Sirena - 3-29-2011 at 01:27 AM
It was that kind of week! Rick Hosmer, our amigo, from Manhattan Beach, gives us the big smile and pose after he and his buddy, John, knocked out the
yellowtail fishing out've Muertos Bay. Once again the yellowtail bit strong this week!
As good as it gets! Check out the size of this pair of yellowtail by La Paz Yellowtail Tournament Champion Jorge Romero, who many of you know as head
of our transportation services with Tecolote Transporation. Even he had to jump in on the hot action as he holds the "jurel" on the beach at Muertos
Bay.
Not all the action was on the yellowtail. The pargo are up in the shallows schooling right now, but although we hooked alot of them this week, not
many got put into the fish boxes as fish-after-fish busted guys off in the rocks. However, this one didn't get away.
John Nagy of Marina Del Rey hoists one up with the help of Capt. Mundo.
You know it's a big fish when you can only hold up one, like Daryl Valdez from Fresno, is doing. The average size of these yellows was 25-45 pounds
this week.
Another big dawg! This pargo liso didn't escape Gary Bray. Only about 1 out've 10 pargo makes it to the gaff but these powerful fish are schooling
right now and it's pretty amazing and frustrating fishing!
We've had roosters around for a few weeks, but this is our first official "big rooster" of the season. The fish looks big in it's own right but Brad
Davison from Long Beach is 6'4" tall so we figure this might be a 60-70 pound pez gallo! It was released.
These are BIG yellowtail. Our Canadian amigo, Leonard Bishop stuck these two bad boys fishing out've Muertos Bay in the early morning.
Even on days where bait is difficult, the Davison Family from Long Beach, on their first Baja trip and first day fishing got 7 yellowtail off Cerralvo
Island WITH NO BAIT! The trolled deep running Rapalas and stuck 7 of these and were back on the beach by 11 a.m.
Ken Gragg is checking something out but the camera still captured Gary Bray and the two of them with some of the yellowtail they ripped while fishing
with our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet this week.
SOME OF THE BEST YELLOWTAIL FISHING ALL SEASON!
It was another pretty solid week of fishing for us here in La Paz. Still some north winds pretty typical of this time of year made it bumpy and we
could have done without them , but that's also why we've been doing 90 percent of our fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet out of Muertos Bay.
Air temps have been in the low 80's and sunny for the most part so conditions continue to be ideal other than the winds!
Around Punta Perico and the south end of Cerralvo, we're still jumping these nice Baja-grade yellowtail. That's been the big story. A 20-pound class
fish is small! Most of these fish have been easily 30-40 pound sluggers and they're eating the yo-yo iron on the fast retrieve as well as live
sardines with a little bit of weight to get them down. Also, some of the guys have been slow trolling mackeral-patterned crank baits like Yo-Zuri
Magnums, Rapalas and Bombers over the shallower areas and getting strikes although, they're also losing alot into the rocks too!
There's actually quite a few spots where the big yellowtail are holding. North Cerralvo near La Reyna and La Reynita have fish. El Bajo Seamount has
them as well as the SW corner of Espiritu Santo. The problem is getting in there to fish in between the wind gusts or traveling there. That's why
we're doing the majority of our fishing with our Las Arenas fleet so that we can fish either closer to shore or on the lee side of the island with as
much protection as possible. But no doubt, the fish are here! And, if one place is tough to get to...go fish another! The fish were stacked this past
week!
In addition to the yellowtail, and often in the same spots, there's a growing number of the big pargo liso...mullet snapper. But, getting them in the
boat has been a more difficult proposition than the yellowtail. It's pretty exciting to see them all balled up like an undulating mass of copper and
red just below the surface. Then, tossing a handful of live sardines at them, the whole things explodes or the boils on the water looks someone
dropping 30 pound boulders from the sky! When the guys get bit, however, if they can't turn the fish away from the rocks within the first few
seconds...FORGET IT! These horses can't be stopped before getting into the reefs and we're losing 90 percent of the hookups. The ones we are putting
into the boats are the "smaller" 20-30 pounders! There's larger ones down there. Guys were snapping off 50 pound test "like it was nothing" according
to one of our fishermen.
"It was like trying to hold into a moving car over the side of a building!" said another. "Not a thing I could do except wait for the line to pop!"
"It was fun getting hooked up on these big fish but so frustrating watching them take the baits and losing fish-after-fish!" commented his buddy.
Oh...just a teaser...I know it's March but...
We hooked and lost our first marlin of the season north of La Paz!
There was a sailfish that was caught!
Commercial guys are reporting more tuna...big ones...at the north end of Cerralvo Island and we got some dorado this week too!
Wow...hope this is just the beginning!
Will keep you posted!
That's our story...
Jonathan and Jilly Roldan