Despite 2 hurricanes last week in the Pacific we made it to Mazatlan where we tranported via bus 2 hours to El Salto. Lodge was good, food great and the staff and guides were top notch . Man we caught a ton of fish in our 4 days. Best day was 130. Other days 70-80. Most being 3-4 pounders. Biggest I had was 6#. Buddy caught an 8. Biggest of our group was a 9.5. Those bass fight like they were all 10 pounders though. We pounded Cerveza Pacifico all day and Tequila at night. Lake is set in pretty much a jungle like area at the foothills of the Sierra Madre mountains. Crazy hot, humid and alot of bluebird skies with no wind. But the bass kept biting. It never slowed down. Fishing during the eclipse on Sat was pretty cool. Made it nice trmp and bsss just kept in biting. The lake is stocked with tilapia yearly and commercially net fished for them from the day after we left till May. Guides said it is harder to fish around the nets but its doable. The tilapia get fairly big and wed catch one occassionally or evennperch. Even though they are prey everything in the lake is aggresdive. Biggest fish hit topwaters all day long, even better than in the mornings. Also big power worms or senkos worked geeat too. Wed fish 5:45a to 11:15. Eat lunch then head back out around 1:45 and fish till 5:45p. Never saw any of chapos crew or felt unsafe. The guides are all local and said the cartel pretty much is the police and control everything around but they have never had an issue getting extorted and fighting as its only 1 cartel, not dueling like on the border. Being fluent in Spanish helped but the staff all spoke pretty good english. If yall have any spefic questions feel free to reach out.