So my lovely man made friends in the water with a nice local dude called Miguel (more and I mean much more, painfully more detail in Stuffs Mexican surf blog to follow). It turns out Miguel runs fishing charters and we have been itching to go fishing for weeks so after some fairly tenuous justifications to each other we decided to go for it.
The price was for the boat so cost us the same regardless of participants, because of this we invited our new friend Nick. Nick is really lovely, he is one of those really impressive motivated people that do really cool travelling and knows lots about lots. He is currently travelling Central America via bike, that’s right peddle bike, with a small trailer for stuff that includes a spear gun, a surf board and a tent. He camps most places for free but luckily for us is paying a little to camp on the grounds of our hostel so we get to hang out, this is the most recent in many of these trips he’s undertaken. He also has a background in linguistic and nuclear engineering, so random, but cool!! He brought the snacks and tunes for fishing and is cooking us our fish tonight!
So 7am came around and the three of us met Miguel outside our hostel for a lift to his boat. The lift was on a quad bike, and was much fun as it was a short distance and there were 4 of us. We got to the 25 foot boat and set off from Peurto Angelito. It was a beautiful morning with some big swell running. We soon started to spot turtles on the surface of the water, soon followed by a pair of turtles, that made us feel a little uncomfortable for watching, if you know what I mean (photo below).
We were fishing for sailfish and saw a fin which was very exciting, however the hours passed and we had a few nibbles and even a proper strike but the fish managed to escape due to some impressive acrobatics. We had started to loose heart particularly due to mine and Stuffs poor fishing record. Thankfully an insane amount of dolphins rocked up to bow ride followed by more and more, these would move off and others would porpoise in from a distance, it was breathtaking. We started with what we think were Common, then they moved on some more joined us that we think maybe Spinner Dolphins, we could basically reach down off the bow and touch them and could hear them talking, AMAZING!!!!
Now pretty satisfied that even if we caught nothing we’d had an awesome time we relaxed a little, however Miguel had other plans, we ended up staying out longer for free just to increase our chances and finally on the way in….
A bite, fish on…. Miguel and his brother both had something on, Stuff took over one rod and fought a small Darado almost to the boat which managed to get away. However mean while Miguel had something bigger on the line!!! Stuff took over and with an awesome feet of strength and stamina hauled it in. To begin with we thought he was being weak and it was a tiddler but to his credit it was a bueat!!!! Not as big as they come by any means but a stunning sailfish. We did think of letting it go but the meat would pay for some of the trip and feed us for days (weeks if we took it all eating it every day). So we kept him, well we took half and gave the rest to the crew for a tip. Happy people all round, besides the fish.
Stuff has more thoughts on this to follow, photos below.
By things
Turtle power
Gay Shark
Biggles goes fishing
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