Just booked a panga ride in Puerto Vallarta in January. Week long trip with my lady, gonna do some shore fishing as well, see what kind of weird sh!t I can scratch together, and have a nice time in paradise.
Decided a good goal for me right now would be to try to hit 200 species by the time I'm 30 (by July 2025). At 117 or something right now, 83 to go. So I'm trying to consider some good vacation spots that I can spend a week at, once a year or so, and rack up a huge variety in short amounts of time. So far my list is looking like:
- Puerto Vallarta MX
- Hawai'i
- South Florida (most likely Fort Lauderdale/Miami to triple up on football and get in touch with my lady's Cuban roots)
I've mostly milked SoCal and also knocked out another good 30 species or so in South Texas. I'm sure places like Australia/Indo Pacific could also hold a treasure trove if I were willing to roam a ton and hire a handful of guides, but I'm aiming for semi-affordable trips in the next few years with mostly shore fishing and maybe one guided trip thrown in.
What do you think, Ben? Tom? Most fruitful places you've been?