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Bjorn,
I can't comment on the fishing, but I will disagree with Andy to say that you can camp both in Yucatan and in Baja and it is very safe and very cheap.
I spent six nights camping in a small campground just outside of Tulum (south of Cancun). The campground had a small restaurant with delicious food, hot showers, and plenty of beautiful palm trees for hanging hammocks. The walk to the white sand beach was about six steps and it was entirely safe (numerous families were camped there as well). From that spot you could easily make your way north to the tip of the peninsula or south towards Belize.
As for Baja (and I'm sure other people on this board can back me up on this), that peninsula might be the single best backcountry beach camping/fishing location in North America. You can camp virtually anywhere (once you are a couple hours south of the border) and be totally safe. The beaches are pristine, the fishing good (reportedly) and there is tons of room to explore. If that is too DIY for you, there are hotels and guide options in any of the bigger towns on either coast. The costliest part of a Baja adventure these days is not the guides or the lodging (guides are cheap, lodging is free) but the gas money--the peninsula is like 1000 miles long.
I have done numerous Baja trips, driving to the tip of the peninsula and back several times and camping for free on the beach the entire time, and never had a single 'bad' incident or felt threatened in anyway.
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