Out of the blue one day, Tristen told Micah that she would watch our kids if he wanted to take me somewhere for my birthday. I think it took him less than 30 seconds to be on the internet searching for deals. But when I saw Jamaica on the possible to do list, I stopped him and told him I wanted to do something beyond lay out by the pool with a book. I wanted a little action. So within a few minutes, we were booking a fishing trip to East Cape — a little fishing town above Cabo that my Uncle Ray told us about.
We stayed at the Hotel Palmas De Cortez.
I’ll admit that when I saw pictures on the internet, I thought it was a resort. But in person, it was not quite what I thought it was cracked up to be. But nonetheless, it was really clean, had amazing AC, and had some really good fishing — enough pluses to make this girl happy!
(Speaking of girl, did I mention I was one of two girls at the whole place.)
And Micah was questioned over and over about how he talked his pregnant wife into a fishing trip for her birthday over anything else.
When he responded with it being my idea, every man there was blown away.
Remember — I thought I was going to a resort with good fishing!
On our first day, Micah scored the first bite and reeled in a 100lb. Marlin.
Not to be outdone — I reeled in the second fish all by myself!
Here is the beautiful 120lb. Marlin I scored!
I have had “catching a marlin” on my bucket list for years, so I was beyond stoked when I got to check that off my list!
Unfortunately for Micah, that was the biggest catch of the trip, and I remained the leader of the “biggest catch” the whole time!
(In his defense, he had a 250lb. Marlin on his line, but it got away the next day.)
Here is Micah’s 40lb. Durado.
(That is Mahi Mahi to us Americans.)
And Micah’s second 100lb. Marlin.
We caught and released the others, but let out captain and deckhand cut this guy up for their own taking.
Needless to say, they were pretty excited about that.
After fishing all day, we would head down to the pier and fish off the dock with some buddies we made. Micah probably thought this was the highlight of the trip. He was trying to lure in an elusive rooster fish for days. He never got it, but caught a lot of stuff in the meantime.
Like this puffer fish.
Apparently, this is the biggest puffer fish some locals had ever seen on the line.
And you should have seen his teeth.
Frighteningly sharp and big.
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It was a happy birthday. We hit a bit of rainy weather, and didn’t land any Ahi Tuna (Yellowfin), but ended up having a blast! If I didn’t have a full bucket list with lots of other adventures, I might head back for a few days of fishing. And who knows — maybe we will at some point. But until then, East Cape brought about some pretty legit memories.
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