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January 9, 2010 by riplipboy

PHOTO 1: Still quite a few roosterfish around considering it’s so early/late in the season. It’s like they never left. In addition to the small school-sized fish like this young roosterfish, some of the larger toad fish are here as well. Larry Daniels holds this one he caught and released. Captain Victor checks over his shoulder.

PHOTO 2: Another surprise fish we’re still catching are dorado. Tim Zimmer and Captain Jorge show off the great colors of this bull. We had several days this week when our pangas fishing out’ve Las Arenas caught limits of dorado which we usually only find from about April to October.

PHOTO 3: No, this isn’t Baja. It’s the plains of Colorado where we encountered temperatures as low as 11 degrees below zero while driving from Los Angeles to Denver where we spent this past week at the Denver International Sportsmans Show at the Colorado Convention Center.

PHOTO 4: Here’s Jill in our booth at the Colorado Convention Center at the ISE Show this past week. Great to see so many of you who came by to visit. Next stop…we drive back towards to California for the International Sportsman’s Show at the San Mateo Expo Center near San Francisco from Jan. 14-17 (Thursday to Sunday) Come by the booth and say hi as well as pick up a new copy of our brochure and DVD.

SURPRISINGLY MILD CONDITIONS SPARK ANOTHER RUN OF DORADO, ROOSTERFISH and OTHER SPECIES!

La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of January 3-10, 2010

Been a tad chilly in La Paz, especially at night and early mornings. Temperatures in the mid-40’s at night but sunny and comfortable mid-70’s in the daytime. The best part is not much wind.

We’re having a blast catching sierra pretty much everywhere right now. Jump in a boat and put down a bait or some kind of small shiny lure and it seems that within minutes you’re hooked up. Throw more baits and soon, there’s a school or you pick up or or two more. You go again and wham, you start all over again. Before too long you’ve got limits and you’re looking to throw back as many as you can!

I’ve been recommending that our anglers either crimp or cut off treble hooks from their crank baits or other lures so that you can unhook the fish easier. It’s pretty tough to have a flipping sierra which has a very slippery slime on it plus a mouth full of snapping teeth in your hand while you try to take a treble hook out of it’s mouth. You end up spending more time unhooking the fish than catching them! A single hook works so much better…much like barracuda fishing!

In addition to the sierra, we’ve still got schools of 5-10 pound roosters roaming the rocky and sandy areas, often in the same spots as the sierra so this is light tackle and spinning rod heaven right now. The roosters are also hitting the flies as well. There are larger roosters about, but they seem more interested in taking only the larger live bait like the big 12 inch sabalo which you have to catch to use for baits. Some 30-60 pounders were hooked and lost this week and some other larger ones were seen.

Offshore, it’s amazing to still be getting dorado this late/early in the season, but yes…there’s still some dorado about. In fact, if you find the school, there’s ALOT of dorado about! These aren’t big fish, but 10-20 pounders are not uncommon. Best way to find them is to either slow troll a hoochie skirt or a strip of fresh bonito. Combining the two on a single hook is even more deadly. When you hook one fish, keep an eye out for followers and multi-hook-ups are not uncommon.

In addition to these species, inshore action, especially on light tackle has been solid for cabrilla, pargo, and snapper.

TAILHUNTER COMING TO THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA

We leave chilly Denver on Sunday January 10th and drive back to California to set up for our next fishing and hunting show. We’ll be at the San Mateo Expo Center in San Mateo, California near San Francisco for the International Sportsman’s Expo. The show opens January 14-17. Come say hi at our booth!

That’s our story!
Jonathan and Jill

Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter International
Website: http://www.tailhunter-international.com
U.S. Office: 3319 White Cloud Drive, Suite A, Hacienda Hts. CA 91745
Mexico Office: 755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico
Phones:
from USA : 626-638-3383
from Mexico: 044-612-14-17863
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Tailhunter Weekly Fishing Report:
http://www.tailhunter-international.com/fishreport.htm

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