Los Barriles, San Francisquito and Asuncion...

I just returned from a great 3 weeks in Baja. The first week I went to Los Barrilles on the East Cape and stayed at a friend's house. We fished a couple of days, however it was really slow. 80 plus miles of trolling and not even a jig strike! This was during the slow time that occurred around the start of October. We saw some fish caught, but not a lot. That's fishing! So, we did a lot of quad riding to the beach and up some of the arroyos:







I came home from Los Barrilles and was home about 14 hours - just long enough for my wife and I to pack and head back to Baja for 2 more weeks...we were heading to San Francisquito and Asuncion.

We stayed at Jardines Baja on the way down and as usual had a great room and an excellent meal! By the way, it does appear that The Old Mill is officially closed. I heard that it was only for the winter and I also heard that it is for good - so, who knows?

We arrived at San Francisquito and relaxed and fished for many days. Lots of small yellowtail around and barracuda. The big guys hadn't arrived yet... hopefully soon!

We then headed over to Bahia Asuncion for a couple of nights. I had never been there and had always wanted to check it out. We took the short cut through Ejido Guillermo Prieto (?) and came out just north of Vizcaino. Upon arriving in Asuncion, we headed out to Juan and Shari's place. We met both of them and Shari hooked us up with a nice little casita! We fished the next day with their crew and caught several yellowtail. We started up at San Pablo and worked our way back south from there. We had a great time!



Upon arriving back at the beach, Shari whipped up some sashimi and we all had cold beers....it was great! Shari and Juan are such great hosts and I highly recommend them! Such great people - totally laid back and cool! We will definitely be back!!!

We met lots of great people and enjoyed a great dinner with Nomads "Nan and D" - Super nice people as well.

From there we worked our way back home, again staying at Jardines and hooking up with other friends from San Francisquito. We had another great meal and it was the perfect night to end the trip on!



Now, I just gotta get back to work for a bit and then I'm heading back for some big yellows and the 1000!

this is the most extreme example of baja fever i have ever read about.....
you go ALL the way to the east cape, come home for 14 hours, then go more than 1/2 way down again??

hat's off to you.
i can't imagine wanting to do that ever and i like baja generally.

Pacifico, Thanks for the report.