spring fever
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Bahia de Los Muertos or bay of the dead is about 11/4 hours north of Los Barriles-one of my favourite spots to get a cheap panga day trip. Saddled up with my partner John (Westview marina, Tahsis) and left LB at 0415 yesterday and after a careful mountainous drive arrived at Los Muertos by 0530 with lots of time to spare.
Friends of ours had camped there and arranged our guide-Fili-John had fished with him before. We were told-no tuna, few yellow tail, Dorado, Sierra, Pargo, Cabria-typical mixed bag winter fishing in the Sea of Cortez.
Cloudy, cool but no wind to toss us about in our 22ft panga. Started off trolling Rapala's but we couldn't seem to connect-others were hooking up but our hats were obviously not on right. I made sure NOT to call the hook-ups on other boats because when I was guiding last summer it used to drive me nuts. Bought some live bait and the world became bright again -Cabria, pargo-couple of really nice sierra and lots of needle and trumpet fish. We would have liked some Dorado but for John and I it was a great day in the panga- we have both caught way more than our share of big fish and I think it was the other guys turn!! Sun came out and it turned pretty toasty. Headed in by 1300-quite a few dorado had been caught but they had switched long before us--our choice -not the guides. Some choice Mexican vittles and the odd cerveza capped off a great day on the water. I know guys want this info -so the panga and guide for the day including the tip comes out to 260 Canadian -total-the bait is extra about 25 cdn and the guide filleted the fish. Living the dream!!. By the way if you are checking a map of Baja-Muertos is called Bahia los Suanos (bay of dreams) by the Gov't--tourist thing I guess
Friends of ours had camped there and arranged our guide-Fili-John had fished with him before. We were told-no tuna, few yellow tail, Dorado, Sierra, Pargo, Cabria-typical mixed bag winter fishing in the Sea of Cortez.
Cloudy, cool but no wind to toss us about in our 22ft panga. Started off trolling Rapala's but we couldn't seem to connect-others were hooking up but our hats were obviously not on right. I made sure NOT to call the hook-ups on other boats because when I was guiding last summer it used to drive me nuts. Bought some live bait and the world became bright again -Cabria, pargo-couple of really nice sierra and lots of needle and trumpet fish. We would have liked some Dorado but for John and I it was a great day in the panga- we have both caught way more than our share of big fish and I think it was the other guys turn!! Sun came out and it turned pretty toasty. Headed in by 1300-quite a few dorado had been caught but they had switched long before us--our choice -not the guides. Some choice Mexican vittles and the odd cerveza capped off a great day on the water. I know guys want this info -so the panga and guide for the day including the tip comes out to 260 Canadian -total-the bait is extra about 25 cdn and the guide filleted the fish. Living the dream!!. By the way if you are checking a map of Baja-Muertos is called Bahia los Suanos (bay of dreams) by the Gov't--tourist thing I guess
