PHOTO 1: This man gets to smile alot. Dr. Gomez is not only a physician, but also owns the largest toy store in Guadalajara! You gotta love it. Here he's all smiles again holding a huge 39 pound bull dorado. Fishing with Captain Archangel, the fish is indicative of our great dorado week with fish spreading from Las Arenas to La Paz waters. I think dorado season has finally arrived!DORADO FINALLY JOIN THE PARTY AND LA PAZ AND LAS ARENAS FISHING PRODUCE WIDE ARRAY OF SPECIES!
La Paz / Las Arenas Report for the week of June 29, 2008
PHOTO 2: Dorado finally decided to join the show and came up strong after holding out for weeks with only little teases. This one held by our amigo, Lance Cole, hung the scale at 38 pounds. It was Lance's first dorado and turned out to be a trophy. Dorado schools under the buoys and around the sargasso weeds and in the channel around Las Cruces and Punta Coyote kept most anglers pretty happy!
PHOTO 3: Roger Lees from Windsor CA getting an assist from Captain Adolfo ("Yofo) on a big roosterfish. The big roosters are still around the Las Arenas lighthouse area on the sandy patches and near the dropoffs. We're having a banner year on the roosters with fish ranging from 5 to 60 pounds. This fish was released...they taste pretty bad...lucky for them!
PHOTO 4: Unbelieveably, after our outstanding yellowtail bite of spring shut off, we rarely see any more of these big jacks. However, just about everyday someone gets one of these stray mossback giant yellowtail. Pater Gregoris holds up a beauty here. No rhyme or reason why yellowtail suddenly stuck their heads into the picture because waters should be too warm right now, but no is complaining, especially with trophy fish like this.
PHOTO 5: Our friend, Mark Martis from Redondo Beach CA has come down here so many times over the last decade he's pretty much a local resident. He alway does well. Standing here with Captain Adolfo, he shows off a barred pargo (pargo mulatto). Lately, we've been catching quite a few of these battlers with fish showing up around the rocks, reefs and even in the sandy areas if there's structure around.
PHOTO 6: Captain Ramiro poses with Dianne and Bill Alexander. She's holding a pargo) snapper while the gents hold some nice-sized pompano. The pompano bite over the last 2 months has been exceptional for inshore light tackle anglers for this great eating fish. 
PHOTO 7: It doesn't get much better than this for variety or good eating. Just to show you some of the diversity of species we've been getting out of Las Arenas. Jeff Gans and Dave Wehner from Ione CA had quite a day here. This was Jeff's first time here and he's holding a pargo and a yellowtail. Dave his hanging onto two nice amberjack...big cousins to the yellowtail. The amberjack are just coming into season right now and seem to be getting bigger. Last year we landed several fish between 70 and over 100 pounds. Great eating!
PHOTO 8 : We promised Illiana Stevens of La Paz that she would finally catch a roostefish and the photo is proof. At a little honey hole just west of the Las Arenas lighthouse, Illiana got 5 fish in quick succession and released them all. There are several spots where you can hook a dozen or more or even sit on the spot all day as long as your bait lasts and catch these school-sized roosterfish. Light tackle is hoot. They literally boil around the boat and it's only yards off the beach. It's good that most are getting released. 
PHOTO 9: John Enright from the San Diego area along with Captain Manny Archangel hoist a big sailfish. They chased and chased this fish for 45 minutes trying to get it to bite then said, "forget it" when the fish showed no interest in the baits. They then went to fish for pargo inshore. Coming back outside, the fish was still there. This time it attacked a sardine. Fish on! The sailfish could not be released, but the meat was donated to the San Pedro pueblo. This was John's first trip down here.
PHOTO 10: Again showing the diversity of the bite right now, Troy Coffey from the Los Angeles area is a professional Hawaiian ukelele player and took time from serenading us with great Hawaiian tunes to nail some fish. He's a pretty good angler too! He's got a nice barred pargo and an pompano in hand. 
PHOTO 11: Captain Adolfo peeks out from behind Kris and Victoria Weiers from Windso CA. Victoria is 6 years old and as game as they come! Mom holds up the amberjack above her head.
PHOTO 12: Parting shot...there are few words that fishermen like hearing more than, "FREE BEER!" About mid-week, the Honda motors people sent down a bunch of reps to the beach to inspect some of the many Honda outboard motors now being used by the fishing fleets at Las Arenas. They did their inspection then drove away. Well, as they drove away, a pickup truck loaded with cold Pacifico on ice pulled in and announced "all you can drink free beer for anyone on the beach!" I've never seen some of these anglers run so fast down to the truck!VIDEO CLIP OF THE WEEK
Check out some of the action...pargo...roosters...amberjack...yellowtail. The saiflish you see in the video could not be released and meat was donated. Other billfish were all released.
THE FISH REPORT
Well...this is one of those weeks when the photos can do all the talking! A pretty nice week of rod-bending when all was said and done. I think most folks had some fun. The best part is that the dorado bite finally looks like it's turned on a the mahi mahi finally joined the party!
It finally felt like summer. It's just not right when the dorado aren't here, but after a week of very little winds, it gave the waters a chance to warm up again and clear out the ugly green stuff that's been haunting us for a few weeks. Sure enough the dorado came to chew!
Most of the better bite was for my La Paz fleet. In an area that encompassed the Las Cruces/ Punta Coyote area, the dorado put limits or near limits on many of our boats. True, there's some dinky fish out there and happy to hear many were released. However, no doubt, we had some legit bad boys as well with some fish in the 20-50 pound class size. Many large ones were also lost. Sometimes the boats took a few here and there and at the end of the day, there were a stack of fish. Other times, there would be almost nothing then wham! Dorado all around and pandemonium as fish ripped everything in the water for a few moments of madness. Great fun!
It's just nice to have La Paz back in the game because previously almost 90 percent of our fishing had been out of Las Arenas.
Not that Las Arenas was anything to sneeze at either.
If you've never fished here, you'd be surprised at the variety. No single species dominated but there was a great smattering of big pargo, sailfish, marlin, wahoo, big and small roosterfish, pompano, jack crevalle, bonito and skipjack, big eye jacks, dorado, cabrilla and even a few tuna. Great action.
We're looking for even better things now that the dorado are back and the winds are down!
Have a great week!
That's my story.
Jonathan
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