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Brandon Wahlers

Long Beach Neptunes

Hey everybody,

       Just got home last night from Baja....what a crazy trip. 7 hours into the trip I pull over and let my friend drive. An hour later and we run off the road down a ditch and flip into a river bed. Luckily, we all made it out safely, with only minor cuts and bruises. I got hit in the eye with  the 20lb tire jack, and that was about the worst of our injuries. So we got a ride back to San quintin and waited there to talk to the insurance adjustor for 5 hours. After that we were rescued by my Friend Eric Freidrichsen from San Diego, who picked us up and we continued on our adventure.

We headed down to Mulege because the pacific side was really stirred up. We hit the local islands there on Sat, and scored some decent fish, Harold got a 30+lb rooster, a 15lb barred pargo, and some nice cabrillas. I scored a 23.5 lb golden grouper, and a 54 lb rooster, as well as some 13-15lb barred pargo. I was stoked because I got all the fish with my 4ft gun!!

 We then spent the Night at the Hotel Serenidad and Had the pig roast Dinner, YUMMYYY, as well as a few margaritas. (Ryan had way too many and ended up with some 300 lb transvestite, JK)

Next AM we woke up and headed towards home, but decided to take a detour and stop by tortuga to tell them we were OK, since they had been expecting us since Friday. We got there about 3:00 pm, stopped by the hotel, chatted with carols for a while, then headed to Punta Eugenia to see how Tomas was. We passed him on the Dirt Road, and he offered to take us out for the afternoon to Rica Negra. There was 6ft waves crashing in the harbor, so conditions didn't look good, but once in the water, we were greeted with 30-50ft VIS. We ended up with some nice YT, all 40lbers, 8 total. The guys were really stoked to get into their first big YT. I ended up getting 3 nice ones.

The AM after we decided to hit The grouper areas, but the vis was WAY down, 3-7ft, so we didn't do that great. But we ended up checking one last spot, and Ryan ended up scoring 2 20-25lb grouper.

 After that, we headed home, and made it home safely.

Here's some pics for you guys to check out.....

 -Brandon