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.

We caught enough fish for lunch for 6 ! Crew was great!!

Captain Mario and Frank were awesome!

It went very well, and we brought 9 fish to the boat some were small but one was a good sized. We also had a really big one right near the drop off of the reef that wrapped around the rocks, and we were unable to land the fish. Overall, we had bite after bite. Many of the fish were smaller and would steal the bait. If you are not getting hits you should check your line. Mario had us on fish from the moment we left the harbor trolling for live bait.

We had multiple double hook-ups and even a triple hook-up Mario knows Cozumel and knows how to drift reef fish.

We were even celebrating a birthday and Mario made sure to make it an extra special day and even got us a chocolate cake. Thank you, Mario and Fishing Booker we had a wonderful trip!

Captain Mario and Miguel are two of the greatest people we met while in Cozumel.  We were able to go on two trips with them on our stay. Both days they put us on the fish and kept us on them. We can’t wait to go back and see them again.  We highly recommend anybody looking for a great fishing adventure to get in touch with captain Mario at Abrimar II for your next great fishing adventure.