When I booked this trip a few months ago, ill was honest I was a little skeptical. The rates seemed too low compared to trips I’ve taken with Guides before. I booked the noon to 5pm trip with Johnny because I’m in Mexico, and who wants to get up at 430am to go fishing? The day before the trip I received a message from Johnny, and he said he strongly recommended that we switch from 6am-11am because the afternoon fishing was extremely slow. He did this knowing that he could have booked someone else for the morning trip and gotten two trips that day Instead of one, which is honest anywhere in the world, but unheard of in Mexico.

So we switched, and met Johnny at 6am at the marina and headed out fishing. The pictures I took at sunrise were breathtaking. We saw a TON of humpback and Grey whales, went passed lovers Beach, the arch, sea lion Island, and many more beautiful photo op sights. some people pay more $ just to see all these sites, usually $75-100 per person per trip and u would have to book all these trips separately , so we had $400-500 minimum worth of value before we even began fishing! More than the cost of the trip! Reports everywhere were that fishing was super slow because water was cold. We saw at least 50 other boats trolling the same areas as us, and the entire trip I saw ONE other fish caught besides our boat. I won’t reveal Johnny’s secret, but I’ll tell u I plan to try to implore it freshwater fishing back home. It’s incredible, handmade by him, I’ve never seen anything like it, and other boat captains wanted to buy it from him lol. In our boat, we boated 8 Sierra Mackerel, the most prized table fare around here, and we easily should have limited out but my girlfriend hadn’t done this type of fishing yet, her arms got tired and she lost a few fish because she didn’t keep enough tension on the line.

The bite stopped around 9am and Johnny took us to deeper water to bottom fish for some bigger trophy fish. Let me tell u, this is not easy fishing, dropping your line to 225 feet and then immediately jerking and reeling, jerking and reeling all the way up the water column and then repeating the process. My girlfriend quit immediately, and after 4 series my arms were tired too lol. I told Johnny that he had worked hard, more than done his job, and that I didn’t care that we would head in an hour and a half early. He said, oh no, I want to catch you more fish…. Who does that? So we watched him do this jerk jigging at 6-7 different spots over the next hour and a half, his arms had to be like jello when he was done. Suddenly he said he hooked one, handed me the reel and I reeked in a GORGEOUS Bonita fish!!! On the way in, he took even more time to stop at all the famous spots along shore and take pictures of us holding the fish. He took these with his professional camera, and then emailed me the photos later.

And the absolute highlight of my entire trip to Cabo? A sea lion swam up to our boat on the way in, let us touch him and hand feed him our leftover bait! It was a moment in nature that I never thought I’d experience. When we got back to shore, he took one of the mackerel and the Bonita to the restaurant, they prepared the fish 9 different ways, and it was the best meal of the trip, and when I got the bill I didn’t even think it was right because of how affordable it was. This was our best day in Cabo by far, and I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend hiring johnny. Don’t waste your time with anyone else!