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La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of July 24 to Aug. 1, 2010

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FULL MOON GRAND SLAM for 17-year-old Marcos Holguin and 13-year-old Ricardo Gil del Montes, Jr. from Los Angeles. Captain Jorge helps out with the nice pargo (dog tooth snapper), yellowfin tuna and nice yellowtail caught while fishing with with chunked squid and our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet. It was a good week for the opportunity to catch multiple high-grade sport species despite fears of the full moon. Highly unusual to find big pargo and yellowtail in these warmer months!

It's incredible that we are getting yellowtail of this quality in July. Normally, we only get these in the cooler months of February to May, but LAPD detective Mark Holguin holds a nice pair. Note the two other tails at his feet! The fish are in shallow water near shore and have averaged 15-35 pounds this week.

Even better than a grand slam (3 sport species) is a Grand Slam plus One! Northern Cal residents, Dave Tyree and Steve Artis hold up a yellowfin tuna, a yellowtail, a dorado and a barred pargo...all prized catches. They fished 5 days and encountered similar results each day.

Some of those bruiser yellowfin tuna are still around! New Mexico angler Darren Hanson holds the gaff on a fatty taken off Las Arenas. The fish were in-close most days and showed an affinity for chunks of giant squid which meant starting the day pulling up 50 pound squid from 1200 feet down...a workout!

S.Cal resident Gina Fowlkes and husband Mitch brought the family for a week of fishing and shows off a days catch with a nice mix of dorado and yellowfin tuna

Yellowtail trio on the beach for Victor, Ricardo Jr, and Ricardo Sr. Gil de Montes. Keeping it in the family.

Mahi for the coolers! Long time amigo, Dave Castanon and son Brent from La Verne CA is and fire captain and is often chasing brushfires this time of year, but got down for a quick week of fishing and started off with two good-sized dorado!

Juan Martinez says he catches all the fish...all the time! He holds up one of the yellowfin tuna caught this week near Punta Arenas.

Mean slugger tuna up to 60 pounds like this one held by Dougie Idsinga continued to battle and frustrate our anglers often taking up to 2 hours to boat them. Many larger fish were lost. That's Cerralvo Island in the background. Some of the fish were hooked within casting distance of shore or could be seen swimming in the shallows.

Marcos Holguin's dog-tooth snapper is the first picture in the report, but a solo shot was worth posting again because it's such a great fish! Surprisingly, we've got a good pargo bite going on with dog-tooth snapper, mullet snapper and barred pargo all biting!

Ernie (on the left) had some reservations fishing with newbie rookie Rick (on the left) and joking told him so. But, as you can see from the two mugging for the camera, they did just fine.

Despite all the other "glamour" species showing up these days, our bread-and-butter fish for both our La Paz and our Las Arenas Fleets continues to be the dorado which are scattered over a wide area with more sargasso weeds stacking up in the channel. Steve Artis holds up a nice bull.

NO FULL MOON BLUES! FISH BITE STRONG!

La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of July 24 to Aug. 1, 2010

In all my years here, I can remember very few times when it was possible to catch a “grand slam” of fish and where there was so much quality in the water. So much for the full moon! I was worried, but as it turns out, this has been one of the better fishing weeks of the season in terms of variety as well as quality.

When we speak of a “grand slam” it’s the fishing equivalent of taking at least three sportfishing species the same day. This week on several occasions, we had anglers nail big tuna, big yellowtail plus a marlin or a big dorado or big pargo or roosterfish all in the same day…sometimes in the same hour!

The weirdest thing is that we’re well into the thick of summer. Tuna, dorado and marlin are typical this time of year, but we’re having one of the best runs of yellowtail…a fish we normally catch in the COLDER water months of February to May…slamming baits right now!

The fish are a nice grade too. Tuna in the 40-60 pound class are not uncommon and there have been fish much much larger lost. Yellowtail are 20-40 pounds. Pargo are 10-40 pounds. Roosters up to 70 pounds were caught this week!

The best shot at this variety was with our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet. The fish are not very far either.

One of the guys said, “We’re so close to shore we’re fishing for rooster fish one moment then the next just a few more yards out…we’re fishing for tuna!:

One big tuna bit just offshore and they fought it for two hours. By the time they got the fish to the boat, the boat was literally on the beach as the fish had towed the boat around and was now only in about 10 feet of water!

Las Arenas has been quite the surprise!

The bad news is that live bait has been very difficult to get for our pangas there. Sardines are not very plentiful. The good news is that there has been giant squid and chunks of giant squid have worked solidly all week. As long as they are around, certainly, the tuna seem to keep hanging out. But some days there are no squid!

The other problem with the giant squid is that…well…they’re giant! As one angler put it…”By 8 a.m. I’ve pulled 4 of these 50 pound squid up from as deep as 1200 feet! I’m covered in sweat. I need a beer. I just want to sit down. Instead, the captain takes a 3 pound chunk and sends it back down and I’m now bit by a 50 pound tuna that kicks my butt for another hour!” Another angler laughingly said, “I offered our captain an extra 20 bucks to do all the work to catch the squid for me! That’s too much work! The captain laughed and said I had to do it myself!”

Chunking the big squid and dropping bits in the water to drift then pinning a big slab on a huge hook has been the ticket. Or, a small weight and a strip of squid sent down nails the big pargo or yellowtail. Slow-trolled strips have been great on the dorado.

Our Tailhunter La Paz fleet has not been encountering as much variety, but there’s been no shortage of fish either. Dorado between 10 and 20 pounds have been the main target as patches of sargasso weeds normally found in the late spring are now popping up and holding fish. There have also been some jags of wahoo at the north end of Cerralvo Island as well.

That’s our story!

Jonathan and Jill

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La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of July 18-25, 2010

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It was a great week for larger tuna and one of the best shots and stories of the week. Jared DiFiore (16) and his brother Joseph (14) came to La Paz from New Hampshire with their family hoping to catch "just one fish.. .any kind of a fish!" They had never done this before. Their first day they fished with our Tailhunter La Paz fleet and got a limit of dorado and were thrilled. The next day, they went snorkeling and ended up swimming with sealions, a whaleshark and saw porpoise a blue whale and sea turles. Then, they decided to try the big tuna at Las Arenas. They figured they were finally up to going to the big leagues. They tied into this big ahi yellowfin tuna and tag-teamed it for almost 2 hours before getting it to the boat. That was it! No more. They asked the captain to take them back to the beach with big smiles!

Happy boy "Modelo" Dave Pollard from Upland CA holds up a fat yellowfin tuna he caught with our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet. Dave "grand slammed"...actually he did better than that nailing tuna, dorado, marlin and pargo all on the same day.

A graduation present for 17 year-old Mike Harkins who also works as a deckhand on a Los Angeles sportboat. He's been fishing with us since he was about 2 feet high and always had a knack for big fish. Over 4 days, he got yellowfin tuna, yellowtail, dorado and this big pargo and several others fishing with his dad and using live bait with our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet. It's been a surprsing few weeks with cold water fish like pargo and yellowtail still around.

A long way to the ocean from New Mexico, but Steve Hanson (who invented the "Steve-O-rita" while he was here...Red Bull and silver tequila!) fished with his son, Darren, (holding the tail) and our Tailhunter La Paz fleet and got this blue marlin estimated at 300 pounds. The meat was donated. They also got limits of dorado. It was a good week for both species.

Dave and Mike Van Velzer had a spectacular week after fishing 4 days with both of our Tailhunter fleets. They got a variety of dorado and some of the big yellowfin tuna like the ones they are holding here at Punta Arenas Beach.

It was a good week for the youngsters! Steve Kechichian is 16-years-old and pulled on numerous big tuna and dorado like this one he caught with Captain Victor. His best stories from Steve and his dad were the numerous multi-hookups they had and couldn't stop the fish or the fish going in two different directions and unable to chase them down.

Recently retired Greg Covello (left) knew exactly what he wanted to do with his free time...catch a big pargo so he came down with amigo, Alex Bastedo. They lost alot of fish ,but did manage to pull these two trophy pargo lisos out of the rocks.

It was a pretty good week for marlin! Captain Pancho helps our amigo, Tony Adamich with this nice striper caught near Cerralvo Island. Tony released the fish that day.

After you fight a big tuna for almost 2 hours, it's not so easy to lift it up when someone wants to take your picture! Mike McCort from New York did his best and we got the photo. These fish showed a big preference for big chunks of fresh squid for bait on huge 7/0 to 9/0 hooks!

This is just one more example of our screwy season! Normally, we see yellowtail in the cooler months and cooler waters of February to May. But it's JULY!! Alex Bastedo holds up a 10 pounder, but we got some in the 30-40 pound class this week that surprised everyone!

He really wanted to try to get a tuna on a flyrod, but Professor Mark Marcus from Knoxville, Tenn., put down the flyrod when he saw the sizes of the yellowfin tuna that showed up this week.

Varton Bagdasaryan is a professional chef in the Riverside area of California and was on his first trip to fish in La Paz waters. His first two fish of the day were a striped marlin and this big tuna. He immediately went back to the hotel and mixed up some sashime! This fish bit a big chunk of fresh squid off Las Arenas.

He came all the way from Florida and ended up tangling with one of our big tuna this week. Professor Llew Williams has been fishing with us for many many years and it's always great to have him down.

BIG TUNA GIANT SQUID HUNGRY DORADO PACE THE WEEK OF FISHING!

La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of July 18-25, 2010

Nothing else to describe it other than a solid week of fishing. Some really incredible fishing for some of our anglers who hit some monster fish and literally filled their coolers their first day then after it was gravy! Seriously…especially for our Las Arenas fleet, big tuna showed up in the 40-80 pound class that bent anglers for 1-2 hours each.

If you looked at the scores, some days, it might look like we didn’t do that well on the tuna, but if you talked to the anglers, they’ll tell you they fought and LOST 2, 3 or more fish and only got 1 to the boat. Totally spent and thrashed anglers and captains came back with stories of fish fought for as much as 3 hours and losing them and some speculation that some of the larger gorilla tuna were in the 100-200 pound class.

On several occasions, anglers fought a single fish for an hour or two and then told the captain, “No mas, take me back to the beach!” They came back and just sat and collapsed. And it was still morning!

As one angler said, “We got one fish on 60 pound test and the trolling rod and 4/0 two-speed reel. We almost got spooled on the first run and we fired up the panga! It was like being a cowboy trying to stand up and ride a panga over the waves and hang onto the tuna. We went almost FULL speed for 20 minutes chasing the fish and it finally popped! We never even saw it, but there were some other hugs boils in the area that looked like they were half the size of the 22 foot panga!”

No way to know if the tuna will hang out, but the key seems to be the giant squid in the morning. If the squid show up and the anglers can put some in the boat, these giant squid are as big as 60 pounds and a true workout right off the bat to grind them up from the deep.

Then, using heavy rigs and 7/0 and larger hooks we pin a 3 pound chunk on the hook and send it back down! Guys were telling us that just catching the squid was hard enough. “Man, each squid was a battle to get them to the surface. These were sea monsters and even before we started fishing, we were already tuckered out and looking in the ice chest for cold beers and it wasn’t even 8 a.m. yet!”

“The bite at times was almost instant!” said another of our anglers. “Literally, within seconds of drifting that chunk down, it was like a car came by and suddenly latched on! I’ve never had line spin off my reel so fast. Then it was like I was holding a refrigerator over the side of a building or something! I immediately started wishing these were smaller tuna!” He lost 5 fish before he boated his first tuna but ended up with 3 fish over 2 days with the smallest being 65 pounds.

Now…add to that a good smattering of dorado from 5-40 pounds; marlin; roosterfish and big pargo and our Las Arenas anglers really had a super week. But…hold on…

We also got yellowtail! These are fish that are COLD water fish and we generally catch them only in February to May. Several of our fishermen got into 10-40 pound mossback yellowtail! Go figure.

For our La Paz fleet, they were hanging fish all week as well. With great weather, the dorado came to play. Most days, the boats got limits or near limits of dorado up to about 30 pounds with most fish in the 10-20 pound class. As well, several boats got into nice marlin including one 300 pound blue landed by Steve Hanson of New Mexico.

It’s been a screwy year, but this has certainly been one of the better weeks of the season!

That’s our story!

Jonathan and Jilly

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La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of July 11-18, 2010

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On and off throughout the week, flurries of 40-60 pound tuna showed up for our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet which made things pretty exciting. Some bigger fish were hooked and lost too. Fish were just off the rocks at Punta Perrico and eating live bait as well as chunked squid. Dr. Desmond Sjaufoekloy from Orange Co. California plugged the boat two straight days with 8 nice fish as well as dorado and marlin!

Several big pargo were caught this week. Ray Laney, Sr. was a little upset when his son, Ray, Jr. got the first marlin of the trip, but dad more than made up for it with this huge dog tooth cubera snapper (pargo perro) he got off the rocks with our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet.

Washington resident Ed Van der Veer fished with Captain Pancho and got one of the nicer female dorado which came on strong this week. Ed was fishing live bait and light tackle which made it even more fun on the panga.

Like I mentioned above, it was a week with some especially good-looking pargo on the beach. Our good amigo, Mark Martis, always seems to do well. Although fishing wasn't particularly good on this particular day, Mark still nailed this trophy pargo liso (mullet snapper ) fishing with our Captain Archangel.

Two great looking dorado fully lit! Ray Laney, Jr. and Ray, Sr. hold up a pair that they got fishing with our Tailhunter La Paz fleet where dorado have been the mainstay of the catch with more of the larger fish finally starting to show up.

I don't usually post up marlin photos here in the fishing report, but I just had to pop this photo of one of our best amigos, Dave Berthold, holding his first marlin. Dave comes all the way from New Jersey ever single year. He gets the prize for determination plus being a helluva good guy. He has come 12 straight years in a row sometimes fishing every single day just to catch one single marlin! He has done things like promise the captain as much as 500 tip and one year even brought down a new XBox 360 plus games as part of the bonus for the captain if he could just catch one single marlin. Well, this year, he finally got his marlin fishing with Captain Chito and donated the fish.

Yes! The big squid are back! Plus this is just a great morning shot too! The squid are not here every day, but when they are, the tuna are lurking nearby as well. The squid are as big as 60 pounders and are mean and voracious! We are using chunks of the squid for the larger tuna.

Coral and Brad spent a week with us all the way from Durango, Colorado and fished a day with our Tailhunter La Paz Fleet and Captain Chito. Holding up 4 of their dorado inside Balandra Bay they had a nice day. If you look at the bottom of the photo you'll se a big tail. Coral spent 90 minutes on a striped marlin as well!

This could be a pending world-record 70-pound wahoo shot by 14-year-old freediver Lucca Perretti on his very first dive...ever! More below. (FREEDIVING...no tanks...hold your breath like a fish!)

Not bad for 14 years old! Possible world record shot right-off-the-bat! See the story below!

TUNA AND DORADO HIGHLIGHT ANOTHER CRAZY WEEK OF FISHING!

La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of July 11-18, 2010

A mixed week of fishing here…again! Still having trouble getting a handle on the fishing conditions here as wind blow one day, but not the next. Waters are blue one day, but green the next. Tuna pop up one day then disappear the next. Dorado go crazy one day then the next day it’s giant squid that pop up! One day we can find sardines for bait and the next day they are hiding or have to use squid or caballitos. Never two identical days in a row! It’s a three-wing circus!

The good thing is that most of our clients are fishing several days and the fact that we have both our La Paz and our Las Arenas fleets allows us to adjust where our clients fish as dictated by the weather, fishing conditions, bait, and what’s biting.

For our Las Arenas anglers the up and down appearance of yellowfin tuna has been the most exciting part of the week. The fish aren’t there everyday, but it seems that when the giant squid are around, so are the tuna. But even with the tuna, their appearance is as erratic as their size. One day, it’s all 5-10 pound footballs. The next day, it seems like they gulped steroids and they’re 40-100 pound monsters that beat up everyone! The 40-50 pounders are manageable…maybe 10-30 minute fights. The larger fish…well, no one has landed any of the 100 pounders yet. Once the battle goes towards and hour-or-more, it seems that the battle leans more in favor of the fish as the anglers and the gear wear down in the hot sun. One mistake and it’s zingpowie…bye bye tuna!
Fortunately, for both our La Paz and Las Arenas fleets, other species like dorado, marlin and pargo, cabrilla and roosterfish fill in the gaps most days. The dorado are the most prolific and finally we’re at least seeing some larger fish in the 20-40 pound class. Slow trolling or drifting live sardines, caballitos or strips of fresh bonito are key.

If you’re coming down, bring big squid jigs just-in-case the squid are here. They are 20-80 pound beasts! Also bring an assortment of live bait hooks to accommodate the different types of bait that might be used.

FIRST PERSON STORY FROM A 14-YEAR-OLD SPEARFISHERMAN WITH PENDING WORLD RECORD!

Lucca Perretti from Los Angeles is 14 years old and the son of champion diver John Peretti (and former cage fighter). He came down here on his first free-diving trip. On his very first day…very first shot…he nails a 70 pound wahoo that may well be a new age-group world record! Here’s his story below. Keep in mind that in Mexico, spearfishers are NOT allowed to use tanks! This is all freediving…you bring only what you can carry in a single breath of air! Check this out:

“Right after the La Paz Blue Water Invitational Championships, my father, John, Dennis Haussler, three time national Spearfishing champion and I went diving on the north end of Cerralvo. I was using a prototype Sea Sniper, 2 bander. We were flashing and got into the wahoo, my father shot and lost one after being pulled around, and then landed a 60 pounder, Dennis shot and landed a 70 pounder with ease.

Dennis beckoned me into the water, we threw flashers for 5 minutes.

With Dennis on my left and my father on my right, a big wahoo inspected my flasher, at the time I did not realize the size of it. I lined up on him and he turned out to my right, as he was swimming away I shot and let him have it. I knew I could not horse him, so I let the buoys go and my father and I chased them. We swam for what seemed like half a mile, it took us 10 minutes to finally reach them, Dennis was already there. We were all very concerned as to whether the shot would hold, Dennis swam down to 100 feet to take a peek. I used my shark clip to bow and arrow the fish up. 30 feet from the surface, the wahoo started to rip out and we did not want to lose it because it was my first, so Dennis swam down and second shot it. I was a 70 pounder, skinnier than Dennis’ but mine was 8 inches longer. I was told that most spearos wait a lifetime to shoot a wahoo like this, I am so grateful.”

VOLARIS AIRLINES SURPRISE LA PAZ AIRLINE TICKET SALE!

We just found out of a big sale that Volaris Airlines is having. Round trip to La Paz from Tijuana is only about $120 bucks! They will pick you up in San Diego and bring you right to their terminal. Lots of our clients have been using this brand new airlines for the last two years and service has been great.

Check out their website: http://www.volaris.com.mx/ or write to us directly. My e-mail is riplipboy@tailhunter-international.com

You MUST purchase tickets by July 20 and travel must be between Sept. 1 and Dec. 12th.

That’s our story! Have a great week.

Jonathan and Jilly

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

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

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

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

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

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

MARLIN TUNA DORADO WAKE UP TO START SUMMER!

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

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

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

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

Here’s some of the comments from the week:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FIRST PERSON!

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

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

That’s our story!

Jonathan and Jill

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Tailhunter Weekly Fishing Report:
http://www.tailhunter-international.com/fishreport.htm

Tailhunter YouTube Videos:
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