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Jonathan Miles

Samuel Yera` Cuba's Fishing Champion & Our Guide "

Day One Arrive Cancun, Mexico. Depart for Havana at either 12:50 PM or 7:30 PM via Aerocaribe (Mexicana) Airlines. (50 minute flight time). You lose an hour going over due to time zone change. (Option of staying in Cancun the previous night so you can make the early flight the next day to Cuba.) Private transfer to the five star, Hotel Nacional De Cuba. Welcome cocktail and cigar reception. Dinner (Depending on departure time from Cancun) at Havana's most popular, Restaurante El Aljibe.

Day Two Breakfast. Depart (3 1/2 hours) in private, air-conditioned van with English-speaking guide and driver (or rental car) to Hotel Los Helechos. Only 40 minutes from your first fishing site at Lake Hanabanilla. Meet fishing guides, including Samuel Yera, (Cuba’s bass fishing champion as featured in June 2003 issue of Field & Stream magazine).  Afternoon fishing session. Dinner at the hotel.

Day Three Breakfast. Morning fishing session. Lunch at Rio Negro Falls. Afternoon fishing session. Dinner at the hotel.

Day Four Breakfast. Depart (6 hours) to Lake Leonero. Lunch en route. Afternoon fishing session. Dinner at the Hotel Sierra Maestra.

Day Five Breakfast. Morning fishing session. Lunch at the lake. Afternoon fishing session. Dinner at the hotel.

Day Six Breakfast. Morning fishing session. Lunch at the lake. Afternoon fishing session. Dinner at the hotel.

Day Seven Breakfast. Depart for the airport at Holquin City (1 hour). Depart Holguin at 1:00 PM for a flight to Havana. Private transfer to the Hotel Nacional De Cuba. Dinner at the private and classic, Club Havana (Formerly the Biltmore Yacht Club).

Day Eight Breakfast.  Depart for Cancun, Mexico at either 8:00 AM or 3:50 PM depending on your flight connections to the USA.

Option of an additional day in Havana also available and will include: Breakfast. Private Partagas factory tour followed by a cigar & mojito cocktail reception with Partagas President, Sr. Abel Diaz in the President's smoking Salon. Lobster lunch at Hemingway’s favorite “haunt,” Restaurante El Floridita (Where the Daiquiri was invented). Dinner and cigar reception on the patio at the ocean side Restaurante La Davina Pastora. Evening open.

Valid Passport is Required!

Gear and Tackle for salt water fishing in Cuba