Juan will work his ass off to make your trip a success! I fished with him two days and it was great. The ocean was really rough both days. We shouldn’t have even been out the first day it was so bad! We had two marlin hit our lines.  The second day we stayed closer to shore and fished for different fish. We had a lot of bites and actually landed four rooster fish that fought like the dickens! They see the boat and run like hell. You reel and reel and then they see the boat again and the same thing all over again! Very, very fun and what a work out and great time! Also landed a jack cravelle! What a beautiful fish and a day I will remember forever!

These guys WORKED to catch a marlin for me. Tried several places and techniques. I thought marlin fishing was trolling all day and hoping for a bite. They would spot marlin on the surface feeding and go to them and cast live bait as well as troll. Hooked a striped marlin on live bait troll.  Was foul hooked at base of dorsal fin so hell of a 2 hour fight! Experiment of a lifetime! I highly recommend Jorge and Charlie for their skills and attitude.

So I purchased the all inclusive 8 hour day trip. We had to wait to get the go ahead in the morning due to rain before getting picked up. Pick up was nice, drivers are friendly. Got to the marina and paid my remaining balance. Note for future it appears all the locals prefer USD. Girlfriend and I boarded the boat, we met another boat and picked up our live bait. Captain Juan was a great captain, he took us to a private tour of Lovers Beach and El Arco on our way out to the ocean. We even saw Dolphins and Whales during our 2 hour boat ride out to sea. Now, here is the not so great part. I got really sea sick and couldn’t stop vomiting. Was starting to have a really bad day. Thank god we hooked 2 Mahi Mahi back to back and got some pictures. At this point it has only been about 2.5-3 hours. I was really sick and asked if we could head back. Captain Juan took us back right away very fast, made good time which I really appreciated. Now when we got back to the marina unfortunately I wasn’t thinking properly and only tipped him 100 pesos because it’s all I had in my pocket. I’m not sure if he knows but I paid for the 8 hour all inclusive for 2 people and we were only on the boat for 3.5 hours max. And he got to keep both fish which were 40+ lbs… I was a little upset how the trip ended but overall I would recommend them as it was exactly what I expected.

Captain worked hard to get us on the fish and worked with use to get us back on our cruise ship on time. He took it personal when I lost a marlin earlier in the morning then when my wife lost a dorado, so all 4 of us were high energy getting the marlin in the boat towards the end of the trip

The Boat was the right size for the price paid and we hooked into 4 fish, but lost two them. We did get a marlin in the boat late, and followed that with a nice Dorado. I know how to fish, as I fish for salmon weekly at home and would have liked the opportunity to pull the rod and set the hook when the reel started screaming, but I was pretty much yelled at to “SIT DOWN”, though it took a while for me to figure out what he was saying. Probably more my ears than anything. That happened a couple of times. He also yelled at me to drive the boat in some direction, but I don’t speak Spanish, so I wasn’t sure what he was saying. I do know how to drive a boat, as I own one, and I was adjusting us to navigate “head in” to the wave, which apparently he didn’t appreciate. After a few hours, though, he did set the hook on a nice marlin that took me about a 1/2 hour to pull in. The captain did a great job of pulling the fish in for us to get a picture. It was the best fishing experience of my life, and the rest of the yelling was pretty much forgiven. On our way in, we hooked into a Dorado and he tried to pass the pole to my girlfriend, and she said “no way”. I thought she didn’t want to fish, but after we were on the boat, she just said that she didn’t want to get yelled at. That bummed me out and left a little bit of a sour taste in my mouth. I tipped him $40 and the Dorado and we called it a day. I would use the service again, but I’d ask for a different captain with a little more English and patience under his belt. Not that he should HAVE to learn English in his own country, but I think better communication would have lowered the stress level a great deal.