PHOTO 1: Glenn Delmendo hit the big time with this monster of a dog-tooth snapper (aka cubera snapper/ pargo perro). He was using a live sardine and initially thought he had an amberjack that was dogging him but lit up when he got it near the boat. He was off the SE corner of Cerralvo Island fishing with our Las Arenas fleet.
PHOTO 2: Here’s another shot of Glenn’s big pargo but Scott O’Connor also got a big dog as well. Both are S.Cal police officers.
PHOTO 3: Don Snyder decided to celebrate his anniversary by giving his wife their first fishing trip to La Paz. Don is a famous turkey hunting guide in Kansas. He got a number of fish including this big dorado which happens to be his personal best fish while fishing with our Tailhunter La Paz fleet. Don said he couldn’t believe how hard ocean-fish pull! He also had on a marlin for about 10 minutes that broke off after some nice runs!
Photo 4: Nancy Engel from Colorado was on her first trip down and proved that the waters are still cool enough to hold some yellowtail! Captain Armando looks on while Nancy holds up the forktail. She was fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet just off Punta Perrico when she hooked the fish.
PHOTO 5: Lucky gal, Heidi Crannel from Portland OR, is helped by Captain Jorge just a few yards of Punta Perrico with this nice school-sized roosterfish. Heidi got the fish and later that night, she got proposed to on the beach by Brian Mayo her new fiance! He bought a 25 dollar ring off one of the beach vendors but delivered the real stone when they got home! Congrats to both of our amigos.
PHOTO 6: This is the week our dorado finally busted through. About 80 percent of the fish were dorado for both our Las Arenas and La Paz fleets. Glenn Delmendo, Don Mariano and Scott O’Connor hold up a trio of mahi at Las Arenas beach. DORADO SEASON FINALLY SHOWS UP!
La Paz / Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of June 13-20, 2009
If I here going to mark a calendar, I would mark this past week as the official start of SUMMER as well as the official kick-off for dorado season!
We’ve been having dorado on-and-off since March and some nice flurries here and there, but this past week was the week they showed up in numbers! We had to advise clients that they needed to start releasing the smaller ones and females which often isn’t easy in the heat-of-battle as some of the bites came on fast and furious! Folks had some fun.
For both our Las Arenas Fleet and our La Paz Fleet they both found the dorado as sargasso weed patches came down the channel. The sargasso weed not only provide shelter for baitfish, but flying fish and other lay eggs in the sargasso. You can almost see the dorado laying in wait for the hatchings as well as for the adults. Often patches of weed just explode in the water as dorado slash into the patches.
Actually, just about any floating debris out there or other object such as trash or commercial buoys can hold dorado if you hit the right spot. Fish were variable in size from 5-10 pounders up to 50 pound fish. Pretty neat stuff too considering we had a full moon going.
As for other species, the roosterfish showed no signs of letting up although we didn’t get any larger fish this week. Still, I think we’ll go on record as being one of the best roosterfish seasons in a long time. Smaller fish in schools of 10-20 pound fish were not uncommon so these weren’t exactly “small fish.” It’s just that for the first time in many weeks we didn’t have any HOGS in the 50, 60 or 70 pound class.
Other species this week included a smattering of marlin and sailfish plus pargo, cabrilla, sierra and even some scattered yellowtail still around as well.
On a more somber note:
Many of you know Jack “Crazy Jack” Velez who has been with us since the beginning almost 15 years ago. He’s been our manager, our team member and our friend. Jack’s not doing very well. He has a serious heart condition so we sent him up to S.California to get checked out as the doctors here in La Paz weren’t doing much. As it turns out, Jack’s very sick and in the hospital the last 2 weeks. He needs surgery but may be too week to undergo the procedure.
Many of you remember him over the years with his nutty jokes too early in the morning or have been unfortunate enough to have gotten a “wake-up” call from him as he would shout into the phone “LETS GO FISHING!” then hang up! Jack is always the one who delivered the breakfasts and lunches in the morning as well. If you can, please keep Jack in your thoughts and prayers as one of the TAILHUNTER FAMILY.
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Jonathan and Jill
Tailhunter International La Paz
“When your life flashes before your eyes, you will have only moments to regret all the things in life you never had the courage to try.”
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