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January 24, 2009 by riplipboy

PHOTO 1: Sierra mackerel like this beauty here are still hitting nicely just about anywhere but the inshore reef, shoals and beaches seem to be the best holding spots for these guys. Don’t let the “mackerel” part of the name fool you. They fight hard and are among the tasitest fish around. Light tackle and a wire leader are working best with live bait or small crank bait lures like small Rapalas or Yo-Zuri lures.

PHOTO 2: Nice schools of feisty jack crevalle have move into the beach and inshore areas, especially for our anglers working the Muertos Bay/ Punto Perricos area. Great sport fish, but terrible eating, they are best released. Cousins to yellowtail, roosterfish, amberjack and pompano, when these guys are on the feed, they’ll hit pretty much anything aggressively.

PHOTO 3: The whales have finally arrived in Magdalena Bay and we’re running daily trips there now. The largest migration of mammals on Earth, the grey whales come to Baja during the winter months until about March to mate and give birth.

PHOTO 4: This is about as close as you can get to these great animals! Just watch out when they spout! Good idea to bring a windbreaker and hat! Pretty neat to get this close to a 30 foot whale or it’s baby. The grey whales usually hang out until mid-March in the shallow bay waters.

PHOTO 4: The Tailhunter Road Show 2009 moves on! We are just finishing our 3rd fishing/ hunting show of the season here in Denver CO. It has been a great tour with stops at shows in San Mateo CA and Sacramento CA. We wrap up here in Denver then move onto the Portland Expo Feb. 4-8. Great to see all the old friend and meet new ones. Come visit us in Portland and come fishing in La Paz!

WINTER CONDITIONS IN LA PAZ BUT INSHORE SPECIES PROVIDE GOOD ACTION!

La Paz/ Las Arenas Report for Week of January 18-24, 2009

THE FISHING REPORT

Lots of snow birds in town right now but not many anglers or divers. You can tell the locals. It’s 70 degrees and breezy and we’re all walking around in long pants and sweatshirts bundled against the “cold.” The tourists are wearing shorts and flip-flops and t-shirts. The whales are in at Magdalena Bay so we’re running a lot of trips out there now and indeed, quite a few of the tourists in town are here for the whales and not many for fishing. Let us know if we can set you up with some whale watching before they head north in March.

Still, we had a few boats out this week. With the north winds, we had to keep close to shore. Waters seemed to have turned a bit green. The winds were hard on the few flyfishers but our bait fishermen still got into sierra, seabass, jacks and some smaller pargo. We had some light line anglers do pretty well and they had fun getting hookups but lost a lot of fish in the rocks. They weren’t complaining since almost every cast was another hookup and planned to release most fish anyway. Some of the commercial guys got a few yellowtail so that’s encouraging and we’ll keep an eye on that. Lots of folks are preping for Carnival which is coming up in a few weeks.

TAILHUNTER COMING YOUR WAY

We’ve just finished our shows in San Mateo, Sacramento and Colorado. We’ll be at the Portland Expo Center Feb. 4-8. Come visit us in the booth! After that, Phoenix AZ, Long Beach and Salt Lake City.

CABIN FEVER CLASSIC APRIL 30 – MAY 4

Cabin Fever Classic April 30 to May 4, we still have a few spots that came open! Ask us about the details. Five days in La Paz with 3 days of fishing. This is our 7th annual event and it’s alot of fun! Get outta yer cabin and come enjoy some sunshine! Price is $775 per person double occupancy.

That’s out story!

Jonathan and Jill

Jonathan Roldan’s

Tailhunter International

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