Steve Snead from Boise, Idaho has been having a great week; he is having way too much fun here in La Paz. He's been gutting it out even though he has a bad back and jumped through a zillion hoops to get down here and would not let the hurricane disrupt his vacation. He flew to LORETO and then shuttled 5 hours to get to La Paz!

Well, even with the bad back, he was not gonna' stop. Then, he hooked into a good-sized 150-pound class striped marlin on live bait and light tackle. With his back screaming, he fought the fish for 45 minutes and gutted it out. He got the fish aboard...took the photo as best he could...and quickly released the fish! He came back to town and went to bed! His last words were, "That's finally off my bucket list..."


La Paz fishing
Dorado have been the most consistent players, especially for our Tailhunter La Paz fleet. There are spots of dorado just inside La Paz Bay and in various places around Espirito Santo Island, but the best concentration and larger fish are around the Rosario / Las Cruces area in the channel between La Paz peninsula and Cerralvo Island. Fish aren't bit, but they're fun decent fish of 10 to 20 pounds with an occasional 30 pounder. Some days are better than others. Some boats will get limits some days while others right next to them will hit only a handful of fish or less. But, the fish are there!

Likewise, there seems to be a nice bit of marlin and sailfish around right now. Most have been caught incidentally while fishing for other species, but we've been hooking them all last week. Not a lot, but every day is different. We had one day where almost every one of our pangas hooked at least one billfish. The next day there were only 2 hooked. Next day, nothing. Day after that, there were 4. All fish either broke off or were released except one, which was kept and donated.


Las Arenas fishing
This area has been a bit of a puzzle this past week. The biggest news is that we got our first football yellowfin tuna in a long, long time. There's some spots of tuna that keep popping up around Cerralvo Island with some fish up to 100-pounds reported by commercial fishermen.

The bad news is that we only got 5 footballs all week that went 12 to 20 pounds. That's it. There are so many bonito around that you catch about 20 bonito to get one tuna...if at all. I mean, it's a lot of fun and a lot of action. But, if you're looking for some good ahi meat to take home, it's a lot of energy. Still, it's nice to have the tuna around!

The other downside is that if you spend the better part of your day chasing tuna, you won't get much else. So, the counts have not been real good for our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet. When they DO chase other species, there's dorado around and the pangas will get 2-8 fish hooked up per day and the counts differ. It all depends if the guys went after the tuna or not.

So, what a lot of our guys are doing is getting their dorado and ice chests filled by fishing La Paz, then specifically going for tuna with our other Tailhunter Fleet at Las Arenas ... seems to work out OK.


Hurricane Update
We're up and running. Airports are open. Flights are in. Still doing some cleanup in the streets and to some of the businesses and homes, but the heavy work is mostly done and most things are running like normal. Most visitors would never even know anything happened! Come fishing!...Jonathan Roldan, Tailhunter International