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 was uneventful. Just the way I like it. And when I arrived my old friend Grant Hartman picked me up with Sammy Vigneri already in hand. If you can go back to one of the very first blogs I posted in 2009 it was with Sammy and Grant here in Baja. Then you’ll find about another dozen entries from 2010-2019. Last year was the first time I didn’t go to Baja in a long long time.
Sammy is one of my best friends. We go back 34 years when we met working the Jack Dennis Fly shop. I stayed in the fishing biz. Sammy is a Doc in Casper, WY. Two very different paths but man do we still have a great time traveling and fishing together.
Sammy has a killer condo in Cerritos, which is near Todos Santos, Baja Sur and we spent last night there. We had a nice dinner down the beach and a few Pacifico’s and were asleep before 9 PM. I was exhausted.
This morning Grant and I drank 6 AM coffee on Sammy’s deck. I kid you not, I counted at least 25 whales spouting. The humpbacks and grays are here giving birth and although the roosterfishing isn’t on, its an incredible time to be here.
Speaking of fishing, obviously that’s what brings Sammy and I down to hang with our pal Grant. And this is not a roosterfish trip by any means. We are just going out for whatever and to have a good time. We left Sammy’s around 8:30 and grabbed some street carnitas then drove some wild dirt roads to a place even Grant isn’t familiar with. The drive took most of our day and we arrived at a local fishing village.
Once we settled in the place Grant used his fluent Spanish to arrange us a room and a boatman for tomorrow and our target will be yellowtail, snapper and grouper. While Grant worked this out, Sammy and I fished around our hotel from the rocks. There wasn’t much going on other than the nuisance cornetfishes and few of these pretty little Panama graysby’s and baby spotted cabrilla.
That’s it for tonight. The sun just set and its time for dinner. The plan is to meet our boatman at 7 AM and head on out. Should be cool!
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Jeff,
Good luck with the fishing today!
Tad