THE FISH REPORT:
A typical windy winter week down here, but we’ve been fishing the inner waters near Muertos with surprisingly good results. The variety has been exceptional. A typical catch for a day has been 4-12 sierra, a few cabrilla (sebass), some smaller pargo and snapper, some roosterfish and even a handful of dorado on occasion. When the winds are down, we’ve had some boats outside near the south end of Cerralvo.
There have been reports of tuna breezing the area, but we’ve not hooked any. However, two wahoo were hooked in the last few days on Rapalas. Nice time to be in town. It’s very festive. Day time temps are sunny 75! Nightimes are cool and comfortable at 65 with lots of holidays in the air. Don’t forget to bring a sweatshirt right now. I’m writing this and have a wool watch-cap on. It can get chilly in the early mornings and evenings, but really nice and sunny in the daytime.
CABIN FEVER CLASSIC 2009 COMING UP!
Our 7th Annual Cabin Fever Classic Event is booking up but there are still spots. We’ve set it for April 30 to May 4th to take advantage of the new Alaska/Horizon Airlines Schedule so it will be over a weekend to make it more convenient. Also, we’re holding it a bit later to possibly get into a few more species this year.
This is our unofficial kick off for the season and is always a lot of fun. It’s not a competition, but, as the name implies, it’s to shake off the “cabin fever” and have an opportunity to wet some line, enjoy some sunshine, eat some tacos and knock back some cold ones. It’s our most popular event and we get regulars every year, especially couples. We fish for 3 days; stay at La Concha Beach Resort; and at night we go out for dinners.
We don’t even promise that the fish will be biting, but they always do! One year, the roosterfish went mad. Another year we had early season big dorado. One year we had over 18 different species of fish caught. Last year, it was big pargo and big yellowtail. We never know! The price if $775 per person (double occupancy) includes the ocean-facing room on the beach; boat, skipper, tackle, ice, fish cleaning, fish freezing, breakfast, lunch, soft drinks and water on fishing days, shuttles to the boats, airport shuttles, a welcome dinner; a taco party plus other fun things as well. Hope you can join us.
THE WHALES ARE COMING!
Also for your calendar, don’t forget the whale watching season in Baja starts next month. Prime time for the whale migration is mid-January to March when the grey whales arrive and take up residence in Magdalena Bay. This is a great opportunity for the whole family to get up close to these gentle animals in the calm bay waters. This is not open water whale chasing. The whales are already there and not going anywhere. We’ll be offering complete packages so get in touch with us.
FROM US TO YOU…
It’s been a great 2008 down here in La Paz and a fantastic season. Beginning with seeing so many of you during our tour of all the Western States hunting and fishing shows from January to March (when we crashed our van in the snow!) and then kicking right into a busy season, it’s been fantastic! We had some great fishing and great times and we wanted to thank all of our friends who came to visit and all of you who continue to read these crazy reports we publish every week. We have been blessed with many smiles and the best part of this job is that most of our clients become our friends. We thank all of you and wish you a safe and peaceful 2009 and we hope to see you soon!
Best fishes always!
That’s our story!
Jonathan and Jill
Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter International
Phone: (626) 333-3355
FAX: (626) 333-0115
U.S. Office: 3319 White Cloud Dr., Suite A, Hacienda Hts. CA 91745
Mexico Office: , 755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Cal Sur, Mexico
“When your life finally flashes before your eyes, you will have only moments to regret all the things in life you never had the courage to try.”
PHOTO 1: Pargo are starting to show up more these days. These popular snapper (aka pargo liso or mullet snapper) usually start schooling up in numebers in the spring, but we’re already getting them. Or I should say, they’re biting! These tough fighters usually break off lines in the rocks before we can stop them!
PHOTO 2: Inshore fishing is great right now and surprisingly, there’s still roosterfish around! I don’t know if they’re holdovers from last season and just never left or they showed up early for 2009. But the shallow inshore waters are still holding some fun fish like this one which was released.
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