PHOTO 1: Marissa Rendall from Hermosa Beach CA shows off the two main fish we caught all week…dorado and yellowfin tuna. This was Marissa’s first time fishing and she enjoyed the tuna sashime we made for her at the Tailhunter Bar that evening. She was fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet and Capt. Pancho.
PHOTO 2: The ladies and especially folks from Utah have been well-represented all month. Another first timer, Trudy Grove from the Salt Lake City area, grimaces a bit, but she put this tuna as well as dorado into their box after a few days fishing with both our Las Arenas and La Paz fleets. The yellowfin tuna were generally within about 200 yards from shore right out from the old Hotel Las Arenas. Baits were small, but it’s exactly what the tuna wanted.
PHOTO 3: Our amigo, Jeff Johnson, yearly escapes the chillier landscapes of his home in Idaho to visit us and put on a pair or shorts. Standing with Captain Victor he posted up a full day of yellowfin tuna limits to fill an ice chest to take home.
PHOTO 4: Matt Hartsook took a break from his 3rd year in law school in Arizona to finally make it down here to La Paz. Fishing 3 days, Matt, his dad, uncle, cousins and friends did some damage to the dorado schools, especially fishing with our Tailhunter La Paz Fleet.
PHOTO 5: Like I said, Utah in the house! Well-represented lately with alot of great folks from Utah coming down. John Terbu brought his family for the first time and poses with a nice bull dorado with the south end of Cerralvo Island in the background.
PHOTO 6: Dave Deiter and Zach Smith, both from San Diego, came in for a little scuba diving and fishing. They did one day with our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet and show off some nice football-sized tuna and a dorado that came to chew.
PHOTO 8: Shane Grove caught much larger fish while he was here last week, but this is just such a cool photo of a little roosterfish taken on light tackle fly rod with the fly still hanging from the lip. Notice how close to shore he is. The rooster and all others were released. They had a bang up day inshore with the flyrods.
TUNA AND DORADO BITE DESPITE TROPICAL WINDS AND RAIN ALL WEEK
Hot humid and cloudy here in La Paz with occasional spats of thundershowers cooling us off as well as choppy waters and some real blustery winds at times , but the tuna bite at Las Arenas has been great fun for the better part of the week. It’s almost been like stop-and-go shopping. We depart our pangas near the lighthouse; turn south about 300 yards to get bait; go another 300 yards down the beach and the tuna are right there in front of the old Hotel Las Arenas!
The morning bite has produced 15-30 pound fish most of the week with limits or near limits but for a pesky sealion that comes and goes with the bite. The fish are eating mostly live sardines that are really on the small side requiring smallish #1 live bait hooks or we’re using lots of dead sardines littering the water in the drift.
In that same area, dorado will come shooting through adding some variety to the catch. No wahoo to speak of, but marlin and sails have been hooked and either lost or released.
We haven’t been fishing too much on the La Paz side the past week because of strong winds, but by the time you’re reading this, we’ll be back on the spots hopefully on top of the dorado schools. Late in the week, we had some boats out and all of them got limits or near limits of dorado, but reported choppy seas and “We got wet!” However, as one of our anglers said, “It was great! The rain cooled us off and it seemed that when the rain would fall the dorado would go nuts!” According to them, it would rain, then the sun would come blazing out, then rain again later, but most of their fish were caught when it was raining so they had a blast!
That’s our story!
Jonathan and Jill
Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter International
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