“Build a bridge?” a PGA Tour tournament director said. “More like they burned a bridge,” on chances of a return to Mayakoba Resort
The World Wide Technology Championship will continue to be played South of the Border.
Golfweek has learned that the tournament, which has been a staple of the PGA Tour’s fall schedule for more than a decade, is maintaining its Mexican roots and moving to Cabo.
Multiple sources say that the move is expected to be approved at the Tour’s board meeting to be held in Orlando on Monday ahead of the Arnold Palmer Invitational. A source says the tournament will be played at Diamante’s El Cardonal, the first course designed by Tiger Woods, which overlooks the Pacific Ocean and is a top attraction at the Cabo San Lucas timeshare community at the tip of the Baja Peninsula.
It’s unclear how much of a role Woods, who serves as tournament host at the Genesis Invitational and Hero World Challenge, will have at the WWTC event.
The World Wide Technologies Championship previously had been played at El Camaleon Golf Club south of Cancun in Mexico’s Riviera Maya. But after 16 years of staging a PGA Tour event, the course jumped ship for LIV Golf, and is hosting the inaugural event of the upstart league’s second season this week.
On Thursday, Borja Escalada, the CEO of RLH Properties which owns the Mayakoba resort, said that he would like to host events with both circuits and help “build a bridge” between the two warring factions. But as one Tour tournament director said, that is unlikely. “Build a bridge?” a PGA Tour tournament director said. “More like they burned a bridge with the PGA Tour, who won’t be back.”
A couple in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, this week caught a fish “with human teeth” and shared images and video via social media, requesting a species identification.
A couple in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, this week caught a fish “with human teeth” and shared images and video via social media, requesting a species identification.
The man and woman are from Lithuania, explaining their accents in the footage. Ruta Gudo, who captured the imagery, posted to the Talk Baja Facebook page. (Click here to view the video clips.)
While reaching out and displaying the fish dangling on the line, the man asked, “Who knows what kind of fish is here?”
Several commenters were critical of the man for displaying the fish in such a manner, and not releasing the fish quickly enough. (The puffer was released, Gudo assured.)
Photo: Ruta Gudo
But at least one commenter identified the fish as a bullseye puffer.
Bullseye puffers are found in the Eastern Pacific from Baja California to Peru, and the Galápagos Islands. They have distinct markings and peculiar-looking front teeth.
Their flesh is poisonous and should not be consumed.
We’re not sure if the couple obtained a weight before releasing the puffer. The all-tackle world record for bullseye puffers stands at 2 pounds, 8 ounces. That fish was caught at Puerto Penasco, Mexico, in 2021.
Anglers vacationing in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, on Wednesday brought to port a blue marlin that weighed an estimated 1,000 pounds and measured an astonishing 14 feet.
Anglers vacationing in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, on Wednesday brought to port a blue marlin that weighed an estimated 1,000 pounds and measured an astonishing 14 feet.
Pisces Sportfishing, whose fleet was not involved in the extraordinary catch, reported via Facebook that the Minnesota anglers were aboard Dream Maker with Capt. “Cheque” Cervantes.
“Happening NOW in Cabo. Another ‘out of season’ Blue Marlin today, weighing in at 660 lbs and measured out to 169 inches; 14 feet!” Pisces exclaimed.
Marshall Ryerson, who arranged the charter, told FTW Outdoors that the marlin was so long and heavy that only part of the fish could be hoisted onto a local dock scale. Based on its 169-inch length and 69-inch girth, Ryerson added, the marlin’s weight was estimated at 1,000 pounds.
Anglers pose with blue marlin estimated to weigh 1,000 pounds
That would rank as one of the top blue marlin catches in the steeped history of Cabo San Lucas sportfishing.
(For the sake of comparison, a blue marlin caught by Pisces in 2019 weighed 814 pounds on an official scale after measuring 167.5 inches with a 66-inch girth.)
The marlin was caught by Caesar Larson and Luke Fox, who were among five anglers on a charter in search of tuna and dorado. The massive billfish attacked their lures five seconds apart and they fought the marlin with both rods for 90 minutes before it was alongside the 34-foot boat.
Ryerson, who said the marlin was in no shape to be released, addressed the greater challenge of transporting such a large marlin back to port.
“It took seven of us and every bit of energy from each of us to get the fish in the boat,” he said, referring to the anglers and crewmen. “After several attempts and help from the waves we were able to get the fish up and into the boat.”
Luke Fox (left) and Caesar Larson pose with marlin they caught off Cabo San Lucas
Ryerson added that the meat was donated to a local charity that benefits impoverished children.
Tracy Ehrenberg, who runs Pisces Sportfishing, told FTW Outdoors that a 700-pound blue marlin was landed a week earlier. Both catches were unusual because prime fishing season for blue marlin is July through October.
“However, there is always one big blue caught in the first month of the year,” Ehrenberg said. “Two is exceptional. But if you go back and examine the archives, the biggest blue marlin in my memory are caught out of season, like April or May.”
The marlin was donated to a charity that feeds impoverished children
Ehrenberg said the fleets are currently focused on striped marlin, which are more abundant during the winter, along with dorado and other small gamefish.
Catch-and-release marlin fishing is strongly encouraged in Cabo San Lucas, and the vast majority of anglers set their billfish free whenever possible.
A crocodile carcass was found on a beach in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur on Friday in what might be a first-of-its-kind discovery.
A crocodile carcass was found on a beach in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur on Friday in what might be a first-of-its-kind discovery.
“It is the first time that we have found something like this on our beaches,” Pepe Murrieta, 50, a lifelong BCS resident, stated on Facebook.
Murrieta spotted the 9-foot reptile on the sand at 9 a.m. at Cabo Pulmo National Park in the state’s East Cape region.
American crocodiles are found in tropical regions on Mexico’s mainland, across the Gulf of California, or Sea of Cortez. Wild crocodiles are not found on the Baja California peninsula, where the desert climate is not suitable.
Murrieta, who runs a dive center and restaurant at Cabo Pulmo, noted that the crocodile’s death “seemed recent since it was still in perfect temperature and complete.”
However, Murrieta told FTW Outdoors that the carcass was partially covered in barnacles and that “it looks like it was in the sea for a while.”
He said the crocodile might have drifted across the gulf during recent storms. But the carcass showed no signs of predation.
Wild Canyon Adventures, south of Cabo Pulmo in Los Cabos, states on its website that it exhibits crocodiles and other “rescue animals” in its animal sanctuary.
Spokeswoman Wendoly Gil told FTW Outdoors that all animals are accounted for and remain “under our care and protection.”
Gil said that perhaps the crocodile was formerly cared for by a now-defunct zoo in the town of Santiago. Another recently shuttered local facility also kept captive crocodiles.
It remains unclear whether those reptiles were sold as exotic pets or placed elsewhere.
Murrieta said government scientists collected the carcass he found and scheduled a necropsy to confirm the species and determine a probable cause of death.
After a recent day of fishing, in stormy surf and vanishing daylight, guide Wesley Brough tried one more cast and reeled in a massive snook that could shatter a 20-year-old world record.
After a recent day of fishing, in stormy surf and vanishing daylight, guide Wesley Brough tried one more cast and reeled in a “monster” snook that could shatter a 20-year-old world record.
“We were getting ready to leave when we saw mullet flying out of the water and decided on a last cast,” Brough, a surf-fishing guide in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, told For The Win Outdoors. “I figured it was another roosterfish. Knowing there was not enough light for a good picture, I decided to horse him in and get him released.
“The fish was on the beach in about six minutes and it was definitely not a rooster. To our surprise it was a monster snook like neither of us had ever seen before.”
The Pacific white snook, caught June 28, weighed 51 pounds, 4.8 ounces on a certified scale in town. The International Game Fish Assn. world record stands at 47 pounds, 8 ounces. That fish also was caught off Cabo San Lucas, on July 4, 2001.
Snook catches are rare on Cabo San Lucas beaches. Brough, owner of Cabo Surfcaster guide service, was fishing for roosterfish with Matt Strehle on the Pacific side of Baja California’s tip, in surf generated by Hurricane Enrique far to the south.
“Winds were 25 to 30 mph and storm waves were stacked four to five waves deep,” Brough said. “The only things we had going for us is that the water was warm and there was bait in the area.”
Brough and Strehle were casting lures beyond the waves and retrieving them rapidly so they’d mimic fleeing baitfish. They were targeting roosterfish for catch-and-release photo opportunities.
“As the sun went down we started to see the bait get really nervous and we launched casts out over the waves into the bait,” Brough recalled. “I got hit right away on a big Savagegear stickbait and passed off the rod and it ended up being a 50- to 55-pound rooster.
“After pictures and a quick release we ended up repeating the process three casts later with a 45-pound rooster and a 25-pound jack crevalle.”
Brough’s next cast, in near darkness, produced the snook strike. He said he’d have released the fish but it was hooked deep in the throat and would not have survived.
On Instagram he described the snook, which measured 50 inches with a 30-inch girth, as a “sea monster.”
Brough said he fought the fish in accordance with IGFA rules and has submitted a record application. The IGFA typically makes a determination after several weeks.
–Images showing Wesley Brough with his giant snook are courtesy of Cabo Surfcaster
Golfweek’s Best rankings loaded with courses in Cabo San Lucas: Twin Dolphin, Quivera, Rancho San Lucas, Costa Palmas and more
The golf scene at the southern tip of the Baja Peninsula in Mexico is unlike any other in North America. The area is home to 16 courses designed by the likes of Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Greg Norman, Tom Fazio and Robert Trent Jones Jr. – all built within the last 25 years.
But it’s not all about the golf.
First-time visitors will experience sensory overload from the turquoise water of the Pacific Ocean and Sea of Cortez, the dramatic rock formations along the water’s edge, the white sand beaches and giant dune systems. Just above that coastline is a desert landscape highlighted by arroyos and saguaro cacti, and from there climb mountains that reach as high as 6,500 feet in elevation.
Simply put, there is beauty in every direction. But it’s not all about that beauty, either.
There’s a vibe to Cabo, an invitation to relax, to enjoy oneself, that takes the sum of its parts – golf, coast, mountains, views – to deliver something even greater as a whole.
Quivera in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico (Courtesy of Quivera/Brian G. Oar)
Want to party? Check. Want to relax at the beach between rounds? Check. Want to go all-in with a second home at a resort-style community that offers all the trimmings? Check. Cabo offers all that and more.
That vibe starts before visitors leave the airport. After the frenzy of customs, claiming bags and avoiding the dozens of timeshare hawkers, you step outside and are bathed in sunshine and offered a drink. Even before you grab a taxi or climb into a shuttle, there is a curbside bar filled with happy tourists – apparently the fun can’t wait in Cabo.
The drive from the airport to the hotel areas is about 30-45 minutes. Most guests will stay at a large hotel or resort in one of three areas; the Corridor, the Marina District or the Pacific side of the peninsula.
The Corridor is a 15-mile stretch between San Jose Del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas filled with mega-hotels, each with hundreds of rooms, pools, restaurants and activities. Many are set up as all-inclusive, and some guests never venture outside their resort.
The Marina District is where the town of Cabo San Lucas meets the beach. There are shops and restaurants nestled up to fishing boats and yachts at the marina. Tourists can sign up for whale watching, sport fishing, a ride on a glass-bottom boat, a sunset cruise and more at the Marina. A few blocks inland are the nightclubs and bars that give Cabo its reputation as a spring break-bachelor party hot spot. A walk from the Marina up the beach takes you past bars and restaurants in the sand, alongside large condos and hotels, and gives you the best view of Land’s End, the iconic rock formation that dives into the sea at the southern tip of the Baja Peninsula.
Rancho San Lucas in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico (Courtesy of Rancho San Lucas/Brian G. Oar)
Around Land’s End is the Pacific side, another dramatic meeting of land and sea where numerous hotels, resorts and developments have popped up in the past 20 years. The Pacific side is a little more quiet and offers amazing sunsets, and it is home to some of the newer golf courses in Cabo.
The golf experience in Cabo is resort golf through and through. Arrival at a course usually includes a cocktail, everyone takes carts, there is often music on the range and many courses are arranged as roughly six-hole stretches between comfort stations where golfers indulge on cocktails and local-fare appetizers. Shorts and flip flops might be seen alongside an Airstream kitchen serving tacos and a VW Bus offering margaritas. The vibe is frequently much more beach club with a golf course added on.
Cabo’s roots are a fishing village, but golf crashed the party in the 1980s. The game exploded in the area in the ’90s with the addition of Cabo Del Sol designed by Nicklaus and Tom Weiskopf, El Dorado by Nicklaus, Palmilla by Nicklaus, Cabo Real by Jones Jr. and Querencia by Fazio.
In the past decade more courses were built: Diamante Dunes by Davis Love III, El Cardonal at Diamante by Woods, Quivira by Nicklaus, Twin Dolphin by Fred Couples and Todd Eckenrode, and most recently Rancho San Lucas by Norman, which opened in early 2020.
In addition to all these fresh courses near Cabo, Costa Palmas by Jones Jr. opened in 2019 at the East Cape roughly 90 minutes away but equidistant from Los Cabos International Airport.
And finally, Cabo Del Sol has changed its Ocean Course to a private layout now called Cove Club, for which Nicklaus redesigned multiple holes and renovated the greens and bunkers. And in the spirit of nothing standing still for long in Cabo, Weiskopf’s Desert Course at Cabo Del Sol is slated to be redesigned by the team of Dana Fry and Jason Straka.
Costa Palmas in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico (Courtesy of Costa Palmas/Evan Schiller)
All told, golf in Cabo is unique. The golf purists and architectural aficionados may see Cabo as a missed opportunity. Great land with sandy soils and a dramatic coastline has been the scene for many of the game’s best modern courses. Mike Keiser – founder of Bandon Dunes Golf Resort in western Oregon, as well as several other top golf-focused destinations – has developed a formula of a resort where golf gets the best land and the lodging is set away from the water, and that model has worked extremely well in tougher spots.
But Cabo’s climate is much better than Bandon’s, and it’s easier to get to. Despite proven examples of focusing on golf in other locales, to date every development in Cabo has been real estate or resort first and golf second, with much of the best land distributed accordingly. That also may explain why all the courses in Cabo have been designed by big-name celebrity architects as opposed to the smaller, hands-on shops that produced many of the top layouts of our time.
Will the model change in the future? Only time will tell. For now, Cabo is an ideal spot for a couples getaway or an all-purpose trip with your most fun travel buddies.
This is not Pine Valley or Seminole. This is Cabo. Untuck your shirt, grab a margarita, crank up the tunes, forget about your score and enjoy.
A sample of Cabo’s new courses
New courses and big renovations in the past few years around Cabo have produced what is likely the biggest golf boom outside Vietnam. In October a group of 28 Golfweek’s Best course raters spent a week checking out several layouts and found positive takeaways at each.
Rancho San Lucas in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico (Courtesy of Rancho San Lucas/Brian G. Oar)
Rancho San Lucas
Designer: Greg Norman
Opened: 2020
Affiliated with: Rancho San Lucas resort community
2021 Golfweek’s Best ranking: Tied for No. 12 among courses in Mexico, Caribbean, Atlantic and Central America
The details: A very playable layout on what was likely the best site of the four new courses we played. Each nine features a few desert, dune and beachfront holes. The par-3 17th to an island green with a waterfall behind, just a few hundred yards from the Pacific Ocean, was a head-scratcher.
The raters say: “A fun place to just sit and enjoy the views.” – Mark Hildahl, New Hampshire
Twin Dolphin in Cabo San Lucas (Courtesy of Twin Dolphin/Evan Schiller)
Twin Dolphin
Designers: Fred Couples and Todd Eckenrode
Year opened: 2018
Affiliated with: Montage Las Cabos
2021 Golfweek’s Best ranking: No. 15 among courses in Mexico, Caribbean, Atlantic and Central America
The details: A more traditional desert course set a mile or two above the sea. Wide corridors and engaging green complexes make the course one to be enjoyed on a day-to-day basis.
The raters say: “Terrific green complexes that offer all kinds of options.” – Ed Oden, North Carolina
Quivera in Cabo San Lucas (Courtesy of Cabo San Lucas/Brian G. Oar)
Quivira
Designer: Jack Nicklaus
Year opened: 2014
Affiliated with: Pueblo Bonito Resorts
2021 Golfweek’s Best ranking: No. 25 among courses in Mexico, Caribbean, Atlantic and Central America
The details: A wild journey along the Pacific with holes in a few different zones on the property. The 2-mile cart ride from No. 4 to No. 5 was broken up by a comfort station built into a cliff overlooking the ocean.
The raters say: “Several of the most visually spectacular holes in golf.” – Todd Jones, Ohio
Costa Palmas in Cabo San Lucas (Courtesy of Costa Palmas/Evan Schiller)
Costa Palmas
Designer: Robert Trent Jones Jr.
Opened: 2019
Affiliated with: Four Seasons
2021 Golfweek’s Best ranking: Tied for No. 39 among courses in Mexico, Caribbean, Atlantic and Central America
The details: A low-lying layout with three distinct environments; dunes, forest and marina. The course offers wide fairways, dramatic bunkering and rolling green contours throughout. The large driving range can be converted into a six-hole short course for early-morning or late-afternoon fun.
The raters say: “Exceptional variety of strategic shots.” – Kristy Medo, Wisconsin
The view from Cliffhouse at Quivera (Courtesy of Quivera)
Perfect pit stops
Perhaps as memorable as the golf is the comfort station experience in Cabo. Many of the courses offer small snack shacks with a full bar and prepared food, and it seems each property aims to outdo its neighbors. Some of the more memorable comfort stations we experienced were:
Cliffhouse at Quivira: Set before the fifth tee a few hundred feet above the Pacific and built into a cliff, guests are offered a margarita and fish tacos with a million-dollar view.
Red Door 5 at Twin Dolphin: After the fifth hole, golfers can settle into a gracious outdoor room with tables, a firepit and tv, or they can belly up to a bar where the left wall is filled with sweets and the right wall is filled with booze. For early players, breakfast is served: Pastries, fresh fruit, chorizo breakfast taquitos, pancakes, mimosas, Bloody Mary’s and fresh mango yogurt can make you forget about golf.
Lucha Libre at Costa Palmas (Courtesy of Costa Palmas)
Lucha Libre at Costa Palmas: Golfers finishing either No. 7 or 13 can sample a little outdoor bar that feels like a spot you might find along the beach where your choose to hang out. Upon arrival, we were greeted with a mango-scented cold towel and a full Pizza Al Pastor fresh out of the custom brick oven. Margaritas with fresh lime juice and mini popsicles of local flavored ice creams also were on offer.
– This story originally ran in Golfweek’s 2021 Ultimate Guide.
A tourist in Cabo San Lucas, Mex., while flying a drone from his hotel balcony, has captured footage of a humpback whale seemingly knocking a man from a small boat.
A tourist in Cabo San Lucas, Mex., while flying a drone from his hotel balcony, has captured footage of a humpback whale seemingly causing a man to fall overboard.
The footage, captured earlier this month by Lou Boyer from Playa Grande Resort, is wonderfully narrated but here are a few observations:
The whales in question appear at 52 seconds and involve a momma humpback whale and a newborn calf, and most likely a male “escort” whale.
It’s almost certainly not the father, as mentioned in the footage. Male humpbacks mate with multiple females and do not show loyalty to a single female after mating.
It’s typical for an “escort” to travel with a momma and calf, according to researcher Alisa Schulman-Janiger, as sort of a protector hoping, at some point, for a mating opportunity.
Also, keep an eye on the man, or person, in the pink shirt. As momma whale approaches the boat while supporting the calf on her head, the man lays down at the bow and tries to touch the calf.
As the whales swim beneath the boat toward the stern, the other people move to the port side briefly while the man in the pink shirt walks toward the stern on the starboard side.
The whale seems to be nudging the boat just before the other people rush back to the starboard side, causing the boat to sharply tilt, dumping the man overboard.
So this sudden shift of weight, perhaps more than the nudging of the vessel by the whale, appears to have led to the man falling overboard. (He was safely lifted back aboard.)
At this point, sadly, a small patch of blood appears near momma whale’s fluke, so she may have been nicked by the prop or other sharp object.
An unrelated highlight begins at 2:39, as turkey vultures begin pursuing Boyer’s drone as it’s being retrieved over the rocky landscape. At 3:18 one of the large birds swoops in and is captured on camera at close range.
Boyer, who is from Huntington Beach, Calif., took evasive measures and safely retrieved his device.
Although tourism is light in Cabo San Lucas because of the COVID-19 pandemic, prime whale-watching season is underway.
A 365-pound yellowfin tuna was landed after a marathon struggle Tuesday off Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, but the real battle was wrestling the massive fish onto the 22-foot skiff.
A 365-pound yellowfin tuna was landed after a marathon struggle Tuesday off Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, but the real battle was wrestling the massive fish onto the 22-foot skiff.
“I actually told the guys to make sure the bilge pump is on,” Eduardo Aripez, captain of the vessel Nicole, told Rebecca Ehrenberg of Pisces Sportfishing. “When we started pulling it onboard the boat almost tipped over and took on a lot of water, but we managed.”
Aripez and two other locals, Franciso Beltran and Inocencio Pina, landed the tuna after a 3.5-hour battle that lasted into the darkness at Outer Gordo Banks, north of Cabo San Lucas in the Sea of Cortez.
It’s at least the third “super cow” yellowfin tuna – weighing 300 pounds or more – caught at Gordo Banks in the past three weeks.
On Nov. 9, a 310-pound yellowfin tuna was landed just days after the end of the prestigious Los Cabos Tuna Jackpot competition, which produced only three fish topping 200 pounds.
On Nov. 12, a 370-pound yellowfin tuna was caught at Gordo Banks after a 60-minute fight aboard the vessel Hard Efforts.
For the sake of comparison, the all-tackle world record for the yellowfin tuna stands at 427 pounds. That fish was caught by Southern California angler Guy Yocom in 2012, 180 miles south of Cabo San Lucas.
The 365-pound tuna, caught on 80-pound-test line with a 130-pound-test leader, was weighed at La Playita, which provides close access to Gordo Banks.
Eric Brictson, owner of Gordo Banks Pangas, told For The Win Outdoors that the same fishermen have been targeting giant tuna in late afternoon, often returning in the dark. They also caught two black marlin this past week.
“I think we’re going to have a good December, with warmer conditions than usual,” Brictson said. “We had that about 10 years ago, when the cows bit all through December.”
–Image showing Eduardo Aripez, Franciso Beltran and Inocencio Pina posing with the 365-pound yellowfin tuna is courtesy of Pisces Sportfishing
The catch Monday of a 310-pound yellowfin tuna off Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, occurred three days after a big-money fishing tournament that produced very few quality catches.
The catch Monday of a 310-pound yellowfin tuna off Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, occurred just days after a big-money tournament that produced very few quality catches.
The rare catch of the “super cow,” a reference to tuna weighing 300 pounds or more, was made at Outer Gordo Banks by angler Mike Witoshynsky and Capt. Francisco “Gachi” Castillo of Gordo Banks Pangas.
The Sea of Cortez location is where many participants in the Western Outdoor News Cabo Tuna Jackpot tournament had been fishing during an event that attracted 149 teams who competed for more than $1 million in prize money.
The tournament, held last Thursday and Friday, produced only two catches of yellowfin weighing 200 pounds or more, with the winning fish tipping the scale at 210 pounds and earning the team $80,625.
On Tuesday, Pisces Sportfishing, which served as the weigh-in center for the tournament, reported that Castillo and Witoshynsky had boated a 310-pound yellowfin in Castillo’s “backyard.”
Pisces stated in a blog post: ”It was a great tournament, but when all was said and done, crew and anglers agreed it had been a tough one this year. So what would happen in 2020 of course? A 310-lb yellowfin tuna was landed only 3 days after the Tournament.”
The catch was made aboard the 26-foot super-panga, Regina 2.
Eric Brictson, owner of Gordo Banks Pangas, told For The Win Outdoors that Witoshynsky hooked the tuna while trolling a live black skipjack tuna on 80-pound-test line, with a 100-pound-test leader.
The battle lasted about two hours, but a strong wind made it difficult for Gachi and Witoshynsky, who is from Florida, to boat the fish. However, they radioed for help and received assistance from the crew of a nearby yacht.
Only a handful of super-cow yellowfin are caught off Cabo San Lucas each year.
Stories of epic battles with marlin and tuna abound in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, but a recent fishing report noted that a 4-year-old local kid caught his first dorado.
Stories of epic battles with marlin and tuna abound in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, but a recent fishing report noted that a 4-year-old boy caught his first dorado.
Quite a feat for Mischa Ehrenberg, whose Spiderman costume undoubtedly helped him gather the strength required to reel in one of the region’s most popular and scrappy game fish.
But Mischa’s story is perhaps more noteworthy because he caught the fish 27 years after his mom, Rebecca, reeled in her first Dorado – also as a 4-year-old.
Mischa Ehrenberg and his mom, Rebecca, with their first dorado, caught as 4-year-olds. Photo: Pisces Sportfishing
The Ehrenbergs, who founded Pisces Sportfishing 42 years ago, announced the catch Monday on Facebook, describing the family outing as a “Special day for our little Spider-Man!”
Mischa was on the yacht Karina with his mom and grandpa, and the crew. “He reeled it in completely by himself,” Rebecca told For The Win Outdoors. “Such a little trooper.”
One of the accompanying images shows Mischa displaying his catch, made last Saturday, and Rebecca posing with hers in 1993.
Dorado, loosely translated as “golden one,” are immensely popular among Cabo San Lucas anglers because of their acrobatics on the hook, and their delicate white flesh. (Dorado are referred to as mahi-mahi in Hawaii.)
Rebecca noted that she was equally proud of her son when he reeled in his first marlin as a 3-year-old.
The Facebook post states: “We get a few people asking if fishing is appropriate for the little [ones]. We think taking them fishing is one of the best things you can do for them; learning and creating memories that last a lifetime.”
Rebecca said that Mischa, understandably, napped on the way back to port.
