Tony Reyes-sea of Cortez-1wk-6/08 : 06-01-2008 12:00 AM - 06-08-2008 05:00 AM

[bighead]

What month do you think you want to do this?

[ksong]

My friend, Jack arranged the Andrea Lynn, new and big 140' mothership of Baja Destination operation which also owns the Erik mothership.
They want to go back next June again and you might contact him to join the trip. No chartermater can do a better job than Jack as he literally cover every detail for maximum satisfaction for everybody on the boat.

Here is his assessment of the recent trip on the Andrea Lynn.

I am very happy everyone had a great trip,
that was my intention from the start.

In previous trips we had good fishing and had little tastes of the potential this area holds.
This year we were fortunate enough to be served a full meal of this potential and experienced what the area can really offer.
Truly spectacular and world class fishing at times.

This year I did take an extremely proactive approach to the charter, with many fail safes built in to prevent the occurrence of problems or issues in the previous trip.
Most were not necessary, as the operation this year is completely different.
While Gustavo the owner and visionary of this whole operation,
it was the day to day management of the crew by the new Cruise Director, Elana Rodriguez, aka Marta from Scarface who has transformed the operation. By the end of the trip, Max had new nicknames for everybody.
Extremely impressive the change from one year to the next,
and the efforts reflect in the way the crew operates and the general operation of the mother ship.
Of course I had to tweak things a bit for our needs

Also a major thanks to Gustavo for being a man of his word and a fishermans' fisherman.
He did a superb job of helping coordinate the various special needs for our group, that ranged from 4 tons of ice to lumber, transportation of a ton of gear from San Diego to San Felipe,
and numerous other special requests and I needs we had for this trip.

It was a great trip for all, including the crew, who had a blast with the crazy gringo's and couldn't wait to see what madness would come next.
At the end of the trip, after the bus was loaded with the gear and everyone onboard, I did a final check of the mothership.
In the galley, Elana was holding a crew meeting with all the guides and mothership crew. She gave me a hug and thanked us for an excellent trip, then the entire crew got up and thanked us for a great time as well.

We also accomplished a number of firsts in the history of Mothership fishing in the Sea of Cortez,
and were successful at finally night fishing, which offered us yet another taste of killer fishing.
While this trip might be hard to top,
I do think that with some small changes in our fishing route,
and some modifications to the way we night fish,
we could potentially exceed this trip with the cooperation of mother nature and the fish.

I need a few days to work on a detailed trip report,
but in a nutshell, as the others mentioned, the fishing was outrageous for most sessions on the trip.
You could have sank your panga with Yellowtail on 6 out of the 9 sessions.
In my opinion, the Cabrilla fishing was even better than the YT and Max and I had far more Cabrilla that YT in the fish box as we choose to fish for them more often, often ignoring a wild YT bite to concentrate on the even better Cabrilla bite.
In previous trip, a 10 pound fish were semi scarce, this trip 10's were common and they weren't considered "grande" until they were 15 or more pounds. There were about a dozen Cabrilla in the 18-20+ pound range, when we had 1 in that size range in the previous two trips.
There was only one big fish landed, a 180-190 pound Giant Black Seabass, but other large fish were hooked, just not landed.
I tangled with a half a dozen very large grouper and lost each battle, 46+ pounds of drag was not enough to stop them.

We had a great time in San Felipe on Friday night at our usual restaurant and local nighttime entertainment establishment.

[lite-liner]

Well, then, I guess I'll start the ball rolling then. I'll call Willie today
got a couple TFF people that wanna go...
New moon in June '08.
I'll call Longfin & see about ins, trans., accom., etc.
looks like 18-20 anglers are needed, minimum
good to see some interest!!!
-Brian

[lite-liner]

looks like 6/8-6-15 is waxing moon
6/22-6/28 waning moon
june is the time y'all!!
plus I got a kitchen pass from the boss if I coordinate it
w/ a family trip to the folks in O.C.
I will have a rental or my Dad and I will be going together from S.D
so there's room for 2 more from S.D. to san felipe....
If it's Ok, I would like to post up over on 2cool....
we need 27 anglers ready for this to happen.
who's ready for the BAJA!!!!!
-Brian

[FWM0103]

I would sure like to be one those 27 anglers, please put me on the list.

[Bill'em]

I hav ebeen on many of these trips. My family is very good freinds with the owners. If you hav eany questions drop me a PM

[FWM0103]

Brian,

Any new info regarding this trip???

[lite-liner]

Heck, it looked like interest fizzled. doesn't mean I don't wanna
do it though. just had to take over Ronnie's Venice trip, so i've
been focused on that. I managed to fill all the spots, so it looks
like i am going to Venice after all!
Even if there's not 20 here that wanna go, we could still probably get on
another charter that's only half-booked or something like that.
-Brian

[ksong]

If you don't have enough guys to charter the whole boat, I recommend to consider to join Jack's charter on the 135' Andrea Lynn next June.
I've never seen any charter master spend so much time to prepare and coordinate the charter as Jack did. Most mothership boats out of San Felipe, Baja are very old and are not comfortable. I toured teh Andea Lynn when I fished on the Erik last year. The boat looks like a luxurious long range boat out of San Diego.

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[lite-liner]

Kil - how can I get in touch w/ your friend Jack?
If this comes together, will you join us?

Who out there is interested in exploring this further?
Officially?
-Brian