PHOTO 1: MIGHTY YELLOWTAIL HOGS! Yes…the yellowtail have finally started to show. Greg Keehr from Bothell WA made their first trip to see us in La Paz this past week and stuck some great roosters, cabrilla and these AWESOME yellowtail while fishing out’ve Muertos Bay.
PHOTO 2: Janet Keehr admittedly outfished her husband with this 35-pound yellowtail that she took on 25 pound test. That’s Captain Victor that many of you know, holding the gaff and sporting a DOUBLE CHIN! (Must’ve been hibernating in the off-season!). Janet took the fish on live bait. That’s a slugger of a fish!
PHOTO 3: You’ve probably neve seen one of these. One of our amigos, called it the “Boy George Fish” for the pink makeup on it’s lips and rouge on it’s cheeks. This is a rare louvar fish. Normally never seen in the Sea of Cortez, but correctly identified by our friend, Gene Kira from Mexfish.com http://www.mexfish.com/fish/louvar/louvar.htm. The photo was sent by Ed Hoffman and the fish was found in Loreto.
PHOTO 4: The louvar is not only rare. It’s also usually only about 30 pounds or so. This was estimated at 200 pounds. No idea how it tasted! More details on the way.
PHOTO 5: Yes, it finally happened. La Paz has it’s first golf course at Mogote Peninsula just across from the city. This is the driving range.
PHOTO 6: That’s our amigo, Dan Shore from the La Concha Pearl condos with the purple polo shirt being told that his ball went down a rattlesnake hole and he’d have to get it himself plus suffer 3 penalty strokes.
PHOTO 7: Bilingual warning sign on the Colorado River telling us not to fish for trout! We’ve just finished our 5th week traveling the U.S. visiting all our amigos and clients at the fishing and hunting shows. We just finished Portland, Oregon and will be going to Phoenix AZ next at Cardinal Football Stadium the last week of February. Come say hi!
YELLOWTAIL FINALLY CHEW!
Well! Sunshine…low wind…and YELLOWTAIL! Finally some lunker toad forktails! Check out the photos above. That’s the style we like…20-40 pound fish! We got fish for both our La Paz and Las Arenas fleet. Fishing the high spots and reefs, it would appear that the fish are in our waters although because of the winds, most of our fishing remains fishing out’ve Muertos Bay where the waters are calmer.
The fish are in shallow and eating live bait. But, in those same areas, we got some really nice pargo (and lost some HUGE fish too in the rocks!) as well as cabrilla. Sierra are still around, but we got another shot of roosterfish as well as some of those big gigantus bonito that kick our butts! All good signs! Weather has been great for the most part. We had wind earlier in the week but temps have been in the hight 70’s to lower 80’s.
This is CARNIVAL WEEK this week too so the town will be in party zone along the malecon waterfront all week! Gonna be rowdy!
Oh…and the whales are in full turbo as well at Mag Bay. We’re running trips daily now and seeing lots of whales in the shallow waters of the bay. We’re still booking trips so let us know.
Lastly…you saw the golf course photos above…Yes…La Paz has it’s first golf course. It’s over at the Mogote Peninsula…that big sand spit across the way from La Paz. If you’ve been to La Paz and stood there on the malecon looking out at the ocean, it’s directly across. It’s still a 45 minute car ride over, but they have a quick 5 minute shuttle on a pontoon boat that will take you over. I guess I better learn to play golf. I’ve never been real good. I always had a fishing rod in my hand. I did shoot a 63 once, and would have done better, but my ball hit the windmill and missed the clown’s mouth by the castle…
According to our friend, Rory King, he says, ” The course is not ‘Open’ until March. The grand opening will be a round of golf played by the developer, and Arthur Hills, and Brian Yoder, the golf course architect and designer. At this time, the people living there, can play the course, but most of the markers are not up now, details have to be done, so it is not open to the public, except for the driving range.Driving range is open 10 to 4 every day. $12.00 for one hour or the whole day if you wish. Anyone can go. The little electric boats leave from the dock that goes down to El Patron restaurant. Short ride to the other side, then they pick you up in a golf cart and take you to the driving range. They have a rudimentary food stand, water, hot dogs, stuff like that, and it is beautiful. Anyone can play at this time. The price is right for a couple of hours of hitting balls.”
That’s our story!
Jonathan and Jill
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