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La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of Oct. 16-23, 2011

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As the seasons start to change, it was another good week for roosterfish along our beaches with some nice trophys making the report. Jerry Wansack came all the way from S. Carolina and fished an entire week with us and his buddy, Luke Britz. They planned the trip for 3 years and really wanted a rooster. Well, they got tuna and dorado and other species, but they didn't get roosters until their last day when persistence paid off and they got a handful of nice fish including this one taken off Punta Perico near Las Arenas. All the roosters were released.

Yes, the tuna are still biting off the south end of Cerralvo Island across from Las Arenas. Our pangas are averaging about 1-4 fish per day mixed in among all the big bonito and it can be an arm-tiring day as shown by Victor from El Monte CA who has to lean up against the panga with his duo of tuna.

Larry Wayne looks on as his amigo, Bob Sklar, holds up his yellowfin tuna. Both are from Orange Co. CA and Bob had a banner trip getting his first tuna and marlin (see below).

As shown in the photo above, Bob Sklar from Orange Co. CA got his first tuna ever fishing with us but also got his first marlin as well. In fact, he got TWO marlin...and BRAVO to him...HE RELEASED BOTH OF THEM! He took this photo just before letting the 2nd one go. It was caught off Punta Arenas. Well done, Roberto!

Like I said, a pretty nice week for roosters! Double hookup with Captain Archangel from our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet and Luke Britz from S. Carolina who caught these not far from shore in shallow water. Both fish were released.

I don't often post-up photos of the pesky feisty bonito that rampage through our waters bending rods and tearing up anglers. But take a look at this huge bonito that Mimi Wayne caught! Compare that to the tuna photos in this week's report! Is that a slug bonito or what? Pound-for-pound, bonito fight alot harder than their more popular cousins the yellowfin tuna!

As the weather and waters start to get cooler, I'm not sure how much longer the dorado will be around, but for the time-being, we're still pulling them in...mostly with our pangas fishing north of La Paz around Espiritu Santo Island. However, John Mc Lucas and Bill Lee took time of from a week of light tackle fishing on pargo, cabrilla, and roosters to put a couple of dorado fillets in the box.

SEASONS CHANGING BRINGS A VARIETY OF SPECIES!

La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of Oct. 16-23, 2011

You can tell the seasons are finally changing! Not only has the heat and humidity been exchanged for pleasant tropical sunshine and off-shore breezes but the variety of fish we’re taking give every indication that we’re turning the corner on the season.

The tuna bite off S. Cerralvo we’ve had the last few weeks is still there with some nice 20-45 pound fish and our pangas averaging maybe 1-4 fish per boat/day. Our Las Arenas fleet is still finding the best results with drifted chunking dead sardines in the area about 2 miles off the island. In the same areas, it’s not been unusual to also get a hook up on dorado, sailfish or marlin or other species cruising through the area and having no hesitation just slurping up all the dead sardines in the areas…some of which just happen to have a hook…attached to a line…attached to a rod…in the hands of one of our anglers trying to catch a tuna!

For our La Paz fleet, the dorado are still the main event as well. Western Cerralvo Island continues to be the target area.

It’s a pretty simple formula for the most part. Fish with our Las Arenas fleet if you want tuna. Fish with our La Paz fleet if you want to target dorado.

However, I mentioned things changing…

In addition to the tuna, dorado, marlin and sailfish, if you look at our fish reports, we had a great week on roosterfish as well as pargo, cabrilla and good numbers of sierra are now showing up in La Paz Bay and inshore where it’s obvious that the waters must be cooling down if the sierra are around. Lots of fun on light tackle plus great eating! We’ll probably see more of all these species as things change.

That’s our story!

Jonathan and Jill

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La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of Sept. 25 to Oct. 2, 2011

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Although the main focus has been on the tuna and dorado bite, roosterfish are still around and are a great trophy catch. Trudy wanted one of these and got it just off the Las Arenas lighthouse which is a world-reknowned "roosterfish alley." The pretty fish took a live sardine and was quickly released after the photo.

Our Sacramento amigo, Wade Gomes, comes to visit us yearly and shows off one of the nicer dorado we've been getting with our Tailhunter La Paz fleet. The bite was a little stickier this week than normal, but schools of dorado are definitely around and the bite got better as the week went on.

Shane Grove from Utah gets a special mention. Y'know some guys will wear our Tailhunter t-shirt. Some sport our Tailhunter stickers. Take a look at the inset photo. Shane went and got our Tailhunter logo tatooed on his shoulder! This so rocks! Thanks, Fish Brother. Oh...nice dorado too!

Our yellowfin tuna at Las Arenas were better than last week when we had the full moon, but still not exactly wide open on the bite. Our pangas averaged 1-5 tuna per boat and the bite was late in the day. Fish went 20-30 pounds on the average like the nice trio of tuna caught by our buddy, Leif Dover, who came ovef from Hong Kong where he works. This was his 2nd trip to see us in two months! He's an animal fisherman!

Over the last few weeks, the ladies have really been doing well. Marsha Barnett, on her first trip to La Paz, spent 3 days catching dorado like these. She's holding this one after her first day fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet.

Another of our lady anglers who had a banner week, Kathy Terbu, from Utah pulled this nice bull out of the waters west of Espiritu Santo Island. The bite for our La Paz fleet was a little off but dorado got hungier as the week went on.

Johnny Terbu had a banner week of fishing and snorkeling with us and all the while kept his flyrod handy just-in-case. On his last day, the dorado boiled up all around the boat and he was able to get in some casts hooking up on dorado like this one in the channel between Cerralvo Island and Las Cruces. Here's what John said: " Awesome trip! Best day we had was 13 Dorado! Done by 12:00 noon. Also, got the 1 tuna I wanted. Even got one onthe fly rod! 12 wt. isn't big enough. Go big or stay home.Can't wait til next trip. Thanks so much for a wonderful trip and condo!"

POST – FULL MOON BITE IMPROVES WITH BETTER DORADO AND TUNA FISHING

La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of Sept. 25-Oct. 2, 2009

It wasn’t the best of weeks for fishing, but it was certainly better than the week before when we had the full moon playing games with us. It was still scratchy fishing but the fish were more cooperative to a degree. But, we still had to work hard for them. Things were compounded by the fact that many days the bite was late in the day. So, sometimes guys would get out to the spot and sit there…and sit there…and sit there…and work the area with their captain.

There’s only so much patience. And, in some cases, they’d get the captains to leave the spot and go hunt for roosterfish or cabrilla or some other species. Those boats that stuck around would suddenly get rewards with biters of tuna or dorado. It’s just a matter of knowing when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em. Of course, being fish…sometimes sitting at one spot didn’t do much good either and the guys who pulled off found some action.

Anyway, for our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet, tuna were the center stage again. Fish were a bit larger this week. Most fish were in the 20-25 pound class, which is a real bull for alot of folks, but there were others in the 30-40 pound class and some larger that anglers never saw and busted off. If you count up 1-5 tuna per boat/day then add in a few dorado and about 20 bonito and the occasional roosterfish, it’s an arm-tiring day especially in some cases where all the pandemonimium doesn’t even start until late in the day!

For our La Paz fleet, well, the dorado continue to be good to us and honestly, the mahi are our bread-and-butter-fish. All summer we could count on them to bend the rods and fill the ice chests. This week, they were a little more reluctant. Not so crazy, but what they lacked in numbers they made up for in quality. Quite a few fish were in that nice grade 30-40 to pound size! So, one or two fish could stuff a fish box very easily and it wasn’t unusual to see big tails sticking out of the fix boxes because the whole fish wouldn’t fit with the lids on.

Knock on wood, we did dodge hurricane Hillary that kept our attention most of the week and had us answering phone calls and e-mails from clients wondering if they should still come down. I don’t want to spit in the face of the weather-gods but Hillary fizzled and we didn’t even get any strong winds or storms. We were pretty happy about that, needless to say. We still have to keep an eye on the weather as we wind down the season, but it’s clear that fall is coming. Shadows are longer. It’s a tad cooler. A bit breezier. We hope the fish keep biting.

That’s our story!

Jonathan and Jilly

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La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of Sept. 11-18, 2011

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Retired fire captain, Jesse Franco, shows off one of the type of yellowfin tuna typical of what we were catching this week off Las Arenas. The bite seemed to have suffered this past week during the full moon. Fish averaged about 20-35 pounds most days. Jess got this one on live bait just off from Punta Arenas.

It would seem to be too warm for amberjack, but several large ones were hooked this week. Amberjack are the good eating big boy cousins to yellowtail and we normally see them around late spring and early summer when conditions are cooler. However, Fabio Caldron was fishing with our amigo, Hawk Davis off Cerralvo Island when he roped this big beast estimated at 50-60 pounds or larger!

Lisa Ogle...first timer on the ocean...from Oregon probably caught the largest tuna of the week...estimated at 70 pounds by our Captain Victor. She just didn't have a camera to take a photo of it! So, you get her 2nd best tuna! We enjoy showing- off the ladies and especially when they're first timers! She and her husband Brian, a hunting guide, also got into a big day of dorado.

Dean Francoeur and Jeff Lipp hold up a couple of their yellowfin at Las Arenas. Some of the problem with the tuna may have been the difficulty in catching bait. Some days the fish bit early and other days, the tuna waiting until the last minute to bite. Dean's fish went 27 pounds on the scale.

More like it. Greg Marsalla took one of our super pangas north outta La Paz as he only had one day to fish and probably had one of the better days this week with three of them on the boat taking some quality dorado.

John "JD" Drucker makes it down every year to visit us...sometimes twice a year...when he can get away from work and always does pretty well on the fishing. He's holding one of his Las Arenas yellowfin tuna here on the beach.

Jeff Sweet fished with first-timer Greg Landerer and got 4 nice yellowfin tuna for their efforts their first day. Largest fish was 24 pounds.

Our buddy from Washington, Mike Whitlow, celebrating his birthday for an entire week in Mexico, posted up with this quality yellowfin tuna he caught fishing with Captain Adolfo.

VIDEO CLIPS OF THE WEEK!!

Sorry…no video clips this week. FUMBLE FINGERS ME…I dropped my video cam in the water! What a doofus. I was taking some shots and had removed the waterproof housing so that I could get better audio. It slipped out’ve my hands. It’s fried. First time in all these years here that I’ve ever dropped a camera in the water. Of course, it happens to be the ONLY camera I have that is NOT waterproof.

FULL MOON MAKES FOR A STICKY BITE BUT TUNA AND DORADO STILL ACTIVE…SORT OF…!

La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of Sept. 11-18, 2011

Some great photos this week and if you just looked at the photos, you might be inclined to say that we had a pretty nifty week of fishing. But….hold on…in all honesty….There was a noticeable drop off in the good tuna bite that went off last week off Punta Arenas and South Cerralvo Island.

Not sure if it was the full moon or the scarcity of bait, but things were definitely off. Our pangas averaged only 1-4 tuna in the 20-30 pound class although we did hit a fewer in the 40-60 pound class. They were few and far between. Compared to last week when 5-10 tuna in the 40-50 pound class was more the norm.

But everywhere this week the bite seemed to have dropped off…even for our La Paz fleet. Everyone got fish but it was more of a picky bite. Excluding what you may or may not believe about a full-moon affecting things, conditions seemed good except for one thing…the bait! It was harder to get.

For our Las Arenas fleet, our normally good sardine areas held few or only tiny sardines which meant some days we had to jig for caballitos. Or, we had to go way up the east side of Cerralvo Island to find sufficient sardine supplies. For our La Paz fleet it was also a struggle to get bait. We got the bait, but some days it took alot longer to get enough to head out.

Still, we did get some good dorado this week with our La Paz fleet doing better than our Las Arenas fleet. But it could be like pulling teeth at times. Imagine some of your favorite captains…all stars like Chito, Raul, Boli, Pancho, Jorge, Victor… and others getting only 1 or 2 fish! That’s unheard of! Wow! But then the boat right next to a hot boat could get 10 fish! Crazy.

Some good roosterfishing, sailfish and marlin bites too. Will see what happens as we move away from this full moon.

That’s our story!

Jonathan and Jill

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La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of May 22-29, 2011

Posted in amberjack, Bahia de Los Muertos, Bahia de los Suenos, baja fishing, Baja fishing reports, Baja sportfishing packages, Cerralvo Island Fishing, Chad Schearer, dorado, fish report, fishing charters, fishing tackle, fishing videos, flyfishing, jonathan roldan, la paz baja sur, la paz fishing, La Ventana Fishing, Las Arenas fishing, marlin, Mexican sportfishing outfitters, Mexican sportfishing packages, mexico fishing, Muertos Bay Fishing, pargo, roosterfish, sea of cortez, Shoot Straight TV, sportfishing packages, tailhunter, tailhunter international, tuna, wahoo, yellowfin tuna, yellowtail, tagged bahia de los suenos, baja fishing, baja mexico, cerralvo island fishing, jonathan roldan, la paz, La Paz fishing, la ventana fishing, light tackle fishing, mexico fishing, mexico fishing report, muertos bay fishing, panga fishing, sea of cortez fishing, southern baja fishing, sportfishing packages, tailhunter international on May 30, 2011| Leave a Comment »

It was finally a week where the dorado decided to join the party and just-in-time for Chad Schearer's TV show "Shoot Straight" and his family to show up with the cameras. http://www.shootstraightTV.com Chad is the TV host of the program and usually travels the world with either a bow or muzzle-load rifle, but is quite a celebrity with the flyrod as well. He filmed all week with us and one of his sponsors is Cabela's Outdoor Stores. They wanted him to test out their new 6-piece travel flyrod that looked so thin and light a trout would've broken the 10 wt stick! Chad's intent was to get a big roosterfish on it, but when a big dorado charged through, it was GAME ON! Chad battled this monster 40-pound rooster on the light flygear for 1 hour and 45 minutes! He had never gotten a dorado before and this was a personal best...and all in front of the cameras!

Wahoooo! We finally got one to the boat. For weeks, I've been saying the conditions are right and Roger Thompson finally nailed one on a rapala at the north end of Cerralvo Island. He said te day was going slow (note the tuna boat in the back!) but he usually comes through and this 60 pound class speedster topped the day!

It was a stellar week for roosters for both our La Paz and Las Arenas fleets with fish up to 80 pounds. Sheldon "Doc" Schearer is a minister and sherrif's officer from Montana and this 60 pound rooster was a personal best. It ate a live sardine in about 10 feet of water near the Las Arenas lighthouse and took 1/2 an hour to battle. The fish was released. In fact, they caught 6 that day and all but one fish were put back in the water.

Tailhunter's own Jilly Roldan got into the nice dorado bite late this week posing with San Diego's Joe Jacobs in the blue waters of Balandra Bay north of La Paz. They also got roosterfish and small yellowtail, but ran into a spot of dorado that blew up on them and they lost count of the fish with double and triple hookups!

Tihs is the first week that dorado bit consistently. Not surprisingly, the waters edged over 80 degrees too and the winds calmed down. hmmmm...funny how that works! But the week started slowly, but by mid-week the counts were going up with mostly smaller fish in the 5-10 pound category, but as the week went on, there were more 20-40 pound fish in the counts and hardly anything prettier than a lit up mahi on the hook like this one taken off Espiritu Santo Island this week.

Even last season we didn't see many bull dorado over 20 pounds, but this week we had some fish in the 30, 40 and one that may well have been over 50 pounds! Jill got this one on the NE corner of Espiritu Santo Island just off the drop-off on live bait. Captain Joel holds it up for the photo! The waters are holding various spots of fish but they're scattered in all the usual places with many holding under building schools of sargasso weeds floating on the surface!

Even tho' waters kicked into "summer mode," there were still some "cooler water" fish around like this decent yellowtail held by Lisa Chandler of La Mesa CA. We actually took a few of these YT's this week.

Even when the fish weren't biting it seemed there were often schools of dolphin blasting through...wherever dolphin go! It was not unusual to see half the fleet suddenly stop what they were doing to follow the schools! This one was between Cerralvo and Espiritu Santo Island.

For alot of our clients and friends this week, it was their first time tangling with roosterfish and underlines why La Paz waters are called the "roosterfish capital of the world." Joe Jacobs from San Diego took this nice one in Pilot's Cove north of La Paz and released it.

The roosters were biting for BOTH our Tailhunter La Paz and Tailhunter Las Arenas fleets. Captain Jorge with our Las Arenas fleet helps Marsha Schearer pose with this slug rooster caught in shallow water just outside Bahia de Los Muertos.

SLOW START TO WEEK CRANKS UP WITH DORADO AND ROOSTERFISH!

Las Arenas/ La Paz Fishing Report for Week of May 22-29, 2011

Amazing what a difference a week can make. Take away a
full moon; strong winds; green water; and inconsistent water
temperatures…little things like that…and WHAM…THE FISH BITE! In
fact, water temps hit 80+ for the first time this year and it was a 180 degree
turn from the strange fishing last week. In fact, it was a pretty decent
week of fishing!

It didn’t start out like that! At the beginning, it was scratch fishing at
best. I was pretty worried. But…the conditions changed!

Hey, for the first time, dorado bit consistently with nice
patches of sargasso weed building up in the surrounding channels and while many
of the fish were firecracker punks in the 5-10 pound class, there were still
some nicer fish running in the 20-40 pound class (and even one or two that sure looked like 50-pound-class dorado) that really got folks
excited. In fact, we had Chad Schearer, nationally known host of the
outdoor TV show “Shoot Straight” filming the entire week (www.shootstraightTV.com) with us and
Chad, who had never flyfished Baja before and came to tie on a big roosterfish,
instead threw a pattern at boiling bonito and a huge 40-pound class
dorado bit his 10wt rod and it was “fish on!” And epic battle
lasted almost 2 hours as the fish bulldogged down on the light line but finally
Chad got the fish to the boat and was almost speechless in front of the
cameras!

As well, we got into some incredible roosterfish
action. Some stops with both our La Paz and Las Arenas fleets resulted in
double and triple roosterfish hookups. Fish ranged from 10 to as large as
80-pounds this week with some incredible battles on light tackle, flyrods and
spinning gear when anglers fishing for smaller “fun” fish instead got
blown up on larger world-class roosters that almost brought some anglers to
their knees on the smaller gear.

Overall, just a great week with additional species that
included some big cabrilla, jack crevalle, barred pargo, striped marlin (hooked
and lost and released); sailfish (hooked and lost and released), pompano,
bonito, barracuda and even some very very late yellowtail in the 10-15 pound
class. We even got a huge 9-foot mako
shark that ate a small dorado hooked by one of our amigos. They got it to the boat and wisely decided to
cut it loose!

That’s our story!

Jonathan and Jill

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La Paz / Las Arenas Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of July 4-11, 2010

Posted in baja fishing, Cerralvo Island Fishing, fish report, fishing charters, fishing tackle, fishing videos, jonathan roldan, la paz baja sur, la paz fishing, La Ventana Fishing, Las Arenas fishing, mexico fishing, Muertos Bay Fishing, sea of cortez, sportfishing packages, tailhunter, tailhunter international, tagged baja fishing, jonathan roldan, La Paz fishing, la ventana fishing, las arenas fishing, light tackle fishing, mexico fishing, mexico fishing report, muertos bay fishing, panga fishing, sea of cortez fishing, southern baja fishing, sportfishing packages, tailhunter international on July 11, 2010| Leave a Comment »

First timer, Ed Vander Veer from Washington state was doing some light line fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet and got a number of roosters over several days of fishing releasing them all including this nice pez gallo.

One of the larger dorado of the week! Christine Rinaldi came to see us again all the way from New Jersey and spent more than a week fishing with us and took this nice bull not far off the Las Arenas lighthouse. It was an up-and-down week for dorado fishing with fish sometimes hungry and other times completely ignoring baits.

Earlier in the week, there was a fairly nice dorado bite with our Las Arenas fleet that got chillier when colder waters moved in, but our Arizona amigo Mike Guest did put this female in the box!

There was some good sporadic tuna fishing throughout the week although anglers really had to work hard to find the fish which popped up in varios places around Cerralvo Island, but were often elusive. Mary Heilman shows off one football yellowfin on the gaff fishing with Captain Pancho using live sardines.

Now THIS is a roosterfish...the kind that made Las Arenas famous! Dave Wehner really wanted to catch a rooster on light tackle. He had no idea, that a 60-pound class fish would inhale his little sardine while he was using 15 pound test and a little bass casting stick! Dave fought this fish for 90 minutes before getting it aboard for a quick photo and releasing it. Despite what it looks like, Dave said the fish swam away strongly!

Once a year, Kansas hunting guide, Don Snyder on the right gets to put on shorts and flip flops (although he gets to keep his cowboy hat) and comes to hang out with us in La Paz. He brought his buddy, Tom Carey from Colorado. (Tom...you dance great!). They're holding up some of their yellowfun tuna catch here standing at Las Arenas beach.

Everything is good when the fish are biting. Mike Whitlow (on the right) fishes professional bass tournaments and came down with his bud, Ed Vander Veer and did alot of light tackle fishing. Sometimes they really had to work hard to get the fish to bite during a week when fish were sometimes less than cooperative, but here, they hold up two nice dorado they picked up off Las Arenas.

Marlin jumping off the stern of a panga (see the photo below for the story)!

A blue marlin first for Mary Wehner looking none-the-worse for wear and tear as she's assisted by Captain Pancho with a blue estimated at 150 pounds. That's the fish in the picture above leaping off the stern! Mary hooked this fish just after her husband fought the big rooster two photos above. Bravo to Mary, she released the fish unharmed!

One of the best guys for posing with a fish, San Diego resident Mitch Chavira always gets fish whenever he comes down several times a year. He's hoisting a nice yellowfin tuna still lit up.

SOME DAYS BETTER THAN OTHERS AS ANGLERS WORK HARD BUT GET NICE TUNA, DORADO AND ROOSTERFISH

La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of July 11, 2010

A mixed week here for fishing. Weather and fishing were both as mercurial as the air temperature at times as the wacky unpredictable fishing season continued. The upside is that most of our folks who fished a few days all ended up with somes good fishing, but in between several good days, a really puzzling bad day could be had just as easily.

One day, the dorado or the tuna are jumping out’ve the waters and into the boat. Marlin are all over. The next day, that same panga in the same area doing the exact same thing would have a problem even getting a bonito or a needlefish to rise to a bait. Similarly, beautiful blue sunny waters one day would turn to windy chop the next and all of us would be shivering in sweatshirts and windbreakers. Go figure.

Overall, it wasn’t the best of weeks. Everyone had fish by the end, but some days it was like pulling teeth. It’s been a strange season and we seem to be about a month behind where we should be.

As well, bait continued to be an issue some days. One day it’s easily found. The next day, it would take hours.

However, like I said, if you fished at least a few days, the end result was a pretty nice stack of fish fillets! You just had to weather the slow periods. Hats off to our angler who were here this past week. Even during the tough times, they kept laughing and working it and in most cases it paid off.

For our La Paz Tailhunter fleet, dorado were mostly in the spotlight with fish being found in several area, most notably around Punta Mejia and the Las Cruces areas between Cerralvo Island and the Peninsula. Most fish were in the 10-20 pound class. We’re still seeing quite a few marlin as well. Almost all of them have been stripers in the 100-130 pound category. There were also some good spots of pargo, cabrill and amberjack.

For our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet, lots of variety continued. Spots of tuna seemed to follow the big squid up from the trenches. (The squid have been as large as 60 pounders!). Tuna have likewise been as big as 60-100 pounders with several large ones hooked and lost. Our largest this week that made it into the panga was about 60 pounds. Most, however were football tuna in the 5-15 pound class and they really seemed to like eating chunks of dead squid (not surprisingly) or else the really really pin-head sized sardines.

For other species around Las Arenas, dorado keep breezing through and at least a few boats find the erratic schools with fish up to about 25 pounds. Roosterfish are in a spot near Boca de Alamo south of Muertos Bay and big pargo and cabrilla are still hanging out in the rocks.

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That’s our story…

Jonathan and Jill

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La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of June 26-July 4, 2010

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Yellowfin tuna popped up for our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet with some fish in the 60-200 pound class that really chewed up anglers and spit them out, but some nice "football" sized fish in the 10-30 pound class like this one held by our amigo, Jorge Romero and assisted by Capt. Jaibo, did show up in flashes throughout the week.

Looks like big roosterfish season is here. We're not seeing so many smaller fish anymore. Most of the roosters we got this week were like this hog of a fish caught and released by BARBARA KENTSLER from Utah (Sorry for the mistake Barbara and thanks Aubrey for catching my error!) with Capt. Jorge near Las Arenas.

There are still a surprising number of pargo around. Check out the flat seas behind Randy Forestiere holding this nice pargo liso just off Muertos Bay.

I wish our friend, Rich Sawaske, and Capt. Adolfo had looked up into the camera, but they have their eyes riveted on this beautiful dorado Rich got on a live sardine just off Punta Arenas. Check out the flat ocean. They were only a few hundred yards offshore.

The water is still cold enough that we're still getting sierra which are normally cold water fish. Captain Romero holds a big one! Great eating fish.

MARLIN TUNA DORADO WAKE UP TO START SUMMER!

La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of June 26- to July 4, 2010

It was all going along really well. Then the winds came up again…at least for our La Paz fleet. It was like April all over again as the week came to a close, but before that, fishing had been really great.

For the better part of the week both our La Paz and our Las Arenas fleets have been doing really well. I mean, when was the last time someone said, “There are too many marlin!”

However, that’s what I heard more than once this past week, especially for our anglers fishing with our Las Arenas fleet. Over the last two weeks, all those lazy striped marlin and sailfish that have been sunning themselves on the surface waiting for the waters to warm finally woke up and came to the party. It’s about time!

Here’s some of the comments from the week:

“We had 8 marlin just swimming ’round and ’round the panga!”

“Those pesky marlin were as thick and dumb as dorado and I don’t want to catch marlin. I want to catch dorado, but the marlin chased the dorado away!”

“We hooked and released 5 marlin before 10 a.m. and then got the heck out’ve there so we could try to catch something like pargo to put in the ice chest!”

“I’ve never had a triple marlin hookup on a panga before and we were only about 200 yards from the shore!”

Fortunately, most of the marlin are getting broken off or released, and it’s especially great to see so many first timers letting their fish go…especially the youngsters tying into their first billfish.

However, in addition to the billfish, we got quite a variety of other species, especially around the south end of Cerralvo Island and Las Arenas. More and larger dorado showed up although there’s still quite a few dinks, but we saw some fish caught in the 20-25 pound category. As well, we’re not seeing as many roosterfish, but some really hefty big boys were caught and released up to about the 60-70 pound category as well as pargo and cabrilla.

More exciting than that, however, was that some large squid popped up south of Arenas and usually when that happens there’s tuna that come up out’ve the deep trench. Sure enough, we got into some 20-60 pound fish and several larger tuna in the 100+ pound category were hooked and lost after long long battles. There were even some fish estimated at 200 pounds that literally gobbled up anglers and spit them out.

There weren’t alot of tuna, but enough to get everyone excited and to see some of the larger fish pop up as well really jacked up the interest. Only problem was that many anglers were outgunned or not experienced enough to tackle these bigger gorilla tuna or, in some cases, I heard of at least 2 anglers simply cutting themselves off when they realized what they were tied onto!

If you can, imagine holding a 200 pound weight over the side of a 50-story building in a strong wind and you’re attached to that weight with a little tiny piece of string and a rod and reel! How many hours can you hold that?

FIRST PERSON!

Dave Gora and his family from Dana Pt. CA were down this week and Dave does some incredible video clips! He put this together for us from fishing two days with our Las Arenas fleet and Captain Victor. One of the best video clips I’ve ever seen down here. Great underwater footage too! Thanks, Dave! Click this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkkqUUb4wws

Will keep an eye out. Have a great 4th of July holiday!

That’s our story!

Jonathan and Jill

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