The girlfriend and I headed out at 4:30 on the 2 1/2 hour drive to Anchor Bay to meet up with Adam and Ryan. As soon as I pull up the lady starts demanding I hurry up and pay her. I ask her if it's ok if I check to make sure the water conditions are safe for us first. She replies with "The water conditions were superb yesterday, many people had an excellent time, please provide me with monetary compensation for the use of our facilities. Please do not cause me anymore problems." It seems oddly rude but it's early so I apologize and tell her I didn't mean to cause any problems. She again tells me to hurry and not sit down there drinking beer. (It's 7 am???) She starts trash talking Ryan and Adam and says we can't go down to unload until they move. She then takes off to tell them to hurry up.

I head down to unload. She's standing there watching and tells me to hurry up again. I take 5 steps over to make sure the water is even dividable before unloading the kayaks and all the gear and she follows me and says "The water is flat, unload NOW and go." I tell her I need to check for myself. She replies that I'm no longer welcome and tells me to leave. Okaaaaaay. Sorry camp Nazi, you got it. I'll never spend a dollar here again. FYI the breakers were too big for my girlfriend who's new to ocean kayaking to safely launch in.

After leaving I get a text from Ryan that her methed out henchman called the sheriff on me to report me as driving drunk. Hahahahaha unreal...long drive for this extremely rude lady to ruin my day.... I wrote the experience up on their page reviews, but of course it was immediately deleted and I was blocked from the page ;D


Luckily I gave DG a ring and he was going out. Shot Kathy a text and she headed down to Albion too. Duane, Dan, Dan 2, Kathy, and the girlfriend and I headed out and found 35'-40' vis!!!

Me and Duane parked in 45/50' and did a dozen or so drops looking for vermillion. No luck, but found at least one ling on every drop. One drop 3 were swimming up to me. At 50' this stupid ling swims up to me, and I push him away with my gun. He doesn't get the hint and swims back at me so I popped him.

Went in a bit shallower and my girlfriend shot her first limit of lings while I was off getting skunked hahaha...... Kathy shot a nice ling and a cab.

Great day with amazing conditions. Glad it turned around from that nightmare experience of being treated like trash for no reason.

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Went out for a dive today with Jason and Michael. Had some great water with 1-2' swell, and 25-30' vis. Dropped down and shot a small ling right off the bat. Jason shot a couple cabs. We moved in to some shallower water where the vis was better. I took a drop right under my buddies kayak in 25' and saw a nice big smile under a rock. Popped it and pulled up a 25" cab.

Got back to shore and weighed it in. I was pretty stoked it was the new pole spear world record I had been eying for quite some time. More like years...and years. I check the records to go submit it and see someone beat me to it 2 weeks ago. Years of getting close and when I finally get it I miss it by 2 WEEKS! Hahaha oh well. We had a great day on the water.

After a grueling 30+ hour drive with no more than a 15 minute rest break we arrived to the rental house in Los Barriles


Got so much needed sleep. Picked up Ryan G and his girlfriend the next day and hit the reef. The water was a blistering 88 degrees and too hot for suits.

Went and picked up Jason O, Jack J and his fiancee from the airport. Got a call from Hobie that him and his friend were in town so they came out for a few drinks.
 


We hired a pangero and went out for some Bluewater. The morning started off with dropping down to about 50' and seeing a huge school of skipjack with a couple yellowfin mixed in. Jason dropped down later and shot a nice pargo.


Didn't see much the rest of the day. As we were out of time I asked Ryan and Jason to do a drop so I could get some video. As the three of us are breathing up, a dorado suddenly appears right off Ryans fin, and Jason snaps around and lands a shot.



We went home and made some mahi mahi tacos and skipjack poke. Wasn't too bad.


A brief storm rolled through and Ryan snapped a great shot.


Did a couple more panga trips and shore dives. Spearing is rough. Out of all of us there were maybe three wahoo sightings the whole 2 weeks so far, along with a couple roosters.


After nearly two weeks I finally had 4 nice roosters swim by me. Unfortunately I just set down my 150 and picked up my 82 with one band half loaded. I managed to hit one but there was zero penetration.



Dropped off the gang at the airport and went out for some shore dives with Joe M and his neighbor. Found a couple lobsters.








Had some stuff going and, and a hurricane was blowing in so yesterday I flew back home for a week. Heading back down to meet a new group to go out for more blue water with Colin Sutton, finish the trip and drive home.

I saw a video last season of an abalone diver nearly dying while attempting to go out without any safety knowledge.  I sent him a message about going out for a dive, and we finally managed to get out and pull some abs. Focusing on safety and very beginner stuff to hopefully stop anyone from getting hurt or killed. If you guys don't already follow his channel check him out, lots of good fishing stuff, although it's mostly all from shore.

I just booked this place in Los Barriles from August 15-September 30. I'm hoping to find a few groups of divers/kayak fisherman that would like to come down and can kick down $60/night to help with the cost. I will have my vehicle down there and 1-2 kayaks. I can pick up 1-4 from Cabo san Lucas airport 1 1/2 hour away. Colin Sutton will be there in early September and I plan on at least a couple days with him, so if you're interested in a charter we can try and get on the same one. Booking sooner than later is obviously the best way to get cheap airfare, and right now I'm seeing round trip tickets for as low as $340

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I'm getting my new Kraken in the mail (thanks for the support with the upcoming trip Jackson!) with only a day or two before departure to get it all rigged up. Is there a simple plug and play attachment to get my Hook 5 in it quick and easy? I think I saw a lot of them mounted on an attachment in the center.

Links to what I need would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Stupid question but I'm not sure I have his right. Just bought a shimano rod and tekota 500 LC reel. Are they all right handed? If the line counter is facing up, the logo is upside down. And it only attaches where the eyelets are on top of the rod not underneath. Is this right?