INSHORE FISHING HIGHLIGHTS THE WEEK

La Paz – Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay Fishing Report for Week of April 26-May 3, 2015

It was a good week on all counts this week. Weather-wise and fishing conditions were more consistent and just-like-that fishing seemed to be more consistent as well. With winds not quite as erratic and seemingly more spots of warm water around, fishing leveled out too. More days of action all-the-way-around which no one seemed to mind.

Las Arenas

Lately, this has surely been the place for some variety. Nothing wrong with that. If you want a shot at rooster fish, you have your best shot at the early season roosters. Most of the fish are that 20-pound class, but some larger up to 40 pounds have been hooked. The areas are in the usual spots…just around the beaches at the lighthouse and also just off the Punta Perico rocks. Heading south from Bahia de Los Muertos towards Boca de Alamo, there are some larger roosters as well, especially along the shallow rocky areas incredibly close to shore.

In the same areas, there’s some big schools of feisty jack crevalle and big pompano as well. Related to the roosters, they share that same tenacious bad attitude. Just like their cousins, the jacks are also not good for eating so everyone releases them, but for sheer fun, it’s hard to beat them. On the other hand, if you stick a pompano, they’re a real treat on the grill or as sashimi!

Offshore (for us, “offshore” means 100 yards out!), there’s schools of bonito. We have several species of bonito and if you get the “toothed bonito” not only are they good fighters, but your captain will tell you to keep them as they are some great eating and not like the skipjack and Mexican bonito that have dark strong-tasting meat and get released. But, you can hook a dozen-a-day of these things.

Additionally, we’re seeing more dorado here and there with larger sizes becoming more pre-dominant. More marlin showing which is encouraging. As waters get warmer, I’m sure they’ll turn on. Plus, there’s some wahoo close in near Punta Perico and just this side of the south side of Cerralvo Island. Rapala X-Wraps in 15’s and 30’s in dark colors are producing the best bites.

La Paz

Surprisingly, the inshore action has been quite better than I would have expected. Honestly, the yellowtail bite seems to have gone under so-to-speak. I shut down earlier this year than I would have thought. Blame it on the warm water.

However, the rest of the action inshore has rocked for amberjack, pargo, cabrilla, jack crevalle and some assorted rooster fish. There’s some inshore spots where some of our clients caught and released as fast as they could go. Plus losing lots of fish to the rocks as well and had a blast.

In the blue water, more dorado showing up and we’ve missed a few shots at sunning marlin and sailfish too and had a few wahoo hookups also that were dropped.

That’s our story!

Jonathan and Jilly