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New, mahi, yellow, wahoo picts
Just in from Cabo from Dreamweaver Charters' "Extraction". Just a few of many caught only a few miles directly in front of Cabo - same general area where the 183# new world record wahoo came from last year. This was after a run to Gordo Banks (24 miles - oh my, very long run by Cabo standards) for an unsuccessful blue marlin hunt.
The ProBar shown with that first mahi is 20" wide. Tuna and big mahi fishing is very good right now and there are good numbers of major mahi's and lots of good-to-humongous yellowfin up to and over 200#, some way over, around in good numbers and on the chew. And, as has been proven more than once, there is always the possibility of Moby Wahoo in that area. The tunas are busting up gear on boats that don't have the right, quality stuff, so be forewarned and pick your boat wisely.
If you're going, eat your Wheaties and be sure to charter a top boat like this one, so the quality of the boat, gear and crew match the size of the fish. From da books, "Don't show up for a tank battle in a shopping cart with a b.b. gun mounted on it"! When it comes to the top boats, be sure to make your reservations before you go or you will likely be disappointed.
Author, writer, marine artist, charter captain, lure manufacturer, ind. consultant
Robja,
Thanks, but of course I didn't take them . Sure wish I had! Both tuna and big dorado sure are stunningly beautiful fish and wahoo give me the jjjjerks and tttwitches, no matter the size. And mmmmarlin?
Silverton,
Prior to moving to and living there in my own home 4.5 kilometers up the beach from Cabo and running my charterboat for many years, I stayed in buddy's house in that same area. And I lived on the boat for the first six months after we brought her down. Many years before that, in the very earliest days, those of us who fished down there lived on boats that we brought down. There were no real hotel accomodations per se back then.
Nowadays I understand that there are more 5 Star resorts along the Cabo/San Jose corridor than anywhere else in the world, plus there are also still some nice, less expensive hotels in town.
In the earliest days, when Cabo wasn't much more than a small village with no harbor and you went to a tiny local version of a restaurant and wanted a chicken dinner, they'd point to the hapless birds and say, "which one, senior?" The kids would catch it and you'd come back an hour later to a feast of chicken and all the fixin's. It was true Mexican food and great stuff.
I wasn't much of a "towny". I am far more a country boy (a country old man now) and I spent the vast majority of my time time on the beach and later on the docks after the harbor was built with the Mexican people, who I love and have always loved.
Of course, the spectacular fishing and those two wonderful oceans, the Pacific on one side and The Sea of Cortez on the other, have also been major attractions to me. It is still hard to imagine how good the fishing is if you haven't been there, but it used to be utterly unimaginable not that long ago. It was beyond perfect for someone like me, who loved to take people fishing and show them the whales and dolphins and birds and who designed fishing tackle, made lures, and developed some new fishing techniques. Someone who did those things could not ask for a better place to do them in. And so, when I wasn't doing maintenance, I was fishing and learning, every single day...over three hundred of them a year.
The city, like all cities in my eyes, does leave a lot to be desired, but like I wrote, the fishing, the whales, the dolphins, the bird life, the beautiful landscape of the countryside and the warm-hearted Mexican people more than made up for the town and created a love in my heart that has lasted for a long, long time.
Myself and some very talented co-authors are writing a book called, "The Baja Book" about Cabo and other terrific fishing venues down south in Mexico. I hope that I live long enough to see it completed.
One of these days I will be able to get down to Cabo to see what it is that you fell in love with. I'm sure it must be spectacular down there.... almost as good as Jersey
Man between my buddy Van and now you Cabo IS NOW on my short list of places I REALLY want to fish. Van said you can fish right outside of town beats a 45 mile run anyday.He also warned me that many boats only have 113"s so even a nice Dolphin and you are gonna be a while...Here Sen'orTaking a couple good reels too.Fred Thanks.
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oh my, very long run
by Cabo standards) for an unsuccessful blue marlin hunt.
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Taking a couple good reels too.Fred Thanks.
