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chriscoobs · Aug-13-2005, 10:39 AM

i will have pics posted in a few days, i dont have a Digi.
I leave for san felipe at 6am from huntington beach and cross at mexicali, its a 3 hour drive from there with 2 BP check points in between. we go into town and waste a little $ on coronas and junk at the vendors. we sleep on the boat sat night and there was no one to keep the generator going to the state room was about 120 , so i sleped outside where it was only 105 or so. we head out at at about 11am, and run all day untill we make bait at 3am then fish at about 7 or so. we had scrambeled eggs, toast, hash browns and beans for breakfast every morning without fail.
first day fishing we picked up on a good # of yellows 5-15lbs, i was letting the small guys go and kept four 12-18#, also picked up on a few cabrilla, i doubt any would have topped 6# though. Just before sunset i picked up on my first pargo that went 18.4#, really pulled hard.
we make bait and it comes in good tonite, we have the tanks full in an hour.
DAY TWO FISHING We get into more tiny yellows 5-8lbs i was letting most of them go. the boat gets tired of yellows so the captian goes looking for other species.
DAY THREE FISHING we get into more yellow tail 5-10lbs and cabrilla to 8-10lbs., I stay back for the 2nd fishing session to hang out and snorkel around (brought my spear pole but never saw anything i could hit, only tiny fish) the weather goes from flat seas to small craft advisory in 2 hours, we get thunder and lighting for a few hours then the rain comes for about 3 hours, it stops at about midnight.
DAY FOUR FISHING We had a slow morning, i picked up 4 or 5 cabrilla, two of them were 6-8# the others were half that. in the after noon we go for dorado, tiny tiny dorado, alot looked like trout they were so small, i kept two that were 10# class fish, and let 5 or 6 go. we look for squid for WSB bait for the next day but we dont find any squid so we use frozen squid but no WSB for anyone, we look all over and run 20+ miles from the mothership with no luck at all, i think i got 2 cabrilla that day and a trigger fish i threw back. i stay in for the PM session jumped off the top of the boat about 30 times then hung out on top deck and enjoyed the $.75 beers till dinner

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DAY 5 FISHING i decide to try and find something with my spear pole so i skip the last fishing session to kayak to a lagoon, on the island we are anchored off. i saw so many bones on the island (Isla encantada if anyone cares) wale, dolphin, seal,pelican, seagull bones all totally bleached out, dozens of huge wale vertabrae too. i wonder around the island for about an hour then head back for the "4 " hour drive that turned into an 8 hour drive, the skipper said we would be in at 2pm, we were there by 7:30 for unloading
PROS OF THE TRIP i cought my first pargo, cabrilla,o yea and a trigger fish

the midriff islands are amazing, i had no idea how many there were....there was never less then 2 or 3 islands insight,we saw wales, dolphins, huge manta rays jumping out of the water, hundreds and hundreds of catcus 20feet from the water, followed by a shooting stars all over the place 2 nights in a row. but aside from that....
NOW FOR THE LONG,LONG,LONG RANT ON HOW BAD THE TRIP WAS. I really had a bad time on the trip, there were so manythings that fell short of what was expected of any decent crew/captian, not to mention the boat and pangas, which were in horrible disrepair(except the yamaha 4 stroke 50hp's on the pangas. The deck hands were not friendly at all, they never smiled or made much effort to help anyone other then shake off your bait into the tanks at night. Also we had the same thing for breakfast for 5 days. We would come in from a 4-5 hour fishing session and then wait 2 hours before lunch would be served, then there would be a 2 hour wait before dinner, the food was horrible, just rice beans and some burned carne asada, then sometimes chicken and tostadas, the exception being the yellow tail they cooked one night, we were also served hot soup when it was 110 degrees outside. We wasted countless hours that could have been spent fishing or going inshore, but they broke our time up very poorly.Very little effort was put into finding anything but poor grade fish then cabrilla when there was nothing else. I never saw one deck hand smile or be in a good mood the entire time unless it was when they were eating dinner together, the rest of the time they looked pissed. I would never fish out of any of the san felipe boats, the long range out of san diego boats in my opinion offer a much higher level of service in everyrespect, i wouldnt have gone on another san felipe trip if somone payed me $500 to go again. i will have pictured posted when i get them developed and scan them.

CHRIS.

Aug-13-2005, 10:39 AM	#1 (permalink)
chriscoobs Registered User Name: Chris Age: 24 Vessel: sportys Location: So Cal Job:geology/hydrology	Tony Reyes aug 7th-13th report i will have pics posted in a few days, i dont have a Digi. I leave for san felipe at 6am from huntington beach and cross at mexicali, its a 3 hour drive from there with 2 BP check points in between. we go into town and waste a little $ on coronas and junk at the vendors. we sleep on the boat sat night and there was no one to keep the generator going to the state room was about 120 , so i sleped outside where it was only 105 or so. we head out at at about 11am, and run all day untill we make bait at 3am then fish at about 7 or so. we had scrambeled eggs, toast, hash browns and beans for breakfast every morning without fail. first day fishing we picked up on a good # of yellows 5-15lbs, i was letting the small guys go and kept four 12-18#, also picked up on a few cabrilla, i doubt any would have topped 6# though. Just before sunset i picked up on my first pargo that went 18.4#, really pulled hard. we make bait and it comes in good tonite, we have the tanks full in an hour. DAY TWO FISHING We get into more tiny yellows 5-8lbs i was letting most of them go. the boat gets tired of yellows so the captian goes looking for other species. DAY THREE FISHING we get into more yellow tail 5-10lbs and cabrilla to 8-10lbs., I stay back for the 2nd fishing session to hang out and snorkel around (brought my spear pole but never saw anything i could hit, only tiny fish) the weather goes from flat seas to small craft advisory in 2 hours, we get thunder and lighting for a few hours then the rain comes for about 3 hours, it stops at about midnight. DAY FOUR FISHING We had a slow morning, i picked up 4 or 5 cabrilla, two of them were 6-8# the others were half that. in the after noon we go for dorado, tiny tiny dorado, alot looked like trout they were so small, i kept two that were 10# class fish, and let 5 or 6 go. we look for squid for WSB bait for the next day but we dont find any squid so we use frozen squid but no WSB for anyone, we look all over and run 20+ miles from the mothership with no luck at all, i think i got 2 cabrilla that day and a trigger fish i threw back. i stay in for the PM session jumped off the top of the boat about 30 times then hung out on top deck and enjoyed the $.75 beers till dinner . DAY 5 FISHING i decide to try and find something with my spear pole so i skip the last fishing session to kayak to a lagoon, on the island we are anchored off. i saw so many bones on the island (Isla encantada if anyone cares) wale, dolphin, seal,pelican, seagull bones all totally bleached out, dozens of huge wale vertabrae too. i wonder around the island for about an hour then head back for the "4 " hour drive that turned into an 8 hour drive, the skipper said we would be in at 2pm, we were there by 7:30 for unloading PROS OF THE TRIP i cought my first pargo, cabrilla,o yea and a trigger fish the midriff islands are amazing, i had no idea how many there were....there was never less then 2 or 3 islands insight,we saw wales, dolphins, huge manta rays jumping out of the water, hundreds and hundreds of catcus 20feet from the water, followed by a shooting stars all over the place 2 nights in a row. but aside from that.... NOW FOR THE LONG,LONG,LONG RANT ON HOW BAD THE TRIP WAS. I really had a bad time on the trip, there were so manythings that fell short of what was expected of any decent crew/captian, not to mention the boat and pangas, which were in horrible disrepair(except the yamaha 4 stroke 50hp's on the pangas. The deck hands were not friendly at all, they never smiled or made much effort to help anyone other then shake off your bait into the tanks at night. Also we had the same thing for breakfast for 5 days. We would come in from a 4-5 hour fishing session and then wait 2 hours before lunch would be served, then there would be a 2 hour wait before dinner, the food was horrible, just rice beans and some burned carne asada, then sometimes chicken and tostadas, the exception being the yellow tail they cooked one night, we were also served hot soup when it was 110 degrees outside. We wasted countless hours that could have been spent fishing or going inshore, but they broke our time up very poorly.Very little effort was put into finding anything but poor grade fish then cabrilla when there was nothing else. I never saw one deck hand smile or be in a good mood the entire time unless it was when they were eating dinner together, the rest of the time they looked pissed. I would never fish out of any of the san felipe boats, the long range out of san diego boats in my opinion offer a much higher level of service in everyrespect, i wouldnt have gone on another san felipe trip if somone payed me $500 to go again. i will have pictured posted when i get them developed and scan them. CHRIS.