Bone Marlin
Lets Have Tea For Tuna In Cabo
The Baja Peninsula stretches southward from the border of California for almost 800 miles before ending at Cabo San Lucas and is separated from the rest of Mexico by the Sea of Cortez. Despite its reputation as a arid, barren desert, it is actually a very unique expanse with numerous different ecosystems ranging from Mediterranean to mild woodlands in the mountain ranges.
It is also adjacent to several of the most amazing saltwater fishing on the Pacific coast. The kind of fishing existing from one of the peninsula’s Mexico beach rental facilities is almost as varied as the terrain. To be sure, there are a lot of deep sea charter tours with experienced guides who will be pleased to lead 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 approach. Some fishermen who camp out along one of Baja’s unspoiled beaches find it just as fruitfull to set up a pole, a line and some bait and allow the fish come to them.
When it comes to low tech fishing, the natives can frequently 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, local fisherman are able to cast a line a considerable distance into the water from the beach and wind up with some fine catches.
If you wind up camping out along the Sea of Cortez, you might do this kind of fishing out of necessity given that markets are far apart and travelling over the region’s primitive roads can be a bone jarring experience to say the least. Beach vacation rentals with a substantial refrigerator and cooking area is quite convenient so you can store up and not have to make too many excursions into town for groceries.
There is an additional 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 near the end of July and the others which take place around the middle of October. These are serious contests with equally serious prizes. In the 2010 East Cape Tournament, fifty six teams walked away with a sum of over $304,000 in prize money, with one top prize of $64,515 going to a fisherman who caught a nearly 600 pound marlin.
Baja is more than fishing. With some of the most gorgeous, unspoiled beaches on North America’s Pacific Coast, surfing is a common sport with guests and the waves compare quite satisfactorily with those off the coast of Hawaii. Baja ecotourism also include whale watching excursions throughout the migration season as the California gray whales make their way to and from Alaska. The tour boats get close enough to these massive, but friendly denizens of the deep for the public to actually lay a hand on them. Baja Ecotours also offers scuba diving tours and photo excursions as well as eco friendly bed breakfasts that are solar and wind powered.
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