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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for the Week of June 26-July 4, 2023

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DORADO STILL CHARGING!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of June 26-July 4, 2023

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN REPORT

WEATHER – We had to keep our eye on two hurricanes that were looming several hundred miles to the south but fortunately, they blew themselves out. Still, it’s mostly hot and humid and perfect sunny beach weather. We did have one day when the winds were gusting.

WATER – Inching warmer every week. Most spots it’s blue and in the mid-70’s on the surface but there’s still some cooler water below the thermocline that’s 5-8 degrees cooler .

SPECIES CAUGHT THIS WEEK – Lots of dorado. Plus pargo, big jack crevalle, pompano, palometas, snapper, cabrilla, bonito, triggerfish, roosterfish, rainbow runners. One marlin hooked and lost. Commercial guys found some tuna, but they moved off fast .

LAS ARENAS FISHING – Still the area with the most variety. The larger dorado came from this area. Lots of other action on jacks, bonito, cabrilla, snapper and pargo. No big roosters, but some were hooked. Smaller 10 pounds around the beaches .

LA PAZ FISHING – Generally school-sized dorado fun if you hit the right school. Surprising number of school-sized roosterfish also around the white sand beaches.

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Captain Armando give Steve and Karen Gilmore and hand with a trophy bull dorado. Note more fish on the cutting table!

Big smiles from Jennifer Lauritzen and her rooster for a quick photo and release!

Dan Baldwin and Ed Porto…happy guys after their first day of fishing on the beach at Bahia Muertos

Matt and Jennifer Lauritizen showng off the variety of fish taken in the reefs and rocks with a pargo liso, barred pargo, baja grouper and a cabrilla. All excellent eating fish!

Alex and Ryan Moore with a nice batch of dorado to fillet and get into the freezer to take home!

All the way from South Africa where he runs a huge hunting safari operation, Russ Field has been telling us for years he was coming to visit. After an incredible 47-hours of travel time, he finally got to us for a good 3 days of fishing that started out with a big bull in the boat.

Just too darned cute! Josie Bina from Missouri gets a hand from Captain Raul on her dorado she caught north of La Paz.

Always great to get a visit from our amigo, Jim Stahlman, from Idaho who loves fishing with Captain Jorge which produced a number of good fishing including some big bull dorado like this one that ate a trolled ballyhoo.

From Arizona, it’s been awhile since we had Rex Smith visit us, but good to have him and his brother, Mark, back with us. They started their trip with a great load of dorado, triggerfish and a big barred pargo.

Samantha, Les, Josh and Jacob Bina had a nice outing fishing with our La Paz fleet. Sam is from San Diego. Les, Josh and Jacob visit us from St. Louis, Missouri

Love the big smile from Molly Vesta from Reno Nevada who hooked this dorado just outside of La Ventana. Check the flat seas!

Whoa! Smiley and Shannon Wooten visit us from Texas where they deal with cattle auctions, but this is a different kind of bull for sure! Big bull dorado with Captain Victor.

Katie Apsley gets a hand posing with her nice bull from Captain Arcangel.

Kennedy Dixon from Long Beach CA got a limit of dorado outside of La Paz Bay by 11 a.m. He had just one day to fish with us.

Love this shot from a great gal! Always enjoy her visit. Sam Bina is pretty happy with this dorado! I think that’s Captain Rogelio holding the gaff. Espirito Santo Island in the background

Beast mode! Steve Gilmore and Captain Armando! Wow!

Jennifer and Matt with more meat for the ice chest! They caught quite a variety of fish over the week.

Chris Diaz finally got his family down to visit us after several cancelled trips and they started out with a great day on the water with Captain Armando.

Kinda McGregor from Colorado had an awesome 5 days of dorado fishing with us. Couldn’t stop smiling!

There’s some good eating! Russ Field with a trophy-sized barred pargo he said he was going to put whole on the barbecue!

For some variety, Steve and Karen told Captain Armando, they wanted something besides dorado (they already had alot!) so they came back with these tasty African pompano.

Ed Porto and Rex Smith from Arizona have more dorado meat for the freezer!

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Well…it’s still “dorado-landia!” I could just stop the report and say, “We’re catching alot of dorado” and that could be the end of it. Look at the photos!

But, the last month has been the best dorado fishing that I can remember in a long time. There are alot of photos of smaller fun school-sized dorado this week, but make no mistake that there are still some “beast mode” bulls in our waters. Just for some reason, the photos weren’t that good or as one of our anglers told me, “I didn’t take any photos because were were too busy fighting fish!”

Good of an excuse as any!

Also, despite photos of smaller fish, believe me…folks are also releasing a ton of fish as well. In some cases, they catch a bunch and release a bunch in a short time when they hit the dorado schools. Then, they’re done! They come back with big smiles early or, they go chase roosterfish along the beaches or fish over the reefs and rocks for pargo and snapper.

Make no mistake that there are still alot of other species around. It’s just that the dorado can be so fun and easy. In many situations, I’ve got families, kids, first-timers and they have so much fun pulling on dorado that there’s no reason to go hunting other species.

One thing, if you’re coming down…it’s HOT! Like much of the U.S. the summer has been scorching hot up there. For us down here, it’s been in the high 90’s, but with the 50-70% humidity, it feels like it’s in the 100’s. It’s great beach weather, but you can feel the heat from early morning even before the sun comes up. So, keep covered and stay hydrated.

That’s my story!

Jonathan

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La Paz-Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of June 19-26, 2023

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BIG MAHI LIKE I HAVE NEVER SEEN

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of June 19-26, 2023

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN REPORT

WEATHER – Someone flipped a switch about 2 weeks ago and we went from cool to blazing hot. Even the winds are hot. Definitely shorts and lots of sunscreen with the biggest hat you can bring. It’s in the mid-90’s which doesn’t seem too hot, but the humidity is running 50-70% which makes the air feel really heavy.

WATER – Mostly blue although surprisingly not as warm as it should be. Water temps on the surface are only about 72 which should be closer to 80. However, mostly really calm and flat except when the winds kick up creating chop. Finding fish means finding the warmer blue water .

WIND– No more chilly gusts for sure. But, now it’s been replaced by a hot breeze. Usually the breeze cools things down, but not the ones we’re getting right now. We did have one day when the northwest winds jacked up for a few hours and the water got bumpy. Then, it disappeared in a snap and there wasn’t a ripple on the ocean.

FISH SPECIES HOOKED THIS WEEK: Dorado and more dorado. Then more dorado. Roosterfish, jack crevalle, bonito, amberjack, marlin, trevally, pompano, cabrilla, triggerfish, rainbow runners, pargo lisa, pargo mulatto, snapper.

LAS ARENAS REPORT – Most of the week’s bigger model dorado were caught fishing with our Las Arenas fleet. Fish well into the 40-pound class. More species caught on this side as well. Pretty much everything in the list above.

LA PAZ REPORT – Not as many species, but if you wanted to load up on school-sized dorado and easy limits, this was the spot. Often fast easy action and dorado madness. Some nice cabrilla and snapper caught and some schools of small to medium roosters fun on light tackle.

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Three days of big dorado for Doug and Penny Nuffer, our amigos from Utah. Penny fought one dorado well over an hour estimated at over 50 pounds that broke off at the boat.

I love this photo! Al Hed and Mike Jennings from Washington wanted big roosters so they figured they would get an “edge” if Mike wore a chicken head. They insist it’s a rooster head, but I think it looks more like a chicken! It worked. They got a number of our larger roosters this week.

Incredible colors. Chris Bedsaul with Captain Jorge got a fish to match his shirt! Nice dorado and always fun to have Chris visit us.

First-time visitors, Warren Stewart and his wife Krisele with son Austin display 3 of their big bulls.

…and then there’s Mari, Bedsaul. This lady can fish and always takes great photos. Nice little rooster fish for a CPR (Catch…Photo…Release).

First day out was a good one for Allan and Cheryl Herman. That’s quite a haul of dorado on the table!

Some of our funnest first-timers from Colorado had to cancel their trip last year, but Kindra and Brian McGregor roared back with a full week of good dorado fishing and some big bulls like this one posed by Kindra.

Joe Morse from San Diego, brought his group of 7 amigos down and their first day was a good one on the dorado spot.

Captain Joel give Lisa Leduc a hand with this good-looking bull caught north out’ve La Paz Bay.

Wow! That’s a great triple for Captain Pancho flanked by Mike Jennings and Al Hed.

Terry and Stepanie Martell with Captain Armando on the beach at Bahia Muertos posing with 3 of their dorado catch.

Captain Jorge with Mari’s barred pargo. Tasty fish for the fish box!

Andy Lauber from Louisiana went to town on the light tackle one day off Cerralvo Island on these palometas (trevally) landing about a half-dozen

Marcus Yoo is a major in the U.S. Army and in between deployments he usually finds time to pay us a visit and, you can tell, he’s kind of a fun guy to have around! He spent two days fishing and one day diving.

Randy Rimple and Brian Hyland with a nice double shot pair of big dorado. They’re from the Sacramento area.

Happy Birthday to me! Cory Mahan celebrated his 45th with us with some snorkeling and fishing and started things out with a pair of nice bulls on the first day of fishing!

Dion Hyland cradles an early morning bull to kick off the day of fishing.

Captain Armando give Terry and Stephanie Martell help posing with a couple of their first-day catch of dorado. They added more over the next 4 days!

First time visitors Vicki and Scott Shaw were great to have visit. On the beach with Captain Arcangel and more dorado on the table in the foreground too!

Captain Armando has alot of fish cleaning ahead of him, but doesn’t mind after a day like this with Randy Rimple and Brian Hyland and a table full of dorado.

Big jack crevalle in the hands of Big Mike Jennings! These are tough-fighting fish!

Just another day of big dorado for Doug and Penny! They had 3 days of this kind of fishing!

Big smile under that hoodie from Brian McGregor who hit the dorado schools big time with Captain Rogelio all week. Brian is from Colorado and stayed the whole week. First-time visitor!

It’s Mari again with another great catch. Captain Jorge hold the gaff and the dorado.

Captain Jorge, Steve Martin and Dion Hyland with a nice triple!

Whoa!!! This dorado stretches from one side of the panga to the other! Mike and Al with the pose and smiles!

Taller than him? Al Hed holds it up while Mike watches.

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OK…I guess you can figure out what’s been going on this last week-or-so just by looking at the photos!

We have dorado…and we have more dorado. The the surprising part is the amount of dorado and the sheer SIZE of some of these dorado. I’ve seen alot of big dorado down here in 30 years, but I cannot remember a time when we had such a concentration of BIG dorado. Fish running 20-40 pounds have not been uncommon and larger ones have been lost.

Take a look at the photos. These are the ones that were photo’d. For every one in the fish box, clients have told me there are some days when they are catching-and-releasing smaller ones as fast as they can get a hook into the water.

Some boats are finding huge schools of these smaller 5-10 pound fish and it can go crazy.

And then there are the larger ones cruising on the periphery of the school-sized fish or free-swimming solo or in small groups. These are powerful, crafty and acrobatic fish and folks are having alot of fun…and frustration catching them!

Some days folks are actually complaining because “We’re only catching small ones!” or “We only caught two larger ones!” I guess we’re getting a bit spoiled. All fun stuff.

I have no idea how long this will last, but we’ll ride it as long as it goes. There’s some big bunches of sargasso weeds building north and east of the city which continues to hold many of these schools plus the dorado are also gathering around the commercial shark buoys as well.

So….I’d say 95% of the catch has been dorado.

But that’s not the only fish around. There are alot of other species. It’s just that the dorado have been so prevalent and so dynamic, that folks are having too much fun and it’s too easy. There’s that old saying…”Don’t leave fish to find fish.”

So, that’s not to say there are no other fish biting. The roosterfish are still around. There’s pargo, cabrilla, snapper, trevally, pompano, bonito, jack crevalle and even a few billfish. However, most of these have been incidental catches. The focus is on these dorado schools right now!

I think alot has to do with the temperature. We went from cool and breezy weather that was actually cold straight to hot and humid summer weather. It’s like we skipped springtime weather. Temps are in the mid-90’s now and I think we’re in for a warm summer like much of North America.

That’s my story!

Jonathan

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www.tailhunter.com

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

U.S. Mailing Address: Tailhunter Sportfishing

8030 La Mesa Blvd. #178, La Mesa CA 91942

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of June 11-18,2023

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DORADO-LANDIA!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of June 11-18, 2023

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN REPORT

WATER – Continually clearing and getting bluer and warmer, but still a few degrees colder than it should be and alot clouder than normal. But overall improving.

WEATHER – Overall, a nice week. Some chilly breezy mornings giving way to warm days and evening breezes. On the water, mostly pretty calm, but had two days where the day-time winds really kicked in strangely and the water got bouncy.

SPECIES CAUGHT THIS WEEK – Dorado…and then some dorado…and more dorado. But also roosterfish, jack crevalle, bonito, pompano, trevally, snapper, cabrilla, barred bargo, rainbow runners, yellowtail, amberjack. A few tuna popped up outside.

LAS ARENAS – Some slower days, but this area has the most variety. Look at the list above and every one of those species is a possibility if you fish with our Las Arenas fleet. But, some days better than others. Some days, the dorado go nuts. Right at the end of the week, there were some huge dorado caught. All big bulls. Other days, it’s a rockfish day and not a dorado to be found.

LA PAZ – This was the dorado hot spot all week. Especially the area north of the city around Las Cruces. Schools of 5-30 pound fish. At the islands, the usual fun aquarium fish like pargo, cabrilla and jacks to play with on light tackle.

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Nothing like this in Montana! Brad Bennett fought this big bull dorado for over an hour on light tackle and finally boated it. Great colors!

First time from San Diego, Dave Jenkins started out his 3 days with us with some fresh mahi on the boat .

Always good to have Dave and his dad Bill Johnson from Colorado visiting us. Fishing with Captain Pancho produced some big bulls and they released others!

Double roosters for Grant Checa and his dad Gianni. Both fish caught and released. Gianni brought down a whole group of dads and kids from Colorado this past week.

Good way to start the day. Fishing with Captain Gerardo, Earl Lawson from Marina CA hooked and landed this pretty striped marlin for a quick photo and release.

Lots of variety of good-eating fish for Ed Pak with a spread of snapper pargo, triggerfish, rainbow runner, cabrilla and a nice amberjack too!

I think Randy Rimple’s facial expression speaks volumes about this big roosterfish that Captain Armando estimated in the 80 pound class. The fish was released.

I’ve known Emily Duncan since she was 5 years-old and coming down to fish with her family. How time flies. She was down this week to plan her wedding in La Paz for next year! I’m feeling old. This gal can fish! Note the nice bull. Cerralvo Island in back.

All the way from Illinois, Jim Newman, loves to fish. Even when he’s not one of our pangas, he’s hitting the water. This nice trevally hit a surface plug while Jim was working the beach with a light rod.

Just a darned good day on light tackle and the flyrod!

Cool photo on the beach at Bahia Muertos. Jonathan Bernardini with kids Julia and Christian.

John Lowdermilk has fished with us for years from Colorado. Just outside of Bahia Muertos, a nice photo of his rooster. Catch and release.

Just a great photo with great colors, flat seas and a big smile from Tim Jenkins from Utah on his first trip with us. Son, Drake contemplates the tail!

Right up on the beach, Mark Stuart from San Diego, with a fun rooster for a photo and release.

Dwight Ortmann might look a little tired. Make no doubt…for their size these jack crevalle are sluggers and put up a helecious fight! Dwight very sportingly released the fish to fight another day.

Dylan Williams with a La Paz bull to put in the box then to the freezer. Dylan is from Pennsylvania.

John Lowdermilk and Captain Jorge posing on the beach. Not the other “tails” in the lower part of the photo as well.

Jake and Scott Snapp with Captain Armando show off another nice mahi on the beach.

Not sure if Gianni or his son, Grant, caught this fish, but it’s still a good-looking bull dorado. Lots of legit bull dorado caught this week.

Dan and Jordan Le and a pair of mystery hands to pose on the beach with their dorado.

Christian Bernardini has a great smile to go along with his fish and an assist from dad, Jonathan.

Inshore fishing remains solid for anyone that doesn’t want to chase the bluewater species. Especially for pargo and cabrilla like this one especially on light tackle caught by Jim Newman.

Almost impossible to catch a fish jumping in the camera lens, but Earl Wilson nailed this shot of a fighting dorado. He said a moment later, the dorado spit the hook and got away!

Flyrod jack crevalle near the beach for Drake Jenkins. He also released the fish.

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The week had high spots and low spots. There was some wind and some rough waters came back. However, overall, there were alot more highs than lows. Alot more good conditions than bad and alot more smiles than frowns.

For sure, no question, we’re into dorado season solidly now. Lots of small school-sized fish for action and quite a few big pulls pulling people around and bending rods!

There’s a few spots in the channel between the La Paz Peninsula and Cerralvo Island that were just stacked with dorado for the last week or so. Crazy dorado fishing. You could get into a school of frenzied “kid” dorado or you could end up in a school of bigger bulls with attitude.

Actually, kind of a funny observation. There have been so many larger dorado that some folks have been complaining (seriously) that it was a “bad day” fishing because they caught-and-released so many smaller ones and didn’t catch any or enough big ones.

A week ago, they would have been keeping these fish!

Anyway…

That’s not to say there aren’t dorado in other spots. On the contrary. There are dorado that can pop up anywhere. There’s a good bunch of sargasso weeds bunching up on the surface now and that’s drawing the fish and as the waters continue to warm, I expect more dorado to show up.

The dorado bite was probably 80% of the catch, but that could mostly be because they were the easiest to catch and readily located.

However, we did get a few nice marlin hooks-ups and the roosters are still around and out although there were fewer in the counts. That could possibly be attributed to the fact that not as many folks are focusing on the roosters which you have to commit to doing and lots of folks would rather go chase fish that are easier to find and “funner” to fight and better eating.

Inshore, we still have a pretty good variety including pargo, amberjack, jack crevalle, rainbow runners, cabrilla and big bonito.

That’s my story!

Jonathan

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of June 3-10, 2023

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GETTING BETTER EVERY WEEK! (What full moon?)

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of June 3-10, 2023

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT

OVERALL RATING (Scale of 1-10) : 7

WEATHER – It’s been a beautiful week with mostly sunny skies and great beach weather in the high 80’s and low 90’s. However, the mornings are still a big nippy or downright cold with windy conditions worthy of a sweatshirt or light jacket you can take off when the sun comes up.

WATER – Waters are still colder than normal. But, they are a bit warmer every week with more blue water showing up. Water temps in La Paz Bay is only about 68 on the surface, but outside the bay up to about 73 degrees. It’s still cooler than it should be.

SPECIES CAUGHT THIS WEEK – dorado, roosterfish, pargo, snapper, cabrilla, marlin, tuna, pompano, trevally, bonito, jack crevalle, amberjack, rainbow runner, yellowtail

LAS ARENAS FISHING – More variety in the fish catch. No fish predominant, but you have a good chance of getting some of everything. In fact, most of the fish in the list above might be caught.

LA PAZ FISHING – Much more dorado with schools of school-sized fish north of he city and in the channel between the peninsula and Cerralvo Island/ Espirito Santo Island. If you hit the right spot, it can be crazy wild. Some larger fish also being found up to the 40-pound class.

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO REPORT –

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Maybe one of the most stunning dorado many of us have ever seen. This completely irredescent blue bull dorado caught off Espirito Santo Island by Hunter Burkhart from Tennessee while fishing with Captain Rogelio is simply incredible and rare.

First-time amigos from the Sacramento area, Mario and Tony Lerma with their buddy Mike Wilson who started out their week on the tuna school east of Cerralvo Island. Said this week was the “best fishing trip they ever had.”

Steve Bryan our amigo from Seattle WA rightfully earns the title of “Roosterfish King. ” Each year he comes down for about 2 weeks and fishes about 8-10 days only for our bigger roosterfish. This year, he caught 8 of these giants and released all of them like the one pictured here. Most of his fish are in the rest of this week’s report.

There are some bigger model dorado around these days like Robby Scale’s big bull he landed off Las Arenas in the channel between Cerralvo Island. Robby was on his 2nd trip with us from Colorado.

Our Wyoming amigo, Brandon McGarr with a large striped marlin while fishing with Captain Pancho. The marlin was released. He also had a big blue marlin on as well as a big bull that all broke lines close to the boat after long battles.

Texas in the house with Brett and Paula Watts and a great variety of good eating cabrilla and snapper and a big triggerfish headed to the freezer.

I love these folks and the photos they take every year. Never ever boring! This is Jeanne and Ray Cabales from San Diego with a pair of dorado and looking like they need some lunch!

Brett and Paula again with a different day and a completely different catch with a cleaning table full of yellowfin tuna.

Maybe one of the prettiest photos of the week. Captain Pancho and Robby Scales just outside of Bahia Muertos with a big boy roosterfish. Catch and release!

A very happy Cecilia Casias from Los Angeles with a beautiful dorado on the gaff. More unusual is a photo of our captain Arcangel who has been with us almost 30 years and rarely ever smiles in photos!

Tanya McGarr from Wyoming looks a little tapped out because this monster rooster is the 3rd big rooster of the day. She never handed off the rod or asked for help and battled all 3 fish to the boat by herself before releasing them!

This is our popular Captain Gerardo. This massive rooster was actually caught by Bill Raddock, but Bill was so tired after 3 big fish he could not lift this big beast. Even Gerardo who is about 6’2″ and maybe 230 pounds has issues lifting it up. He says it’s the largest rooster ever on his boat. The fish was released.

Behind the mask, that’s John Vondrak (I think!) with another rooster in the boat for a quick photo and release.

First-time visitor, Tony Lerma from Sacramento with a big boy bull dorado he caught and landed not far from Las Cruces north of La Paz.

It’s those people again…Jeanne and Ray Cabales celebrating on the beach with another good day catch of rainbow runner, pargo, snapper, cabrilla and triggerfish.

That’s gonna make some tasty sashime or seared steaks. Yellowfin tuna caught by Paula and Brett Watts from San Antonio TX.

Henry Vuong has been fishing with us for years and brought his girlfriend Cecilia fishing and, of course, she lands the most and biggest fishes. Henry always fishes with Captain Arcangel and is coming back for a 2nd trip in September.

Love the face that Bill Raddock is making here! He really wanted a big roosterfish and caught three right off the bat one day and released them all. Bill is from Kentucky.

Drew Reesor from Tennessee is a hunting guide from Tennessee, but made his first trip to visit us in La Paz. Fishing with Captain Rogelio produced a number of dorado including this big macho bull dorado.

We all remember this special days when dad took us fishing! It’s hard to tell, but I believe this is young Hudson Cileu from San Diego who gets a hand from Captain Rogelio on his dorado.

Captain Pancho posing with Tanya McGarr and another yellowfin tuna. There were 2-3 days when we had a nice healthy bite of tuna off Cerralvo Island.

More new friends from Texas, this is Randy and Linda Stolte with an incredible variety of fish on the table including dorado, snapper, pargo, rainbow runner, yellowtail, cabrilla and triggerfish. They donated all of their catch except for some they brought back to our Tailhunter Restaurant to cook up!

Jason Cileu from San Diego had just one day to fish with his young sons and they got a mess of dorado and Jason also got this nice little roosterfish as a bonus. He let it go after the quick photo.

I lose track of all the big roosterfish Steve Bryan catches every year when he visits us. I think this is number 7 or 8. He gets so many big fish everyone calls him “Rooster King” and tease him that he’s catching the same fish over and over because he sportingly releases all his fish.

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I suppose this is just another week where you can just look at all the photos and know we’ve been catching fish! And let me tell you this is just a fraction of the photos I wish I had more room to post.

For all the “full moon” talk, we had a huge big moon this week, but if it had any effect, I can only imagine what the fishing might have been if it was not so full. Who really cares? Fishing was pretty solid!

We’re still not at full speed. However, with each week, we’re edging forward and overall, it sure seems to be getting better. Lots of smiles and folks that want to take fish home are taking fish home. They might not necessarily catch the particular species that targeted like “giant roosterfish” or a “wahoo.” But that’s why these are trophy fish! They are harder to find and definitely fight harder!

But, whatever might get missed, other species seem to fill the gap.

And we are still catching a whole pallet of species. Dorado schools are becoming more prevailant with school-sized 5-10 pound fish bunching up, especially north of La Paz. Larger free-swimming fish up to the 40-pound class have also been making their presence known with some very large fish getting lost.

We’re seeing more billfish with some big striped marlin getting hooked and released and some larger blue and black marlin well over the 300-pound class breaking lines and hearts!

Also, while folks are having fun with the smaller roosterfish that can be a real kick on light tackle, we caught some of the largest roosterfish of the season this past week. There were easily fish running 40-60 pounds and some arguably up to 80+ pounds. It’s hard to know exact weights since we’re releasing all the roosters and can only estimate these massive fish sizes!

We’ve also had several nice jags of tuna show up. They’ll pop up for a day or two then disappear, but we’ve already caught more tuna this year so far than all of last season combined! The size of the fish varies from little 5-8 pound “footballs” up to 30 and 40-pound class sluggers.

If you wanted to stay inshore you have have fun in the “aquarium” fishing for snapper, cabrilla, triggerish, pargo, jacks, pompano and more!

SHE SAID “YES!” (Catch of the Week!)

Yvonne, Gerry and Captain Armando. And some nice tuna!

Quick shout-out to Gerry Hermosillo who proposed to his lady Yvonne Sockyma over dinner while here this week! He proposed to her at the same waterfront table where they had one of their first dates. Congratulations to them both! Oh…and they also caught fish this week too!

That’s my story!

Jonathan

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of May 26-June 2, 2023

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STARTING TO FEEL LIKE SUMMER FISHING AT LAST!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of May 26-June 2, 2023

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT

WEATHER – Warming up. Still very very cool and breezy in the mornings and evening but sunny and pretty most days into the high 80’s and low 90’s. Very comfortable time to be here.

WATER – Definitely clearing up now that the winds are diminishing. More blue water. Sargasso weeds building up north of town which draws in the dorado and billfish.

FISHING (Scale of 1-10) – 6

SPECIES CAUGHT THIS WEEK – barred pargo, pargo liso, yellow snapper, dog-tooth snapper, cabrilla, jack crevalle, bonito, striped marlin, wahoo, dorado, yellowtail, amberjack, pompano, trevally, triggerfish, rainbow runners

LAS ARENAS FISHING – Definitely the spot to get the most species and variety.

LA PAZ FISHING – Better for the most dorado mostly but inshore are the usual, pargo, cabrilla, rockfish.

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Right off the rocks, Todd Beckman from Vancouver WA got his first and biggest roosterfish with Captain Gerardo. It’s a big fatty! The fish was released.

Load of YFT…yellowfin tuna off Cerralvo Island for Andy Harrison and Joe Vondrak who have been with us many years and had a great 3 days.

Oh man…that’s alot of bull! Dorado that is! Chris Salanga on his first trip with us shows off two of his big bull dorado plus there’s another one on the table. But, he only has 2 hands!

Steve Bryan from Seattle, is our roosterfish king. He comes every year for 2 weeks to fish for big roosters and has been here a week and taken about a half-dozen big fish…so far! Other photos of his roosters are in this report. Steve releases all his roosters

Matt and his dad Jason Correia from San Diego started off their 3 days fishing with a super variety of fish with Captain Gerardo. On the cutting table, I see yellowtail, rainbow runner, cabrilla, snapper and pargo!

Kolby Zipperer from Colorado with his buddy Robbie Scales says it’s a “catch of a lifetime” with this striped marlin off Las Arenas. He was hunting the tuna schools when this striper hit the baits. The fish was not able to be released.

Jan and Chris Sommer from Orange Co. CA took home a nice load of fish over 3 days like this full table of dorado and snapper!

Two of the nicest folks…Dave and Diane Kosnowsky…from Washington State always do well fishing with us and show of a couple of dorado they caught with Captain Alfredo with our La Paz Fleet.

First one is a trophy! Matt Correia took this roosterfish not to far off the Las Arenas point and released it!

All the way from North Carolina, Emmett Ball was with Captain Victor when he hooked this colorful bull dorado.

Katie Olson lives up in the Sierra Mountains near Mammoth CA and has been our sweet amiga for many years. This lady knows how to fish and has fished all over the world! Her last day she got an box full of limits of dorado north of La Paz including a couple of legit bulls.

This is Johnny Stone…always fun to have him down from San Diego and he always gets fish every year like this double-fist of dorado from near Espirito Santo Island

Todd Beckman says he must have caught about a dozen species fishing all week with us. This table alone shows trevally, rainbow runners, snapper, pargo, cabrilla and there might even be a triggerfish buried in there as well!

The “right kind” for Jeff Correia on this legit roosterfish for a quick photo and release.

Steve Bryan with another big catch-and-release roosterfish. He is still fishing a few more days as I write this, but I think he has 7 big fish from last week. All released.

Captain Boli gives Jan Sommer a hand and a gaff with another dorado in the box! That’s Espirito Santo Island in the back north of La Paz. Check that flat ocean!

We call this a good start to a week of fishing. Dave and Diane again with some great eating pargo, snapper and even a little yellowtail in there!

Captain Armando is not small. He just looks that way next to Jon Eide and John Vondrak posing with a table of yellowfin tuna.

It might not be the heaviest dorado of the week, but boy…it sure has to be the “longest” dorado of the week and definitely the biggest dorado Steve Bryan has caught in all his years fishing with us. It’s still a beast!

It’s Doreen’s birthday and she has a pretty nice rack of fish on the cutting board to pose with including yellow snapper and some trophy cabrilla.

That’s alot of fish to clean! But, Rey Salanga and nephew Chris had a great day and great week of fishing with super variety like this!

Keaton Lesnik and his dad only had 2 days to squeeze in on a quick turn-around trip, but rocks the fish with dorado, cabrilla, snapper, pargo and yellowtail.

Captain Jorge with Jim Elrod and his big dorado!

Chris Salanga and the magic touch for big bull dorado all week!

The dorado fishing north of La Paz ramped up nicely for fish like Jason Correia’s that he put in the boat.

Chris, Captain Pancho and a mess of football tuna to get on ice!

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We are still not quite up-to-speed with where we should be with the fishing but it sure has improved tremendously over the last 2 weeks or so from what we had in April and May!

This all has to do with the weather. It’s still chilly and breezy in the mornings, but overall the air temps have improved and we’re now in the high-80’s and low 90’s. Waters have cleared up and we’re finding more blue waters now. Winds have abated tremendously.

And the fishing has improved as well.

Still a tremendous amount of variety with cold water species like yellowtail, sierra, amberjack, pargo, snapper, rainbow runners and others still in the fish catches with some good sized catches and trophy fish if you want to stay fishing over the rocks and reefs. This can be all-day fun and action.

However, it’s the other species that are really starting to take off a bit and we’re hopeful it will continue to improve.

Dorado, for one, started showing up in bigger numbers about 2 weeks ago. Most were school-sized 5-12 pounders. If you found the right school, you could take limits very quickly of eager fish with many smaller fish getting thrown back.

However, the larger models started to make their presence known with with in the 20-40 pound class some some perhaps larger that got unbuttoned or broke lines.

North of La Paz, the sargasso weed patches are starting to form up which is good news to bring in more dorado to the area.

Additionally, it looks like the waters have warmed up enough that the marlin are finally feeding. For weeks they have been sunning on the surface oblivious to everything. This week, however, we’re getting some fish willing to finally go! Blue marlin around Cerralvo Island as well as striped marlin in several areas are now showing up with several hooked, landed and released. The same areas are also producing some wahoo hook-ups although this past week nothing was landed. We know the fish are there!

Likewise, with each week, we seem to get more of the large trophy roosterfish. The smaller 5-10 pounders have been around for weeks, but only the last two weeks are we seeing the bigger models move in to feed on the large ladyfish that have moved into the beach areas as well. So the big roosters are following their food source.

The nicest surprise were the football yellowfin tuna that popped up for several days. These were fun-sized 8-15 pounders that put on a nice show. Not big enough to hurt anyone, but alot of fun bending rods and a real treat. We hope this is a good sign of the start of a tuna season.

We got a full moon this week. It will be interesting to see how that affects things. Last month it put the brakes on things, but that was also because we had big winds and strong tides and currents. We don’t have those right now. Fingers crossed.

That’s my story!

Jonathan

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U.S. Mailing Address: Tailhunter Sportfishing

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of May 19-25, 2023

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WHAT A DIFFERENCE A WEEK MAKES!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fshing Report for Week of May 19-25, 2023

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN REPORT

WEEKLY RATING – (scale of 1-10). I give it a 6. It was about a 3-4 for weeks!

WIND – Finally gave us a break from those gusty cold winds we’ve had for months!

WATER – As winds have diminished, water temps have risen. Water has also gotten clearer and less cloudy.

TEMPS – High 60’s / Low 70’s at night to High 80’s and Los 90’s in the day time.

BAIT – Sardines, mackerel, bullitos, caballitos, strips and chunks or fresh bonito

LAS ARENAS FISHING

Still lots of species, but increasingly more of the warm-water species as the temps rose and winds cut back. Still getting pargo, snapper, cabrilla and others, but more and larger roosterfish, dorado and wahoo now.

LA PAZ FISHING

Waters stayed largely colder than Las Arenas most of the week, but late in the week temps rose a bit more and we’ve gone from rockfish to more dorado action.

FISH CAUGHT THIS WEEK:

Dorado, marlin, tuna, wahoo, pargo, snapper, grouper, bonito (3 kinds), jack crevalle, amberjack, yellowtail, sierra, rainbow runners, barracuda, cabrilla, triggerfish, roosterfish.

AMIGOS VISITING FROM: Utah, Kansas, Oklahoma, Connecticut, Oregon, Texas, Washington, Montana, Colorado, South Carolina, California, Honduras, Michigan, Wisconsin. We had a full-house!

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THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Finally, some of the larger roosterfish started to show with Captain Gerardo and Ron Woita from Oregon who spent the better part of a week chasing the roosters. Each day they seemed to get a little bigger. Here’s one of the larger models with lots of smiles! All roosters were released all week.

Captain Pancho gives Nancy Enright from San Diego a hand with a good-looking bull dorado!

Technically, our first marlin of the season caught by our long-time amigo, Art Flippin from Colorado who was on his 2nd visit to us. He was here in April as well. The marlin was deep hooked and unable to be released.

Now THIS is a healthy legit big-boy cabrilla! David Noble was on his first trip with us and took this guy just off Espirito Santo Island where we’ve found a number of these larger fish.

All the way from S. Carolina, Dr. Bob Garrison hooked this tasty barred pargo just off the shallow beach near Punta Arenas.

The right kind! It was a good week for the wahoo to finally show up. Lora Burke pulled this ‘hoo off near Cerralvo Island.

Armando with Karl Davis and Don Markus the day the dorado finally started to chew near Las Arenas! They were a little late this year, but finally arrived. Hopefully to stay around a bit!

Marie Wirtz just had the one day to squeeze in a day of fishing and boated a number of species like this roosterfish she photo’d and released!

Somewhere behind the gaff Sue Stanley from San Diego is smiling as she tries to lift her big cabrilla with help from Captain Alfredo.

Yup! We even had some football tuna show up of Cerralvo Island. That’s Ryan and his dad Bruce Bonsack from the Seattle area.

Here’s Ed Aguilar and Kent Markus with a nice variety for their first day on the water including dorado, snapper, cabrilla, pompano and trevally!

Talk about a banner day! On 2 pangas, they caught Mark, Ryan and Bruce Bonsack from Washington caught 5 wahoo and several more were lost!

Texas in the house! Good amigo Allen Cazier with Captain Licho holding the gaff on another of those large cabrilla off Espirito Santo Island.

That’s alot of good looking fish meat on the cleaning table! Matt Shipley from Texas and Kelly Kartchner from Utah have trevally, pargo and dorado ready to get into the ice chests!

First timers Michael and Louise McMichael always had the best smiles. They were on the water that day the dead whale was found floating offshore holding all the dorado anyone could want like these!

I can see Captain Gerardo with a big small and I think that’s Sam Woita from Kansas behind the mask and dorsals of another big roosterfish. (released!)

Bob Stanley from San Diego with a good-looking cabrilla for the fish box with Captain Alfredo lending a hand!

Marie Wirtz and our Captain Victor with a lengthy colorful dorado. She’s from Bend, Oregon.

The story I got is that Denise Peters hooked the fish and fought it, but finally it got the best of her and she handed it to my long-time amigo, Don Peters, who finished off the big dorado. They came to visit us from Oklahoma.

John Pooley and Billy Harrison with some nice variety after their first day on the water with pargo, snapper, cabrilla and triggerfish.

Of course, Lori Thorpe caught the “big one” a nice dorado with Captain Arcangel. Husband Jeff helps the pose. Other species on the cutting table.

Captain Victor and Arthur Wirtz and another rooster for a photos and release.

Diane Kosnosky knows how to fish and always puts fish in the box whenever she visits like this solid cabrilla. Diane is from Washington.

Ed Aguilar was fun to have visit this week and he nailed this trophy dorado out’ve Bahia Muertos.

On the flyrod! Dave Noble with a cute little roosterfish for the photo and release.

Guy Markus and Steve Wright on their 2nd trip visiting us in La Paz started their fishing week with a pargo liso (mullet snapper); a rare barracuda; 2 rainbow runners and a triggerfish.

Jim Elrod from Bakersfield was visiting us for the first time and gets a hand with this dandy bull dorado from his amigo, Luis, to get the great photo.

Lots of fine eating and a day full of action for Don, Karl and Captain Armando who has his work cut out for him cleaning all these cabrilla and pargo!

We finally strarted to see dorado with our La Paz fleet and around Espirito Santo Island. Asa has one for the fish box and dinner back at Tailhunter Restaurant.

You can’t see her, but Lora Burke is back there helping hold up her striped marlin. They couldn’t release the fish.

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Let’s start by saying that the fishing still is NOT up to where it should be at this time of year.

However, compared to what it’s been like for the past month, it’s a zillion-times waaaaay better!

Here’s the deal. Just like the winter which was harsh down here, we continued with chilly weather, strong winds, cloudy overturned water and a chillier-than-normal ocean. That meant really scratch fishing pretty much all of April and May when we should have been getting bit pretty nicely.

Well, this past week the sun got warmer. The winds gave us a break. The ocean turned bluer. The rough current settled down. And not surprisingly it made all the difference.

If you just look at all the photos or compare them to the previous reports, anyone could tell our fishing was markedly improved.

No doubt there’s still cooler waters down below the surface which produced cold-water species like yellowtail, rainbow runners, amberjack, several species of pargo, sierra, cabrilla (some huge ones!) plus the usual bonito and jack crevalle.

However, with the warmer water, we got more pompano, palometa (trevally), the larger roosterfish, but also the much-desired warm-water pelagic species like some wahoo,;our first few marlin of the season; and finally some dorado!

In fact, one day there was a dead whale near Cerralvo Island. According to one of our anglers, there were “hundreds” of dorado everywhere flashing through the waters and as many as 20 pangas were out there with everyone completely bent and dorado flying everywhere. Everyone nailed limits of 10-pound class schoolie-sized dorado.

Then, as the week went on, the dorado got bigger with more 20-30 pound fish in the counts!

Then, there were the wahoo. We knew they were there, but they sure were reluctant to bite. Well, they finally came to the party. One day we had 5 back to the beach and another 4-5 lost! Some of these wahoo were conservatively estimated 50-60 pound fish or larger.

One day, we even had football-sized tuna show up as well.

Additionally, with the bigger ladyfish baits finally swimming along the shallows, not surprisingly the larger roosterfish in the 40-70 pound class also started biting. We’ve been waiting for several weeks! But, even without them, there were good numbers of 5-15 pound roosters to have fun.

If the weather continues to improve, I expect the fishing will also improve.

Additionally, the unusual fish arrivals continued! A few weeks ago, we got rare totuava in the counts. Illegal to keep so they were released, but those fish are usually found way up 1000 miles north in the Sea of Cortez and I’ve never seen totuava down here.

Then, we got a few more species that I’ve never seen down here in 30 years:

Captain Pancho with a red-bearded-brotula (brotula a la lengua).

A star-studded grouper caught by Mark Bonsack

Lora with another grouper also called a baqueta by locals.

All-in-all an interesting and much better week. What a difference a week makes!

That’s my story!

Jonathan

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of May 11-18, 2023

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THE STRUGGLE IS REAL – Crazy Fishing!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report for Week of May 11-18, 2023

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO FISHING REPORT

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN REPORT

OVERALL FISHING (Scale of 10) – 3

WEATHER – Big thermometer. 50’s to 80’s. Really chilly mornings and unseasonably windy. Bring a sweatshirt or light jacket you can take off

WATER – Because of the erratic winds, water temps are all over. Water is also cloudier and greener than usual because of it. Gotta hunt around . There’s warm blue water mixed with the turbid waters.

BAIT – Mostly no problem getting live bait of sardines, mackerel, caballitos, cocineros

FISHING – Really up-and-down. Different from day-t0-day and boat -to-boat. Lots of variety, but really gotta work for the fish and find a spot where they are biting.

SPECIES CAUGHT THIS WEEK – pargo mulatto, rainbow runner, yellowtail, amberjack, sierra, bonito, jack crevalle, pompano, trevally, cabrilla, palometa, tuna, dorado, totuava, roosterfish

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Just when I thought the waters had warmed and the yellowtail were gone, Troy Kuzminsky came back with this double haul from the island.

Some dorado starting to move in. Captain Jorge has a thumbs-up for our good amigo, Johnny Chung, from Oregon!

Daniel Bovee comes down every year and does well. He put the first wahoo into the boat for the season off Cerralvo Island.

Just way too cute of a photo. Summer Kuzminsky’s first rooster! She also released the fish!

It’s all about the smiles and good times! Megan Nay from Colorado with her first-ever fish!

Neil Kanemoto from Hawaii on his first trip with us hung ths nice trevally off the rocks with Captain Rogelio.

Captain Armando with two of our funnest amigas from Oregon, Tracy Chung and Patty Killian with quite a variety of rock and reef fish. Alot of it ended up for dinner at our Tailhunter Restaurant.

The “Cabrilla Master.” Glen Adkins hadn’t had a bite all day but right at the end, Captain Edgar put him over a rock pile that produced a half-dozen of these trophy cabrilla. Gorgeous and great eating fish!

Marie Wirtz from Bend OR had just one day to squeeze in for fishing and got this pretty dorado fishing with Captain Victor.

Off Espirito Santo Island, Tom Worley from Colorado got one of the nicer roosterfish of the week for a photo and release.

A slug tuna! Troy was dropping a jig off Espirto Santo Island for yellowtail when he got hammered by this 50-60 pound tuna. He said never ever fought as hard!

Dean Sensui is the TV of of the show long running “Hawaii Goes Fishing” back in Hawaii and shows off a nice little rooster for the camera before putting it back in the water.

Another of our Hawaii brothers who visited us, Mark Mitsuyasu with a taste barred pargo.

Big smile from Crystal Kuzminsky and her roosterfish. We’re starting to see more coming in finally. Crystal released her fish.

Damon Donovan from Reno and dad, Jim Donovan, from Connecticut on the beach with a little yellowtail and amberjack.

Johnny with a fat bonito and Captain Jorge. The bonito have been big fat and feisty this week.

Captain Armando helps Nate Abe get a quick photo of a nice jack crevalle.

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If you’ve been reading our other fishing reports these past weeks, you can tell that it was probably a better fishing week than before just by the increasing number photos.

That’s true to some degree.

Overall, last week was so slow with the full moon and wind that any improvement had to be better and indeed, in terms of numbers, quantity and quality it was an up-tick.

However, we still had to work hard for the fish.

For one, these winds are really chilling things off. These aren’t the northern winds that blow us off the water every winter. These winds are from the south and usually warmer, but this whole past month, it’s been darned cold, especially in the mornings.

I’m wearing a heavy sweatshirt and long pants. Captains have heavy jackets. Clients are scrambling to Walmart and Sears to buy sweatshirts. I’m not kidding. If you’re coming down, it wouldn’t hurt to throw something into the suitcase that you can wear and take off later, because later in the day it turns into sunshine and 85 degree weather.

But the winds have been blowing from the south…then switching to the west…back to the south…now from the north. It’s all over and un-predictable!

The winds have made it rougher than we normally have it this time of year plus the winds have stirred up the waters so that they are cloudier and definitely colder than usual.

To that end, the fishing has been well…less than stellar. Being perfectly honest.

No problem getting live bait like sardines, mackerel, cocineros and caballitos. But, the fishing has been all over the place. It’s hard to know what will bite or where they will bite. Every day is different. Every spot is different. Our captains are busting their chops and burning engine gass working hard to find fish our folks.

Some boats struggle to get a bite. The boat right next to them is hooking fish in the same spot. One hot spot turns cold the next day. We go looking for one species of fish and something totally different shows up. Some boats struggle all day. Their friends come back talking about a fun day of action! Go figure.

On the good side…

This our Art’s 2nd time down this month! He’s been a long-time Tailhunter amigo from Colorado and has a pig of a bonito in this photo.

We’re getting alot of different species. That is typical of this time of year. You can just tell by looking at the the photos! And it’s good to be getting more roosterfish although not yet seeing those big hog roosters. I think when the larger sabalo (ladyfish) move into the shallows, the bigger roosters will show up as the sabalo are a favorite food for the big gallos.

We also got our first wahoo of the season as well. We’ve seen them around for several weeks, but haven’t gotten any to stick. Also, there’s obviously some tuna in the area and billfish as well hopefully ready to go-off soon Nice to see more dorado as well, which means the waters are warming a bit.

We are also seeing billfish sunning themselves on the surface waiting for the ocean to get a big warmer and hopefully, they get ready to bite!

UNUSUAL CATCH

Daniel Bovee’s totuava!

In the mid 1900’s you could catch 100-200 pound totuava way up 1000 miles in the northern Sea of Cortez. San Felipe was well known for these huge fish which are related to the smaller white seabass many southern California ocean fishermen are familiar with. These fish were massive. And delicious often described and “buttery” in flavor. Parts of the fish were also popular on the Asian market as well.

Unfortunately they were also popular sportfish and commercial fish. Unregulated fishing back then depleted the fish population almost to extinction and hence fishing for them was banned. It’s now illegal to catch them. The ones sometimes found on menus are supposedly “farm raised” fish.

However, this past week we caught TWO of them!

Not the massive ones, but still legit 20-pound-class fish. In my 30 years here in La Paz, I’ve never seen even one of these. Mostly these fish are relegated far up the Sea of Cortez in cooler waters. So it was quite a surprise. Both fish were released.

From what I found out later, there’s a totuava fish farm somewhere in the bay and they have a big fast hole in the net and fish have been escaping. So this might not be the last totuava we see!

That’s my story!

Jonathan & Jilly

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of May 3-10, 2023

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ERRATIC FISHING FUELED BY CHANGING WIND AND FULL MOON

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report for Week of May 3-10, 2023

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN WEEK AT A GLANCE

Weather – Big thermometer. Down into the chilly 50’s (again) up to the high 80’s and low 90’s.

Water – strong winds keeping the waters murky and disturbed.

Fishing – I’d give it at best a 3 on a scale of 10. One day Las Arenas would be better. The next La Paz would be better. Very un predictable.

Species Caught this week: Pargo mulato, pargo liso, cabrilla, sierra, jack crevalle, bonito, amberjack, yellowtail, tuna (just 1), dorado, snapper, rainbow runner, pompano, trevally

MEXICAN MINUTE VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Our Wyoming amigo, Will Dolinar caught and released this pretty rooster just outside of Bahia Muertos. Roosters finally making their way into us. Will was able to releas the fish!

Good guy, Jimmy Williams was at Cerralvo Island just hoping to catch a few pargo and cabrilla for dinner, but saw a bunch of boiling fish and tossed a live sardine into the crashing fish and it ended up being this slug yellowfin tuna. Good thing Jimmy is a good fisherman because he ended up fighting this fish for 2 hours on 30 pound test!

Chuck Toeniskoetter gets photo-punked by his favorite Captain Victor as the show off some nice pargo liso, a trevally and some sierra. Chuck gave all the fish to Victor and the family.

Jimmy also surprisingly pulled this bull dorado off the island as well. There’s a few starting to swim around. Definitely, the largest of the week. Hopefully, more to come!

Definitely a good day. Stan Andre and Terry Hawk have been fishing with us for years and had a banner day on the tough pargo liso plus a trio of snapper. They donated all the fish.

Nice smiles and cold beers in hand from Donna and Will with a nice rack of yellowtail, amberjack, cabrilla, snapper, pargo and triggerfish. Pretty much a great catch of reef fish that they brought over to our Tailhunter Restaurant to have prepared for dinner. Many thanks to them as well for bringing me some fresh real butter from the U.S. Totally gold down here!

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Just when I thought things were starting to take off for our fishing season, we hit a bump in the road. It was like we had taken the proverbial “two steps forward and one step back.”

But, there’s no controlling nature.

It was combination of things that hampered fishing. I don’t want to sugarcoat things.

First, the winds came back. Not those crazy northern winter winds that blew us all around for 5 months. But, erratic winds that seemed to blow from different directions all during the days. Sometimes from the south. Sometimes from the west. It might be a morning wind or an afternoon northern for a few hours that turns the water into white caps. Totally unpredictable.

And some days there was no wind…

However, the windy effect not only dropped the ambient air temperatures (it got chilly and nippy again) but moreso, really turned over the waters and clouded them up again.

On top of it, we had a massive full moon this week. Normally, I don’t worry too much about full moons, but in combination of the winds, we got a double whammy as it produced some strong tides and currents.

The overall effect was a mixed and unpredictable bag of fish.

I’ll be honest, some days were incredibly slow and picky with the fish simply refusing to chew. Other times, a regular hot-spot would go cold. Or one boat would find fish and the boat right next to it would struggle mightily.

The catch seemed different from day-to-day. We got cabrilla, snapper, sierra, bonito, jack crevalle, amberjack, rainbow runner, pompano, trevally and triggerfish. There were a few smallish yellowtail here and there, but overall, I think the waters have warmed and the yellowtail have moved off. There were also a few dorado and one tuna hooked, but nothing to get too excited about with no further hook-ups.

Those big pargo liso that were schooling were biting earlier in the week then disappeared. We’re seeing a few billish on the surface, but not yet willing to bite. Hopefully, soon!

Roosterfish in the 5-20 pound class have moved in.

That’s my story

Jonathan

Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter Sportfishing
www.tailhunter.comMexico Office:

Tailhunter Sportfishing
755 Paseo Obregon

La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico

U.S. Mailing Address:

Tailhunter Sportfishing
P.O. Box 159
Hewitt TX. 76643Phones:
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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of April 25-May 2, 2023

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BIG SPAWNING PARGO BENDING RODS IN SHALLOW WATER

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of April 25-May 2, 2023

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN REPORT AT A GLANCE:

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WEATHER – 65 to 85 degrees. Cold windy mornings

FISHING – (Scale of 1-10) – 4 but getting better. Lots of variety. Las Arenas has been better than La Paz

WIND – Still being a pain, but it’s now coming from the south instead of the north which are the real problematic winds. South is manageable. But it’s keeping the waters cool and somewhat cloudier than we would like.

TYPES of FISH CAUGHT THIS WEEK:

Yellowtail, amberjack, pargo liso, pargo mulato, dog tooth snapper, cabrilla, rainbow runner, triggerfish, bonito, jack crevalle, roosterfish, parrotfish, sierra.

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MEXICAN MINUTE VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Fresh one in the boat! Stan Andre has been with us numerous times over the years and he’s hooked ’em, but never able to land one of these tough pargo. He got several this week to break the jinx!

Oh the sheer joy! Great photo of Jan’s first fish with a photo assist from Captain Pancho.

Love these guys! Been coming for years. Steve Halgrimson and Chuck Toeniskoetter got quite a variety on the table of pompano, snapper, pargo and trevally! Threw back a bunch too!

Dan Shay always does well on his spinning rod. He chummed up some yellowtail at the island and cast his jig into the middle of the boils and had this nice forkie blow up on his lure!

These are horses! (The fish…not the guys!). Terry Hawk and Stan Andre with two more legit pargo liso in the boat!

Jan and Art…fished with us a week ago and came back to catch more pargo. Art made the mistake of trying to fish the pargo with light line and missed several other fish in the rocks!

I suppose the biggest news is that it’s still windy!

But this is different. It’s not those dastardly northern winds that blew us around all winter and kept everyone off the water. These are southern winds that are alot more manageable.

That’s the good news.

The bad news is that the winds are making for some crazy chilly mornings even though it warms up to the mid-80’s the rest of the day. All of us are wearing jackets and sweatshirts in the mornings. I kid you not! If you’re coming down soon, it wouldn’t hurt to bring something you can take off later!

What the winds are doing is keeping the waters on the cool side and making the ocean alot murkier than we would prefer. That’s the part that’s affecting the bite.

That’s not to say we’re not catching fish.

We’re catching quite a variety of species! However, where and when you fish has alot to do with the results. This past week, the fishing out’ve La Paz was so-so at best. The yellowtail largely got lock-jaw and wouldn’t bite which I think had alot to do with the winds and erratic seas. So, most of the catch was a smattering of rock and reef fish.

On the other hand, our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet did remarkably better with a super variety of species that included jack crevalle, bonito, smaller roosterfish, sierra, amberjack, yellowtail, cabrilla, rainbow runner and several species of pargo including the big pargo liso (mullet snapper) that school up in the shallows this time of year and can give anglers fits.

In the photos, some of them might not look that big, but they can pull as big as fish 3x their size and are equipped with sharp teeth; sharp scales and gill plates plus quickly pull you into the rocks because these powerfish fish are in the shallows. They also have a really bad attitude! I often tell our anglers, if you hook 5 or 6 of them and get one to the boat, you’re doing pretty good!

This wasn’t from this week, but this is about a “medium” sized one just to give you an idea. This is the kind that can leave you in tears!

A few dorado swimming around. A few tuna noticed by the commercial anglers and we’re seeing our first billfish of the season starting to sun themselves on the surface but not yet quite ready to chew!

That’s my story!

Jonathan

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Tailhunter Sportfishing
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755 Paseo Obregon

La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico

U.S. Mailing Address:

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P.O. Box 159
Hewitt TX. 76643Phones:
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La Paz – Las Arenas / Muertos Bay / Bahia Suenos Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of April 17-23, 2023

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ACTION IMPROVES AS WINDS DIMINISH

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report for Week of April 17-24, 2023

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ FISHING VIDEO FISHING REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

The pargo or schooling and spawning in the shallow and exciting to see but real horses to try to pull out’ve the rocks. However, Mike Luna from Utah got this big guy out while fishing with Captain Victor! They are often willing to bite ,but most are lost because of sharp teeth and scales and they head back to the rocks! Nice catch!

We’ve know Cole Chavira since he was about 3 feet tall. He’s from the San Diego area and an excellent angler who has been in La Paz a zillion times. He picked up this roosterfish on the east side of Espirito Santo Island. Nice to see the roosters start to move in. The fish was released.

Our amigo, Doctor Art Flippin, had just one day to fish and was drifting the shallows over the rocks fishing for cabrilla and pargo and got surprised by this nice bull dorado. Art looks kinda happy! He did also get pargo, jacks, cabrilla and rainbow runner as well. Art lives in Colorado.

Big smile from Sophia with a tasty barred pargo ready for the fish box. Tough fighting fish, but great eating!

Captain Victor has a smile as he tries to help Rita Luna with her rainbow runner. Cousins to yellowtail, the fish are schooling up over the shallow areas right now and make great sashime and cooked up as well.

Our long-time amigo, Mark Bonsack from Washington comes down several times a year and is an excellent angler. He had just one day to fish, but rocked it with two hefty pargo liso. Tough to pull out’ve the rocks and most fish are lost. As a matter of fact, Mark says they broke off 4 others!

I think I’m coming over for fish tacos. Our amigo, Jimmy Williams was with Phil Desautels and Phil Perrone and I see dorado, ca brilla, pargo and yellow snapper on the table. They got hit by the winds, but these guys have experience and were able to hide in a cove and found a honey hole of fish!

East side of Cerralvo Island is a light tackle mecca. Art Flippin has a slugger jack crevalle he caught and released. The jacks are cousins to the roosterfish and fight just as hard, but don’t have the “mohawk” dorsal fin.

Mike Luna with Captain Victor on the beach. Check out the two nice pargo liso and the rainbow runner on the table, but the HUGE palometa (trevally) on the table is also a trophy fish!

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It’s all about the wind. It’s been that way all winter.

But finally, after a horrendous few months, the winds seem to be diminishing somewhat. Fortunately, during those crazy rough months, I warn folks about the winds so we don’t have too many anglers. But this week, the season started to kick in just in time as the winds cut back back on us a bit to allow for some decent fishing.

Early in the week, we got into quite a variety of fish.

It looks like the big pargo have come inshore to spawn. These tough fish are schooling over the rocks and are difficult fighters but great sport. Even the smaller 5-10 pounders can be brutally frustrating with their sharp teeth and scales plus their ability to get back into the rocks. We did get some larger 15-25 pounders, however, and many were lost to the rocks.

The same areas also held rainbow runners, barred pargo, snapper, smaller yellowtail, amberjack, cabrilla as well as bonito and jack crevalle making for some excellent fulls-speed action. As well, we’re starting to see some roosterfish in the area up to about 20 pounds plus a few free-swimming dorado moving into the area which keeps it promising.

Later in the week, the winds kicked in again and the only folks out on the water enjoying were the kiteboarders and windsurfers.

Check out this video of the channel in front of Cerralvo Island (turn up your volume)!