In Search of Wahoo on the Fly

When you know you’re headed out fly fishing on Magdalena Bay down here in Baja Sur, sunrise doesn’t come soon enough.  Eventually it does though and at 6:30 am Sammy Vigneri, Grant Hartman and I were headed out with local fishing guide Roddy Garcia for the blue water of the Pacific.  Our fly rod target … Read more

Granny Surfs in the Roosterfish

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

Jumbo Surf Churns Beach

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

A Baby Rooster is still A Rooster!

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

A Light Day on the Water

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

Granny Brings More Good Luck to Baja

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

Epic Week Comes to an End but Trip Rolls On

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

Baja 2022 Starts Now

Baja 2022 started yesterday afternoon when I arrived in Todos Santos, Mexico.  I’m here with my longtime Wyoming pal Sammy Vigneri who stars on this blog at many saltwater destinations worldwide.  Most recently Sammy was with me at Providence Atoll in the Seychelles.  My other partner in crime is legendary Baja fishing guide, Grant Hartman, … Read more

A Last Day Magic Yellow Snapper

The wind cranked all night.  I’m sharing a room with Sammy and our hut rattled like we were in a hurricane.  But the blow isn’t as terrible as it sounded. Nonetheless, Grant opted out to rest his bad back and get his vehicle ready for our long drive back to Cerrito’s tomorrow.   Due to … Read more

Quick Turnaround Just Like Pre-Covid Times!

I’m rested up after that action packed Arizona trip last week.  Granny and I had a smooth and beautiful drive home.  We left Phoenix and took backroads all the way to Salt Lake City.  That meant a ton of Arizona and Utah desert and remote mountain ranges.  We camped in Moab and had a look … Read more

Baja 2017

The weather was god-awful the minute I got home from Mauritius until today.  Such horror is good for one thing – getting indoor work done such as catching up on my St Brandon’s trip report, cleaning salt off rods and reels and. . . . packing for the next trip. Poor Granny has been dealing … Read more

Sammy Vigneri Teaching the Roosters a Lesson

With all the action we experienced yesterday on the roosterfish beach we headed right back early this morning.  Indeed, we got our butts handed to us and didn’t catch any but that’s the way roosterfishing goes sometimes.  Seeing them is half the battle and we saw more than normal.   When we arrived the bait … Read more