La Bufadora - Punta Banda - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

YakHanded · 08-08-2016, 08:34 AM

Took off Thursday night headed down to La Bufadora set up camp and crashed out. Woke up Friday early and got out there. There was marine layer all morning so out around the corner of the Bufadora bay towards the point of punta banda was super rough but we decided to go for it seeing blue sky making its way towards us - We got to that first big boiler and fished behind it hiding from the wind. There was 80-100ft deep bull kelp and some of the biggest dogs ive ever seen. Both of us picked away at bass trev caught a nice calico 3-4lbs and I was also trying to jig some bait but only could manage smelt after an hour. The wind seemed like it was picking up even more so we decided to just head back to camp and wait it out. We both pinned on the only bait we had, these shit smelt and tossed them back. Trolling in the sketchiest cross chop windy conditions was interesting. As we were about to pull up and cut through the dense kelp by the blowhole back to camp trev gets smoked. He made short work of a nice 18lb yellow - made it back out that afternoon/evening but got blown off the water really quick.. did find some baby chovie sized greenbacks that session though.

We fished hard Saturday in the morning but got blown off the water quick.
Same result just assorted bass and I think some cool looking wrasse thing... I have it on the gopro just need to go through the footage. Trev had a nice 3 cast streak on surface iron calicos but smaller models still cool though.

Sunday we had set up to go on a panga with Vonny's fleet and our panguero Beto. He is a legend. We got out to the point of punta banda that extends out towards todos santos. Tons of boiler rocks and steep drop offs. Sardines EVERYWHERE. Literally seemed like it was raining. Picked away at the yellows on surface iron got 5 earlier in the AM then the bones showed up and couldn't seem to catch anything else. Ended with 5 yellows and easy 15 bones all on iron. After we got sick of the big bones we went in tight to those big boilers extending off the point and got nice calico bass action some big ones, Beto caught an easy 8lber. Again I have a ton of footage i need to go through... I will post a video eventually

Boarder was a bitch took 4 hours or so in line. Made it back late last night but it was worth it. Bufadora is definitely a cool place to camp only $20 for Thurs-Fri & Sat night. Fun little restaurant/bar and lots of ex-pat retirees live there so its got a cool feel to it, they put up a gate and have a guard 24hrs feels safe too. Definitely recommend it for kayakers has a ramp with a relatively easy launch and good fishing!

08-08-2016, 08:34 AM	#1
YakHanded Thread Killer - sorry Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: San Clemente Posts: 256	La Bufadora - Punta Banda Took off Thursday night headed down to La Bufadora set up camp and crashed out. Woke up Friday early and got out there. There was marine layer all morning so out around the corner of the Bufadora bay towards the point of punta banda was super rough but we decided to go for it seeing blue sky making its way towards us - We got to that first big boiler and fished behind it hiding from the wind. There was 80-100ft deep bull kelp and some of the biggest dogs ive ever seen. Both of us picked away at bass trev caught a nice calico 3-4lbs and I was also trying to jig some bait but only could manage smelt after an hour. The wind seemed like it was picking up even more so we decided to just head back to camp and wait it out. We both pinned on the only bait we had, these shit smelt and tossed them back. Trolling in the sketchiest cross chop windy conditions was interesting. As we were about to pull up and cut through the dense kelp by the blowhole back to camp trev gets smoked. He made short work of a nice 18lb yellow - made it back out that afternoon/evening but got blown off the water really quick.. did find some baby chovie sized greenbacks that session though. We fished hard Saturday in the morning but got blown off the water quick. Same result just assorted bass and I think some cool looking wrasse thing... I have it on the gopro just need to go through the footage. Trev had a nice 3 cast streak on surface iron calicos but smaller models still cool though. Sunday we had set up to go on a panga with Vonny's fleet and our panguero Beto. He is a legend. We got out to the point of punta banda that extends out towards todos santos. Tons of boiler rocks and steep drop offs. Sardines EVERYWHERE. Literally seemed like it was raining. Picked away at the yellows on surface iron got 5 earlier in the AM then the bones showed up and couldn't seem to catch anything else. Ended with 5 yellows and easy 15 bones all on iron. After we got sick of the big bones we went in tight to those big boilers extending off the point and got nice calico bass action some big ones, Beto caught an easy 8lber. Again I have a ton of footage i need to go through... I will post a video eventually Boarder was a bitch took 4 hours or so in line. Made it back late last night but it was worth it. Bufadora is definitely a cool place to camp only $20 for Thurs-Fri & Sat night. Fun little restaurant/bar and lots of ex-pat retirees live there so its got a cool feel to it, they put up a gate and have a guard 24hrs feels safe too. Definitely recommend it for kayakers has a ramp with a relatively easy launch and good fishing!