Fishing La Penita Style Charter
La Penita Charter Fishing is not a high ticket item, nor are the boats available to take a charter out anything fancy. Jerry, Ken, Brian and I booked our trip for this morning a few days ago by giving the Charter service a down payment of 400 pesos and were told that the boat would pick the four of us up at our RV park beach Thursday a.m. at 6:30 give or take. Right at 6:30 our boat showed up and we got on board.
We had booked a 4 hour charter which would cost total 1600 pesos or $160 U.S. so $40.00 U.S. each. Our two Mexican guides spoke very little English but that was not a problem as fishing is fishing no matter what language.
We hooked and boated three fish. The Dorado that you see in the picture and two small Tuna which we threw back. We had one other hit but the fish got off before Ken got the rod in his hands.
I would guess that we were at most approximately 3 to 5 miles off shore most of the morning. I did get one picture looking at the RV park up on the hill as we were coming back in to be let off at the beach.
The Dorado has been cleaned by Jerry and Brian and I believe we will all be getting together for a fish dinner in the near future.
It was very pleasant out on the water if not a bit cool, but we jumped back in the oven the minute we landed on shore. It has been a very warm humid day today.
As an added note: We have had a battery failure in the Jeep and buying a battery here in La Penita was an expensive proposition. I now have a Mexican battery in the Jeep and I do believe they are communicating OK. I passed on the first one I found as the price was $105.50 at the first auto parts store I stopped at. At the second auto parts store I did purchase one for $105.00 U.S. It has a little more cold cranking capability than the one at the first store plus I saved .50 cents. Ha. The dash fan motor for using the a/c has also failed in the Jeep and we have an appointment at the Chrysler Dealership in Puerto Vallarta Monday morning so will get that taken care of while we do some shopping in the big town. The warm/hot humid tropical air is hard on things, we are finding.
