First post
I have to admit that I have utilized ifish for the past year - figured I better become "official" so here is my first post & fishing tale:
This is actually an old story but a good one. My wife and I were married about 8 years ago and we spent our honeymoon at a fishing resort in Mexico - East Cape for those of you that have gone done south (to brag about how special of a person my wife is - it was her idea and she does not share my love of the sport). After our plane landed in Cabo San Lucas we hired "local" taxi to take us to the resort - Rancho Leonaro. An hour and half later in the middle of the deset - we started to get a little nervous. At the point, the driver turned off the (so-called) main road onto a dirt road and continued to drive for couple miles into "nothingness". Bet you can imagine our thoughts at that point. Fortunately, after approx 5 mile backroads we reached destination. Beautiful, quiet resort with private cabins!!! Now To the fishing. Since, i didn't know anybody at the place and wife had no desire to go, I had pre-booked Panga(smallest boat with guide) for myself. Day of the trip had gorgeous weather and I was excited!! However, after heading out I was concerned when the other boats headed in one direction and we headed opposite. Stayed out entire day and not even nibble. When returned, found the other boats had excellent success.
I was pretty angry and started "sulking". I will brag about wife again - she kicked me in butt and had me discuss my displeasure with resort's guide manager. Per our little discussion, I was scheduled next day with Indio - known as king of Dorado fishing.
Indio turned out to be good guy - and could actually speak a few words of English. Two hours into trip with nothing, I began to get a bad feeling, not Indio. He decided if the Dorado were going to be uncooperative we would go catch a Marlin instead. Re-setting the gear was quick enough – attaching a 2lb squid lure than accelerating to relaxing “hold on to your hat” troll. About 10 minutes into the troll my pole bent over and than relaxed – and my negative thought process identified it as a missed opportunity. Not Indio, he accelerated the boat as fast as the little thing would go and BAM!!! The pole definitely had one of those tiny marlins attached to it. Played the fish for an amazing 10 minutes and had it to the boat – wondering to myself why marlins were considered so much of a challenge??? Well, the fish took one look at me, laughed, and took off for a couple mile jog(felt like it). This is getting too long a story so to summarize – broken waist belt after 30 minutes of fighting fish, reel's brake stripping after 1 hour, handing pole back and forth multiple times due to numbness of arms, 5 blisters(one on the stomach per no waist belt) = 2.5 hours and it was finally back to the boat. I wanted to release but Indio insisted fish was at point it would probably die anyway(twist my arm) and it was a blue marlin which are excellent eating. Next endeavor – how to get it on the boat. After the 2.5 hours, Indio and I had little energy left- took everything we had and the fish had to go in boat sideways to fit. At that point I was in fisherman’s heaven, excited to return with trophy. Indio would not have that, time to get the Durado since his reputation was at stake (King of Durado). Two hours later, I had twelve Durado in the boat (Indio was such a madman he was filleting boated fish for bait).
End of story = 250lb blue marlin, 12 Durado, 5 blisters and life experience. I gave ½ the proceeds to Indio and his family, the rest was cooked up at the resort for all the guests.
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