POLO THREATENS THEN CHURNS NORTH
La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Bahia Suenos Fishing Report for Week of Sept. 23-Oct. 1, 2026
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WEATHER: Wow…one storm on the radar after another. Will they hit? Won’t they hit? Where are they going? Could be a weather apocolypse or just another thunderstorm. Weather has been all over the place. No one agrees. No one predicts. Wait-and-see all week and prepare for the worst. Polo just gave us a nudge after all the worry but crashed further north, but two more possible events just below.
WATER: Flat and calm or churned up like a washing machine. It seems to change by the hour. Port has been closed for 4 days. So no one in-or-out of the bay (legally) and we have not fished for almost a week becuase of it or because of conditions.
FISH HOOKED THIS WEEK: When last we fished, it had actually gotten better. Big dog-tooth snapper. Lots of dorado including some larger school sized fish. A little jag of 30-40 pound yellowfin tuna.
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Hurricane Polo was a Category 5 storm before hit started heading north towards us. It eventually only brushed us, but devastated areas of Baja several hundred miles to the north. Possibly 2 more storms to the south that we are watching intently.
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All about the weather…
Hurricane Polo looked pretty ominous. We all have PTSD from Hurricane Odile in 2014 that hit us as a Category 3 event and was the strongest storm in Baja history and flattened large parts of our area .
Hurricane Polo rumbled towards us at a Category 5! That’s the strongest and highest storm rating. We prepared for the worst and hoped for the best. We stored batteries, flashlights, taped windows, stored water, got the sandbags ready, etc.
We lost pretty much the entire week of fishing reservations. Hotels emptied out. Restaurants were empty. Streets were largely devoid of traffic. I heard the airport were full of folks trying to leave the area as well.
None of the multiple websites we were watching could agree on Polo’s path or ferocity. We watched and waited.
When it finally hit, we got about 3 days of really strong winds and big seas, but nothing more than a scattering of rain. That was it!
Definitely NOT fishable and the La Paz Port has been closed for days so we have not fished in over a week.
Even though Polo did not hit us directly and maybe some folks could have come down, the big worry was possibly getting stuck down here without power, water, electricity, food, etc. if Polo came on strong. When Odile hit, we were out for more than 2 weeks.
Polo did eventually hit landfall several hundred miles to the north about mid-Baja and really caused alot of flooding, evacuations, destroyed homes along it’s path around Constitucion, Lopez Mateos, Mulege, Loreto then hitting the mainland around Hermosillo. Parts of main Highway 1 simply got washed away. Re-building is going to take a long time.
The big problem now is that as of this writing, the port remains closed here in La Paz. At Las Arenas and Bahia Muertos where we launch our boats the beach has been scoured down to rocks and big waves have continued to hit along with strong winds.
Also, we’re watching possibly TWO MORE STORMS to the south. Rachel is currently a hurricane/ tropical storm and there is another one south of Rachel we are watching. We are hoping they dissipate or follow a path out to the Pacific. Again…we just don’t know!
Fishing…
Not many photos, but we had several fishermen that were already here when the warnings started coming and decided to stick it out and fly out before things really got bad. They actually had some of the best fishing we have had on 2 months. One set of brothers from California and a father and son from Canada. They had all fished with us before. Check out the photos…
Danny Ozakazi with one of his big dog-tooth snapper. He was fishing with Captain Gerardo
Gerry Eichhorn visited us from Canada and they were with Captain Victor before the seas got rough and got into a trio of tuna!
Everyone’s favorite, Captain Joel got Gary Ozazaki one of the larger dorado we’ve seen in awhile.
Vern Eichhorn with Captain Boli hit dorado schools for 2 days.
Vern with Captain Victor and another yellowfin!
A beast! Danny couldn’t believe how strong these fish were. Captain Gerardo helps out with the photo pose.
Nice variety for Danny and Garry… dog-tooth snapper, a barred pargo and some big triggerfish. All great eating.
Vern and his dad, Gerry, told me they lost a couple of these big snapper until they started using trap hook set-ups. Powerful fish!
That’s our story and we’ll do our best to keep you updated! We’re keeping the sandbags and flashlights handy and within reach.
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