M_Man
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Registered: 8-22-2003
Location: Truckee, CA
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La Paz/Las Arenas Report 6/27- 6/30
We fished with a group of twelve, hosted by Jerry Carr of
Alamo, CA. David Jones? ?Fisherman?s Fleet? took good
care of us all.
Fishing was at best, scratchy.
On the brighter side, pargo do pull! Our pargo score-
Pargo 3, Humans 0!
I think we fed the same big Pargon three days running,
including one break-off on 50lb Big Game that parted
at my rod tip- wow, sounded like a .22 Long Rifle for
sure. My fault, forgot to reset the drags before we
fished the first day.
Alas, because we were "tagging along" with the group,
we broke our two "Cardinal Rules of Baja Fishing"...
Rule One, Avoid LAX at all cost!
Rule Two, don't fish after a travel day!
We broke 'em both and we paid the price.
We liked David Jones, and were amazed by his
operation, though try as we might, we never got the
mexican lunch- except by mistake on our first day when
we got both Mexican and American lunches.
When we got on the water, the blue water was long
gone, but bait was plentiful. We got sardinas at Punta
Sudeste and did a bouy tour for four dorado, before
making sabalo and feeding the big Punta Perico pargo.
Day two was a blowout. A Tropical Depression to the
south frothed things up pretty good- scattering the
bait and beating us silly. We settled for ballyhoo,
with sabalo after the bouy tour/beating and fed the
pargo again. We felt like we'd gone 15 rounds with Ali
in his prime.
Day three dawned clear and windless, though we
assisted another van on the way to Las Arenas with
it's leaking radiator... we ended up an hour late
(after three stops!) with a near mutiny on our hands!
We roared out to the bait panga and motored out to the
88... Water still Mean Joe Green green, we toured the
bouys, lost a nice dorado, failed to bait a small
striper on sardinas, and toured back to Punta Perico
to feed the pargo. Did I mention that the bite marks
on the sabalo were those of a 60lb class fish? Like
the mounted one in David's office! We ended the day at
Punta Arena where Pat hooked and landed a 40lb
Rooster- his first.
Our final day, we got out there early (to make up for
yesterday's snafu) and did a short bouy tour. Pat
caught a 45lb bull dorado, and I got a 30 lber on my
new AVET MX- nice drags on this one! We released every
dorado we could, and headed in for pargo/roosters. We
got hits on sabalo off perico again, and this time we
fed them for a ten-count. but this time, when the
baits came back up, they were scaled- Amberjack. We
fed the fish two sabalo, and headed for the sands and
roosters. I lost one after a five count, and Pat
hooked up and landed a thirty kilo rooster that really
worked him on 60lb and a TLD2/30. Pat was happy as a
clam! Both roosters were released healthy too. Our
host's panga caught the amberjack that we raised, it
went about 35 lbs.
Save for the blown out day, bait was plentiful. Sardinas,
ballyhoo, mullet, and ladyfish were there in abundance.
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