We did not have a very good experience. Set aside the fact we didn't catch anything but a sunburn. We first met Rogelio (Roger) walking around the marina. He was informative and seemed nice. Roger sold us on his boat "Lisa". Roger gave a "good" price of $400 for a half day fishing trip for 4 guys down from $475. Roger "schooled" us on how the other guys don't have the tackle he had and his crew were top notch. He also mentioned how many of the other outfits would sell you on a charter and then the morning of require additional $$ to pay for the days licenses and bait. His "deal" was for everything, even a couple cases of beer, sandwiches, chips and water. He showed us pictures of the marlin caught the day before also. I personally wanted to shop around some more but our group felt comfortable with Roger and his boat. Sign us up!
Fast forward a couple days and we are jacked to celebrate my brothers birthday and a great day on the water. We are ready to go at 6:00am as requested and waiting to ship off. They were not. Roger showed up with our half Subway sandwiches, no chips, a couple waters and an 18 pack of Tecate. (When we signed our contract, he was very particular with asking us all the kind of beer we wanted and even our favorite chips). Seems like he lost his notes.
Oh yeah and we were required to pay the remaining balance of the trip, $200, and now an additional $40 for licenses. This was exactly what Roger warned us of. Not wanting to start an argument or scene with it being my brothers birthday and excited for the big day, we happily paid.
Now we are off........to pick up fuel, bait, licenses and our staffs food! An hour later we are finally leaving the marina.
I am by no means a professional fisherman but I have been on my fair share of charters. The two guys helping us on the boat, Angel and another elderly man, were very nice. They asked us what we wanted to fish for. I appreciate that but when I ask for their professional opinions that I paid for, I expect they would be able to point us in the right direction not tell me that it's a 50/50 shot at fishing the shoreline vs. deep sea.
We decided to fish near shore for Rooster fish. That's a fish I have not caught and know this to be a great area to catch them. Our captains response, "We need to buy more bait." No doubt would cost us more! F it.....get me out to sea, were tired of waiting around.
2 hours into our trolling I advise Angel that our lines are tangled....no wonder we are catching anything.
With no luck deep let's cut line and head into shore for the Rooster fish. A couple quick bites and our time is up. We are told to reel our lines in and we are full steam ahead back to the marina. Never saw them move so fast until it was time to go home.
I'm not usually one who writes reviews but with this experience I felt others needed to know and be aware. If I could give 0 out of 5 stars, I would.
Updated Review 8/2/17
After my original post, the owners of the boat reached out to me. We had a very constructive conversation about our experience. They were very sorry to hear our experience was lacking. After all was said and done they offered to take us out again and insured a different experience. Unfortunately I was unable to make it work with our short stay in Cabo. In the end we were refunded a portion ($150) of the trip. read more