First off, the boat is very clean and comfortable.  As it happens sometimes, the fishing was very slow and the conditions were rough, but the crew worked hard to put us on to fish. They covered a lot of water and changed up the lures every 45 minutes or so. I was impressed they worked past our allotted time at noon. At about 12:20pm, they callled it quits and began pulling in the lines. All of a sudden, we got into a school of dorado and had a double. It was an amazing finish to the day! During our trip, we spotted a breaching orca, dolphins as well as a marlin feeding on the surface—which we tried to catch with some live mackerel but were unsuccessful. Overall, a great experience and I would book again with these guys.

We had the best experience on El Budster with Captain Francisco and Deckhand Omar. We did the private full day all inclusive trip. The captain and deckhand were so accommodating, handling all the fishing licenses prior to our fishing day, and having food and drinks for us on our actual day. They took us out and within the first couple of hours in the morning we had a Marlin on the line. They really know what they’re doing and can tell they’re very experienced fisherman.

We caught a beautiful Marlin and several delicious Yellowfin Tuna that we got to eat for dinner later that same day. We can’t thank Captain Francisco and Deckhand Omar enough for giving us such an amazing experience on El Budster and a day full of memories that will last a lifetime. We will be coming back and we absolutely will be booking with El Budster in the future!

Due to tropical storm earlier in the week we changed our trip time. The Captain of El Budster was nice enough to get us a time slot on El Budster Pride. Our third fishing trip in Cabo and the best so far. We went waaay out, dropped the first line in the water and within 5 minutes had a small Dorado. Ended up with 5 total. Great trip for the money. Crew was awesome

Let me start by saying that everyone I interacted with at the charter company was very friendly (Mike, Francisco, Omar - deckhand). They really set the tone in a positive way and we had high hopes for a wonderful afternoon after seeing the crew remove 10+ fish from the fish well from the AM trip. Unfortunately we got skunked that afternoon and while I do agree that happens, I was quite surprised based on what this boat did in the AM as well as seeing all the “fish flags” flying from other boats entering the harbor.

I realize this getting blanked is a risk however I didn’t feel like the crew did much to help the matter. We literally left the harbor headed straight out for 20 miles trolling for marlin (while almost all the other boats went north up the sea of Cortez) . At 20 miles we turned around and came straight back. I’ve finished for marlin a dozen times and have never seen this “technique”. I didn’t see very many other boats in our area nor did we see the captain make any radio calls to other boats (including their sister boat that was on charter as well).

Once we came towards the harbor the captain headed south around the point to fish for smaller species (dorado, rooster, etc). I quickly noticed no other boats in the area and as I mentioned we trolled for an hour without anything. Just one trip parallel to the beach and a return trip on the same line then we headed in. Didn’t really feel like this was active “fishing”. Again no calls to other boats, and seeing an area devoid of other boats should have signaled no fish in the area.

Maybe I’m just salty because I didn’t get a fish so please keep that in mind in reading this review. As I said at the top, the staff were super friendly and accommodating…maybe you just need to be more forceful with the crew to put you on some fish… but then isn’t that what you’re paying them for?

My wife and I were visiting Cabo San Lucas for her birthday. I wanted to book a private fishing trip so she could experience the thrill of open water fishing. The crew on El Budster killed it! They had us hooked up with fish as soon as we dropped our lines in! After catching a large amount of Bonita and Dorado, the Captain suggested we try for Marlin. Wife was all in and we watched this talented crew drop at least 5 lines in with two outriggers. Within 20 minutes, we were Fish On with a striped Marlin. The crew coached my wife in landing what turned out to be a 145 pound, 8 foot striped Marlin. The whole trip was amazing. I booked 5 hours, but with the skill and guidance of the El Budster Captain and 1st mate, we were done in half the time. These guys `know their stuff and are amazingly skilled fishermen! I recommend booking them through Fishingbooker.com because trying to negotiate this type of experience at the docks is, well, pretty tough. Thanks for the amazing memories!