New Week - New Group

[Jay Murakoshi]

What a difference a week makes. Fishing today was HOT.
It started out a little windy but smoothed out nice. The bait was at La Ventana, again. But hey we're not complaining. We didn't waste any time looking for roosters and jacks we motored 200 yards north and then Ramon said "dorado". Slid in to the area and threw two baits and the water boiled. They are and left. then we headed to the channel to peak at the sargasso grass. No body home except 3,000 baby yellow tails. Checked a few buoys and nothing. We headed to the lighthouse and on the other side of the point, we found a school of dorado. First cast and fish on! Fought the fish for a couple minutes and also taking video with my Canon G12. Rod in one hand, camera in the other hand. Strip the fish in, grab the camera for some footage, reel, camera, reel, camera. Then when it was 8' from the boat, it jumped and threw the fly right at me. I think I have that on video. Well there went dinner.
Lot's of roosters at the lighthouse and big roosters. Ted Fukahara from the LA area landed a 60+lb rooster. First rooster and this is what he came down for. I had him hold up the fish for some photo's but it was too heavy. The rooster died during the fight but it's going to a good cause. There were a lot of other rooster in the 20 to 40lb range that were caught, also
Looks like roosters and dorado are on the schedule for tomorrow.

I'm going to try and post some photo's and video, yeah I know I've been saying that for a week but when you have some one in the room, I can't stay up all night

Any way that's y report for today. Damn, I love my JOB

Jay

[Richard Wright]

Jay-

Don't catch them all. Save some for those of us coming down later. :D

Jay, your recommendations for equipment -- rods, lines, flies, etc. -- seem to fluctuate/expand from one report to another. Would you mind doing us a favor and providing a recap of what equipment we should be bringing. Certainly would be of help in our packing.

Your reports are great and I appreciate the time you're taking to keep us abreast of what's biting.

See you in about 12 days.

Richard

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Many of us at Kiene's have been down to La Paz with Jay.

We would recommend that most take anything from a #9 to a #12 rod down there.

For a first timer a #10 rod would be good.

For one line I would have 30 feet of T-14 or leadcore with a tropical running line.

I like a rod set up with a Rio Outbound Short Tropical floater for fish feeding in the surface to throw the medium size Airheads.

For reels they should be large for cranking in the fish after longer runs.

Large enough for 300 yards of 30# Dacron is a good idea too.

We highly recommend this trip with Jay in the spring and fall, especially for new comers.

[FISHEYE]

Day 2 report from Fisheye and Flyboy. Slow but we did catch a dozen little roosters, a dozen little torro, 2 groupers, a big skippie at the lighthouse. Also plenty of %$#@& needle fish. We saw some 50+ roosters and 1 dorado. One of the other guys got a 60+ rooster. They are here. Hot, sunny and windy. Dang, I wish I had Jay's job.

[EricO]

Hey Fisheye,

How long are your typical trips to Baja with Jay?

What would you say is the approx $$ you might spend in total (with flight, food, lodging etc). Just wondering if this is something I can swing.

Always wanted to do one of these trips and imagined they are cheaper than going all the way to Belize or Cancun.

Anybody else, feel free to chime in.

EO

[Tony Buzolich]

Bill, summer isn't that bad either and I don't think the heat was any worse than mid-June. I've been taking groups down for Jay for several years and we've always made early July our target date because the water has warmed well by then and there are plenty of big dorado along with everything else. We've always had good yellowfin then too.

This is the first year I haven't been able to make this trip because of an illness I got several months ago but I am planning for next year.

As for rods, take two, one floater and one sinker, of whatever size you can throw best. I think 10w should be minimum unless you plan on chasing ladyfish and the like. I personally use an 11w with an Intermediate for topwater stuff and strip as fast as humanly possible. This doesn't let the popper sink at all and the intermediate line throws better for me than a full floating line. The second rod I carry is a 12w with a sinking line. Sometimes you have to get down when the yellowfin are around and you need a fast sinking line to get to them. Sometimes there are too many pangas all together and the fish shut down and go deep. That's when you just make a long cast and let it drop to a twenty count and the strip. Sometimes the deeper fish think your fly is an injured sardina and they come in and pick up the scraps.

Yaaa, I'm missing this year but not the next. Check out the size of these summer dorado.
TONY
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[Jay Murakoshi]

Hey EO,

The typical trip is 7/6 but I have others on listed on my web site. Take a look there.
As for how much, let's see if I can get you in with a ballpark figure

Don't have any idea where you're fly from so I can't give you an airfare quote. But from LAX to La Paz, varies from 385.00 to 550.00.
Tips: 40.00 per boat - 20.00 per person per day
20.00 per load - usually two loads or 1 1/2 loads then it's 30.00 Split that with you partner per day
5.00 tip for the shuttle driver - per day
??????? - dinner depends on where we go and what you eat.
?????? drinks and ice, once again depends on what you drink. Ice is 3.00 daily per ice chest,spilt with your partner. 1.50 each

there's other incidental expenses, like the bar at the hotel, etc.

I hope this helps, I can't give you a total figure, I don't have a calculator only fingers.

Check out all the sites and I believe I have the cheapest trip going to baja for what you get.

Jay

[Jay Murakoshi]

Richard,

Yep it does expand with the species that we are catching. Like a 35lb jack will definitely take a 12wt but I'd use a 10wt.
It all depends on how much fish fighting experience you have and you have a lot. So I would say 10 - 12wt's, maybe a 14 for marlin if you go hunting for them
Flies: Tan colored air heads, sea habits in white knight, sardina and the flying fish.
My bait fish tie with wig hair has been hot. tan/white, olive/white, blue/white 2/0 and around 3". I have thinning shears to tone them down.
RIO Outbound Tropical WF Floating/Int.

Hope we don't sore lip all the fish :-)

Jay

[FISHEYE]

Another gorgeous hot day here. Maybe around 100. We fished dorado today. Lots of floating sargasso way out in mid channel past La Ventana off Punta Gorda. I got my first dorado ever which weighed 21 pounds. They really fight and jump and they are irridescent blue and yellow in the water. Then Mike got one around 14 and then I got a litle one around 10 and then lost 2 and then landed one at 35. I then lost another big one because I was horsing it and wanted to get it in so Mike could fish. One other boat got a 40 pound toro and several got small dorado. I think that Jay's trips are an excellent deal. He has this down to a science. Great hotel, captains, and driver. Bar tenders at the hotel excellent as well.

[EricO]

Thanks Jay....I appreciate it. I will check out your website.

Love the reports!

Eric