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SIERRA SET THE PACE FOR ACTION

La Paz / Las Arenas Fishing Report for April 22, 2007

PHOTO 1: Jillene Stevens of S. California came down on her birthday and has a hold of a nice sierra taken right off the beach in front of the old Hotel Las Arenas. Literally within feet of the waterline (note how flat the water is!) schools of the fast moving toothy fish have been the top catch this past week.

PHOTO 2: Jon Luker of Santa Maria CA hung this nice roosterfish off Espiritu Santo Island north of La Paz fishing live bait.

PHOTO 3: Another of our good amigos, Steve Marabella of Wilmington CA got a variety of fish while fishing with us for 4 days all out of Muertos/ Las Arenas including, sierra, yellow snapper, pargo, bonito, and pargo and jack crevalle like the one’s he’s holding here.

THE FISHING REPORT



I don’t know if it was post-Easter blues or what. A bit of an up-and-down week. Everyone caught fish, but I dunno…I just couldn’t put my finger on it. I’m trying my best to read this season, but can’t.

One day, it’s fishing paradise and the next, it’s ripping wind. One day from the north. Next day from the south. Some days it starts one way and ends up from the other. Then we get 3 days of dynamite 85 degree sun. Go figure. It’s just that time of the year. But, like I said, everyone has been hanging fish. Not shortage of action, it’s just not been real consistent this past week.

Out of La Paz, our fleet hit the most wind, but still got out to the islands for some of those big roosters and a few of the yellowtail that are on-again-off-again. I can’t imagine that in a few weeks with all the good sign that the La Paz side is going to go off.

Our best and most consistent fishing has been for our Las Arenas/ Muertos Fleet. That’s where we’ve been doing most of our fishing. Because of the winds, we’re having to run to the island to get bait, but then run back to Punta Perrico and right on the beach in front of Las Arenas.

Water was a big green this week from the wind compared to the clear blue of last week, but it still kicked out major amounts of nice sierra. On light tackle, it’s been a blast. Some of the larger sierra are in the 8 or 9 pound range and readily hitting sardines (better have some wire leader); smaller rapalas or chrome spoons. Limits are the rule most days, but also cutting throug the area, there have been some nice schools of jack (jack crevalle). Not great eating, but some of the feistiest fish you’ll encounter.

In addition, there’s still large bonito around, snapper and smaller roosters. However, some of the larger pargo schools that were bumping heads with us last week seemed to have gone to ground. I think they’re still around, but the problem is that a few days last week there were so many boats on the honey hole (plus we lose so many fish) that the fish just went shy on us and hunkered down.

If you’re headed down here…bring some light wire for leaders (the kind you can tie is a bonus) and flurocarbon leader is also a plus. Looks like we’re in for a nice week of mid-80’s weather and calmer winds so we’ll keep you posted!

That’s my story!
Jonathan

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