San Felipe, Baja?

Anyone have any experience fishing from a yak in San Felipe?  We  have a friend building a place down there and we may drive down in Feb and was wondering if it is worth hauling the yaks down.  BIG tide changes I know.
Any info would be great.

Jody

I've never been there, but my inlaws own a place there.  I've quizzed them a lot about it.  Yeah, huge tide changes with a flat sand beach, which means at low tide it's a looooong pull through the wet sand to the water.

Additionally, there's little structure near there which means a long boat ride to where the fish are.   The upshot is that if you've got a place there, it would be a good center of operations, but you're gonna have to travel from there to get to good fishing.  There's good rocky structure to the south where you could drive for yak fishing or spearfishing.

Dave

hey notuna, i have been going to san felipe since i was a small child and now have built a house there. the tides are indeed huge, it is a fifteen foot tide on the new moon cycle it can go out as far as 1 1/2 miles and about a mile on the other tides. as for fishing it is a little bare unless you go way out with the panga operators to the islands, and this is more towards later spring, there are a few corbina to be had and a lot of rays in the tidal zone, in early summer we do get the occasional larger game fish that gets a little turned around but the water temp in summer can reach 101f. but it is a nice place to paddle with the stark contrast of the baja desert, mountains and the blue of the sea of cortez. hope this helps, cameron