PHOTO 1: Count them. Yes. That right. What are the chances? Five family members go fishing on the same day. Five wahoo come back with them! We have had and continue to have an awesome wahoo season. I have no idea where they all came from. We got our share every year. But, last year, I think we caught FOUR in our fleet the whole season. The Noonan Family fished with us a few days and hammered the tuna and dorado but then went out one day on a friend’s boat and hit the mother lode of wahoo. Guys fish year-after-year with us to just get ONE sniff from a wahoo. This is just incredible. Wahoo are still biting. See below. For the record…the anglers in the Noonan Family from La Jolla CA (except Patrick who lives in D.C.) are: Ryley, 17…Greg (dad) …..Patrick, 22,…..Conor, 16……Charlie, 21…….Marilyn (mom). If mom had fished they probably woulda gotten another one! What day. THEY LOST 4 OTHERS!
RAINS AND WIND COME LATE BUT WAHOO AND TUNA MAKE A GREAT EARLY SHOWING AND FILL BOXES!
THE LA PAZ/ LAS ARENAS FISHING REPORT FOR DEC. 1, 2007
This is one of those weeks when I’m gonna let the photos and the anglers themselves tell you their stories. They do it so much better than me!
Let me just say that once again, the tuna bite mixed with dorado out of Muertos was well…pretty darned good! I’m running out’ve adjectives. It’s not usually like this, but so far, this is the best fall fishing in ages…especially for the tuna! Live bait…a hook…put it in the water about 100 yards from the beach and WHAM! It’s not rocket science! Don’t make it harder than it has to be!
On top of that, what’s up with the wahoo? Again, the dark larger Rapalas were effective, but so were Marauders and…get this…ORANGE Rapalas! The wahoo have ignored the orange Rapalas all season, but this week I guess they decided to try a different flavor or something.
As well…roosters are still stacked up along the beach plus sierra, pargo and cabrilla! Everyone is still getting fish!
See below…
PHOTO 2: Earl “Butch” Lawson and his son Earl from the Monterey Bay area were on their second visit this year to us and had an incredible outing. They blew up the tuna schools in Muertos showing off some of their catch on the beach.
PHOTO 3: Butch Lawson and popular Captain Jorge holding up a nice bull. It’s almost Christmas and there’s still dorado to be caught on both sides of the peninsula despite waters cooling every week.
PHOTO4: Charlie Noonan (same Charlie holding a wahoo in the first photo) here displays some of their yellowfin tuna. Mom told me they gave away as much fish as they took home. The tuna range from 10-30 pounds and have been chewing since late August.
PHOTO 5: You gotta love his style! Earl Lawson does it like I like to do it. Light tackle! Try doing fish on a little baitcasting rod and 12 pound test sometime. Fish feel like monsters, especially tuna! This rocks!
THE WORD FROM THE TRENCHES!
I told you I’d let the anglers tell their stories! Thanks, guys! Earl Lawson above wrote this up for me:
” I had very low expectations for November, and we just killed them. We had a great time and everything was perfect. My dad and I fished the first two days with Jorge and he was a great skipper. We loaded up on tuna and caught some Sierra and Dorado as well. The third day we fished out of La Paz with Joel and we were on fire. After bringing in 9 Dorado, we were all ready to call it a day. I have been going to La Paz for about 10 years and that was the most consistent fishing and the most fun I’ve had.”
Patrick Noonon who had the epic wahoo day with his family rolled with this great story:
“We just experienced 4 days of the best fishing I’ve ever had, out of bahia de los muertos. Day
#1: Flat seas, sunny skies, and about a five minute boat ride to wide open 12-20lb YFT all day. My dad, who is not the most experienced or graceful angler ever, landed the most fish. He was able to make Victor (panga capt.) bust out laughing after swinging on a fish while doing a full 360 turn in the boat. After about 4 hours of yankin on tuna, we moved inshore for some steady chico pez gallo.
Day #2: we had more yft with some smaller dorado mixed in. My two younger brothers set out claiming that they were going to go after wahoo. We hadn’t heard of any being caught so I was a little skeptical when after only 5 minutes of having lines in the water they radioed over claiming they landed a decent hoo. I called bullshit, but then I saw a big long silhouette being held up from about 200yards away. Damn! I immediately tied up a wahoo bomb and a rapala and started trolling. After about an hour my 20lb rig got bit and started ripping line until it broke. Lesson learned, bring more than a saltist with 20lb if you want to land some wahoo. Later went inside to fish the small roosters before getting back in by 12 for some cold pacificos at the giggling marlin.
Day#3: Didn’t head out with jonathan’s pangas today. Instead we went out with a gringo that the mexicans call oso loco. He’s a hairy mf who knows how to catch wahoo. Today it was blowing hard and we got pretty soaked on the way out in a 33 ft center console. trolled two rapalas and two marauders on avets with 30lb and 60lb. immediately got bit about 4 times in the first half hour. My brother landed the first. I lost the next two…one got to gaff that oso estimated 60-70lber but broke off. I finally landed one on the 3rd try (30-35lbs). fished til 12:30. We landed 5 wahoo (all our firsts) and lost about 4.
Day #4: Headed out on a panga with Victor and my little bro Conor in search of some bigger dorado and pez gallo. Conor hooked into a nice 20 lb bull right away…but lost it after about 2 minutes. He had a small hook on from the day before when we went after the smaller roosters. we kept heading south…and got a little frustrated when victor passed up my brother Charlie’s panga that was surrounded by jumping dorado. Trolled for about 2 hours for nada. Then we rigged up a thick mono leader with a 4/0 hook to troll a 10inch long bonito. Immediately this thing got whacked over and over, but nothing stuck. After a while, the bonito had most its skin off and guts hanging out. No dodos big enough to get it’s chompers all the way to the hook. Then started slow trolling fillets of bonito and it was non -stop dorado for about 2 hours. Biggest bull was 17lbs. Conor and I somehow hooked into the same fish, brought it to gaff and it came off; conor’s line broke on the propeller but luckily mine stuck and i fought the fish for another 5 minutes before landing the 15lber. Kept on slow trolling, even fly lining a bonito fillet produced fish. We finished the day with 11 dorado, and a 5lb rooster. Charlie brought back 6 dorado and even hooked into a 200 lb marlin that broke off after a fun 5 minute fight.
All in all, having never fished south of Ensenada, I had an awesome time. I landed my first wahoo, biggest dorado, first rooster, and biggest yft. Jonathan runs a great operation and can’t wait to get back. The panga captains are great and I caught more fish in 4 days than I did the past two summers. Here is a link to some pictures: http://noonanfishinglappaz.shutterfly.com “
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Jonathan
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PHOTO 1: Count them. Yes. That right. What are the chances? Five family members go fishing on the same day. Five wahoo come back with them! We have had and continue to have an awesome wahoo season. I have no idea where they all came from. We got our share every year. But, last year, I think we caught FOUR in our fleet the whole season. The Noonan Family fished with us a few days and hammered the tuna and dorado but then went out one day on a friend’s boat and hit the mother lode of wahoo. Guys fish year-after-year with us to just get ONE sniff from a wahoo. This is just incredible. Wahoo are still biting. See below. For the record…the anglers in the Noonan Family from La Jolla CA (except Patrick who lives in D.C.) are: Ryley, 17…Greg (dad) …..Patrick, 22,…..Conor, 16……Charlie, 21…….Marilyn (mom). If mom had fished they probably woulda gotten another one! What day. THEY LOST 4 OTHERS!
PHOTO 2: Earl “Butch” Lawson and his son Earl from the Monterey Bay area were on their second visit this year to us and had an incredible outing. They blew up the tuna schools in Muertos showing off some of their catch on the beach.
PHOTO 3: Butch Lawson and popular Captain Jorge holding up a nice bull. It’s almost Christmas and there’s still dorado to be caught on both sides of the peninsula despite waters cooling every week.
PHOTO4: Charlie Noonan (same Charlie holding a wahoo in the first photo) here displays some of their yellowfin tuna. Mom told me they gave away as much fish as they took home. The tuna range from 10-30 pounds and have been chewing since late August. 
PHOTO 5: You gotta love his style! Earl Lawson does it like I like to do it. Light tackle! Try doing fish on a little baitcasting rod and 12 pound test sometime. Fish feel like monsters, especially tuna! This rocks!
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