We went to puerto Vallarta for our honeymoon. There will be tons of charters to go on, we were staying at a really really nice hotel and had a personal assistant that helped us arrange things to do. The name of the hotel was villa premiere, absolutely amazing service 24 hours a day. We never went fishing, but we went out on boats a few times. Some snorkeling and scuba. There was a ray as big as the boat, we were on about a 24-25' boat and this ray came up beside us that was at least 20' across, possibly larger. Once you get past the muddy water from the logging in the mountains the water is crystal clear. Every thing in PV seemed to be alcohol included. We took a dune buggy ride (we drove our own buggy) and it included a stop at a tequila distillery that included all you can drink aged tequila's.
I didn't answer the question, but PV is a great place to go. Even from the beach with snorkeling gear you can hit some nice reefs, and you have great acces to down town, night life, mountains and the beach/ocean.
Tips
1. Pay with Pesos, most places charge 2-3X when you pay with American currency
2. The cabs will charge about $4 to bring you to any of the tourist areas, but will try to charge you $8 to go back to your hotel, everytime we walked away from the $8 ride either the driver would agree to take us for $4 or the next one in line would.
3. Try to visit the actual artisans that make the stuff sold in the tourist areas. We rented a dune buggy and visited some small mountain villages, ordered blankets, saw how the process was done, met the woman making them and took pictures along the way, and it was cheaper than paying the shark on the boardwalk.
4. None of the restaurants have real cheese, they have this fake/creamy cheese. We actually went to Wal-mart and bought cheese, along with a few other things we needed, but cheese was high on the list.
5. Best thing is to find a local you can trust, on our last day out personal assistant arranged to have a car and drove us to the places we saw stuff we wanted to buy, she had us paying Rick from pawn stars prices on stuff. Their was this mahogany sting ray I wanted that was listed over $100, I walked out with it, a fish and a turtle for $30! The PA wouldn't even take our tip! Most of the hotel employees wouldn't take tips.
PV is a great place, and I would go back in a. Heartbeat. The only thing I remember about fishing charters was I was told not to tip the crew with cash, I don't remember why this was, but if you insisted on tipping it should be done with a non cash gift that is useful in their trade.
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