Tailhunter Fish Report

PHOTO 1: Jerry Reiter and John Torascio from the Ventura CA area hold up some of the nice class bull dorado we hit this week. Both anglers were on their first trip down here and tangled with some nice fish. Dorado fishing wasn’t great, but the fish that were caught were usually trophies like this!

A TOUGH WEEK OF FISHING MARKED BY INCONSISTENT WINDS AND DROP IN WATER TEMPERATURE – BUT STILL SOME NICE DORADO AND INSHORE SPECIES!

La Paz – Las Arenas Fishing Report for the week of Jun3 1-8, 2008

PHOTO 2: On his first fishing trip ever, Andy Ewing from Seattle WA rips this 50 pound class roosterfish off the beach near Las Arenas. Trophy roosters like this moved in a few weeks ago in shallow waters. Andy released this fish after taking this great shot. Note the flat waters!

PHOTO 3 : One of the biggest problems this week was the falling water temperature. Inshore waters went cold lockjawing the fish. The warmer water was outside around the buoys where toad-sized dorado like this one held by Joel Ofrancia of Seattle WA were hanging out. Joel hit three good day of this kind of fishing. The problem with getting outside to the warmer water was the fact that sometimes the winds were blowing so hard, it was impossible to get across in all the chop and wet. I put this fish on a scale myself and it went 42 pounds!

PHOTO 4: Just too pretty of a photo to pass up. This is a hooked dorado next to the boat. It was unhooked and released.

PHOTO 5: Now here’s a great shot. Our amigo, Doug Oclassen from Boulder CO is hooked on a striped marlin. Captain Victor looks on. Cerralvo Island in the background. They tried to release this fish but were unable to and the meat was donated. However, during the week they released other billfish and numerous dorado, roosters and jacks.

PHOTO 6: Butch Lawson always seems to do pretty well everytime he comes to see us. He’s here with Captain Jorge and a dorado they picked up. Butch is from the Monterey CA area.

PHOTO 7: Dave Newman doesn’t get to take his shirt off very often. He’s from Chicago, Ill. and is constantly sending photos of his frozen yard. However, he’s dynamite on light tackle whether from a panga or the beach. He’s standing here on Las Arenas beach just around from the lighthouse where schools of jacks and roosters congregate. He’s holding up a nice jack he nailed on 15 pound test and a Shimano Calcutta 400 reel!

PHOTO 8 – Not sure if this needs explanation, but I promised someone I’d post it. Kids, don’t try this at home. Seen often in Baja Mexico, it’s a pink-eyed Pacific Pargo Belly.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK:

Check out some of the dorado action this week. You will see a marlin here that got taken, but almost all marlin this week were released as were most of the roosterfish. The one you see in the video swallowed the hook and the meat went to folks who needed food.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYsBqoaB4qM

THE FISHING REPORT

Right up front…IT WAS A WEIRD WEEK! It had all the makings to be an outstanding week, but for a few glitches mother nature threw at us.

Here’s what happened. Those pesky winds hit us again. One day from one side. Next day from the other. Sometimes it seemed like they sucker punched us from different angles at the same time. What occured is that water temperatures dropped. That resulted (I think) in alot of the fish going “lockjaw” on us. I mean…they were there, but just wouldn’t open their mouths to take a bait!

The warmer waters were outside by the buoys or around the islands. BUT…to get out there, you had to be willing to get your teeth kicked in going out there and getting battered around. Most guys opted to stay close to shore where the aforementioned cold water took it’s toll and even needlefish didn’t bite on some days.

This was mostly at the middle of the week with the funky weather. At the beginning and the end of the week, there was some good to great action on BIG dorado outside as well as marlin and sailfish with most billfish getting released. Inshore, especially along those shallow beaches, jacks and roosters and pompano (basically, almost all the jack family) were there varying in sizes from small 2 pounders up to 60 pounders. This made for some great inshore action.

No wahoo to speak of this week and that flurry of tuna seems to have gone back down to the trenches. The thing we’re watching is that if these winds stay down, it looks like the La Paz side fishing is actually starting to heat up with some dorado located in warm water betweeen Espiritu Santo and the north end of Cerralvo Island.

Fishing tips….

Flurocarbon leaders

CD 18 sized big Rapalas in dark colors for wahoo

Hook sizes #1 to 2/0 for most baits

Don’t forget zip lock bags for your fish

That’s my story!

Jonathan

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: Ever seen 60 and 70 pound roosterfish? Those are the estimated weights of these two bruisers being held by Joe Dubler from Palmer AK, and Jeff Regnart from Anchorage AK. There’s a reason they call this area the “roosterfish capital of theworld. ” The world record 114 pounder came out of these waters and fish like these are not uncommon. In fact, considering it’s early in the season we’re getting banner numbers of the big fish. Here’s the best part of this. On this particular day, Joe and Jeff got FIVE of these fish including this double hook up. THEY RELEASED EACH FISH! They rock!

DORADO BIG ROOSTERS AND OUR FIRST WAHOO OF THE SEASON HIGHLIGHT A WEEK OF HARD FISHING – FEWER FISH BUT BIGGER FISH!

LA PAZ / LAS ARENAS FISHING REPORT FOR JUNE 1, 2008 for the week of May 25 to 31, 2008

PHOTO 2: Mike Booth from Riverside CA holds up the kind of dorado that showed up this week. Nice BIG FAT BULLS! Several spots outside of Cerralvo Island, especially the elusive 88 spot and the inshore buoys some days held fields of fish and other days not a ripple. However, it seemed to be a week of all big fish in the 25 to 40 pound class!

PHOTO 3: What happend to all the small fish and females? As the boats unloaded each day, it seems like it was bull after bull after bull in the boxes! No one was complaining. Joe Dubler from Alaska hung this beauty on a live bait outside the island. Most all the fishing has been from the Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay side. Late in the week, schools of these big mahi ravaged through the bait schools. Marlin and sailfish were also in the same areas, ignoring baits one day then romping on anything thrown in the water the next day!

PHOTO 4: Not so many big pargo this week, but no doubt they were still there! This has been an incredible pargo season with lots of big fish early including fish like this pargo liso, but also big dog-tooth and paro mulatto have also been getting into the boxes. There were lots of fish hooked but so many lost in the rocks…as usual. This nice one is being helf up by one of our best pargo captains…the very popular Captain Manny Archangel.

PHOTO 5: As waters have gotten warmer, we’re seeing the appearance of more amberjack…the bigger and tastier cousins to yellowtail, pompano, jack crevalle and roosterfish with the same bad attitudes when hooked. This one is being held by Jim Nass who also got roosterfish. Some of these fish will get over 100 pounds and hang out along the rocks and pinnacles near high spots. Great eating.

PHOTO 6: OK…can you say, “Happy Birthday?” Mark Bonami from the San Francisco Bay area celebrated his 43rd birthday with us. He goes out and nails one of our first wahoo of the season as well as this 50-60 pound roosterfish (released). YEOW! We knew the wahoo were in the area, but none had been hooked yet only some short biters that fell off. Mark got our first of the season (see the video) on a black and purple trolled Rapala!

PHOTO 7: Dennie Dyer and Matt Lederer hold up some of the best inshore eating fish we have. The silver ones are African Pompano and the reddish fish is a barred pargo. Dennie came down with the specific intent to somehow get in the fishing report. You made it Dennie! (Also check out the video this week too!). This was an incredible week for the pompano that moved into the waters right off the beach areas where the sand sloped to deeper waters. A small sinker and live bait got anglers through the needlefish schools to the fish zone!

PHOTO 8: No small fish! Chris Silva, “Texas” Bill Sharp, and Mike “I only drink Corona” Booth all from Riverside CA hold up a trio of dorado bulls typical of the kind of quality dorado that showed up this week off the buoys outside of Las Arenas and Cerrlavo Island

PHOTO 9: Jeff Regnart spent a whole week fishing with us and went home with a load of fillet and lots of variety. He got the best of this big bull dorado. As one angler said, “We pulled up on one area and there were flying fish everywhere. Bull dorado in an area half the size of a football

PHOTO 10: Dave Rose trekked with his family all the way from the Denver area. These little roosters are as hearty and feisty as their big brothers. If you want some light tackle fun, there are schools of these youngsters off some of the beaches that can be hours of incredible fun until your arms fall of!

PHOTO 11: Wahoo!!! Yup…they’re here. (check the video). Dave Newman is a frequent amigo of ours and lives in Chicago. He often sends me photos of the incredible winters they have up here so it’s always good to see him down here in the sunshine. His first day out he spanks this nice wahoo. The south end of Cerralvo Island in that high spot that kicks out so many of the skinnies each year again looks like it’s holding fish!

THE WEEK IN VIDEO!

Video 1: The week in review. Check it out. A collection of clips from the week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoHaCxAhWQo&feature=user

Video 2: Pete Savarese on light tackle goes head to head against a big jack crevalle on light tackle. Note the gaff technique in the lip by Captain Adolfo so that the fish could be released.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGhdTW7QcFQ

THE FISHING REPORT

Well, amigos…if you read the captions to this week’s photos, you get the gist. I won’t blow smoke…

It wasn’t a great week of fishing. It was a GOOD week of fishing with some GREAT fish! Some guys did better than others. The fish really did play games.

One day all the good fish were on one spot and a few boats would get them. Then, the next day EVERYONE would shoot there and the fish would POP UP SOMEWHERE ELSE. The guys who just happened to be at the new spot would get slammed. The next day everyone would shoot to the new spot an the hot bite would turn up somewhere else!!! It was like “musical fishing chairs!”

But no one could argue about the quality.

Lots of guys got their biggest…roosterfish…dorado…marlin…sailfish. Happy to say that almost all the marlin/ sailfish were released…even by the rookies (good for you!)…as well as the bigger roosters and some game guys were even releasing their big dorado too. You rock!

Some guys who knew they already had too much fish were also letting fish go. One day it seemed each of our pangas had at least one marlin/sailfish hooked, released or lost and the only ones killed were the ones that were deep hooked or were already going to die. The rest are hopefully still swimming to fight another day. A good portion of the billfish that were brought in were given to folks who needed the food.

Most of the fishing spots centered on the area around the Arenas lighthouse for the roosters, pompano and jacks. Punta Perrico and the SE end of Cerrlavo Island held the pargo and rockfish. The outter buoys were the spot to go search for the big dorado and billfish.

Almost 99 percent of our fishing was out of Muertos Bay to fish these areas. We haven’t fished the La Paz side very much because of the winds or inconsistent fishing. However…FLASH…this week we did fish a bit more on the La Paz side and got some nice dorado…a few tuna…and even some larger yellowtail so we’ll keep an eye on that for you!

That’s my story! Have a great week!

Jonathan

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: Now this is the right kind! Guys dream about nailing one of these bad boys. Many bite, but few are taken! This is a pargo. It’s a pargo liso (mullet snapper) to be exact. Big schools of these big fish are up on the shallows right now. Jeff Regnert from Anchorage AK pulled this one out’ve the rocks in shallow water with live bait.

WINDS RIP ANGLERS IN LATE SEASON BLOW ALMOST AS HARD AS THE BIG PARGO and YELLOWTAIL!

La Paz/ Las Arenas Report from Tailhunter International for May 24, 2009

PHOTO 2: Wally Huang and Frank Lui from the Los Angeles area hold up a 45 pound roosterfish taken off the lighthouse at Punta Arena. The big roosters have definitely moved into the area now. Lots of small ones around, but the big bad boys are cruising the beaches too! Most are getting released, but we’ve had some taken this week up to 70 pounds with larger ones being lost.

PHOTO 3: Another good one for the table, this is another type of pargo. It’s called a pargo mulatto…barred pargo. They get alot bigger and can be tough in the rocks. Jeff Santa holds this one. Jeff is from just south of San Francisco. CA.

PHOTO 4: Don White has a charter business up in Oregon, but comes down to check out the sunshine and fish without slickers on! Here he’s holding up a pargo taken off Punta Perrico. It was another week of good bites for the pargo. Perhaps this is one of the best pargo seasons in a long time.

PHOTO 5: This is Dimitry Postovalov. He’s from Russia. But he currently lives in Utah. He’s pretty funny and has himself a good time. . .all the time. He and his buddy Mike are favorite amigos of ours. He likes vodka and has been known to eat live bait from the bait tank as well as eat fish raw just after they are caught. He loves sashime! He also loves to flyfish and light tackle fish. This day he got a small roosterfish, but released over twenty. (See the attached video).

PHOTO 6: Here’s a real typical catch this week as strong winds late in the week really kept alot of our fleet confind close to the rocks and beaches where a number of rock species were hanging out and thankfully still eager to chew. Jeff and Jason are from the Orange Co. area of S.California. They are holding a nice fat cabrilla (dark brown seabass), a nice amberjack (cousin to yellowtail) and have several nice pargo as well.

PHOTO 7: Lately Captain Jorge has been on fire with the pargo. He’s holding up a nice pargo pero (dog tooth snapper) on the gaff that was taken by our amiga Sara Moss from British Columbia.

PHOTO 8: Spring time is when all species of jacks seem to come into the shallows near the sandy areas. They make for great fun as all of them are natural fighters. These include the yellowtail, amberjack, big eye jacks, jack crevalle and this one…a pompano. Kent Petre from the Denver Co area holds it up off Muertos Bay.

PHOTO 8: Once again…Captain Jorge…on fire with another big pargo taken by Joe Czechan who lives up at Lake Isabella, California, and happily tells you he “fishes every day now that I’m retired.”

PHOTO 9: One of our best guys here is Wayne Moss who always hammers fish. Wayne is a commercial pilot from British Columbia who took this nice roosterfish on his flyrod south of Bahia de Los Muertos. He said he must have released more than 30 fish one afternoon but “stopped counting after awhile.”

WEEKLY VIDEO CLIP

Give this link a click and check out some of this week’s fishing action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zie1L6acBqs

THE FISHING REPORT

There were some nice fish caught this week, especially big pargo and roosterfish. However, there’s alot more that weren’t caught. We’d have done ALOT better but the big story this week was the 3 of 4 days of extremely high winds that came tearing through here.

We haven’t had winds like this since winter and I kid you not…if you know how calm it normally is here…these were the biggest waves and chop I have ever seen here in years that weren’t attached to a hurricane. However, the sun was out. Not a cloud in the sky, but winds came through like a freight train. Chop…gusts…dust…furniture getting blown over…big waves…what a mess! What a pain to be out on a panga! The guys who fished with us this week were gamers…hats off to them. They hung in there despite conditions that had most of us dressed in hooded sweatshirts and long pants shivering. I guess the weather is all screwed up this past week with tornados in California and the mid-west; snow in Los Angeles and other messed up weather patterns uncharacteristic of this time of the year.

However, as I tap out this report, things have calmed and it’s looking and feeling more like Baja again!

There’s no doubt there’s fish here, but if you’re getting bounced out’ve the panga; getting soaked in the waves; or the wind is blowing you off the spot, it’s gonna be hard. However, the pargo are still here. No doubts. I mean…BIG BIG SCHOOLS of BIG FISH FISH! Most anglers who have never felt the power, don’t have any idea of what these big fish can do. No B.S. guys were busting off 60 and 80 pound test on these fish and guys with 50 pound test and fully buttoned-down drags could only watch helplessly as the heavy gear failed to stop the fish from heading into the rocks! Excercises in frustration! You can see the fish. You can see the inhale your bait, then it’s like trying to stop a baby freightrain with a piece of string and a stick! Many bites…few fish. It wasn’t altogether bad fishing. It was bad catching!

However, roosterfish again stepped into the gap and provided great action inshore on small schoolie fish you could catch more than a dozen or the bigger bruisers up to 80 pounds lurking along the beaches. Shaping up to be an incredible roosterfish season. Most do

n’t taste good, but few would argue that these bad boys know how to slug it out when hooked.

Other than that, it was hard to get outside to the buoy spots because of the wind, but a few dorado were hooked and lost and there’s a ton of marlin cruising outside that just wouldn’t eat. We were almost running over the lethargic fish content to basically sit on the surface and sun. I have a feeling they’re ready to bust loose.

Inshore, more sierra, small cabrilla and snapper rounded out the catch.

Newsflash…we’ve been catching just about every species lately…except two…wahoo and tuna. I kept saying it was jut a matter of time. Sure enough some of the commercial guys got wahoo juswt south of the island and a pop of 40 pound tuna rolled off the east side of Cerralvo Island…just before two commercial Mexican seiners dog piled on the spot and wrapped up everything. Exhale….rat bastards…right in front of the fishing pangas! They wrapped up tuna, bonito, skipjack…three days of it. We never even got a shot at them.

Hopefully, the fish will move to a high spot and get out’ve the blue water. The commercial guys can’t fish on the high spots. As you remember, last year, we had several months of tuna in about 30 feet of water. That’s what we’re hoping for again.

That’s my 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: Talk about a whopper! YEOW! Sara Moss from British Columbia has the knack every time she comes down. Captain Jorge gives her a hand with this 40 pound class dorado picked off the outer shark buoys. Sara nailed this on a light salmon rod with live bait. We normally don’t see this kind of quality bull dorado until a bit later, but the fish are here and show all signs of busting loose!

INCREDIBLE VARIETY OF SPECIES MARKS THE WEEK WITH SOLID FISHING AND A BIT OF EVERYTHING FROM MARLIN TO CABRILLA AND ROOSTERFISH TO DORADO RIPPING LINES!

LA PAZ – LAS ARENAS FISHING REPORT FOR MAY 18, 2008

PHOTO 2: Hard to beat a photo or a fish like this. Our amigo, Wayne Moss, a commercial pilot and former fishing guide in British Columba holds a coveted dog-tooth snapper. This horse of a fish is a rarity. They are hooked, but difficult to drag out’ve the rocks not to mention they have sharp gills and armor plating and they don’t call ’em dog-tooth snappers for nothing…they have fang-like choppers. Great eating.

PHOTO 3: A great week for roosterfish. They ran the gamut of fish from this school-sized 5 pounder up to 60 and even 80 pound fish. The smaller guys are balled up south of Muertos Bay where you can have a day of catching several dozen but the big bull roosters are hanging out in the place they call the “Roosterfish Capital of the World”…The Punta Arena lighthouse where the world record 114 pounder was caught and were several of our anglers got tagged by fish up to 80 pounds this week.

PHOTO 4: At first, I thought these were two of the largest cabrilla (Mexican seabass) I had ever seen in all my time here that weren’t underwater when I was scuba diving. Surely the largest I’ve seen on hook and line. Dr. David Jones and his son, Brian Jones from Sylmar CA hold some doozies! Brian (right) for sure holds a HUGE cabrilla. However, the more I look at Davids fish (left) I see something that tells me it’s NOT a cabrilla and I don’t know why I didn’t notice it when we were on the beach. Perhaps there was too much commotion and excitement about the fish, but now I think it’s a broomtail grouper. Look at the tail! Either way…wow…great catches! Smiles say it all. (See the video below)

PHOTO 5: William and Robyn Bristol from the Los Angeles area had a day to spare so they came out fishing. Not only did they nail this trophy pompano, but also got yellowtail, pargo, cabrilla and numerous jacks. William says Robyn caught all the fish to which Robyn agrees, but says she handed the rod to William when this particular pompano got the best of her. Numerous species this past week were the name of the game. I got over a dozen species logged.

PHOTO 6: A helluva day no matter how you look at it. Scott Foster from Los Osos CA holds an amberjack (big cousin to yellowtail) on the left and a pargo perro (dog-tooth snapper) on the right. It seemed we got an inordinate number of great dog tooth this week which is pretty rare. Usually we get more of the pargo liso (mullet snapper). Also, we’re seeing more amberjack now too. These guys are in the rocks with the pargo and May and June are excellent months for them. They get big! We had several between 70 and 100 pounds last year.

PHOTO 7 : Now THIS is a pargo liso (mullet snapper) unlike the dog tooth snapper (pargo perro) in the photo above. Len Veahey from the eastside San Francisco Bay area holds up a nice pargo liso headed for the grill. Great week for pargo. They were biting off Punta Perrico as well as the SE end of Cerralvo Island. Big schools could be seen like dark red moving balls in the shallow water with fish boiling on thrown chummed sardines. However, dead bait seemed to work particularly well for them.

PHOTO 8: More pargo. Darned good week for the big snapper. Scott Foster on the left and Tyler Sikes on the right hold a nice pair of big fish that are up on the shallows schooling right now. Both anglers are from Los Osos CA.

PHOTO 9 : Bob Veahey (left) and Jack Shade (right) hoist a nice female and male bull dorado respecitvely. Both guys got a wide variety of fish topped by those two mahi on their last day. The dorado are out at the buoys in several spots along with marlin and sailfish. The problem is one day they’ll bite and the next day they’ll just look at you and your bait and swim away. They also got a sailfish and released it.

PHOTO 10: Jim Stewart was on his second trip with us. He’s sometimes from Arizona and sometimes from Wyoming! He hooked two sailfish while on a panga with Captain Gerardo (on the left). He was able to release one, but not this one and the meat was divided among alot of hungry folks back at the captains pueblo. Jim and his wife Judy also got quite a few snapper.

PHOTO 11: Dr. Ralph Kettlekamp hails from San Luis Obispo CA and had a spectacular few days with us this past week. He got numerous pargo like this one here as well as other inshore species like cabrilla and amberjack. His topper was his last fish of the trip…a 50 pound dorado.

PHOTO 12: While a couple of the guys were fishing…in fact, had a fish on the line, this “baby” whaleshark felt like playing and checking them out. Gentle and plankton eating, this baby could grow to be over 50 feet long and will often let divers swim with them. These are real sharks and are the largest of their species. They don’t bite people, but are the favorite food of killer whales and are killed as food in many countries since they are easy targets.

PHOTO 13: How good was the pargo fishing? This is a shot of pargo under the panga swarming. These might not look big because there’s no perspective, but these are 20-50 pound fish in shallow water!

THE FISH REPORT!

I guess this is one of those weeks when I can just let the photo images do the explaining! It was a solid week of fishing. Can’t believe the variety too! Not every species was biting every single day and the winds sometimes dictated where you could and couldn’t fish. There might also be a day when you decided you were gonna go for a home run and head off shore to the buoys for dorado and marlin and they wouldn’t bite…and you’d come back skunked. Everyone who stayed inside had pargo, cabrilla , sierra and yellowtail in ther boxes…oh well.

However…here’s the ticket. If you fished 2-3 days like most of our clients, everyone is hooking fish! Not every fish is a keeper. By that, I mean there’s some fish out here that are full-on warrior fish…ask anyone who has battled one of our 30 pound class jack crevalle or taken on a a big bonito on light tackle. They will kick your butt! But they don’t taste real good so you might toss them back. But…wow…no shortage of action! Hard to complain when every other bait in the water gets bit by SOMETHING.

You might also be one of the guys who hooks say…5 big pargo and loses every single one of them in the rocks. You then hook 3 big cabrilla and those pop off too. When you come back to the beach, you ‘ve only got some 12-inch snapper. That wasn’t bad fishing. That was bad catching! Just one of those days. But you might also have hooked 3 jacks that you released as well as 10 bonito that tore you up as well and you threw those back too!

Here’s just some of the species we got: dorado, sailfish (released most), marlin (released all…or they released themselves!), amberjack, pargo liso, barred pargo, cabrilla, broomtail grouper, yellow snapper, red snapper, sierra, roosterfish (up to 60 pounds), jack crevalle, china maru, African pompano, big eye jacks, small yellowtail and dog-tooth snapper.

THE WEEK IN VIDEOS!

We have two this week. Click these!

That’s my story!

Jonathan

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: The smile says it all. Nothing better than a kid who catches a fish! Sebastian Villareal is 12-years-old and came down with his family for the first time to La Paz. It was a great week for roosterfishing as shown by this striped pez gallo! Larger roosters moved into the shallows with fish up to 50 pounds. Note how close the panga is to the shore! The fish was released.

BIG ROOSTERS PACE HEAVY INSHORE ACTION FOR SPECIES BECAUSE WINDS KEEP ANGLERS FROM HEADING OFFSHORE!

LA PAZ / LAS ARENAS FISHING REPORT FOR MAY 111, 2008

PHOTO 2: Mark Langley from Orange Co. CA makes it down almost yearly with his wife (see below) to fish with us. Check out the burly rooster he got here just outside Muertos Bay. the fish was released.

PHOTO 2: The beauty of working the shoreline. Check out the variety of fish in front of Mo Langley! Someone is gonna have a smoking-good barbecue! In frnot of her are nice pargo (big red fish), yellowtail and cabrilla. The small yellowtail made several big charges this past week with boats getting 10-20 of the fish.

PHOTO 3: Even sideways, this is a nice fish for Scott Luker from Santa Maria CA. There’s a reason that the Mexican name for these members of the jack family that fight like crazy. The English name is “jack crevalle.” The Mexicans call them “toro.” (bull). Extremely tough on light tackle.
PHOTO 4: Josh Kiffe from Grover Beach CA holds up another nice jack crevalle. These fish often hold up in some fairly large schools. Where there’s one…there’s others! It can last for hours if you keep them around the boat and often they are close enough to fish from the beach.

PHOTO 5: You don’t know jack! Yes…along with yellowtail, roosterfish, jack crevalle and others, this African pompano is also a member of the jack family and has the same bad attitude when hooked. Sebastian Villareal from Rosarita Beach holds him here.

PHOTO 6: Beach spread! Sebastian and Pablo Villareal pose in front of a fine day of inshore fishing. Pictured here are yellowtail, African pompano, barred pargo, big eye jacks, and yellow snapper. They also got many jack crevalle and roosters that were released.

THIS FISHING REPORT

PHOTO 1: There weren’t as many dorado caught this week, but we shouldn’t normally even have dorado this time of year yet. However, those that were landed turned out to be gems like the deuce held here by Sherry and Carter Crossland (are you happy now?) from Yuma AZ. They fished 5 days here this week and seemed to hit about every species we had to offer. Including these bulls taken at the 88 spot buoys, they hit a triple hook up on sailfish; nailed numerous roosters; jacks; pargo, sierra and everything in between

NOT SO MANY BIG FISH OR QUALITY FISH THIS WEEK BUT IF YOU WERE LOOKING FOR LOTS OF LIGHT TACKLE ACTION IT WAS NON- STOP FOR NUMEROUS SPECIES OF INSHORE FISH!

La Paz / Las Arenas Fishing Report for Sunday May 4, 2008

PHOTO 2: One of our poster-boy regulars over the years is Marty Johnson of Atascadero CA. I think he’s caught about everything that has eye-balls and a face down here in our waters and comes each year specifically looking for something new. Here he holds up some of our inshore species…a barred pargo on the left (pargo mulatto) and a china maru (China face) on the right. Both great eating fish. Marty loves the flyrod and light tackle, but put them down and pulled a rapala through the rocks to get those two.

PHOTO 3: Not so many of the big pargo this week. Part of it was windier and roughter waters. Part of it was a lack of luck and fishing experience among anglers and some was just plain nastiness of these big snapper! However, Don Winklepleck from FLA holds up a slugger pargo liso.
PHOTO 4: No shortage of roosterfish for sure. All sizes and shapes. There are so many in some spots they foam to get the baits. Most are released with some of the smaller ones taken for the table which make pretty good frying or sauteeing!

PHOTO 5: Some days there are so many little roosters, they are like hungry little puppies. Other day, the big baja bad boys cruise the shores like this 50 pound class rooster Doug Shearer got fishing with Capt. Victor. You can often see these characters just on the edge of the schools of smaller fish. One of our clients, Carter Crossland (photos above) was in the middle of the smaller roosters, but had hooked a sierra mackere. Just as he was about to pull the sierra to the boat, a rooster estimated at 50 pounds came up and wolfed the sierra! Hook up on the big rooster, but Carter had on the light tackle so it didn’t last long, but that’s just insane fishing!

PHOTO 6: Dave Elliot and Eric Massey, hold up one of those monster pargo that are lurking off Punta Perrico and the SE corner of Cerralvo Island right now. Despite winds, they got int a variety of species, but none better than a prized pargo liso. These are hooked every day, but few are landed.

PHOTO 7 and 8 : I couldn’t ignore these photos by Brent Wisniewski from Oregon. At just the right moment he hit the shutter button and caught this sailfish hooked by Pat Ireton as the fish came out of calm water and tail walked. There’s quite a few billfish considering how early in the season it is. One day you’ll se dozens and they won’t eat a thing. The next day they are fighting to get a single piece of bait on your hook!

PHOTO 9: Yes, the rumors are true. This old guy can still catch a fish now and then. There’s a spot in front of Boca de Alamo we found about 2 weeks ago. Unlimited light tackle small roosters for HOURS!!! Catch and release as fast as you can go. (But there’s bigger ones hanging on the fringe, but the punk fish zip in too fast!). Anyway, I threw a white and fluro orange splasher with a small Krocodile into the melee and the fish exploded on it. This was the lucky guy…who was lucky I wasn’t hungry because this size is very good eating. We released about 30 of them this round.

PHOTO 10: Texan Rob Burns showing off again the incredible variety right now. Here he holds up a toad of an African pompano. Super fighter. Great eating. Busts your chops on light tackle and capable of snapping a rod with burst of speed. Look at this guy…he still looks pissed off (the fish, not the angler!)

VIDEOS OF THE WEEK!

Click on these links to check out our video clips from the week!

1. Weekly round up of variety:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2lftURjaCE

The first angler in this video is Mike Hossack long time-drummer for the Doobie Brothers who got in a day of fishing with us.

2. Sherry and Carter Crossland were hot sticks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd31Na_egiE

THE FISHING REPORT:

I won’t lie. It wasn’t spectacular fishing this week. It was VERY good fishing, but not like it had been with the big pargo and giant yellowtail. In fact, I’d say the great yellowtail bite of 2008 is probably over as water warm.

But…

Dang…when it was good it was good! If you wanted action, this was an incredible week when almost every bait that hit the water some days blew up with something. There were some rough spots and some days that the fish were a bit stingy, but over all, if you put in a few days at the rail, there was some good rod-bending to be had.

I lost count of some of the species… dorado, small yellowail. some marlin, some sailfish, cabrilla, sierra, big eye jacks, bonito, skipjack, roosterfish, rainbow runners, jack crevalle, barred pargo, yellow snapper, pargo liso, sabalo, pompano, china maru, chilecanos…what variety!

The biggest detriment was that there were times this week when it was too windy to go outside to the dorado or marlin spots. For sure…we almost did NOT fish the La Paz side because winds produced mostly a long boat ride for only a few yellowtail, cabrilla and alot of bonito. Almost all our fishing was from the Muertos/ Las Arenas side where even if the wind was blowing, at least the fish were close up and not to far away.

The other part is that not every fish bit every day. One day the yellowtail would foam, but the next it would be sierra day or roosterfish day. If you went out to the yellowtail spot. you might have a bum day. The guys who went for roosters or sierra would’ve had a banner day!

Live bait and small rapalas did the most damage. Flurocarbon leaders were definitely bit more than standard mono. Flyrodders and light tackle guys had a ball. We didn’t catch alot of the big pargo this week, but that’s also because so many continued to be lost in the rocks.

Water temps are moving up! Air temps are in the mid-90’s now.

ALASKA AIR REDUCES RATES FOR LIMITED TIME!

Alaska Air announced another surprise sale. For a limited time, fares have dropped almost half for flights here to La Paz. Alaska flies Monday/ Wednesday and Saturaday. Seats must be purchased by May 8 and used before June 25. Their phone is 1-800- AlaskaAir. Jump on these. Seats are limted and so are our spots here for boats and rooms.

That’s my 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: A new king is crowned! An incredible week of pargo fishing for the big elusive and frustrating fish was topped by this beast! We had more pargo and bigger pargo this week than we ever normally see! Barry Wood from Orange Co. CA with an assist from Captain Armando hefts a HUGE 49.6 pound pargo liso (on the scale!) he pulled out of the rocks near Muertos Bay.

BEST WEEK OF PARGO FISHING AS INSHORE SPECIES GO OFF WITH OFFSHORE SPECIES STILL GETTING BETTER!

La Paz / Las Arenas Fishing Report for April 27, 2008

Photo2: Dan Cook was on his first trip to Mexico and first time fishing La Paz. The 18 year-old graduates from high school next week but skipped out for some early R n R to go fishing all the way from Boston MA to hang with his dad. Efforts rewarded! Check out the slugger of a pargo he got as well as roosterfish and lots of other species!

PHOTO 3: These fish are all over the shallows right now, but usually almost impossible to yank out’ve the rocks. Lee Cook and his son Danny (photo above) from Boston got FOUR of these huge fish off Cerralvo Island on live bait.

PHOTO 4: You may not recognize this guy, but he’s famous! Mike “Moogie” Alperin used to have a very popular fishing TV show on FOX TV. But he’s better known for being the inventor of the famous “banjo lure” that you used to see advertised on TV. Don’t laugh. He sold millions of these little plastic lures and laughed all the way to the bank enabling him to retire and do what all of us want to do…fish whenever he wants! He came all the way from Massachusetts to fish light tackle with us putting numerous species on line as light as 6 pound test. (Releasing almost all fish!) However, he knew enough to put down the little rods and grab heavy artillery to nail this HUGE pargo liso. He got four of these monsters in a single day. Almost unheard of!

PHOTO 5: Caryn Aizawa gets a hand from Jeff Sakuda both from the Los Angeles CA area with this nice bull dorado taken off the offshore buoys near Cerralvo Island. Dorado have show up early this year! Last year we had a decent dorado season, but not many big bulls. This year, we’ve already seen larger fish in the last 3 weeks than we’ve had all last year.

PHOTO 6: Not bad for a first fishing trip. Dan Cook is 18 years-old and ripped all kinds of species this past week including this trophy dorado.

PHOTO 7: Mike Alperin holds up a nice little roosterfish taken on 6 pound test. If you wanted roosters this week, we found a spot south of Muertos Bay with unlimited roosters. Alperin caught and released so many roosters “we stopped counting.” This is a perfect size for light tackle. Alperin also lost a fish estimated at over 50 pounds that chomped a huge ladyfish bait.

PHOTO 8 : Keith Mufford from British Columbie and Kelly Ashmore from Valencia CA hold up a pair of dorado they got at the outside buoys. Mufford had never fished salt water. Ashmore is constantly on the water. In addition to a box of dorado on this day, they also hooked 3 marlin including a double hook-up and released all fish.

PHOTO 9 : Just to show more of the inshore variety, Joe Fong from Laguna Beach holds o a jack crevalle (left) and a nice cabrilla (seabass on the right). Inshore fishing included sierra, jack crevalle, big eye jacks, snapper, pargo and pompano.

PHOTO 10: Yes, there’s still big yellowtail around, but since the dorado and pargo showed up, the focus has fallen off the great yellowtail bite. So, not many yellowtail on the books these days. However, outdoor writer and guide Ronnie Garrison from Atlanta GA holds up a fat yellowtail and lost many more to the rocks. Captain Jacobo lends a hand. Here’s what Ronnie wrote…

“. . .we went out with our local guide and fished all day in our old clothes. It was a fun trip. After buying live sardines for bait we headed to a ridge to fish. On the way we spotted a marlin and I found out why the outfitters are called Tail Hunters. As a marlin swims on the surface feeding its tail waves around and gives its location away. It was early in the season and the marlin did not bite.

We did land a 35 pound yellowtail. Linda hooked it and the guide took the rod from her when it looked like it was going to pull her in. He then handed it to me and I managed to land it. I found out how lucky I was when we hooked eight more yellowtail and every one cut our line on the rocks.”

PHOTO 11: Monica Calin originally from Romania and now living in La Paz always seems to do well. She was fishing with her boyfriend Kevin Beehn in the channel between the islands and got a nice bull dorado.

PHOTO 12: We had folks from all over the country this week. Rob Burns from Texas had a great few days of fishing with his family and hung a few of these big yellowtail.

PHOTO 12: We have a tremendous number of billfish in the area right now. One day they will barely give you a stare. The next day they are almost jumping in the boat! Pat Ireton from Pacific City, Oregon got this sailfish with Captain “Yofo” Adolfo and then released it.

WE NOW HAVE VIDEO!

Check out these clips from the past week. We’re doing our best to keep it fresh for you!

Click these links too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRqLV4o2wAg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS5o-BNn2TI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_krVmqoXp-4

THE FISHING REPORT!

Check out the photos and it tells the story! Every week there’s another surprise. For a number of weeks the story was the great bite of big yelllowtail. Then dorado showed up and edged the yellows out of the spotlight. This week, it’s big pargo and roosterfish. This early season is the best we have had in ages!

Here’s the scoop…honestly, we had FEWER fish caught this week. However, the QUALITY of the fish was great. Big pargo…normally hard to catch…were breaking lines and rods. As one angler put it…”The waters were’t red with pargo! They were BLACK because the pargo were so thick!”

Additionally… We found a spot of roosterfish that yielded some of the BEST roosterfishing I have ever seen. With light tackle, the waters foamed around the pangas with as many 5-10 pound roosters as you could have wanted. I was on the water and we literally lost count of all the roosters we caught and released!

Are the yellowtail still there? I have to believe they are…but…we had a few days of wind which prevented anglers from heading to north Cerralvo. Further, folks were out chasing the dorado, pargo and even marlin and sailfish that have shown up a the outer buoys.

In all honesty…there are a few slow days. It’s not wide open. It depends on what variety of fish you are chasing and where you go. But EVERYONE is catching fish. I counted over 18 varieties of fish this week. Just alot of great fun.

One fishing tip…bring flurocarbon leaders! It makes a big difference with your bite. It’s very expensive to buy here in La Paz. You don’t need much. Just a few feet at the end of your line can make all the difference.

That’s my story. Have a great week!

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 91745Mexico 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.”

UNEXPECTED FISHING FOR YELLOWTAIL, DORADO AND EVEN MARLIN KICKED OFF THE WEEK BUT SHUT DOWN WHEN WINDS STARTED LATER IN THE WEEK.

La Paz / Las Arenas Fishing Report for April 20, 2008

PHOTO 1: Good- sized dorado…early for the season, continued to show up in surprising numbers. Spencer Lasley (L) and Jerry Smith (R) from Santa Rosa CA packed their coolers with dorado, yellowtail and a number of other species. These dorado were picked off outside Cerrlavo Island

PHOTO 2: All the way from Kansas, Marc Richert and Chris Richert are helped by Capt. Victor with one of their dorado. The pair had never been out’ve the country and were originally thinking of going to Cancun! Insstead, they came to La Paz and got dorado, yellowtail, roosterfish and marlin. Marc fought one striped marlin almost 3 hours on 30 pound test before it broke off.

PHOTO 3: This is the “right kind!” Note the colors on this young bull dorado held by Pete Schuller of Pacific City, Oregon. Check out the flat waters too. Captain Pancho is in the background. This dorado and others were taken off the 88 spot buoys outside Cerrlavo Island.

PHOTO 4: This is a typical nice inshore catch here by Mike Mamman and Scott Carpenter from Beaverton OR who came down for their birthdays. (They each got tatoos to commemorate the event!). In the photo you see dorado, sierra and pargo. All great eating fish!

THE FISHING REPORT

The week started off with a bang. Just like last week, the sound you heard was the sound of fish exploding at all points. The yellowtail (20-50 pounds) continued to rip at the El Bajo Seamount north of Espiritu Santo Island. Sardines worked, but if you had the bigger caballitos it was almost instant bendo as fish fought for the baits.

The surprising thing…dorado in the channel as well as marlin! This is a first for the year. Again…way earlier than normal, but just like the dorado and billfish that showed up far outside at the 88 spot, these fish are normally pretty dormant until later in May or June. However, I’ve been watching water temps and the sargasso weed building up north of town.

Wham! Sure enough, boats early in the week got into both species big time with some great battles on light tackle and some anglers getting their first dorado and marlin. So, it was a good grab bag…yellowtail in the morning then grand slam with a dorado or marlin in the afternoon!

As well for my fleet out of Muertos, early in the week, the big bite at La Reyna north of Cerralvo Island continued to kick out those monster yellowtail with boats taking 2-6 of the big fish each. Outside at the 88 and a few spots in the channel around buoys or clumps of grass, dorado were milling and ready to eat like hungry wolves!

Then the winds came up…

We’ve been living on borrowed time the last few weeks with not much in the way of winds, but late in the week, the seasonal winds we normally have started blowing making it downright uncomfortable if not impossible to get out to some of the big fish spots.

That meant back to inshore fishing.

So…roosters, sierra, cabrilla, big eye jacks, jack crevalle, bonito, skipjack punctuated by big pargo were the game toward the latter part of the week. The counts did not look good but that’s also because a lot of these fish, especially the pargo would take anglers to the rocks. So, lots of hook ups, but not so many fish brought into the boats. Lots of action! Winds will be intermittent all week so we’ll play it by ear.

It’s a warm 95 now! Break out the shorts!

ON A SADDER NOTE…

In a huge shock to all of us here in La Paz, fish brother, competitor and friend, Francisco “Pancho” Aguilar owner and operator of the Baja Pirate Fleet here in La Paz died suddenly this past week.

He was a good guy. Always smiling. He was out on the boats when hit by a massive heart attack. He was only 42 years old and left two kids including a newborn.

Pancho and I did a lot together in the mid-90’s and worked together. We’d laugh at each other seeing each other at 5 a.m. every morning then seeing each other in town at midnight the same day laughing our heads off figuring we were the only guys in town still working that long or that late.

As our respective fleets grew larger and business interests got more complicated we saw less of each other except the occasional bump into each other in town or see each other at the trade shows. But he always had a joke or we’d bitch about wind, bait or some “special” customer and again…crack up.

I will miss him. I don’t think I had seen him happier than in the last year or so after his marriage to La La.

His partner, Leonard Phillips, is setting up a educational trust fund for the two kids, Andrea (14) and Kamila (5 months). The trust is being administered by Bank of America and Bancomer for the benefit of the kids. (Andrea wants to be a chef!). You can donate by sending a check or calling in a credit card to:

Andrea & Kamila AguilarC/O Baja Pirates10016 Pioneer BoulevardSuite 110Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670Or call (866)454-5386

God bless our fish brother. Make each day special. Every day on the water is a gift.

That’s my 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.”

WINDS DIE DOWN ! WATERS GO OFF WITH THE BEST WEEK OF FISHING FOR THE YEAR!

La Paz / Las Arenas Fishing Report for Sunday April 13, 2008

Amigos…

I’m not sure where to start. What an incredible week. They say pictures are worth a thousand words so I’m gonna let this week’s photos tell the story.

For one, we had our 8th Annual Cabin Fever Classic and it was banner. Not only a great fun crowd but, more fish than we have ever seen. Remember…this is supposed to be APRIL!!! Instead of cold inshore fishing we had temperatures in the 90’s…and unbelievably HOT fishing. I counted over 15 different species taken over the course of the week.

And…these weren’t all yellowtail….DORADO…big bulls…the kind we don’t see until summer fought and charged the baits while marlin and sailfish also went after the same baits as if they hadn’t eaten all winter!!! Scroll down and read the tales!

PHOTO 1: Look VERY carefully? See some strange looking fish? Yes..those are indeed DORADO! In April! The buoys out at the 88 spot east of Cerralvo turned into a fishing honey hole this past week. Look also at all the big yellowtail too! North of Cerralvo at La Reyna lighthouse 30 and 40 pound HAWG yellowtail ripped surface baits like candy! Left to right: Pete Schuller (Pacific City OR); Larry Parnell (Pacific City Or): Pat Ireton (Pacific City OR); Jill Stevens (San Diego CA); JD Drucker (Redondo Beach CA); Bob Handigard (Portland Or); Stacy Amos (Harbor City CA); Gary Evans (Irvine CA); Bill Evans (La Paz BCS); Brett Wizniewski (Pacific City OR)

PHOTO 2: Bill Evans helps his brother Gary Evans (middle) and Captain Jorge hold up a 140 pound striper Gary fought over 3 1/2 hours on light line. It was his first trip to Baja and he got numerous species. Normally early season billfish are lethargic, but this past week marlin and sails charged the boat while dorado milled about. The dorado were so prolific that while Gary fought the marlin, Bill was able to put several bull doardo aboard. The guys had planned to release the billfish, but found it bleeding badly and instead donated the fish to the town of San Pedro.

PHOTO 3: Check out the smile and the big pargo! Angela Farrell of Oceanside CA comes down several times a year and never fails to rip up the waters. Here she took this big pargo liso off the rocks near Punta Perico on a Whopper Stopper rod and 40 pound test with a live sardine. Numerous pargo were hooked all week but so many were lost in the rocks. At one point. several of our anglers marveled as a “river of red” seemed to rise up about 100 yards long of nothing but 20-50 pound pargo! Many fish could NOT be stopped with 60 and 80 pound test!

PHOTO 4: This was NOT taken in the summer! Look at this bull doardo! We do NOT see this kind of quality dorado normally this year. Stacy Amos hold up a quality mahi he took out at the 88 spot east of Cerralvo. Stacy got limits of dorado and said there were many others plus billfish around the boat. As long as the winds are down, there’s a warm spot out there holding these bluewater fighters and they are eager to hit about anything tossed in the water!

PHOTO 5: Gary Palese and Bob Robins are two of our long-time amigos. Both are from Arizona. Check out the quality slugger yellowtail and the flat waters. This past week it was a bit of a ride to north Cerralvo, but anyone who went there ran into fish that were some of the biggest and baddest we’ve had in years. I personally had 3 fish on 50 pound test I could not stop before they rocked me! Air temps have been in the low to mid-90’s!

PHOTO 6: Larry Parnell and Pat Ireton from Pacific City OR were among our first pangas to find the dorado spot outside. Pretty much against all better judgement they went out there anyway and came back with tales of the big honey hole out there filled with milling dorado and billfish. These aren’t early season punk fish. These are full-grown summer swimmers!

PHOTO 7 : Lots of anglers this week got their first species ever like dorado, yellowtail, billfish, pargo and many other species. For some, it was their biggest yellowtail. Jillene Stevens, originally from San Diego grew up fishing S.California waters but never tangled with any yellowtail like this big 40 pound class forktail. She put two in the boat at the north end of Cerralvo Island off the La Reyna lighthouse in waters that were also alive with barracuda, jacks and 10 pound bonito. She yelled, “It’s a wonder!”

PHOTO 8: The tale of the “tails” just kept rolling! Steve Marabella (right from Wilmington CA) has been here plenty of times. So has Mark (“spread ’em”) Cabatuan from Santa Maria CA and seem to do better each time they roll in. This one day, the two anglers took 12 big yellowtail “until their arms fell off!”

PHOTO 9 : JD Drucker is also one of our frequent offender amigos from Redondo Beach, but invited his pal Bob Handigard from Oregon to join out Cabin Fever Classic this past week. They both stuffed ice chests with a variety of fish!

PHOTO 10: Two of the best eating and most prized inshore fishing from our area are being held up by Stacy Amos of Harbor City CA. With al the attention on chasing the big yellowtail as well as the dorado, everyone was ignoring the great inshore bite on the rocks just outside of Muertos Bay for pargo and cabrilla like these held by Stacy. Other species this week included big-eye jacks, jack crevalle, sierra, snapper and roosterfish.

PHOTO 11: Gary Evans and Bill Evans had 3 days of off-the-charts fishing. At La Reyna, they got these nice yellowtail. The key was heavy line; short rods and FLUROCARBON LEADERS!!! Mainlines were usually 40-60 pound test minimum. No spectra needed because these fish weren’t running far, but the mono is prime to keep the baits swimming right. The problem (not really) was that there are also so many big bonito and schools of barracuda in the area that EVERY bait got eaten sometimes before the yellowtail could get them but the big homeguards were swirling on the surface.

PHOTO 12: They’ve been on these pages numerous time. Tim and Angela Farrell…always spank the fish. The Oceanside CA couple hold some BIG TIME pargo liso. The pargo are up and spawning now. Only problem is that they are in shallow waters with big rocks.

PHOTO 13 : They are almost getting ignored, but schools of sierra are still roaming the inshore waters. Chad here is holding up a nice speedster headed to ceviche and chips! Great light tackle fare but wire is needed to guard against the teeth.

And that’s my story, amigos! The secret is really the winds. When the winds ;lay down, we can fish pretty much anywhere and chase all these species. When the winds blow (normal for this time of year). we’re more restricted to inshore fishing. However, the appearance of dorado and billfish is really unusual for this time of year and in these numbers and quality. We’ll keep you posted!

Have a great week!

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 91745Mexico 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: The “right kind!” This is Kevin Beehn from South San Francisco CA. Kevin has been in our pages before. He’s holding an El Bajo yellowtail caught this week on the seamount north of town. For the good part of last week, the winds stayed down allowing access to the distant high spots which has kicked out a consistent bite almost ever day…as long as the winds stayed down.

PHOTO 2: Two yellowtail taken by Monica who is Kevin’s girlfriend from S. San Fransisco and holds up two that are almost as heavy as she is. Big fish continued to come from the area north of La Paz in perhaps the best bite of yellowtail in recent memory.

PHOTO 3: Here’s Kevin again. Two more fish. Had to include this one just ‘cuz I like when people take different photos with a sense of humor! Thanks, Kevin!

PHOTO 4: Cary McDermott of Las Vegas NV put this toad yellowtail on board the panga when he fished off Punta Perrico south of La Paz just outside of Muertos Bay.

PHOTO 5: Here’s a fish we chase and hook, but don’t often put in the boat! This is a pargo liso or “mullet snapper.” Schools of these badboys are roaming the shallows in their annual spawn. This is an “average” fish. Larger fish are rarely taken simply because they go right into the rocks. Mike Mattes of the San Fernando Valley area near Los Angeles jumped in his plane on a spur-of-the-moment-trip to get in on the yellowtail and pargo fishing.

PHOTO 6: Lots of Oregon folks down here and others from the Pacific Northwest soaking up sunshine right now. Nathan and Ryan Tarbet from Portland OR, came down for a week with their family and got a variety of fish including some big yellowtail like this one off Punta Perrico.

PHOTO 7: Glen McCarthy from Las Vegas ripped up a nice sierra here. Quite a few sierra are still in the area despite warming waters. Great eating and excellent fighters with a mout full of sharp teeth, sierra are an excellent game fish and table fare despite being members of the mackerel family.

PHOTO 8: One of our favorite Oregon amigos, Bruce Tarbet goes a little sideways on us to show off a nice jack crevalle (“toro”) he took. Schools of these feisty fish are up in the shallow waters offshore right now.

PHOTO 9: Just to show you the incredible variety, roosterfish have also come into the picture now. Captain Gerardo hold up a good roosterfish that Diane Tarbet caught on a day out’ve Muertos Bay. The roosters came a little earlier this year. Diane is from Portland OR.

MORE THAN A DOZEN VARIETIES OF FISH MARK THE WEEK WITH YELLOWTAIL, PARGO, ROOSTERS and even some DORADO (yes, that’s right!) ON THE BITE!

La Paz / Las Arenas Fishing Report for April 6, 2008

I guess this is one of those weeks, when I’ll let the photos above do the talking!

For some folks it’s probably some of the best fishing ever. Big yellowtail continued on the non-windy days north of town at the El Bajo Seamount, but with diminishing winds it allows us to check out other areas as well.

North Point at the north end of Cerralvo Island, the La Reyna light house, Punta Perrico, the Rock Highway (S. Cerralvo) and some others all produced fish this week. At times, it was a pick bite but on others, anglers described big fish simply “foaming” on the surface.

Not every day and every location was full turbo on the yellowtail, but there was enough action on enough other species to give everyone opportunities to get fish. Albeit, even if they weren’t the big sluggers, there were still big pargo…sierra…skipjack…snapper…cabrilla…jack crevalle…big eye jacks…pompano…and others! One day, I counted more than 15 species taken and not a needlefish in the bunch. If you were a light tackle angler these are some of the most sought after species on the light sticks and line.

However…that’s also undergunned for most of these fish…You want the bigger artillery.

Heavy line and fluro leaders are still the inside track to the bigger fish, but Rapalas and slow trolled BIG live bait also produced panga- stopping strikes!

On the days when the wind blew, the bite dropped off and winds hampered fishing later in the week. However, overall, not many complaints about the fishing….

Oh… as I was going to press on this fishing report, we had some EARLY season bull dorado caught as well this week and 1 marlin hook up. This is dynamite winds as this means perhaps warmer water species are coming early!

That’s my story! Have a great week

Jonathan

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