点评:A friend and I hired Aquarius Fishing for a flyfishing trip to the lagoons on the north of Cozumel in October 2023. Obviously you're not guaranteed to catch fish on any trip and no one has control over the weather. However, we assumed the folks at Aquarius Fishing were experts for that fishery and would advise us if conditions were so bad we shouldn't go out. It is our opinion they should have called off our trip due to recent heavy rain (news to us - before our arrival) and high wind on the day of the trip and they did not; we were assured there would be protected places to fish despite the wind.
The ride out had such big swells it was really uncomfortable and jarring and scary to us as we slammed down over the waves. Some of the larger waves completely soaked us - we looked back to see that the guides had put rain gear on but hadn't advised us to.
After making it around the point we pulled into a mangrove lagoon that was more protected and calm. We waded with one guide for a couple of hours without seeing any fish. We moved to another location and the guides poled us around in the boat for two more hours. According to our guides, no fish were spotted there either due to the recent heavy rains. After lunch we moved again and they poled us around a shallow flat filled with small mangroves which would have made it difficult or impossible to land fish. We saw a few bonefish in there and each got one or two casts - our only casts of the day.
Our guides were friendly, experienced, and worked hard to find fish for us but there were no alternative areas to go because of the wind and rough seas outside the lagoon. We paid for an 8 hour day but stopped fishing at 1:00pm; they struggled to pole the boat back upwind through the small mangroves and then motored slowly through the open lagoon to the ocean and returned us to the marina at 2:30. We expressed to Carlos that we were unhappy with our day of fishing and he eventually agreed to return $50 of the $500 we had paid, not counting tips.
I recommend against paying up front for fishing with this organization until you see the wind report a day or 2 before you go. Don't count on them to make that call for you.
翻译:我和一位朋友雇了 Aquarius Fishing 于 2023 年 10 月前往科苏梅尔北部的泻湖进行飞蝇钓鱼之旅。显然,你不能保证在任何旅行中都能钓到鱼,而且没有人能控制天气。然而,我们假设水瓶座钓鱼的人是该渔业的专家,如果条件太糟糕我们不应该出去,他们会建议我们。我们认为,由于最近的大雨(我们到达之前的消息)和旅行当天的大风,他们应该取消我们的旅行,但他们没有;我们确信尽管有风,也会有受保护的钓鱼地点。
出海时海浪如此之大,当我们猛烈地冲过海浪时,我们感到非常不舒服、刺耳和可怕。一些较大的海浪完全把我们浸湿了——我们回头看到导游已经穿上了雨具,但没有建议我们这样做。
绕过这个点后,我们驶进了一个更受保护、更平静的红树林泻湖。我们和一位导游涉水了几个小时,没有看到任何鱼。我们搬到了另一个地方,导游把我们撑在船上又待了两个小时。据我们的导游说,由于最近的大雨,那里也没有发现鱼。午餐后,我们再次搬家,他们把我们撑在一片浅滩周围,那里长满了小红树林,这使得捕鱼变得困难或不可能。我们在那儿看到了几条北梭鱼,每条都钓到了一两个鱼——这是我们当天唯一的鱼。
我们的导游很友好,经验丰富,并努力为我们寻找鱼,但由于泻湖外的风和汹涌的大海,没有其他地方可以去。我们支付了一天 8 小时的费用,但在下午 1:00 停止钓鱼;他们费力地把船撑着逆风穿过小红树林,然后缓慢地驶过开阔的泻湖,驶向大海,并于 2 点 30 分将我们送回码头。我们向卡洛斯表达了我们对今天的钓鱼不满意,他最终同意退还我们支付的 500 美元中的 50 美元,不包括小费。
我建议不要在该组织预先支付钓鱼费用,直到您在出发前一两天看到风力报告。不要指望他们会为您打电话。