La Paz – Las Arenas/ Bahia Muertos / Suenos Bay Fishing Report from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of July 29-Aug. 7, 2023


BEST DORADO SEASON EVER?

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay/ Suenos Bay Fishing Report for Week of July 29-Aug. 7, 2023

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT

WEATHER:  No doubt hot and humid!  Stay hydrated and covered up.  Common sense!  It’s in the high 90’s to low 100’s in the daytime…normal summer temps.  Actually maybe cooler than many parts of the U.S. strangely enough.  But, humidity is high as well.  Thankfully, the beach is right outside!

WATER:  Mostly warm and blue.  Surface temps on the water are high 70’s to low 80’s. Actually and strangely COOLER than normal!  But great swimming, snorkel and scuba conditions.

SPECIES HOOKED THIS WEEK:  Dorado, bonito, roosterfish, wahoo (lost), marlin (lost), pargo (2 types), snapper, cabrilla, jack crevalle, palometa, pompano

TAILHUNTER LAS ARENAS FLEET:  Primarily dorado.  Not as many as La Paz, but more of the bigger dorado.  Plus inshore species like roosters, pargo and cabrilla.

TAILHUNTER LA PAZ FLEET:  More dorado than La Arenas…usually…it changes all the time, but the LARGER of the larger dorado seem to be on this side.  (30-50 pounders)


 Frank Kunze, our long-time Colorado, amigo, has been with us twice this year. We got him to put down the conventional fishing rod one day and only use his flyrod. Here’s his first fish of the day on the flyrod. It wasn’t his last! He released all his fish!

It’s been an unbelievable dorado season now for more than two months.  After almost 30 years down here, I’d have to call it “historic” and hope I’m not jinxing the whole ball-o’-wax and shutting it off because our fisherfolk are having a ball.

They catching either the most fish ever.  Or they are catching the biggest fish ever.  Or they are catching maybe their first fish ever.  Or they are catching their limits of fish faster than ever.

Either way, the dorado are sure checking alot of the boxes!

Most of the fish are running 5-15 pounds.  Fun legit fish.  Lots of those are so voracious that they are crashing the boats which are ending up with some fast easy limits.  Many many of these fish are getting thankfully released.

But, wait…there’s also the big Mo’s out there as well.  The pigs. The hogs.  These bull dorado are all business and when you have a 20-60 pound fish pulling line and jumping and charging the boat, it’s more than most folks can handle and alot of fun.  But, we’re also losing alot of these fish which is just part of the sport!   You just never know when that next fish will or might be the fish of a lifetime.

But, the dorado continue to be the big story for our fishing.

That’s not saying there are no other species.  We’ve got shots at billfish, wahoo, roosterfish, bonito, jack crevalle, pompano, snapper, pargo and cabrilla.  The problem is that everyone is having way too much fun with the dorado and don’t care to invest the time or change tactics to chase the other species. Which is just fine as well!  Go have fun!

We did get a little rain over the weekend and some jags of southern winds made it a tad bumpy for a few afternoons, but otherwise, there were always fish to be caught and places to find fish less windy.

That’s my story!

Jonathan

 Thanks to Jonathan Roldan of http://www.mexonline.com/tailhunter-international.htm for the report.

 

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