AFTHER WINDY DAY FISHING GOOD .
Bo,Kitano law and Michael Ramia

One word that sums up fishing this week is Bizarre.  To start with their was a super low tide mixed with a little swell that made launching the boats from the beach a little challenging.  We had wind on and off pretty much all day, everyday so you would have an hour of flat glassy water followed by a little wind chop then back to flat.  The conditions weren't the worst but they weren't the best either.  Water temps were warm if not hot between 85-88 degrees.  Fishing wasn't particularly better in any one location and boats were scattered around just trying to find some fish.  Their were a million, and I'm not kidding, small dorado in the 8"-24" range.  Mixed in occasionally were some bigger ones but these little guys need to grow a bit. 

If your into catch and release of bill fish, this week was the week to fish for them.  There were large numbers of sailfish and marlin hanging around and they were easy to catch.  Their were some tuna caught one day.  A couple pangas came across a school of dophin that had some tuna in the 20-40 lb  range.  One boat caught 2 and the other caught 6, that was it.  The next day the dophin and tuna were no were to be found.  For the boats trying for wahoo, it was tough also.  The week before the wahoo were in full swing, every boat catching a couple, but this week was quite different.  First off, bait was difficult to catch.  No commercial boats were selling mackeral so that meant the pangero captains had to locate and try to catch them themselves.  We spent 2 hours trying to catch these mackeral, one by one on tiny little hooks and ended up with a couple in the bait tank.  The wahoo that were caught were caught using these little candy macks and even trolling rapalas.  Nothing was consistent.  

We decided to head out to the buoys a couple days and travelled in the 20-30 mile range hitting every buoy on the way.  Bait was plentiful at the buoys, we were able to catch bonita, zebra, small yellowfin tuna, cocinero and once again a million small dorado.  We mixed it up trolling around each buoy and caught nothing but shark, sailfish and marlin.  Some of the buoys had small pods of dolphin at them that were thrashing the bait but no big dorado or tuna.  One interesting thing that happened one day that made us wonder what was really going on was we were trolling 2 small bonita around a buoy that had a handful of dolphin hanging out.  As we passed the buoy one of the reels lit up, fish on right! Nope, reeled it in and half the bait was bitten off.  We thought it was a shark based on the bite marks and the fact that we had been battling with the sharks at most of the buoys.  We sent another bonita back out but kept them close to the boat to see if we see what was eating them.  As we were trolling by the buoy again the dolphin came up behind our baits, grabbed them and bit them right off the hooks!  In all our years of fishing we have never seen this happen.  The dolphin were actively feeding on our hooked bait.  When we stopped to catch bait using sadikis the dolphin would chase the bait up that was hooked, coming right to the surface.  It was the craziest thing!  After seeing this happen first hand and thinking about what could be going on with the fishing we wondered if their really was no bait around.  Were the dolphin that hungry that they would go after our bait?  Maybe the bait we were seeing at the buoys was actually not much at all in the large scheme.  We knew their was no sardina around but were the fish all gone because they too were looking for the bait?  

Lucky for us, our friends that fished, and a lot of hard work from the fishing pangeros, fisherman were able to catch few nice size fish.  But all in all, fishing was possibly the most difficult that we have seen in the last 10 years.  The water is hot and not much bait around.  This weeks fishing definitely stands out as one of the most difficult in one of the best fishing locations in the world but it is fishing and it could all change next week.  We will see what happens.

CHINO,PETE AND CRISSY TEICHMAN

EXCELLENT FISHING THIS WEEK, SEE PICTURE BELOW,CHRIS GINOCHIO

 TREME ,DR. ALLEN FONSECA,LUIS MAS AND  BILL EVANS.

This weeks fishing was a little slow but still produced catches of wahoo and dorado at the South end of Cerralvo Island as well as some dorado near Boca de Alamo.  Some boats were coming back with large sierra and their were definitely a lot of marlin in the area.  Bait is still scarce and fisherman are using dead balihoo and mackeral.  The water is consistantly around 78 degrees and winds are on and off, which is to be expected for this time of year.   We expect as the water gets warmer, hopefully the bait will move in bringing other species of fish with it.

CINDY,CASSY,NICOLAS MURRAY

MAY, MR.STANLEY  AND MICHAEL

STANLEY FAMILY

Gary Evans from Santa Ana, California, came down to spend his "Spring Vacation" with his brother Bill, who lives here in La Paz.  He spent a couple of days on the water fishing with our captain Rigo out of Los Muertos this week and had a great time.  

On his first day, he returned to the beach with a nice limit of 2 good size dorado and caught his first ever wahoo.

On the second day, Gary and Bill returned to Los Muertos and again went out with Captain Rigo.  They were again rewarded with 4 nice dorado and a sierra for their efforts.   Another great day on the water.   Gary plans to spend another couple of days fishing with Captain Rigo during this coming week.

 

RICH O'CONELL ALSO HAD A GREATE FISHING TRIP.SEE THE PICS BELLOW.

This report is for the Punta Arena/Cerralvo Island area. Small amounts of yellowtail are starting to show up but nothing significant yet. The water temperature is still warm at about 75 degrees and bait is limited. Dorado are still in the area and boats are having good luck bringing them in. The wahoo seem to have appeared at the south end of the island. Some boats were able to bring in a few each day. There wasn't much pressure from having a lot of boats trolling in the area so it made it more likely to land a few. The wahoo ranged from 30-50 lb. The weather has been nice, not much wind and warm. We will see what happens with the water temperature and bait, we need the water to cool down a bit, then hopefully the yellowtail will come this way.Crissy and Pete Teichman pictures.

This weeks fishing outside of La Paz around Punta Arena slowed a little bit from the previous week but still produced BIG Dorado around the buoys.  If you spent the time and headed out to hit the buoys on the way out to the 88 bank and a few miles past you would find yourself hooked up.  The fish seemed to be hanging off the buoys a bit and wouldn't hit the bait right away but if you spent a little time slow trolling you were bound to lure some big fish up.  The dorado weren't picky, they were eating pretty much whatever bait you could catch on the buoys.  Zebra, cocinero, macks, cut strips of bonita and feathers all seemed to do the trick.  The hot ticket seemed to be the buoys just off the bank.  A lot of marlin are still cruising around and large schools of dolphin produced some yellowfin tuna which hopefully means the tuna will be showing up in large numbers.  Below are pictures of Crissy and Pete Teichmann from Huntington Beach with their catch this week.

Mike  Coxen from Seatle W.Rigo and Chino from San Francisco