After a long boat ride on day three, fishtofino and I were feeling pretty ****** (pun intended) from something we ate the day before. Fishtofino was actually really sick the whole day fishing and was about a 1/2 day ahead of me. It really hit me when we got back to the condo. I tried killing it with alchohol with not too good results lol.
I did manage to play some pool with firelight in the games room at the complex.
Nice marlin hanging on the chimney in the games room.
In the morning I was feeling horrible from the drinks and the virus. I almost pulled the pin on the last trip of the week. I drank some water, an electrolyte drink, put my lady part away, and manned up lol.
Day four morning was interesting to say the least. After we bought our baits for the morning, Mike informs us that they want to intentionally kill a marlin for chunk bait for tuna fishing with a charter the next day. I guess this is moral's thing as I don't think it is technically illegal down there. Anyways it was not cool with the three of us (everything I have read and seen seems to be promoting catch and release of bill fish. I know it's the commercial sector that is putting the dent in the numbers and the US just passed a bill to ban importing bill fish meat into the states). So number one intentionally killing a marlin was not cool to us because we were not going to eat it. Number two to just cut it up for chunk bait wasn't cool with us. Number three was he wanted us to catch his bait for another client just so he could try to catch a big tuna that he is famous for. The whole thing stunk.
We didn't freak out but told him that it wasn't really cool but we didn't get an answer back. On the way out we eyed up all the pliers and knives and said let's see the look on their faces when we cut it off (if we catch one).
So we proceed out to the lighthouse right out front where a pack of boats had assembled and where catching more bait for the marlin bite that was going on there. We looked around on the sounder and found the bait after about 1/2 hr. This part is interesting as well.
The pro's that sell bait for a living were out in droves but charter boats were all around with them. The pro's looked like they were just using bare hooks on there stringer lines.
We were using stringer lines with some yarn flies tied to the hooks.
We watched closely on technique and the activities all around us. We were right on the huge ball of bait with the rest of the boats. I watched one panga closely and counted about 70 bait fish caught in 20 minutes. The other charter boats were averaging 15-20 in that time. We caught 2! In an hour and a half of trying to fill our live wells (we even tried lighter lines which had to be retied on board instead of having an extra set ready) we caught 4 live baits and two of them died. If I was chartering for 5 years in Cabo I think I would have become proficient at catching my own bait.
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