B A C K T O T H E T A I L H U N T E R W E B S I T E
PHOTO 1: Sheryl Lucero doesn't have many oceans in New Mexico where she's from but got out on the water with Captain Victor and our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet and got this nice dorado not too far offshore on live bait.
PHOTO 2: From San Francisco area, Shannon Aurand and her husband got 10 different species of fish over 3 days of fishing. Captain Jorge from our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet help with gaff duties on a feisty yellowfin tuna. This past week, they ranged from 10-30 pounds.
PHOTO 3: My dive buddy from San Luis Obispo CA, Anthony Reynolds got into a nice snap of dorado fishing north of La Paz with our Tailhunter La Paz Fleet. He just racked this nice bull but buddy , Bob, pumps one to the boat in the stern.ANGLERS AND CAPTAINS WORK HARD FOR THEIR FISH AS DARK MOON PHASE SEEMS TO HAVE SLOWED THE BITE THIS WEEK...OR SOMETHING...IT WAS DEFINITELY OFF...
La Paz / Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of Aug. 23-29, 2009
Fishing was so-so at best this week. Something was surely off. I can’t put my finger on it. But I guess, even in Baja, it can’t be stellar every single day and every single week so best to be honest about it. By the time you’re reading this, it will probably have swung back around.
It wasn’t for lack of trying and surely the captains worked hard and pushed hard trying to find fish or getting them to bite. Also, for anglers, if you didn’t have your “A” game in place, that didn’t help. When the fish aren’t being cooperative and you start losing fish it makes it doubly hard. We lost some marlin and sailfish (that would have been released); some larger tuna and dorado were also lost. Those might have been the highlights!
It wasn’t for lack of trying and surely the captains worked hard and pushed hard trying to find fish or getting them to bite. Also, for anglers, if you didn’t have your “A” game in place, that didn’t help. When the fish aren’t being cooperative and you start losing fish it makes it doubly hard. We lost some marlin and sailfish (that would have been released); some larger tuna and dorado were also lost. Those might have been the highlights!
When things get lockjawed, sometimes it's just best to listen to your captain. On several occasions this week, anglers were so frustrated by the slower bite that they understandably wanted to try this and that or this lure and that lure and run all over the ocean. When, in fact, if they had just been patient and wait and listen to the skipper, they might have gotten into the bite which sometimes didn't happen until late in the day. The captains were frustrated too. Everyone wants to catch fish.
For the most part, the fish that were caught were a mix of small the medium dorado, some roosterfish, some yellowfin tuna, some amberjack, cabrilla and pargo. No one got skunked, but certainly not the kind of fishing we’ve been having all year. Something was surely off.
I will note, however, that this past week was dark moon time again! I’m not a big believer in the moon phases, but all year, the slowest bites have been on the dark moon phases. For what it’s worth.
Quick flash…as I’m writing this, we’ve got some hurricane action to the south of us. It’s bending out and away from the Baja Peninsula, but we’ll probably have some wind and thunderstorms this week. Just another week in paradise!
That’s our story!
Jonathan and Jill
Jonathan Roldan's
Tailhunter International
Website: www.tailhunter-international.com
U.S. Office: 3319 White Cloud Drive, Suite A, Hacienda Hts. CA 91745
Mexico Office: 755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico
Phones:
from USA : 626-638-3383
from Mexico: 044-612-14-17863
Tailhunter Weekly Fishing Report:
http://www.tailhunter-international.com/fishreport.htm
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posted by Jonathan @ 1:29:00 PM
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