Place for a bunch of fishing guys to stay?

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Norty

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Hello everyone. This is my first post on here. You guys have an amazing thing going so THANK YOU.

The weekend of September 28th a group of 5 of us are heading down from Phoenix. We are fly fisherman and we will be bringing small inflatable pontoon boats and wate fishing. I'm wondering where a good place to stay on the cheap is. Trying to stay under $100 a night. Well be fishing the estuaries south of town and the rocky marinas. Someone suggested Vina Del Mar.

What do you think?
 
Ladyjeeper

Ladyjeeper

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Granada Del Mar. They have some with kitchens and is right on the beach in the Mirador. Rates are 40 to 80 with 80 having a kitchen. Roberto had a website up not to long ago. I'll go look for it. Yup, its granadadelmarhotel.com. Great website with room and suite descriptions. The biggest suite is 80 dollars a night. Can beat it with a stick! IMHO...
 
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rplarry

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Norty said:
Hello everyone. This is my first post on here. You guys have an amazing thing going so THANK YOU.

The weekend of September 28th a group of 5 of us are heading down from Phoenix. We are fly fisherman and we will be bringing small inflatable pontoon boats and wate fishing. I'm wondering where a good place to stay on the cheap is. Trying to stay under $100 a night. Well be fishing the estuaries south of town and the rocky marinas. Someone suggested Vina Del Mar.

What do you think?
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Is that $100 a night for the 5 of you in the same place, or maybe a couple rooms for the 5 of you at $100 for each room? How many rooms were you thinking ?
 
Roberto

Roberto

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Granada del Mar is great, right on the beach, step out the door only place in town like that. You can park right outside the door to your room too. There are couple of watering holes and restaurants within walking distance and you are on the estuary side of town. The downstairs 'suite' had two double beds last time I stayed there (years back) but a fridge and kitchen. You could get an upstairs room and one down if you don't like the sleeping arrangements.

Alternatively La Roca in the Old port you could get two rooms about for your budget. Parking is a little shakey there but you won't find nicer people to be your host. Forget about the high rise condos. There might be some inbetween polaces in the MIrador beach area but I cannot think of any. I'd offer you Kenny's hideaway at my house but you would have to sleep on top of each other !!!
 
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Norty

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Thanks so much. I'm going to live on here until we go! I'll for sure post a follow up fishing report. Hoping for at least one bonefish and maybe a corvina or pompano!
 
Kenny

Kenny

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Shoot for the Granada del Mar, it's in a very good location, and like they said, the sand and beach right outside the door. The places in old port are nice, but with your gear and parking, I'm afraid it would be a hassle coming and going with your stuff. Also you'll be able to inflate and launch you pontoon right outside your door at the Granada del Mar if you choose to do a little fishing there, and you will.:gofish:
 
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badfish

badfish

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We usually stay at Granada del Mar when in RP. The last few years the suites have been $60 a night. They also have one larger room that has a king in the main room with a few beds in the bedroom. It also comes with a kitchen. I think the room number is 19.
 
moore_rb

moore_rb

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If you are looking for bonefish, then Grenada Del Mar is probably a pretty good choice. We catch boners in 30-40 feet of water about 700 yards off that beach on sabiki's all the time.


If you are thinking about looking for them on the flats, then you may have to drive an hour or so up the coastal highway past Laguna del Mar and get onto the flats out there.


It's been 20+ years, but my college buds and I used to find 2-3 pounders up there that would would rise to a number 14 caddis (the little brownstone pattern was my personal favorite), just as long as the wind was calm and the water was flat and clear. High tide is best, but it only gives you an hour, and all the variables have to come together...

When the water was not calm, we would toss a white and black number 10 streamer (like a Mickey Finn or Mighty Minnow) tied with weighted eyes up front. We'd bounce it along the bottom like a ghost shrimp. Fish this pattern at the low tide, and stick with it as the tide rises.

Look for areas where the sand meets a rock outcrop and you'll find bones, gafftopsail pompano, spotted bay bass, and longjaw leatherjacks.


Also try fishing a sinking tip out over 20-40 feet or deeper, but run a few inches of single strand piano wire above your fly, or expect to lose a lot of flies to the Sierra...


You guys should have a BLAST- but bring hundreds of gallons of drinking water- you'll each be easily going through a quart per hour in the heat.
 
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Norty

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WOW! This gets me even more excited!! Thanks for the great info on gear and fish. We'll bring our type six sinking lines and kick way out there and dredge for Bones.

I've heard the second lagoon just south of town has them too but well see. Tying a bunch of flies so this type of help is good. Didnt even think about water haha I think we'll bring one giant cooler and rotate gallons in and out of it. Good stuff.

We'll book at Granada. Maybe in two rooms depending on the group that actually commits.
 
Kenny

Kenny

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I've heard the second lagoon just south of town has them too but well see. Tying a bunch of flies so this type of help is good. Didnt even think about water haha I think we'll bring one giant cooler and rotate gallons in and out of it. Good stuff.
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I've caught a lot of Bonefish on the flats in the north end of La Pinta, the second estuary, can't say about the "Lagoon":razz: though... You'll find some spots that go from small rocks to sand back in there, and like Moore said, you'll find them along the edges. I found a strip about 2 feet wide of loose little red volcanic rocks on a low tide back in there, and that held fish when the tide came in.
 
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