Gonzaga Bay, Oh Boy! - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

walrus · 09-09-2014, 07:44 AM

A fishing report with details and pictures to follow later in week.

There were six people on this trip: Makobob, Walrus, and John are local guys who have been to Baja before. RW and AJ drove from Kentucky, and PT hailed from Tennessee. These last three guys will log over forty-five hundred miles on the highway to do this. By Thursday afternoon, our second full day, they were planning another week for next year, and by Saturday they were trying to figure out how to make it back by November this year.

Now, a quick preview for the "On the Fly" fellows heading down next month. When we arrived Tuesday, first thing was we unloaded camping gear then sat down in the shade to drink some some water (temp over 100). As we sat and watched the water, schools of bait fish would explode right on the water line up and down the beach. The schools were not just small baits but include explosions made up of one pound mullets.

As fishermen, we could not sit and watch this for very long and rigged up to fish the shoreline. In this session with fishing gear designed more for yellowtail and grouper we immediately began catching spotted bass, trigger fish, and the orange mouth corvina. The smallest corvina was twenty-one and a quarter inches the largest, while the largest was twenty six inches, and every one fat. In a couple of hours we caught and released 42 fish. The fish we caught will be pure joy on the fly. Guys, you're going to have a blast.

Then we had five more full days of fishing which got even better.

09-09-2014, 07:44 AM	#1
walrus Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Baja fish camp Posts: 478	Gonzaga Bay, Oh Boy! A fishing report with details and pictures to follow later in week. There were six people on this trip: Makobob, Walrus, and John are local guys who have been to Baja before. RW and AJ drove from Kentucky, and PT hailed from Tennessee. These last three guys will log over forty-five hundred miles on the highway to do this. By Thursday afternoon, our second full day, they were planning another week for next year, and by Saturday they were trying to figure out how to make it back by November this year. Now, a quick preview for the "On the Fly" fellows heading down next month. When we arrived Tuesday, first thing was we unloaded camping gear then sat down in the shade to drink some some water (temp over 100). As we sat and watched the water, schools of bait fish would explode right on the water line up and down the beach. The schools were not just small baits but include explosions made up of one pound mullets. As fishermen, we could not sit and watch this for very long and rigged up to fish the shoreline. In this session with fishing gear designed more for yellowtail and grouper we immediately began catching spotted bass, trigger fish, and the orange mouth corvina. The smallest corvina was twenty-one and a quarter inches the largest, while the largest was twenty six inches, and every one fat. In a couple of hours we caught and released 42 fish. The fish we caught will be pure joy on the fly. Guys, you're going to have a blast. Then we had five more full days of fishing which got even better. __________________