Fishing in the Pacifico

 

 

 

We have added a new tour to the Canoa Thrills repertoire, a fishing booze cruise to the private beach of Cabo Pasado, north of Canoa.  We started our journey on a sunny beautiful Canoa day at around noon.  With the crew of 10 assembled we pushed off on our pangas.  In route to the beach we stopped and swam with a huge ball of schooling fish, it was incredible.  From a distance the fish looked like a giant rock in the water, but as we approached the “giant rock” was moving around.  There were millions of little 2 inch, red fish.  After a little dip in the Pacific we continued along the rugged coastline in search of a place to drop the nets in the water, for a little sea cuisine.  

 

 

 

With the nets in the water we pulled up to the beach for some relaxation, swimming, snorkeling, and some frisbee.  I attempted to teach some of the locals how to play frisbee golf, but in the end they were teaching me how to play.  It’s so annoying introducing a new game, and getting whooped on every time.  I’ll be practicing more.   

With a couple hours of suntanning and beach combing past we decided to go out and see what the nets had to offer.  We took bets as to how many fish we snared, with the numbers ranging from zero to five.  We put out 800 meters of netting in what looked like a promising spot, after 30 minutes of retrieving the net, we didn’t even catch a piece of trash floating in the water.  Nothing, nada, zilch, zero.  I guess that’s why they call it fishin’ and not catchin’.  Luckily there were some better fisherman than ourselves in the area, we made an offer to buy some fish off of them.  They refused to take the money and loaded us up with at least 10 huge fish.  

There was a great cheer from the crowd when we returned and they saw all the fish we “caught”.  We decided to leave out the smaller details and took all of the credit for the harvest.

 ”We were just showing the other boat how many fish we had caught.”  I said.  When asked what we were talking to the other boats about.  Being a very avid fisherman nobody disagreed with me and we proceeded to make a fire on the beach and clean the fish.  

With a feast of fresh fish cooked over an open fire the crew was ready to watch an incredible sunset over the ocean.  We loaded back up in the boats and headed back to Canoa with full bellies of fresh fish and cerveza.  

What an amazing adventure.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stop by the Surf Shak to book The Booze Cruise to Cabo Pasado, or contact us through email.  info@canoathrills.com