It was a lot of fun.  Chris caught the biggest fish, a 41 lb yellow.  The workers there far surpassed anything that I could have expected.  “ Purple” was incredible.  Him and the crew were always hustling and he would have given me the shirt off his back if I said I liked it.  The food was great.  Long days, the first two days were great, the last two we caught all of our fish before 11am then it went kind of quite.  The seals stole a couple of our bigger fish, after we worked so hard to bring them in.  Ben Florentino, from Hammer Baits, was awesome.  He provided bags of baits and was an excellent host.  He fished with us one day and gave a lot of great tips.

You guys have a special place, and most of it is due to the workers that you have.  I have fished all over the country and many different lodges and never had the service that you guys provided  Form Ramon picking us up and throughout our stay there was nothing more I could have asked for.  I wish that I had a tow speed reel though!

Tooke twelve hours to get home, long process.  Border was an hour and then we got pulled dover on a secondary because the first guy did not believe that we would have 800lbs of fish with eight guys.  After waiting for almost an hour the secondary guy called the first guy lazy because he should have seen that we had thousands of dollars of equipment and were gone for five day and he let us go without inspecting, then the 405 fwy was completely closed down, I missed it being open by twenty minutes.

Great trip, thanks for selling me on it Matt.


Paul K. Stimpfl,