Asuncion/BOLA report

Here’s a quick report regarding a working-on-the-casita trip with a quick side trip to Asuncion that my 23 year old son, Brock, and I just returned from.
We crossed the border on Monday at 5:00pm, July 7 at San Yisidro and stopped to declare about 20 gallons of paint/primer/GacoDeck (sealant for flat roof/deck) and about 2 dozen 2X4s. Inspector wrote up a minimum import value of $250 that resulted in a fee of $157 MN. As I’m a whoos on these matters I consider $14 ‘merican for a clean conscience not a bad deal. Also was just curious on the process. We arrived in Bahia Asuncion about 5:00pm the following day and stayed in one of Juan and Shari’s houses, Najaranja. Spent the evening with them, BajaBoy and other folks whose names I don’t recall.
Woke up at 4:00am to get the fishing gear together for a day with Juan and I can’t find my rod tube. Reels/lures/gear all there – just no rods. Nadda, nowhere. We get over to Juan’s about 6:30 just as he’s leaving and beg some spare rods. We start out about 5 miles south of the main island looking for yellowtail but the water around Asuncion is still a little cold and off colored so we get nothing. Fish for calicos at the kelp beds and we all get hooked up for an hour or so. Fish with cut squid north of the island, no bites until we get close to San Roque where I get broken off right away. Brock then starts swearing as he gets hung up on the bottom but then starts yelling that the bottom is moving. I know he’s in trouble as I had him on a very light bass rig, 12 pound test. Juan is shaking his head that there is no chance where gonna get this fish in and grumbling about gringos and their insistence on using way-to-light rigging. He pulls anchor and starts backing down on this fish which we all know to be probably a good size sheephead. After about 10 minutes of careful boat maneuvering and Brock being very careful to not horse the fish in, it tires and Brock starts gaining line. A few minutes later he lands the first sheephead of his career, about a 10 pounder. We spend the next hour in the midst of the kelp fields throwing crocks catching all manner of fish – a lot of fun and something I’ll try in a kayak on my next trip.

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Brock with his 10# sheephead

That night Shari cooks up a caldo with the sheephead and we end the evening playing music and general carrying on.


Thursday we leave and head to Vizciano to get the lumber for our building project. Shari and Juan assured me they would have what we needed. I have a 2007 Silverado, king cab so the bed, with the tailgate down is not even 8’ – we are getting 30 2X6X12’ and 9 sheets of ¾” plywood. The crew at the yard was very helpful – they unloaded all my tools from the bed, put the 2X6’s in first, laid the plywood down on top of that, loaded all the heavy tools to the front and everything tied down good with CHP approved rope I brought and about 5 red flags. We spent the next 3 hours going about 50MPH north to the BOLA turnoff and on to our place in Camp Gecko.
A note about the lumber: the 2X6 was doug fir (I’m pretty sure) but not stamped. The plywood was what I would call A/B, 7 ply, but also not stamped. It was not T&G. The cost was $6400MN or about $592US. This is a premium of about $175 over my cost at my local yard here in Sacramento but as I would have had to pay duty and haul it 1000 miles and I don’t have a flatbed trailer anyway I was not unhappy. I’ve since learned that the way to do this is to call the lumber yard in Maneadero, order from the English speaking sales person and have it delivered to BOLA. And that’s exactly what I will do next time.
Won’t bore you with all the building stuff but to say that working in 95 to 100 degree heat, 50-60% humidity we got about 1/3 done in 4 days than what I planned. Did no fishing in BOLA but 4baja was there – I’m sure he’ll post his report next week.
Oh - we had our first rattlesnake - a little 7" bugger.

We trapped him and took him out in the desert a ways.

Thank's for the trip report ,

Could you help us out and



Thanks so much,

CaboRon

OK all you pixel poachers raise your hands. Second thought put them back down it's just too hot for that silliness.
Butt seriously, thanks for the info I didn't read many of the rules.