Gerardo Hernandez of Tortuga Sportfishing at La Paz said his pangas on the Las Arenas side south of town fished within sight of rain clouds over the mountains at the end of the week, with high summer air temperatures in the mid-90s, and equally high water temperatures of 84 degrees at Isla Cerralvo and 87 degrees outside at the 88 bank. "But we haven't had any bad weather for fishing," Hernandez said. "Our pangas have been fishing mostly in the same locations, at Las Cruces for larger dorado, and at Punta Pescadero for smaller tuna and medium-sized dorado."Tortuga Sportfishing pangas running out to the 88 spot did not find big dorado, but blue marlin and sailfish mixed with striped marlin were in the area. "But the remoteness of this fishing area does not allow us to go there all the time, and our anglers were fishing more in the other areas," Hernandez said.

DORADO AT LA PAZ--Joseph Song and his son Patrick of Fullerton, Calif., fished on La Paz' Las Arenas side and hooked into tuna plus dorado like this one aboard a Tortuga Sportfishing panga with Capt. Jorge Lucero.

Gerardo Hernandez of Tortuga Sportfishing at La Paz said his pangas on the Las Arenas side south of town fished within sight of rain clouds over the mountains at the end of the week, with high summer air temperatures in the mid-90s, and equally high water temperatures of 84 degrees at Isla Cerralvo and 87 degrees outside at the 88 bank. "But we haven't had any bad weather for fishing," Hernandez said. "Our pangas have been fishing mostly in the same locations, at Las Cruces for larger dorado, and at Punta Pescadero for smaller tuna and medium-sized dorado."Tortuga Sportfishing pangas running out to the 88 spot did not find big dorado, but blue marlin and sailfish mixed with striped marlin were in the area. "But the remoteness of this fishing area does not allow us to go there all the time, and our anglers were fishing more in the other areas," Hernandez said.

DORADO AT LA PAZ--Joseph Song and his son Patrick of Fullerton, Calif., fished on La Paz' Las Arenas side and hooked into tuna plus dorado like this one aboard a Tortuga Sportfishing panga with Capt. Jorge Lucero.

Gerardo Hernandez of Tortuga Sportfishing said his charter pangas fishing on La Paz' Las Arenas Side found midsummer weather reaching the mid-90s, with some clouds but no rain or wind to hamper anglers. "We continue to catch good numbers of dorado of 25 to 35 pounds in the area around Las Cruces," Hernandez said. "Good quantities of dorado are also at Punta Pescadero. In this area, the dorado are mixed with yellowfin tuna." Tortuga Sportfishing charter pangas running out to the 88 Bank off Isla Cerralvo did not find dorado, but released both blue marlin and sailfish. Fishing near the Baja coast around the Punta Arena de la Ventana lighthouse produced continued good numbers of roosterfish including some big ones.

CLOUDY DAY FISHING--Matt Curley of Encino, Calif., fished under cloudy summer skies but good sea conditions for a catch including this nice bull dorado with Tortuga Sportfishing's Capt. Rigo Lucero. Curley also scored on a bunch of yellowfin tuna.

Gerardo Hernandez of Tortuga Sportfishing said his charter pangas fishing on the Las Arenas side found some periods of complete calm seas, as full summer conditions prevailed and air temperatures averaged about 95 degrees. "For this period, our boats found the best fishing at Las Cruces," Hernandez said. "In that area they caught dorado of 20 to 30 pounds around the buoys. To the south at Boca del Alamo, we caught medium-sized tuna in good numbers, and also some dorado. Along shore around Boca del Alamo we also caught some smaller roosterfish. The bigger roosterfish were caught around the Punta Arena de la Ventana lighthouse."

LAS ARENAS PANGAS--Carrie, Lynn, Reed, and John Barnes of Santa Clarita, Calif., fished aboard a couple of Tortuga Sportfishing pangas on La Paz' Las Arenas side south of the city for good action on tuna plus these dorado caught with Tortuga Capts. Jorge and Rigo Lucero.