12-10-2007, 10:30 PM
[cool][#0000ff]I would dearly love to be a part of the shindig for next year, but we have too many other plans and not enough time or money to do everything we would like to do.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have fished several lakes in Mexico. Some are fantastic and almost unspoiled. Others have become over commercialized and/or overfished by the local commercial interests who do not realize (or care) what the tourist dollars can do for them.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Even worse is the crime problem for some of the little lakes close enough to the border for anglers to drive to. Lake Angostura, south of Douglas AZ was such a lake. No huge fish, like El Salto, but hundred fish days of 3-5 pound fish are common. For many years it was a quiet lake, reached only by driving on some "rustic" roads. Popular with small groups who would travel in caravans and set up their own little fishing villages on the water. Then things changed. Bands of robbers would swoop into the camps at night, armed with automatic weapons, and would steal everything they could carry off. They also brutalized the people...men and women. After one AZ bass club had been hit twice in a row, they quit going and spread the word for everybody else to stay away. Gringos can't bring guns into Mexico but the criminal element down there has plenty of them.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Give up on the fish yet?[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have fished several lakes in Mexico. Some are fantastic and almost unspoiled. Others have become over commercialized and/or overfished by the local commercial interests who do not realize (or care) what the tourist dollars can do for them.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Even worse is the crime problem for some of the little lakes close enough to the border for anglers to drive to. Lake Angostura, south of Douglas AZ was such a lake. No huge fish, like El Salto, but hundred fish days of 3-5 pound fish are common. For many years it was a quiet lake, reached only by driving on some "rustic" roads. Popular with small groups who would travel in caravans and set up their own little fishing villages on the water. Then things changed. Bands of robbers would swoop into the camps at night, armed with automatic weapons, and would steal everything they could carry off. They also brutalized the people...men and women. After one AZ bass club had been hit twice in a row, they quit going and spread the word for everybody else to stay away. Gringos can't bring guns into Mexico but the criminal element down there has plenty of them.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Give up on the fish yet?[/#0000ff]
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