While you are freezing your toes

OK it has been quite a while since I last posted here, but I had to share  some photos of our recent trip to the East Cape in Baja. How about some 82 degree water. It was truly the most incredible trip we have had down there yet. We were able to land nine billfish, seven of which were from the kayaks. Total for the trip was 5 striped marlin and four sailfish. Two of our guests had the incredible story of their first fish ever from a kayak being a Marlin. They will have a tough time topping that.







I just received these photos from our trip from another photographer on a different boat.




Jim Sammons
La Jolla Kayak Fishing
www.Kayak4Fish.com

AWESOME pictures.   What were you using and how to catch those monsters?

thanks for putting a smile on face today

Saw this on your site.  Amazing scores, lifetime fish.

AWESOME pictures.   What were you using and how to catch those monsters?

Trolling live bait is the ticket for these fish.

Those are some fantastic pics and fish!  i was just down there and stayed at Palmas De Cortez Oct. 14-17.  Fished two days out of a cruiser and caught 15 tuna, 2 sails, 1 striped marlin and 3 dorado and a couple of skip jacks and all the humbolt squid you wanted to crank up.  I took a yak out for about an hour in front of the hotel and kept getting bit by something pretty toothy-my swimbait was totally trashed, but I never saw what was hitting it.   Maybe next time I'll spend more time on the yak and catch some keepers.

Jody

`notuna'

Amazing stuff Jim! Thanks for posting it. I will be dreaming of this while freezing my ass off waiting for Mr. Sturgeon to bite.  

Nice!!!

Hmmm ... the girlfriend was just talking about going down to the cape around Xmas time.

-Allen

Oh yah!  I am headed to Baja from Xmas through new mid Jan, with team Bodega.  Awsome pix Jim, I can't wait to catch something that large.

InSeine

Allen, if your headed that way, we have a palapa in Mulege plenty of camping space on the beach.

Hey Inseine..

Do you guys drive in?  I've driven to Cabo San Lucas years ago and the scenery was unbelievable.  Christmas, New Years in that area, the weather is awesome!

Jdyak

Nice!!!

Hmmm ... the girlfriend was just talking about going down to the cape around Xmas time.

-Allen

Beware the wind in the East Cape that time of year. Bring your windsurfer so you have something to do, It can blow for days.

 I took a yak out for about an hour in front of the hotel and kept getting bit by something pretty toothy-my swimbait was totally trashed, but I never saw what was hitting it.   Maybe next time I'll spend more time on the yak and catch some keepers.

Jody

`notuna'

Could be triggers or sierra, lots of toothy critters down there, plastics generally stay home when I go to the Cape.

you can bust over to todos santos if el norte shows on the east cape. no wind on the pacific side even when el norte is howling on the sea of cortez side.

sierra off the beach in the a.m.

small dorado within kayak range (maybe)

One day saw a big jack/rooster (20-30lbs) chase a  green jack (1lb) right into the big boulders lining the shore.  I was surfing. sierra were jumpin.

I saw a dude catch a snook (!) on a tiny spoon from shore at punta conejo another 90 minutes north of there. I caught a rooster from shore there myself. a guy standing next to my brother caught a peanut skipjack from shore (!). I am dying to take a kayak out there.  it would be the wild west of kayaking.

waves can be honking big pacific side in the winter tho, just like here and north/west shore hawaii.

I have had halfbeaks take refuge in my lap while waitin for waves at playa los cerritos.  little and bigger toros (jack crevalle) off the point there, plus clown hawkfish and the llike in the reefs.

it ain't all just over there on the cape, especially if inshore light tackle with no other people around is interesting to you. baja kicks ass, but it's not all guided trips in los frailes...

I did have christmas dinner once at that fancy resort @ los frailes. They made a killer turkey dinner. and yep, it was windy.  camping at the fig tree...

I hear that sammons guy is a real fireplug of a man.  

I hear that sammons guy is a real fireplug of a man.  

Don't start that