Fishing in Cancun

Saltwater Fly-Fishing
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Hey Y’all, I just got back from Cancun where I watched my brother get married to a wonderful girl. Naturally I also looked at this as a fishing trip, so i took a week, booked a guide and started tying flies. I had never fished in mex, and to be honest Cancun would be one of the last places I would ever go, but my brother thought it would make it easier for the 70 or so guests to fly to one place non-stop, plus we got in a sweet 5 star resort, I am the grass hut kinda guy, and my brother is the 1st class type all the way. So after getting ripped off on the cab ride the first morning we hit the water. i fished with tarponcancun.com the owner is a Dutch fellow name Martin van Der Does and he has a killer set up, the guide “Mao” was terrific as well. We fished three days and it was awesome. I don’t know how many I boated or jumped but it was a lot. I broke off several that were bigger in the 70 lb class Mao said, strong fish. While Cancun is like a disney type place and not my style it was cool to get to fish an area of the world i probab;y wouold never go. Plus I would imagine that anyone on a fishing specific trip would land in Cancun and either head north or south to more notable fishing areas, thereby leaving the fish in the Cancun area un touched. Didn’t see another flats boat the whole week. Good Stuff

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Mountain Guy,
Congrats on the great fishing. Definately better than my lagoon trips. I am at Le Blanc in Cancun now. I just finished up 2 days in Isla Holbox fishing for big ocean tarpon. I connected with one(100-130lbs) on day 2 and had it on for about 10minutes, put too much heat on and it popped the tippet! Oh well, I got 5-6 jumps. I’m hooked for sure! If you like rustic, Holbox is your place, many small Eco type boutique hotels on the beach. It is a very quaint laid back island with super fishing. This will become part of my itenerary on my Cancun vacations, it passed muster with the wife so all is good!

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Nice, yea as I said i figure most anglers would get the hell outta cancun as fast as they land the plane, and i would have as well but I think that the fishery gets a bit overlooked in this way, I was literally getting shots all day long and was on fish within 10 minuets of steping on the skiff and 10 before stepping off, so not bad, plus in the summer like now the bigger guys come in the lagoons as well, I broke off a big one and jumped a bigger one as well closer to the ocean access areas. Good Stuff!

If it swims throw a fly at it!