I’ve never seen a crew do so little.  In 5 hours of trolling, I think they checked or refreshed the bait on the lines once without us insisting.  Because we insisted, some lines got checked twice in 5 hours, but not all of them.  And sure enough, when they would reluctantly pull in a line at our suggestion, no bait.  Well, after two hours what did you expect. 

I’ve been on many deep-sea fishing trips and the crew always seemed to be busy.  Checking lines, refreshing bait, pulling on the deployed lines to create bait action, and lots of other activity as well that I can’t classify because I’ve never crewed a boat.  This crew seemed interested in doing as little as possible.  And what a surprise, no fish!

Last time I went on a trip years ago in Cozumel and got no bites trolling, the crew stopped the boat in the shallows on the way back and we bottom fished.  They cared and didn’t want us to go home empty handed.  I just assumed this would happen on this boat too.  Nope!  Straight back to the dock with just a shrug of the shoulders from the crew.  Never touched a fishing pole in 5 hours.  But on the positive side, at least the crew caught up on some apparently much needed rest.

We still tipped them well.  We’re Americans, we can’t help but to tip, even with bad service.  But the tip notwithstanding, I wouldn’t go with this outfit again, certainly not this crew.

We had one day to fish Picachos on a cruise stop. Escualo sport fishing had us picked up at the gate. The drive took about an hour and we had approximately 4.5 hours of fishing but it was nonstop action. Our Guide Framine and Eduardo took the best care of us and made sure we made it back in plenty of time to catch the boat. In all, we ended up with around 70 fish. I am landing on another trip in the near future where I can have several days.

My son and I had an incredible day of bass fishing. Our guises were really good and lake pichachos is a great fishery with a ton of potential!  We caught and released about 50 2-3 lb largemouth in the 4 hours we were on the lake and missed another 20-30 fish.
We were met at the cruise port as promised and the the drive to the lake (about 1 hour) was an adventure in itself.  We were able to see the city and countryside.
We will re book this trip every chance we get.

Not the best day. We only caught one 3ft mahi-mahi. If your goal is only trophy fish then this might be right for you.