PHOTO 1: Good friends for many years, Ray and Nathan Chow from the Bay Area of California make it down each year and always do well. This year, they came later in the season and found they had the fishing grounds almost to themselves with not much competition for hungry tuna and dorado like these. Captain Victor looks on.

PHOTO 2: We're not doing much fishing right now with our La Paz Fleet because the winds are too strong and sporadic out of the north many days but when we do get out, there's dorado and lots of sierra like these held up by Ray and Nathan Chow who fished 3 days out of Las Arenas and then this one day out of La Paz. They also got cabrilla and yellow snapper along with the sierra.

PHOTO 3: Taken from Las Arenas Beach near the lighthouse, this is Cerralvo Island in the background...the legendary island is no more. Say good-bye! Sadly...Story below!

NUMEROUS SPECIES STILL BITING DESPITE COOLER TEMPS AND VERY LITTLE FISHING PRESSURE

La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of Nov. 15-21, 2009

It’s the BEST time to be fishing!

The weather is not hot. It’s not too cold. There’s barely anyone on the water and best of all, the fish are still biting. It’s a little windier than we would like so we’re not fishing much north of the city with our La Paz Fleet, but with our Las Arenas Fleet, the fish are so close, it’s great.

We’re still getting into that school of tuna right off the beach between the lighthouse and the big houses at Punta Perrico. Literally, about 5 minutes from where we are launching the boats. The tuna are in the 20-35 pound class and eating live bait, but show a preference to chunks of dead sardines drifted in the current. It’s not wide open, but you pick up a fish each pass. As well, dorado keep swimming through the area so it’s not uncommon to get a limit or near limit of dorado as well. The fish aren’t big…maybe 10-15 pound fish on the average, but there’s some larger fish around as well free-swimming through the chum. You can also slow troll strips of dead bonito to get the dorado charging the boat

Interestingly, we’re getting a really late season bite of marlin and sailfish. This isn’t very typical and nice to see most anglers are releasing the billfish, especially the small ones.

Inshore, there’s lots of sierra all around and you can get dozens in short order. In the rocks, cabrilla, pargo, snapper and some amberjack are providing some great inshore action

NO MORE CERRALVO ISLAND

Just like Bahia de Los Muertos being “re-named” by the real estate folks to “Bahia de Los Suenos” (Bay of Dreams), we now have our beloved Cerralvo Island...capital center of the fishing grounds…renamed to…(hold on to your socks)…”Jacques Cousteau Island.” Yup…Wonder who paid who for THAT one? All due respect to Jay Coo for all he did in his fantastic lifetime, but c’mon! What next? What names are for sale? Carmen Island to be named, Isla Shakira? Magdalena Bay becomes Bahia de Microsoft?

God bless you all for a safe and happy Thanksgiving!

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Jonathan and Jill

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