Winter in Cabo

Five women met up in Cabo to do a little winter time fishing courtesy of II Success's owner, Linda Williams.  Once in Cabo, consensus was that what happens in Cabo stays in Cabo.  A couple of ladies preferred that no one know they were in Cabo and asked that there be no Facebook posts while in Cabo.  With that in mind, our group consisted of Ms. Bisbee, Good Witch Glenda, Tinkerbell, Porgy's Bess and Red Bird. 

We arrived in Cabo on Wednesday, March 22nd and settled into Ms. Bisbee's house.  The following morning we boarded II Success, a 60 foot Hattaras, and Captain Cubby Pahl made a left turn out of the harbor.  We trolled on the way to the Gordo Bank.  We picked up a couple small skipjack on the way.  The Gordo was covered with 21 other boats when we arrived.  We switched to bottom fishing using Trinidads loaded with 30 pound mono.  We settled into a nice rotation and picked up a good catch of small whitefish, trigger fish, grouper and red snappers.

We were back at dock by 4 pm.  Antonio and Cubby filleted the fish while we bagged them.  Back at the house, we showered then headed to Mi Casa for a nice Mexican dinner.

Friday we followed the same routine, however, we fished the Pacific side where the fish were a little larger and more of the red snapper.  I even caught a small hammerhead which fought more than any of the bottom fish.  Bess was our gal catching Porgy's and having a blast as long as she had a fish on the line.

We headed to Soloman's on the Boardwalk for dinner.  I had a nice shrimp tempura.  We stopper by Kathy and Wayne's on the way to the car.  Cute little hole in the wall bar with about 8 seats.

Saturday we headed back fishing the Pacific side with similar results.  We tried for Sierra on the way back to dock and got one short bite even though lots of fish were showing.  They were in close to the beach right at the breaker line.  As we were heading into dock, one of the sea lions followed us in the wake poking his head above the stern.  We were traveling at 7 knots!

After our showers, we took some of our filets to Panchos where they cooked us up a feast.  There may have been some singing along with the Mariachi Band when they played Sweet Caroline but I couldn't swear to it.

Sunday was a day of rest, laundry and shopping - Costco and Walmart.  We stayed in for dinner.  The Good Witch Glenda made Truffle Mac and Cheese.  I sauteed some of our red snapper filets and made a lemon pan sauce to go with it.  We had some Kirkland Champagne to celebrate our catch.

Monday we headed back to the Gordo.  On the way we caught several skippies - of the tiny variety.  We called it a trip late in the afternoon and headed in.  There was some miscommunication and Cubby thought we wanted to troll all the way back to dock so we were quite late getting in.  We decided to take quick showers and head across the road for appetizers at Villa Serena.

Tuesday we packed up frozen fish for three of the gals to take home.  Cubby drove us to the airport and we parted ways to fly home.  It was a great get away and fun times for winter fishing.