Puerto Aventuras Mexico

Went last week. Fished one day. Not my cup of tea. Trolling is not fishing. Friends boat, with two mexican guys driving and guiding, so we could enjoy the day. Life is good in Mexico.

Had some good early action from the Spanish Macks, and then I got on something big. Spit the hook 200 feet from the boat, never jumped, but I felt his force. It would have been a hell of a fight. Next time you bastard.

Guide said it was prolly a Blue Marlin by the way the leader was messed up. Who knows. Sounded good to me.

Our steed:
http://ADAPS.smugmug.com/photos/285085298_E5YZh-L.jpg


I took a couple of photos of other people catching fish, you know, just in case we didn't catch our own. Good thing.

This one turned out pretty shitty, but it looks best in B&W. Coulda been a great shot:

http://ADAPS.smugmug.com/photos/285076200_NGWy6-L.jpg

This one was a little better:

http://ADAPS.smugmug.com/photos/285076288_aRiBZ-L.jpg

Here is what we caught, my buddy holding the prize (thank god he had that belt on, mighta thrown his back out on that little thing):

http://ADAPS.smugmug.com/photos/285079279_Wfbhd-L.jpg

In closing, here are some really sweet boats. The first one has a fish on, but we never saw what they caught. They fought a while, though.
http://ADAPS.smugmug.com/photos/285091679_Cz2Pd-L.jpg


Some guys from Tampa down for 2 months. They had a pretty sweet set up with tables, grills, and tents set up right on the dock. Sleep in the boat (real tough life), and then eat what you caught on the dock.
http://ADAPS.smugmug.com/photos/285091073_ggdzk-L.jpg

Too cool, beautiful boats! I've had some good times riding around drinking beer offshore...and reeling something in from time to time :)

Now get back to pounding your local water so you can tell me how/where to get hooked into something fun! ;)

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Originally Posted by warthog

Trolling is not fishing.

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I gotta disagree.

The typical charter-boat trolling experience - where the captain and mate do all the work and your only job is reeling in a fish after they hand you a rod - that's not really fishing.

Pulling teasers and dropping a bait back to a lit up billfish that's twenty feet behind the boat - that's fishing. I could happily sit in the cockpit for 10 hours waiting for that one blue marlin bite.

I had my boat in Puerto Aventuras for a couple of months in 2001. The cool thing about fishing there is its proximity to deep water. We'd run out the inlet and immediately drop the outriggers to start fishing. The first day I fished there we caught a sailfish about five minutes after we left the dock.

I'm surprised you didn't see any more action. This is the right time of year for PA.

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Originally Posted by The Suit

I gotta disagree.

The typical charter-boat trolling experience - where the captain and mate do all the work and your only job is reeling in a fish after they hand you a rod - that's not really fishing.

Pulling teasers and dropping a bait back to a lit up billfish that's twenty feet behind the boat - that's fishing. I could happily sit in the cockpit for 10 hours waiting for that one blue marlin bite.

I had my boat in Puerto Aventuras for a couple of months in 2001. The cool thing about fishing there is its proximity to deep water. We'd run out the inlet and immediately drop the outriggers to start fishing. The first day I fished there we caught a sailfish about five minutes after we left the dock.

I'm surprised you didn't see any more action. This is the right time of year for PA.

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I agree- this was the other kind of fishing. The two guys with me had never really fished before.

We left at 3 pm and were back at 6. We didn't give it our all, for sure. The seas were pretty rough too. Most of the smaller boats hadn't been out for days before we got out there.

Those boats from Tampa- the one guy told me they were 9 for 11 on sails the one day I talked to him.

The deep water is incredible. You drop right off the shelf incredibly close to land. Nice spot.

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Originally Posted by The Suit

Pulling teasers and dropping a bait back to a lit up billfish that's twenty feet behind the boat - that's fishing.

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I would kill to try this and fishing for Tuna with a flyrod! Tarpon in the fresh water when they run up to spawn would be a blast too.

warthog - Thanks for the pix, any day out in a boat is good one :yourock:

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Originally Posted by Pow4Brains

I would kill to try this and fishing for Tuna with a flyrod! Tarpon in the fresh water when they run up to spawn would be a blast too.

warthog - Thanks for the pix, any day out in a boat is good one :yourock:

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Today was a really good one. 86, light breeze, no waves. Trout biting on every other cast. No big Snook to be found, but one hell of a morning.

I'll take pics next time. Promise.