CONAPESCA (sport-fishing permit, CONAPESCA-01-016)
Fees on the agency page
Sport fishing from a boat needs the CONAPESCA permit; inside Sian Ka'an the CONANP entry fee (the brazalete) is paid too.
Licence page
Ascension Bay & Sian Ka'an
Punta Allen is the fishing village at the tip of the Sian Ka'an peninsula, on the northern shore of the Bahía de la Ascensión.
- Quintana Roo · Mexico
- 4 waters
- 0 shops nearby
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Photo credit
The mouth of the Boca Paila lagoon to the Caribbean, Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Photo: Wolfgang Sauber, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
More about Ascension Bay & Sian Ka'an
Punta Allen is the fishing village at the tip of the Sian Ka'an peninsula, on the northern shore of the Bahía de la Ascensión; the Boca Paila lagoon lies up the coast road to the north, the Bahía del Espíritu Santo to the south, and the Banco Chinchorro atoll offshore beyond it.
The Ascension Bay & Sian Ka'an area
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The circle is the 100-mile area this page covers, around Punta Allen. Tap a water for its page. Shops and guides appear where they publish a street address on their own website; all of them are listed below.
Map of the Ascension Bay & Sian Ka'an area: its waters, shops and guides
Map of Ascension Bay & Sian Ka'an: the 100-mile area this page covers, its waters, and shops and guides with an exact address.
Waters around Punta Allen
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The rivers, lakes or flats this hub is organised around. Where a nearby guide or lodge names a water on its own website, we say how many do. Seasons, closures and permits differ by water: check the agency pages under licence and rules.
No live reading is shown on this hub page; open a linked water for the agency gauges and sources we hold for it.
Species the official pages name
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From the fishery's or agency's own page (linked under sources).
Licence, regulations and access
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Buy the permit from the agency or rights-holder and read its current rules before you go. These are the authoritative pages; nothing on this page grants or implies access to any water, and no fee is shown because none was read from an agency page with a date.
Nothing here grants or implies access to any water.
No guides listed yet
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No guide listed within 100 miles yet; 2 lodges nearby are listed under Plan your stay. Fly-focused operators first, then the best-documented listings. Distances are straight-line from the town centre. Every listing is unclaimed and built from the business's own website and an open map record; confirm licensing, rates and dates directly. Lodges and motherships are labelled as such.
We don't list guides in Mexico yet. Know one? Suggest it.
0 shop listings nearby
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Fly shops first. A distance is shown when the shop's own website gives its location; otherwise the shop is included because it is in one of the towns around Punta Allen. Confirm hours with the shop before you go.
No shops listed near Punta Allen yet.
Parks and visitor offices
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For the non-fishing days, or the people travelling with you. Official sources only; what to do there is for their pages to say. We do not list or price lodging or flights for this hub.
Gear checklist
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A saltwater flats fly-fishing checklist: a 9 ft 8 weight rod, sealed-drag reel, tropical line, fluorocarbon leaders and shrimp/crab flies, plus sun protection and flats booties, with estimated prices and where to buy.
Saltwater flats
9′ rod, 8 weight, sealed-drag reel, tropical floating line · Bonefish, redfish, permit and other flats species
Open checklistWatch: flats fishing basics
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Sight casting, the strip set and sun on the water.
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FLY FISHING FOR REDFISH BASICS 101 INTRODUCTION FOR BEGINNERSEmbedded from YouTube · Huge Fly Fisherman · not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear. Watch on YouTube How To Set Up For A Bonefish TripEmbedded from YouTube · The New Fly Fisher · not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear. Watch on YouTube
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Stories from Quintana Roo
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Trip stories anglers chose to share publicly, tagged with a water in Quintana Roo, Mexico.
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Sources for this page
All 5 sources
Guide, lodge and shop listings come from the Legendary directories (open map records checked against each business's own website). Everything else links to the publisher below; this page copies none of their text. A destination hub organises discovery; it does not assert public access, current fish presence, guide availability or fishing conditions, and it estimates no price.
- CONAPESCA (sport-fishing permit, CONAPESCA-01-016): fishing licences and rulesCONAPESCA (sport-fishing permit, CONAPESCA-01-016)
- Sian Ka'an management programme (sport fishing, catch and release)CONANP
- Protected-area entry: Brazalete and Pasaporte de la ConservaciónCONANP
- Reserva de la Biosfera Sian Ka'an (visitor page)CONANP
- Overture Maps places (guide, lodge and shop map records)Overture Maps Foundation, CDLA-Permissive 2.0
Links checked 5 Nov 2026. Not a claim of access or conditions.