It's Just a Sousainte Away

Those of you who've been following the fishing in La Paz this year are aware that the whole thing, since March, has been just a little behind schedule, with a late spring and water temps being a little below what we would normally expect for a given day. While this doesn't make the fishing bad, or good, it's just a little different than those of you who demand that the fish to be on a consistent calendar year to year would like. That last storm (Euguene?) that went by pushed some warm water up and we're starting to see temps that are representative of late summer. One of the signs that I would point out of a "late" year is the abundance of sailfish around right now. The sails are usually here at the beginning of the summer, June and into July, but then not so much. They're here now. There are dorado, but mostly smaller fish in the 8-18 pound class, both out of La Paz and at Las Arenas. There have been a few bigger fish, but if I were to guess, and that's the business that I'm in, I would say that the larger numbers of greater size mahi are yet to come. We're starting to see a few blue marlin, and that's only a couple or three weeks late. There are still a large number of striped marlin. Tuna are around with some 80 pound fish coming outside, moving around with the porpoises. This makes them a little difficult to find unless there are a dozen or so boats, spreading out across the horizon, communicating with each other on the radios. We've taken a few wahoo, and I think that I'll get out on the full moon here this weekend to try an take a 'hoo or two. The buoys are very hard to find. People come back saying "the buoys aren't there" but when I talk to the Captains they say that they are there, it's just that for the last couple of weeks we've had some very strong currents. When there is huge flow like this the buoys end up under water as theyu are on a fixed length of line connecting them to the bottom. "Aha!" says Mr. Urban (esteemed member #2), you can use your GPSeses! Up to a point, but with as much as 4000 feet of line on some of the buoys, they are displaced laterally quite a ways from where the magic box says they are supposed to be. This has also made making bait on the buoys somewhat difficult. All parts of fishing my friends, and a good reason to have the expert Captains with whom we associate. That's it for now, I'll write some more after my trip Tuesday, or maybe sooner.
Thanks.