East Cape and La Paz Mexico Fishing Reports
Thinking of heading to the beautiful East Cape towns or into historic La Paz for some Mexico sport fishing? Well, now is a great time - here’s a bit of news from the locals…
Tuna in the 20 pound range are finally starting to turn up under the porpoise and even a few larger have been hooked slightly north of Cabo Pulmo. You’ll find Wahoo off the south end of Cerralvo Island. Striped marlin and sailfish are lurking on the drop off - five to eight miles out. With several boats reporting hookups in the morning hours before the afternoon winds picked up. Thirty to forty pound durado can be found near the shark buoys of Punta Pescadero, while inshore schools of jacks have been providing some fun action up and down the coastline. Roosterfish seem to be plentiful inshore - try using mullet pattern flies.
Herring have been schooling south from El Rincon Bay to below Cabo Pulmo and north from Punta Pescadero to Muertos Bay. Mullet can be found in the La Ribera area. Last week the Margarita pulled in a 528 pound blue marlin! The sound winds have picked up bringing cooler temperatures and some rough water - but the fish don’t seem to mind.
La Paz Fishing:
Prominent winds from the south have made it tough to get to spots with the bigger fish such as durado and billfish this last week. Resulting swells also churned things up a bit producing off color waters. However, during the calms the sagasso paddies between the islands were gold for big bulls, sailfish and marlin. Inshore was great for roosterfish, pargo, jack crevalle, pompano and cabrilla. Some wahoo were hooked, buy not many made it to the ice chests. Some small durado made an appearance in a spot between the peninsula and Cerralvo Island.
Get out there and enjoy the beautiful natural surroundings of the Mexico East Cape!
Thanks to local fishing outfits:
Rancho Leonero Hotel
www.ranchleonero.com
East Cape Tackle
www.eastcapetackle.com
Jonathan Roldan’s Tailhunter International
www.tailhunterinternational.com
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