Double Digit Dorado 

Courtesy of Baja on the Fly

If you think "March Madness" only pertains to college basketball, you might want to check out our condition reports for March. Gary and Yvonne Graham's "Baja on the Fly" and Pudge Kleinkauf of Women's Flyfishing®, traveling all the way from Anchorage, Alaska, hosted three six-day fly-fishing trips to Buenavista Beach Resort and enjoyed some phenomenal dorado action. 

The golden speedsters - known as mahi mahi in Hawaii or dorado down Mexico way - ranged from 5- to 30-pounds and were caught in numbers that one would normally associate with August Using 8-weight rods and reels provided by Baja on the Fly, first time saltwater fly-rodders had the times of their lives catching, photographing and releasing double digit dorado each day. This is the fourth year that March has come through for the fly-rodders. While the species have varied from year to year, the action has been good enough to attract more and more fly-rodders back each year. Many of this year's participants have already signed up for 2001.

The 7-day trips offer guided beach and/or cruiser fishing as well as casting, fly tying, and knot tying clinics in the evening. John Weber, a long-time angler, commented, "This has been the greatest fishing trip for me in my long life. The dorado is the noblest, most exciting and fun fish to catch and that includes trout, baramundi, barracuda, striped bass, shad, salmon, lingcod, plus bass."

If you are looking for a place to get out of the cold with a potential for some spectacular saltwater fly-fishing, you might consider Baja on the Fly in March as a possibility.