This review is for folks that don’t have a ton of experience fishing and are wondering if it’s too intense. It is, but in the best way! My wife and I took my Father on his first sea fishing experience and had an awesome time! It was quiet for the first 3-4 hours, but Ismael, our guide assured us we just had a wait a little longer. In the meantime we saw countless whales, even Marlin jumping and got to see the lovers arch at sunrise and enjoy the views of Cabo from the sea. We saw many boats around us reeling in Marlin and it was finally our turn! We snagged a 140lbs marlin and my father was able to reel in a Dorado immediately after!! It was so incredible and Ismael really did the leg work to help us bring them in, so that’s not a problem! Once we got back to shore we were able to get our fish processed for a tip and took 2 kilos of our marlin and the whole dorado was probably about 3 kilos. We took it back to our hotel, Pueblo Bonito and they cooked it up for us with a two hour notice! Sashimi for the marlin and a flavorful char for the dorado. Thank you so much to our captain and crew of El Budster Pride! We had an incredible experience and will never forget it!

2nd time I’ve fished on the el budster. Highly recommend this boat. Captain and crew will get you on a fish of a lifetime.
We booked the all inclusive trip for 4, they had plenty of beer, water and sodas. The lunch they provided was one of the best I’ve had on a boat. Two small burritos, sandwich & chips for each of us.
We each caught some bonito off the start then trolled for tuna. No luck for tuna so we went to marlin and dorado area.
Hooked two striped marlin at once about 3 hours into the charter. Lost one, but landed the other.
We then hooked another about 40 minutes after landing the previous marlin. Got it all the way to the boat but was going crazy jumping and head shaking and the hook popped out at leader length. Great release tho.
Trolled the last hours with a few more marlin strikes but no luck for the rest of the trip. Caught a 15lb dorado on the way to another zone but that was the last fish of the day.
Great boat to fish on and highly recommend, they have a office in the marina next to senior frogs. Really easy to find if your new to Cabo.

Great experience! Told the captain we wanted to catch Dorado, Wahoo and yellowfin tuna. Limited out on nice dorado within 90 minutes of leaving the dock so we moved deeper to try for some yellowfin. No yellowfin but an 8 foot striped marlin put on a great show while a humpback whale breeched 50 yards past the marlin, epic show. Word on the radio was no yellowfin but lots of marlin so I asked the captain if we could switch to deep running plugs for wahoo. Two nice wahoo later we ended the trip two hours early and headed for the dock and a wahoo sashimi lunch. Highly recommended boat and crew!

What a day!
We started at 630am.  I’d caught my first skip jack at 645.  A decent sized fish at 5lb. 

By 10am I had two 25lb Dorado and several more skip jack.

Then we went after the big boys.

I landed my first lifetime Marlin by noon.  I hooked a second one but he dropped off the line.  I nearly got two!!!

Fantastic day. 

Don’t go anywhere else.  These guys are fantastic

Honestly, I don’t want to write a good review because I want to be selfish and keep this boat and crew to myself for the next time I come down but god damn. Louis and Ishmael hooked me up. The price was great, we caught a mahi mahi almost instantly, and then three marlin. I tore my hands up (went solo fishing) but was totally worth it. It was an experience I’ll never forget. These guys hooked me up with beer, food, and worked their asses off to get those three marlins on. Two of them were monsters too, over 98 inches. 10/10 would do again.