Ok, for the purpose of putting some names to faces on this site, I am pre-announcing that me and a couple other guys are fishing the Stardust morning run on Sunday. While I'm at it...me and Daniel and Brian are planning our senior trip, which might end up being next summer instead of 2 yrs. from now, so it'll be more a junior trip, but we're gonna go to San Quintin for a week and fish either 5 or 6 days. San Quintin is 10 miles from San Martin Island and has excellent halibut, wsb, calico bass (one of the most overlooked in the world), and of course yellowtail, yellowfin, albacore, bluefin, bonita, dodo, and I'm probably leaving something out. I emailed the owner, here's a part of his response: "If you come in July, August, September of October you can expect to catch albacore, yellowfin, bluefin, dorado and yellowtail. When you've had enough of that, we can take you to the Island for calicos and white seabass. When you're tired of that, we can take you to the 240 as well as other spots and get you some of the nicest rock cod, white fish and ling cod you may have ever seen..." Uh, sounds good to me. For a week stay in the hotel and fishing 6 days, the cost is 2000, split between four anglers is 500 each. Not bad, that includes the boats for 6 days w/captain and possibly deckhand, and hotel stay w/ breakfast and lunch. So, we if we go this summer, we'll need a fourth angler over 18 to go with us. I think it would be cool to get like 8 of us to go down there. The rooms have 4 beds per room. The place is kinda ghetto, but that's not what I'm going for... Good float tubing and inshore too. Anybody interested? Hey Rob, how bout you and summer? Summer could hold a video camera...
-Brian

Sounds great! A buddy of mine would love that deal too...and he'd probably want to go as well. Sounds like a blast. We'd need something to easily pump up the tubes with though when we're finished with the boats/pangas for the day. How ghetto is ghetto?

Frank,
I've got a pump that plugs into the lighter so that ain't a problem. check http://www.sanquintin.com for some info. The hotel uses well water for the shower so you can't drink it, and the place runs on a generator from 7 am to 12 midnight, so in the mornings it'll be like flashlight style. The boats look absolutely killer though. I talked to the owner and he's a really nice guy and sounds like he really runs an honest operation. Must've spent all the money on the boats instead of the hotel!!! But, they do have a restaurant and a complete tackle store including at least fire irons, salas jigs, diamond jigs, tuna feathers, rapalas, cedar plugs, terminal tackle, and other stuff. That's just stuff that he mentioned to me. If Daniel and Brian can't go, I'd still be totally down if I could get somebody over 18 to go with me. It's basically set up for 4 anglers/boat and 4 guests/room, so if we go, it'll have to be either 4, 8 or 12 guys. That also cuts down on costs, splitting it 4 ways instead of 3 or 2 or whatever. All said and done I think it'll end up costing around 750 per angler including food, gas, mexican licenses, tip money, tackle money, spending money etc. (although I know at least for me, tackle money and spending money are one in the same...) I think 8 would be a perfect number, but if we could get 12, why not? Man, I'm gonna have to get my ass a job now, that's weak. Maybe I'll talk to Merit or Jason... I'll email you with some more info (and anybody else who's interested).
-Brian