Great experience with Captain Mario and his first mate Manuel. Mario has an impressive educational background and has been fishing the area his entire life, this expertise in clear. Within an hour, we hooked into a huge King, biggest fish I’ve ever caught.

Unfortunately, my wife became ill during the trip and we had to cut it short. I’m confident that with more time on the water, we would’ve caught even more. Mario was accommodating and made sure that we were treated with care. My wife felt taken care of by the team. Greatly appreciated. I will be back for more next time I’m in Cozumel. Book with confidence!!

Mario and his first mate, Frank, took us out for a deep sea mission mainly targeting mahi mahi and the possible Marlin. We ran down to the south end of the island as he said that’s the best chance to catch fish. My wife and I are avid fisherman and have been in rough water before, however on a day like today someone who isn’t out on the water as much could certainly get sick. It was some of the biggest rollers I’ve seen, but Mario knew what he was doing and we felt comfortable in the boat. We saw a gigantic sea turtle and lots of flying fish. After a little over an hour we caught a nice Mahi Mahi. Little while later my wife caught a small black tip shark(Mario said isn’t very common), which she was very excited about as she loves sharks! Those were the only things we caught, however we had a good time. Mario is very knowledgeable and easy to talk with, not just about fishing, but about the island and things to do/places to eat. We ended the day cruising the shore while our Mahi Mahi was cleaned. Once we got back to the marina, Mario took us in his truck with a big filet of our fish to a local restaurant to eat.

Overall it was a good experience and we would do it again. Thanks Mario and Frank!

As an avid fisherman enjoying a week of vacation in cozumel I knew I needed to get a trip booked. We chose the AM reef fishing trip so we could get more bites. We had action literally the entire time! We caught snapper, red snapper, strawberry grouper, triggerfish, parrot fish and a few other species. Probably caught 40 or so fish in a few hours. We did lose a couple big bites but that’s fishing.

Mario speaks fluent English and is very friendly and extremely knowledgeable on the water. His boat is very nice and very practical for a day of fishing. I have friends on the island that will be booking with him soon and I hope to book with him soon as well.

If you are contemplating booking, just do it! You will not regret it.

We headed to the marina to get aboard his ship, which he had stocked with beers, waters, sodas and snacks, and headed out to sea. We seen a bunch of flying fish which was the first time I have ever seen any which was pretty cool and had a dolphin swim by us for a little bit as well. Mario, our captain, is the one on the right shown in that picture and on the left is his first mate Miguel. He set up all the rigging, poles and baited all the lines for us and did an all around fantastic job, great guy. Our captain did an amazing job as well navigating us out to sea and trolling around trying to catch a marlin or some trophy fish of that sort. But after 2 hours of slightly rough conditions due to the wind we were about to give up and just do some bottom fishing because it’s called fishing not catching and at that very second Miguel yelled, fish on, meaning we had our first bite of the day. I sat down and photographer/cameraman Noah, my cousin, documented it all. A nice 3’ barracuda about 22lbs. That pretty much made the trip right then and there anything else would be a bonus. We stopped and bottom fished for a solid 30-45 minutes and as soon as you dropped the reel in it was almost like catching fish in a barrel, obviously just some smaller fish but still was fun to do. On our way back we trolled as well trying to catch something else and had another bite so Noah sat in and I took over the phone. He reeled in a smaller barracuda but just as fun as catching anything. Overall a great experience and awesome time. Definitely will be coming back to do this again.

I’ve bass fished all my life in lakes all over Oklahoma. I’ve always wanted to try my hand at Dorado, wahoo or some bill fish. Finally had the opportunity with Captain Mario and his mate Leo and they put us on the fish! Back to back doubles on Mahi Mahi had my arm wore out! Great trip and highly recommend booking your next trip with Captain Mario! You won’t be disappointed!