Fish Report

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT

WEATHER:  Really mostly nice. Evening and mornings can still breezy with a bit of chill, but then the sun comes up and we’re into the low to mid 80’s. Comfortably warm without the humidity!  Perfect beach weather!

WATER:  If there’s wind, it can still be a bit bumpy, but overall calm blue seas getting warmer and clearer as the temps rise.

FISH HOOKED THIS WEEK:  Dorado, roosterfish, dog-tooth snapper, yellow snapper, pargo liso, barred pargo, yellowtail, amberjack, vaquita, cabrilla, wahoo (1), rainbow runner, bonito, jack crevalle, trevally, pompano, triggerfish, sierra

FISHING ON A 1-10 SCALE:  6 (but still the best week so far of the season so far!)

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Oh wow!  What a week!

We’re not up to full speed yet, but by far this was the best week of the young season!

We still had some winds.

We still had some bumpy days.

Some boats did better than other boats on any given day.

But, overall what a fun fun week.  With daytime temps in the low 80’s, and sunny, everyone caught fish.  And most caught a variety of fish!   Just like I remind folks, this is “transition” time when we have cold water fish still in the area, but moving out.  And we have warm water fish starting to move in.

I lost count, but I recall we got dorado, wahoo, roosterfish, barred pargo, pargo liso (mullet snapper), dog-tooth snapper, yellow snapper, yellowtail, amberjack, jack crevalle, trevally, pompano, sierra, rainbow runner, triggerfish, cabrilla, surgeon fish…how many is that?

If you ever wanted to cross some fish. off your bucket list, this was the week.

The biggest news was the roosterfish.  In 30 years here, I have never seen anything like a few of the days this past week.  Normally, someone would come back and be happy that they caught and released 2 or maybe 3 sizeable roosters.  Good day.  Banner day!  Right?

Well, this week some of our boats were AVERAGING 6-15 roosters PER DAY!!!  These were the fun-sized 15-30 pounder class fish that had folks really enjoying themselves in some cases catches and releasing as fast as they could go!

Ray Millman caught and released 10 in a single day.  Bill Malone hooked 9!  Randy and Rick Choate each caught and released more than 15 PER PERSON over 3 days using conventional as well as fly gear.

According to our guests, there were times when the fish were “boiling and crashing” and fighting to hit the baits!  There were bigger ones on the perimeter of the school, but the “smaller ones” were so voracious that the bigger ones never got in on the feed!

But, several larger ones up to 80 pounds were hooked and lost using the larger 12″ ladyfish for bait instead of the smaller sardines.  The smaller roosters can’t eat the bigger baits.

In 30 years, I’ve not had a jag of roosterfish like this!

As well,the big pargo liso are also spawning in the shallows now.  Believe me, you will not find a tougher or more tenacious and vicious fish than these big mullet snapper.

They are balling up in big undulating schools in the shallows over the rocks and some of these fish are easily 40-60 pounders!  But, hooking and landing these fish are completely different issues!

For one, they have keen eyesight.  So using heavy line is useless.

Secondly, they have a mouth full of sharp teeth.  They have sharp fins and scales as well as gills and they live over sharp rocks.

So, even if they bite, you have all. these things already against you!  We call them “zing-powie”fish because your line goes zing.  Next thing you know your line snaps POWIE!  If you hook 5 (big if) and land 1 you are doing great!  But so frustrating because you can SEE these fish in the water swimming around and they will  constantly beat you up!

Anyway…lots of fun action!  Everyone caught fish.  Everyone brought home fish that wanted to bring home fish.  And we released alot of fish!  A nice solid week and we anticipate it will only get better as the season ramps up.  Hopefully, more dorado soon and more and bigger roosterfish!

That’s our story!

Jonathan & Jilly

Whoa!!! Now this is a toad! Randy Choate got two of these big grouper with Captain Alfredo north of La Paz near Punta Coyote. In my 30 years, I can’t remember a fish like this!