As an avid fisherman enjoying a week of vacation in cozumel I knew I needed to get a trip booked. We chose the AM reef fishing trip so we could get more bites. We had action literally the entire time! We caught snapper, red snapper, strawberry grouper, triggerfish, parrot fish and a few other species. Probably caught 40 or so fish in a few hours. We did lose a couple big bites but that’s fishing.

Mario speaks fluent English and is very friendly and extremely knowledgeable on the water. His boat is very nice and very practical for a day of fishing. I have friends on the island that will be booking with him soon and I hope to book with him soon as well.

If you are contemplating booking, just do it! You will not regret it.

We headed to the marina to get aboard his ship, which he had stocked with beers, waters, sodas and snacks, and headed out to sea. We seen a bunch of flying fish which was the first time I have ever seen any which was pretty cool and had a dolphin swim by us for a little bit as well. Mario, our captain, is the one on the right shown in that picture and on the left is his first mate Miguel. He set up all the rigging, poles and baited all the lines for us and did an all around fantastic job, great guy. Our captain did an amazing job as well navigating us out to sea and trolling around trying to catch a marlin or some trophy fish of that sort. But after 2 hours of slightly rough conditions due to the wind we were about to give up and just do some bottom fishing because it’s called fishing not catching and at that very second Miguel yelled, fish on, meaning we had our first bite of the day. I sat down and photographer/cameraman Noah, my cousin, documented it all. A nice 3’ barracuda about 22lbs. That pretty much made the trip right then and there anything else would be a bonus. We stopped and bottom fished for a solid 30-45 minutes and as soon as you dropped the reel in it was almost like catching fish in a barrel, obviously just some smaller fish but still was fun to do. On our way back we trolled as well trying to catch something else and had another bite so Noah sat in and I took over the phone. He reeled in a smaller barracuda but just as fun as catching anything. Overall a great experience and awesome time. Definitely will be coming back to do this again.

Mario and is first mate were very experienced and knowledgeable of the area. They constantly check bate and cleaned hooks.. though we didn’t catch fish probably because it was rough seas we did have the rare pleasure of having a pod of dolphins swimming with the boat.. great day !!!!

Had a great time with Mario and his deck mate frank. We covered lots of ground and tried many different presentations. It sounded like a slow day on the water as many other boats were reporting not catching anything. However we were able to land a nice sized barracuda! Had a few other bites but unfortunately couldn’t get those fish to commit fully to the bait. I’ll definitely be booking with Mario again next time I’m in cozumel!

Captain Mario and Miguel are two of the greatest people we met while in Cozumel.  We were able to go on two trips with them on our stay. Both days they put us on the fish and kept us on them. We can’t wait to go back and see them again.  We highly recommend anybody looking for a great fishing adventure to get in touch with captain Mario at Abrimar II for your next great fishing adventure.