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Requesting clarification: Who are the FEDS? Mexican Federales or US federal customs agents?

Braid is a mess when you get a tangle but will get you farther out there. I recommend it for shore fishing for that reason. Walmart sells Power Pro braid 10 lb test and up. The guys who fish the shore around Rocky Point can better advise you regarding line weight. Where I go I never use...

I'm not wild about eating yellowtail, but when they're caught we always cut the gills and bleed them as soon as they're off the hook. My experienced friends believe it should be done immediately. Putting the fish in a big ice chest before slicing the gills helps minimize the blood sloshing...

I'll defer to Mondone's greater local experience. Where I fish is much farther south and has a high population of trigger fish which means you lose a rubber bait tail on nearly every cast.

I've never needed steel leaders. You won't be able to cast very far with a 1/8 oz jighead launched from an Ugly Stick. Those are stiff rods that are best for jigging (lifting bait up and down) from your kayak. For casting a swim bait you'll want a longer, whippier rod and jigheads closer to...

Mondone, do you drag your lures along the bottom for halibut (flounder)? Kewilliam, if you aren't catching fish at Marua, consider a drive down to La Pinta estuary just past the Mayan around kilometer marker 32. I believe it's a little better than Marua for fish. Turn on the dirt road at...

No, this "bypass" doesn't do that. It only offers less traffic congestion and fewer stop signs that facilitate police mischief. And not all of the revenue extraction takes place south of town. We've been stopped between the border and Highway 2. That's why we need a toll road that goes...

Those of us who've taken Highway 2 through Caborca to get on 15 at Santa Anna have had no problems with corruption at the toll booth. If the extent of this problem begins to discourage tourism I could see the city of Penasco recognizing it would benefit from financial support of building an...

Toll road that peels off to the west right after you cross the border and connects to the highway somewhere around the old rodeo grounds. It's true that there are some houses along the border to the west and some mountains to be crossed, but it's doable. Currently Sonoyta gets all the tourist...

Arturo (actually AJ, the son) is a nice guy and you will catch fish, mostly yellowtail, if you fish with him in March. AJ is the main guy. Whether you go with him or he sends you out with someone else probably depends on how many clients he's getting at the time. Times are tough down there...

Shouldn't be much of an issue for weekend tourists. It's a bigger deal if you have gas-guzzling outboards since they won't let you carry gas down with you..

Thanks for the warning. I would not have expected this at a Ley Express or Super Ley.

The mysterious loss of Roberto hasn't helped the forum either.

Why? A few months ago I looked back through your previous 45 posts and saw nothing about Rocky Point, nor was there any indication that you've ever been to Rocky Point or even know where it is. Why are you here?

Dirtsurfer, was this at La Pinta estuary? Were you just at the end of the road where they launch the boats, or had you walked closer to the Mayan? Or did you cross the estuary to the mouth?

No one who knows me would mistake me for a CNN reporter.

So is the government's official conclusion that the cluster of 48 bodies was simply a potter's field (place where unknown or indigent people are buried) cemetery? Or is that idea an attempt to wish away the possibility that Sonora has an organized crime problem?

Thanks for posting. Phones have been burning up about this incident so I'm pleased to get a first hand account. I don't actually know these people, but I know OF them and where they were going. This kind of stuff can have a chilling effect on tourism just when RP seems to be reviving its...

Well... Anyone know what's become of him? Should someone go looking?

I just read the article in The Atlantic. Reminded me of F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous comment that "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." The article was talking about the people...