enjoying reading on the job 700 feet up in the sky! To prove it he sent this photo taken with his cell phone camera! Thanks, Jim!

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

Check out the on-the-water-action. Turn up the sound. Check out out flat the waters are. Only yards from the beach. Hard to believe this is actually ocean fishing. Click this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAwZaVaUlBA

THE FISHNG REPORT

It’s been pretty nice all week. Breezes are up, but overall a pleasant time to be on the water or in town. Actually, town seems almost deserted at times as we hit that lull between the end of the fishing season and the beginning of the holidays. This is a great time to be almost the ONLY boat on the water at the fishing holes!

This past week, dorado continued to bite although the better bite for us were the spots closer inshore for our Las Arenas fleet. Limits or near limits of dorado between 10 and 15 pounds were hit a few days. Other days, it was a mix of dorado as well as inshore fish such as sierra, cabrilla and pargo. Some wahoo at the south end of Cerralvo Island and there were rumors of tuna at La Reyna.

As the week went on the bite got more stingy for the dorado, but whoa…all of a sudden we have cabrilla and sierra all over the place! Not kidding this is really fun fishing. During the week I went out with our good friends Jeff Sakuda and Marianne Sugawara fishing with Captain Jorge and probably had one of the best light tackle days I can remember in all my years here. See the photo above!

Seriously…I think we may have hooked and released almost 60 fish! It started with the bait catching…really small sardines…but we were waiting for the bait man to bring some over so Jeff and I started casting little crank baits and wham! We were on! Jeff put in 3 nice size cabrilla right off. I got one as well plus we released another 3 or 4 as well as released maybe 5 big ladyfish that were a hoot on my 6 pound test spinner.

Then, we moved around the beach past the Arenas lighthouse to Las Cucarachas in about 6 feet of water and the sierra just boiled. Double hook ups for Jeff and Marianne for several hours of slow trolling. We got over a dozen plus lost others and were bit off a few times as well. Moving over some rocky areas with the crank baits (Mirrolures and Yo-Zuri’s) we hooked cabrilla after cabrilla (seabass) and released almost all of them. Plus we got an amberjack or two as well. Best of all, not a needlefish in sight! I think we only caught one all day! Just a real kick inshore fishing!

RANDOM THOUGHTS

Several reminders:

1. Quite a few reservations for 2009 are already coming in. Good spots and your favorite captains are already getting their numbers called. We want to be able to get you dialed-in so get in touch with us. Once we start doing the fishing/hunting shows in January across the U.S., the reservations usually start rolling in pretty fast. Right now, Alaska flies down here Monday/ Wednesday/ Saturday. Several others fly out of Tijuana and are fast becoming favorites for many of our anglers. Ask us how to get that together.

2. The 2009 Whale Watching season as also coming up fast. Usually the best time to see these great creatures is January to March with February being optimal. Get right up next to these gentle giants over in Magdalena Bay. We can set this up for you.

HOTEL LOS ARCOS CLOSED BY LABOR STRIKE

Hotel Los Arcos has been closed as of Nov. 21 by a labor strike. See the photo above. Until further notice, one of the most popular hotels here in La Paz is closed. No idea how long this will take. It’s been boarded up and is guarded by union people. No one in. No one out. It’s a real shame.

That’s our story!
Jonathan

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website: http://www.tailhunter-international.com/

Phone: (626) 333-3355FAX: (626) 333-0115

E-Mail: Riplipboy@aol.com

U.S. Office: 3319 White Cloud Dr., Suite A, Hacienda Hts. CA 91745

Mexico Office: , 755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Cal Sur, Mexico

“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.”

DORADO STILL BITING BUT SEASON IS DEFINITELY CHANGING AND GETTING COOLER!

La Paz/ Las Arenas Report for week of Nov. 9-15, 2008

A mixed bag this past week for both our La Paz and Las Arenas fleets. Air and water temperatures have been dropping and intermittent winds are indicative of the changing seasons. However, there’s still dorado about as well as the occasional billfish, wahoo and some tuna near the islands. Inshore fishing has been been good as well for pargo, cabrilla and the cooling waters have been producing more schools of sierra.

The better action…at least as far as dorado are concerned has been out of Muertos Bay with our Las Arenas fleet. Limits or near limits of fish were not uncommon which can be surprising this late in the season. However, the downside is that quite a few of the fish were smallish 5 to 15 pounders which we hope angler are releasing…especially the smaller females. But, you never know when one of the larger bulls comes through or you hit a school of the better quality fish!

In those same areas, not surprisingly, billfish are still being hooked although no one landed any. The sailfish and marlin are eating on the smaller dorado so either a live bait or trolling a dorado-colored lure in those areas, can result in some blind strikes. No one brought any to the boats this week because fishing the dorado on light line is a kick. But, not much use when suddenly a sailfish hits and you’ve got it on 15-pound test. But…still alot of fun…especially if you’re planning to release the billfish anyway.

As for other species, there’s still a few wahoo and tuna around near Cerralvo Island, but it’s really hard to know how concentrated the fish are. There’s not many anglers out these days to blanket all the spots. When the winds are blowing, as they are now with increasing regularity, it’s hard to hit the island anyway, but that dictates where and how you fish as well as whether you can get the right bait. But, if conditions are right and you’re feeling lucky, it’s worth checking out the island for the tuna and wahoo.

Inshore, more sierra, cabrilla, and pargo are showing up which is still great fishing even if the winds are blowing and keeping anglers of the more open water areas. Surprisingly, there’s still roosterfish along the beaches as well. It’s a nice time to be in La Paz or on the water. Not too warm. Not too cold. Very little traffic on the fishing holes!

2009 RESERVATIONS

It’s not too early to check dates for 2009 fishing in La Paz. As a matter of fact, we’re getting a surprising number of reservations coming in already for prime dates and your favorite captains as well as for certain rooms and condos. In a few weeks we start out on the road visiting our favorite cities in the United States with our 2009 Fishing and Outdoor Shows tour and the reservations start coming in hot and heavy. Give us a shout and let’s get you on the schedule for 2009.

WHALE WATCHING 2009

The 2009 Whale Watching Season starts up soon as well. January to March is prime time to get on the water and get close to the grey whales making their annual migration. By mid-February they’re here in full swing. It’s a lifetime event for the whole family. Give us a shout and we’ll set it all up for you…transportation, hotel, guides…and maybe even get in a day of fishing too!

LA CONCHA PEARL CONDOS

All season you’ve been asking me, “What is the new building on La Concha Beach?” Well, this past week I had the opportunity to tour the new La Concha Pearl, luxury condominium project with the developer, Dan Shore. It’s hard to put into words. I’ve been watching them put up the building now for two seasons and had never been over to the property. It’s hard to describe in just a few words.

The 33 unit, 90,000 sf building now under construction has construction components and features I have never seen in Baja. Dan, being in the business in San Jose, California wanted to make certain to bring the best materials, construction methods and safety programs from his industry managing high tech building construction for the clients of Silicon Valley.
Along with state-of-the-art systems, this building exceeds rigid California building and environmental codes and is the first LEED Registered building in all of Baja Sur. The Quadlock “foam forms” sandwiches cast-in-place concrete able to exceed the earthquake criteria for seismic zone 4 and hurricane category 5.

La Concha Pearl condos offer an incredible combination of efficiency and lower energy bills along with high quality and creature comforts for the unit owners.

The interiors are open and airy with large bathrooms, closets and kitchens. The outdoor living spaces are large and inviting with amenity and open spaces for BBQ, walk-up bar, twin spas and a raised terrace infinity edge pool, plaza and even a fire pit. The building features gated access with electronic security and CCTV, satellite TV and high speed internet. All this on one of the best swimming and snorkeling beaches in La Paz!

I really enjoyed my tour with Dan and have a great appreciation for quality projects like this!

If you’d like more info click this: info@LaConchaPearl.com

OTHER THOUGHTS FOR FLYING INTO LA PAZ

Recently, another airline servicing La Paz bit the dust. Alma Airlines, a Mexican line that came on the scene two seasons ago to great fanfare and great reviews looks like it has canceled it’s flights from Tijuana to La Paz. Along with good old Aero California, that’s two down this year. However, Avolar Airlines and Volaris Airlines from Tijuana to La Paz continue to do great service and an increasing number of our clients are finding that getting in and out of Tijuana from the border is a great way to go. There’s some inexpensive shuttles that will take you straight from San Diego to the Tijuana Airport and back. Additionally, because it’s not an international flight, you don’t have to go through all the security craziness. Write to us if you have questions!

That’s my story!

Jonathan

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website: www.tailhunter-international.com

Phone: (626) 333-3355FAX: (626) 333-0115

E-Mail: Riplipboy@aol.com

U.S. Office: 3319 White Cloud Dr., Suite A, Hacienda Hts. CA 91745

Mexico Office: 755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Cal Sur, Mexico

“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.”

PHOTO 1: After an absence of a few seasons, our buddy John Tessman from Fallbrook CA came down for an extended stay which was rewarded by possibly some of the larger dorado we’ve seen in a few weeks. This 35 pound class bull ate a slow trolled strip of dead bonito just east of Espiritu Santo Island east of La Paz.

WATERS IN TRANSITION ARE A BIT STINGY WITH FISH EARLY IN THE WEEK BUT GET MORE GENEROUS LATER IN THE WEEK!

La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for the week of Nov. 2, 2008

PHOTO 2: Early in the week, it was rough going, but some of the boats made it to the northern end of Cerralvo Island where an elusive tuna school with 25-pound class fish have been holding. Shown here (L-R) Tony Bretz, Captain Panchito, Bryant Bushman hold up a nice trio of yellowfin.

PHOTO 3: Jill Stevens now living most of the year in La Paz, was dragging a big sardine behind the panga and noticed a flash of color right off the transom and realized a nice dorado was lazily swimming behind the boat. It turned suddenly and whacked her sardine. Fish on!

PHOTO 4: Tony Bretz holds up one of the larger dorado taken out of Las Arenas/ Muertos early in the week. There weren’t many fish of this size and fishing seemed to be inconsistently biting. One day, they’d readily chew and the next day, you really had to work at it.

PHOTO 5: Hard to believe, but there’s still roosterfish along the beaches. Monique Wicks all the way from Alaska got this silver pez gallo just out of Muertos Bay and released it. The fish are in small schools along the beaches. Larger fish are roaming right on the edge of the drop offs.

PHOTO 6: Check out this nice yellowfin tuna. Our amiga, Cheryl Atkinson, does the honors. The fish was taken on bait at Punta Norte of Cerralvo Island. It’s almost a 2 hour ride up the channel from where we launch our boats at Muertos Bay…well worth it if the fish are there and the winds are down. If not, it’s a long rough and wet ride.

WEEKLY VIDEO

Some great on-the-water-shots this week of dorado fishing off the east side of Espiritu Santo Island just north of La Paz. Turn up the sound and click this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrviCK5meFw

THE FISHING REPORT

The week started off full of questions as seasonal northern winds started up and roughed up the waters a bit. Bait got tough as well. Fish weren’t exactly very cooperative. Howver, as the week went on, things got more promising. Seas flattened a tad. Some tuna showed up at the north end of Cerralvo Island again. Larger dorado got more lively in the channel between the islands where even some of the smaller fish this week were twice as big as some of the largest fish we had the last few weeks. Cabrilla and even pargo and roosterfish got more active as well around our Las Arenas beaches as well. The season is definitely changing, but there’s still a lot of fish to catch.

You can feel things changing. We’re definitely in the transition right now. This is normal and it came a bit early this year. Sure is a lot of variety in terms of fish. Pretty much a little of everything is around. dorado are still the predominant species, but if you’re flexible, there’s quite a range.

WE MADE THE LOS ANGELES TIMES

Well, one of our good amigos, Stacy Amos from Harbor City made the L.A. Times webpage. Click this and check it out: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/outposts/2008/10/monstrous-squid.html Pete Thomas writes up a nice piece about the giant squid.

BOOKINGS FOR 2009

We’re already getting quite a few bookings for the 2009 season. Prime dates and our captains are still available, but some are already getting closed out. Give it some thought and get in touch with us as soon as you can. We want to make sure we take care of you and give you the first shot at your preferred dates!

That’s our story!

Jonathan
Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website: http://www.tailhunter-international.com/

Phone: (626) 333-3355FAX: (626) 333-0115

E-Mail: Riplipboy@aol.com

U.S. Office: 3319 White Cloud Dr., Suite A, Hacienda Hts. CA 91745

Mexico Office: , 755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Cal Sur, Mexico

“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.”

PHOTO 1: Yes! That’s right…YELLOWFIN TUNA! The north end of Cerralvo Island gave up a few teasing days of great tuna fishing early in the week with 20-25 pound fish crashing around the boats. Popular Captain Jorge holds up some fish with our good friends, Len and Cheryl Atkinson.

CHANGING NORTH WINDS AND UNSTABLE WATERS DAMPEN A SOLID BITE AND APPEARANCE OF TUNA!

La Paz Fishing Report for the Week of Oct. 19-25, 2008

PHOTO 2: Len Atkinson and Captain Jorge at North Point Cerralvo Island holding one of the yellowfin tuna that romped on the panga fleets early in the week. Our bait and flyfishers alike all got into the fish. Down below, deeper water amberjack also bit for anglers fishing further down the water column.

PHOTO 3: Stacy Amos from S.California poses with Captain Armando and one of the nicer grade bull dorado that are still roaming the waters outside of Punta Perico.

PHOTO 4: She likes NASCAR and fishing and now loves La Paz too! Becky Amos holds up a nice bull dorado taken close to shore on strips of fresh giant squid. This was Becky’s first trip down with us here.

PHOTO 5: Beast from the deep. The giant squid are still here although some days they seem to be deeper and deeper. This 50-pounder is about to be gaffed. We’re using chunks of these guys to slow troll for thd dorado outside of Muertos Bay.

PHOTO 6: Our amigos from the heartland, Leroy Freeman and Al Burgess from Kansas had a pretty good week with over 10 species of fish caught including dorado like these.

PHOTO 7: Sure is a pretty fish. Tasty too. It’s a golden jack and also known as a palometa amarilla. Byron Tanaka from the Sacramento area does the honors. He and his guys spent the week flyfishing with us and got an assortment of fish including tuna, jacks, bonito, dorado and sierra on the flyrods fishing with Captains Loreto and Moncho.

PHOTO 8: From Utah, here’s the Gustafson family: Morgan, Debbie, Broc and Bill with a few handfuls of Las Arenas dorado.

THE FISHING REPORT

Well…we were kinda hoping we’d go out at the end of the season with a roar. It sure looked like it. However, mother nature is cruel and she had other ideas. Instead of a roar. We got a whimper as the week went on. Fish kinda went on strike!

Simply put, by the end of the week, we were struggling for fish as seasonal northern winds appeared to have started earlier this year. When they start blowing with regularity, things change. And I have a feeling that our blue water season may be coming to an end. We’ll have to see.

However, the week sure started nicely. Dorado, although not big, continued to bite pretty steadily for both our Las Arenas (Muertos Bay) and La Paz fleets. Most of the fish were 10-15 pounders. Hardly the big bulls we’re used to this time of year, but lots of fun, especially on the lighter tackle. Jacks and roosterfish were in the shallows as well. Some boats did better than others, but if you fished a few days, everyone got fish at some point. Not banner, but steady.

Then, we got the real bonus…tuna showed up at the north end of Cerralvo Island! Whoa…what a surprise. These were a nice grade of fish too…25 pound class sluggers! Light tackle and even our flyfishers got into the fish and had a blast getting beat up. In the same spot, some of those nice amberjack also came up too! We had those kinds of days when everyone literally came back to the beach looking trashed and bloody, but all with big grins. So we got pretty jazzed and figured we were finally on it…

Well, then the winds started up. They blew hard enough that it was almost impossible to get up to the spot again bucking against the north winds…unless you wanted to get soaking wet and/or get your teeth rattled out of your head!

And that was the bite…after that…with the winds blowing…even the dorado seemed to go ground and became about as scarce as chicken’s teeth. Really had to work for the fish the latter part of the week. Even the bonito seemed like they weren’t interested. I won’t kid ya. The last part of the week had lots of sunshine and that was almost about it.

I sure hope the winds don’t hang around. We’ll hope for the best this coming week. I’d like to run up for some of that tuna again.

That’s our story!
Jonathan

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website: www.tailhunter-international.com

Phone: (626) 333-3355

FAX: (626) 333-0115

E-Mail: Riplipboy@aol.com

U.S. Office: 3319 White Cloud Dr., Suite A, Hacienda Hts. CA 91745

Mexico Office: , 755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Cal Sur, Mexico

“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.”