Hot fishing in Magdalena Bay!

By Paul J. Kneeland

Last September, my brother Ken from Merino, Colorado and I took a trip to Magdalena Bay, on the Pacific coast of the Baja Peninsula. Magdalena Bay is located about halfway down the Baja Peninsula, is 31 miles long, and features mangrove swamps in the north and south ends of the bay. We fished with the folks at Baja Pirates in the small fishing village of Adolfo Lopez Mateos on the north end of Magdalena Bay.

We have fished the Baja area many times out of Cabo San Lucas and Los Barriles, but we wanted to try something different. We were intrigued by the mangrove fishery in the bay, and the wide variety of species of fish that spend tim...