Had a great day on the water with Captain Luis and Deckhand Ishmael. Fishing had been a little slow so I had low expectations for the trip but we managed to get a marlin, 3 Dorado, 2 skipjack and two small Mako sharks. Luis and Ishmael were very professional, the boat and head were clean and the tackle we used was top quality (Shimano Tiagras and Talica’s). If you are taking a taxi there in the morning I would recommend telling them to drop you at Cabo Dolphins as our taxi seemed confused about the second Senior Frogs location on the south side of the marina.

These guys know how to fish! Would highly recommend going with them. They put you on fish and work hard the entire time to catch fish. This is not a boat ride which I have been on plenty of times with other companies that don’t even try to catch fish just drive you around and say sorry no fish for u today where’s my tip. Your going on a fishing trip with these guys they hooked my dream fish a 8’ stripped marlin and we got it in the boat. Caught other fish as well. Entire experience was great from start to finish.

We’ve been on fishing trips where we spent hours trolling and came home with a couple of average fish, or even one big monster (a 9 foot blue marlin).  Today we wanted quantity.  We wanted to catch a lot of fish and we didn’t care what kind.  This is probably an unusual request, but Louis and Ismael gave us exactly that. We stayed relatively close to shore (less than a mile) and caught our first fish just 15 minutes into the excursion.  All told we hit our boat’s limit of Bonita in a few hours. We also saw whales and sea lions up close during our morning of fishing. The boat was comfortable and the Captain handled the very rough seas with skill.  It was a rough day to be on the water, but Louis and Ismael made it a thoroughly enjoyable day.

This review is for folks that don’t have a ton of experience fishing and are wondering if it’s too intense. It is, but in the best way! My wife and I took my Father on his first sea fishing experience and had an awesome time! It was quiet for the first 3-4 hours, but Ismael, our guide assured us we just had a wait a little longer. In the meantime we saw countless whales, even Marlin jumping and got to see the lovers arch at sunrise and enjoy the views of Cabo from the sea. We saw many boats around us reeling in Marlin and it was finally our turn! We snagged a 140lbs marlin and my father was able to reel in a Dorado immediately after!! It was so incredible and Ismael really did the leg work to help us bring them in, so that’s not a problem! Once we got back to shore we were able to get our fish processed for a tip and took 2 kilos of our marlin and the whole dorado was probably about 3 kilos. We took it back to our hotel, Pueblo Bonito and they cooked it up for us with a two hour notice! Sashimi for the marlin and a flavorful char for the dorado. Thank you so much to our captain and crew of El Budster Pride! We had an incredible experience and will never forget it!

Great experience! Told the captain we wanted to catch Dorado, Wahoo and yellowfin tuna. Limited out on nice dorado within 90 minutes of leaving the dock so we moved deeper to try for some yellowfin. No yellowfin but an 8 foot striped marlin put on a great show while a humpback whale breeched 50 yards past the marlin, epic show. Word on the radio was no yellowfin but lots of marlin so I asked the captain if we could switch to deep running plugs for wahoo. Two nice wahoo later we ended the trip two hours early and headed for the dock and a wahoo sashimi lunch. Highly recommended boat and crew!