IXTAPA/ZIHUATANEJO
one of Mexico's best kept secrets. Zee-hoo-watan-aye-ho  unfolds from the foothills of the Sierra Madre mountains on Mexico's tropical gold coast. A treasured venue to tackle the snake dancing pez vella known to us as the indo pacific sailfish. This is real Mexico with all the ambient charm enhanced by painted skies and blessed with near perfect weather.

The sailfishing here is stunning and with balanced outfits a real joyride of visual explosive action.

As the season progresses the armada of sails are joined offshore by a full supporting cast of marlin, tunas, mahi mahi and wahoo. The inshore fishing here can be phenomenal for our friend affectionately known as Zorro, Pez gallo or roosterfish.

There are some huge roosters here. I read somewhere "fancy clothes don't make a fightin' man" but this fish wears a dandy set of scales, a fancy comb on its back and a mask.

Fights like hell so who do you believe.........................also lives in some of the most unspoiled wild beautiful places on the planet.

There is an array of other battlers inshore with various tunas, sierra mackerel, groupers, snappers and the brutal yellowtail jacks.

A real heavy hitters line up of drag cooking, rod breaking, piscatorial heartbreakers.

When one of this gang roar out of the surf and inhale your bait, lure or fly hang onto your sombrero it is wild and the outcome is by no means guaranteed........................