I started going to Loreto WAY back when. At least the early ninties. I booked with Fly Fishing Specialties when Stan Hellickson was running the place. It was always the same group of guys from the Sacramento area. We stayed at La Pinta (I think) right on the beach close to the marina.
Every morning we'd walk over to the marina, find our pangero, and wait for the sun to come up and get our bait for the day. Then it was off, sometimes north, sometimes south, but we always found fish. Dorado were always at the top of the list and there were tons of them.
One day we had so many we had to sit down and take a break as the dorado continued to swim around the boat. What a sight it was to see two guys sitting giggling and pointing at all the fish next to the boat. We had been throwing poppers and one of mine was hanging over the gunnel of the boat just barely touching the water. Suddenly a big splash goes off and my rod flies out of the boat. There it goes skipping across the surface like a water-skier with a dorado pulling it like a speed-boat.
Long story short, I lost an 11 wt.SAGE and an ABEL BG#3. All we could do was laugh or cry, and get the spare rod out
Tony
TONY BUZOLICH
Feather River Fly
Yuba City, CA.
(530) 790-7180
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