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Fly Fish Mex Fishing Report; Roosterfish, Dorado, Tuna Bite Wide Open in October

By James on November 7, 2017

October always has the potential to be an explosive month for fly fishing on Baja’s East Cape. Septembers storm season has past, water temperatures are warm, but gradually cooling. It is a time of year when a mix of species frequent the area and anglers have the opportunity to to chase a variety of fish. […]

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Baja Fishing Report Spring 2017

By James on August 29, 2017

Although it was another difficult year for sardines, we started to see more stable conditions and water temperatures bringing back the normal order of change. The water temperature rose and fell with more regularity throughout the season than in the past couple years when they varied and flip flopped. For Baja, I would rate this […]

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Fishing Report 2016 October Baja

By James on October 19, 2016

Modulating weather and water temps made for an ever changing palette of species on the bite. In the first week of October we had large variety, but only a fair catch rate. We encountered wahoo, tuna, large roosterfish, big skipjacks and huge marlin. There has been a school of tuna mixed with skipjack were inshore […]

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Fishing Report 2016 July Baja

By James on August 18, 2016

Hot days and cool water temps in Southern Baja made for an action packed, but different summer season. Curiously absent was the schools of dorado we normally see this time of year, but the marlin offshore and roosterfish inshore kept us plenty busy. We saw good numbers of roosterfish, big roosterfish along the beaches in […]

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Fishing Report 2016 May/June Baja

By James on June 24, 2016

The new normal in Baja is that nothing should be taken for granted, except that change is inevitable and constant. Unseasonable weather and water conditions combined with different, but abundant bait forced guides and captains to get creative. The time proven chum and switch technique using small bait like sardines or ballyhoo, was short lived […]

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October Fishing Report

By James on June 23, 2015

For those who braved the hurricane devastation and threat of Dengue fever, the Baja bite was wide open last week. Sardines have rained down on the peninsula and with them came hungry fish of all kinds. Our trip started at team Beulah’s usual Baja haunt. Flyfishing, by any other standard, would have been considered excellent […]

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2015 Baja Spring Fishing Report

By James on June 22, 2015

Fishing is always good in Baja, you just have to adapt to what’s hot. The 2015 spring season was hampered by late winds and cold water. Bait was available, though not plentiful or large in size. The combination of these two things worked against the normal May-June fishery of roosterfish and dorado, but presented opportunities […]

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October In Baja

By James on June 21, 2015

October can be an and was an outstanding month for flyfishing in Baja. Warm water and plentiful bait brought marlin, dorado , skipjack and a few tuna into the area. Large schools of Humboldt squid swam at @ 500-1000 ft and had pelagic species whipped into a frenzy. We landed dorado in the 10-30lb range, […]

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Roosterfish Report Baja 2013

By James on June 10, 2013

If size matters, you should be here this week. Larger roosterfish have moved into the area including some absolute monsters. Margaret Shaughnessy hooked fought and landed a 70lb plus roosterfish that is a pending world record breaking all previously records both men and women. The fish took 3 hours 40 minutes to land was weighed […]

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