Fish Report

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN REPORT

WEATHER:  Pretty much the whole gamut from sunshine to cloudy.  Windy to calm and even a few days of rain.   Winter weather and conditions!  Rained and flooded pretty hard over the weekend.

WATER:  Cooler and choppy when it’s windy.  Port Captain has his finger on the button ready to shut down the port when it gets too rough which is about a 30-50% possibility.  Wind and rain together are not good. Rain with no wind is fine.

FISH SPECIES AROUND:  Not that much of anyone is sport fishing during winter with the crazy conditions, but local friends and commercial fishing friends report some tuna and dorado.  Lots of bonito.  Jack crevalle and smaller roosters along the beach.  Sierra and smaller yellowtail as well as pargo and cabrilla over the rocks.

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ VIDEO REPORT

THE BIG PICTURE and the REST of the STORY

This is more of an update rather than an actual fishing report to be honest.

I usually do these every week for over 30 years, but straight up, there’s just not alot going on in La Paz. Hate to be posting the same blah blah blah if nothing is happening!

It’s off-season and not much of anyone is on the water from November to April and frankly, as is often the case, the weather is so erratic with wind, rough water and (this week) lots of rain and flooding, it’s really hard to get folks out on the water anyway.

The windsurfers and kiteboarders love the wind, but not so good for other watersports!

Since the last report, we got a whopping 2 boats out over the last 2 weeks when we found spots where the ocean was calm enough.  There’s actually some decent action. Along the rocky areas, there’s the usual pargo, cabrilla and snapper.  The beaches have smaller roosterfish and along the drop-offs, jack crevalle, sierra and even some pompano and trevally.

In the blue water (although getting colder) if you can get through the schools of bonito, which are always fun to catch,  there’s some yellowfin tuna and even a few patches of dorado.

They key is finding the days when it’s OK to be on the water.  If it’s too rough, the port captain has been closing the port to all boat traffic anyway which locks down all boat traffic of any kind including commercial boat traffic, snorkel, scuba, fishing and all other water activities.

WILD SHEEP SHOW RENO – OFF THE CHARTS!

We had the best show ever here at Reno at the Wild Sheep Show, but I’m stuck here for a few days because the airport in Dallas is closed and flights cancelled. However, we got Jilly back there Thursday before the shut down so she could take care of the house! It’s something like -3 degrees at the house.

Everything is locked down. No school. No traffic. It’s not a snowstorm. It’s an ice storm so under the white are sheets of ice. Can’t walk. Can’t drive. Before the storm, lines at gas stations (gas is $2.19 gallon!) and the grocery store had been emptied (toilet paper again? C’mon!). Supposed to be frozen all week. Water heater not working and HVAC is struggling. Last time this happened in 2021, people froze to death in their homes when power was lost for up to 2 weeks. Many pipes broke. Jilly is keeping the waters dripping. She’s holding the fort so well like she always does. She knows where the sleeping bags and generator are and hopefully, I can fly back Tuesday.

Here in Reno it’s a tropical balmy 22 degrees.

Thanks to everyone who came to the show at the Reno Convention Center for the Wild Sheep Show. It was off the charts. I think yesterday alone, I signed about 50 persons to come fish WARM La Paz! (where it’s raining all weekend!).

Thanks to all the old friends who came to visit the booth and all the new friends we met and especially those coming this year to visit us in  La Paz!  We’re excited to see you!

Next up…a massively great show in Salt Lake City at the Western Hunt and Conservation Show.  It’s always great and we’ll see so many friends in Utah at the show, and it’ll be hard to see how it can beat the show we just had in Reno for booking, but this is always a fun show and one of the largest shows we do.  Hope to see you there if you are anywhere in the area or nearby states!

Here’s more info:

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We’re really filling up fast for 2026 and we don’t want to miss you!  After Salt Lake City, we head to Nashville for the Safari Club International show then 2 shows in S.California (Orange Co. and Del Mar/ San Diego).

But don’t wait.  Dates are selling out.  Reach out to me and let’s get you set up, especially if you have a favorite captain or hotel!  Write me: tailhunterfishinglapaz@gmail.com

Have a great week!  That’s our story!

Jonathan & Jilly

Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter Sportfishing
www.tailhunter.comMexico Office: 

Tailhunter Sportfishing

755 Paseo Obregon, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico

U.S. Mailing Address:  Tailhunter Sportfishing
8030 La Mesa Blvd. #178 La Mesa CA  91942

Phones: 
from USA : 626-638-3383
from Mexico: 044-612-14-17863