"You would think that with some windy days, a full moon and a week-ending Tropical Storm named Ivo, we'd have an off-week of fishing," opined Jonathan Roldan about his week.

"On the contrary, if you were looking for dorado and loading up on the fillets, it was a great week to be here in La Paz with Tailhunters and a rod and reel in your hands. In all honesty, there weren't a lot of BIG fish, but it made up for it in quantity and furiousness! Especially for our anglers who fished with our La Paz fleet, there were great stories of double, triple, even quadruple hook-ups with fish as fast as a line could be thrown in the water or catching-and-releasing as fast as they could go!

"For the latter part of the week, the amazing thing was that several schools of 10-15 pound fish were found right in La Paz bay!, literally just near the mouth of the bay by Balandra Beach. That's only about three minutes from where we launch our pangas.

"The guys would spend about an hour getting bait but then get on the fish schools and on several occasions be back on the beach and eating breakfast at the hotel by 10 or 11 p.m.! They'd get all the wanted. Throw back others. And tell the captain, 'No mas!' and head back in.

"Others would wind it up and go out towards the island to troll a little or look for other species where we encountered wahoo, billfish, sharks and even some pargo. (All billfish released, all wahoo lost, all sharks broken off!)

"Even for our Las Arenas fleet, we had a better than normal week with dorado, sailfish, marlin and those big giant squid come up. What it lacked in quality like La Paz, Las Arenas has the larger fish this week with a few toads that were 30-60 pounds. One fish could fill an ice chest!

"At the end of the week, Tropical Storm Ivo came up the coast and went outside into the Pacific dropping rain on Southern Baja. By Sunday it was gone. There was some flooding. We did have to cancel a day of fishing because the port captain closed the port and there were 30 knot winds outside the bay. At Las Arenas the southern swell was too big and we would not have been able to push off the beach. But the storm passed through quickly and I'm just sorry for some of the disappointed anglers, but fortunately, most of them had been fishing earlier in the week and were able to get into the fish earlier."