La Paz /Las Arenas Fishing Report for Oct. 22, 2006
Despite windy days, dorado continue to tear it up north of La Paz while roosters and other species keep anglers busy at Las Arenas!
PHOTO 1: Gary Maskiewicz, Marty McCune and Brian Cyr spent about a week with us on their first trip to La Paz from S. California. They ripped up the dorado and filled coolers with nice bulls such as these.
LA PAZ FISHING
As I’m writing this, we might have a storm on the way as Mother Nature wants to give us one last shot to the huevos before the season tapers off. Just when we had all been saying that we were out of the storm season, tropical storm “Paul” popped up. It might end up being nothing at all, but we’ll be keeping an eye on it.
Actually, we thought we were moving into our “winter mode.” Northern winds started up this week and knocked out any traces of humidity; dropped the air and water temps and actually made it a bit rough on the water. Really pleasant in town, but bumpy and choppy outside the bay.
Still…what can I say…the dorado continued their phenomenal chew. Without a doubt this has been the best dorado season I’ve ever seen here. It’s not just the numbers of fish, but the consisten BIG fish we see everyday. I have never seen so many trophy fish…not just bulls either but some HUGE females as well. If you ever wanted to hunt a big dorado…fish in the 30-60 pound category, this has been the year.
We’re still picking up live sardines at the bait boats then heading out near Punta Coyote to get live bonito. Then, it’s off to the SE corner of Espiritu Santo Island in an area no bigger than say, 1 mile x 1 miles. The dorado have taken up seasonal residence there and the big dorado are inhaling whole bonito! You do not want to be out here with less than 40 pound test leader. These fish are not line shy. Also, this is one of the few times when I tell anglers to bring a few 7/0 and 8/0 hooks because when we are using the big baits, you need a larger hook that will sink into the hard mouths of these mahi!
I don’t know how much longer this will last…maybe another week or two before we put the wraps on this epic dorado bite, but we’ll enjoy it for as long as we can.
I talk so much about the dorado that I forget that we also have sailfish and marlin out here too as well as snapper and pargo!
PHOTO 2: Tim Butterworth fished a couple of days with us at both Las Arenas and La Paz and shows off one of his nice bulls that he hung just outside La Paz bay.
LAS ARENAS FISHING
I don’t know whether to say it’s over, but the tuna bite sure turned anemic. The fish are still basically right off the Punta Arenas lighthouse, but one day there’s 2-6 per boat and the next two days there’s nothing. Hard to predict. Fish are still fun 15-25 pounders in shallow water, but no way to know if they will be there or not! The neat thing is that there’s still alot of action. If you have a line in the water, there’s big bonito, and marauding dorado that charge on through so folks are still having fun. The interesting thing is the roosters! It’s way late in the season for the pez gallos, but there are still fish along the beaches, at Muertos Bay and other spots that are giving anglers a chance at these exotics. No squid to speak of anymore, but I keep my big jig handy. We’re now launching our boats out of Muertos because of the north winds.
PHOTO 3: Ned Keough told me he spent most of his life never going ANYWHERE! He barely ever took a vacation. He finally decided to stop telling himself he’d go “tomorrow” and do something about it so he came to La Paz to try fishing. He had a blast. This is one of his nice bull dorado he got out of La Paz.
HEADS UP
Just in case you didn’t already hear…Alaska Air starts flying direct from Los Angeles to La Paz beginning Oct. 30th and from San Francisco Nov. 15th!!! Delta starts Dec. 15th! Finally…!!!!
PARTING SHOT! “It’s a keeper!”
Photo 4: I am not sure if this is Frank Suh or Steve Lui from S. California in the line up, but I like funny candid shots. Anyone can hold up a fish, but creativity gets style points! These guys were on their first trips to La Paz and got so many dorado they had to buy extra ice chests! Thanks for the shot, guys!
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Jonathan
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