PHOTO 1: A darned nice day for Don and Mary Busse of Lakewood CA. Fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet, the couple got 9 sierra, a pargo, a 25 pound roosterfish (see below released); this nice wahoo and lost a bigger one! It was Don’s first wahoo and rooster. Maybe a little early for wahoo, but the fish kept popping up south of Cerralvo Island.
PHOTO 2: What? Dorado in April? Can it be? For the last month, bits of sargasso weed have been gathering around in the currents which usually means dorado are coming and little dink dorado have been biting here and there. However, they turned on nicely at the end of the week north of town as shown by these two nice grade mahi held by Phil Bonnet and Chuck Lascheid from Sacramento CA with Espiritu Santo Island in the background. Check out how close to shore they are! They got a limit of the nicer fish!
PHOTO 3: Good as it gets. Blue water, white sand and a bull dorado held by Phil Bonnet…our largest so far of the season as dorado turned on north of La Paz!
PHOTO 4: The kids did alright! Yellowtail and pargo mixed it up big time around the El Bajo Seamount now that winds backed off a bit. My son, Jarrett Pfost and nephew Mike Stevens got multiple bites that were lost to the rocks but still took these 3 yellowtail and hefty pargo on live mackerel and y0-yo iron (blue and white!).
PHOTO 5: Cole Chavirra for years has been a regular poster-child for Tailhunter International. He’s one of the most talented anglers I’ve ever seen at the old-age of 12! He’s been down here numerous times since he was about as tall as a tackle box. Check out this trophy barred pargo!
PHOTO 6: “Ma” Janille Todd (mi suegra!) from Spring Valley CA and Jennifer Enright from La Mesa CA proudly hold up a couple of their sierra while standing in front of their catch of sierra and jack crevalle (Captain Victor wanted them for his dogs!) while fishing with our Tailhunter La Paz fleet. This was Jen’s first time to La Paz and first time fishing. My Ma has been here several times and always does well!
PHOTO 7: 12-year-old Cole Yates from Carlsbad CA on his first trip to La Paz did some damage including this over-sized sierra while on a panga.
PHOTO 8: I don’t know who taught these two how to pose, but Mitch Chavira and son Cole show off two of the nicer fish we’ve seen…a big yellowtail and big cabrilla. Mitch said he lost one fish estimated at 50-pounds. I rarely ever doubt either of these two when they go fishing!
PHOTO 9: Family portrait with two of the many pargo hooked this week. My son and daughter, Jarrett (Alpine CA) and Jessie Pfost (Las Vegas NV) strike poses with my niece and nephew Summer and Michael Stevens from Alpine CA. This is Muertos Bay. The pargo are there to be hooked, but so few get taken to the boats! Tough tough fish!
PHOTO 10: Captain Armando helps out with the fish…sierra and big eye jacks (good eats!) for Margo Donohue (Carmel CA) and MaryAnn Hendren (San Diego CA) who had a great day with lots of variety.
PHOTO 11: We had a bunch of happy first-timers this week who had a blast! Kim and Bob Perry from San Diego thought “it was a blast” despite rather rough seas and (to us) slow fishing that day but they had a day full of action on sierra, bonito and two nice pargo. They are already planning to come back before the year is out.
PHOTO 12: Don Busse had caught a wahoo and lost a wahoo this day. Both were firsts ,but claimed that this roosterfish (also his first) was even MORE fun since he hooked it on a light baitcaster outfit. “It took 25 minutes!” he said. “I”m coming back soon just for roosterfish!” was his comment. We’re seeing larger roosters moving into the beaches!
PHOTO 13 : Every day should be so good. My lovely wife and partner, Jilly, celebrated her birthday this week with a day in the pangas; some fish and of course…a bottle of chilled champagne! Cerralvo Island in the background…sierra in the right hand…champagne in the left!
PHOTO 14: Our new favorite fishing fan! This is 13-year-old Kaileigh Otsuka from San Jose CA. Fishing with Captain Chito and our Tailhunter La Paz fleet, Kaileigh hooked, fought and boated this fat striped marlin all by herself. The fish was not able to be released but was Kaileigh’s first marlin.
PHOTO 15: Yea…sometimes even the old guy catches a fish! It was a bad-hat day, but the fish were kind to me and I hooked this yellowtail on a caballito about 60 feet down on the Marisla Seamount. I gave the fillets away, but Jill and I kept the collars to barbecue with teriyaki sauce! It’s one of the best parts of the fish that everyone throws away! Nomm…Nomm…Nommm!!!
STRANGE WEEK OF GOOD AND BAD FISHING STILL PRODUCES SOME INCREDIBLE VARIETY!
La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of April 11-18, 2010
We had much better fishing conditions this week, but it’s taking awhile for things to recover as water was still a bit bumpy and off-color. But…wow…fishing ran the gamut from really poor to really spectacular. I”m just glad we have two fleets here with Tailhunter. It was like night and day.
For our Las Arenas fleet, it was tough fishing. The biggest problem is that the bait is way up the east side of Cerralvo Island. It’s a long run. There was a spot of tuna that showed up, but for the most part it was a frustrating week trying to tackle the tough pargo along the island and around Punta Perrico. Some boats did better than others.
Sometimes, you look at the numbers and it looked like there were no fish and sometimes that was the case, but they talking to our anglers, these tough fish were busting off so often that they hooked many but lost almost all of them. However, there were some nice roosters and plenty of sierra to even things out, but overall, it was tough fishing. The highlights were the fact that flyfishers and light tackle fishers got into schools of fiesty bonito and we did get a few wahoo at the south side of the island as well.
It was a complete opposite for our La Paz fleet. Normally, during this time, the winds are blowing fierce and it’s awfully tough fishing straight north of La Paz. However, not only did the winds lay down, but we got the big mackerel baits that are like candy to some of the bigger game fish.
Boats were getting into a nice grade of yellowtail up to about 30 pounds…using heavy gear and sliding sinkers…the fish are hunkered on the high spots and we’re losing about half of them. However, in those same areas, big pargo and trophy sized cabrilla were also caught on the big mackerel, sardines and also heavy lures.
The real surprise was that over the past few days, I’ve seen more and more sargasso weed showing up…which is usually a good sign of dorado and we’ve seen quite a few small ones cruising and often biting in La Paz Bay…but the latter part of the week…the dorado went on a tear with fish 10-30 pounds! It was like summertime. Whether this stays or not, we’ll see, but this sure is exciting!
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