Double bonus! It’s great when our local friends go fishing. It’s even better when it’s their first time and they do well! But check out the quality dorado taken by Simon Loftus from Amistad Real Estate here in La Paz and Darrell Duncan and Leslie Duncan who just opened the beautiful Casa de La Paz Bed and Breakfast near our Tailhunter Restaurant http://www.casadelapazmexico.com On one of the calmest days of the week they were able to get East of Cerralvo Island in flat water and put these mahi in the boat and lost several others. It’s surprising to get this quality of fish so late in the season!
Spectacular shot of a dorado slamming the bait and getting air taken by Leslie Duncan’s quick shutter finger on the camera!
From the East Bay area of San Francisco, enjoying her recent retirement from the Sheriff’s Department, our amiga, Verda Boyd has already visited us twice this year and plans to do alot more fishing! Oh…and she can fish! Check out the colors on this dandy bull dorado she’s holding with Captain Jorge.
Two more of our La Paz amigos and fishing for the first time, Shelly and Michele hooked 14 sierra and lost 3 dorado fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet mid-week!
Fresh colors aboard! Simon Loftos has Captain Gerardo looking over his shoulder as he pulls another dorado aboard with a big smile. It was a big week for our local La Paz friends to fish! Simon is a property manager and realtor here in town at Amistad Realty http://www.amistadrealtors.com It was his first time fishing with us as well.
Who would have thought we’d be catching marlin and sailfish in December! But, it was a good week for billfish. I’d have more photos, but happily most were released like this good looking sail here next to the panga. One on day alone we had 5 sailfish and 2 marlin and all but one marlin were released.
Tim Zimmer, always does well when he comes down in December to enjoy some some sunshine and fishing! He’s got a nice rack of dorado here and check out the size of his fat sierra!
From Washington state here in La Paz to celebrate their anniversary, Christine Ainsworth, was fishing with us for the first time. She and her husband, Mike, who’s a professional guide in Washington got quite a variety of fish on conventional and fly-fishing tackle including, sierra, roosterfish, cabrilla, ladyfish, jack crevalle and others!
Terry Robinson from Twin Falls, Idaho, is another first-timer checking out La Paz with us. He nailed a nice roosterfish and great dorado fishing as well like this one just outside of Bahia de Los Muertos.
DECEMBER STARTS WITH FANTASTIC FALL FISHING!
La Paz – Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of Dec. 2-9, 2012
If you were to ask me, I’d say we’re probably on the very very tail-end of any kind of bluewater or warm water fishing. But what do I know?
Check out this week’s photos! I wish I had more, but so many fish were getting released and on one of our best days this week…no one brought a camera!
But what crazy fishing!
Just when I’m about to write things off, we have another great week of fishing…in fact…some of the best winter fishing I’ve seen ever! Dorado…huge roosterfish…sailfish…marlin…pargo….cabrilla…jack crevalle…wahoo…pompano! Nothing in big numbers, but the very fact that they’re still biting and we’re almost into Christmas is pretty surprising!
But, then, there’s some days when the bite just goes crazy!!! We had one day this past week where our pangas were back on the beach before noon! The anglers just simply had too much fish!
Of course, none of our anglers is complaining and I’m always sure to tell them that any kind of bluewater-type fish is a bonus! They shrug. They laugh. Many of our anglers now are just grateful to be in the sunshine as they’re coming from colder places like Canada, Utah, Washington state and other places that are already in the grips of winter and right now, we’re blessed with breezy 80-85 degree sunny weather.
And then they come back with 3 or 4 or 6 dorado in the 10-20 pound class and maybe a wahoo or a roosterfish and have big giant smiles! We had a few roosterfish this week that went 70-80 pound world-class size! We had another day when we hooked and released 5 sailfish plus two marlin were hooked as well.
On top of it, they’ll probably pop anywhere from 5-10 sierra as well and maybe a pargo or cabrilla or two plus a additional action on bonito. Makes for a nice day of rod-bending!
The dorado are very close to shore which is a good thing since winds are definitely kicked up and mostly from the north making it bumpy at times. That’s also why we’re doing most of our fishing from Las Arenas where it’s closer and more protected. However, for those a bit more adventurous, the larger dorado (up to 40 pounds) have been holding out at the 88 bank east of Cerralvo Island. It’s a little more than an hour to the high spot, but in a wind it’s impossible or simple too bone-rattling to want to do it. Those same areas is where the billfish were also holding.
Sierra and roosterfish are in the shallow areas usually just where the bottom starts to slide off the ledge to slightly deeper water and it turns color. If there’s some structure in that area, nice pargo mulatto are also being hooked.
Most of our fishing is with live bait or also dead stripped slices of bonito are effective. Sierra are getting taken on baited hooked with wires or by slow trolling Rapalas, Rebels, Yo-Zuris and Mega Baits.
That’s our story!
Jonathan and Jilly
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