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This was a week when the ladies sure shone! Donna Thompson didn't catch ALL these fish, but she sure put some numbers in the box fishing with her
husband out've La Paz. Look closely and you'll see yellowtail, amberjack, cabrilla and others...pretty much the whole gamut of species that bit this
week.
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Another good day where the ladies rocked! Sylvia Lynn was fishing for her first time ever. She and husband, Jeff, visited La Paz for the first time
for their 27th Anniversary and she caught the "biggest and most" of the fish including yellowtail, ambjerjack and snapper although Jeff did get his
biggest amberjack (see below).
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Probably one of the most colorful photos of the week given Mike Lee's shorts and the nice yellowtail he caught north of La Paz. Mike and his dad
fished both our Las Arenas and La Paz fleets and in the back is pictured Espiritu Santo Island.
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He only had one day to fish, but made the most of it. Jeff Lynn shows off a personal best amberjack he caught working "yo yo" iron "until my arms fell
off" getting yellowtail and snapper as well.
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La Paz fishing was definitely better than Las Arenas fishing, but Las Arenas definitely had some highlights especially for fishing barred pargo if you
check out the catch by Rick Hosmer, Captain Mundo and Jorge Romero (who took the photo).
It was a dynamite week for these big cousins to yellowtail. Amberjack were big hightlights of this week up to 80 pounds. Roger Thompson stuck this big
boy north of La Paz.
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Dr. Desmond Sjauwfoekloy always does well. In addition to some nice yellowtail this week he also took home some nice slabs of barred pargo. Fishing
iron was the ticket. "Cranked as fast as you can!"
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Oregonians Scott Shimenesky and Jason Boykin pose on the beach Bahia de Los Muertos with a nice day of barred pargo.
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Tony and sons, Mike Lee spent 3 days fishing with us this past week and got several great varieties of fishing but really did nicely on the
yellowtail. Both are from Valencia.
BIG AMBERJACK 50-100 POUNDERS PLUS YELLOWTAIL and BARRED PARGO SHOWCASE the WEEK
This was week was another wacky week and another week that I appreciated that we have two full-time fleets working. For whatever reason…dirty
water…too much bait in the water…bad luck…bad current…our Las Arenas fishing continues to be scratchy at best. There’s some good action to be had, no
doubt. If you fished this past week with my Las Arenas fleet, you got into cabrilla, some decent pargo, roosterfish, lots of bonito, jack crevalle and
snapper. Good action, and fun, but just not alot to get excited about to be honest. That’s the way fishing is. By the time you are reading this, it
might have changed and gone off the charts! Sort of “minor league” fishing. Get bent. Get a little sun. Catch a few fish for dinner.
Normally, this time of year, the better fishing is with our Las Arenas fleet, but not so for the past two or three weeks.
If you wanted QUALITY..that’s why I’m glad we have both fleets. We were able to switch many of our clients over to fish with our La Paz fleet. And
that’s where you fished if you wanted to put some fat fish in the boat and fat fish in your ice chest.
In an unusual late-season bite 20-40 pound yellowtail again got active with fish eating sardines, larger baits like caballitos and yo-yo iron in
scrambled egg and blue/white patterns. (“You just gotta wind that reel handle as fast as you can! If you slow down or your arm ain’t hurting you won’t
get bit!” said one of our anglers. ) Also, there were alot of spots of smaller 12-inch squid floating on which the yellowtail were foaming and
crashing so we were netting the squid for additional bait. Sending one down with a sliding egg-sinker would almost guarantee a bite. For many of our
anglers this week they got their first or largest yellowtail ever. Some of our captains told us of larger fish up to 50 pounds breaking off as these
are really horses when hooked!
As well, we continued to get some big amberjack, pargo and cabrilla as well. Some of the amberjack this week…no kidding…40, 50, 80 and 100 pound
beasts! Some of the slabs of fillets were like hamhocks! Plus, we lots some fish that were larger. This could all switch around really fast again, but
again, that’s why we have the two fleets going full -time to make these adjustments as needed!
We’ve got more sargasso weeds building all the time so if temperatures keep warming I would be surprised if we didn’t start seeing some dorado real
soon!
FLASH –
Just as I went to post this up, we have reports of several big 50-70 pound tuna caught by our Las Arenas fishing fleet! Will keep you posted!
That’s our story!
Jonathan and Jilly
[Edited on 5-19-2011 by Sirena]jbcoug - 5-19-2011 at 01:56 PM
That looks like some happy folks! Great report. Wish I could be there.
