Fishing with Renegado Mike / Cabo

[RussP]

Linda & I spent last week in Cabo and La Paz enjoying life and fishing. We planed to fish 2 days in Cabo with a local panga captain, DR Pescado. We fished with him before and always had a great time and caught more fish with him than the high priced Pices Fleet 31's. We checked in our room at the Fiesta Marina Resort and were sitting on the deck watching the fleet return when I spoted Mikes 31 pulling into A dock. Later on I went for a walk and found his boat, gave him a shout and he came up and opened the gate. We had a few beers and he showed me his boat from top to bottom. Mike is the nicest guy, an amazing fisherman and a wealth of information as Linda & I are planning to move to Baja. He invited us to join him on a personal trip on Monday with his nephew, he wanted to stock up his freezer with Tuna while they were running. I felt bad but canceled one day with Dr Pescado and joined Mike on a tuna hunt.
Mike is one of the few charter operations that uses electronics to help find fish, most captains use landmarks, as most of the fishing is just a few miles from shore. We pulled out around 0630 and headed to the golden gate on the Pacific side with around 5 or 6 other boats hugging the shore line to stay out of the wind. As usual the 260 Cummins pushed his 31 to the head of the fleet and we were one of the first to arrive and start looking. Having a good bottom machine made finding the schools easy and kept us on them as they chased the baitfish. Linda hand painted 2 cedar plugs one Dorado and one red & white and the mate Christian put them right out in the spread. After about 15 minutes of trolling Mike said everybody put a belt on were ready to fish. He counted down 3 2 1 now and the first rods to go down were the ones with the hand painted plugs with the other 3 rods right behind.
The action continued for around 5 hours I can't remember how many we caught ranging from 10 to 35 lbs released the small ones and kept the limit of 20 for the boat. Mike goes the extra mile and had 3 coolers with brined ice water to keep the fish fresh after bleeding. I know I don't have to tell you guys how good sashimi is when it's a few hours old.

If anyone is planning a trip to Cabo hooking up with Renegade Mike is a must and well worth the price of admission. He'll help you with making room arrangements, rental cars, and local info.

Still got Baja on my mind,
RussP

[JohnCranston]

Russ,
We have a trip planned in october with Mike. We can't wait! I'm looking forward to check out his boat, hoping to get some more ideas for Reel Cowboy.
Thanks for the update.

[MarkS]

As well so do I a day ahead of John. 53 days as a matter of fact!

On the beach John!

Mark

[coolair]

My wife just got back from spending a week there with the kids with out me! wish i could go fishing with you guys, i hate work

[MarkS]

So quit that pesky job and come along! I have room for you!

M

[JohnCranston]

Matt,
Yep...work sucks...let's go fishing instead.
What's up, Mark?
We can't wait!

[coolair]

Hopefully by october things will have slowed, and i might just meat yall down there, thats what i told her, i want to go in October, butt NOOO got go now. thanks for the invite!

[coolair]

i ment meet, sorry haha

[renegademike]

The bigger tuna have moved in earlier than normal for the Cabo area. We got into yellowfin tuna up to 150lbs recently.
Several boats are hooking fish over 100lbs everyday.

Hey Russ had a great time hanging out with you. Give me a buzz next time your in town.

[Capt. DQ]

Hey Mike,

You are a renegade brother. I know your enjoying those Tuna's Bro. You Da-Man.

DQ

[AndreF]

Both Mike and his boat are top notch, for sure.

[MarkS]

Hey Mike that last picture is my buddy Warren Wong! How the hell did you get out of the harbor without him eating all the bait? I am sure the head went for soup!

Did he bring you any of that Chinese gasoline they drink? Don't smoke while you drink it!

He is a beauty! (Nice fish too)

Mark