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
We awoke to a bluebird day but that still didn’t mean it was nice out. The forecast was for gale winds and we got them. I’m so glad I finally got the striped marlin yesterday. Though the wind was bad, it didn’t completely shut us down. We headed deep into the Magdalena Bay estuary where … Read more
At 2 AM I was woken in the middle of a strange marlin dream. I was getting attacked by a mounted one! But what truly woke me was a weaving palm tree outside our room here in San Carlos, Baja on the shores of Magdalena Bay. There’s been hardly any wind this week but in … Read more
We got another nice early start on the water here in Magdalena Bay on the Pacific side of Baja. My boys Sammy and Grant along with our boatman Norberto were ready to cheer me on. I am after my first striped marlin on the fly after a long time trying. Like yesterday, we stopped … Read more
You may remember my milkfish troubles over the years. I simply couldn’t catch one. I had the disastrous day for them when I arrived in Providence last April. But then on the second to last day at Providence, I finally caught one, ending a war with my second most nemesis fish species. But my number … Read more