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La Paz – Las Arenas / Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of June 27-July 4, 2015

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Chris Settevendemie wahoo tags archangel 7-15

WHOAAA! LAST MINUTE! Just when I was about to write off the awesome wahoo bite of the last 2 months as “over and done,” today Sunday, our guys found the wahoo again! Chris Settevendemie from Paso Robles CA and Captain Archangel might have had some special “help.” He was here at Bahia de los Muertos to spread dad’s ashes. Dad musta been riding along. Chris ripped 3 wahoo today!

On his first visit here last year, Rusty Cain got caught in the middle of Hurricane Odile last September! He’s back and nailed this gorgeous wahoo today with his wife Caroline just when I thought there were no more wahoo! Great catch just before I put this report to press!

Great roosterfish week and no one had a better one that Alecia and Bennett Clegg from Sacramento CA. In 3 days, they hooked and released 7 up to forty pounds and also lost another 7. Plus they got other fish too! (See below). They were having so much fun, the extended their vacation another 3 nights! Here’s Alecia with another big rooster and Captain Victor smiles on!

Retired U.S. Army Sgt. and educator, Tom Rautert from Tucson AZ started his week out right with two of these big roosterfish off Cerralvo Island that tuckered him out a bit more than expected (in a good way!). That’s Cerralvo Island behind him. All fish were released!

Despite the full moon, the marlin went pretty crazy this week. Most of the were released when possible. But, in some cases, they were so voracious they charged whatever baits were in the water or whatever lures were out there and fought each other to get at the offering…which also meant they were swallowing hooks and it made it harder to release. First timer from Utah, Dave Gasser had a great week including his first-time striper with Captain Armando!

An armload of forty + pound amberjack for Scott Hillier who took this fatty outside of Bahia de Los Muertos with Captain Adolfo driving the boat.

As mentioned above, it was a crazy week with marlin going voracious on the full moon! Diego and Kelly Jimenez from Loveland CO, had a double hookup simultaneously when trying to troll for wahoo! Both lines screaming in opposite directions! They got both to the boat, but both fish had swallowed the Rapalas with their treble hooks making release impossible. They donated the meat. With Captain Jorge.

In addition to a banner week on roosterfish, Bennett Clegg also put a striper in the boat that couldn’t be released. That’s pretty touch to hold up a marlin like that!

Not many wahoo this week, but Brent Hillier managed to get one landed! Nice fish for our amigo from Colorado!

Just a beautiful photo of another rooster before it gets unhooked and released. Pretty water. Pretty fish! Thanks for the shot, Bennett!

Beast mode! Another big rooster for Bennett…he got seven of them all released! Check out the flat waters!

Yes, dorado have been biting, but hardly any for our Las Arenas boats. All the dorado have been school-sized fish with our La Paz fleet! Alecia holds up a pretty one. They got near limits.

Big shout out gracias to so many of our folks who keep bringing in supplies for our “Pack for a Purpose” program that Jill initiated whereby empty bags and ice chests are brought down but filled with stuff for the kids and families in need at shelters and orphanages. Diego and Kelly Jimenez brought down a bunch of school supplies and also a gorgeous mermaid painting for Jill and I. Big hearts!

Sgt. Tom Rautert (ret.) always does it right. He stuff a suitcase full of kids stuff for our “Pack for a Purpose” program and our veteran poses with Jilly at Tailhunters! Thanks, Tom!

FULL MOON BUT ROOSTERFISH AND MARLIN REALLY LIGHT IT UP!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of June 27-July 4, 2015

Depending on what you were fishing for and whether you were fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas or our La Paz fleet, it was a pretty good week of fishing. Summer is definitely here with hot sunny skies and warm blue waters. Summer vacation has started for the La Paz school kids so it’s a pretty festive time to be here because everyone is out right now! And we also had a full moon that some think adversely affects the fishing. Not this week!

LAS ARENAS

Usually, Las Arenas is where we send our clients to catch variety…get bent…have a little fun close to shore. Everyone catches fish. It’s a good area to start fishing on a fishing vacation. There’s alot of species and lots of live bait to play with. After fishing here and having some fun and putting some fish in the ice chests, then we go fish with our Tailhunter La Paz fleet and look for bigger fish!

Well, this year, it seems just the opposite.

All the larger fish are at Las Arenas. And there are no “small fish.” Because it’s mostly the larger fish, there are fewer fish. You get one or two shots at at trophy and that might be it for the day. Or one boat might have all the luck on a given day while the boat next to it might get some needlefish, triggers and a bonito. You hit home runs or you strike out.

And that’s how it’s been.

But, the trophies are NICE!

This week the marlin woke up! For many of our folks they got their first shots at billfish and there were several days where each of our pangas hooked at least one marlin. Quite a few lost, but many others were caught and released. The problem is that it’s like the marlin woke up from a Rip Van Winkle Sleep! They are voracious! Guys have told me the marlin were everywhere and swimming around the pangas. They are actually trying to get away from them. The fish are charging just about any bait or lure in the water without hesitation and even fighting each other to get to a bait or lure. The problem with that is they we found the fish are literally swallowing everything WHOLE! That makes it tough to release when hooks and lures are so deep! One of our guys even told me that his hat blew into the water and as it blew away a marlin swirled on it!

Likewise, the rooster fish have been on fire! Not uncommon to hit 2, 3, 4 or 5 roosters in the 20-50 pound class each day with all fish being released. It seems the full moon turned them on also. Around Punta Arenas and on the south eastern side of Cerralvo there are some hot spots. There’s also some wahoo still around and we’ve taken a few fat amberjack and pargo too. However, I think our incredible epic wahoo bite that we enjoyed the last two months may have finally run it’s course! It had to end sometime…darnit! The past week or so only a smidgen of wahoo even biting.

HOLD EVERYTHING...just as I’m putting the finishing touches on my Sunday night fishing report, our Las Arenas boats come in from the day…AND THEY HAVE WAHOO! One panga had THREE (See above photos). One had another wahoo and another lost a wahoo. So, maybe all is not lost! WAHOO!

LA PAZ

Normally, this is the “big fish area” as mentioned above. However, the last few weeks, this has turned into the “action zone.” Dorado have finally come around nicely. Lots of little fish, but some larger 15-20 pounders now showing up and not unusual to get limits or near limits daily. Marlin and sails are in the same areas as the dorado since they are eating the smaller dorado plus quite a few sharks hooked as well. Inshore, cabrilla and pargo and big snapper as well as rooster fish have made for some nice variety.

Jonathan Roldan’s

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La Paz – Las Arenas (Muertos Bay) Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of June 21-28, 2015

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Spencer Sawaske started his fishing week out on a high note right off the bat with Captain Jorge by sticking this nice wahoo.

Captain Mike Gravert who runs Intimidator Sportfishing on the Sacramento Delta knows how to put fish in the boat and this pig of a pargo liso got yanked ou’tve the rocks…a pretty awesome feat…by Mike near Bahia de Los Muertos!

Our amiga, Michele Conklin from Spokane WA with her first big catch-and-release rooster. Here with Captain Jorge.

First-timer, Cullen Hennessey with dad, Brian, put the hurt on this big-time amberjack that went about 45 pounds. Captain Pancho poses up!

The man they call, “Ranchero.” Rich Sawaske with a tasty tough barred pargo he pulled from the rocks near Espirito Santo Island.

Dave Conklin tried to “lend a hand” with his wife, Michele’s big wahoo while Captain Jorge shows how to do it correctly.

Great amigo, Craig Corda, is always smiling especially when he’s holding a big fish like this fat rooster caught and released near Bahia de los Muertos.

Utah in the house! First timer, Lorna Gasser with Captain Armando and two dorado to start the trip!

Headed for the dinner plate! Two great eating rockfish…a dog-tooth snapper and barred pargo for Randy Forrestiere.

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Kudos again to Bill Jubb for the big heart. At our recent Western Outdoor News/ Tailhunter Sportfishing Panga Slam event and tournament, Bill won $600. He turned around and paid for everyone’s dinners at the last night dinner, but also donated the bulk of the money to our FANLAP scholarship fund with enough money to send two kids to high school. As a result several other participants also donated additional funds raising enough to send 3 kids to school who otherwise wouldn’t have a chance. We’re grateful and blessed. Thanks, Bill. Thanks, Malina, Dave, Michele and Dave!

ROOSTERFISH and MORE DORADO HIGHLIGHT STRANGE FISHING WEEK

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of June 21-28, 2015

Weather-wise, it’s been one of the best and hottest weeks of the year as we roll into summer. We had one day hit 114, but most days are about mid-90’s and blazingly sunny. School is finally out for all the local kids. More families showing up here to vacation.

Fishing success has been difficult to track however. Personally, it seem more like late May fishing if you look at the our daily fishing reports. Still alot of variety. Still getting some cooler-water fish. Warm water fish just seem to be getting up to speed, but not quite. Basically, however, there’s a big difference between fishing Las Arenas and La Paz.

LAS ARENAS/ BAHIA DE LOS MUERTOS

Usually, this time of year is where we see the most variety of fish. Not so this year. At least, not so far. Right now, I’ve been telling our anglers, it’s BIG OR GO HOME! This is home run territory. Other than some smaller bonito or rockfish, it’s either big rooster fish, wahoo, or billfish. If you get a shot and miss it, you get skunked. That’s it. Go home with a good story. And alot of our anglers miss fish or they bust off. It’s fishing. That’s why these are bigger fish. However, if you land one of these guys, then you’re the hero.

This past week, most of our roosters were 20-50 pound fish. Nice trophies. Nothing to bring home to eat, but a trophy photo and catch-and-release just the same. Some of our anglers landed 1-5 of these fish some days.

The wahoo…a bit more anemic this week. Is this the end? We’ve had one of the most dynamic wahoo bites in memory the past 4 or 5 weeks. Epic. We have caught more wahoo in recent weeks than the last 10 years COMBINED! But this past week, there were only a few hooked and even fewer landed. Chalk it up to angler error…hard-fighting fish…changing conditions? I don’t know. But, it’s been great and I hope it’s not done.

Marlin seem like they’re waking up. We got a few. Most released. Most about 100 pounds.

Late Saturday, tuna between 30-70 pounds were landed by commercial guys at the south end of Cerralvo Island. We’re exploring that as I write this report.

Again, nothing small. Anglers are either totally blown away when they land one of these fish or they come back disappointed. It’s the nature of fishing and at Las Arenas right now, you get 1 or two shots. If you miss it, that’s it.

LA PAZ

Fortunately, we have two fleets! Just for this reason so we can move our clients back and forth depending on conditions and the bite. Luckily, most of our clients are here for a few days so they have the ability to fish with both of our fleets!

Our La Paz action has been well…just that…ACTION!

Dorado have been more active and there’s schools of smaller to medium sized dorado now showing up. Limits or near limits of these smaller fish are not uncommon and we’re just waiting for some of the larger fish to show up. We did get a few in the 20-30 pound range and larger fish lost.

Also, inshore, even this late in the season, pargo and cabrilla in the rocks and reefs have provided plenty of fun, action and frustration as the bigger ones bust folks off in the rocks. But, this can be hours of fun. Here’s what Richard “Ranchero” Sawaske said about it:

“(Captain)Raul, Randy (Forrestiere) & I worked a stretch of Espiritu Santo on Fri. for pargo. If it wasn’t epic it was pretty damn close! I’m a Pargo Guy & we got em all…Dogtooth, Liso & Barred! Not huge, but they don’t have to be! We put a dozen or more in the boat, got our asses handed to us by at least that many more & after 4 hours of intense action..well, we were Zing Pow-ied!! It was great! We were Gassed!”

For larger species…Billfish and sharks also providing action with both species being released or lost.

That’s our story!

Jonathan and Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

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www.tailhunter-international.com

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

U.S. Mailing Address: Tailhunter International, 8030 La Mesa Blvd. #178, La Mesa CA 91942

Phones:

from USA : 626-638-3383

from Mexico: 044-612-14-17863

Tailhunter Weekly Fishing Report: https://fishreport.jonathanroldan.com/

Tailhunter YouTube Videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/pangapirate

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of June 14-21, 2015

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Dave Lindell Pat McDonell tags 6-15 wahoo

One of our frequent amigos, Dave Lindell, from Pendleton OR with Pat McDonell from Western Outdoor News and Dave’s big wahoo…his first. This might have been the largest fish of the 3 day event. Dave had several others hooked up as well.

Some other great fun amigos and always a blast to be around Dave and Michele (“with one “L” ) Conklin who also had some big fish and out of everyone might have also caught the most fish of any team in the Panga Slam event with the number of hookups they had each day. They’re from Spokane WA.

Love this shot of good friends, Cathy and Craig Corda with Craig mugging from the panga as Cathy holds their big wahoo!

First timer, but hopefully not the last time, Paul Csenar from Newport Beach is another of our amigos that got his first wahoo this week…in fact, he got TWO! He also got his first marlin this week as well.

Michele and Dave Conklin tags day 2 dorado 6-15

On fire! Michele Conklin with the largest dorado of the week with husband Dave and a nice cabrilla. They had more hookups than anyone else and a great variety of fish!

Big smiles from Ron Lawver, Sr. from Washington and Captain Victor with a trophy roosterfish in flat waters near Las Arenas. The fish was released.

What the heck? It’s June! Phil Okamoto got this yellowtail off Espirito Santo Island. No one could believe it until we saw the photos and the fillets. Most yellowtail run from February to Apil when the waters are cold. Waters are almost 80 degrees right now!

Right there in Bahia de Los Muertos, there’s some nice schools of roosterfish like this one caught by Catlyn Wagner right near where we launch the boats. Her dad is good amigo, Gary Wagner, who owns the famous Giggling Marlin Restaurant in Cabo San Lucas. The fish was released.

Candid photos like this one with our Captain Rogelio and Orhan Gurbuz with his big cabrilla are gems!

Boy did I goof!!! I’m really meticulous about photos on these fishing reports that I’ve done now for almost 20 years. But, I forgot this photo from two weeks ago of our own Uncle Johnny Enright and his wife Nancy! OMG!!! Sorry, Johnny and Nancy! I owe you some big time drinks at Tailhunters next time!!!

Kansas in the house! Marion Lawver with another fine roosterfish off Bahia de Los Muertos in flat calm waters! Fish was released.

Surprise catch for Phil Okamoto and Kristine McGrath. While fishing Espirito Santo Island with our Tailhunter La Paz fleet, they got a double hook up on two big sharks that they thought were makos, but turned out to be blacktips. One eventually busted off but the other took a two hour fight. It yielded some beautiful white tasty meat. Phil stuck his camera underwater to take some shots and turns out…there were as many as SIX other sharks under the boat!

FISHING STILL TRYING TO MAKE A COMEBACK AFTER STORMS

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of June 14-21, 2015

Happy Father’s Day Everyone to you and your families and all dad’s everywhere!

The week started off with all of us watching with a bit of trepidation as Hurricane Carlos was building far to the south of us. Just what we need! But, like many others, Carlos petered out long before it ever touched Baja and went inland leaving us with a great week of nothing but warm blue Baja skies…temperatures in the low 90’s…and water that seems to keep growing prettier the further we get away from the last storm, Blanca, two weeks ago.

Blanca put the hammer on what had been an increasingly good fishing season. So, now that it’s passed, it seems with each passing day and the further we get on the calendar away from Blanca, the better the water gets and hence the better the fishing seems to be as well. Although, Storm Carlos did send some wind and big waves our way!

Overall, a pretty decent week of fishing. It’s been better, but this week was not all that terrible by any stretch! It just could have been even better as things try to right themselves and get on an even keel.

LAS ARENAS/ BAHIA DE LOS MUERTOS

As mentioned above, with each day away from the storm, things get better. Prior to the storm, we had an epic wahoo bite…probably the best I’ve seen here in the 20 years I’ve been working down here. So, anytime something like a weather-related event comes along, I get worried.

Well, the wahoo sure seem to be back. As one of my guys told me, “There were free-swimming wahoo all over the place!” Never seen anything like it. The fish are sticking around for some crazy reason and surely no one is complaining.

The fish are 20-50 pounds and eating bait as well as lures like dark-colored Rapalas. Rapalas, especially purple and dark-colored black/ white or grey combinations have been hot. Bring some down if you can. Especially the Rapala CD-18 or even better, the Rapala X-Rap 15 of Rapala XRap 30. The stores here in town keep selling out even with the price tags of almost 40 dollars for them. Worse is that many anglers are losing their fish so if the lure belonged to a captain…adios…there goes $40 bucks!

If you have time, take the treble hooks off of the lures and replace them with single hooks!

But, the truth is that these are home-run fish. Big or go home! For every fish we put in the panga, 2-4 fish are lost! Or, worse, many times, one of our pangas come in and the anglers have long faces. They got nothing, but tell me they lost 3, 4 or 5 fish! These fish are fast and hard chargers and they have sharp teeth and a hard jawbone so you really have to stick that hook hard when they bite.

For other fish, the other news is that it seems the marlin really woke up…finally! Quite a few marlin getting hooked up. Mostly stripers and blues with stripers going 90-120 pounds and blues up to 300. Every day this week several were hooked up and fortunately, most fish are getting released.

Additionally, rooster fish were back nicely in the counts. Most fish were 15-30 pounds, but there’s a school of 2-10 pounders right in Bahia de Los Muertos and if you just wanted to stay in the bay and catch-and-realease small roosters all day, it’s not out of the question.

Not many dorado showing up which is a surprise! Again, the conditions are the dispositive factor. Late in the week we had big waves and winds that were residual effects of Hurricane Carlos way to the south of us. Although the sun kept blazing and we didn’t get any storm conditions, the storm did send up waves and wind which then affected the fishing negatively.

LA PAZ

Good bit of variety for our Tailhunter anglers fishing with our La Paz fleet. More dorado showing up in the counts although, not alot of big fish just yet. Most fish are schoolie-sized 5-15 pounders with the occasional 20 pound mahi in the box. I expect this is just the opening round and the mahi fishing will get better. Lots of and lots of little fish around and sure, you could put a big dent in your ice chest fishing some of the trout-sized dorado, but what’s the fun in that? Hopefully, bigger and tougher guys will arrive as we move into summer.

For other species, our pangas are still finding some great marks of pargo mulatto and yellow snapper as well as some hefty trophy-cabrilla.

As well, we are also seeing more anxious billfish like sails and marlin and rooster fish in some of the coves up to 50 pounds.

2015 TAILHUNTER INTERNATIONAL / WESTERN OUTDOOR NEWS PANGA SLAM

(L-R) Cathy Conklin, Dave Lindell, Dave Lindell, Malina Lindell, Paul Csenar, Dave Conklin (kneeling), Michele Conklin (pink bikini), Craig Braswell, Jonathan Roldan (kneeling), Jilly Roldan (kneeling), Dave Frausto, Pat McDonell, Tom Robinson, Bill Jubb

It was one of our smaller groups in the 16 years we have held the event, but perhaps one of the funnest groups we’ve had here in my memory. The fishing could have been better. We’ve had better outings. But it’s hard to have had a better bunch. Or a more gratifying result. Please read to the end and find out the surprise ending!

Day 1 we fished Las Arenas and got into some nice wahoo and marlin. For some it was their firsts of those species. We didn’t have a scale to the beach, but biggest fish was probably Dave Lindell’s wahoo (Pendleton OR) or Dave Conklin’s wahoo (Spokane WA) . Tom Robinson from Orange Co. took his first marlin after a bruising 2 hour fight on a little Avet reel and released it to fight another day. That night we went with the group to Costa Restaurant at the marina for some great seafood and live dance music.

Our favorite alfalfa farmer, Craig Corda, holds up a wahoo from the first day.

Day 2 – We moved over to fish La Paz side and there were some school-sized dorado and rockies taken. Michele (“Michele with one “L”) Conklin had the biggest dorado of the day and their boat also had the most hook-ups. That night was taco party night at Tailhunters for the big feed.

Two wahoo and a jack crevalle among other fish that day plus two other wahoo lost for Michele and Dave Conklin.

Day 3 – No fishing! Party day! We joined up with Fun Baja and took the whole gang out to Espirito Santo Island for a day of snorkeling and scuba diving with the sealions and then to the island itself for a catered lunch, mass consumption of icy cold beer and some paddleboarding and kayaking. It was a spectacular day! The problem was we spend the WHOLE DAY out there having way too much fun and by the time we got back, everyone just wanted to kick it and take it easy so everyone was on their own for dinner and pretty much hung out at La Concha pool

Beach gals…Cathy Corda and our own Jilly Roldan!

In the most heroic act of the week, when one of the boat engines got a glitch and couldn’t make to closer to the beach, Pat McDonell and Dave Conklin swam the ice chest with 4 cases of icy beer to the beach about 200 yards away . Give give give!

Yes, go THAT way , David! The girls are waiting for you to bring the beer out to them!

Day 4 – Actual tournament day for the money! The other days were just warm-ups! $600 jackpot on the line. Everyone went charging! Unfortunately, so did the winds and waves which were ripping for the earlier part of the day. Fishing was scratchy at best for a handful of small dorado although Paul Csenar got his first marlin. Big fish turned out to be an 11.7 pounds skipjack caught by Bill Jubb! That was it. But again, with a giant cooler of beer on the beach and another with ice-cold watermelon slices, it turned into another beach party!

Pat McDonell assumes the position in front of some of the pangas or our La Paz fleet parked at Balandra Bay.

Craig Corda…living the dream! Too bad the waters are 80 degrees. Beer 33 degrees.

Dinner that night at Tailhunters for our all-you-can-eat Hawaiian Rib Dinner! Oh man…talk about sticky fingers and smackin’ lips!

Western Outdoor News Executive Editor Pat McDonell who is the best MC in the world…did our closing and passed out more swag to everyone. But then he awarded the $600 jackpot money to Bill Jubb…

And here’s the awesomeness:

Bil Jubb took all the money and he told everyone he was covering the drink tab. Then, he donated the rest of the winnings to FANLAP, which is one of our favorite charities here in La Paz! The balance of that amount of more than $400 is enough for two high school scholarships to pay for the expenses of two high school students for a year. (Here in Mexico, mandatory public school is only given until 9th grade…after that, the individual must fund further education themselves!). What an incredible ending which drew much applause and high-fives! Thanks to Bill for doing that.

But, that wasn’t all…upon departure, Dave and Malina Lindell (from Pendleton, OR) two of our frequent amigos here to Tailhunters left us another donation with enough to fund possibly another two scholarships! We are speechless and grateful beyond words. Blessed!

THANK YOU EVERYONE! THANK YOU WESTERN OUTDOOR NEWS and PAT MCDONELL. THANK YOU FUN BAJA. THANK YOU JILLY ROLDAN and our TAILHUNTER CAPTAINS, STAFF and RESTAURANT FAMILY and a special SHOUT OUT THANK YOU TO BILL JUBB and DAVE and MALINA LINDELL for making a difference in some young lives!

That’s our story! God bless all you dads!

Jonathan and Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

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

U.S. Mailing Address: Tailhunter International, 8030 La Mesa Blvd. #178, La Mesa CA 91942

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of June 7-14, 2015

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What a monster pig of a fish! In all my years have never seen a wahoo THIS FAT!!!! Tim McCrink with a huge wahoo caught on a rapala with Captain Mundo out’ve Muertos Bay yesterday. The fish is curved…it’s over 6 feet long! Estimates from captains and clients alike who were on the beach put the fish at anywhere fro 70-100 pounds.

Another fatty wahoo! Carl Herrmann on the right with Captain Pancho and long time amigo, Bruce Dodge from the Glendale CA area.

Captain Armando put Ed Bird from Sacramento onto this good wahoo. Rich Keogh helps hold up the head! Great amigos and always good to see them down here!

Marrion Lawver and Uncle Ron Sr. with Ron’s marlin. Marrion is from Kansas and Ron hails from Washington on his first trip. The marlin was not able to be released.

Some good roosterfish action this week. From Oregon, Denny King, loves the light tackle. On his first trip, he did close to 12 different species of fish in 3 days. Rooster was released.

Captain Pancho with one of the funniest guys to be around. Jude “Big Boy” Martinez has himself a whopper-size pompano. They brought it over to Tailhunter Restaurant for tacos!

This is an amazing guy! Jake Van Hemelryck from Eagle Idaho was down for two weeks at the Se Habla La Paz Spanish Language immersion school knocking out some extra college credits towards his teaching degree. He had weekends off so he went fishing with Captain Rogelio with our Tailhunter La Paz fleet. No problem! He caught roosterfish, dorado, pargo, cabrilla and other species. Jake is pretty inspiring. He holds powerlifting and swimming records and swam for the U.S. Paralympic team. The fish didn’t have a chance.

Marlin were alot more active this week and alot of amigos had shots at them. Terry Biggs had this one going for a bit and sent me the photos. This one got away but great shots!

Mitch Embry dialed one in finally after 4 days of fishing and stepped up with this nice wahoo. Pictured here with Captain Armando and Ed Bird.

Terry Biggs with a barred pargo and Rich Keogh with an ojoton jack. Both great eating. (the fish not the guys!). The guys are from Sacramento! Captain Adolfo with them.

Some video of the winds and waves behind La Concha Beach Resort Hotel during Blanca. Winds were running about 50 mph. Turn up your sound!

FISHING STRUGGLES TO COME BACK AFTER STORM BLANCA

La Paz – Las Arenas / Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of June 7-14, 2015

Well, we “survived” Hurricane/ Tropical Storm Blanca. I say “survived” because it was almost a non-event. I don’t want to scoff at the weather as it needs to be respected, but I think everyone in S. Baja was a bit nervous when Blanca appeared on the radar. Winds over 100 mph and 10-16 inches of rain were predicted and many folks in the state have yet to fully recover the devastating effects of “Odile” last September that tore the state apart.

In that regard, folks could be seen boarding up windows; hauling out their boats; stocked up on water and batteries, etc. Even us at Tailhunters, dismantled our restaurant and set up sand bags. Then, for 4 days, we watched and waited. And waited. And communally huddled before our computers and smart phones watching every bit of social media as the ominous storm approached.

Then…nothing really happened. Some big waves. A bit or strong rain (in some cases only minutes). And strong winds. And that was it in most of Southern Baja. Further north of La Paz, they got some heavier rains, but nothing biblical. In La Paz, there was some debris. Lots of dust. No flooding. For us we lost a day or two of fishing. And that was only because the port captain prevented boats from leaving the bay. For the most part, seas stayed flat and we could have fished. But, I understand the precaution.

When we did get back on the water, early in the week, it was with some trepidation. Fishing at Las Arenas had been pretty darned good . The wahoo bite had been off-the-charts. For La Paz, we just started to finally get into some nicer dorado.

Well, when we got back in the water after the storm, it wasn’t totally expected. Waters were green and cloudy. Water temperatures had plummeted 8-10 degrees from 80 to the low 70’s.

Fish were around. Our anglers saw them. But, they didn’t want to eat!

It took a few days, but with each passing day post storm Blanca, the waters cleaned up and fishing got just a little better. Not 100% back to previous conditions, but we started seeing some wahoo again. (some really BIG wahoo!) Billfish got a little more active. Dorado seemed to get hungrier as well. Our La Paz boats were finding some spots of small to medium dorado which was nice to see. It’s about time we see some better dorado! We even saw our largest dorado of the year which were 30-40 pounds. Inshore, some roosters were biting as well as yellow snapper, cabrilla and pargo. Still too early to be definitive, but signs are encouraging. There’s alot of variety around. Every day seems different.

That’s our story

Jonathan and Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

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

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La Paz -Las Arenas (Muertos Bay) Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of May 31-June, 7, 2015

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Dustin Bremmer had only one day to fish and he made the most of it with this fat yellowfin tuna and also a wahoo with Captain Armando.

This should be on a Christmas card! Six-year-old Caleb Davis is genetically progammed to be a good fisherman. Dad runs a sportboat out’ve Orange Co. , California. Gramps is our amigo, James “Hawk” Davis who lives in La Ventana and is a stellar angler as well. Caleb rocked this big wahoo all on his own.

From Hawthorne CA, Candi and Mike Jimenez with Captain Armando did this nice wahoo with only 1 day to fish this past week. Nicely done.

From Sacramento, a really fun couple. Dani and her husband, Harry Gist, also got themselves a wahoo this week. Standing on the beach at Bahia de Los Muertos. They got a bunch of pargo and cabrilla as well on their 2nd day of fishing and spent a day snorkeling at the island with the sealion.

It was an incredible week for first timers and anglers who only had one day to fish! Dave Bosteter from Arizona only fished one day. He only caught ONE fish! But, check out his big striped marlin with Captain Pancho! He also did the fish on light tackle too! The fish could not be released.

Our son-in-law, Brian Reid, did a bit of damage this past week. He lives in Las Vegas AZ and this is one of his two wahoo he put in the tank off Cerralvo Island.

Our Sacramento amigos with Captain Victor, Henry and Becky Harvey managed to get a nice wahoo on but had several others almost to the boat. Henry also got himself his first marlin this week!

Our gal…also our daughter…Jessie Reid of Las Vegas. She’s funny. Slept on the panga all day. Woke up for 5 minutes when her rod went off. She hooked this nice wahoo and went back to siesta! She makes alot of things look easy. Love how she rolls.

Fun photo with Orhan Gurbuz and popular Captain Rogelio “Jolly Roger” Camacho and a nice cabrilla near Espirito Santo Island.

Just a darned fine photo! Capitan Gato at sunrise with another wahoo. Thanks for the photo, Hawk Davis!

tags Kevin kaka verde y John nagy wahoo 6-15

Two of our fun regulars and great fisherman, Kevin and John Nagy with a pair of ‘hoos!

STORM BLANCA IS A BUZZKILL!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Bahia de Los Muertos Fishing Report for Week of May 31 to June 7, 2015

At the time you’re reading this, we’ll know what, if any effect, Hurricane/Storm Blanca will have done to us. I’m writing this about noon of Sunday trying to get this up and posted before we lose power. We already lost power a few last night for short perdiods. I’m hustling to write so excuse any typos!

As I write this, everyone is watching to see what will happen. We have been tracking this for days. It has been like watching a roller coaster ride because it has changed up and down by the hour.

Right now…The storm sits a couple of hundred miles south of us where is seems to vary between a dangerous Category 1 and 2. (It was up to to a 3 and 4). The whopper that hit Baja last year was a Cat 4-5 with winds close to 200 miles and hour. Named “Odile”, it’s fresh in our memories and many of us are still recovering so we’re all anxious to see what nature has in store. But, it’s coming.

As of this moment, they CLOSED CABO AIRPORT and the La Paz marinas have been closed for two days. If you’re coming down in the next few days, I would suggest you call your airlines. This will probably last through Tuesday. Check! As of right now, the La Paz Airport is open.

At the moment, predictions have the storm diminishing it’s effect on us here in La Paz. The eye of the storm has it going west and north instead of directly overhead. It will make landfall much further north on the Baja Peninsula and probably bring California some much needed rain. For us here in La Paz, we’re probably gonna get a few inches of rain today and tomorrow with some winds up to 60 MPH by tomorrow. It’s not like Odile last year, but not to be taken lightly.

It’s NOT a hurricane, but it’s a very strong TROPICAL storm

For sure . strong winds in the 20-40 mph category are predicted to blow Sunday, Monday and Tuesday which is much more problematic. Even though the sun will likely be out, anything in double digits will make it impossible to be out on the water for our panga fleets here in La Paz. Even if it’s safe, it’s not gonna be fun out there. Plus, our bite has been so great for wahoo and roosters and our dorado bite just hit stride so I’m anxious to see how the bite will be affected post-Blanca.

To the government’s credit, the CFE crews are already out and marshalled in front of Hotel Marina. These CFE guys and their big trucks saved us all last year when the big one hit us and many of us were out’ve power for several weeks. The CFE guys are the power company guys and boat loads of the landed after last year’s hurricane and it was like the marines had landed or the cavalry showed up! With no power, they’re no electricity. No cooking. No pumps to pump water. Nothing! The trucks are already here now and ready to go. We talked to one of the CFE guys last night and he said they are actually parking themselves at various hot spots ready to immediately tackle problems.

Anyway, nothing to do but wait and see. Last year, Odile took the same track and at the last minute turned inwards and kicked the hell outta lower Baja, after we all thought it was going to pass us up.

Fingers crossed!

As of 11 a.m Sunday morning, this is Hurricane Blanca

As or Sunday, tracking Tropical Depression Blanca for the next few days.

ELECTION DAY

Another sidebar story…Sunday…today is election day. NO ALCOHOL SALES IN LA PAZ are allowed. So, with the storm and all, we figured we might as well close the Tailhunter Restaurant Bar and also let our employees spend the day with their families and taking care of their homes.

So, I ran out to the market Saturday night to stock up on batteries, tape, canned good, etc. We are always prepared, but never hurts to have extras. Last year before Odile, no one seemed to pay much mind and got caught flatfooted. So, this year, everyone would be making a run of emergency supplies at the market.

I went to the market and there were PLENTY of supplies. However, everyone was buying ALL THE BEER they could get a hold of! People were more concerned with enough beer to get through election Sunday and in case stores are closed for several days afterwards! I have heard that some stores have sold out of all their beer already! Viva Mexico! LOL

I have run into several friends who bought lots of beer on Saturday and stocked up their ice chests. However, they ended up drinking it all up and now are in a panic now trying to find beer!

Anyway, here’s what’s been happening. It’s been a solid week!

LAS ARENAS/ MUERTOS BAY

Wow, that wahoo bite…not much to say except that in the last 3 weeks, we’ve gotten more wahoo than in the last 5 years combined. I hate to sound cocky but this has been incredible. Pangas are getting 1-5 wahoo per day. The only clients of ours not getting a wahoo are those that are fishing for something else; flyfishers; or folks who are hooking them but losing the speedsters. These fish are all quality 20-50 pounders!

We’re getting a little spoiled. Some of our anglers have no idea just how we’re rolling in gravy. They’re starting to complain! LOL

“I only got ONE wahoo today.”

“I just had TWO wahoo today. The other boats got more than me!”

Yikes! Hahahaha…what can ya do?

Besides the wahoo, we’re still getting decent numbers of those tasty white bonito (meat like tuna!) and rooster fish have been in the 20-40 pound class. Plus, we’re seeing pompano, jack crevalle, the occasional sierra (must be some cold water around), plus hooking a marlin or two as well as the marlin and sails are starting to wake up!

The bite diminished towards the end of the week on Thursday, Friday and Saturday as big rollers from the storm to the south started coming in and bait got harder to find. We stopped fishing the area and see how things pick up after the storm.

LA PAZ

Our Tailhunter La Paz Fleet has been consistent for action. Inshore stuff for pargo, cabrilla, snapper, amberjack, rooster fish, jack crevalle and bonito has produced 20-30 fish days with lots of released fish, but lots of fun battling these fish in the rocks.

The best news is late in the week we finally started seeing some larger schools of dorado that we’ve been waiting for. Fish are small to medium…5 to 15 pounders with many of the anglers releasing the smaller fish, but it’s encouraging to finally see the dorado moving in.

Also more billfish in the area as well which should only get better with so many more smaller dorado around.

We fished La Paz until late in the week when the Port Captain closed the port and prevented all watercraft from leaving!

That’s our story!

Jonathan and Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

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

U.S. Mailing Address: Tailhunter International, 8030 La Mesa Blvd. #178, La Mesa CA 91942

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La Paz – Las Arenas / Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of May 24-31, 2015

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Pretty good first trip for Riley Florence from Kansas. Got his first roosterfish and this nice wahoo as well with Captain Jorge and our Las Arenas Fleet.

Roger Thompson doing what he does so well. Nail big fish. He’s had another giant week and check out the thick wahoo here!

Long run from Tennessee, with our Captain Victor, James Kilton and Kelly Donohue. Triple on the wahoo on the beach at Bahia de Los Muertos.

Charger nation! Our daughter and her husband from Las Vegas, Jessie and Brian Reid with quite a variety of fish. Wahoo…giant pompano…white bonito…rainbow runner and hugs triggerfish!

She catches fish and always takes great photos! Our amiga Donna Thompson with another big skinny! The ‘hoo bit great off the island!

Ash Ibrahim from San Diego probably had the most fun of anyone this week when he brought his family. Take a look at this roosterfish then watch the video below of how he released it!

Big smiles for Nicole Ibrahim showing off her rooster as she came down this week with her family to celebrate her graduation from college!

Nothing wrong with this photo! Anthony Ibrahim lives in San Diego is about to hit his 3rd year in college in Washington DC. He got himself a nice rooster that he photo’d and released!

Army buddies…friends for life! Owen Hofecker from Johnstown, Pennysylvania and Paul de Haan from Bountiful, Utah triple teamed with Captain Gerardo to put the hurt to three wahoo off Cerralvo Island.

Captain Armando with Doug Edwards wahoo and Penni De Haans striper. On the beach at Bahia de los Muertos. The marlin meat was nicely donated. After a 2 hour fight, the fish was not able to be released.

Nothing like the kids’ smiles! Sofia Ibrahim from San Diego got the biggest pargo of the day fishing around Espirito Santo Island. Brother Tony throws the photos bomb!

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First rooster for Riley Florence from Kansas with a nice catch and release with Captain Jorge.

The water must still have some cool spots in it! From San Diego, Jim Bovee with a huge sierra!

Ash and Tony Ibrahim with some great dinner stuff…cabrilla and snapper taken off the island in some great action!

WAHOO ROOSTERS AND ROCKIES CENTER STAGE

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of May 24-31, 2015

For the most part, great weather and great fishing conditions most of the week resulting in some pretty solid catches. Lots of sunshine and increasingly better looking water all-the-way-around helped our anglers put some bend in the rods for a 2nd straight week.

Our biggest problem was a scare that popped up on the radar about mid-week showing a big tropical storm headed our way that was going to bring rain and strong winds beginning this weekend. With so many folks still nervous about Hurricane Odile from last year and many people still smarting over the recovery, the last thing we need is a storm! As far as fishing is concerned, our bite has been so good the last two weeks, I surely wasn’t looking forward to ANYTHING that would mess up the waters or keep folks ashore! Had this storm hit us, it would have brought 2-4 days of intermittent rain.

However, the fishing gods smiled on us and other than some winds late in the week, the sun has continued to shine brilliantly in a cloudless sky and the storm moved off into the pacific without even casting shadow! Whew…

LAS ARENAS/ BAHIA DE LOS MUERTOS

That wahoo bite that kicked in two weeks ago continued again. As I said last week, I’ve never seen a wahoo bite like this here in our waters in the 20 years I’ve been down here in La Paz. Almost every day, each of our pangas got 1-4 wahoo and lost others. Most days, if a panga came back without a wahoo, it was because:

1. They weren’t trying for wahoo or

2. They lost the wahoo they hooked

I’ll let our amigo, Roger Thompson tell you best:

“We were on the water at 5:30 this morning and had our first wahoo on the boat by 6am. At 6:15, we had another. Next was a double hookup around 7am and we landed both fish. We also saw 1 giant free swimmer just under the boat while fighting these 2. We hooked 2 more wahoo and lost 1 just before 7:30. Hooked another around 8:15 and this one came unbuttoned 10 feet from the boat. I hate it when that happens! No more wahoo bites for an hour and decided we caused enough damage for one day so we stopped to reel in the Rapalas and head back to the ramp. I slowed down, put her into neutral, and shut it down…….then wham. The short one got slammed and the bonus fish was in the box after 10 minutes of high speed runs and wahoos!

I guess what I’m trying to say is it’s an early morning bite for sure. It reminded me of the “good ole days”!

These fish were all quality fish between 26 and 42 pounds. “

Some of our amigos who fished multiple days with us in the area actually got to the point where the didn’t want to fish for wahoo anymore! There were others who just didn’t want to take any more wahoo home and there were alot of very happy captains who were getting 1-3 wahoo as “gifts” to take home!

The other “fish” we’ve been doing pretty solidly on are the rooster fish. It’s not wide-open, but there’s some medium-sized 20-60 pound fish cruising around and if you wanted to catch a rooster, there was even-money that you had a good chance on any given day of hooking 1-2 fish. Way better than say, two weeks ago . All fish are getting released.

Also seeing a few more dorado in the area. I’m surprised there aren’t more around by this time of the season already. Normally, we’re thick with dorado by now!

LA PAZ

We had consistent fishing with our La Paz fleet headed straight out and working north of the city around Espirito Santo Island or around the corner between Tecolote and Las Cruces.

We are definitely seeing more dorado action with fish between 10-20 pounds at the largest, but again, I would have expected more dorado by this time.

The best bite has been inshore among the rocks. Good action on some really sweet pargo, yellow snapper, amberjack and big cabrilla. Lots of larger fish getting lost in the rocks.

We’re seeing a few more marlin around that are actually willing to bite. Several were hooked and lost.

That’s our story!

Jonathan and Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website:

www.tailhunter-international.com

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

U.S. Mailing Address: Tailhunter International, 8030 La Mesa Blvd. #178, La Mesa CA 91942

Phones:

from USA : 626-638-3383

from Mexico: 044-612-14-17863

Tailhunter Weekly Fishing Report: https://fishreport.jonathanroldan.com/

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of May 17-24, 2015

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In front of that awesome mustache is a beast of a wahoo! Behind the ‘stache, is Allan Sheppard from North Carolina who got in on the incredible wahoo bite we had this week. They were in the thick of it and actually left the fishing grounds so they could go chase marlin because the wahoo were so thick. They came back 3 hours later and the wahoo were still there!

Long time friends and visitors to us here in La Paz at Tailhunter, JD Drucker and Donna Drucker had quite a week. This was just ONE of the day the had! Four wahoo with Captain Victor.

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With Captain Pancho, Clarence Foster shows off a dandy beautful roosterfish caught right off the Muertos rocks. Clarence is from Kansas. The fish was released.

Forrest Parker fronts a big game hunting operation in S. Africa http://wildafricahuntingsafaris.com/ but calls North Caroilna home in the U.S. On his first visit to Tailhunters and La Paz, he shows off one of the larger wahoo of the week!

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Our Tailhunter Captain Jorge flanked by Clarence Foster and Leroy Freeman and Leroy’s wahoo that he took on a spinning rod! The guys are from Kansas.

She got alot of “firsts” on this trip. First rooserfish…first shark and here first wahoo for Donna Drucker from Glendale AZ and Captain Victor.

Captain Armando helps Tony Maldonado from Palm Springs while buddy Randy Burke from Washington looks on.

Both islands producing roosterfish this week. Captain Joel and JD Drucker with a catch and release roosterfish off Espirito Santo Island.

First day luck for Allen Burgess and Captain Jorge with a hefty roosterfish caught and released.

Donna Drucker was on fire all week with big fish. Captain Victor strikes a pose to help her out with a big roosterfish that was released right after the shot.

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It looks like they have FOUR wahoo, but actually Jim ad Dan Bovee from San Diego have three nice wahoo and a really big sierra! Same family. Same good eats!

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The boys from Kansas with two more wahoo! Clarence Foster…Leroy Freeman…Al Burgess rocked the wahoo all week!

Captain Jorge with another wahoo. This one caught by Dr. Dave Perrine from Washington who declined the photo! Dave had a super week of fishing the big ‘hoo!

THE LAST TIME THE WAHOO BIT LIKE THIS WAS….NEVER!

La Paz -Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of May 17-24, 2015

What a difference a week makes! After several weeks of scratchy fishing, we had one of those weeks for the books. In twenty years here in La Paz, I have never seen a bite like this.

Wahoo like crazy. Wahoo became WOW-hooo! I’ll let my clients say it better:

“Every bait we threw in the water got wahoo!”

“They were free swimming all round the pangas!”

“I was hooked up and my buddy was hooked up…and there were two or three swimming around us looking for something to bite!”

“We hooked two and lost four. We wanted to try for a marlin so we went marlin fishing for 3 hours. We came back and hooked two more wahoo!”

“It was like watching giant mackerel swimming around in the blue water!”

“We could have caught 10 or 15 easy if we were better fishermen. What a blast!”

“I learned quickly NOT to put my thumb on the reel when a wahoo runs. It’s not like a salmon! I fried my thumb off!”

LAS ARENAS / MUERTOS BAY

Whatever happened was epic. Two areas. One at the south end of Cerralvo Island on the high spot and then the other right outside Bahia de Los Muertos just off the rocks a hundred yards! Small mackerel…baby sardines…trolled Rapalas…they got bit. A few days were better than others, but there were wahoo everyday this week. I hope I don’t jinx it.

These fish were running 20-50 pounds and the crazier part was that some of the rookie guys didn’t realize the prize they had caught…and GAVE AWAY ALMOST ALL THEIR FISH TO CAPTAINS OR ANYONE ELSE WHO WANTED A PIECE!!! It was nuts.

In addition to the wahoo…well…we got the rooster fish back in the fold. Not as good as its as two or three weeks ago, but at least we got some to the boat. The fish ran 15-45 pounds on the average and all got released. But, for alot of guys (and gals), it was one to check off the bucket list.

Anyway…whew…a much better week. Not everyone caught fish every day like this, but this was the place to go for the larger fish this week.

LA PAZ

For all the bigger fish, Las Arenas was where the action was happening. For the most action, our La Paz fleets did better. Usually, it’s reversed. Las Arenas has the variety and action while La Paz holds the larger fish.

But, what we had this week was some really really great inshore action along the reefs and islands. Some sizable pargo (yellow snapper and barred pargo) and some good-sized cabrilla plus some late-season sierra provided some solid action most days. There were also some rooster fish caught and released and we had a few marlin hookups as well with fish getting released or breaking off. There’s some dorado out there, but not in the numbers we’d expect this time of year. More expected as the waters warm up.

That’s our story! Happy Memorial Day everyone and thanks to all who served!

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website:

www.tailhunter-international.com

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

U.S. Mailing Address: Tailhunter International, 8030 La Mesa Blvd. #178, La Mesa CA 91942

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from USA : 626-638-3383

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La Paz – Las Arenas Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of May 10-17, 2015

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Diana Statman from Marina del Rey CA had never fished in salt water and was a little nervous going out on “that little panga.” But, with Captain Pancho from the Tailhunter fleet, she had a bait in the water only a few minutes and got slammed! Her husband Jay was still rigging up. He got bit shortly after and they had a double hookup going. Here she is trying to hold the big fish still for the camera.

Nice rooster for Allen Burgess from Kansas wit Captain Jorge from the Tailhunter Fleet. Caught and released off Bahia de Los Muertos. He also hooked and released a 250 pound blue marlin after a 3 hour battle on 40 pound test and a spinning rod.

Pretty typical of the nice bite around Espirito Santo Island right now for some great pargo and cabrilla and some of the best fish on the grill or plate. Captain Joel with our good amigo, John Drucker.

From Washington, Nyle Miyamoto, with one of our early season dorado no the beach at Muertos. Waters are warming and we expect to see more dorado anytime now.

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Might be the last yellowtail of the season and caught by Brett Fair and Travis Craig from Portland OR off Espirito Santo Island on big mackerel.

Normally, he’s out white-water paddling, but Mike Dietzman from Oregon was just with us on his first time salt water fishing and he hooked into this nice sailfish north of La Paz.

Hard to beat for just getting pulled around on a fishing rod, there’s some big schools of jack crevalle running around right now. Great on light tackle! From Oregon, Joel Ulam and Brad Carlson with a pair or “toros.”

With Captain Chito trying to hook up another bait, Dave Cummins has a fresh one on the gaff. Nice bull dorado off Espirito Santo Island . Check out the great colors!

Captain Chito with Jay Statman from Marina Del Rey CA and two great yellowfin tuna out’ve Bahia de los Muertos. Jay and his wife were double hooked and had fish going when a boat load of spearfishing free divers jumped right in the water 10 yards off our panga despite being asked not to do it. That shut off the bite. C’mon…show some courtesy. It’s a huge ocean! Still a nice catch!

Mmmmm…one of the best eating fish here! Travis Craig with a huachinango (red snapper pargo) he pulled out of the rocks near Espirito Santo Island.

An unusual catch, but they are around here! Donna Drucker hooked this 80 pound hammerhead and fought it to the boat so it could be released.

ANGLERS WORK HARD FOR FISH…AGAIN…

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of May 10-17, 2015

It was another tough week after waters and conditions settle down from the strange crazy winds and waves we got the week before that just turned everything over and around. It brought in cooler, greener water plus residual winds and it’s taking quite a few days for things to settle down So, alot of this week was just scratchy fishing and hat’s off to all our anglers who kept grinning and kept patient and brought the smiles. I won’t lie, the fishing was way off what it should be this time of year.

There were some great highlights to be sure. But, alot of the week, it was either tough to find bait because of the waters or winds or, when we did find it, the guys had to work hard for their fish. However, with each day of better weather, the conditions were coming back. Each day the waters calmed and so did the winds and little-by-little the fishing seemed to inch better.

Las Arenas

Probably the toughest fishing the last two weeks. There’s bunches of little dorado around that are entertaining for awhile, but I mean “really little” five pounders, if that. Good for a fish or two to be released, then most anglers move on unless they’re playing and having fun with the light tackle. There’s also some good schools of white bonito around. Again, lots of fun and they’re getting 5-10 per day. These aren’t the “bad bonito” or skipjack. These are the whites that make great eating and can fool anyone on a plate that it’s actually tuna! The meat is not dark, but rather great pink meat perfect for sashime and cooks up white as well.

The highlights of the week for our guys…rooster fish. Hard to come by this week with limited smaller baits so we only had the big ladyfish to use, but that produced a few of the bigger 30-50 pounders along the shores. But, the bite was definitely off.

As well, we had some wahoo bites, but no fish landed. All from the south end of Cerralvo Island and near Punta Perrico. But, the wahoo are there. (Just as I posted this Sunday night, two of our guys landed 2 forty-pound fish and lost a bigger one!)

We also had more marlin swimming around and one big-time hookup by Al Burgess from Kansas. Allen hooked a fish estimated by our captain at 250 pounds! But, even more amazing, Al was using 40 pound test AND A SPINNING ROD! He battled the fish solo for 3 solid hours with a bad back and legs and they said the big fish bulldogged them and barely ever jumped…the worst and strongest kind…smart fish that don’t waste energy jumping around! It pulled the panga with 3 anglers and a captain in circles the entire time.

Sorry there’s no photos but what happened is the guys burned up all the batteries and memory during the battle! When the fish was finally alongside the boat, no one had any memory or batteries! Only great stories. And the fish was released!!! Well done!

The other highlight was a nice jag of 30-40 pound tuna. Another good story.

Diana Statman had never fished in salt water before! First time down here too, although husband, Jay, is a long time fisherman and has been down to La Paz many times before. Diana gets a bait and gets it in the water and minutes later she’s bit!!! Tuna on!!! Husband Jay is still rigging up! Then, Jay gets bit! Doubles on!

But what happens…some private spear fishermen pull up not 10 yards from their panga and jump in the water! Despite being asked to move somewhere else…they jump in anyway. The tuna get pulled in, but bite over! C’mon guys…some courtesy. It’s a big ocean!!!

LA PAZ

This is surprisingly where most of our action took place this week. And it wasn’t our usual bite.

Of all things, with the crazy weather, our captains have found some good spots for some big pargo and cabrilla near the islands and some of the reefs. It’s providing some pretty solid action and they’re losing some big big fish to the rocks and inexperience. Most of the fish that are coming back are delicious 3-5 pounders, but some great stories of 10-20 pound fish lost to the rocks. Plus some big amberjack up to 50 pounds caught at the north end of Cerralvo and larger ones being lost…some right next to the boat up to 70 pounds.

We did get a few yellowtail. Normally, we should be getting more this time of year, but waters are warming fast so I think the yellowtail we are getting might be the last of the season.

A few dorado around but of the larger variety and we should see more every week and we also hooked a few marlin and sails this week as well.

Again, not spectacular and not our usual. But every day seems a little better as long as the weather holds!

That’s our story!

Jonathan and Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website:

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

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La Paz – Las Arenas (Muertos Bay ) Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of May 2-10, 2015

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Tom Colley started his trip off right with 3 nice roosters his first day between 25-40 pounds including this one with an assist from our Captain Archangel. Right off the rocks near Punta Arenas. All fish were released.

Brothers John (left) and Pat Lee (right) hold up one of our larger pargo liso (mullet snapper) that John caught fishing with our Tailhunter fleet from Las Arenas/ Muertos. The brothers are from the Sacramento area and fished 2 days, but got caught in the bad winds on their 3rd day that plagued us all week.

Formerly from England, but now living in Seattle, Nigel Waterton with our Tailhunter Captain Armando hoist a nice roosterfish that Nigel caught and released not far from the Arenas lighthouse. Roosterfish saved us many days this past week which was great since these exotic fish are quite a trophy.

One of our larger dorado of the young season and our good amigo, Kevin Beehn, who used to live here in La Paz, but now is in Brentwood CA. Kevin’s holding the nice bull on the beach at Balandra.

This is a HAWG of a barred pargo! Jeff Page caught this fishing with amigo, Larry Cornwall outside of Bahia de los Muertos.

Little Renae Minner just 2 years-old was a game as any veteran angler to go fishing even with the rough waters and she and her dad got this nice pompano. They came from Nashville, Tennessee.

STRONG WINDS- HIGH SURGE & RAGGED FISHING

La Paz – Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of May 2-10, 2015

It wasn’t the best of weeks for us. Actually, it might have been one of the worst weeks of the young season. Just want to be honest. Dang, it was tough.

Just when I thought we were headed into warm early summer weather and conditions, the fish gods put me back in my place. Normally, a full moon is no big thing, but coupled with the some incredible big tide swings; several days of almost ferocious whipping winds and big waves and swell generated by a storm in the Pacific…well…let’s say it could have been better.

As I said, normally, the big moon isn’t a great concern. However, early in the week, then several times mid-week, we had a combination of strong gusty winds from all directions. On top of that, there was a huge storm in the Pacific that generated giant waves on the Pacific coast as well. Those waves produced massive surf (surfers loved it) but were so big, there were stories of cruise ships in S. California that were unable to dock. Down in Cabo San Lucas, the surge was so big that many boats didn’t go out.

Those waves didn’t hit us in La Paz, but the surge and peripheral wind generated waves and swell didn’t help us. It surely had an effect on fishing just when I thought we were done with wintery weather.

We have a friend here in La Paz who keeps weather logs and he told us, “this is one of the coldest April-May records I’ve ever recorded.” Indeed, although the days were warm and sunny, the evenings and mornings were downright chilly. Clients were wearing sweatshirts. Captains were wearing their full slickers and down jackets and vest out on the water! There were even a few little rain squalls here and there.

All-in-all a tough week for everyone.

LAS ARENAS

A rough time for anglers. Several of outfitters in town who specialize in flyfishing were not even able to get out on the water for 3 of the days this week because of the high winds and seas. We had one day where our guys (fishing conventionally) waited on the beach for things to calm down and still, had to come back to La Paz when it was clear the water was’t going to cooperate.

Except for that one day, we did get boats out everyday with varying degrees of success. But not very spectacular. On the days we were out, there were some good days and some not-so-good-days. When the wind blows and the waters crash, it’s hard to get bait so that didn’t help.

Still, some nice catches of rooster fish (10-40 pounds), pargo, cabrilla, jack crevalle, small dorado, and bonito and a wahoo or two. But not especially great and every day was different. Really scratchy fishing overall.

LA PAZ

Since most of the winds came from the south and west, and we fish north of town, the La Paz fishing tended to be better with a little more protection from the elements. But still, everything is connected and anglers and skippers still had to contend with choppier-than-normal waters and winds. Again, the effect on the fishing was telling.

Some dorado were caught and a few marlin were baited but dropped. Most of the action was inshore for pargo, cabrilla and jacks. Lots of fish lost in the rocks. So, it was decent for “fishing”, but not always good “catching.” Some very big fish, including some big amberjack were lost to the rocks.

Hopefully, by the time you’re reading this, things will have gotten back to normal!

That’s our story! Happy Mom’s Day to everyone and God bless all you moms!

Jonathan and Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website:

http://www.tailhunter-international.com

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

U.S. Mailing Address: Tailhunter International, 8030 La Mesa Blvd. #178, La Mesa CA 91942

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from USA : 626-638-3383

from Mexico: 044-612-14-17863

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter International Sportfishing for Week of April 26-May 3, 2015

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Big tuna for our buddy, Rick Hosmer who tag-teamed with John Nagy and Captain Mundo at the south end of Cerralvo Island. They fought this fish for almost 2 hours on 50 pound test. Flurries of fast movers have been seen at north and south ends of Cerralvo lately!

From New Mexico, on his last day of fishing, Terry Price finally landed his roosterfish on the flyrod . They were just outside of Muertos Bay. The fish was released.

The ladies really did well this week. From the Oregon area, Dorothy Murata with Captain Jorge busts a big smile with her roosterfish she took on a live sardine with our Las Arenas fleet. The fish was released.

A good day with 2 wahoo and a marlin to show, David from La Paz holds up one of his wahoo. Thanks to Hawk for the great photo. The north and south ends of Cerralvo have been hot spots for the speedsters.

She is always in fish! Another of our Oregon amigas who knows how to fish…Debbie White and Captain Pancho pose with a strange-colored amberjack! Most are “amber” or bronze, but this guy didn’t get the memo and is almost albino. Related to yellowtail, they are great eating and great fighters and get over 100 pounds.

Chito and Dorothy dorado small tags 4-15

Seeing more dorado as the days and waters get warmer. Captain Chito and Dorothy Murata from Oregon pose with a nice bull dorado on the east side of Espirito Santo Island.

David and Dulce with a small blue marlin that went to the barbecue for the family. They live in La Paz. Thanks for the shot, Hawk!

INSHORE FISHING HIGHLIGHTS THE WEEK

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of April 26-May 3, 2015

It was a good week on all counts this week. Weather-wise and fishing conditions were more consistent and just-like-that fishing seemed to be more consistent as well. With winds not quite as erratic and seemingly more spots of warm water around, fishing leveled out too. More days of action all-the-way-around which no one seemed to mind.

Las Arenas

Lately, this has surely been the place for some variety. Nothing wrong with that. If you want a shot at rooster fish, you have your best shot at the early season roosters. Most of the fish are that 20-pound class, but some larger up to 40 pounds have been hooked. The areas are in the usual spots…just around the beaches at the lighthouse and also just off the Punta Perico rocks. Heading south from Bahia de Los Muertos towards Boca de Alamo, there are some larger roosters as well, especially along the shallow rocky areas incredibly close to shore.

In the same areas, there’s some big schools of feisty jack crevalle and big pompano as well. Related to the roosters, they share that same tenacious bad attitude. Just like their cousins, the jacks are also not good for eating so everyone releases them, but for sheer fun, it’s hard to beat them. On the other hand, if you stick a pompano, they’re a real treat on the grill or as sashimi!

Offshore (for us, “offshore” means 100 yards out!), there’s schools of bonito. We have several species of bonito and if you get the “toothed bonito” not only are they good fighters, but your captain will tell you to keep them as they are some great eating and not like the skipjack and Mexican bonito that have dark strong-tasting meat and get released. But, you can hook a dozen-a-day of these things.

Additionally, we’re seeing more dorado here and there with larger sizes becoming more pre-dominant. More marlin showing which is encouraging. As waters get warmer, I’m sure they’ll turn on. Plus, there’s some wahoo close in near Punta Perico and just this side of the south side of Cerralvo Island. Rapala X-Wraps in 15’s and 30’s in dark colors are producing the best bites.

La Paz

Surprisingly, the inshore action has been quite better than I would have expected. Honestly, the yellowtail bite seems to have gone under so-to-speak. I shut down earlier this year than I would have thought. Blame it on the warm water.

However, the rest of the action inshore has rocked for amberjack, pargo, cabrilla, jack crevalle and some assorted rooster fish. There’s some inshore spots where some of our clients caught and released as fast as they could go. Plus losing lots of fish to the rocks as well and had a blast.

In the blue water, more dorado showing up and we’ve missed a few shots at sunning marlin and sailfish too and had a few wahoo hookups also that were dropped.

That’s our story!

Jonathan and Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website:

http://www.tailhunter-international.com

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

U.S. Mailing Address: Tailhunter International, 8030 La Mesa Blvd. #178, La Mesa CA 91942

Phones:

from USA : 626-638-3383

from Mexico: 044-612-14-17863

Tailhunter Weekly Fishing Report: https://fishreport.jonathanroldan.com/