"The last week or so might be the most incredible dorado fishing I have ever seen in almost 20 years here in La Paz," wrote Jonathan Roldan of the La Paz area September 29.

"For about the last 8 or 9 days, imagine 20...30...40 or more dorado per day! Anglers losing count of how many fish they caught and released. Fish not even hooked, jumping all around the boats. Just jumping! Fish fighting each other to grab baits. Fish bumping the pangas and slamming into the gunwales. Fish hooked on hand lines. Fish eating bits of tortilla and grabbing bear hooks tossed into the water. Hooked fish getting knocked off the hooks by other fish chasing the hooked fish and the leftover bait getting picked up by another fish!

"Just incredible dorado fishing unlike anything many of us have ever experienced. My biggest worry is that we've had so many first-timers here and they think it is always like this! The bar has been set awfully high! On the light tackle and fly rod, these dorado have been spectacular! Between our Las Arenas and La Paz fleets, the bite has been epic. If there was a distinction this week, it was that there were more fish at Las Arenas and a bit fewer fish out of La Paz, but bigger fish. Most of the Las Arenas fish were 8 to 17 pounds. The La Paz fish tended to be 10 to 35-pounders, just not quite as many!

"As for other action, there's been a far number of billfish hookups as sailfish and marlin cruise through the schools of dorado also eating the chum or baits or simply eating the many dorado. In the same areas, we also found wahoo again, although those hookups don't usually last long. Finally, contrary to the belief of many, there's still roosterfish in the areas as we hooked several 30-40 pound fish along the beaches. No tuna to speak of except way outside of Cerralvo Island. Waters might be getting cooler as we're seeing a few sierra in the fishing mix. But, really hard to tell about other species since everyone has been chasing this mad dorado bite.