THE HUNTING AND FISHING TRAILS TO MEXICO

The Arizona hunting season ended well for us. The kids made it back to Reno and back to college enriched with campfires warm days and great food. The hunting dogs are gradually morphing into reptiles and love the warm days to lounge sleep and then hunt. Although they would enjoy a great chukar chase they enjoy the Mexican dove hunts and swimming in the saltwater. Our lab loves hitting the surf and body surfing back with a bumper in her mouth. The German Wirehair is a bit more passive but once she sees her big sister the lab she is all dog.

Cross the border is always a chore esp with guns but we have it down to a science and they officials in Nogales knows us and besides they think hammer gun and side by side are harmless .

We will hunt the mountain west of Cuilican and well as fishing the lakes like El Salto and Comadero. There is a campground on the ocean where I can surf fish and bass fish within the same day and then hunt ducks and doves with quail higher up. No snakes just wave after wave of whitewings. Our bird boys were cute as had every birds field dressed by happy hour.

The sunset over camp were spectacular, the oyster fresh and the Pacific Shrimp huge. The surf was just right for the hunting dogs and Belle and Fe could retrieve the bumpers for hours.... Many ask why we don't have a house on the Baja or beach. We feel it would tie us down to a spot. With a camper we can pretty much "carpe diem."

ON THE CRUSIER V TWIN NEAR TUCSON

There is no sense of freedom as the wind in your hair on a bright warm day sitting on a well running machine. It is one of those Zen times as a trout rising to a dry fly or a n explosive flush of a cock rooster or a Canvasback coming to the decs.

I've been riding since college

Mexico and Arizona

We are back in the Great Basin after 4 months on the road, writing, camping, hunting, fishing in Arizona and Mexico. We fell in love with Mexico again. This was my 45th straight year of travels there and one of the finest. I just don't know how and why the Mexicans put up with their northern neighbors. There is no place in the world as wonderful, enchanting and exotic as Mexico. The dove, hunting, quail and a new species Mexican, grouse were fabulous. It exceeds South America in almost every way. The Mexican inshore fishing for snook and pargo and freshwater bass was superb. Nothing exceeds a sunrise and sunset over the Pacific

Doves and Quails were exception this year. Better than our Nevada Chukars although we found three sites where the spring freeze missed them and they were very numerous with many young of the year birds Our double guns performed flawlessly again and our fields dogs, our buddies were at their peak after Canada. The female lab I swear speaks to us and the German Wirehair is all hunter but kind and faithful albeit a little on the diminished side. Kinda like a savant child with math or music

For the next posting we will finish off our camping hunting tales and move down into deep Mexico along the Gulf up to the highlands and travel back up the coast and on to AZ for Spring Training and data crunching. We are trying our new data mining techniques on baseball.