Baja Fishing Report
Over the past decade, ‘Hooked on Baja’ author, Tom Gatch, has built a solid reputation as one of the foremost writers and columnists focusing on outdoor, travel and culinary topics in Baja and southern California. His company, EL PUERTO Creative Consultants S.A. de C.V. also provides professional copywriting and creative support for business entities on both sides of the border.
Jan. 15, 2019
The wickedly chilly fingers of a frigid Canadian cold front helped to ring in our New Year by reaching down the Pacific coast and bringing bone-chilling temperatures to points as far south as central Baja
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Sept. 15, 2018
Now that the Labor Day weekend has come and gone, we can take stock of some of the fantastic offshore action that has been taking place along the coast of southern California and Baja during the past summer
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June 15, 2018
The foggy May gray and June gloom weather that traditionally descends upon the coasts of southern California and Northern Baja did so again this year; but this time it looks as if Baja California’s
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March 15, 2018
Most of the fall season of 2017 in Baja California Norte was defined by warm and windy Santa Ana conditions. It was an extended Indian summer that continued through December and into the New Year
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September 15, 2017
The steamy, tropical weather patterns that dominated conditions along the west coasts of both the U.S. and Baja this summer finally came to a head over the Labor Day weekend. Tropical storm, Lidia,
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June 15, 2017
As we slide into summer, the inland temperatures along the eastern coast of the Baja coast are beginning to soar, which causes the marine layer on the Pacific side of northern and central Baja to thicken
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April 15, 2017
Without a doubt, the winter rainy season in 2017 was intense, but well needed. Rarely do the chaparral covered hills of southern California and Baja Norte look as stunningly emerald as they do right now. Nonetheless, even with occasional breaks in the inclement weather, the fishing plans of many an angler were negatively impacted by the inability to get out on the water.
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January 15, 2017
Our post El Niño warmth in 2017 has been predicted to carry over for several months here in the southwest. However, the New Year was still ushered in by a series of storms, which smacked both southern California and northern Baja.
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October 15, 2016
Baja’s extremely productive summer fishing season closed out this year in classic fashion; with a couple of hurricanes off the southern tip of the peninsula.
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July 15, 2016
Now that summer has officially begun, the bite on a variety of popular gamesters is in full swing as water temperatures around the Baja California peninsula continue to climb several degrees above what is generally normal
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April 26, 2016
Although the very beginning of 2016 was ushered in by chilly rain and thunder storms, it was not long before warmer weather once again prevailed over southern California and the Baja California peninsula
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January 14, 2015
Looking back at 2014, most Baja anglers would have to agree that it was indeed an epic year for fishing south of the border. The El Niño driven spike in offshore water temperatures arrived just as
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October 15, 2014
When scientists predicted that El Niño conditions would prevail along the Eastern Pacific coast this summer, they weren’t kidding. As it turns out, surface water temperatures have been running a good
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June 18, 2014
The data is in, and it probably should come as no surprise that after such a warm, dry weather pattern in the southwest this past spring, scientists are now predicting that a full blown El Nino condition will
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March 12, 2014
We are learning that, as weather patterns change, strange things can happen. And while this winter’s ‘Polar Vortex’ may have played havoc through several northerly states in the east and mid-west, Mother Nature has been kind enough to simultaneously bathe the southwest and Baja
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January 15, 2014
This used to be the season when southern California anglers would get out the heavy duty rockcod gear, spool up their 6/0 to 9/0 reels with 80 to100 pound test Dacron line, and then start making plans to head out to the various offshore banks along our continental
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September 12, 2013
While residents of Midwestern and northeastern states may already be bracing themselves for the chilly fall and winter season to come, those lucky enough to live in southern California and Baja still have several months of sunny, summer-like weather on tap.
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June 12, 2013
As late spring slips into early summer, there is an awakening of activity amongst a number of Baja’s most popular gamefish. One highly targeted offshore species is the yellowfin tuna, which regularly work their way up the peninsula on the wake of more southerly hurricane activity as the season progresses.
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March 12, 2013
When it comes to sportfishing, the months of spring mark the beginning of an important transition period around the entire Baja California peninsula.
Gradually subsiding winds from the north bode well for anglers targeting a wide variety of gamefish in Baja Norte as well as Baja Sur.
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October 12, 2012
Progressively warmer and sunnier than average winters have been the ongoing barer of good news for the wine producers in Baja Norte's Valle de Guadalupe, which lies just a few miles to the northeast of Ensenada. Many of the most popular varietals grown here originally hail from the Mediterranean region...
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Updated: Jan 18, 2019 09:39 AM
