Our Amigo, Paul Nagata, from San Francisco always comes down this time of year. He toughed out a rough week. Not only did he have to fish in rough weather but the airlines also lost his fishing reels (he got them back!) but he kept a smile and got good dorado fishing all week like this solid bull north of La Paz. Note the grey skies and rougher waters behind him. That’s Tropical Storm Hector that blew through and left us with a bit of rain.
Such a beautiful fish…a big bull dorado still “lit up” straight out’ve the water posed by our Captain Joel who had been fishing with Paul Nagata that day with our Tailhunter La Paz Fleet.
Thankfully, we did not get flooded like other Baja cities, but we did get some very gentle rain and wind which were a nice break from the heat for a few days. It didn’t make for the best fishing conditions, although we still got some nice dorado. But this was thet wet view of the malecon in front of our Tailhunter Restaurant in the afternoon.
TV actor and TV show host, Rick Kasper fishes with us just about every-other-week during the season and never fails to do well. Check out this trophy bull dorado he caught while the sun was still shining earlier in the week fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet.
Old-time friends of Tailhunter, Jim Booth and Bill Sharp, wrestle with a fresh big bull dorado they just put in the boat near Cerralvo Island.
Professional chef, Vartan Bagdasaryan, put the wood to this nice roosterfish off Bahia de Los Muertos. He had a good week with roosters and dorado. This fish was released.
Daniel Compton from Arizona with Bill and grandfather, Dan Compton from Kansas wanted to get at least 1 dorado during the week. They ended up with 3 solid days of dorado fishing with both our Tailhunter La Paz and Las Arenas fleets. They are posed her at Bahia de Los Muertos near Las Arenas.
Big smiles for Greg Drezil just outside of Bahia de Los Muertos where the roosterfish continue to provide some great action on trophy fish. Greg released this one after the photo. Greg also got into some nice dorado fishing during the week as well.
I’m not sure what kind of setting he had on his camera when he took this photo, but it’s kinda cool! Burke Roble fished 4 days with us and did some damage to the dorado schools including this healthy slugger bull dorado! Check out Burke’s video clip below.
VIDEO CLIP OF THE WEEK:
Burke Roble of Riverside had a nice bit of fishing this past week. In addition to the nice dorado above, he got several others including the one shown in the video clip below taken near Cerralvo Island near Las Arenas. I have it in 3 different formats for you since some players play one format, but not the other. Click the link or any of the TV icons!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr3YB-Pz5dI&feature=plcp
TROPICAL STORM HECTOR CLOUDS SKIES BUT DORADO STILL BITE
La Paz – Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of Aug. 12-19, 2012
We have certainly had better weeks of weather down here. As a tropical storm pushed up the west side of the Baja Peninsula several hundred miles out it dropped some considerable rain on southern Baja. Cabo and Todos Santos and some of those areas were flooded. In La Paz, we got some nice gentle drizzles although some areas did get some sporadic short thundershowers that came and went. We were still spared the brunt of what hit areas to the south of us.
Still, it made for a lot of cloudy, windy and blustery days on the water. We were pretty much not able to fish Las Arenas at all from about Tuesday on. Too bad because the dorado and tuna bite had just kicked in. But with the storms, it was just too windy to get off the beach or even get to Cerralvo Island for bait. As the week went on, the road and arroyos became too slogged to get through also.
So, we had all our anglers fishing with our La Paz fleet. They didn’t do too badly. Most days there were limits or near limits of dorado. Most fish were about 10-20 pounds. Nice grade fighters ,but we also had some 30’s taken and several stories of “pilot error” on behalf of cursing fishermen who battled larger dorado only to lose the battles to fish that were easily over 40 pounds…and some larger to hear them tell!
As well, we still hooked some marlin and sailfish, but not many roosters once the storm front moved through. By the time you’re reading this, the sunshine has returned according to the predictions, along with some great sunshine and blue skies. However, as with any storm’s aftermath, I’m a bit worried about high winds that follow that are tougher and have a greater effect on fish and fishermen than the rain. As I’m writing this report, and looking out the window at the water…so far…so good! Just a little bit of a breeze! Fingers crossed for a good week of fishing. You have a good week too!
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Jonathan and Jill
Jonathan Roldan’s
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