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[Ep 65] Fishing Off A Sailboat...Four Fish Hooked In Baja | Bahia de los Angeles

4. juni 2026 · 18 min · 776 visninger · Bahia de los Angeles, Baja California, Mexico

Four hogfish displayed on sailboat deck in Baja waters

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Armand and Liya sail off anchor from Bahia de Los Angeles village aboard Cosmo, bound for Ensenada El Pescador, trolling the whole way at roughly five knots.0:46 They lose one lure — bitten clean through 275-pound wire leader, likely by a shark — but land a mahi-mahi and a skipjack tuna on the passage, plus hook two additional fish that don't make it aboard.3:33 El Pescador, their favorite anchorage in Bahia de Los Angeles, offers a white-sand beach and clear water but sits fully exposed to southerly swell; after a couple of days, swell forces a move around the headland to Ensenada El Quemado.8:33 There, Liya shoots her first-ever speargun fish — a grunt — on her only shot.12:38 A dinghy-trolling session in the bay produces nothing, but a later spearfishing dive yields four hogfish and a triggerfish.15:07 A Starlink conversion from 120-volt to 12-volt operation fails repeatedly; corroded fuses are identified as one culprit, but the full fix is deferred to a future episode.8:58 The episode closes with a note that anchorage reviews in apps like Navionics and No Foreign Land can diverge sharply from actual conditions, and that revisiting a place — Ensenada El Quemado had driven them off with bees in episode 58 — often tells a completely different story.17:41

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