That awkward snippet of time between Christmas and New Year’s is what I often refer to as the Skin Flap Days. You really don’t know what to do with it. If you get a new fly rod for Christmas, likely you stand in your front yard casting away. Neighbors can’t resist the urge to slow down as they roll past and shout, “Catching anything?” This type of low-level humor is the worst, but even lower are some of the experiments I’ve tried to pass this string of time. I’ve gone to Annapolis, Md., to eat oysters. Once I drove to the Four Corners and shopped for pottery but didn’t buy any. This year I decided to take this time and spend it wisely. Bucking tradition and thumbing my nose at social norms, I opted to go to Magdalena Bay on the Baja Peninsula to pass The Skin Flap. Dean, a friend from... Continue Reading

Well, we have delayed our Mag Bay fishing reports once again, and for that we apologize.  So, here we will try to make up some of the season up until February 2021. Most notably it is almost Mid February and there are still insane bait balls holding marlin, dorado, wahoo and even tuna.   So the fishing is absolutely incredible, but we don’t get to go out much as the world seems to think the best fishing in Mag Bay is just October through December.   This is true to some extent, but not always.  Generally the striped marlin fishing is incredible until late January and sometimes in late February.  This year I think the Marlin will be out there until March. Our southern banks hold tuna and wahoo often all through the Spring, but are almost never fished as they cannot be reached in... Continue Reading

Fishing Report MagBay Oct 13 2020 So far this season has been a little unusual.  Late September the water warmed up to 86 to 88 degrees offshore, and similar inside the bay.  Bait was hard to find in the bay and water offshore was extremely warm.  Deep blue and warm.  This seemed to have a negative impact on the fishing out side of Mag Bay.  There were some marlin and some dorado, but few and far between.  We do know there were some bigger blue marlin around, but we were not lucky enough to get one.  Luckily this was very short lived. As of today, the water is still above average for this time of year about 80-82 degrees but cooling fast.  And the fishing has come back strong.  The bait balls have began to form, so we are seeing large numbers of marlin, the mag bay typical claim to... Continue Reading

Well, despite the pandemic, we still had quite a few trips for August.  All in all it was a pretty epic month, with some special spot bottom fishing highlights.  Offshore pre Hurricane was absolutely phenomenal with more dorado than perhaps we have erver seen in August.  We saw a water temp spike all the way to 83 degrees in some areas with an average of about 79 SST.  There were good size tuna on the ridge, marlin sightings about 5-10 a day – hookups 1-2.  Dorado were the reason hookups were low because before you could get the boat moving the dorado were everywhere jumping on all the lines no matter what size the lure. Then  came the hurricane.  This changed everything.  Water temp went down to 71 and 72 and the beautiful deep blue water disappeared along with all the fish. ... Continue Reading