Beach / Shore Casting Mexico

[sly_karma]

I've been beach fishing in the Barra de Navidad/Melaque region south of PV for a few years now. Using an 11 ft Trophy XL river caster two-piece, which I just leave down there as we stay at the same hotel each year. I carry a big Olympus spinning reel rigged with 50 lb braid down there with me, don't like leaving it there in the salty air. Mostly I cast 5-7" soft plastic swim baits that sink unless reeled, but I also have a few of the popper style lures that only sink when reeled. Plenty of locals jig up some live bait and cast it out with enough weight for it to sit on bottom just beyond the break. I've taken Crocs and Kitimats to Mexico in the past but had no success.

 

[chiroken]

No licence needed from the beach and if you got boat fishing mostbopwrators will set you up with a licence in the harbour before heading out.

Crocs and Kitimats are my go to when fishing from the beach, multiple colours. I make my own leaders from Downrigger cable, I crimp the ends with swivels and clips so I can change out my lures easy. The fish down here will burn through mono, even flouro. Any decent length rod with bail cast reel will do the trick, don't go out and drop a bundle on a surf fish package.

Braided line is a good way to go as you get a pile of it in the reel and I find it does cast further than mono.

I am not sure about the rules off the beach in front of the resorts in Cabo. If you ha e a rental, drive north up the pacific side, piles of untouched beaches to fish from.

You will want to be fishing before sun up from the beach, once the sun hits the beach and water, bite goes off.

Have fun!

Cheers

what length steel leaders do you recommend? I have reems of downrigger cable I can use. Heading to Huatulco in February.

 

[BearCove]

what length steel leaders do you recommend? I have reems of downrigger cable I can use. Heading to Huatulco in February.

I make mine at least a foot long, it's only for the teeth, they generally don't bite much higher up the line. These worked well for me in November, the Blue and Silver worked the best

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[chiroken]

I make mine at least a foot long, it's only for the teeth, they generally don't bite much higher up the line. These worked well for me in November, the Blue and Silver worked the best

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thanks for the info and I've got a few of that style minnow lures as well as a bunch of buzz bombs and Zzingers. Will take a couple crankbaits, surface poppers and soft swimbaits as well along with my 8 1/2' beach coho rod with 5000 okuma reel with 30# braid. I was curious about steel leader length wondering if short ones like 1' negatively affect lure movement but sounds like it won't. What type of crimper do you use? I was actually looking into crimpers yesterday and I thought I'd be able to get a one-does-all crimper but looks like that might not be feasible. I've got the downrigger cable, the round scotty 1004 sleeves and the swivels and snaps, just need the crimping pliers. I also wanted to start crimping my own tuna cord for my terminal downrigger set ups rather than just putting in loops on each end with an overhand knot (which works perfectly). Was also going to crimp up a few 60lb test mono leaders to take to mexico as well. I called Scotty and they said the 1004 sleeves need a divot crimper and recommended the danielson FC10 which is only $20 but I don't know if it will fit the oval sleeves for the mono and the tuna cord. I can get 3 18" steel leaders from my tackle shop for $4 so a separate crimper that won't do my mono and tuna cord isn't worth it. I was looking at the Mustad Big Game crimping pliers which have 4 sizes, including .1-.5mm but they aren't divot crimpers so maybe I can't use them with the small scotty round 1004 sleeves? I'd get the Mustad's for $40 if they'll do all the jobs.