You’re in the fighting chair, the sun on your back, rod socketed in, line screaming as the big fish sounds, runs, tail-walks. You’re in Los Cabos, “the Marlin Capital of the World”.
Cabo San Lucas, at the southwestern tip of the Baja where sea and ocean meet at a dramatic rock arch, is a fisherman’s town, with a big marina at its center and a host of lively restaurants full of people telling fish stories. Boats |
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for charter range from state-of-the-art cruisers to 20’ skiffs known locally as “pangas.” Hemingway came here to fish; so did John Wayne, Bing Crosby and a clutch of other celebrity sportsmen from way back in the ‘40s. The marlin - black, blue and striped - run as big as 1,000
lbs., and as many as 40,000 marlin and Pacific sailfish have been caught in a year. Catch-and-release is the rule for marlin, |
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with tournaments like the Bisbee setting a weight limit below which the fish must be returned to the sea. Deep-sea fishing is of course the original tourist attraction in
Los Cabos, and continues to be to this day. Los Cabos draws thousands of sports fishermen annually to angle for striped, blue and black marlin, as well as sailfish, skipjack, yellowfin tuna, dorado, yellowtail, wahoo and much more. |