That's My Story

PHOTO 1: A last minute trip from Atlanta GA brought Leif Dover down for some quick fishing and it paid off. Check out the wahoo taken on an orange and black Rapala. That’s Captain Yofo behind him goofing the photo. The wahoo bite was still rolling early in the week until winds and some rain pushed just about everything off. Weather has been inconsistent all week and it remains to be seen if it will have long term effects on the nice surface bite.

THE SEASON FINALLY CATCHES UP WITH THE FIRST BIGGER WINDS OF THE SEASON BRINGING RAIN. HOWEVER THERE’S STILL FISH BITING!

LA PAZ / LAS ARENAS FISHING REPORT FOR DECEMBER 9, 2007

PHOTO 2: Even though it’s almost winter, there’s still dorado around. Before the current weather pattern hit late in the week, fish like this were still swimming in many areas. Captain Bryan Zulka from San Diego area hold ups a nice little bull. Bryan did good working the fish on light tackle.

PHOTO 3: Kevin Todd from Austin TX, rolled up a few fish around the islands including this nice dorado. Waters are cooling and I don’t know how much longer we’ll still have dorado around. More cooler water fish are starting to show up.

PHOTO 4: Seems like folks from all points have been popping down lately! All the way from Anchorage AK, Diana Cote and Captain Jorge hoist a yellowfin tuna. Check out the calm water! This is how it’s like when the wind isn’t blowing right now. Flat days interrupted by winds. But, the good news is that the tuna still seem to be around and this size football is a blast to catch.

PHOTO 5: Bryan Zulka chomped into the tuna last week. OK, so they’re not big, but they’re almost casting distance from the shore and on light tackle, they’re a hoot and ready to chew.

THE FISHING REPORT

Well, it’s definitely NOT summer fishng anymore. We had some nice fishing early in the week, then the winds and even some rain hit us and well…that was that. We still fished, but it definitely wasn’t shorts and t-shirt weather and the complexion of the fishing changed too.

Early in the week we were still into the yellowfin tuna, dorado and even some roosters. But, I knew we were living on borrowed time. It’s not often we have that kind of fishing this late in the season.

But, there’s no doubt fishing is changing. We are well into the sierra now. The toothy fighters are getting thicker and thicker. Also, the pargo seem to have moved in as well. One of our guys got 6 big pargo lisa the other day and lost a handful of others. The captain estimated these were all big 20-30 pound fish. Just wish I had gotten some photos.

As I write this, it’s calm outside at night, but raining a bit. It’s comfortable. No wind. Yesterday was bright and sunny and calm. Perfect fishing weather. However, later in the week, we’re expecting a bit more rain and stronger winds by the end of the week that might make it tough and uncomfortable to be on the water.

FIRST PERSON – THANKS GUYS!

Here’s Bryan Zulka’s story.

“…. Headed over to the bay and found our boat and Captain Victor ready to go. 10 min. ride to get some small sardinias from the bait guy and back to the bay where we left from to fish. I was like “are we going to troll” , Victor was like “no, we have sardinias” Now we are less than a mile off the beach, he backs off the motor and there are fish already boiling up. Instantly bit. Dorado everywhere!!!

So for the next 5 hours we went no more than 10 min. without a bite!! We left tuna to find dorado! Non-stop all you wanted YFT to I’d say an honest 18 pounds. I fished with my travel rod most of the time, a #15 outfit. But with the boats 4/0 they were fun as well. It was actually like fishing, toss some bait, fish boil! And they all wanted to die. We ended up with over 25 YFT, never counted the big Skippes and over 10 Dorado. We cut loose countless fish.

It was truly amazing. Fished untill 11:45 or so, they headed in. Reeled in the last bait, tossed the rest over and the place erupted with YFT! I could have held my breath from the spot we caught our last fish to the beach. It was that close. Victor filleted our fish, we tipped him well, bid him farewell and thanks and off in the van back to La Concha.Overall can’t say enough good stuff about Jonathon’s operation. Just worked out perfect for us. We that kind of fishing, you don’t need any more time thats for sure. And we had a nice Marlin jump about 6 times withing 100′ of the boat. Nice touch!”

This is from Leif Dover…

“The fishing was absolutely incredible, we had an outstanding time. The day we fished in La Paz was a little disappointing (but only in comparison to the days in Las Arenas), we had wind out of the north and no sardines, but we still managed to get 4 sierra and 2 nice dorado on artificial and skipjacks we caught. As far as Las Arenas, what can you say? All the tuna you could wish for, plus I got my first wahoo (a pretty nice one too according to everyone that saw it) and a number of nice dorado. The last day we literally ran out of bait the tuna fishing was so good, as quickly as Adolfo would rebait us, we had another nice tuna (or bonita sometimes) on the line.”

HEADS UP

For 2008, we’re already getting quite a few reservations. It’s not too early, amigos. Especially if you have a big group or want a certain hotel or certain captain. We already have some days sold out! In 2007, we sold out many many dates and had a waiting list for certain captains and hotel rooms. Once we start out fishing shows in January, we expect that the reservations will start rolling in. We want to make sure you’re covered so give us a jingle or e-mail shout.

Looking foward to another great 2008. Also, if you don’t have your passport…get on the stick and get rolling. Don’t get caught up in the rush like so many others last year who had to sweat it out.

That’s my story!

Jonathan

Jonathan Roldan’s