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Cabo San Lucas fishing boats heading out at daybreak. Photo by David Mandich
Cabo Marlin Fishing
By David Mandich - for the Cabo Free Press
In the old days - Mexican fishermen used pangas (dugouts) made of wood often carved from a tree trunk much the same as indigenous peoples around the world. You may still see an original one in a museum or lying forlorn in front of a hotel or restaurant entrance. Launched from shore and propelled by paddles or wind - fishing from pangas changed little for 1,000's of years until the arrival of the outboard motor and later in the 1950's - 22' long nearly indestructible fiberglass hulls.
Today you can get a sense of what it was like in the olden days by hiring a panga on Palmilla beach in San Jose Del Cabo at the sports fishing co-operative next to the now defunct Pepe's restaurant. This intrepid group of San Jose fishermen has been serving sports fishermen since the early 1950's. They have 16 pangas they launch off the beach through the surf the old fashioned way and another 10 cruisers up to 28' in length moored in the bay off the One and Only Palmilla hotel.
