Fished BOLA last week with my buddy Andy on my boat, the "Sarah Boyle". Complete crap-out on yellowtail: fished the Horeshead reefs, Animas/Barnabe,
Smith reefs, 7-mile , Machos. Only place we didn't hit was Remedios. Probably WFO there.....
Strong northerlies the first 2 days, calm the rest of the week. Red tide in the bay. Admittedly, we did fish only with irons, not live bait and it
was a quarter moon. Water temps between 59 and 66 degrees depending when or where.
There were gill nets all over the inside of the south bay, even directly in front of Camp Gecko. The points and shores south of Punta Malo (Don Juan)
to north Animas had net buoys within 5' of shore - lord knows what you'd catch there. Watched pangas from the Animas fish camp (I presume) work these.
One of our favorite bass drifts at Punta Soledad produced ZERO fish. When at Machos on La Guarda (big island), we trolled north, Baja Catch style,
for over an hour. This will normally produce a variety of reef fish at the rate of about 3 per Pacifico but true to form, nada.
Did get into a pretty good bass bite at Punta Malo on a late morning slack tide - dead calm, go figure. 2 to 3 pounds which is getting to be a big
bass any more. Not a single trigger fish in 4 days - a record, of sorts, for us.
We never saw a single panga with paying customers.
1 group in camp did get a halibut at the beach near town.
Seriously hope someone will report that even the best went Oh-for-the-week or prove that we're lousy fisher folk as the alternative is just too
depressing. I think I'll go find a put-and-take lake and soak powerbait - you know, the green kind with sparkles in it.Cypress - 4-23-2009 at 12:57 PM
Your're just telling it like it is. No need to make apologies.baitcast - 4-23-2009 at 12:57 PM
Damn shame,I hate gill nets.
Rob4baja - 4-23-2009 at 06:38 PM
jim you did go at (as igor would say) the worst time of the year to fish the bay. that is why we rarly go in the spring anymore. now if you would go
say late may you would load up on yellows, triggers, cabria and the lone grouper. we will be down around the 20th of june.Pescador - 4-23-2009 at 06:40 PM
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Originally posted by Cypress
Your're just telling it like it is. No need to make apologies.
See Cypress, you were right all along. Let's hope that Skeet does not hear about this.55steve - 4-27-2009 at 07:16 PM
Damn, we are heading down this weekend - plan is to work on our place so maybe we will actually get to do just that....24baja - 4-28-2009 at 10:04 AM
We made a trip down in March with the same outcome, our main goal of the trip was to work on the house, fishing was an extra with not much luck. But
we were able to finish what we wanted to do on the house and now we can enjoy the end of May fishing trip and hopefully catch alot of yellowtails and
triggers and.......drink cervesa.....and advoid the flu!Cypress - 4-28-2009 at 03:26 PM
Pescador, It's one of those things I'd rather be wrong about.
