"Tuna Tony" Frustacia was on his first trip down to La Paz and his first time ocean-fishing coming from Utah and landed this big 50 pound class tuna. He was fishing with live bait near Cerralvo Island where several others were hooked and lost with Tony being the only one who managed to put his fish in the boat. Even more incredible was that he was using a rental rod and 30 pound test and battled the beast for over an hour! (Check out the video clip of the week)
Our buddy, Don White, proudly holds up a personal best dog-tooth-snapper (cubera snapper or pargo perro) just offshore while fishing with Captain Pancho. That's Cerralvo Island in the background and Don, who came down from Oregon and spent the better part of two weeks with us, got the big dog using a live sardine.
Given it's already June, dorado were a little harder to come by especially earlier in the week, but Chris Spagnoli from northern California holds up one of several he took while fishing with our Tailhunter La Paz fleet north of town around Las Cruces.
Debbie White swore she would only fish one day and ended up with 3 days on the water and almost outfished her husband Don each day. She's shown here in a great photo with Captain Victor and her prized roosterfish just inside of Muertos Bay before releasing it.
Kristiana Frustacia from Utah says she's coming back soon after her first trip to La Paz and is all smiled holding this nice barred pargo caught fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet.
Captain Adolfo looks over the shoulder of Phil Catlin from Idianapolis, Indiana holding up one of the larger female dorado we've taken recently with Cerralvo Island in the background.
A spur-of-the-moment trip for Phil Pfifer and his wife, Gail, paid off in some nice fishing for these first timers from Utah. Our amigos were more used to cactching planted trout but had a blast with some nice varieties of pargo and reef fish and "about 40 bonito" according to Captain Armando that left them with tired arms and big grins!
For those who don't believe it's possible to pull a really monster dog-tooth out of the rocks, here's proof. If you've ever battled pargo, you know how frustrating it can be to get even a smaller fish out even though the fish are in shallow water. Well, here's a monster although in all honesty, it was taken on a handline by a commercial captain, but the picture was too cool to pass up.
VIDEO CLIP FOR THE WEEK
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SUMMER STILL ON HOLD AS WINDS KEEP FISHING WATERS COOL BUT ROOSTERFISH AND SMALLER DORADO PROVIDE BEST ACTION
La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of May 30- June 6, 2010
It wasn’t the greatest week for fishing. It wasn’t bad, but given it’s already June, conditions were less than stellar. Folks caught fish, but it was more like fishing in late April or early May as erratic winds persisted on-and-off throughout the week changing the water temperatures; moving the bait around; and changing the bite. Not to mention that there were a ton of boats out all week fishing both Las Arenas and La Paz areas due to several local tournaments and just alot of anglers in town.
But, there were still some very good catches!
The winds put a damper on the dorado fishing for our Tailhunter La Paz Fleet. Boats averaged about 4-6 dorado each and most were in the smaller 5-10 pound category…really small for the time of year. However, captains told me that the recent onslaught of winds made it not only choppy out there, but the bait got harder to find and some of the waters got cooler green. Still, picking around here and there, at the end of the day, most had at least a few fillets for the bucket. Occasionally, a boat would get into the wild school and go nuts, but this past week it was fewer and far between.
We’ll have to see what happens to this wind. For us down here, it seems to be a reflection of what’s going on up the western coast of the U.S. which is still getting some really wacky cool and cold weather. It seems that whenever that happens we get the winds. In town, it’s as awesome as can be. Perfect 85 degree beach weather and perfect for kicking-back on the sand or in some little cafe with chips and salsa and a cold one. But for fishing, it’s just not as good as we should be seeing.
Our Las Arenas fleet did much better. There weren’t many blue water species to speak of, but we did hit a little spot of good-grade tuna off Cerralvo Island of 25-50 pound fish. It was brief but exciting. Teasers really. No idea if this will be a consistent bite. However, inshore, the roosterfish continue to be stars.
Although not good eating, nothing is quite as fun as these jacks with the funny fin ripping into the baits! Fish from 10-60 pounds give anglers quite a range of possibilities when they’re working the beaches and the exotic species is quite a prize for any angler. Our flyfishers and light tackle anglers are especially having fun.
Also, the big pargo continue to bite, tease and frustrate. With the waters staying cooler than normal, the big red fish are hanging close to shore and guys will tell you of multiple bites that they just can’t stop. We did get a few in the 25-40 pound class that anyone will tell you are trophies, but larger fish just can’t seem to be stopped! Check out some of the photos this week and imagine stopping some of these fish in only a few feet of water before the get into the rocks.
Hopefully, the winds slow down soon!
Have a great week!
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Jonathan and Jill
Jonathan Roldan’s
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