Four forty-five am is really early. I’m not sure how Jason does this everyday. Ryan, Joyce, Jason and I are up this early today to go offshore fishing. Our cab was right on time and delivered us to the marina by 6:05 am. Our captain wasn’t meeting us until 6:30 am. I was then curious why were there at 6:05. Jason said it was because I wanted to be sure to be on time. This confused me greatly since timeliness is NOT one of Jason’s strong suits. I guess this just proved that if Jason really wants to be on time for something, he can.
Our captain Arturo and his helper Jacob showed up promptly at 6:30 and we were on our way. The boat was nice. Probably in the 25 foot range and fast. It was a fairly little boat, without much cover but it did have a tiny bathroom in the event that we needed to go during our eight hours on the water. This made both Joyce and me happy.
Our first stop on the water was to pick up some live bait. Jason was fly fishing but the rest of us wanted to actually catch stuff and the easiest way for us to do that was with live bait. The first bait guy didn’t have all the stuff we wanted, so we had to take another 30 minuteish ride to find smaller minnows. I didn’t mind because I like riding on fast moving boats. On our way we also spotted a super cute momma and baby whale playing in the water. I took a little flip video of this and will attempt to post it at some point.
Evidently on average it rains 10 days a year in Cabo. It turns out that today was one of those days. This wasn’t great for the fishing but it was even worse for poor Joycie who had on khakis and a t-shirt that acted as a mops for the water. Thankfully it didn’t poor the whole time but it was still less than ideal.
We ended up catching a fair amount of fish, although none of them were as big as I was hoping. The biggest was probably in the ten pound range. That fish, along with the majority of the ones we caught, was a sierra mackerel. We also caught two kind of needle fish. The coolest looking fish of the day by far was caught by Joycie. It was an African Pompano shown below.
At the end of the day on the water Arturo took us by the famed Arch of Cabo. It was neat to get to see that from the water. Overall I had a very nice time fishing. Although, like everyone else who has ever gone fishing, I just wish we would have caught a few that were bigger.
Upon arriving home and ditching our sopping wet clothes we decided to get in the hot tub. I’m not going to lie. It felt really good. After that I took a shower and nap. When I woke up I was greeted by an awesome dinner mom made. Jason kept and cleaned (he was too cheap to pay a kid $10 bucks to do it) a few of our sierra mackerel and mom used them as the fish to make us fish tacos for dinner. Mom really did a remarkable job creating really good meals with fairly limited supplies. Not that any of us were really surprised, she’s super mommy!
It’s late, I’m tired and calling it a night. Time to sleep with the fishies.
Night,
Katy
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