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Bandera Brent · Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2018 7:10 pm Post subject: Baffin South Shoreline

Preface this to say that I am fairly unfamiliar with Baffin Bay, in fact I have prob only fished it and run around Baffin/Alazon maybe a dozen times in the last year. I have a really good friend who gave me a chip for my Lowrance with a vast number of "safe" tracks and a lot of markeed rocks. He accumulated these from running with several guys we grew up with that are guides on Baffin. I have run most all these tracks and fished the marked rocks and feel comfortable with going where they say go and avoiding where they say to stay away. I veer when they veer and have had good luck. The big question I have (and I don't want any hard feelings, just facts) is about running the S shore to get to the intercoastal. I have a track that has been run numerous times by my buddies that run the S shore, run straight for a post in the middle of a bunch of rocks on the S point, take a hard right there, follow down a few hundred yards then take a hard left to run between two spoils then out. I have run that 2-3 times with my buddy and he said that is the only safe route that the guides have told him to run. My question... Is that the only way out right there, and if so, the three times I have run it, there are boats and wade fisherman thick right in that lane that look at you like you have three heads when you come through. My guide buddies say that they are in the lane and they need to get outta the way. They say that water is pretty shallow and hard to put down to putt through so he said to power through and hit that R turn. Several wekends ago the wind was blowing 100mph, Baffin whitecaps, no way to run the middle channel without killing yourself, and the end of that lane was covered with waders. Do I have more leeway there then I think? I know the one route I have works everytime soooo.... Sorry so long...

David Rowsey · Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2018 4:10 am Post subject: Nope

Very little room for error there. Stay tight to the poles.

HungerBuster · Flour Bluffian in training Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 371

If you have questions about Baffin, it's hard to beat Dave's knowledge. I rarely plug anyone (almost all of the guides who post on this board are outstanding), but Dave's boat navigation charters are unique and worth the time and money, especially if you want to learn where to run (and how) and where not to.

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BayFly · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2018 10:17 am Post subject:

I have been in Baffin several times now without a problem, but I'll have to admit my panties are always in a wad! Very Happy

It would be great to have a map or the coordinates to a safe route, not to mention the rocks. On one day's run the water was very clear and the rocks were very apparent, enough to be shocking in some cases, especially the size of the rocks.

Oil Field Trash II · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 1560

If there was an accurate map of every single rock in baffin and the surrounding, it would cost $18,566...

people need to go out and figure this on their own. use your own boat, make your own waypoints, forge your own path.

just because I have a waypoint on my unit doesn't mean it would be in the same place on someone else's. People in a flatbottom can run right on top of rocks that I've wrecked my lower unit on...

YOU CAN"T TRUST OTHER PEOPLE'S DATA when it comes to boat navigation in baffin!

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Bandera Brent · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2018 5:10 pm Post subject:

I have hit several rocks running on my own so I have quite a few trails within baffin that I have safely run. Most all of the bay I am okay with and feel comfortable. Just that little area with the gap at Penescal point that I was asking about. Once you round Los Corrales you are kinda hemmed in by rocks, shallow water and shore. Seems only way out is that gap or los corrales if you are in fishing. What I was asking is there a place to bail out of there in between those two points? Hell anyone want to jump in the boat and go fishing? I'll supply the boat and fuel for some local knowledge.

want2fish · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2018 7:04 am Post subject:

Cant even trust your own way points in tight areas. Still need a visual aid. There have been many times I haven't take a certain route because there wasn't enough water clarity even though I have tracks. Sometimes my unit will have me running 30 yards outside the ICW.
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lagunarat1975 · Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2018 2:20 pm Post subject:

there is no such thing as a free lunch my friend ,as oil field said time on the water is the only "free" way ace scout would be worth evry penny considering the cost of a lower unit the south shore is a better wading spot than a freeway
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