PHOTO 1: Scott Brown and James Talley on their first trip to La Paz had an eventful few days of fishing despite less-than-perfect conditions. In addition to these dorado and fat cabrilla, they also got two sailfish (released); a striped marlin on 25-pound test (released); and a big roosterfish (released). AWESOME!




and long-time Tailhunter friend, Jeff Slater from Long Beach onto a pile of tuna and dorado earlier in the week.

The week started well-enough. All the dorado you could want no matter if you fished with our Las Arenas or our La Paz fleet. Not a lot of big fish, but solid numbers of 10-20 pound fish all-day-long and you could catch-and-release to your heart’s content.
As well, if you fished with our Las Arenas fleet, that school of 20-35 pound yellowfin tuna parked right off the beach between the Arenas lighthouse and Punta Perrico continued to kick out a nice bite with boats averaging 2-7 fish per panga and really putting on a show. As several veteran anglers said, “These fish fight a lot bigger than they are! They are amazingly strong.” Whether it was tuna or dorado, it wasn’t complicated fishing. You either fished with live sardines for the dorado or stripped slow trolled chunks of fresh bonito. The tuna came up mostly on handfuls of drifted dead sardines.
Later in the week, it got tricky. Strong northern winds kicked in and kicked our butts. In fact, it was ridiculous to try to fish out of La Paz and was had all our anglers fish with our Las Arenas fleet instead where it was still bumpy, but at least they could get out on the water and had a chance for fish.
Dorado were still the mainstay with a smattering of tuna and lots of big bonito, but the bite clearly had diminished, but at least guys got to fish. These are the type of seasonal winds we can expect now as the seasons change away from the warmer fall to winter-type fishing. Never can tell when it’s going to be crazy weather. As we hit the weekend, the winds diminished, but at the time of this writing, it remains to be seen how much of an effect it has had on the bite.
Actually, once the winds died, an interesting thing happened. The weather improved, but the bite got worse! We really had to scratch for our biters. However, all of a sudden, marlin and sailfish showed up. One day, out of 10 pangas, we hooked and released 9 marlin and one big blue marlin spooled one of our anglers on 50-pound test. As one of my captains told me, “We had three marlin just swimming around the boat waiting for us to feed them!” They were more than willing to jump on a little hooked sardine about 3-inches long. We’ll see if this continues.
VIDEO CLIP OF THE WEEK:
Click this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vhrTZV_yHk
That’s our story!
Jonathan and Jill
Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter International
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