The right stuff

 Nobody will ever tell you recently retired guide #003 on the world famous doesn't know what he's doing. So as I bought my yearly new Plano Box because the rust they collect while you're up north discolors the expensive lures in them I decided on a new strategy . This year to keep the salt water out I'm not returning used lures to the box until after they're bathed in fresh water at the end of the day, just like my rod and reels. We'll see how it works . Just as on the Kenai where I'm convinced the shiniest and prettiest lures work best here on the playa I hate to see the lures with the dulled rust on them...

I also carry a small plano box just for Mirrolures which is my got to lure. The big box has top water poppers , Cabo Killers and Rangers. A collection of metal from 1 to 2 ounces and rubber swimfish in 1/2 to 2 ounces as well as pluma's feather jigs . So if you're coming to surf fish that box right there will about cover it....nice , new and shiney. And seeings as I'm on an education mission here I'll give you my number one piece of advice...if you don't know what to throw or if fishing is brutally slow throw metal, anything that swims will jump on a cast master or equivalent. The reason I have different sizes and shapes is simple the castmasters have great action but don't sink very fast and the action that makes them so good creates a lot of  drag that can make reeling tiresome. And for max distance yu want the lean looking metal like a Hopkins or a big swedish pimple....nothing will out cast a 2 ounce P-Line Lazer Minnow.....here's some consumables me and Jack got north of town a couple days ago.

Jack was looking for the good surf break and as we drove along the beach we stopped at any rocky point we came to and I caught a snapper off of the first two, on metal . We end up stopping while Jack gets out on his high tech sit down board that has a rudder etc...really cool.  As he surfed I cautiously climbed out onto the rocks and hooked the unstoppable. It was shiney and long and lean so I think one of the Mackerels they call a Snake Mackerel. I grabbed the reel and locked up the spool with only about 20 wraps left so that monster was half way to Cabo when the line parted. It was nice to be out in the wilderness again.

So with two nice pargo's it was off to Loco Loco's for entero. This something you just couldn't do at home and it sooooo  good. Crunchy and served with as nice garlic butter, washed down with a couple Pacifico's and a side order of fantastic conversation about books....Thanks Jack and Tammy for a great night and day.

So I'm half way through the process of 4 dental visits and new tooth. Right around the corner from Francisco's office is the coolest and cleanest little Marisco's joint where we had the crab tostados that we're hooked on....but check out this menu, next time we're steeping out and  going to untried palate places.

Here's an early Merry Christmas to all my readers....and thanks for reading...it's kinda like I say about the music, ' it's only music if someone hears it '

Jinksed

 The title of my last post before leaving the USA is what did it.  MP has been saying for a while now that I used up all my fishing moe-joe by making money off the sport and she appears to be right again... We got here 10 days ago and it was hot , humid and just perfect as I raced to get a rod and reel rigged before sunset. I hustled to the beach and my first cast was nadda and my second cast was a nice two or three pound Toro. I quickly released him and decided not to get a pic as the beach just had to be chucked full of them....right ?....well, 10 days later I'm still waiting for the next tug.

Now this fishing deal is something that leads to theory after theory and after going into executive session with the remnants of Team X we've decided that it's mother nature....how's that for an ADF+G endorsed scientifically researched theory ? The hurricane a couple months has had a huge effect, the in shore water is still murky although nice and warm. We're seeing a lot of baitfish and Dan reports that November was the best Rooster fishing he has ever had.  We see Charter Boats trolling close to shore so you know me, I'm here to tell ya that when you give somebody $$$$ to go fishing he knows exactly what he's doing....usually. So that brings me around to the quit sniveling and  keep fishing part of the story. I used to actually like it when a little slow fishing made for an increased challenge...but this is ridiculous. But I'll keep fishing, I've always said that there's two types of fishermen : those that listen to rumors and those who create them. I intend to be that last guy .

So here's the Mexico equivalent of the post a Moose picture because you didn't catch any fish....I've done that many, many a time right here on Mile 14.

But I did find adventure. My friend Jack built himself the cutest little Boston Whaler clone and wanted me to go with him to mark several near by fishing spot way points on his also new Garmin GPS which is the same machine I have on the white boat back in Mooootana. So Jack being the Tarzan that he is brings along his scuba gear because the first waypoint is a wreck in 75' and he wants to make sure it's really there....Yikes I've never seen anything like this in my life, I'm an on top of the water guy.  So we anchor up and Jack ties the tank to the side of the boat and jumps in , puts it on and then rednecks me because when I handed him the spear gun I unhooked the pin wire somehow. So now I know about spear guns and he disappears. About 7 or 8 minutes that felt like hours went by and he comes up saying it's there for sure but the water was to murky for a good shot on the fish he saw....Then I go to pull anchor and of course it's stuck so Jack says no problema and dives down and retrieves the little plow anchor.  By this time I'm about as impressed with Jack as I was seeing Les Anderson with his 100 pound world record salmon.....did I mention that Jack is 75 years old  ? Jack if you read this I'll just say thank you for the inspiration, I was kinda needing a lift and you sir are an amazing man.

If you're wondering why it took me 10 days to write a Mile 14 story after I promised to do better I got a good reason and new acronym to explain it T.I.M. , this is Mexico. Usually when you leave your condo for the season and return only about half the stuff works....when you leave it for two season none of the stuff works. The only weird thing was the Mabe brand refrigerator that has been making terrible sounds for years and is the oldest electronic device we have was still running...but nothing else....Air conditioner, nada. Internet and phone , nadda . Television, nadda....and even the shower head had a severe prostate problem . So I fired TelMex and got my buddy Ceser from Aztech computer services over and now I have the best internet . Thank you Ceser ! And oh' my camera's rebelled. I brought my reliable shock proof Lumix and it's snapper button froze up and my back up Lumix had the telephoto extend and never return. So, if you notice Mile 14 is photo deprived and I resort to cheesey google pics just hold your horses until I get a new camera figured out . 

Bet ya wonder what that is eh ? Well it's MP being sanitized at Franciso our Dentists office, very thorough and all the Beatle's music you can handle. When he fixed my front teeth years ago he got me to be a serious flosser. So serious that I felt like the regular floss wasn't tight enough between a gap I had next to a grown so I went to using dental tape which is really just 1/4 inch light boat anchor line. Well it got stuck and I gave it the old Jeffro treatment and that cap flew 6 feet across the bathroom and chipped a mirror....ahhh not really I'm joking about the mirror.  So that happened in Ham Bone about 6 months ago and now the teeth moved just enough to need the entire thing re done. Oh well....4 visits gives us 4 chances to go to the best Marisco's beach side restaurant where we had Jaiba (crab ) tostado's that were so good that they made my first case of tourista more than worth it. 

O.K. There's the launch of Mile 14 southern Bureau 21 / 22....I gotta stop writing. I have  busy day :

take the bike up to OXXO for a beer run.

finish Tom Clancy.

get ready for Friday night.

repair 4 rod eyes ( did I tell you how they rust out and when you open the rod case they inserts fall out and break on the floor )

do my cardio ( stairs ) 

Practice new songs. 

Hot tub...see ya again soon