Sean Tennis is a long way from Watertown, S. Dakota, but made it pay off fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet and this beast of a roosterfish estimated in the 60-pound-class. In trying to hoist the fish up for a quick photo before releasing it, the fish smacked our burly Captain Archangel so hard it nearly knocked him out of the panga and hit him with enough force to smash the wind out've him. Sean and his amigo, Dan Clift, got a number of roosters of varying sizes this day. It's been great rooster fishing the last few weeks.
First timers to La Paz Joe Valenzuela and Danna Hill from Anaheim CA, got big fish-of-the-day kudos by pulling this trophy dog-tooth snapper out of the rocks near Bahia de Los Muertos. The big pargo are still around in the shallows
We haven't seen yellowtail in about 3 weeks since waters got warmer, but Bob Blodgett from the San Francisco Bay area got this 30 pound class jurel fishing with Capt. Ramiro out of Muertos Bay and our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet in very windy conditions.
Windy conditions this week made outside fishing less than ideal and dorado fishing a bit tougher, but Dr. Desmond Sjauwfoekloy from Orange Co. CA got this nice one fishing north of La Paz around Espiritu Santo Island.
It's been a good season so-far for barred pargo and with erratic winds keeping alot of the action close to shore, the pargo fishing helped fill out the ice chests. Mark Bianchi fishing La Paz for his first time holds up two of his pargo standing on the beach at Bahia de Los Muertos
Nice trophy cabrilla (seabass) held up by Alex Voget who was fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet. It's been a nice year for big cabrilla like this one and a great catch for Alex. They took it back to their hotel and tossed the filets on the barbecue!
After 4 days of winds and scratchy fishing, Bill Burris finally got into a nice dorado bite and holds up one of his limits of fish he got later in the week.
Popular Captain Joel with our Tailhunter La Paz Fleet poses next to Dr. Bruce Beckford from Colorado holding up a pair of their dorado they picked up fishing north of La Paz around the island.
She's an optometrist from Orange Co, but Stephanie Sjauwfoekloy had no trouble seeing this nice roosterfish caught just offshore from Muertos Bay with Captain Armando lending a hand.
It's been a nice few weeks for the slugger dog-tooth snapper like this big boy held onto by Captain Victor and happy angler Ray Victorino.
It's a BIG fish, but not THAT big! Sean Tennis is goofing with the camera by holding his fish really really really close to the camera to make it look larger. However, it is still a BIG pargo in his hands.
A long way from New Mexico, Dan Clift was fishing around Espiritu Santo Island with Captain Chito and holds up a nice bull dorado. Winds this past week seemed to have scattered the dorado schools.
FULL MOON STRONG CURRENTS AND ERRATIC WINDS WHAMMY FISHING EFFORTS DESPITE SOME NICE CATCHES
La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of May 23-30, 2010
I’m don’t normally make a big deal of the full moon, but it seemed to definitely have an effect this past week. Actually, it was the triple-whammy that made it hard. A full moon coupled with big tides/currents accompanied by strong erratic winds really made for some scratchy fishing. Our anglers gamely hung in, but sometimes it wasn’t pretty and, although everyone got fish, some days were better than others and some anglers did better than others. Not much to do about the full moon, but to get winds so strong this late in the season is pretty uncommon.
That being said, roosterfish at least continued their power charge along the beaches. For the last month or so, roosterfish have come on strong with some anglers getting either their first roosters or some of their largest roosters. School-sized fish in the 5-10 pound class were great fun for guys fishing light tackle, but some hog-sized pez gallo up to 60 pounds were also taken that just broke a few anglers who didn’t know what they were in for! Roosters in the more manageable 30-40 pound class weren’t uncommon.
Dorado were still the primary catch for our La Paz fleet, but bigger seas generated by the stronger winds scattered the bite and caused our captains to really have to scour for a pick bite. There were a few fish in the 20-30 pound class, but those were the exception. Most of the fish were schoolie 5-10 pound fish. The bite has spread out a bit more, however. Previously, the fish were concentrated around Espiritu Santo Island, but we picked up more fish in the channel between Las Cruces/ Punta Coyote and the north end of Cerralvo Island.
As for other species, we did get a surprise yellowtail. A surprise insofar that we’ve not seen much in the way of yellowtail for almost two weeks. There were a few lazy marlin hooked/snagged that quickly broke off, but the inshore fishing for species like pargo and cabrilla and even some sierra made up the bulk of what came back in the ice chests this week.
GOODBYE to another LA PAZ ICON
For generations, the Centro Commercial Market “C.C.C.” has been a headquarters for groceries and other purchases and especially for gringos and tourists. It was really the first big super market in town long before Walmart, Sam’s Club and other big box stores arrived. As of this past week, it was purchased by a big mainland Mexico chain and many of the employees lost their jobs. Many of them had decades of employment. Like Hotel Los Arcos, Carlos and Charlie’s Restaurant and several other iconic landmarks in La Paz, another one is gone.
That’s our story
Jonathan and Jill
Jonathan Roldan’s
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