It’s A Beautiful Marlin In Cabo San Lucas
Games Guy | September 24, 2010
The Baja Peninsula stretches southward from the border of California for almost 800 miles before terminating at Cabo San Lucas and is separated from the rest of Mexico by the Sea of Cortez. Despite its reputation as a dry, barren desert, it is in reality a very unique expanse with a number of different ecosystems ranging from Mediterranean to temperate woodlands in the mountain ranges.
It is also next to several of the most recognized saltwater fishing on the Pacific coast. The kind of fishing available from one of the peninsula’s Mexico beach rental facilities is practically as different as the terrain. To be sure, there are lots of deep sea charter services with experienced guides who will be glad to bring you out into the Pacific or the Gulf in search of marlin, mahi-mahi or dolphin, but it’s just as possible to take a more passive line of attack. Some fishermen who camp out along one of Baja’s white beaches find it just as productive to set up a fishing pole, a line and some bait and let the fish come to them.
When it comes to low tech fishing, the natives can regularly teach tourists a thing or two. Using nothing other than glass bottle as a float, a lead weight and most any kind of cheap hook, regional fisherman are able to cast a line a substantial distance into the water from the beach and wind up with some amazing catches.
If you wind up tenting beside the Sea of Cortez, you might do this manner of fishing out of necessity given that markets are far apart and travelling over the areas rustic roads can be a bone jarring experience to say the least. Beach vacations spots with a substantial refrigerator and kitchen is quite convenient so you can store up and not have to make too many visits into town for groceries.
There is a different side to Baja fishing and that is the competitive deep sea fishing tournaments that are repeatedly held out of San Cabo. There are three of these held each year, one of which is toward the end of July and the others which take place about the middle of October. These are earnest contests with equally serious prizes. In the 2010 East Cape Tournament, fifty six teams walked away with a total of over $304,000 in prize money, with one top prize of $64,515 going to a fisherman who reeled in a nearly 600 pound marlin.
Baja is more than fishing. With some of the most beautiful, undeveloped beaches on North America’s Pacific Coast, surfing is a common pastime with tourists and the waves compare quite satisfactorily with those off the coast of Hawaii. Baja ecotourism also include whale watching excursions all through the migration season as the California gray whales make their way to and from Alaska. The tour boats get close enough to these huge, but friendly denizens of the deep for tourists to actually stroke them. Baja Ecotours also offers scuba diving tours and photo excursions as well as eco friendly bed and breakfasts that are solar and wind powered.
Jam727 Enterprises offers many articles on a wide variety of topics.