BajaTime!

[TunaHead]

Well guy's, it's finally time for my long awaited fishing trip to Baja. *This trip has been planned for over a year. *I leave tomorrow with my brother to meet up with family and friends for almost a week of fishing aboard the Andrea Lynn. *The Andrea is one of the "panga-motherships" that run fishing and diving charters from San Felipe to the Midriff islands in the sea of Cortez. *On Friday our group of 20 will climb aboard a chartered bus in San Diego and head south of the border to San Felipe. *On Saturday morning we will board the ship and motor south through Saturday night. *When we wake up (sober up?) Sunday morning we will be almost 200 miles south and near the islands. *The Andrea will piggy back ~10 pangas (22 foot fiberglass skiffs). *After breakfast Sunday morning we will climb into the skiffs with our panguero and head off to the islands to fish or dive. *We'll return to the ship at noon for lunch then head out again in the afternoon to fish until sunset when we return for dinner. *At night we'll fish from the boat for bait and on one or two nights we'll hang the lights over the side and fish for giant humboldt squid. *The Andrea returns to port on the following Thursday and we'll make our way back to San Diego. *Wish me luck. *I plan to post a log of the trip when I get back.

Oh yes Mr. Hammer... there WILL be pictures.

Below is a map of Baja then an enlargement of the islands we'll be fishing. *I'll refer back to these maps when I post my reports later.






The picture below was taken last week aboard the Andrea and posted in the weekly Mexfish.com report. *My dad turned 76 last week. *He and mom are coming along and his dream is to land one of these.

MIDRIFF BIGGIES--A pair of large gulf grouper landed at La Vibora at the south end of Isla Angel de la Guarda aboard the San Felipe panga mothership Andrea Lynn last week.

[Sean]

Holy Vacation/fishing trip!!! :o ;D
I thought only the guy from the Spanish Fly could pull a trip like that off
Good luck!!!!! ;D ;D ;D

[charlie_the_tuna]

why you son of a . . . . . . . . .

[willy]

Be safe Tuna, bring the sunscreen and use it, bring the Jack and use it, catch a big one ;)

[TunaHead]

Willy, the charter company is adamant that no alcohol be brought aboard. *There is a bar aboard ship and, of course they would rather we buy our hooch from them.

I'm not sure, but I might have left a WW 1 era canteen full of Jack packed deep in one of my bags *::)

man, that's an awesome trip. good luck!

[macojoe]

Good Luck and have a fun safe trip!!

[TunaHead]

TunaTrip update...

Apparently United Airlines had some kind of major computer glitch this AM. Eric and I arrived in San Francisco to find that our flight to San Diego had been cancelled (as had numerous others). We were rebooked on a flight that leaves after 10:00 PM and should get to SD after midnight. (10 hours at SFO + change)

On the plus side... the women in SF are amazing. Eric and I spent ~ 2 hours sitting at the window of a corner bar sipping quality beer and watching the scenery. I'd take pictures for ya but there is no place on this 50 cent/minute public computer to load them :P

[reelapeelin]

That's OK on the women...we got pretty good imaginations ;D ...hope no more airline curveballs ... have a LARGE time and brang home many pix ;) ;D ;D ...

[TunaHead]

Hello from San Diego. Long day yesterday. We arrived in San Francisco at 12:00 noon and finally boarded the plane to San Diego at exactly midnight. But... we are up and good to go. We met up with Jack, our charter master from Staten Island. Great accent!