FISHING THE PACIFIC 



through Mazatlan and on down to Mexico City. This high- 

 way will probably be completed by the end of 1953. There 

 remain only about 160 miles to surface. 



Pan American Airways calls at Mazatlan on direct flight 

 from Los Angeles and the National Railway of Mexico runs 

 tri-weekly service from Nogales with air-conditioned sleep- 

 ing cars. Many of the available boats are radio-equipped and 

 my friends Patron and Coppel can be relied on to see that 

 their parties enjoy good fishing. 



GUAYMAS 



Proceeding north up the coast of Mexico proper, Guaymas 

 is the most northern hotspot. Many of the Mazatlan fish 

 work up there during the spring months in May and June. 

 There is also good sailfishing. Most of this is found around 

 San Pedro Island, twenty miles north of the Hotel Playa de 

 Cortes, which is most attractive and has an enticing swim- 

 ming pool with lovely rooms surrounding it. There is a fine 

 fleet of boats here with good guides. Every now and then 

 they pick up a big silver marlin and some have taken up to 

 just over 500 pounds. 



The striped marlin taken off Guaymas are very thin and 

 small, the average fish weighing from 170 to 190 pounds with 

 larger ones caught only occasionally. They are in very poor 

 shape; many of them are wormy and generally debilitated. 

 This is not the case at Mazatlan and Cape San Lucas. There 

 the fish are in prime condition. Probably many fish are 

 affected by the very warm water. They are constantly 

 jumping since they carry so many sucker fish and are at- 



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