Photo 1: Dave Harper, all the way from the chilly cold of Wyoming came out for a few days and got into a surprising bite of early season dorado. Check out this nice bull but also notice how close he is to shore and how calm the waters are! Dave hooked this on live bait. (Details below!)
Photo 2: Again…dorado in March? We usually don’t see these warm water guys until May or so, but Hilda Sexauer holds the proof with this young bull. Captain Jorge lends the assist.
PHOTO 3: Here’s Dave Harper again, but this time holding up a big yellowtail taken off Punta Perico. If the fish looks funny, it’s because it was subject to a sealion attack. The dog grabbed the fish, but they were able to chase it down and get the fish back losing only some yellowtail guts!
PHOTO 4: I keep getting asked what “sierra” look like. We’ll here you go. Nice rack of fish caught by John Diciccio and Sue Nielsen. These are great light tackle sportfish and make excellent eating. Top-of-the-line for ceviche!
PHOTO 5: Here’s John Dicicco and Captain Victor holding a fat yellowtail. This is typical of the type of big ones coming along right now. John has more details below.
PHOTO 6: Salt Lake City International Sportsman’s Show…last stop on the 2009 tour. Thanks to all of you who came out to all the shows! Headed home now to La Paz!Interesting week of fishing. A bit windy as might be expected this time of year, but again just an interesting mix of fish as well! Yellowtail are definitely here. I don’t think we’ve seen the full brunt yet, but in between punky 10-15 pounders there’s definitely homeguard mossbacks around in the 30-40 pound class. Best areas have been off Muertos Bay, Punta Perico then north of La Paz around the El Bajo Seamount and north Cerralvo Island. The fish eat the sardine bait, but if you can find the larger caballitos or mackerel, it’s like french fries in front of a kid! In the deeper areas, heavy iron fished yo-yo is also working. Scrambled egg and blue/white patterns work best. Wind like a madman until your arms fall off is the best way to get chewed! If you don’t crank hard you won’t get bit!
The other part of the fishing report is the dorado bite that started last week. Normally, we don’t see dorado this early. Normally, we get numbers like this when the waters start to warm up in a month or two. Sure, we’ll get the stray bite or two but we’ve had limits or near limits several days! Our bite has been rather close to shore too! Only about 100-200 yards off Perico rocks, but there’s also some fish outside by the inner buoys.
All-in-all…some exciting stuff happening. We’ll keep you posted.
Here’s some first-hand reports:
This is from Dave Harper who has his photo above with the dorado and yellowtail:
“We had a great time fishing with Jorge, as you heard, the first day was wide open for Dorado. I was not expecting that and we were pretty darned happy to have boated 15 dorado before 11:00!!! All three days were calm (?).
The next day I caught my first yellowtail, but only after a 15 minute battle with the fish, followed by a 20 minute tug of war with a sea lion!! It was only through the persistence of Jorge chasing after the sea lion when it surfaced and tiring it out that I got it back, and it was pretty much intact somehow. Pretty funny stuff. We also hooked 5 big pargo Lisa and were schooled by every one of them. Humbling. I am ready to battle those buggers again!!!”
From John Dicicco who also has his photo above with the big yellowtai:
“For what we were told is off season fishing, we did pretty>well: 2 Yellow Fin, 22 Sierra, 1 Pargo and about 45 Pelicans. Too>bad we couldn’t eat the Pelicans. We also lost 2 Yellow Tail and 2>Sierra. Breakfasts and Lunch on the fishing days were very good.>>We had several very good dinners but two that stood out were, El Jibe>in town and the best was Pichilngue Restaurant. It was the>best meals I think I have had in Mexico and in the top ten ever.>And not a bad view either.>>This beats hell out of Cabo. I hope it doesn’t change.”
Thanks, guys!
This Friday March 20th, I’ll be giving a seminar at the Bass Pro Shops theater in Rancho Cucamonga CA on extreme light tackle fishing in La Paz. It’s at 7 p.m. and this is geared towards an extreme light tackle fishing trip to La Paz in August. Come check it out! Promise not to heckle!
Final thanks to everyone who came to see us the last 3 months. Jill and I have been on the road over pretty much most of the Western U.S. Seven states and a lot of miles as we hit the big fishing shows in Sacramento, Denver, Portland, San Mateo (San Francisco), Phoenix, Long Beach and Salt Lake City. We had a great time and it was great to see so many old amigos! Thanks to all who stopped by and have a great 2009 fishing year! Now back home to La Paz and let’s get fishing again!
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