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!
PHOTO 2: Earl Fiscalini gets a hand with his yellowfin tuna from Guy (Subchild) Fiscalini-Petree both from the Central Coast area of California. The tuna were tougher to get this week due to heavy north winds that really stirred up the waters and made fishing rough.
PHOTO 3: This is a sample of the nice mix of fish typical of a good day this week with our Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fleet. We really had to work hard for the fish this week. Alot of boats really had to scratch. Because of the tough conditions, we didn’t do much fishing north of La Paz.
PHOTO: 4: John Stephen made the best of difficult conditions with this nice yellowfin tuna right out in front of the old Hotel Las Arenas. The fish were definitely there, but it was hard to hold a drift or get the baits down to the fish because of the big winds and waves.
PHOTO 5: Captain Gerardo looks on behind Mary Busse with her yellowfin tuna taken before the winds came on and the tuna were running rampant. Most of the fish were 20-35 pounders.
PHOTO 6: Al Tesoro has made three trips to La Paz this year and finally got more tuna than he could handle, but shows off two of his yellowfin he caught near the Las Arenas lighthouse.
PHOTO 7: Captain Calamar put two of our best amigos, race car driver Art Savedra from Las Vegasand long-time Tailhunter friend, Jeff Slater from Long Beach onto a pile of tuna and dorado earlier in the week.
PHOTO 8 : Dave Busse hoists up another yellowfin in front of Captain Gerardo. Dave and his wife Mary spent a few days fishing and diving with us.
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:
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That’s our story!
Jonathan and Jill
Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter International
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