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| I'm headed to Cancun at the end of the month and would like to do some fishing while I am there. Does anyone have a recommendation for a guide/captain to use? |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | There are a ton of them on the bay there. Just make SURE you don't book the boat responsible for getting bait for the next day. We did that and spent half our day catching bait. |
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| I assume if you were fishing for bait you were on the flats |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | We were about an hour and a half out, catching pinfish ( that's what they called the things, little fish with pointy noses) when we were supposed to be fishing tuna. One of the fellows on the boat was from British Columbia, and spent the entire ride back throwing pinfish back whenever the crew wasn't looking. |
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| Steve is right, there are a ton in the bay. We asked the people at the hotel who they recommended, they had several to check into. When we went down there, they all want YOU and they all are the best. We just looked for the cleanest boat, some have photo albums you can look through also. Not sure what season you'll be getting into, but good luck. Basically we just took an half-hearted educated guess, ended up with some real nice guys and caught 3 sailfish to boot.
Good Luck ! |
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| found it cheaper to go to playa del carmen and fish cant remember our guides name but there both is right by the ferry boat dock in playa, if the women dont fish they can spend all day shopping, cancun kinda sucked last year because of all the hurricane damage so we rented a car and drove to playa from cancun .there was no beach left in cancun last march dont know what shape it is in now. |
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Location: New Berlin,Wisconsin,53151 | We fished out of Istapa and I let the guy we were traveling with pick the boat, I did catch a 7' sailfish but the boat sucked. The Captain had a hangover and spent the majority of the time sleeping, his 1st mait wasn't too eager to change baits. The thing is that when we got back to the hotel, I was tallking about the bad time it was and this guy overheard me and said that he goes to the fishing pier a few days before he wants to fish. He talks to people getting off the boats and see's who had a good time and who caught fish. He said that it's not the biggest boat in fact he told us that he went out in a 18ftr with a 40hp triler and caught 10 sailfish, yahoo, and had a marlin on for most of the afternoon until it broke 200lb test. So depending on what your fishing for do some scouting around before you settle on one guy and do some price searching....
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Location: Watertown, MN | Pepper
Take a boat ride out to Isla Mujeres 20 minutes boat ride, you can fish cuda and sails. I have to look for the charters names, around 700-800 for the day. Alot of boats from the northern water dock there is Feb for sailfish.
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| playa del carmen is a deffinate plus. Avoid the charters in town in Cancun. It takes an hour to get through the marina out into the big pond, talk to the apple tour guy and head south to playa (about a 45-60min ride and included in the price!) 60 bucks should get a person 4 hours and they start trolling 10 minutes after the boat leaves the pier! I highly recommend it!
Good Luck
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Location: Verona, WI | Tyee,
Thanks for the tip - I'll be in Playa del Carmen January 21-29 and was thinking about hitting the water.
Shane |
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