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Sunday, July 12, 2009

PHOTO 1: Ricardo Garcia...El Jefe for the La Paz Board of Tourism and a good amigo loves to fish and got into some of the excellent wahoo fishing which is the best we've seen in ages here with multiple wahoo hook-ups each day. The fish are eating bombs, trolled lures and even snapping live bait!

PHOTO 2: "Yea Baby!" That's what Rene Renteria yelled out when he hit the beach with this fat stuffy wahoo. The angle the fish is held makes it look shorter than it is. This was a THICK fish! That had is sashime the fish at the FUBAR TAILHUNTER CANTINA that night!

PHOTO 3: Chris Ortiz poses with a bull dorado he pulled off between Cerralvo Island and Las Arenas point. The fish ate live bait and still has it's fresh colors on it. Chris had a pretty good outing with a solid cooler of dorado fillets. This was it seemed like the dorado got tired of being pushed out've the spotlight by the tuna bite!


PHOTO 4: Ed Basurto from the Sacramento CA area said this fish "worked me!" The 40 pound class bull dorado was one of a number of big bulls caught this week.



PHOTO 5: Bakersfield CA vistors Greg Jones and Jo Marie Corbell fished with us for the first time and dog-piled on the fish. He shows off a few of his dorado, but also got into tuna and at one time had on a sailfish and wahoo on at the same time!




PHOTO 6: Once again for the 3rd straight week, the tuna charged the boats. This pair is held up by Dan and Josh Moore who also hung a nice wahoo. These yellowfin tuna varied from 10 pound footballs to 25 pound plugs.



PHOTO 7: One of our favorite amigos, Jorge Romero, has a knack on the wahoo. A few weeks ago, he got 5 wahoo in two hours. This week he got 3 wahoo and lost 5 Rapalas in the process. Here he does the man-up pose with a big skinny he took off the South End of Cerralvo Island.


PHOTO 8 : Mark and Ben Driver from Portland OR showed up right in the middle of the tuna bite and spanked fish big time over several days of fishing. Here, they hold up 4 yellowfin they hung while fishing north out've La Paz. According to their Captain Chito, they were trolling for dorado when all the rods went off and suddenly swarms of yellowfin foamed around the boat when they threw bait!

FISHING RODEO AS WAHOO JOIN THE FRAY WITH TUNA AND BIG DORADO!
La Paz / Las Arenas Fishing Report for the Week of July 5-11, 2009

I’m not sure where to start!!! I usually try to “understate” the fishing to some degree. I mean…fishing just CAN’T be good ALL THE TIME, right?

Well, just when I thought it couldn’t get better…IT DID! First we had a killer dorado bite going on that seemed off the charts. Then about 2 ½ weeks ago the tuna exploded in a surprising bite that covered waters north of La Paz…around Cerralvo Island…and several points south…such that anglers were getting limits of tuna in an hour or two of fishing!

Then, this week…WAHOOOOOOooooooooo!!!! What can I say. Guys fishing tuna on live bait were suddenly getting chomped by free-swimming wahoo. Zing-powie! Then guys started throwing bombs and trolling Rapalas and other lures and the wahoo went nuts! Guys would get bit several times…lose a few and get one or two to the boat! Several boats took 2, 3, 4 wahoo each. These fish went 25-50 pounds in a bite like I can’t remember! These fish were not picky. They loved the trolled lures, but for once did not seem picky about the colors…purple/black…green mackerel…blue mackerel…fire tiger…bright orange…all got hit! Just check out the photos and I’d have posted up even more photos, but just did not have enough space!

Will it continue? I have no idea!

But what a bite. On two occasions, I heard clients tell me they got into dorado so thick that two fish actually jumped in the boat (not kidding…I saw the fish!) One hit a guy in the back while he was hooked up and the fish fell back in the water. We had some big roosterfish too. As for marlin and sailfish…we had several striped marlin and several sailfish caught and released. But Ryan Hershey from Colorado hooked a fish estimated to be 700 pounds (Captain’s estimate) that we have to give high-5’s to…HE RELEASED THE FISH! Good on you! Barry Wood from Orange Co, CA had on a 400 pounder that spooled them faster than the boat could catch up! Barry said, “When I saw it, I knew I wanted no part of it!”

Tell ya what…if it’s any indication, I’ve been vacuum sealing 100-200 bags of fish here at the TAILHUNTER/ FUBAR every afternoon and this does not include all the fish that the anglers are telling me they are releasing!

THE WEEK’S VIDEO CLIPS

I got the camera working again! Sorry I haven’t posted in awhile, but here you go! Right off YOUTUBE! Just click the link to see this week’s video clips of the fish! Click this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4RYQvOdIfQ




JACK IS BACK

Thanks to so many of you who kept tabs on our friend and Tailhunter family member with your e-mails and prayers. He is now back in La Paz after being in the U.S. for a month in the hospital. He’s not moving fast and is very weak but it’s good to see him again. He’ll be taking it easy for awhile as he tries to regain his strength.

That’s our story!
Jonathan and Jill

Jonathan Roldan's
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