Where to fish next?

[jurelometer]

For the Sea of Cortez you just need to plan around the windy season which i think is October through March. I'd just google it to make sure.

I went in mid October way back in 2007 for a spearfishing trip and we had to move a couple days around due to wind but the variety of fish was incredible.

We stayed with this company. https://www.palapasventana.com/ and they were great.

La Ventana still is one of my regular spots. It is a small beach town with no marina that gets swamped with wind surfers during the windy season.  To fish from a boat, you have to beach launch, or drive about half an hour to the launch ramp at Muertos (no marina here, either).  It is closer to Cerralvo island than La Paz- and often has better fishing, but is  more exposed to the wind.  The tour operators out of La Paz often have a Muertos launch option, but that adds a van ride of over an hour each way.

PJ hit it on the wind, but I would say that April is often  windy too. May-July is about the safest bet weather-wise- but it will usually start getting hot toward the end of June. Same as La Paz and Loreto.  Dorado, wahoo and billfish first start to show (as in a few are caught)  in the La Paz area (including La Ventana) sometime in May, with yellowfin Tuna more towards July, but every year is different.  In November, the water cools and it turns to Yellowtail, snapper and grouper season until May.  With the all the climate change, the seasons are less predictable, and the peak seasons have been shorter.

Like the rest of Baja, fishing in this area has declined a lot since 2007. 

-J

[Dominick]

Have you fished for snook, redfish, and tarpon in tampa bay area/SW FL yet? I hear it's nice.

No, but my PB in tarpon was 100 lb (estimated). There is a picture of it somewhere on this site. This was in Puerto Rico.  I did catch one snook.  I might consider Puerto Rico again, but compared to Mexico it is expensive.  Hotels and restaurants are ridiculously expensive.  Dominick

[El Pescador]

La Ventana still is one of my regular spots.

Like the rest of Baja, fishing in this area has declined a lot since 2007. 

-J 

Dave, I too enjoy fishing both La Paz & La Ventana - the area, the people and the food.

Interesting, I started fishing Baja Sur around 2007!  Any correlation???

Wayne

[JasonGotaProblem]

That's why I said Florida. Not PR. There's some small towns on the gulf coast that are surprisingly cheap to stay. And not a panga for a thousand miles.

[Dominick]

The last time I was in Florida, a naked woman came into my room around 3 o'clock in the morning.  She used the bathroom.  When she came out I confronted her.  She was drunk and confused. I showed her to the door and she left.  A few minutes later she came back and insisted it was her room. I called security and by the time they arrived she was gone.  Dominick