Six months ago, when Sammy rang me and said to block out a week in early November to chase striped marlin on fly, my response was, “I’ll have a look at my schedule”. I knew dang well the schedule was open. However, I was excited about my new digs in Wisconsin. I wanted to … Read more
Happy belated Thanksgiving everyone! Granny and I were so focused on our fishing and relaxing that we missed TG altogether. While yesterdays fishing was slow, our chicken wing dinner was delicious. And perhaps all the good wing protein led to todays excellent day of fishing. Granny and I landed three of these cute little roosterfish. … Read more
Granny and I did some beach hopping today. I even worked some rocky areas with hopes of some odd species or a snapper. But attempts were unsuccessful in all locations. Once again the surf was big and although I fought it, I could not find a fish. No complaints however. I’m in Baja with my … Read more
If you have never fly fished the surf before I’ll tell you this, it can be intimidating. The waves themselves are stronger than they look. The force of even a small wave can knock you over. And when they don’t knock you over on the incoming, sometimes the outgoing wash will take the sand out … Read more
We made a drive today to a remote Pacific beach. Our target fish – anything. But we were disappointed when we arrived. Todays swells and crashing waves were huge. I can fight the waves to a degree timing casts and running back out of the crashes but the acres of churned up sand lowered my … Read more
We’re a few days away from the insignificant tidal changes that came with the neap tides early this week. Now we are headed towards the new moon which means a higher high tide and a lower low tide. They call these the spring tides. In turn this means more water movement and more bait pushed … Read more
November 19-21 Granny and I have been a little lazy the last few days. Fishing from the beach has been flat out lousy. I’ve done 20-30 minutes of casting from Cerritos Beach each of the last three days without even seeing a fish. So in order to save my shoulder, Granny and I have been … Read more
Granny and I returned to the beach where we caught the mini roosterfish two days ago. If there are little ones there’s bound to be big ones at least occasionally. Well, that was not today. We are half way between full moon and no moon right now which means we have the smallest tide … Read more
Not only did Sammy generously leave us the keys to his condo on Cerritos Beach here in Baja but he left us the keys to the truck he keeps down here. While we don’t intend to do anything extravagant or too wild this trip, we will take a drive or two and perhaps do some … Read more
Not much going fishing wise today. I spent most of the day working on the story of my striped marlin from last week. I made a few casts in the Cerritos Beach surf. After yesterday I expected to catch at least something but instead its back to blanking. Its beautiful here though and a lot … Read more
Yesterday Grant headed back home to Cabo. Along the way he dropped Sammy off at the airport and Sam returned to Casper, WY. I stayed back on Cerritos Beach at Sammy’s condo where I edited photos from our incredible fishing up north at Magdalena Bay last week. In late afternoon I retrieved Granny from … Read more
Sammy, Grant and I began our 5 hour drive from Magdalena Bay back down to Sam’s condo in Todos Santos early so we could stop and fish a snook beach. The snook almost always elude us and today was no different. It’s a beautiful spot but we picked through the surf waves for three hours … Read more