Tailhunter Fish Report

PHOTO 1: MIGHTY YELLOWTAIL HOGS! Yes…the yellowtail have finally started to show. Greg Keehr from Bothell WA made their first trip to see us in La Paz this past week and stuck some great roosters, cabrilla and these AWESOME yellowtail while fishing out’ve Muertos Bay.

PHOTO 2: Janet Keehr admittedly outfished her husband with this 35-pound yellowtail that she took on 25 pound test. That’s Captain Victor that many of you know, holding the gaff and sporting a DOUBLE CHIN! (Must’ve been hibernating in the off-season!). Janet took the fish on live bait. That’s a slugger of a fish!

PHOTO 3: You’ve probably neve seen one of these. One of our amigos, called it the “Boy George Fish” for the pink makeup on it’s lips and rouge on it’s cheeks. This is a rare louvar fish. Normally never seen in the Sea of Cortez, but correctly identified by our friend, Gene Kira from Mexfish.com http://www.mexfish.com/fish/louvar/louvar.htm. The photo was sent by Ed Hoffman and the fish was found in Loreto.

PHOTO 4: The louvar is not only rare. It’s also usually only about 30 pounds or so. This was estimated at 200 pounds. No idea how it tasted! More details on the way.

PHOTO 5: Yes, it finally happened. La Paz has it’s first golf course at Mogote Peninsula just across from the city. This is the driving range.

PHOTO 6: That’s our amigo, Dan Shore from the La Concha Pearl condos with the purple polo shirt being told that his ball went down a rattlesnake hole and he’d have to get it himself plus suffer 3 penalty strokes.

PHOTO 7: Bilingual warning sign on the Colorado River telling us not to fish for trout! We’ve just finished our 5th week traveling the U.S. visiting all our amigos and clients at the fishing and hunting shows. We just finished Portland, Oregon and will be going to Phoenix AZ next at Cardinal Football Stadium the last week of February. Come say hi!

YELLOWTAIL FINALLY CHEW!

La Paz / Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of Feb. 8-14, 2009

Well! Sunshine…low wind…and YELLOWTAIL! Finally some lunker toad forktails! Check out the photos above. That’s the style we like…20-40 pound fish! We got fish for both our La Paz and Las Arenas fleet. Fishing the high spots and reefs, it would appear that the fish are in our waters although because of the winds, most of our fishing remains fishing out’ve Muertos Bay where the waters are calmer.

The fish are in shallow and eating live bait. But, in those same areas, we got some really nice pargo (and lost some HUGE fish too in the rocks!) as well as cabrilla. Sierra are still around, but we got another shot of roosterfish as well as some of those big gigantus bonito that kick our butts! All good signs! Weather has been great for the most part. We had wind earlier in the week but temps have been in the hight 70’s to lower 80’s.

This is CARNIVAL WEEK this week too so the town will be in party zone along the malecon waterfront all week! Gonna be rowdy!

Oh…and the whales are in full turbo as well at Mag Bay. We’re running trips daily now and seeing lots of whales in the shallow waters of the bay. We’re still booking trips so let us know.

LITTLE WHITE BALLS…

Lastly…you saw the golf course photos above…Yes…La Paz has it’s first golf course. It’s over at the Mogote Peninsula…that big sand spit across the way from La Paz. If you’ve been to La Paz and stood there on the malecon looking out at the ocean, it’s directly across. It’s still a 45 minute car ride over, but they have a quick 5 minute shuttle on a pontoon boat that will take you over. I guess I better learn to play golf. I’ve never been real good. I always had a fishing rod in my hand. I did shoot a 63 once, and would have done better, but my ball hit the windmill and missed the clown’s mouth by the castle…

According to our friend, Rory King, he says, ” The course is not ‘Open’ until March. The grand opening will be a round of golf played by the developer, and Arthur Hills, and Brian Yoder, the golf course architect and designer. At this time, the people living there, can play the course, but most of the markers are not up now, details have to be done, so it is not open to the public, except for the driving range.Driving range is open 10 to 4 every day. $12.00 for one hour or the whole day if you wish. Anyone can go. The little electric boats leave from the dock that goes down to El Patron restaurant. Short ride to the other side, then they pick you up in a golf cart and take you to the driving range. They have a rudimentary food stand, water, hot dogs, stuff like that, and it is beautiful. Anyone can play at this time. The price is right for a couple of hours of hitting balls.”

That’s our story!
Jonathan and Jill

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

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

Phone: (626) 333-3355FAX: (626) 333-0115Cell: (626) 278-1585Mex.

Cell: 044-612-114-17176E-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: Snapper like this nice pargo have moved into the shallows. A bit earlier than normal, but great sport trying to pull them out’ve the rocks. This is a “small” one and one of the most frustrating of Baja sportfishing. However, this is the time of year when they come in to spawn.

PHOTO 2: Here’s a nice winter-time catch that makes great eating. From left-to-right, cabrilla (seabass), two pargo mulatto (barred pargo) and yellow snapper (huachinango). All of these species inhabit the rocks and reefs inshore and can actually get pretty big. Willing to eat a live bait, chunked dead bait, slow trolled lures; and plastic jig and swim baits. Just be ready to lean into the rod and put alot of pressure on them to keep them from going back into their holes!

PHOTO 3: We’re traveling the country doing all the outdoor fishing and hunting shows right now. Just wanted to share some of the road signs we’ve come across. This is a rather famous truck stop in Colorado.

PHOTO 4: One can only speculate on what’s being sold here! Oregano?

YELLOWTAIL FINALLY BITE BUT PARGO NOT WILLING TO GIVE UP CENTER STAGE!

The La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of Feb. 1-8, 2009

Well, it’s a bit early in the season perhaps, but the yellowtail that had been teasing us for a few weeks finally got into a nice snap and we got some of the forktails off Punta Perrico this past week. They weren’t the big hog yellows, but still, decent 12-16 pound fish. Too early to say if this is the full-blown thing yet, but it’s nice to put some yellowtail in the boat finally! All the signs are there. Last year we went full turbo on big tails so we can only hope that maybe things are heating up!

Still…other species did more than make up for everything else. Pargo appear to be ready to rip and the schools are getting thicker. They’re up in the shallows already in the same spots we’re seeing cabrilla, snapper and breezing schools of sierra. Not sure if the roosterfish are still in. We’ve been hitting the roosters the last few weeks bit didn’t get any this week but that could also be a function of the fact that no one wanted to fish for them!

I will tell ya that it was unseasonably warm this past week. Temperatures were in the low 80’s, but the winds were still a mess. It was windy enough earlier in the week for them to issue small craft warnings out of La Paz Bay. That time of year. But that’s why we’re doing all our fishing out of Muertos to stay on the lee side of things.

Whales are still packing them in at Lopez Mateos at Magdalena Bay. Our whale watchers are seeing lots of the whales now as we move into the height of the whale watching season there in the shallow lagoon waters. They’ll be around for about a month more.

Thanks to all the amigos who came to see us this past week at the Northwest Sportsman’s Expo at the Portland Expo Center in Oregon. It was five great days in the booth and the show was packed! No snow and no rain for once and Portlanders were great hosts. I’ll be in La Paz the rest of the month then back in the states for the International Sportsman’s Show in Phoenix, Arizona at Cardinal Stadium…actually in Glendale. It’s our first appearance in the Phoenix area in a number of years and hope to see many of you there.

YOU TUBE!

You can now check out all our video clips from last year in one spots on Youtube! Just click:

http://www.youtube.com/user/pangapirate

That’s our story!

Jonathan and Jill

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website: www.tailhunter-international.com

Phone: (626) 333-3355

FAX: (626) 333-0115

Cell: (626) 278-1585Mex. Cell: 044-612-114-17176

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, MexicoTailhunter

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

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.”

PHOTO 1: Lots of inshore species biting now which is a good thing because strong seasonal winds keep the pangas close to shore. But that’s fine. Sierra, cabrilla, snapper, and several types of pargo like this barred pargo are more than willing to bite. Just because it’s “inshore” doesn’t mean these are small fish either. Pargo can be up to 30 pounds. Cabrilla (seabass), snapper and sierra can be large as well as give attitude when hooked.

PHOTO 2: Roosterfish are either still here from last season or are here early for 2009. Who cares? They are here! These are the large mondo-monsters but it’s still alot of fun when a school of 5-10 pounders are up near the beach and willing to hit the fly or live bait. Best when the winds are down, but every few days…

PHOTO 3: Sad day. The historic Hotel Los Arcos on the waterfront of La Paz was officially closed this past week. One of the most popular hotels in La Paz, the hotel was originally shuttered just before Thanksgiving when the labor union boarded up the hotel and prevented anyone from entering or exiting. No one blinked during negotiatons and the owners decided to just close the property and fire everyone. That’ll show ya. Something like 200 employees are now out’ve jobs during a tough tourist economy and one of the great hotels is now permanently dark.

PHOTO 4: Hola from the Royal Gorge in Colorado. Our 2009 Tailhunter Tour continues on. It was great to meet and see so many old friends and new friends at San Mateo, Sacramento and Denver. We had to slug our way out’ve the blizzard in Denver and stopped for a Kodak moment along the Colorado River in the snow. Our next stop is this week in Portland OR at the Expo Center Feb. 4-8 Wednesday to Sunday. It’s the Pacific Northwest Sportsman’s Show. Come say hi.

PHOTO 5: This is the blizzard that hit us as we left Denver on Monday last week. It was crazy. Up to then, we’d had incredible weather. Then, the hammer fell. Jill kept us on the road headed forward unlike my adventures last year when we went spinning off the road.

PHOTO 6: Couldn’t resist this photo. Gas in Utah. It was even cheaper in Wyoming.

NOT MANY ANGLERS BUT GOOD INSHORE FISHING AWAY FROM THE WINDS PROVIDES ACTION

La Paz / Las Arenas Fishing Reprt for Week of Jan. 25 to Feb. 1, 2009

Inshore fishing continued to deliver steady action as seasonal northern winds keep our pangas close to shore. This is fairly typical for winter fishing. However, there’s a good variety of inshore fish. For light tackle fishing this can be a great time. Using either live bait or lures such as crankbaits, plastics or poppers, cabrilla, sierra, and snapper are willing to hit. On the days when the winds slow down, even the flyfishers got into the hookups. Roosterfish and jack crevalle along the beaches have shown up. None of the big ones, but these fish can’t be beat for action. We know some yellowtail have popped up but they come up and disappear. Some of the commercial guys are getting them but it’s real sporadic…so far. We’re seeing more and more pargo as well. Bait is good but all the fishing right now is still coming out’ve Muertos Bay. La Paz fishing is still too rough most days.

In other activities, the whales are in full turbo right now and we’re running all-day trips out to check out the grey whales at Magdalena Bay. The whales usually hang out until mid-March.

HOTEL LOS ARCOS CLOSES

Sadly, the Hotel Los Arcos has officially been closed. One of the most popular hotels in La Paz history, the old Hotel Los Arcos was shut down this week. Originally, the hotel was shut down by the local labor union just before Thanksgiving. The union boarded up the the hotel and it was anticipated that they could negotiate a quick re-opening. However, there was no movement and the owners fired all the employees and closed the hotel this past week. Hopefully, there’s some other resolution down the road, but for now, Hotel Los Arcos is dark for good.

TAILHUNTER INTERNATIONAL ON THE ROAD IN PORTLAND

We’ll be at the Portland Expo Center this week for our next hunting/ fishing/ outdoor show. Come by and check us out and say hi. The show is Wednesday to Sunday and our booth is in the main hall.

That’s our story!
Jonathan and Jill

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

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

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

Cell: (626) 278-1585Mex. Cell: 044-612-114-17176

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

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.”

PHOTO 1: Sierra mackerel like this beauty here are still hitting nicely just about anywhere but the inshore reef, shoals and beaches seem to be the best holding spots for these guys. Don’t let the “mackerel” part of the name fool you. They fight hard and are among the tasitest fish around. Light tackle and a wire leader are working best with live bait or small crank bait lures like small Rapalas or Yo-Zuri lures.

PHOTO 2: Nice schools of feisty jack crevalle have move into the beach and inshore areas, especially for our anglers working the Muertos Bay/ Punto Perricos area. Great sport fish, but terrible eating, they are best released. Cousins to yellowtail, roosterfish, amberjack and pompano, when these guys are on the feed, they’ll hit pretty much anything aggressively.

PHOTO 3: The whales have finally arrived in Magdalena Bay and we’re running daily trips there now. The largest migration of mammals on Earth, the grey whales come to Baja during the winter months until about March to mate and give birth.

PHOTO 4: This is about as close as you can get to these great animals! Just watch out when they spout! Good idea to bring a windbreaker and hat! Pretty neat to get this close to a 30 foot whale or it’s baby. The grey whales usually hang out until mid-March in the shallow bay waters.

PHOTO 4: The Tailhunter Road Show 2009 moves on! We are just finishing our 3rd fishing/ hunting show of the season here in Denver CO. It has been a great tour with stops at shows in San Mateo CA and Sacramento CA. We wrap up here in Denver then move onto the Portland Expo Feb. 4-8. Great to see all the old friend and meet new ones. Come visit us in Portland and come fishing in La Paz!

WINTER CONDITIONS IN LA PAZ BUT INSHORE SPECIES PROVIDE GOOD ACTION!

La Paz/ Las Arenas Report for Week of January 18-24, 2009

THE FISHING REPORT

Lots of snow birds in town right now but not many anglers or divers. You can tell the locals. It’s 70 degrees and breezy and we’re all walking around in long pants and sweatshirts bundled against the “cold.” The tourists are wearing shorts and flip-flops and t-shirts. The whales are in at Magdalena Bay so we’re running a lot of trips out there now and indeed, quite a few of the tourists in town are here for the whales and not many for fishing. Let us know if we can set you up with some whale watching before they head north in March.

Still, we had a few boats out this week. With the north winds, we had to keep close to shore. Waters seemed to have turned a bit green. The winds were hard on the few flyfishers but our bait fishermen still got into sierra, seabass, jacks and some smaller pargo. We had some light line anglers do pretty well and they had fun getting hookups but lost a lot of fish in the rocks. They weren’t complaining since almost every cast was another hookup and planned to release most fish anyway. Some of the commercial guys got a few yellowtail so that’s encouraging and we’ll keep an eye on that. Lots of folks are preping for Carnival which is coming up in a few weeks.

TAILHUNTER COMING YOUR WAY

We’ve just finished our shows in San Mateo, Sacramento and Colorado. We’ll be at the Portland Expo Center Feb. 4-8. Come visit us in the booth! After that, Phoenix AZ, Long Beach and Salt Lake City.

CABIN FEVER CLASSIC APRIL 30 – MAY 4

Cabin Fever Classic April 30 to May 4, we still have a few spots that came open! Ask us about the details. Five days in La Paz with 3 days of fishing. This is our 7th annual event and it’s alot of fun! Get outta yer cabin and come enjoy some sunshine! Price is $775 per person double occupancy.

That’s out story!

Jonathan and Jill

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

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

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

ell: (626) 278-1585Mex. Cell: 044-612-114-17176

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

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.”

PHOTO 1: Don’t know how much longer this can last as waters start cooling, but there have been little jags of dorado here and there even though it’s winter. Our amiga, Verda Boyd from Fremont CA and her husband Tim Zimmer always come down in the winter and seem to find the fish! Here Captain Jorge lends a hand.

PHOTO 2: Captain Jorge again, this time with Tim Zimmer holding a good looking dorado taken just outside of Muertos Bay on live bait and light tackle.

PHOTO 3: Photo of Jonathan being interviewed by Univision Channel 19 the Sacramento CA Spanish-speaking news station. Jonathan doing his unsuccessful best NOT to butcher the language. I’m sure the channel lost ratings points that night during the broadcast as their viewers switched to the weather channel.

PHOTO 4: The grey whales have arrived in Magdalena Bay and we’re now running whale watching trips daily to this tranquil shallow lagoon where the whales take up winter residence until about mid-March.

PHOTO 5: Yes, they do get this close!

A WINDY WEEK KEEPS BOATS CLOSE TO SHORE BUT STILL CATCHING FISH!

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

THE FISHING REPORT

A really windy week in La Paz with Santa Ana type winds flailing the whole area. The kite and wind surfers in the channel out by La Ventana are just loving this as the winds just funnel between the peninsula and Cerralvo Island. Still, we hug the shoreline and again, kept most of our anglers in the Muertos Bay area with good results. Again, sierra were the mainstay. Boats took 8-12 per boat and losing others. Cabrilla and snapper rounded out the mixed bag, but roosters were not uncommon and we still got a few dorado as well. No complaints. Fortunately, bait is plentiful and close. Sardines on a hook will pretty much get almost all species to bite. Nice to be on the water. Not many people to share the fishing holes with! If anything, the wind really hampered the few flyfishers we had, but being the off-season, this is why we don’t do a lot of flyfishers right now. Waters seemed to turn a bit green too. That’s indicative of a chilling. Could be the winds are pulling colder water up from down deep. We’ll have to keep an eye on it.

WHALES ARE HERE

The annual migration of the whales has started! Pretty much on schedule the vanguard of the California grey whales has arrived at Magdalena Bay. It’s one of the 3 places along the Baja Pacific coast that the whales take up winter residency. It’s the largest migration of animals on the planet. We’re running daily whale watching trips now until they head back sometime around March. Get in touch with us if you’re interested in seeing this incredible event up close!

HEADED TO OUR NEXT STOP

Howdy and thank you to everyone that stopped by our booth at the first two stops on our 2009 Tailhunter Tour. We had a great time two weeks ago at the San Mateo International Sportmen’s Expo near San Francisco and are now finished with the Sacramento ISE show at the California State Fairgrounds.

Next stop Denver from Thursday Jan 22 to Sunday Jan. 25. We’ll be at the Denver Convention Center. This is an incredible show so please stop by to say hi and come chat about coming to see us in 2009 in La Paz.

ALASKA FLIGHTS

Alaska Airlines has a big sale right now. Buy your tickets before Jan. 24th and use them before June 24th for big discounts to fly to La Paz. They now fly Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. Seats have been going fast so don’t delay. More sales are on the way, we hear!

MUERTOS BAY

We’ve got some new projects bubbling up at Muertos Bay these days. For those of you who don’t relish the drive over the hill from La Paz, we’re now working with some of the rental houses there and we’re also developing some projects with the Cardon Grill (formerly the Giggling Marlin Restaurant) that are pretty exciting. Stay tuned. More to come!

That’s our story!
Jonathan and Jill

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: Such a great shot. This is 12-year-old Trevor Davidson from Newport Rhode Island who came down with his dad, Simon. Yes, there’s still roosterfish around. Lots of small guys that are great to catch and release on light tackle. According to dad, ” This was just the first Rooster of many we caught that day, Sierra, Pargo, Jack Crevalle, Skipjack Tuna, and snapper were also caught. His biggest fish was probably a Jack Crevalle. I worked hard with my Fly Rod while he used a spinning rod and live bait, so he out fished me that day much to his glee.”

PHOTO 2: Jeff Iverson from Washington was down this past week and did one day on the water with his flyrod. In addtion to roosters, and sierra, Jeff popped this nice dorado as well. Pretty unusual to get dorado in the winter, but lingering warm water has kept the fish in the area. Great surprise!

LOTS OF MIXED INSHORE ACTION WITH LITTLE TRAFFIC ON THE WATER PROVIDES BENT RODS!

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).