When it surfaced, everything stopped. The colors were unreal and perfectly patterned. Even before the photo, we knew this one was special.

Most casts drew nothing. Then one landed exactly where it needed to be. The strike was instant and aggressive. That fish changed the entire trip.

In nine years of wintering in Puerto Vallarta, the sun-washed resort city on Mexico’s Pacific Coast, Berl Schwartz has heard plenty of rumors about the cartel presence.

A hotel in Hawaii, where guests can swim with hundreds of fish, including manta rays, was named the best resort in the U.S.

Tourists from the Bay Area and New York are beginning to exhale the day after Puerto Vallarta was seized by unrest, following ...