Christmas in Cabo! 1

We're off to celebrate Christmas in warm and sunny Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Everyone keeps asking "Are you chartering a boat while you're there?" and at this very moment we likely won't be heading out on a marlin charter. With trips to Panama and Costa Rica on the calendar the next few months I'll get my fill of the bluewater this winter (Liar, Liar!). While in Baja we're opting instead to hit the many beaches between Cabo and Todos Santos in search of roosterfish, jacks, and sierra mackerel. Our accomodations are at the Bahia in a condo owned by my brothers in-laws, the Martins, and they've been kind enough to offer up their Jeep Cherokee.

I've packed my Okuma Epixir EF80 coffee-grinder spinning reel loaded with 65 pound Suffix, a 15 foot travel surf rod, and a mess of Williamson poppers and jigs to huck into the surf. 100 pound flourocarbon for the poppers and 40 pound for the jigs. Roosters and jacks hang around the rocks and sierra are an early morning drill in the surf, casting jigs to the outer edge of the surf, letting them settle to the bottom, and then crank like all get out! A short wire leader keeps the sierra from sawing thru the leader with their razor sharp teeth.  

As the sun comes up on Christmas day Nicole and I may very well be casting from a beach somewhere along the Pacific coastline in search of fish like the one below. And if we don't catch anything, who cares, it's Christmas in Cabo!

Merry Christmas Everyone!