San Carlos Trip Pt.4 - "The sea was angry that day, my friend"

[dgax65]

FishinSteve
Surprisingly, everybody dealt with the enforced sobriety very well. There was no bitchiness at all throughout the trip. This group meshed well handled the adversity without much complaint.
I think there are other trips available later in the year. Anytime before May is going to be a bit of a crap shoot. You can't do anything about the wind. It really boils down to management of expectations. Don't go to Baja or the Sea of Cortez in the winter and expect to be able to fish every day. The odds are that the wind will be a factor. We also learned some valuable info about fishing for big jacks, pargo and grouper. The bottom structure is going to make it very difficult to get a large fish on the kayak. With a boat you have some options, but on a kayak you are very limited in how you can fight the fish. When you start pulling on it, you are going to end up directly over the fish. This makes it very likely that your line will be rubbing across some rock. Catching the big winter fish from a yak will be a challenge. If you go down there knowing this and adjust your expectations you should have a good time. As you could see from the pictures, there were plenty of fish to be caught (not by me, of course....but the others did well). Go down there with the expectation that you will catch some tasty fish, have to work for your catch, see some beautiful sights and maybe do some diving and you'll be happy. If you go to catch the "right kind" you ought to wait until summer. It was fun, regardless of the number or type of fish that were caught.