San Quintin, 2012 - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

bigbarrels · 09-22-2012, 10:55 PM

Hit up San Quintin this week and stayed at the Old Mill . I have always driven south of the Old Mill to do Central and Southern Baja trips and have stayed at the Old Mill once to get some sleep on way down. The Old Mill is a great place with simple accommodations, cheap prices ($16.00/bed)friendly people and a hot shower. Also a restaurant that prepared our fish on two different nights in various ways.

We kayak fished two days with a beach launch and ended up with two WSB and a couple lost, several Calico's, sand bass, and other random fish. Mike (Florida Boy) caught a pig on the second day......no scale but the thing was a beast and didn't come close to fitting in his cooler.

The third day we went out on a 25 foot Parker through K & M Landing with the kayaks on board. Lined up the trip the week prior with Captain Kelley due to some expected swell. His son George was our Captain and he put us in the area where some recent WSB activity had been. We ended up with three WSB, multiple rock fish, a tail hooked thresher and another thresher which were lost/released. George caught a nice halibut which he ended up giving us the majority of. I highly recommend K & M if you want to do a mothership trip down in San Quintin. Family run, very nice and safe with a ton of local knowledge .

I always seem to find a way to get stuck in Baja. Well not too bad, three times in 20+ years.

All and all a great trip with no mechanical errors on or off the water, plenty of fish to be had, no issues with the authorities through Tijuana or Ensenada (even after missing a turn twice in Tijuana

), good company, and plenty of good memories.

Next year going to go down 2-3 times through August -October and can't wait to do it again.

and just noticed I put this in fishing discussions.......sorry

09-22-2012, 10:55 PM	#1
bigbarrels Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Vista Posts: 1,111	San Quintin, 2012 Hit up San Quintin this week and stayed at the Old Mill . I have always driven south of the Old Mill to do Central and Southern Baja trips and have stayed at the Old Mill once to get some sleep on way down. The Old Mill is a great place with simple accommodations, cheap prices ($16.00/bed)friendly people and a hot shower. Also a restaurant that prepared our fish on two different nights in various ways. We kayak fished two days with a beach launch and ended up with two WSB and a couple lost, several Calico's, sand bass, and other random fish. Mike (Florida Boy) caught a pig on the second day......no scale but the thing was a beast and didn't come close to fitting in his cooler. The third day we went out on a 25 foot Parker through K & M Landing with the kayaks on board. Lined up the trip the week prior with Captain Kelley due to some expected swell. His son George was our Captain and he put us in the area where some recent WSB activity had been. We ended up with three WSB, multiple rock fish, a tail hooked thresher and another thresher which were lost/released. George caught a nice halibut which he ended up giving us the majority of. I highly recommend K & M if you want to do a mothership trip down in San Quintin. Family run, very nice and safe with a ton of local knowledge . I always seem to find a way to get stuck in Baja. Well not too bad, three times in 20+ years. All and all a great trip with no mechanical errors on or off the water, plenty of fish to be had, no issues with the authorities through Tijuana or Ensenada (even after missing a turn twice in Tijuana ), good company, and plenty of good memories. Next year going to go down 2-3 times through August -October and can't wait to do it again. and just noticed I put this in fishing discussions.......sorry __________________ The shorter you are, the bigger your fish appear