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Great rates for fishing packagesFish for dorado, roosterfish, sailfish, marlin, and more in Mexico's Sea of CortezTwo to seven-day fishing packages are an excellent value and include seaside rooms, cruisers or pangas with guides, all meals and much more -- all situated ideally in a small town on the Baja Peninsula. |
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Fishing Trip FI7102
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Packages
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Price per person
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| 7 nights with 4 days fishing | $1,100 + airfare (currently $300 to $600 round trip from most American cities) |
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Included
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Not included
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| A room in the seaside Color Point Hotel (see "Lodging" below), all meals, fishing from a cruiser for eight hours a day (7 a.m. to 3 p.m.), skipper/guide service, use of quality rods and reels, lures and terminal tackle, soft drinks on the boat. Prices for three- to five-day packages include taxes on hotel rooms and fishing trips as well as tips to the hotel staff. | Air fare, airport shuttle, extra activities, tips to the fishing crew, bait, fishing license ($30 for non-resident aliens). Taxes and hotel staff tips are included on our packages, but if you later add extra nights in the hotel or extra days on a boat, taxes and tips for the extra fees are not included. |
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Lodging/meals
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Fishing boats
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| Included in the price. Standard hotel rooms accommodate two anglers. You can upgrade to a deluxe room with a view of the ocean, or you can save a bit if you have a group of four sharing a cabaña. You'll eat breakfasts and suppers in a restaurant, and box lunches during the day. |
Standard fishing days include the fees for a 28-foot cruiser with two anglers aboard. You can downgrade to a panga, or you can save money if four anglers share a cruiser. Or you can upgrade to a deluxe cruiser. Shore and surf fishing is good at Colored Point. |
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Travel
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Seasons and dates
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| You'll fly to San Juan de Cabo Airport (SJD) near Cabo San Lucas and about 45 minutes south of the hotel/marina. Round trip tickets between most American cities and SJD for the 2009 started from about $300 to $600, depending on your starting point. Check www.igougo.com for current rates.
To reach the hotel/marina about 45 minutes away, you can rent a car for the duration of your trip, or you pay for shuttle service. See below for costs. |
Prime months are June, July, September and October. We can add an additional night's lodging for 50% or less if you book a trip during a non-prime month. Coolwater fish, such as yellowtail, jacks, roosterfish and many bottomfish are prevalent in the winter and spring and start moving out in the transitional month, June. Fish that like warm water, such as billfish, tuna and dorado, start showing up in numbers in June and stay through the summer and early fall. Most anglers catch many varieties of fish. |
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Taxes |
| The resort's shuttle service transports anglers between the airport and the resort (about 45 minutes away). Round-trip rates vary according to party size as follows: Seven or more anglers $30 per person, six at $35, four or five at $42, three at $54, two at $80, and one angler traveling alone is $140. | Taxes are included in the price of fishing packages. If you want to add fishing days or nights in the hotel after you have booked a package, you should figure on paying 13% tax for extra nights in your room and 10% tax for extra days on a boat. |
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The majority of reels are Penn, with a few Shimano and Daiwas. Rods are mainly Seeker and G. Loomis. Ande line and Eagle Claw hooks are used exclusively. Tackle includes the use of all rods, reels, fishing line, lures, hooks, rod belts and rigging materials. Flyfishermen should bring their own gear and can catch all species available except probably swordfish. Anglers who wish to fish from shore should bring their own light tackle or surfcasting equipment. |
Most anglers enjoy taking time to snorkel or scuba dive. You can bring your own gear and snorkel right in front of the hotel at no additional charge, or you can have a boat take your group to a marine preserve where no fishing is permitted. The preserve is about 45 minutes from the marina. Costs are reasonable. Also available for a fee: tours of the desert country side and mining district, sea kayak rental, horseback riding, jetboat or spearfishing gear or snorkel rental, and scuba diving trips and certification courses. |
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| Tips to the hotel staff are included in the price of our packages. Tips to your fishing crew (captain and mate) are not included. The suggested minimum tip per angler: $20/day for the captain and $10/day for the mate. If you add days to your trip after booking a package, tips to the hotel staff are not included. | Don't forget your camera. Water-resistant digital cameras are recommended. If your camera is not water-resistant, take it onboard in a heavy-gauge zipped plastic bag. Remember to use the sand/sun setting that allows better exposures when the background is bright. Bring extra batteries and memory cards or film. |
Cabana at Color Point Lodge. There are usually four beds to a room. This is the type of room where you will stay on our Bronze package.
Here's what is available right now for June 7-14 at discounted rates.
Seven nights in a standard room with two persons per room, all taxes, hotel gratuity, 3 meals daily, four days fishing on a standard cruiser with four anglers on board, boat tax, tackle rental.
Additional charges:
Bait: $25-$30 per day paid in cash directly to the bait fishermen
Tackle rental: now included!
Boat Crew gratuity: 15-20% of boat rate
Drinks: soft drinks, bottled water, and alcohol are additional
Transfers: party of 3, arriving and departing together= $54 per person, round-trip
**Can be set up prior to travel with my office by mailing your flight information along with a check made out to the transfer company
Fish processing- if you want vacuum packaging, the cost is $1 per pound on the filleted weight. The hotel will clean and fillet your catch for free, but they freeze it in regular plastic bags.
Airfare. (Currently about $440 from Salt Lake City, less from closer cities, slightly more from more distant airports.)
Big dorado, also known as mahi mahi, roam these waters in good numbers. One of our customers said it's hard to keep dorado off your lure if you find a school near a room-size patch of floating seaweed.
Tuna are the favored quarry of many long-time Baja anglers because they fight extremely hard and are great to eat.
On one of your free days, you might wish to try sea kayak fishing. Here is a beautiful roosterfish.
This year might be the best ever to plan a fishing trip off the coast of Baja, Mexico. We've arranged to book some packages at unbeatable rates, and unlike many fishing packages out of La Paz or Cabo San Lucas, these are not from little pangas but from cruisers owned by the fishing resort.
Hunts.Net President Rich LaRocco will be leading a party that will arrive June 7 and leave June 14, and we still have room on Silver and Gold packages for that time period. June is an excellent time because you can catch both cool-water fish and warm-water fish. We still should be able to catch yellowtail and roosterfish, as well as the dorado, sailfish, marlin, wahoos and other warm-water fish that are moving into the warmer currents at that time of year.
Most people who have experienced a fishing trip off off the coast of Baja, Mexico, go back again and again.
The reasons are simple: The fishing is superb for 50 or more varieties of hard-fighting fish (Jacques Costeau called this area the aquarium of the world), the weather is usually wonderful, the Sea of Cortez is usually quite smooth and sometimes downright glassy with seasickness a rarity, and the prices are low.
The packages we book are especially attractive. Our three to five-day packages cost about the same as you might spend for a single day of fishing from a charter in southern Florida or Hawaii. The boats are owned by the hotel/marina resort where you'll be staying. You have your choice of four different hotels, but the packages in the table at the left include lodging in the Color Point Hotel, which is right on the ocean.
Our Bronze, Silver and Gold fishing packages include fishing for eight hours a day from cruisers rather than pangas, lodging, all meals, soft drinks, use of high-quality tackle and lures, your non-resident alien fishing license, taxes on both hotel lodging and fishing boats, and tips for the hotel staff. Tips to the crew of your fishing boat are not included (see table at left).
Air fare to the airport near Cabo San Lucs is not included. We suggest calling a travel agent or check online rates at www.igougo.com. PJD is the airport code. See "Travel" and "Airport shuttle service" in the accompanying table.
Some additional activities that you might wish to enjoy include sea kayaking (you can even fish from a sea kayak), golfing, horseback riding, touring the desert countryside and mining district, or renting snorkeling or scuba diving equipment. A scuba diving certification course is even offered. Often snorkelers and divers take a boat to a marine preserve that is about 45 minutes from the hotel/marina.
We offer three types of fishing package: Bronze, Silver and Gold. You need four anglers to book a Bronze Package with four anglers rooming together in a cabana and fishing together on a 28-foot cruiser. On a Silver Package three anglers stay together in a standard room and fish together. A Gold Package includes a deluxe ocean-view room for two anglers, who share a cruiser.
Including airport taxes and fees, air fare is about $300 to $400 round trip from the West cost and $100 from Salt Lake City or Denver, and another $50 to $100 from Florida, the East Coast or the Midwest (as of mid-March 2009).
Prices subject to change.