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December 5, 2009 by riplipboy

PHOTO 1: His first wahoo, Brian “Bill” Harnack of Los Angeles poses with Captain Jorge south of Cerralvo Island. It’s late in the year, but the wahoo are still around. Bill and his family caught a variety of fish over several days of fishing including this wahoo, tuna, dorado, sierra and roosterfish.

Photo 2: Sue Cross from San Francisco was on her first trip to La Paz and shows off a great dorado caught near shore with Captain Pancho. Dorado are still in the area eating live sardines and slow-trolled bonito strips. The fish range from 5-20 pounds, but larger fish in the 25-30 pound class have been hooked and lost.

PHOTO 3: He’s just 12 years old, but Andre Harnack has pulled on quite a few fish, but got into some really nice fishing this past week with a variety of fish that included sierra, dorado, roosterfish and this nice tuna he hooked with our Las Arenas fleet. He also had on a wahoo that came unbuttoned.

PHOTO 4: Headed for the dinner table, Bill Lee, was on his 2nd trip of the year with us. From the San Francisco area, he holds up a barred pargo also known as a pargo mulatto. Great eating. Get to be about 40 pounds, but the smaller ones taste better. Tough fighters in the rocks!

PHOTO 5: This is a great catch with lots of variety more typical of winter fishing. Bill Lee and Sue Cross have sierra, triggerfish, green pargo and pargo liso on the box. They were fishing with our Tailhunter Fleet off Muertos Bay.

PHOTO 6: Trenton Staley from chilly Parker, Colorado got to take off his jacket and got into some good dorado fishing outside of Muertos Bay.

PHOTO 7: It’s about time for these pargo liso to start moving into the shallows to start spawning. Casey Staley is from Colorado, but lives part-time here in La Paz. He’s fishing with Captain Jorge.

GREAT VARIETY INCLUDING TUNA WAHOO DORADO AND ROOSTERFISH KEEP WINTER ANGLERS BENT!

La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of Nov. 29 to Dec. 5, 2009

A nice mixed week of fishing. Town is almost empty. Weather is beautiful and a great time to be in La Paz and if you go fishing, it’s like having the whole ocean to yourselves! The winds pretty much dictate where we fish and what we fish for these days. Almost all of our fishing is being done with our Las Arenas fleet launching out of Bahia de Los Muertos. That way, even if it’s windy we can still hug the shore and catch fish. Surprisingly, we’re not only getting inshore species, but offshore species are close to shore as well.

There are abundant sierra to be caught as the schools have now moved into the inshore areas and you can spend your whole day tearing it up with these speedsters. Live bait fished with a little bit of wire on the hook works great as does slow trolling small crank baits with wire. Good idea to change all treble hooks to single hooks or simply cut off two of the treble hooks as it gets tough to pull three hooks out of the snapping teeth of a sierra.

In addition to the sierra, there’s snapper, pargo, and cabrilla and surprisingly still some good roosterfish to be caught along the sandy areas. The real surprise is that we’re still taking bluewater species like a few tuna here and there in the 25 pound class as well as the occasional wahoo. On the days you could get out there and the wind laid down, there’s a pesky school of football tuna at the north end of Cerralvo Island and a good shot at taking a wahoo there as well around North Point and La Reyna. If not, then south end of Cerralvo Island and near Punta Perrico would be our 2nd choice. Dorado schools flurry in and out and often surprise anglers who find every rod suddenly bent. On two days, it was like summer fishing! The dorado literally swarmed the boats and it was wild. As soon as the winds came up, the fish petered out, but by then, the guys had bloody decks and full fish boxes! We also hooked and lost a few striped marlin too.

Bring a sweatshirt or light jacket for the cool mornings on the water or evenings in town. Long pants aren’t a bad idea either. It’s a “chilly” 65 at night at 82 in the daytimes. Locals like ourselves are all in long pants and sweatshirts these days!

That’s our story
Jonathan and Jill

Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter International
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