PHOTO 1: Captain Pancho gives first-timer Scott Shiminesky from Oregon a hand with a good-looking bull dorado. There weren’t alot of dorado around this week, but some that got caught were pretty fish. A combo of full-moon and changing currents and winds might have had something to do with it.
PHOTO 2: Perfect coloration on a fresh one…a dorado caught by Becky Solee and gaffed by popular Captain Adolfo just off the Las Arenas lighthouse. Notice the proximity to the shoreline.
PHOTO 3: Larry Parnell always does well when he’s down from the Oregon coast and he hefts a nice roosterfish here before releasing it. Roosterfish are in full swing right now varying in size from 5-50 pounders.
PHOTO 4: And then there’s Angela. Always with a nice fish, Angela Farrell lets her fish speak for themselves. Captain Raymondo “Moncho” Green put her on this fish off Cerralvo Island.
PHOTO 5: Stacy Welborn fished with us for the first time. Down from Sacramento CA, she’s helpd with this nice roosterfish by Captain Pancho. The fish was released after being taken on a live sardine.
PHOTO 6: Not to be outdone by his wife (above), Al Welborn also put a roosteraboard. This past week, the area lived up to it’s reputation as the roosterfish capital of the world.
ROOSTERS COOPERATE AS DO INSHORE FISH BUT A WEIRD WEEK TO FIGURE OUT
LA PAZ LAS ARENAS FISHING REPORT FOR WEEK OF MAY 10-16, 2009
It was hard to put a finger on the fishing this week. It wasn’t great. It wasn’t bad. I don’t know if some of the lack of fish was due to inexperience of the anglers or bad luck or lack of fish. Maybe it was the big full moon which I don’t put much stock in, but perhaps a combination of the moon, stronger winds…who knows? Some very good anglers lost fish. Some rookies turned in some good catches. But, it was also hard to get a read on the fishing because there were so few anglers around. Because of the swine flu scare a few weeks ago, a number of anglers canceled trips with many of the fleets until a later date. Well…that meant that airplanes were almost bare! (Thanks to the media for scaring everyone…not a single case of swine flu reported on the entire 1000-mile-long-Baja peninsula!) So, because of the light loads, airlines canceled flights. Some airlines didn’t even tell passengers until they got to the counter. Passengers were simply told, “There’s not enough people on your flight so we are going to cancel.”
That pissed off a lot of folks as you can imagine…stranded at the airport…
Anyway, there were some nice roosters taken, but the bite seemed to be off. More were seen, but they didn’t necessarily want to eat. Most of the better fishing was with the roosters. But.. Even the jack crevalle seemed pickier. The bigger pargo were still around, but with so few anglers, it was difficult to say how good a bite took place. Bonito were rampant and some tuna ran with them in little flurries. Dorado were sketchy as were some of the other fish. It didn’t help that winds were up some of the days keeping the boats more inshore than we would have liked. Here’s the weird twist…it was actually FOGGY out on the water! Go figure!
Anyway, as the week ended, things took an upturn and it seemed the fish got more active. We’re hoping for a more lively week and we’ve got a lot more anglers this week.
So…that’s kinda the story. Honestly, it was kind of a “shrug” fishing week. I just don’t know! I can only tell you what I saw.
Jonathan Roldan’s
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