Day two in Baja began with 5 am coffee at Sammy’s condo down here in Baja. Soon we were driving north for a few days of fishing on Magdalena Bay. But the Mag Bay fishing starts tomorrow so instead of pressing the five hour drive all the way there, instead we took the backroads in … Read more
I arrived in Baja yesterday and met up with my friends Sammy Vigneri and Grant Hartman. If you’ve followed this blog for any length of time you know this is an annual trip with the fellas. Grant lives down here in Cabo and is a longtime friend going back to when we met here in … Read more
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
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
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
It was a rare easy early morning to the Idaho Falls Airport yesterday. I left the house at 4:05 AM and the roads were dry. Not an ounce of snow or ice. The only concern was watching out for animals. God forbid I hit an elk or a moose. My flight to Cabo … Read more
Rising from your tent on the shores of the Sea of Cortez can’t be beat. I was up with the first glimmer of daylight. I French pressed the coffee and woke Granny just in time to see the sunrise. The first rays of the sun are warm here and you know its going to be … Read more