Mike Liberski from Washington is fishing with us this whole week. One thing on his bucket list was a marlin. It didn't take long. His first day out with Captain Pancho, he scored this blue marlin, pictured above estimated at 160-180 pounds. Good one Mike...he got it up for a quick photo and released the fish to swim away strongly! Bravo! Quite a few billfish in the area the last few weeks! Check out the flat waters. Only about a mile outside of Bahia de Los Muertos.

Photo #1 I think I will frame this photo taken underwater of a nice bull dorado by amigo, Gary Wagner who owns the famous Giggling Marlin Bar in Cabo San Lucas and has his place in Bahia de Los Muertos as well.

Photo #2: Celebrating their 29th anniversary, Craig and Kathy Sanford came up for the week to visit us and spent several days on the water tangling with some great dorado like these two bulls taken north of La Paz. Craig and Kathy are from the Phoenix AZ area and are standing on the beach at Balandra.

Photo #3: We have been trying for years to get John Hughes and his dad Carl down to visit us from their great operation at Aurora Fishing Charters in Seward, Alaska! They finally made it down and got into our great dorado bite but Carl also got his first marlin and John got his first roosterfish with Captain Armando and our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet. Check out Aurora Charters at: Aurora Charters Website for some great halibut and salmon fishing in Seward, Alaska!

Photo #4: Big smiles from Virgil Redwine from Moses Lake, WA. Virgil was here celebrating his anniversary with his wife and took a number of fine dorado on the flyrod like this one just outside of Bahia de Los Muertos!

Photo #5: Beautiful posed shot of a nice bull dorado caught by our amigo, Gary Wagner, who takes time off from his famous Giggling Marlin bar in Cabo to come fishing up at his place in Bahia de Los Suenos (Bahia de Los Muertos)

Photo #6: Big smiles from first-time visitor from Portland OR, Baine Dupee and another colorful dorado he caught fishing with our Tailhunter La Paz fleet around Espirito Santo Island. Mom, Tanya Dupee looks on. Baine also got his first striped marlin on this trip!

Photo #7: It was a great week for billfish with lots of hookups and fish either lost and most released. Eric Johnson from Washington got his first billfish with Captain Adolfo driving the boat and he battled this one with Cerralvo Island in sight. Fishing 3 days, they released most of their fish but were not able to release this one and donated much of the meat.

Photo #8: "Uncle Bobby" Dominguez from Hacienda Heights CA really wanted his photo in this week's fishing report. Well...you made it Bob! He shows off a really nice trophy barred pargo he pulled off the reef while fishing from Bahia de Los Muertos. Nice work, Bob!

Photo #9: All the way from Kodiak Island, Alaska, Mike Anderson came down for a quick two-day run with us and got into some nice dorado like this one while fishing with our La Paz fleet.

Photo #10: Can't beat the colors of a dorado! Jeremy Lord just put this one in the boat off Espirito Santo Island. Jeremy is from the Sacramento CA area and was on his first visit with us at Tailhunter in La Paz.

Photo #11: John Hughes took this photo of a "small" 25-foot whaleshark that came up and swam with their panga for awhile. It's that time of the year when whalesharks visit our waters and John got this great shot, but kicked himself for not jumping in the water to swim with the big fish. The gentle animals are true sharks, but eat plankton and small krill and grow up to 50 feet and are a big attraction in La Paz for scuba divers and snorkelers.

Photo #12: Captain Rogelio helps out Devon Boatman from Lake Elsinore CA with another nice bull taken while fishing around Punta Mejia.