La Bufadora - Punta Banda

[Deamon]

Set of rocks coming out of the water on the bay side of the point...Tres Hermanas. Took the spear gun out there and got a yellow. Plenty of small bugs in there too...

[Deamon]

South of Punta Banda is a cove w a black sand beach. Used to be a remote campground but the access road is toast. Tuna Pens used to be in this cove. Extra large surf perch. Almost speared a huge Striped Bass in the surf. That would've been a photo.

[Zed]

Originally Posted by Deamon

Set of rocks coming out of the water on the bay side of the point...Tres Hermanas. Took the spear gun out there and got a yellow. Plenty of small bugs in there too...

Used to camp n shorefish there way back when. Then graduated to the Sevylor! 9ft inflatable PriceClub raft that eventually met its demise @ LA Bay. Last seen cartwheeling E across the Cortez. Still miss that boat. It filled the gap missing before kayaks between longboard and skiff. Used to launch it at Marine St after work. Ha. Shitshow.

[YakHanded]

Originally Posted by Deamon

South of Punta Banda is a cove w a black sand beach. Used to be a remote campground but the access road is toast. Tuna Pens used to be in this cove. Extra large surf perch. Almost speared a huge Striped Bass in the surf. That would've been a photo.

Wow that sounds awesome I just looked on Gmaps and think I spotted it access looks tough but doable might have to explore a little next time we're down there. Striped bass elaborate on this.. like a striper?

Originally Posted by Zed

Used to camp n shorefish there way back when. Then graduated to the Sevylor! 9ft inflatable PriceClub raft that eventually met its demise @ LA Bay. Last seen cartwheeling E across the Cortez. Still miss that boat. It filled the gap missing before kayaks between longboard and skiff. Used to launch it at Marine St after work. Ha. Shitshow.

Ahh the infamous inflatable Lets get down there in the fall.



Here are some random stills pulled from the GoPro trying to piece together too much footage -__-


This is Trev bendo on his first kayak yellowtail... at Bufadora pretty cool place to land the first.


Pretty proud in front of the blowhole... kayak tour from the cruise ship was clapping it was hilarious.


Nice calico from the panga sunday...

[Deamon]

Originally Posted by YakHanded

Wow that sounds awesome I just looked on Gmaps and think I spotted it access looks tough but doable might have to explore a little next time we're down there. Striped bass elaborate on this.. like a striper?

Yep, the access road is on the south side custom residential community pretty far before L.B. That land back there was the Tiger Woods Golf plan thing (so I was told). Back in the day, we took every dirt road from Rosarito to San Quintin, if we thought it could take us to water. We found awesome spots including this one. But erosion has really damaged this access road. I don't know how a tow truck could get to you if you did get stuck...nothing better than finding boiler rocks in the middle of no where, throwing Tady 45's and catching calicos from shore.
I was catching 1.5-2# surf perch on a kastmaster. Beautiful fat fish. Told my buddy I could spear these, they're so big. I was right in the surf line w the sand and debris when this 15# striper gets abt 3' away from me. But like most other fish, you swing a spear gun around too fast, something about that spooks them. I stayed in that water for a long time hoping for a second chance but no go. Quite a while ago...back when stripers were being caught in O.C.'s surf. Jim

[Zed]

Dont lie. It was a striped mullet.

[YakHanded]

Originally Posted by Deamon

Yep, the access road is on the south side custom residential community pretty far before L.B. That land back there was the Tiger Woods Golf plan thing (so I was told). Back in the day, we took every dirt road from Rosarito to San Quintin, if we thought it could take us to water. We found awesome spots including this one. But erosion has really damaged this access road. I don't know how a tow truck could get to you if you did get stuck...nothing better than finding boiler rocks in the middle of no where, throwing Tady 45's and catching calicos from shore.
I was catching 1.5-2# surf perch on a kastmaster. Beautiful fat fish. Told my buddy I could spear these, they're so big. I was right in the surf line w the sand and debris when this 15# striper gets abt 3' away from me. But like most other fish, you swing a spear gun around too fast, something about that spooks them. I stayed in that water for a long time hoping for a second chance but no go. Quite a while ago...back when stripers were being caught in O.C.'s surf. Jim

It would be fun to take a significant amount of time and explore that way, must've been awesome Jim you lucky sob. Especially when you were doing it sure there were even more gems. Looks from gmaps that you could access the bluff above that beach from the neighborhood in bufadora, little dirt road goes up and over the hill. Thats insane about the striper so cool never knew that. Also a 2lb surf perch is a massive surf perch haha badass.