Tailhunter Fish Report

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La Paz – La Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Aug. 14-21, 2016

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THE MINI VIDEO REPORT

The quick-video re-cap:

THE QUICK REVIEW – (Scale of 1-10 being best)

Weather – 2 (thunderstorms on and off all week)

Conditions Overall – 2 (windy cloudy many times)

Water – 3 (bumpy at times depending on the winds and nearby storms)

Fishing Quality – 1 (big fish around but mostly all lost or broke off)

Fishing Quantity – 7 (if you were catching triggerfish easy limits)

Quote of the Week – “Fishing is my anger management”

THE BIG PICTURE

Jeff Sakuda, our amigo for so many years, was trolling a small Rapala on just 30-pound-test for pargo while fishing with Captain Jorge and got this 20-pound wahoo hooked instead just before the weather changed and they had to bring it closer in.

Dee Dee Radar was fishing not to far off Espirito Santo Island north of La Paz and got this trophy cabrilla into the boat.

Mike Zech and Aaron Warren from Portland OR with Captain Rogelio and a nice barred pargo. They also got lots of triggerfish and had a big blue marlin on for a bit that broke the line and took off with the lure.

Roosterfish like Vanessa’s fish here with Captain Jorge just inside Bahia de los Muertos were about the size of the roosters this week. This fish was released.

Surprisingly great eating and tough battling fish, triggerfish have been easy pickings the last few weeks especially around the rocks, reefs and islands. Thanks for Joey Fuschetti for the photo.

Clarence Cooper : John Sanchez dorado tags 9-15

Clarence and John showing off the kind of dorado we were hitting this week…when we could find them.

Joey Fuschetti with a china maru…also knows as a hawkfish.

THUNDERSTORMS ADD TO END-OF-SUMMER FISHING LULL

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Aug. 14-21, 2016

Not much to tell you this week. Weather wasn’t the most cooperative. Summer thundershowers or threats of showers, thunder or lightning were almost an every-day occurrence. It didn’t always happen or it rained and thundered in one area, but not another or the predicted precipitation lasted 5 minutes here and 10 minutes there. Very tropical overall. My point being that it wasn’t always “Chamber of Commerce” clear sunny beach weather.

For fishing, we had a lull. What can I say? After months and months of solid anglers every day, this past week, we just didn’t have many folks coming to visit and fish. Actually, it’s kind of typical this time of year.

It’s the end of summer. Families are headed back to school so it marks the end of our “summer vacation” visitors and families that come to La Paz. (Local kids also head back to school as well). Anyway, families have other things on their plates and it’s a rare dad who gets to slip away from home to go fishing while leaving mom back home to deal with back-to-school craziness! So, there just weren’t many fishermen and this was the slow week of the season. Given the weather, maybe that was a good thing.

For those that did fish, it was a mix. I’m sure the weather had something to do with it.

At Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay some rooster fish were caught, but they missed some of the big boys. The ones caught and released were the smaller 10-15 pounders. There are wahoo in the area and we hooked 2, but lost them. Our friend, Jeff Sakuda got one 20-pound wahoo…while trolling a small Rapala on 30-pound test for pargo! The dark Rapalas are still the trick. There were some tuna that hit earlier in the week.

For our La Paz fleet, the inshore fishing once again provided the most action with big triggerfish, pargo, cabrilla and smaller amberjack making up most of the catch. Offshore, a few dorado in the 10 pound class hooked and one of our pangas had a big blue marlin on the line that broke the line after awhile.

More intermittent rain and thundershowers are predicted over the next few days again. Remnants of Tropical Storm Kay that formed east of Cabo San Lucas, but moving westward out to the Pacific.

That’s our story!

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Jonathan and Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website:

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 Sportfishing for Week of Aug. 7-14, 2016

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MINI- VIDEO REPORT

Sorry, it’s a little long this week. Had alot to go over and the video quality isn’t that good for several reason. One, I was born funny looking to begin with. And also, I was crushed for time to get this up on time and had to do this in just one take! Hope it’s OK!

The Quick Summary Week at a Glance (Scale of 1-10 worst to best)

Weather – 2 (Tropical Storm Javier came through)

Water – 5 (Could be better. Could be worse. Blue and warm but took a step back from the storm)

Fishing Action – 6 (Really good if you were fishing for inshore species but only a 2 for offshore bluewater stuff)

Fishing Quality – 2 (Not so good. Big fish were scarce or folks lost them. No medium fish to speak of.)

Forecast – 5 (Might get some rain on Wednesday and Saturday. Nothing serious…for now)

Jonathan’s Attitude: 4 (Tired and frustrated trying to predict the fishing bite during this crazy season…Just shoot me already!)

Quote of the Week: “Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught.”

THE BIG PICTURE – FULL REPORT

Our Colorado buddy, Frank Kunze looks a tad tuckers out after tangling with this blue marlin north of La Paz! He had it on light tackle and good for him…he released the fish to fight another day!

This might be the most important fish of the week. As dorado go, it’s not that big, but bigger on so many other levels! You see, Lisa Gibson has been fighting and just beat cancer. They were going to come several years ago ,but then she got the diagnosis. She said that thoughts of coming fishing here in La Paz often kept her going. So, this trip was a celebration of all things good! She and her husband, Rick, caught 14 different species of fish over 3 days!

Here’s a guy who knows how to pose with a fish! Chad Stachowicz is the man behind the mask and holding one of the nicer dorado from the week! He also just got married a few days ago! Fishing honeymoon! Erin’s photo is below!

They literally got married and jumped on a plane to start the honeymoon in La Paz! Erin and Chad Stachowicz here with some nice triggerfish and a bonito. Chad’s dorado is the photo above. They also lost a big pargo in the rocks!

Carolyn Broshear has to be one of the most joyous gals we’ve run across. She’s always laughing and it’s evident here with this big roosterfish and Captain Victor. She said the roosterfish really hammered her but had a blast. She also released the fish too!

Ah yes! The right kind. Rick Gibson from Arizona with an early morning trophy roosterfish and Captain Pancho! It was also Rick’s birthday too! The fish was released.

Another rooster in the boat! John Radar from Colorado told me, “I’m so handsome the fish are scared!” Captain Victor helps for the photo. John released the big roosterfish.

triggerfish Lisa Gibson Rogelio 8-16 tags

Captain “Jolly Roger” Rogelio and one of the big triggerfish we’ve been catching around Espirito Santo Island with Lisa Gibson. Great eating fish!

Frank Kunze again with a rooster just south of Bahia de los Muertos! The fish lived to fight and grow bigger!

Captain Victor was on fire this week with the roosterfish. This time Dee Dee was on the bite just off the rocks and she takes a quick pose before letting this one go too!

TROP STORM JAVIER DAMPENS FISHING

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Aug. 7-14, 2016

The week got jacked a bit by Tropical Storm Javier that hit us mid-week, but all-in-all, it could have been alot worse. Mainland Mexico got hit pretty badly. Cabo San Lucas and the East Cape got alot of rain and strong winds. We were braced for it here in La Paz, but ultimately, we got some heavy winds the actual day of the storm with some 50-60 mph gusts and a few hours of steady but not torrential rains and thankfully, that was it. No hurricane. No flooding or damage to speak of.

But, from the perspective of fishing, it didn’t do us any favors.

The storm hit mid-week. The day before it was already getting windy and cloudy. Some flashes of lightning and thunder and the waters were already getting choppy.

The day of the storm, forget it. It was completely blown out and impossible to get out. Plus the port captain closed the port and kept everyone inside anyway. So, we had to cancel all the trips and basically tell folks to sleep in; hang out and go hang out by the pool. We had great folks with us this week and everyone was cool and just rolled with it and kept smiling.

The day after the storm, we were back out on the water, but as if often characteristic of storms, the day after, the waters are turned over and dirty. It was still choppy and conditions weren’t exactly optimum.

So that knocked 3 days out’ve the week right there.

Overall, fishing wasn’t spectacular anyway. Roosterfish, some billfish, lots of triggerfish, some pargo, cabrilla, jack crevalle, a few dorado and a couple of wahoo lost. We’re expecting some thundershowers late Wednesday again.

LAS ARENAS/ MUERTOS BAY

Once again, the rooster fish factory saved the day on more than one occasion. Big feisty fish from 20-50 pounds. All released. Great fighting. Thrilling if you’ve never caught one and everyone is always surprised how close t shore these big fish can be and how shallow the water can be. But, rooster fish were once again center stage for our anglers who fished this area.

Beyond that, a few billfish hooked. A couple of wahoo lost. The rest of the catch was a picky scratchy mix of some jack crevalle and bonito.

LA PAZ

This is where most of the action was. This is where the fillets came from if you planned to take home some fish.

But strange. We SHOULD be thick in to the dorado this time of year. But, we’re only getting a handful a day..if that. Still, it’s more than we were getting two weeks ago. We SHOULD be into 10-30 pound fish. The fish we’re getting are only about 10-15 pounds at best. Conditions are improving, but we’ll have to see.

There’s sailfish, blue marlin and striped marlin and we hooked and released a couple of them. We had one rooster fish come up and eat a marlin jig that was trolled over a high spot. Never seen that before!

The main focus then was inshore stuff around the islands, reefs and rocks where there was great bite of 2-5 pound triggerfish mixed with cabrilla, pargo, amberjack and a few others. All great eating fish and lots of the larger fish lost to the rocks and sharp teeth.

DONATION NATION

Kent Hawkins and Joey Fuschetti had a full ice chest of stuff including a ton of sports equipment. Joey is a coach and he had bags of balls plus swimming gear and even his original baseball mits from when he was a kid.

Clothes…school…supplies…book bags…just incredible from Kevin Davis, Dennis Smith, Phil France, Joe France, Del “Santa Clause” Winterfeld and Steve Gross all from Washington.

Portland OR friends in the house! Steve and Dorothy Murata brought down 72 sets of toothbrushes, toothpaste and floss for the kids!

Major shout-outs to all our awesome Tailhunter Tribe amigos who kindly brought down donations for the schookids at our outlying schools, the orphanage and the woman’s shelter. Your big hearts go a long way and we’re grateful. In the last month alone we’ve donated over 1000 pounds of much needed things.

Also a big THANK YOU to the kids in Lisa and Rick Gibson’s family (photos of Rick and Lisa above). The kids took their own money that they had saved and went out and bought school supplies to donate! WOW! Unfortunately, I didn’t get photos of Rick and Lisa and the stuff they brought down…or their kids who did not make the fishing trip! 😦

God bless you all!

That’s our story!

Jonathan and Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website:

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

“When your life finally flashes before your eyes, you will have only moments to regret all the things in life you never had the courage to try.”

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of Aug .1-7, 2016

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TAILHUNTER MINI-VIDEO FISHING REPORT FOR WEEK OF AUG. 1-7, 2016

THE WEEK IN SUMMARY (scale of 1-10)

Weather – 7 (sunny but humid)

Wind – 9 (not an issue/ sweet breeze in the afternoon and evenings)

Fishing Action – 4 (More fish with our La Paz fleet, but smaller. Las Arenas fewer fish but overall larger)

Quality of Fish – 6 (Big Roosters / Nice billfish / Tasty rock fish)

Water – 6 (bluer and warmer)

Tailhunter Restaurant – 6 (good crowds/ cold beer/ finally something to watch…Olympics and NFL Football)

Jonathan Attitude – 6 (cautiously optimistic / a bit of tight shorts over possible rain coming)

Forecast – 5 (El Nino broke my crystal ball / watching this weather right now)

Quote of the Week – “I don’t go fishing to find myself. I got fishing to lose myself.”

THE FULL STORY – THE WHOLE ENCHILADA FISHING REPORT

Olga Atamanayk Pancho 2 rooster 7-16 tags

Olga Atamanyk is from Russia and she and her husband Anatoli walked into the Tailhunter Sportfishing office in La Paz speaking no English or Spanish. None of us could speak Russian! All she could say was “BIG FISH! BIG FISH!” and pantomime fishing with her hands and arms! So, we sent her fishing with Captain Pancho out’ve Bahia de los Muertos. She and Anatoli caught and released two huge rooster fish and a big jack crevalle plus triggerfish which they brought back to Tailhunter Restaurant to cook up. The big smile says it all. Captain Pancho from the Tailhunter Fleet lends a hand.

This photo of Eric Stefan from Kansas makes me smile on so many levels. It’s a great picture and a happy fella, but it’s also maybe one of the biggest dorado we’ve seen in awhile and they got several that day. Fingers crossed!

Wes Perkins from Portland OR found a speedy wahoo his first day of fishing with Captain Victor. Posing on the beach at Muertos Bay.

Lowen Hobbs and his girlfriend Heather, from Poway CA had only one day to fish with Tailhunter Sportfishing. They went out of Bahia de los Muertos near Las Arenas and hooked this big blue marlin right off the bat. They also hooked and released a big rooster fish. They were not able to release the marlin. They fought the fish almost 2 hours on light tackle. They were with Captain Pancho from the Tailhunter Fleet.

Got what he wanted! Captain Gerardo helps out young Earl Natrass from Cool, California who really wanted to catch a big rooster! Nicely done and they also released the fish.

She’s always laughing! Chelsey Stefan from Topeka KS with her first dorado that she battled mightily on Captain Chito’s panga caught north of La Paz near Espirito Santo Island. Check out the video of Chelsey below!

For one day fishing, it’s hard to top Lowen Hobbs from Poway CA. He got this nice roosterfish south of Bahia de los Muertos and released it then got bent on a big blue marlin (photos at the beginning of the report).

From Mesquite, Nevada, Darrold Stefan loves to fish. This jack crevalle yanked him around a bit before getting his photos taken and put back in the water! Darrold also caught a few marlin during the week.

Gary Wagner from Colorado Springs CO (owner of Rancho Costa Plenty at Muertos Bay) and Rush Whitmarsh from San Diego pose with a feisty jack crevalle just outside the bay. The guys released the fish to fight another day.

Great photo of Earl Natrass from Cool CA with his roosterfish still fresh and all lit up with great colors! Catch…photo…release…well done!

Captain Pancho and Bernie Stefan from Kansas with Bernie’s fat rooster from his first day fishing. Bernie released the fish.

Anatoly Olga Atamanyk tags 7-16 jack crevalle

Detante at it’s best! Hard to beat the smiles our our Russian friend who ony had one day to fish, Anatoli and Olga Atamanyk who also got 2 giant roosterfish!

Just had to post this one up! This tiny dorado was a hungry fella and grabbed Chelsey’s hook and gave it all he had! Captain Rogelio helps for the photo. They released the little tiger!

Rooster Anatoly Atamanyk 7-16 tags pancho

Not bad for just one day of fishing for Anatoli Atamanyk with Captain Pancho and his big rooster he fought and released. Great photo.

DORADO HIGHLIGHT A BETTER WEEK…BUT WAIT…

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of Aug. 1-7, 2016

Not up to our usual summer standards by any stretch, but this past week was definitely an improvement over last week. The bite was more consistent. There were no weather related issues. The water was cleaner, warmer and bluer. This all added up to better action for our anglers.

And…(drumroll)…we had some dorado show up! These were quality fish too. Nothing spectacular. Nothing on fire. But given the dearth or mahi this year, this was very encouraging.

Hopefully, things will improve…but wait…

As I’m writing this, we’re on storm watch. Mother Nature is gonna maybe have another laugh at our expense and drop kick us to see how we roll. There’s a potential tropical storm headed our way which could be dropping some rain on us by the time you’re reading this. If I had hair long enough to grab, I might be pulling it out right now in frustration. More on that below…

LAS ARENAS

After a week or so of some iffy fishing I was wondering if our rooster fish had left us. Well, if they did, they came back nicely. Good to have the big gallos back to put on a show. We had some good roosters this week like normal.

Fish ranged from about 10 pounds to over 60 in some cases. Not good to eat so as far as I know, all of them were released, but hard not to get thrilled by a big fish in shallow water and that’s exactly what these big slab fish do. They kick your heart rate up a few notches.

That’s the good news.

The bad news from the area was that there wasn’t much more biting. We had a few billfish. There were a few wahoo bites that were lost, although we got a few. There was one solitary tuna and a few rock fish, jack crevalle, bonito, and assorted mixes. That was it.

LA PAZ

Our Tailhunter La Paz fleet surely had the most variety and best action overall.

Inshore fishing continues to be the highlight with some huge triggerfish, pargo, cabrilla, amberjack and parrot fish really surprising some of our anglers who often go to the rocks a big dejected when the blue water fishing doesn’t work out so well. Then, they hit the rocks and get schooled a few times by giant pargo and cabrilla or get triple bites on huge jacks or the triggerfish and realize they’re having a blast and filled the fish box with some quality fillets.

But, the big surprise was finding a couple pods of dorado…finally! We should be hitting limits of dorado every single day right now in a normal year. This isn’t a normal year. It’s been like this for 2 seasons now as we hit the tail end of the El Nino conditions. But, some of our anglers found some of the mahi schooled up and got a few handfuls into the boat that were quality 10-25 pound fish and some larger ones lost! We can only hope for more!

As for other species, the deep canyons and drop off areas still produced some good billfish action for stripers, sailfish and the occasional hookup (and loss) of bigger blue marlin.

THE STORM?

As mentioned above, we’ve got our eye on a tropical storm that might be hitting us with some thundershowers and wind starting Monday. As I write this on Sunday, wind is already stronger than normal although the sun has been shining. This is NOT a hurricane, but there might be some flurries of intermittent rain, thunder and lightning coming Monday and Tuesday.

This is Tropical Depression Eleven-E as of Sunday and the possible path it might take over the next few days. Or not…the diagram changes every few hours.

The advisories seem to change every few hours. It’s not really going to affect anyone here on vacation. The margaritas will flow and tacos will be eaten. I’m only writing this as to how it might affect our fishermen, divers and snorkelers that it’s just something we’re watching and might have to do some adjustments to fishing schedules and that waters might be a little rough A little rain here and there is no big deal. Fish still bite. But if it gets really windy that might be another issue.

TAILHUNTER DONATION NATION!

Wow! Don and Sue Ogden DROVE about 10 crates of school supplies down to us including books, teaching materials, about 50 completely packed pencil boxes and so many other things all headed to the orphanage at Los Planes. Incredible.

All the way from Topeka, Kansas, the Stefan Family brought down a big batch of things for our charities. Super fun family and their first time fishing with us in La Paz. The empty ice chests that brought all this down went home with about 100 pounds of fish filets! Nice exchange!

Our good friends for so many years, on their 2nd trip here in 2016, Grant Darby and son-in-law, Ben Van Gerpen from Washington brought down school supplies, toiletries, hygiene items and clothes, which I think we’ll deliver to the women’s shelter here in La Paz. You rock, guys!

All the items that came in this week literally filled the entire back and the inside cab of a truck! I think there was over 300 pounds of supplies and we are so grateful. The donations go to so many needy families and kids and are priceless.

Big shout out to the folks pictured above:

Don and Sue Ogden

The Stefan Family

Ben Van Gerpen and Grant Darby

And some great amigos we didn’t get pictures of:

Lee Carlos and Frank Kunze

Noe and Dante Fierros

Thanks for the big hearts, my friends!

That’s our story !

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Jonathan and Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website:

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 Sportfishing for Week of July 24-31, 2016

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TAILHUNTER SPORTFISHING – WEEKLY MINI REVIEW

THE WEEK AT A GLANCE

Conditions: 4 (cloudy, humid, a few passing storms, windy at times and choppy)

Sunshine: 3 (much of the week overcast, but finally sunshine late in the week)

Bait: 3 ( better for La Paz than Las Arenas)

Quality of fish: 5 (nice marlin and roosters)

Quantity of fish: 2 (sometimes there were only triggerfish caught)

Optimism: 6 (it’s gottta get better!)

Quote of the Week: “I have 99 problems. Fishing solves all of them.”

THE BIG PICTURE

From Puyallup WA area, fireman Seth Maxwell is on his honeymoon with his new wife Vann. Their first date was fishing. He proposed to her while they were fishing and now this! Nice amberjack off Punta Arenas!

C.J. Randolph with the big boy dog-tooth snapper (check out the choppers!) on the beach at Bahia de los Muertos! CJ is from Pacific Palisades CA

Gary Wagner and his daughter, Sydney, with her rooster caught not far from Gary’s place in Bahia de los Suenos…great lodge Rancho Costa (Plenty!). The fish was released!

Monte Adridge from Utah with a really gorgeous white marlin and Captain Pancho near the south end of Cerralvo Island.

One of the rare dorado caught this week. Van Maxwell, again in the report with Captain Chito north of La Paz.

Gary Wagner again, our amigo, with his son Miles’ roosterfish and captain Manny looking on! They are near Punta Perrico and released the fish.

Here’s Vann Maxwell again with big smiles and a huge roosterfish and Captain Pancho. The fish was released. Look closely and you can see the rain hitting the water in the background!

Pretty photo of Marlene and Monte Adridge visiting us for the first time from Utah and a big rooster just off the rocks near Baha de los Muertos. The fish was released.

Slug of a trophy cabrilla (seabass) for young Captain Randolph out’ve Las Arenas/ Bahia de los Muertos!

Dietmar Kruger with a nice barred pargo that’s going to get filleted!

You alway remember that first fish! Kudos to Marlene Aldridge for the fiesty bonito that was released and Captain Joel near Espirito Santo Island.

WEATHER AND FISH RELUCTANT PARTICIPANTS

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of July 24-31, 2016

It was a struggle this week. It’s been a repeated pattern all season. We have a week or two of really encouraging fishing and conditions when things look like they’re turning around followed by some really tougher fishing a week later. The last two weeks, the billfish really kicked it in and we were even seeing a few dorado finally.

This week the winds came in strong. So did cloudy skies and even some rain in the mountains and occasional showers on the water for our anglers. We barely saw sunshine. The billfish bite, while still OK was not as consistent as the week before. The dorado couldn’t be found. Even our reliable rooster fish were harder to find. It was like two steps forward…one step back.

We didn’t have alot fishermen this week, so maybe that was a good thing. We’ve been really solidly busy, but this week we had a few days with only a few pangas out. But, the guys really hung in there and worked hard. The captains were working especially hard. As I told my captains, when the fish are biting, all of us are superstars and the “best captains” in the world. When the fish are not biting, we have to prove we’re good by showing the clients that we work even harder. Some of our guys were staying out just a little longer than normal to give our guys as much time on the water as possible. We did whatever we could. Sometimes it paid off. Sometimes…well, that’s fishing. Not for lack of effort by the anglers or the captains.

LAS ARENAS/ BAHIA de Los MUERTOS

Roosterfish have saved us time-and-again all season. The fish are nice quality fish of 25-60 pounds. But this week even the roosters were harder to come by although we still got a few. As well, surprisingly, we got amberjack this week. We had not seen any for about a month and these are usually spring-time fish when waters are cooler. It’s really surprising to get any when it’s almost August!

A few billfish hooked and lost. Wahoo are apparently still in the area too. We had several inadvertent hook-ups but fish either bit-off or were dumped.

LA PAZ

Definitely our area this past week with the most action. Not great fishing, but the better area just to get your rod bent. There were billfish out there with stripers and larger blues getting hooked, but nothing like it was last week. Word is out now and there’s so much more boat traffic out there with alot of local boats all zipping back and forth across the marlin holes. So, I’m sure that had an effect on it too. A week ago, there were 1-3 billfish per boat some days. One day we counted 26 vessels criss-crossing the same patch of water over…and over…and over…

With the marlin action diminished…

Alot of our action has been inshore for pargo, cabrilla, jack crevalle, triggerfish, bonito and amberjack. Again, we would normally NEVER even be talking about these species of fish this time of year. These are spring-time species. We SHOULD be talking about dorado! But other than the occasional free-swimmer, there’s just not much out there for pelagic species. Other areas are also having their issues finding dorado as well so it’s not just us.

On the upside, the waters are warming and clearing up. Much bluer every week and there’s a bunch of sargasso weed about 10 miles north of town that’s moving south towards us so that’s very promising because the live bait situation is also improving. My captains are saying to give it 2-3 weeks and they think we’ll be getting dorado.

That’s our story!

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Jonathan and Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website:

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 Sportfishing for Week of July 16-24, 2016

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EXPRESS VIDEO FISHING REPORT

Sorry this is such a rough video this week. Only had time to do it in one take before the internet quit on me!

WEEK AT A GLANCE (Scale of 1-10)

Conditions: 6 – Better than it’s been

Fish Quality: 8 – Big fish with marlin in the spotlight

Fish Quantity: 2.5 Not many fish. Just big fish! Marlin or smaller triggerfish. More quality than quantity.

Water: 6 – Getting bluer and warmer finally

Weather: 8- Hot and muggy. Bits of rain at times. Just enough to mess up my just-washed-car. 😦

Storm: 2 – One to the south that went to Hawaii generated some waves to south facing beaches like Muertos Bay. Got bouncy.

Live Bait: 3 – Still tough. Gotta work for it. Some days better than others. We use whatever shows up.

Overall: 4-5

Jonathan’s Disposition: Much better than the week before. Saw lots of smiles this week.

Applause: To all the anglers who resisted the urge to kill their billfish and released them and to those that donated so much to others who needed the food! Cheers!

THE BIG PICTURE

Wow! What can you say, Robert “Pops” Henke from Montebello CA comes to see us every year. He’s 89-years-old and his first marlin turns out to be 370 pounds! With the help of son, Bo, they fought the fish for almost 3 hours. Captain Chito “ten more minutes” Martinez from the Tailhunter Fleet handled the boat. They also got a sailfish. There were some larger blue marlin hooked and lost this week as well! Additionally, bravo to Pops and Bo who only kept about 50-pounds of meat (to divide among a group of 14 anglers) and made sure that anyone of the locals who wanted or needed fish received some to eat. It fed many families!

The laughs are non-stop for anyone around Jerry Acosta from Phoenix whenever he visits us! There were so many billfish hooked this week, it’s hard to tell if Jerry has a striped marlin or a small blue there in the water. I think it’s a small blue.

Craig and Cathy Corda pargo tags Pancho 7-16

Captain Pancho wit Craig and Cathy Corda from Calexico, our amigos, who had a great few days of fishing and kicked it off with a bookend pair of big mean dog-tooth snapper (pargo perros).

Thomas only had 1 day to fish with us and got his first marlin too. It looks like a striper or even a small (dare-I-say) swordfish! I would tend to say a striped marlin but the captains called this a “white marlin” and indeed, the meat was white, not orange like a striped marlin and very meaty!

Luis Arandia finally got his first marlin…a striper. He also hooked a blue and a sailfish over two days!

And yet another big big dog-tooth snapper hits the beach. Usually, we get these big pargo in the fall and later fall. Mean fish. Big teeth too!

Craig Corda is all smiles with a nice wahoo. Craig has gotten a wahoo the last few times he’s fished with us…which is every year!

He has to head back in a few weeks for his 2nd year of law school in New York, but Marco Holguin did get this nice roosterfish before he released it!

Monster Jack Crevalle for Africa outfitter, out friend, Ken Khaplin who also got big roosterfish and marlin last week.

And here’s Cathy Corda with her first marlin too! Another one of the billfish I would call a striped marlin, but was told it was a “white marlin” even tho’ supposedly white marlin are only found in the Atlantic. The meat was indeed white when we packed it and striped marlin has dark reddish/orange flesh.

Yes, even I got out for just a few hours at sunset thanks to Gary Wagner and his great family for hosting us for the evening at Rancho Costa in Bahia de los Muertos. Out with his captain Manuel, we got bit off by a big wahoo; got some fat bonito; then ended the evening with a barred pargo headed to the dinner table at the lodge! It ate a purple Rapala XRap 30.

Marco Holguin again with his first striped marlin and Captain Jorge. Over 3 days he and his dad, Steve, got 4 striped marlin!

BIG OR GO HOME! MARLIN GO CRAZY!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of July 16-24, 2016

We just had maybe the best week of billfish I have ever seen here in the 20 years, we’ve had Tailhunters here in La Paz. Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen billfish all over, but with the colder waters, they just weren’t interested in much of anything. They were sitting on the surface and completely lethargic.

I kept saying that if the water temperatures came up just a few degrees, these fish will go. Well, the water temps came up and the fish suddenly got hungry. Every day, maybe 80% of our pangas hooked at least 1 billfish a day. For every one brought to the boat, maybe 2-3 others were lost or released. About 70% were released (way-to-go-guys!) and for those that came in or couldn’t be released, alot of the anglers donated the meat (double way-to-go!). But, alot of fun and for alot of our folks, it was their first billfish. In some cases, their 2nd and 3rd as well.

These fish ranged from smaller 50-80 pound stripers to our largest of the week which was a 370-pound blue marlin. There were also some sailfish as well. Plus there were 1 or 2 other billfish that would have been larger than 400 pounds, but we’ll never know as they broke off after long battles.

Several items…we’re getting marlin that sure look like striped marlin to me. Same shape and size. But our captains are calling them “white marlin.” But, white marlin are only found (supposedly) on the Atlantic. I was dubious and still am. They sure look like striped marlin! But, maybe a little slimmer. But white marlin generally are smaller and slimmer than striped marlin.

However, when I was packing fish, the meat of the “white marlin” was WHITE! Almost creamy white like the flesh of the delicious blue marlin. The striper flesh that I was vacuum sealing was the normal orange color and very fibrous like I expected!

The other thing…I think we would have been able to release more of these fish except that alot of these fish are really deep-hooked. Most of the guys are NOT trying to hook billfish. We don’t troll big lures like many areas. We fish live and dead bait. We’re fishing for dorado or even rooster fish and other species.

But, these billfish are just hungry. They come up…even in the shallow areas…and they are HUNGRY. They grab a bait and then swallow it! Hook goes deep. Some we can release. Others…well…not so easy. When you have a bait in the water, it’s not like you can pick-and-choose what bites the hook down under the surface. A number of guys did try really hard to revive their fish!

Let me also just add one more thing…for anyone who’s doesn’t like seeing photos of the billfish…

Mexican regulations allow a fisherman to keep one per day
For every photo you see, 5 or 6 billfish were either lost or released
Normally, about 90% of all billfish we catch are voluntarily released
Many times when anglers are unable to revive a fish, they donate the meat to folks who need food
Even when a fish is purposely taken, many times, the anglers still donate a good chunk anyway
Alot of the anglers that are catching the marlin aren’t really trying to catch the billfish and are trying to catch other fish but the ocean being what it is, if there’s a bait in the water, the billfish are eating it…even in shallow water. There’s no control of what decides to grab your bait under the water. And, unlike a lure, a small bait goes right down the throat with the hook and makes it harder to release although we are still able to release many and lots of guys spend alot of energy reviving their fish.

TAILHUNTER LAS ARENAS/ MUERTOS BAY FLEET

After several weeks of green cold water, the waters have improved dramatically! Our captains have commented that there are many more patches of clean blue water now although still some colder areas. Jill and I were out there mid-week and visibility and conditions looked extremely good.

There wasn’t alot of variety this week, but as stated above, we got billfish. There are stripers, sailfish, “white marlin” and smaller blue marlin (150 pounders) hooked.

As well, we’re seeing a little tick again of wahoo. I was out with Gary Wagner from Rancho La Costa only for about an hour or so at sunset and the first big caballito we had in the water got torn in half like a Ginzu knife got it. Too bad, we didn’t have a double-trap-hook set up on it because it was a huge 3 pound bait and it got cleanly severed. Several other guys during the week also hooked and lost fish.

Additionally, some of the big dog-tooth snapper got caught this week as well. Big fat doggies with the fangs!

TAILHUNTER LA PAZ FLEET

There were two kinds of fish. No in-between fish. They were either big. Or they were small.

There were only two kinds of fish. Rock fish (lots of triggers…smaller cabrilla and pargo…snapper). Or, they were big marlin 80-400 pounds!

That was it in a nutshell. No variation! A few dorado thrown in, but that was the whole enchilada. Guys either went inshore to the islands and rocks and knocked the heck out’ve triggerfish and rockfish. Or they went deeper and got billfish.

For sure the larger billfish were on this side as waters tend to be deeper and there’s more current and feed north of La Paz than Las Arenas. There were more sailfish on this side too.

TAILHUNTER DONATION NATION

Thanks to all of those who donated to our charities this week with school supplies and clothes!

Steve and Marco Holguin

Luis Arandia and Mario Salazar

Monte and Marlene Aldridge

Big smiles and thank you to Monte and Marlene Adridge from Utah on their first trip to La Paz managed to stuff a bunch of great school supplies into an ice chest for our kids!

That’s our story!

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Jonathan and Jill

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website:

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 Sportfishing for Week of July 10-17, 2016

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THE EXPRESS TAILHUNTER FISHING REPORT WEEKLY VIDEO!

For those who don’t have the time to read, take a look and listen to our express weekly fishing report version above!

RATING THE WEEK: (Scale of 1-10)

Variety: 7 Good (never knew what you’d hook up)

Action: 3-5 (Poor to OK on the number of hook-ups)

Quantity of Fish: 3 (Not so great)

Quality of Fish: 7 (some big fish out there which also had an effect on the Quantity of fish…lots of fish lost)

Weather: Hot (90’s)

Water: Cooler than normal, but getting warmer high 70’s-low 80’s

Beer: Icy

Overall: 3 (sad face waaaa…)

Jonathan’s Tempermant: Hopefully Anxious

Quote of the Week: “The best fisherman is the person having the most fun even if he has no fish”

THE FULL STORY

ROOSTERS STILL CHARGING BUT MARLIN WAKE UP

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of July 10-17, 2016

The big smile says it all! Becky Csutoras from Elk Grove CA never has a bad week of fishing with us. She hoists up a huge slab roosterfish south of Bahia de los Muertos with Captain Pancho. The fish was released!

Craig and Cathy Corda hit the home runs with a paid of magnificent dog-tooth snapper! Wow!

It was a good week to check of fish from the bucket list. Our good amigo, Ken Chaplin, is a hunting guide and this is his 2nd trip to visit us and he finally got the marlin off his list. He caught and released this striped marlin near Las Arenas and released it. He also caught a blue marlin and a huge roosterfish. See below.

Captain Chito and Terry Biggs with one of the only dorado we’ve seen all week. Hopefully, more on the way!

From Denver somewhere behind that dorsal fin is Ben Larkin who hefted this huge roosterfish near Boca de Alamo with Captain Adolfo. The fish was released.

McKenzie Pitts had some kind of week. Not only did boyfriend Josh propose to the Oregon gal, but her first day she gets a marlin right off the bat at Bahia de los Suenos/ Muertos. She got another one a few days later. They could not be released and meat was donated.

Rich Keogh has been fishing with us for many years and he had a tough week like so many other amigos. However, Captain Raul with our La Paz fleet put Rich over this big cabrilla north of La Paz.

Birthday fish for Buzzy Cook on his first trip with us and celebrated with this big roosterfish north of Boca de Alamo with Captain Pancho. The fish was released.

Rusty Cain Jeff Hampton marlin tags 7-16

Another guy who checked it off the bucket list…Rusy Cain with buddy, Jeff Hampton. Rusty got his first marlin and went home and booked to come back to fish with us at the end of October! He was with Captain Armando.

Shaka Brah! From buddy Guy Petree and Oscar Castro who cradles another roosterfish that got put back in the water right after the photo!

Terry Biggs chito tags cabrilla pargo 7-16

Terry Biggs with Captain Chito and some hefty good-eating rock fish including a barred pargo, dog-tooth snapper and a big trophy cabrilla (seabass).

Pretty good week for jack crevalle. Just think roosterfish without all the adornment on the back! Tough tough fish to battle. Guy Petree again with the pose.

Scott Brown of Santa Barbara with another striped marlin caught north of La Paz near Espirito Santo Island. The fish could not be released.

Amigo, Ken Chaplin fished hard all week. And, although the fishing was tough, he did get a striped marlin…blue marlin and this nice big roosterfish that he released. He also realeased some of the largest jack crevalle of the week also.

GENERALLY SPEAKING

Waters are still cooler than normal, but improving. Big rooster fish are still keeping anglers bent, but the marlin finally woke up after weeks of dis-interest. Things are encouraging although it’s summer and there’s still no dorado around! There was a big dorado tournament to the south of us and the winning fish was FIVE POUNDS! (He still won a big check so that’s awesome as long as it’s bigger than 2nd place!)

But…Either way, another real “iffy” erratically frustrating week of fishing.

It was also REALLY hot this week with some big temperature spikes for a day or two that went into the 100’s then dropped back down after a day. It produced some big afternoon winds on the backside low pressure and also gave us our first thunderheads and afternoon showers and bluster late in the day.

LAS ARENAS/ BAHIA de LOS MUERTOS

It was another week of hit-or-miss on the water. Like everywhere else, there’s no dorado to speak of other than the occasional 5-10 pounder when dorado should be 90% of our catch. Waters are still cooler than normal although warming a bit and getting bluer finally after 3 weeks of cold green waters. We are actually seeing some spots of 80-83 degree water although there’s still obvious patches of green, dirty colder water mixed in or down below the thermocline. I know this because it’s July and we’re still hooking some yellowtail and sierra…both cold water fish that we normally get in March and April or the wintertime and definitely not in the summer. This is the latests I have seen them.

No wahoo. No tuna. Had some guys out looking but got shut out.

Our best bet in the area is the rooster fish and again, they are hogs. The smaller ones are 25 pounders. The larger ones rolled up around 60-70 pounds and some possibly bigger as almost all the fish are getting released and we don’t always have photos of all the fish. Which is fine. I’m glad folks are releasing them and getting them back in the water as soon as possible. Given having a great photo or releasing a healthy fish, I’d rather have the fish swim away to go again another day and make more babies!

Other stuff around included some big horse jack crevalle, some white bonito and some pargo and cabrilla. And a small flurry of some really big dog-tooth snapper (again usually a cooler water fish!)

Still some sharks around too after that flurry for about 2 weeks when every boat seemed to hook up a shark. Bait has been an issue (again) until late in the week when the waters were filled with mackerel everywhere which might account for the lack of fish. They were too full! But, maybe this will also bring the sharks back following food source.

The other item of big interest are the marlin. They woke up! See below…

LA PAZ

Just like our fleet at Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay, there no dorado. No tuna. Not much of any pelagic species. Waters have been colder than normal the last few weeks. But…hold on…

They’re getting better! Patches of blue showing up and water is getting clearer. Also, one other indication is the marlin and sailfish finally started biting!

We’ve been seeing the billfish for several weeks. They have been totally lethargic and uninterested in much. Just finning and sitting on the surface. This is the kind of behavior we normally see in the early spring when waters are cooler.

I kept telling folks that if the water temps kick up just a degree or two, the fish will get active!

Well, sure enough the temps rose and the fish started to bite. We hooked more billfish this week than we have in the entire year. Every day there were 2, 3..5 billfish hooked. Many were lost after battles on relatively light tackle. Most of the ones brought to the boat were released. We had sailfish up to about 70 pounds. Striped marlin in the 100-120 pound class or larger. We even had a few smaller blue marlin to about 180 pounds. Fish that were kept and unable to release, a good portion of the meat was donated. But, for all the photos you see here, probably 95% were released.

The other indication of warming water is the algae bloom. Normally, again, this is a phenomenon that takes place in the early spring. As the waters warm algae starts busting out. Moss like stuff appears and starts clogging up the beaches. Waters can get cloudy. Then, as the waters warm the algae dies off and we come out on the other side with clean, blue fish-laden waters! So, this is a good sign. Plus, we’re seeing sargasso patches form up in the outer waters that are usually another good harbinger of warm waters and more dorado.

Other than the dorado, the inshore fishing has been surprisingly good. Big pargo. Big cabrilla. Big snapper. Regretfully, these are mean big fish. I’d say for every 1 fish put in the boat, 3-6 fish bust off in the rocks! For every 5 or 10 pound fish, 20-40 pounders just shred the anglers. They are alot for fun, however…and frustrating, but great action and good eating!

TAILHUNTER DONATION NATION

Ken Chaplin and John “Buzzy” Cook live way up by the Canadian border and spent the week with us, but still jammed several ice chests with a table full of school supplies, clothes and sports equipment.

Our railroad guys…Terry Biggs, Rich Keogh, Mitch Embry (with Jilly) and Ed Bird filled about 100 pounds of bags with toiletries, hygiene products, toys and school supplies for our program. Thanks, Guys!

If you ever wonder where your donations are going, check out Gary Wagner and his son. Gary’s the owner of the famous Giggling Marlin bar in Cabo, but does tons of charity work. He and his son came out to La Paz to pick up donations to distribute to the orphanage in Los Planes that you see stacked on the table. Thanks everyone. Thanks to the Wagners too!

Just this year alone so far, you folks have brought down over 1/2 a ton of donations for our Tailhunter Outreach Program benefitting kids and families of two outlying schools, the women’s shelter as well as the orphange in Los Planes. Ever bit helps and your thoughtfulness makes a big difference. Thank you sincerely for the big hearts!

That’s our story!

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of July 3-10, 2016

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THE MINI-WEEKLY VIDEO REPORT –

This is our 2nd attempt at the weekly report in video. We’re still working out the bugs. I had to shoot it from inside our offices because it was too windy out on the beach and for lighting, I had to use some table lamps. So, that’s why I came out orange! I’ll get better!

THE FULL REPORT

What a week for Dr. Greg Miller from Oklahoma on his first visit to us in La Paz. He got FIVE big roosters (you’ll see other photos below…these are NOT the same fish!) and released them all. These were all 40-70 pound fish. As you can see he got his glasses knocked off and his hands full with the big fish trying to pose for the photo and release!

Reean Van Rooyen tags rooster archangel 7-16

Captain Arcangel gives Reean Van Rooyen a hand with this fat plug of a roosterfish. Reean is a big man so the fish is alot bigger than it looks in his arms. The fish was released. Reean is from S. Africa and now in Newport Beach CA

Captain Victor had quite a week with the roosters with multiple fish per day like this one with Vanessa Roost from New Mexico visiting us for the first time. She and her husband, Phililp got 3 roosters that day. Check out the flat waters at Punta Arenas Beach.

I love this photo of Captain Victor and 7-year-old Alyssa Stevens who was in on the roosterfish action this week!

Linda Joe Stevens Pancho rooster tags 7-16

More from the Stevens Family. Here’s Captain Pancho with the assist for Linda Stevens and 7-year-old son, Joe just off the rocks south of Muertos Bay with another big rooster that’s about to get released.

On the light tackle spinning rod! This is the way to do it with Rich Pomeroy from the Sacramento CA area and a great eating barred pargo off Espirito Santo Island.

A beast! The fish…not laughing Eric Delin who put the wood to this big dog-tooth snapper (check out the teeth) in the boulders off Punta Perrico.

OH my! Dr. Miller has another big rooster to try to hold for a photo!

Gotta love the hat! Todd Stevens brought his family to fish with us this week and got himself a nice rooster here for the camera and a quick put-back into the water.

Rick Pope can do this kind of fishing all day…and even into the night. After fishing and dinner, he would hang out on the docks behind La Concha hotel and keep fishing with his spinning rod and hooking all kinds of fish. This nice pargo is headed to the freezer off Espirito Santo Island north of La Paz.

Seven-year-old Alyssa Stevens. You always remember that first fishing trip!

From New Mexico, this is Philip Troost who scored 4 roosterfish his first day out with his wife. All fish were released.

Now THIS is alot of meat and a trophy cabrilla as well. Wow! Brad Charboneau was another of our first timers this past week and he sure scored with this slab of seabass!

A neglected to post this photo last week of Tommy Newman from Illinois and his big roosterfish! Sorry, Tommy! Tommy’s just 11-years-old and released the fish.

Vanessa Troost had a great week of fishing as she shows off one of her several roosterfish taken and released off Bahia de los Muertos.

Our good amiga, Sandra Welborn poses at Bahia de los Muertos with a big chunk of barred pargo!

The lone tuna of the week went to our amigos from the lone star state of Texas, Chris and Mika Lara.

One of the funniest guys in a long time, Eric Delin with about a 30-pound roosterfish fishing with Captain Ramiro out’ve Bahia de los Muertos.

DIVING VIDEO – ISOLOTES

Alot of even our regulars don’t know that we also set up snorkeling and diving adventures here in La Paz. We sent Dee Dee Pope out to the Isolaotes sea lion colony at Espirito Santo island and she got me some video footage that I produced into the following short video. Hope you enjoy it. Thanks, Dee Dee! Turn up the sound!

SAVED BY THE R & R’s…ROOSTERFISH & ROCKFISH!

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of July 3-10, 2016

Thankfully, we’ve got rooster fish here! As one of the other outfitters in town told me, “Maybe we should start a marketing campaign to make triggerfish as popular as Chilean Seabass.” It’s honestly been that kind of fishing the last several weeks.

Although the waters are clearing up from those winds that hit us about 2 weeks ago, in many spots the water is still cold, been and murky. Although the air temps are nice and sunny, the water is 5-10 degrees below normal and that’s obviously going to affect the fishing. Normally, during this time of year, we should be thick into the warm water species. Dorado should be all over the place Billfish should be willing. Tuna and wahoo should be showing bending rods.

But, not right now. The species were getting are cooler water species like what we should be catching in April and May.

LAS ARENAS

There’s a reason they call this the “rooster fish capital of the world” and it lived up to it this week. Roosters really saved the day…they saved the whole week! Our roosters this week averaged 25-60 pounds and we had some fish going into the 60-80 pound category too! The best baits are the huge 12-18 inch ladyfish so, anything that can wrap it’s mouth around a bait that big is gonna be a big fish. But…you have to be able to catch the ladyfish and that sometimes takes awhile to catch them one-by-one. But, those are the hot ticket.

Other than the roosters, not much in the way of wahoo again. We had so many two weeks ago. There’s some marlin out there, but many of them just don’t seem very interested in chewing on anything other than sunning themselves. We almost run over them with the pangas they’re so lethargic. There’s an occasional tuna or dorado, some jack crevalle and white bonito and lots of triggerfish. And that’s been about it this past week.

But, there’s been some pargo, but all of them are big it seems and hooking them and getting them into the boat are two different issues. Bait is still an issue as well as it has been all season. Some days it’s there. Other days not. Or you really have to work for it. Or it changes from day-to-day as well.

LA PAZ

I won’t kid you. It’s been like a desert out there. We keep sending boats into the blue water looking for “what SHOULD be out there” and we’re coming back over and over to fish the rocks around the island and peninsula. This has produced some wild wild action on big pargo and cabrilla with many many fish just too tough or too cagey to pull into the pangas. We’ve had fish busting off 50, 60 and even 100 pound test line against the rocks and other impediments like sharp teeth, gill plates and scales. When the lines come it’s it’s not just cut…it’s shredded.

There’s the occasional dorado and we know marlin are out there because we can see them. But, not much interest this past week.

TAILHUNTER OUTREACH – GRACIAS!

Big gracias to Eric McFarland, Mackenzie Morrison, Martin Seiler and Parker Reed-Seiler for all the stuff they brought down including toys and school supplies!

Philip and Vanessa Troost brought down a load of toys and school supplies for the kids. They’re from New Mexico.

Our buddy from Arizona could not have a bigger heart. Every year he brings down a full chest of supplies for the kids, but also sponsors several of our kids through high school in our scholarship funds and took time to have lunch with the kids and their families this week at Tailhunter Restaurant to check on their school progress.

Chris Lara had a soft ice chest of school supplies that will go a long way in the classroom where even a regular pencil is a prized commodity. Chris and his wife are from Texas.

Thanks to our awesome Tailhunter amigos for all the things they squeezed into ice chests and suitcases to help us continue our Tailhunter Outreach program to help underserved kids, their families in barrio schools as well as the women and their families at the battered women’s shelter. God bless you all!

That’s our story!

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Jonathan and Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website:

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 Sportfishing for Week of June 26-July 3, 2016

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Hector Chacon from Arcadia CA has been coming to fish in La Paz with Tailhunter Sportfishing for over a decade. This week he got his largest fish ever, this huge amberjack near Espirito Santo Island that took a live bait. Hector battled the fish for over 45 minutes on lighter tackle to get it to the panga.

From Long Beach CA, Kennedy Nixon from Long Beach CA had only one day to fish in La Paz and made the most of it while fishing with the Tailhunter Fleet from Bahia de los Muertos and hooked and landed this huge dog-tooth snapper also called a “pargo perro” or “cubera snapper.”

Pretty photo of first-timers Randy Madson and is son, Trevor, from Utah fishing with Tailhunter Sportfishing when Randy caught and released this big rooster fish just off the Punta Perrico rocks.

This young man had quite a week. Tommy Newman from Illinois is just 11-years-old. He’s got several photos in this week’s fishing report. First day out, he put this big yellowtail in the boat all by himself off Espirito Santo Island.

Rich Pope loves to fish. Just off the “fruit loop” housing complex at Punta Perrico near the end of his first day of fishing, he latched onto this nice roosterfish that he released. Just below this photo is underwater video of rich with his fish and Captain Gerardo.

School-teacher Sam Sybesma heads to La Paz when the school season finishes for some fishing every year! He had never caught a yellowtail which are usually not around because the waters are too warm in the summer. But, look what showed up! Captain Chito gives a thumbs up!

Cheryl Delin was a last minute booking to come fishing with us. She was out with Captain Ramiro and is all smiles with this nice roosterfish she caught ad released. Great photo! She lives in California, but was raised in Japan and told me, “I don’t like to eat fish” so she would have released the fish anyway! Fun fun lady! Nice to have her visit.

Dee Dee Pope is as game as they come! She fishes. She hunts. She rocks! And she definitely rocked this big jack crevalle on light tackle using a mini-Whopper Stopper rod custom built by Ed Robison and coupled with a tiny Avet SX reel and light line. She released the big jack, but check out her video below and the underwater shots. Note how shallow it is and the rocks that bust overyone off when pargo and cabrilla strike!

As nice a young man as you’ll find. Chase Roberts from Washington with Captain Pancho was visiting for the first time and got a striped marlin. It could not be released. He did a nice job trying.

There’s a reason it’s called a “dog-tooth snapper.” Mean and ferocious, the attack out’ve the rocks and it’s rare to get big ones like Eric Delin’s fish here with a hand from wife, Cheryl. On the beach at Muertos Bay, these two are some fun folks.

First trip to visit us, Trevor Madsen, from Utah got the biggest dorado of the week on his very first day. He got some roosterfish also! Great young man!

Chuck Rodriguez and his dad with some dorado on the beach at Bahia de los Muertos. We should be seeing alot more dorado than we’re seeing, but waters are cooler than normal.

That’s a lot to try to lift up. But, 11-year-old Tommy Newman does his best on his first marlin with Captain Gerardo early last week. Check out the video below of the fish going off.

Our very own fishing champ and everyone’s favorite Tailhunter van driver, Jorge Romero, finally was able to take some time off and went out with Sam Sybesma and put the wood to a pair of 40-50 pound amberjack near Espirito Santo Island.

Brad Patti Charbonneau tags 7-16 rooster

Just south of Bahia de los Muertos, Brad and Patti Charbonneau from Sacramento CA got this nice rooster into the boat then released it after the photo.

Captain Armando with Jessica Reeve from Wyoming with another big roosterfish caught and released. Estimated 40 pounder!

A LITTLE BETTER THAN LAST WEEK AS WINDS DIMINISH…FOR NOW! BUT STILL TOUGH FISHING

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of June 26-July 3, 2016

Happy 4th of July Weekend, everyone! Hope it’s a safe and fun one for you all. We miss being there so eat some fried chicken and potato salad for us and enjoy some fireworks with the family!

Well…

It was a better week than last week when waters were green and the winds blew. This week with the winds diminished, waters started to settle down and blue patches returned and some of the turned-up cold water dissipated. But, I gotta tell you, this is as strange a June as we’ve had. Well, it’s now July, but we should be thick into our warm water fish like dorado, billfish, tuna and other species.

Instead, this is much more like April/ May fishing! Waters are noticeably colder than normal. It’s breezy. The evenings and mornings are actually cool. And the fishing is way different!

We’re not seeing much of any dorado. Our catch has been winter/ springtime species like pargo, cabrilla, snapper, jack crevalle, rooster fish, amberjack and…(this is crazy)…YELLOWTAIL! It’s 4th of July weekend and we’re hooking yellowtail.

They say El Nino is finally done and moving off. After 18 months, a return to “normalcy”…whatever that is…would be pretty nice!

LAS ARENAS

Still our area with the most variety and the most action. It’s not been spectacular by any stretch. The fishing this week was a tad better than last week when it was like a desert out there some days. However, our captains and anglers still had to keep at it and bring their best game to the water. Or sometimes, it was just dumb luck which can be alot better. Hit or miss some days. But there was still action to be had.

The catch has been some nice rooster fish with most of them running hefty 25-60 pounds. Pretty much everything getting released. The biggest issue is getting those big sabalo/ ladyfish baits to use on the big gallos. Some days, it really takes a long time to get them and if you don’t have the bait, it’s gonna be tough to get the big roosters. Also, some days the roosters where there and some days, they just didn’t come to play. Alot of our rookie anglers seemed to do the best on the roosters which was nice to see, but some of our vets who know how to catch the big fish worked hard, but had a hard time.

Besides the roosters, the variety is pretty wide. Like I said, it’s alot like April/ May fishing when you have warm and cold water fish all in the same area. I think the fish are confused too.

We’re getting some big dog-tooth snapper (pargo), big jack crevalle, white bonito, rainbow runners, cabrilla and the marlin and sailfish are getting more active too.

LA PAZ

Fishing north out’ve La Paz towards Espirito Santo Island has been a conundrum even moreso than fishing at Las Arenas. I’ve never seen so many changes.

This past week, yellowtail popped up! In 21 years here, I’ve not seen yellowtail this late in the season. The fish are quality 20-30 pound forkies too! The biggest issue has been our anglers have lost 2-4 fish for everyone they put in the boat. But that’s why I mentioned that you gotta be on your game for alot of these fish. If you lose fish, then yes…it’s gonna be a disappointing day and a big mistake I’m hearing from the captains is some of the lack of experience. You can’t let these big fish “run.” Like the pargo, cabrilla and amberjack that live around structure. There is no place to “run.” It’s not like hooking a marlin, tuna or wahoo in more open water with alot of deep water around you.

Here, the water can be literally only several feet deep so letting these fish run means you’re already behind the 8 ball because they’ll go right back to the rocks and BANG! You’re snapped off .

We’re not seeing the open water dorado we normally encounter this time of year. We’re having to work inshore where these big fish like the amberjack up to 100 pounds…tough yellowtail…toothy pargo and cabrilla will beat you up and spit you out!

When they hit, pull…lift and turn the handle of the reel so you can turn their heads. Once they head down, you’re pretty much lost.

TAILHUNTER OUTREACH SAYS GRACIAS!

Dylan Williams, Tommy Newman, Earl Lawson, Jilly and Jim Newman with some of the items they brought for our Tailhunter Outreach Program this week.

Big gracias to the Rodriguez Family for bringing down two massive shipping chests of items that will be useful to the school kids and also the women and their families at the battered women’s shelter.

Richard Pomeroy stuffed an ice chest down with school supplies for our kids! Thanks, Rich!

A big thanks to all our Tailhunter amigos who brought stuff down this past week for our Tailhunter Outreach program. Each week, we’re sending off over 100-150 pounds of school supplies, clothes, hygiene items and sports equipment for our neglected kids and also the women’s shelter. You’re all awesome!

That’s our story

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Jonathan Roldan’s

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La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of June 19-26,2016

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Vickie Mitchell and a smiling Captain Adolfo with her biggest rooster fish estimated at 70 pounds as they struggled to hold it still for the photos so they could release it. It swam off strongly. They were fishing with off Punta Arenas Vicki is from Pebble Beach CA

Larry McNeal Gary Whitaker wahoo tags 6-16

Brothers, Larry McNeal and Gary Whitaker were fishing La Paz waters for the and not 5 minutes after putting lures in the waters, got these two wahoo near Bahia de los Muertos. Larry is from Baker City OR. Brother Gary lives in Lynnwood WA.

Amigo Kip Slaugh from Salt Lake City UT with Captain Pancho and a trophy amberjack on the beach at Bahia de los Muertos. Beast of a fish. There weren’t many small amberjack this week.

Given the tough fishing this week. Kevin Suzikada and his buddy, Jeff, had one of the better 3 days of fishing of anyone catching white bonito, snapper, jack crevalle, big cabrilla, pargo and this big boy amberjack. It was Jeff’s first time ever fishing! They’re from Los Angeles.

He never fails to catch big fish on each trip to La Paz that he’s been making since he was a little kid, Cole Chavira, know how to bend a rod. Check out the big rooster caught north of La Paz and released. Cole is from Cardiff, Ca. Rooster was released.

This is Matt Lederer cradling a nice rooster in his arms just outside of Bahia de Los Muertos with Captain Ramiro. Matt released the fish after the photo.

Another Utah, amigo, Daylon Slaugh, got the biggest dorado of the week, this nice bull. Not many dorado around although June should normally be a great month for them. However, the ones we’re catching are getting larger.

Bill Mitchell from Carmel CA fishes with Tailhunter Sportfishing every year and got his personal best rooster off the rocks in shallow water near Punta Arenas. The big pez gallo was released. The fish looks a little surprised!

It was a good week for big roosters around La Paz, although tough for other species. Dan Gaston from Encinitas CA with a big gallo caught and released near Las Arenas lighthouse. Great photo. Thanks to Mitch Chavira.

Brian McClellan from Park City UT helps wife, Marie, with a big amberjack she caught fishing with Tailhunter Sportfishing just off the rocks near Punta Perrico. She’s a gamer and put this fish in the panga on her own steam!

I had so many photos from the previous week when the fishing was red hot that I screwed up and somehow left off photos of the best catch of the week by Sherman McDonnell from Rock Springs WYO and Jim Wilson from S. Dakota with Captain Pancho and FOUR nice wahoo. Several others were lost. Great day!

Rick Carlton and Bruce Hasson from San Diego caught the only two tuna of the week, a pair of football yellowfin tuna.

Whoa! Glenn Davis, one of our first-timers from San Diego hefts of a huge roosterfish with Captain Jorge. Glenn released the big fish after the photo.

Mike Cain gives Charles Koeleman a hand with another big roosterfish early in the week just off the Perrico rocks. We estimated the fish as 80-100 pounds (according to Captain Victor). A beast! The world record was caught in these waters of 114 pounds! Charles released the fish to his credit!

Another day…another rooster for Matt Lederer photo’d with his dad, Bob who is from Massachusetts. Matt was hot on the roosters and let this one go too!

LUCAS FORRAY cabrilla tags prescott 6-16

From Prescott AZ, this is Lucas Forray with a trophy cabrilla just north of La Paz in the bay.

When a big rooster doesn’t want to have it’s picture taken and you’re doing your best to keep it still so you can take the photo and get it back in the water, it’s a bit of a chore! However, amiga Sue Slaugh from Utah does her best with this thick big rooster!

Under the great mustache is a big smile for Robbie Nixon from Sacramento with his big roosterfish. This one was also let go.

Scott lost two wahoo before finally getting this gem of a fish. He also got a yellowtail on this trip as well.

Bobette Nixon gets in the lineup with a really big jack crevalle, cousin to the rooster and a great fighter. Husband Robbie helps out!

BIG WINDS – FULL MOON CHILL RED HOT BITE

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of June 19-26, 2016

Last week, I started out by saying “what a difference a week makes.” Well, I’m saying it again.

After such a phenomenal week previously, when the waters blew up with wahoo, roosters and others, fishing really chilled off this past week. Just more of the craziness we’ve had this season. It was tough. It was ugly. Maybe one of the most difficult weeks of the season. And like getting ice water tossed on us given how the week before it was fishing crazy!

Here’s what I think happened…

Last weekend, the winds that normally are done for the year, came up. Strong! On top of that, we had this huge full moon and big tide changes. I think they called it a “strawberry moon” that occurred over the Summer Solstice. Even when it didn’t blow and make things funky during the day, it blew at night.

What this all did is got the cold waters back up from down deep. What this did is turn all the pretty blue water we’ve had green and dirty. As a consequence, the fishing just tanked for the most part. Call it like it is. I’ve never seen it this late in the season. Even the species we did catch are more indicative of what we would catch in the cooler months of late April/ May than end of June bites.

Our captains worked hard. Our anglers worked hard and kept at it and kept grinning. But when Mother Nature is working against you, all you can do is keep at it…especially if it’s fishing.

On the upside, as the week came to a close, some of that green water is starting to come back to blue again and we were seeing more activity from the fish. At least a little bit. If only this wind would stay outta our business for awhile!

LAS ARENAS

Still the area where we’re getting the most activity and species. However, compared to last week when the ocean was simply alive, it was really scratchy fishing. The thing is, the fish were either big…or there was not much else! So, there were some big trophy fish to be caught but if you missed your shot or the big guys didn’t show up, there wasn’t much else. So, a panga would come back with one or two nice fish. And that as it. Or very small fish. There was no “in-between” fun fish. It made for some long days and stretches of not much action.

That being said, we still got into some wahoo that are around a liking the dark-colored Rapalas and Yo-Zuris. If you want to bring anything down, bring down the Rapala XRap 15’s, 20’s and 30’s. Or the Yo-Zuri Magnums. Clients are losing the captains rigs and it costs $30-40 to replace them and the lures have been so hot, the few tackle stores here simple don’t have any more to sell. So, alot of you ask me all the time what to bring down, these would be awesome and also clients have been gifting them to the captains as well.

Aside from the wahoo, the amberjack we’re getting have been beasts. Fish in the 30-60 pound class are not uncommon, but they’re tough fish and are boating maybe 1 our’ve every 5 or 6 bites. These are awesome big-boy cousins to the yellowtail and make great eating.

Not much in the way of dorado around which is surprising given it’s summer! That’s normally our bread-and-butter fish. The few we’re catching, however, have been nicer 15-25 pounders.

The fish that keep saving is is the fish that made the area it’s name of “Roosterfish Capital of the World.” Folks come from all over the world to try to get a rooster and especially on some of the days when not much else is happening, catching a 30-80 pound gallo makes for alot of big smiles. But the fish have been monsters and are right there along the rocks and the beaches. The biggest issue is taking the time to catch the ladyfish/ sabalo big-baits that they love. You can’t just snap your fingers and make the bait show up. So, understand that it takes some time some days. Another reason that putting 3 in a panga can be an issue with any kind of bait…you have to get enough bait for 3 guys and what little you have, you burn up pretty quickly.

More marlin and sails showing up too which is nice and most getting released.

LA PAZ

Erratic is the best word to describe the fishing straight out’ve the bay. Or anemic!

It’s been like this for about 3 weeks. The colder green waters moved in just about the first week of June and our captains have ventured all over the map finding the better water. Again, we should be into solid dorado right now, but the catch has been that mix of spring-time species when it’s a mix of cold and warm waters:

Dorado from 5-20 pounds (scattered)

Bonito and skipjack

Some rooster fish

Some yellowtail (still!)

Some amberjack

Occasional billfish (stripers up to 120 pounds)

It’s crazy. For our La Paz anglers, there’s bait but no consistent fish. At Las Arenas, there’s fish, but not consistent bait!

One of the nice things that’s unique to Tailhunters is we have both fleets. One in La Paz and the other at Las Arenas so at least we can move folks around between our two fleets depending on the bite, the weather, the species and how that all keeps changing to give folks the best opportunity to get fish even when the conditions aren’t always the best.

The full moon is moving off. Waters are getting bluer. Hopefully, this coming week will be better. Honestly, it was hard to be much worse. It was a tough week.

TAILHUNTER COMMUNITY OUTREACH – GRACIAS!

The Slaughs and McClellan family from Utah with school supplies and, of course, a new Utah Utes flag for the Tailhunter Restaurant!

Jilly with Larry McNeal and Gary Whitaker, two brother from Oregon and Washington respectively who had two full ice chests of kids clothes and hygiene products like toothbrushes, toothpaste, q-tips, deodorants and fem pads, combs and hair products! Wow. I’m sure alot of this will go to the women’s shelter here in town.

Well…maybe some of the donated clothes won’t go to the kids! Maybe an older brother!

They have been our friends for years and two-years in a row shipped down a huge heavy box of clothes and toiletry items for the school kids and the shelter! John and Katie Olson, recently retired from building Disneylands all over the planet are always a welcome set of vistors and dear friends.

Himself a schooteacher from S.Dakota, Jim Wilson and his wife Laura stuffed a bunch of school items into their ice chest for the kids.

You can take the 6-year-old out’ve some little girls, but not others. Jill tries on a cute pink raincoat and holds up some of the school binders that the Chacon family brought down.

Our friends for many many years, the Chacon family stuffed several ice chests full of donations. Many thanks to Fernando, Hector, Richard (dad), Lauren and Izzy! The best.

Leave it to the school teacher to know what to bring…Sam Sybesma from Orange Co, California, his wife, Kelly and their boys brough down sports balls and packs of boys socks underwear and other much needed things.

We can’t say thank you enough to everyone of our Tailhunter friends who bring us things in their suitcases and ice chests to donate to our Tailhunter Outreach program to help some of our outlying under-served schools as well as the woman’s shelter. You have no idea how even the smallest things make such a big difference. Above are just some of the examples of what we rec’d just this week and every two weeks or so, we send another few hundred pounds of supplies to some very needy kids, women and families. Additionally, many thanks to those of you who donate funds to our scholarship program by which $300 keeps a kid in school for a year and is enough to supply the child with books, lunches transportation and clothes. Tailhunter Nation is the best! God bless you all.

That’s our story! Have a great week…

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Jonathan and Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

Website:

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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