Fish Report

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT

WEATHER:  Strange weather continues.  Cooler than normal by 5-10 degrees.  Mostly sunny, but the bad part is the winds that should have been over and normally are over by April continue to plague us and adversely affect the fishing.

WATER:  It is highly mixed up.  Should consistently be about blue and about 80 degrees everywhere. Instead there are cold patches, warm patches, blue patches, cloudy patches.  If the wind is blowing can be very rough.  Weirdest conditions ever.

FISH HOOKED THIS WEEK:  Dorado, tuna, striped marlin, blue marlin, rainbow runner, roosterfish, cubera snapper, jack crevalle, barred pargo, trevally, pompano, bonito, jack crevalle, cabrilla, yellow snapper, triggerfish.

SCALE of 5-10: 4

THE MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

Well…like I wrote in the last report,  I can’t sugar-coat this.  You can’t put lipstick on a pig.  It is what it is.

And fishing is not real great right now.  It continues to be erratic…up-and-down…and sideways.  It is directly affected by the weather and the weather continues to be totally unpredictable.

Yes, there’s once again alot of great photos of big fish, but those are the highlights.  We should be getting 4, 5, 6 or more fish PER PERSON PER DAY.  Waters SHOULD be flat and blue.  Temps should be HOT.

Instead, we’re mostly getting 1 or 2 fish per boat.  But they can be monsters!  Biggest fish I have seen consistently in over 30 years here.  The dorado are bigger.  The roosterfish are 50-100 pounds.  We have hooked, released and busted off more blue and striped marlin the last month than I have seen in 10 years.

So, you might hook into only ONE fish on a given day.  But, it could be a fish-of-a lifetime.  It would be a trophy.  It could be a world record (we had several roosters that might have been close to our world record 115 pound rooster).  The wahoo have been 40-80 pounds.  The tuna have been 60-over 200 pounds!

So, you might just have that one shot!  If you miss it or aren’t ready…well…that’s your day.

Or, you COULD be one of the boats that gets absolutely NOTHING!  Not a bite.  Not a nibble.  You are right next to another boat that is fighting fish all day.  You get nothing .

It doesn’t mean you’re a bad fisherman.  It doesn’t mean my skipper is bad or isn’t trying. That’s just the way it is right now.  Hang in there.  Everyone eventually is getting fish.  Everyone is taking home fish that wants to take home fish.

Don’t get mad, angry or frustrated.  I’m totally up -front with expectations.  In 31 years here, I’ve never had fishermen actually get angry with me like I’m seeing the last few weeks.  I have to tell them, it’s not ME.  It’s not YOU!  It’s not the captain!

I’ve had guests start telling me…”Well, this is what you should do. ”  or “This is what your captain should try.”  Or ” Why aren’t you doing this?”

Been at this most of my life, folks.  We are ALL busting our backsides trying to find you fish.  My skippers want to get fish as badly as you.

In every situation, by the end of the trip, eventually, they hung in there and got their fish.  The boat that does great one day can get skunked the next day.  And the boat that gets nothing one day is the rockstar boat the next.

It’s all affected by this weird weather.  Winds should have stopped months ago, but there are days when it blows for an hour or 3 or all day or several days.  Then it stops.  The ocean gets rough when the winds blow and we’ve actually had to cancel some fishing because of the winds.  The winds change direction day-to-day or even hour-t0-hour.

It affects the water as well in terms of clarity and temperature.  Some areas are blue and warm.  But right next to it is cloudy cold water.  There can be cold water on the surface and warm water below or warm water on top and below that…I’ve had my scuba divers and snorkelers in wet suits tell me they have been shivering in some spots because it is so cold and they needed to get out’ve the water!  Hard to believe in late June to hear that!

The conditions also affect getting live bait.  Normally this time of year, it’s really easy.  This year, it can take hours to hunt and peck to buy or catch bait. The bait spots keep moving.  The type of bait keeps  changing.  So, a good portion of your morning might be just trying to get bait.  It’s THAT kind of year.  And the sardines we find are 2 inches long…can’t put them on a hook!

So I’ve just told folks to hang with the program.  Let my skippers fish the way they know how and find fish.  If you tell them you want roosterfish and get impatient and then say you want tuna…then change to marlin….you’re just shooting yourself in the foot.

Just be ready when that big boy hits.  You might just have that one shot!

That’s my story!

Jonathan & Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter Sportfishing
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