Surf fishing Cabo with @SoCalSalty & @CaboSurfCaster

Here's the proof that social medias are more than just a way to exchange gossip and bits of news and frivolous information.
Over the past few months I've been active on Twitter I' ve got to know a lot of interesting people involved in cooking and fishing.
In a few cases these "virtual friendships" blossomed into actual ones .
@SoCalSalty and i started planning this surf fishing outing a couple months ago and even though we thought of a lots of things, we did not take into consideration this ginormous new moon that, sure as hell, messed fishing up in a major way.
The following link is to the first installment of a series of short videos that Joe ( @SoCalSalty ) shot during these last few days, on the quest for nasty, angry and toothy CUBERA snappers, jack crevalle and the ghost of the surf itself...the mighty roosterfish!
Guiding us was Cabo born Wesley Brough ( @CaboSurfCaster ) who was featured in Dave Maynard's award winning "Fishing the Baja" network show
Here's the first clip:

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Enjoy the adventures and disadventures of these jollly anglers and stick around for more.

How did I get here?

I was living in Victoria,BC for a few years when two things ahappened: I was growing stale and needed an adventure AND my boss/friend wanted to open a second location of his restaurant with me.
So I decided to kill the proverbial two birds with one stone and loaded up the old Jeep and drove down Highway 1 to Cabo...fishing my way South.
Why Cabo, you might ask...
I needed money, fast, and so I decided to jump into timeshare sales (I take the opportunity to apologize to all the good people whose money I took ... ) . Everything was going great , till the bubble burst and got stuck with a lot of bills and no real income.
A fortunate chain of events brought me to open my first restaurant: Cocina L'Oliva

All we had was a second hand metal rack,a really old 4 burners Wolf range and plastic table and chairs...but the food was good and the prices were CHEAP and very soon the good reviews started tocome in and bam! we were busy as hell!

At the end of the lease we are faced with the decision: put our moneyhere, fix up the place and deal with a first grade A-hole lanlady or move somewhere else and start anew  The answer presented itself when a couple of customers/friends put some money on the table and offered to go at it together..mistake! RULE #1: don't go in business with friends.

We regrettably did......

We moved and opened OPUS Ristorante with raving reviews and support; wonderful, right? NO! The friends realized hey actually had to work and got scared and let me and Lupita (my fiancee) alone, with no physical and financial help.RULE #2: Careful what you wish for.

Opus was successful and busy, considering the crappy tourist season we had, and Lupita,the part time help and I were working ourselves to death untill the season ended ,the money shrunk and the lease was up.

That's when we sat down and took the decision to close and capitalize on the experiences we made in these past few year in the restauant business in Baja.

RULE #3:adapt,overcome and survive. Never been so true; I am workinng on a couple new projects as we're speaking and wichever gets the green light first I'll go with.

Soooo, here's the "How I got here" part...

From now on , only new stuff and daily,or so, posts on my life here...from cooking,fishing,business, adventures and...didsadventures plus the random thoughts.

Hope I did not bored you .

Emilio