What makes a resort a resort? (long)

[Dynastyworms]

I just got back from Martinez Lake Resort! Be fore I get into the fishing report let me start off with a little story. My wife and I left Saturday around 3pm to Martinez, after getting threw San Diego and heading up the 805 we noticed the sight of snow at the 4000ft mark. All ways something you dream of coming across when towing a boat. Before we got close to Arizona we noticed fireworks in the distance, once we got close enough we notice thousands of dirt bikes and dune buggies (at night) with glow sticks strapped everywhere to there bike hall’n butt up hills and dunes. Once we got close to Yuma the wife and I placed a bet, I said the gas will be cheaper in Yuma then at home ($2.81). As we pull up to Arco My wife started the “I told you soâ€

[some guy]

Close it.

[Brian D.]

Truth be told, what you have experienced is the beauty of going to Martinez. In all of its raw "beauty" there is a simplistic elegance to desert fishing. For first timers such as yourself it is quite a shock. I compare it to going to Tijuana for the first time. You shake your head and say.. Resort? What Resort. If you look beyond the snake skin desert rats, the Neanderthal grunting of drunks, primitive accommodations, and general lawlessness, there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Great fishing! And, it will be OTH (off the hook) in a few weeks.

Actually it will be fairly nice and quiet at Martinez for next few weeks just about till late March. Then comes the spring breakers, party boats, loud nights, and golf cart races at 2 am.

Good times.

[DL]

Funny, this is the pot of gold I imagine after reading Zach's description...

[Ray L.]

AHHHHHHH The golf cart reces....
Back the truck up to the hill in the camp ground and unload it.
Time to drink beer and then go for a ride and try to hit a jack rabbit.
Good Times don't yah know.....
Dam fishing can be good though.
I have some great stories of old club tournaments to the first year A.B.A. was there.
Just wait "Z".... Alamo is next on your list.....
Wait until I tell you about the general store in the middle of the desert that serves burgers and has a warped pool table.
But there are those 100 fish days in the spring at Alamo

[macinckirk]

Truth be told, what you have experienced is the beauty of going to Martinez. In all of its raw "beauty" there is a simplistic elegance to desert fishing. For first timers such as yourself it is quite a shock. I compare it to going to Tijuana for the first time. You shake your head and say.. Resort? What Resort. If you look beyond the snake skin desert rats, the Neanderthal grunting of drunks, primitive accommodations, and general lawlessness, there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Great fishing! And, it will be OTH (off the hook) in a few weeks.

Actually it will be fairly nice and quiet at Martinez for next few weeks just about till late March. Then comes the spring breakers, party boats, loud nights, and golf cart races at 2 am.

Good times.

Man you hit the nail on the head I'll be there in a few weeks for a week

[Ray L.]

did I send you that pic DL

[DL]

Nope, got it from a buddy in Oklahoma, he says it is in his backyard...I think he is full of it
(their outhouses still sit over holes in the ground )

[Munsey]

I once stayed at a place called the last resort at Clear Lake. It lived up to it's name.
Sounds like when you fish Martinez you need to leave the wife at home.

[Bill Hutcheson]

That hole in the ceiling above the toilet is where the drunk guy blew his head off with a shotgun.....

[Brian D.]

When ya headed to Martinez? I maybe headed there Havasu or Alamo mid-March. So many decisions. I have some killer recon arial photos of Martinez, Fishers, and that whole lower river. Lots of new water ways are opened since they dredged out the American Canal.