Beach Fishing

Our first full day in Cabo was dedicated to relaxing and enjoying what our surroundings at the resort had to offer. I resisted my usual temptation to plan some activity or tour, and left the day completely open. We slept in until we woke up naturally, and then sat on our veranda sipping coffeee and watching the ocean for whales. The whales did not appear so we decided to take a walk on the beach with our fly rod and see if we could get anything to chase a fly.

We had already conceded that we weren't going to find any of the prized fish of the region without a boat. This outing was mostly for the entertainment value of throwing a fly into the ocean and seeing if anything would bite. We worked our way down the beach looking for signs; nervous water, schools of bait, congregations of shore birds, jumping fish, etc. but the sea was quiet. The shoreline along most of the hotel zone in Los Cabos is not safe for swimming because of dangerous currents and undertows, and as a result the beach falls steeply into the ocean. This makes for a pretty violent shore break with the waves crashing right on the beach. It is tough to stand close to, or among, the breaking waves and get a cast out far enough to cover much water.

We soon abandoned our attempts at beach fishing and walked down to a rocky point that afforded us the ability to fish some structure.  We climbed out onto the rocks and cast our Clouser Minnow into a likely slot. It was attacked by a Trumpetfish around 2 feet long that we hooked, played for a couple jumps and then lost. We had a few other Trumpetfish take or follow, but their tiny mouths made it difficult to hook them. We moved locations and caught a Jack Crevalle of about 2 pounds. Further down the beach we had another Trumpetfish miss the fly 3 times on the same retrieve, but never hooked it. The sun was getting hot, and we were getting hungry, so we called it a morning.