It’s A Beautiful Marlin In Cabo San Lucas

The Baja Peninsula stretches southward from the border of California for almost 800 miles before culminating 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 diverse territory with several distinctive ecosystems ranging from Mediterranean to temperate woodlands in the mountain ranges.

It is also adjacent to a number of the most amazing saltwater fishing on the Pacific coast. The kind of fishing obtainable from one of the peninsula’s Mexico beach rental facilities is practically as different as the terrain. To be sure, there are many deep sea charter services with knowledgeable guides who will be pleased to bring you out into the Pacific or the Gulf in search of marlin, mahi-mahi or dolphin, but it’s just as promising to take a more passive approach.  Many 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 will definitely regularly teach tourists a thing or two. Using nothing more than glass bottle as a float, a lead weight and most any kind of inexpensive hook, area fisherman are able to cast a line a considerable distance into the water from the beach and wind up with some amazing catches.

If you wind up camping down the Sea of Cortez, you might do this kind of fishing out of necessity since markets are far apart and travelling over the areas rustic roads can be a bone jarring experience to say the least.  Beach rental accommodations with a large refrigerator and kitchen is enormously convenient so you can store up and not have to make too many trips 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 intense 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 caught a nearly 600 pound marlin.

Baja is more than fishing.  With some of the most amazing, unspoiled beaches on North America’s Pacific Coast, surfing is a common pastime with guests and the waves compare quite favorably with those off the coast of Hawaii. Baja ecotourism also consist of whale watching trips throughout the migration season as the California gray whales make their way to and from Alaska. The tour boats get close enough to these giant, but friendly denizens of the deep for the public to actually touch them. Baja Ecotours also offers scuba diving tours and photo excursions as well as eco friendly romantic getaways that are solar and wind powered.