Fish Report

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FISHING REPORT

WEATHER:  Definitely getting warmer!  Day time temps now in the high 90’s and humidity rising also.  Surprisingly, however, mornings can be breezy and just a tad chilly. Had a few days that were actually unusually windy.

WATER:  Surface temps into the 80’s now.  Thermocline down about 30′ drops another 5-10 degrees.

FISH HOOKED THIS WEEK:  Roosters/ marlin/ pargo liso/ barred pargo/ dog-tooth snapper/ sierra/ trevally/ pompano/ bonito/ amberjack/ jack crevalle/ snapper/ triggerfish/ dorado/ sailfish/ wahoo

FISHING ON A SCALE of 1-10: Solid 6.5 to 7

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THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY…

I don’t want to start out saying we had bad fishing this past week.  It was actually pretty solid once again, but it was different for some reason . Y’know like when something is off and you just can’t put your finger on it?

Everyone caught fish, but it wasn’t like it has been the past 4 or 5 weeks and I don’t quite know what it was how to describe it.  There was a disturbance in the force!

I don’t want to get too dramatic about it because obviously everyone caught fish, but something was different.

I thought maybe it was the full moon.

But, actually, once again, the bite during the full moon was just fine. I looked at the calendar and realized the weird stuff kinda happened in the days AFTER the full moon.

Bait was a bit harder to find.  The current seemed a tad off.  The weather seemed to get more intensely hot.  And there were several days when the winds were unseasonably strong.

Again, everyone caught fish, but we had to work harder to change tactics to find them and get them into the boat!  Possibly, it was a combination of all those things put together that affected things.

Roosterfish were still around and biting nicely.  Those 10-30 pound fish are still on the chew around Las Arenas areas.  You can have fun almost all day catching and releasing like I have never seen.  I would love it if someone put a GoPro camera underwater sometime there in the middle of the roosterfish schools!

The big 50-100 pounders were fewer, however.  That could be a function of several things.  One is that the big ladyfish baits were harder to find.  Secondly, you have to commit to chasing those baits.  The bigger fish love the bigger baits and you have to commit to getting those baits if you wanted to get the hog roosters.  Fewer folks wanted to do that understandably.  It’s more fun to go chase and get bit on the smaller roosters and other species!

Dorado are showing up in bigger numbers, but they’re not quite ready to bite yet.  We were seeing them all week in the waters and chasing baits, etc. but just not willing to chew for the most part.  We picked a few here and there and it’s definitely improving, but I think we’re going to need a little uptick in the water temps.  That could be any day.  It SHOULD be any day!

Same with the billfish.  There are marlin and sailfish swimming around.  You can see them on the surface.  But, like the dorado, they just have not been willing to bite.  Again, I’m expecting that any day.

In the meantime, the rockfish species like the pargo and huge cabrilla have kept the rods bent.  Big pargo liso are still spawning and I’m still amazed at the size of the cabrilla this season which are grouper-sized fish!  We are losing some big fish in the rocks!

That’s my story!

Jonathan

Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter Sportfishing
www.tailhunter.com

Our Utah amigo, Kelly Moore, first day fishing with quite a smorgasbord of species…barred pargo, triggerfish, tevaly, snapper and bonito!

They got married in Utah and came straight down from the reception to the airport to fish on their honeymoon! Jessica and Mitchell Kukson had 2 marlin on at the same time fishing with Captain Alfredo. One got released but the other was not able to release. They donated a bunch of the meat.

Another Utah amigo, Tony Davis with his big rooster while Captain Victor tries to lend a hand. The fish was released!

Captain Chito with one of our Ground Engineering amigos who came down from Denver. I see 5 mahi here. Hopefully, more soon!

The life of the party whenever I see him…Fritz Richards from Reno NV on his first trip to see us had some fun with roosterfish and dorado. Fritz is a master taxidermist and travels the country fixing and repairing other people’s taxidermy mounts!