STILL A FEW YELLOWTAIL BUT ROOSTERS BEND RODS!
La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of April 27-May 4, 2025
SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT
WEATHER – To be honest, there were some really windy and chilly mornings and evenings. All of us had jackets on and we had to move some of the fishing from La Paz to Las Arenas because it was too windy and rough. But daytime temps are in the low to mid-80’s. Overall very pleasant…except for the windy times.
WATER – If the wind is blowing, it’s whitecap time and plan on getting wet. Fortunately, we can move folks to other areas to fish and the windy days are fewer and far between. When the wind is not blowing, it’s like a postcar!
FISH HOOKED THIS WEEK – Roosterfiish, dorado, yellowtail, marlin, barred pargo, yellow snapper, pompano, trevally, bonito, jack crevalle, cabrilla, golden grouper, dog-tooth snapper, triggerfish, sierra, amberjack
MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO REPORT
THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Ray Millman is all smiles! An incredible day catching and releasing TEN roosterfish in a single day! That was a first for us in 30 years!

The Ewing boys…Zach, Clay and dad Don were the pargo kings of the week. Check out the 2 big barred pargo and the pargo rojo (dog tooth snapper) on the table at Bahia Muertos! The day before, they filled the box with pargo while fishing out’ve La Paz with our Tailhunter La Paz fleet.

Our good amigo, Terry Hawk from Danville CA has been coming for about 20 years and started his trip off with 4 catch-and-release roosters and followed that up on the 2nd day as well!

The right kind! Our Oregon amigos, Leonard Post and Dave Lindell show off a double hook-up on quality dorado!

Yup! Marlin started to show this week! Sergio took this one on light tackle with Captain Pancho. They were not able to release it.

First time and only one day to fish, Bob has a big grin on his face admitting he needed help with this dorado, but it ended up in the box with about 5 other species like cabrilla and pargo which we cooked up at our Tailhunter Restaurant!

Captain Licho looks on as Christine Fairbank shows off a Baja Grouper…also called a Golden Grouper. We don’t see many of these. Basically a brightly colored cabrilla. Very tasty! Christine visited us all the way from Boston.

Just when I think the yellowtail have left us, Leonard and Dave show up with these two nice forkies taken near Punta Coyote north of La Paz. Two others broke off in the rocks!

That time of year…tasty pompano are running near the beach drop-offs! Ray caught this one on a live sardine.
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It’s “transition” time!
It’s not really winter. It’s not really spring. It definitely isn’t summer.
So, the sun is out and a nice warm 80-85, but without the summer humidity. But, the mornings can be chilly or even downright cold. And there are some windy days too that kick up waves and whitecaps and cause us to change our daily gameplans or where and how to fish!
This is pretty typical for this time of year. Kinda gotta be ready for anything.
And that’s the way the fishing is right now too. We have holdover cooler water fish mixed with incoming warm water species. So, you honestly don’t know what’s gonna bite! There’s alot of varety. Each day can be different. Each spot can be different. Boats fishing right next to each other might catch different species!
You might not get alot of any one species, but you could easily come back with a handful of a number of different species! Makes it kinda fun.
To give you an example, I’ve been saying that with the warmer temps, the yellowtail have moved off and away or down to colder waters. We have seen very few of them lately or at all.
Then, all of a sudden, we get a number of biters. Nice grade yellowtail with about half of them busting off in the rocks! But, legit yellows!
In the same areas we might hit dorado which are warm water species. This is really the first week when we hit some dorado. Not alot. Nothing to crow too much about, but it’s a good indicator that things are percolating. The ones that were caught were nice sized 10-25 pounders. Give it a few more weeks and a couple more upticks in water temperatures!
I can say the same for the billfish. We boated (and released our first this week) and 4 others were lost so the billfish are waking up.
The biggest news is the roosterfish! I’m gonna say they are officially here. Not seeing the giants yet, but 10-30 pound fun fish with our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet are a hoot. Some guys telling me there were roosters crashing everywhere and cathing and releasing multiple fish! Again, just give it a few weeks and hopefully the bigger models will also show up!
According to our anglers, there were spots where the roosterfish were literally boiling and there was one day when our boats caught and released 6 to over a dozen roosters each. That’s crazy good fun!
Like I said, there’s alot of variety and the ocean is just waking up for the season! Inshore species like cabrilla, dog-tooth snapper, barred pargo and mullet snapper (pargo liso) as well as bonito, jack crevalle and tasty pompano and trevally.
All in all, everyone caught fish. Not all boats did great everyday, but most folks fish several days and everyday is different. Just like the weather and conditions!
That’s my story!
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