DORADO GO BALLISTIC FOR BEST BITE OF SEASON - La Paz Report for July 23, 2006


PHOTOS OF THE WEEK

Photo 1

Gina Ferialdi's Group comes down each year and got into an unbelieveable dorado bite with each boat getting early limits of fish up to 42 pounds. The group pulled away from schools of fish that were still boiling around the boat simply because they were out've bait and tired! Here's some of the group with some of the larger bulls. Left to right: Gina Ferialdi (Sierra Madre CA); Ken Blaustein (Pasadena CA); John Knowles (Pasadena CA); Lisa Brandley (Monrovia CA); Dave Brandley (Monrovia CA); John Dunne (Sierra Madre CA); Leo Dunn IV (Durango CO); Brianne Dunn (Durango CO); Leo Dunn III (Pasadena CA).


Photo 2

Self Explanatory! It's easy to get them to pose for me! I hate boring photos! Thanks, Gang!

THE FISH REPORT

POSSIBLY THE BEST DORADO BITE OF THE SEASON AS FISH GO AIRBORNE!

Last week the full moon dorado bite was phenomenal and I thought it just couldn't get better. I was wrong.

This week the bite right in front of La Paz between Espiritu Santo Island and Cerralvo Island exploded day after day with more dorado than I have seen in several seasons. Fish between 10 and 40 pounds were the average with boats spanking so many fish and catching and releasing as fast as they could go being finished and plugged sometimes as early as 9:30 or 10 a.m. out of bait and out of energy. I had one laughable experience this week. I was aboard with Lisa Brandley and Gina Ferialdi and Captain Raul "Chito" Martinez. The husbands were on another boat trying to fight off their own dorado.

Both ladies were fighting fish. The captain had another one on the rod. I was holding a rod in each hand with fish on each rod trying to hang on when one of the wives screamed. There were so many dorado jumping through the air, that one fish jumped into the panga then jumped out again and it wasn't even hooked! That's how nuts it has been this week!

There's huge patches of sargasso weeds stretching all over from Las Cruces to the south north to about the Charro Bank and from Punta Norte at Cerralvo to the west near the wreckof the Salvatierra. Additionally, heck...just look for bird diving or drag a feather until it's hit. Toss a few baits and watch the ocean explode with dorado.

The fish just turned stupid or something! It gets to the point where the fish are fighting and jumping over each other to attack the baits. On one day lone this week, I went through 50 hooks (that's all you need) cutting fish loose or just re-tying hooks. At another point the fish were so voracious and I knew the clients were under control that I took my long whippy stick to the bow and tied on a big huge bass popper. I took off all hooks and just fired it out. Oh my!!! Watching 2, 3, or more dorado attack it at the same time and coming out've the water and watch them bump heads in mid-air or grab the lure and then have it fly out've their mouths...hit the water again with a splash and have more dorado attack it was just one of the coolest things to do. All you really had to do was cast it out and give it a twitch and watch dorado bee-line towards the lure and try to inhale it!!!

I sure got a scare at one point this week. You know I take our services pretty seriously and personal. John Dunne and his wife, Gina, went out one day and came back looking very serious. There was obviously a problem! Oh-no. John said that they had an issue to take up with me and that I had lied to them. That's pretty serious stuff when someone says I lied!

"What?" My heart was sinking. John and Gina aren't just clients...they are good friends.

"You lied to us," said John. "You told us we'd catch all our fish by 10:30 a.m.!"

I didn't know what to say. Had they taken me that literally? I could feel me self tense up and prepare to get blasted.

"Yes, you lied. We did not catch all our fish by 10:30. We caught them by 10:20!!!!!" With that they broke out laughing!

I literally sank to the ground trying to stop my heart from freezing. Joke's on me! I'm gonna get 'em back next time...(do you hear that, JD?)

On the other side...

Las Arenas boats have had a so-so bite compared to La Paz with all the dorado. Either our Las Arenas guys are headed out to the buoys off Muertos or headed far north to mix it up with our La Paz boats in the Channel in the sargasso between Espiritu Santo and north Cerralvo Island (long danged way!) No wahoo have show up at all this season, but roosters (smaller ones); pargo; cabrilla and pompano have been the main catch which are all great eating fish and fun on light tackle. Don't know where all the marlin have gone, but no hookups this week although there's sightings a-plenty.

Folks...just being out on the water this week has been great. In addition to just WATCHING the dorado, there are huge schools of porpoise of several different varieties, sea turtles, manta rays, pilot whales and whale sharks cruising. Everyday bring some new surprise or two...or three!

It's hot, humid and sunny with air temps in the low 100's and water temps in the low 90's. Not really much else going on besides the dorado, but no one is complaining.

ALASKA AIR FINALLY ANNOUNCES NEW SCHEDULE

In case you didn't get my announcement earlier this week, Alaska Air is finally coming in and has announced it's schedule. Beginning Oct. 30, it might be too late to save a lot of folks holding Aero Cal tickets but Alaska will start flying Mondays, Wednesday, and Saturdays. There are some great rates. In fact, if you contact Alaska Air, and buy tickets before July 31, they have tickets as low as $125 one day from LAX to La Paz! The tickets have to be used before Dec. 19th. Check that out. http://www.alaskaair.com/Default.aspx?ASDBD=J1

Fishing in the late fall can be pretty darned good, amigo. It's transitional time and all depends on whether the winds start blowing from the north. If they start, water temps can drop rapidly as do air temps and the whole complexion of our fishing changes. If the winds hold off, we can still have incredible fishing! The last 3 seasons, the winds held off and we continued to catch dorado, marlin, sailfish, wahoo, tuna, pargo, yellowtail, and other warm water species well into the Christmas holidays. Click here for our fishing charts: http://tailhunter-international.com/fishingchart.htm

For anyone who books with us between Nov. 1 and Dec. 19th, we'll give you a 10 percent discount on any of our regular fishing packages. (Condos, suites, not included and cannot be utlitized with any other packages).

That's my story!
Jonathan



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