Went down to San Quintin with some of the guys. It would be Juan(Cappo), Jason(Oz), David(Odium), Hariel(Hbomb), Robert(Murrieta Angler), and myself fishing with K&M Sportfishing aboard both his 25 Pilothouse and 23 Cuddy Parkers. Long story short...we had 10' swells 20kt winds. We made the best of it and had a blast. Still ended up with some quality feesh!
DAY ONE
Met up with the guys and carpooled down to SQ. The drive down was pretty uneventful as usual. We did get stopped at one of the military inspections. They made a quick routine walk around the truck and checked under the seats. We arrived at the Old Mill around 2pm. Our original plan was to get unloaded and hit one of the beaches for some surf fishing but the wind wouldn’t allow. It was blowing pretty good so we just fished in front of the hotel for whatever wanted to bite.
I was the first to hookup on a nicer fish but it ended up taking me into the weeds...im guessing it was a decent sized bass. Oz hooked up a few mins later on this spottie.
then on this one
It was pretty slow after that...i got a small perch off the pier.
We went back to the hotel and got ready for dinner. Drove down to Jardines but it was closed. Im guessing for Good Friday? We drove down hwy 1 and just about everything was closed. We stopped at the first restaurant that was open.
I had the Camarones a la Diabla.
We stopped at a small market to stock up on peanut butter and jelly for the next days fishing
birotes
...so I pay and im walking out side and some drunk old man is stumbling in the door with a beer in his hand. He mumbles something and keeps walking in. He walks up to the guys and wants to shake everyones hand. We tried to ignore him but it looked like he was about to start trouble for the two ladies working at the store so I tapped him on the shoulder and told him to follow me outside. So now hes walking behind me staring me down thinking I want to fight him LMAO. We get outside and hes stumbling, spilling his beer, and still staring me down LOL. The guys finish up inside the store and we head back to the hotel. Later that afternoon we end up going to Don Eddies for some fresh steamed clams and some drinks...
DAY TWO
Met up with Kelly at the ramp around 6am. The wind isn’t really blowing so im thinking were gonna have a great day on the water.
Kelly has some nice boats
Hariel likes doing things the hard way LOL
Its looking like a nice day!
Welcome to SQ!
Im glad we decided to fish with K&M and not on a regular panga. The reason being as soon as we got out of the bay we ran into some pretty big swells. They were mixed between 6-10'. I hope some of the other guys took some better pics of the conditions. This is what i got...
Cant even see the boat behind us LOL just the rods!
It didnt take long for me to start feeling nautious...lean over the rail and BARF. LOL my first time ever being sea sick.
Hariel was the next one to start chumming… We spent most of the day in the cuddy trying to sleep it off. I would feel better, step outside, wet my line for a few mins then go back in the cuddy. Robert didn’t feel sick at all and fished hard all day long.
He caught a nice Yellowtail so me and Hariel try for a bit…..go back to the cuddy.
We got some barracudas on the troll…
At this point in my head im already done for the day. Until...
“VICTOR!!! BOILS!” I jump out of the cuddy and I see birds all around. Nice! I grab my rod and we fish the spot for a while…no hits. All of a sudden we get some good marks on the bottom. “here they come guys!” . Robert gets the first HOOOOKUUUP! Then Hariel, Me, then our Captain Oscar. Quadruple hookup on Yellows! Hariel ended up with his first ever Yellowtail. This made up for the whole day of puking LOL. We called the other boat but the guys were already on their way in. We tried to find the school of yellows again but the disappeared....fished for a half hour or so more and headed in.
We still managed to get some nice fish for the day
We got to the ramp and David was waiting for us with his Yellowtail carcas LOL
Posing for pics
Fish Cleaning
OOPS how did that get in there? LOL
So after washing up at the hotel and kicking back for a while we drove to Jardines again to see if it was open.
You just cant beat the food and service at Jardines... Everyone is stuffed now and so tired from getting beat up on the water. It didnt take long to knock out.