Baja Fishing News
Source:
mexfish
Every year,
Baja fishing waters become increasingly accessible as more and more people drive south on the Mexican peninsula's 1,070-mile Transpeninsular Highway or fly down to the international airports at Loreto, La Paz, and Los Cabos.
And every year, it seems, a little more of the "old Baja flavor" is lost as hotels, condos, restaurants and other developments seem to be going up everywhere.
But that is largely an illusion. If you fly over Baja in an airplane, or if you cruise down either the Pacific or Sea of Cortez coast, you see that 95 percent of the development is concentrated on 5 percent of the land. Yes, the popular sportfishing tourist centers are beehives of activity, but in between, Baja is still the wild and woolly land of wonderment that keeps "old-timers" coming back decade after decade.
This old Baja fishing wonderland of harshest beauty and life-changing adventure is just as big and wonderful as always.
Nevertheless, it must be admitted that today, relatively few Baja anglers make the adventurous drive down Mex 1, compared to the ever-growing masses that choose to fly in airliners to Loreto, La Paz, or Los Cabos international airports. In the glitzy Los Cabos corridor especially, it has become something of a singles bar conversation starter to tell someone that you just drove down from Tijuana. "Whaaat? You mean you can drive here?" she asks, and you're off and running.