tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908040876917586560Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:02:32 +0000Catch Reports on Fishing in Guatemala. Open for fishing fanatics to comment or add their own reports and photos. All welcome! Let us know about your sailfish, marlin, Tuna & Dorado sport fishing experiences in Guatemalahttp://fishinginguatemala.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Rods & Reels Sportfishing Adventures - Guatemala)Blogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908040876917586560.post-3638666099121681448Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:39:00 +00002009-12-20T12:02:32.337-06:00Jean Mark "Giallo" as the sun sets on a great day off-shore fishing aboard "ADIOS"December 16th and we had the UN aboard ADIOS with Jean Mark "Giallo" representing Europe/Guatemala, Javier Burga from Peru and Craig Jull from New Zealand joining us on an off-shore excursion in the hunt for yellow-fin tunas. Things looked promising from the get go when we found a small group of white belly dolphin http://fishinginguatemala.blogspot.com/2009/12/guatemala-dec-11th-16th-09.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kiwi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908040876917586560.post-2345944861409738976Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:58:00 +00002009-12-09T09:14:57.557-06:00Flat seas and great fishing has been the theme here in Guatemala the past few days, both Adios and Allure were out there. On Allure we hosted Dave Valtierra's fishing show 'Inshore Fishing with Super Dave', who broke away from the inshore fishing to experience some great offshore action for 3 days.First up on the 7th we fished with part of a group traveling Central America who stopped in http://fishinginguatemala.blogspot.com/2009/12/fishing-report-dec-4th-7th.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kiwi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908040876917586560.post-6306293695039323145Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:16:00 +00002009-11-29T22:57:25.706-06:00BIG Rod Cohen with his first sail on the fly.The fishing here has been red hot this past week. On Thursday Chris Bean and friend Rod Cohen of Texas came down for Thanksgiving dinner and a day of fishing on Friday 27th. We had a great day out and by 11.00am we had released 16 sailfish from 24 bites. With 16 under the belt the guys were keen to mix it up and try the fly, things slowed down somewhathttp://fishinginguatemala.blogspot.com/2009/11/nov-18th-27th.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kiwi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908040876917586560.post-6886751840120533944Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:46:00 +00002009-11-16T12:52:16.587-06:00NEW 38ft JUPITER 'ADIOS' IN GUATEMALA.The new season has started here in Guatemala and late October and the first 10 days of November proved to be pretty hot with some great fishing had by the few boats that were out. Most days resulted in 20+ sailfish releases, and the odd day boats released up to 40. We worked hard and now have both boats ALLURE and ADIOS ready for the up-coming season. Both http://fishinginguatemala.blogspot.com/2009/11/november-13th-15th-09.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kiwi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908040876917586560.post-1293489064064439602Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:11:00 +00002009-09-05T17:07:25.153-06:00ALLURE in all her glory.IT's maintenance time of year and we have ALLURE pulled up and on the hard here at Marina Pez Vela in Guatemala. The next few weeks we have a busy schedule ahead of us making sure she is in absolute top shape and ready for the new '09-'10 season soon to get underway. As well as maintenance on ALLURE we are also giving SAILFISH OASIS LODGE a good going over including a lickhttp://fishinginguatemala.blogspot.com/2009/09/august-sept-09.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kiwi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908040876917586560.post-3057669880835151011Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:57:00 +00002009-08-06T11:01:58.932-06:00JASON MARTIN WITH FIRST BILLFISH, MINUTES INTO HIS TRIP...July 23rd ALLURE co-owner Hill Dishman arrived on the midday flight from Houston with Guatemalan regular Chief Tauzin and first time customer Jason Martin. Straight from the airport on to the boat and we left the dock around 1pmish for a couple of hours fishing, trying to get a feel for what was going on out there for the next couple of http://fishinginguatemala.blogspot.com/2009/08/through-25th-july-09.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kiwi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908040876917586560.post-6851405398555389009Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:19:00 +00002009-06-09T16:27:24.954-06:00George Haddock's first blue marlin of around 300lb's.June 26th-28th and Pacific Fins hosted a father and son group from North Carolina consisting of 8 dads and 12 boys who had just graduated from high school. An end of an era, and what a way to celebrate it than a billfishing trip to Guatemala and 3 days of friendly 'competitive' fishing. With 5 boats going out with the group it meant that at http://fishinginguatemala.blogspot.com/2009/06/fish-report-through-june-8th-09.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kiwi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908040876917586560.post-3449459615675492562Thu, 21 May 2009 11:42:00 +00002009-05-21T08:16:49.160-06:00Between May 2nd till now the fishing has been up and down with the sails biting one day and tough to find the next. There has been a huge body of school sized mahi's move in though and with them blue marlin hot on their tails. We have seen some incredible sights with hundreds of small mahi's fleeing feeding blues, the surface alive with jumping mahi-mahi. As a result there have been plenty of http://fishinginguatemala.blogspot.com/2009/05/fishing-through-may-16th-09.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kiwi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908040876917586560.post-3109900540849400148Fri, 01 May 2009 19:18:00 +00002009-05-01T14:35:24.679-06:00El Jefe Craig Johnson flew in on the 15th and met us in the afternoon for a late departure on ALLURE with Richard Bowman. With the fishing out on the edge we didn't get lines in till after 4PM though made the most of the last 2 hours of the day releasing 4 out of 7 sailfish and boating a nice mahi-mahi. We tried some night time trolling for swordies with no luck though it was good to get the http://fishinginguatemala.blogspot.com/2009/05/fishing-april-15th-18th.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kiwi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908040876917586560.post-8794996439789047922Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:03:00 +00002009-05-13T08:20:53.514-06:00The bite mid March through early April has been great here in Guatemala with the boats fishing baits late in the month and the first few days of April having big days releasing up to 50+ sails in a day and averaging around 30. The boats fishing the fly were having some good days too though the fish were very tough to tease all the way to the back of the boat, with the amount of bait out there thehttp://fishinginguatemala.blogspot.com/2009/04/fish-report-through-april-9th-09.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kiwi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908040876917586560.post-412688638617492552Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:53:00 +00002009-03-24T05:03:13.246-06:00Pat and Dan with Clay and JulioMarch 16th-17th Dan Wheat took along son Pat and his friend Clay Raven, both 17yr old seniors to start off their last High School Spring Break with 2 days of fishing on ALLURE here in Guatemala. They timed their trip well with great weather, blue water and plenty of billfish action keeping adrenaline levels high for the majority. Neither of the boys had caught http://fishinginguatemala.blogspot.com/2009/03/spring-break-march-09.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kiwi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908040876917586560.post-8554936303439534932Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:39:00 +00002009-03-18T19:19:15.500-06:00Matthew Jeter and his first billfish.5th-6th March had Chief Tuazin back in the Guatemala this time with Matthew Jeter both from Houston. After a 12NM run we put out the spread and inside 15min we had a small blue marlin hot on the small Pakula flat line teaser. Acting on instinct Chief pitched the ballyhoo bait back, he was politely told to remove it as it was a marlin, not a sail, while the http://fishinginguatemala.blogspot.com/2009/03/fish-report-to-march-15th.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kiwi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908040876917586560.post-227791372238783128Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:55:00 +00002009-03-04T09:06:51.700-06:00As mentioned in the last report things were on the change with blue water moving in from the west, though still a little cooler and off-color out wide. Because of this we ran out to the west most days looking for an incoming bite. This week we started with Edward Barnhill and his good friend Paul Proffitt on the Feb 24th to Feb 26th and after a long run to the west we found some good water, stillhttp://fishinginguatemala.blogspot.com/2009/03/fish-report-to-march-1st-09.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kiwi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908040876917586560.post-2192372066205953154Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:10:00 +00002009-03-04T04:27:24.509-06:00A big body of cooler green water moved into Guatemala and it has been hard work though through it all there has still been some reasonable fishing with plenty of marlin in the mix. Mahi's have been thick and the sails have been finiky though they are still around and as this is written the warmer blue water is moving in and things look as though are on the change.John Buckley with his first http://fishinginguatemala.blogspot.com/2009/02/fish-report-to-20th-feb.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kiwi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908040876917586560.post-1899381472108214475Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:18:00 +00002009-02-12T05:53:16.404-06:00During the 'No Sancocho' no marlin were released though several were raised during the tournament none did bite. This changed the day after with marlin releases in amongst a very good sailfish bite in a nice blue band of water from just 5NM to 15NM off the beach. On ALLURE we started back out on the water on Feb 3rd with the Jim Williams organized group consisting of Jim himself, and Don Smith http://fishinginguatemala.blogspot.com/2009/02/fish-report-to-feb-8th.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kiwi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908040876917586560.post-7811914646830435223Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:51:00 +00002009-02-07T21:16:43.727-06:00January 31st-February 1st Casa Vieja hosted what is fast becoming Guatemala's premier tournament, the 'NO SANCOCHO SAILFISH SHOOTOUT', organized by Tournament Director Hill Dishman and Craig Johnson. This year we had a record 11 teams in the event and there was some big money on the line as the Calcutta pot reached $21,300 after bidding on the opening night. Daily money pots totalled $17,600 http://fishinginguatemala.blogspot.com/2009/02/no-sancocho-sailfish-shootout-31st-jan.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kiwi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908040876917586560.post-2432649632051082356Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:22:00 +00002009-02-06T11:29:20.717-06:00First Week Back!First I want to say it's good to be back on the water. This has been myfirst 7 days of fishing since moving over to Casa Vieja Lodge. Boy was I outof shape not having fished in 6 months.Jim Turner owner of Casa Vieja broke me in on the first day running the"Finest Kind" a 40 Whiticar. Kind of a thrill growing up just a ways downthe road from Whiticars Boat Works. Also knowing Jackhttp://fishinginguatemala.blogspot.com/2009/02/fishing-report-guatemala.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sofia)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908040876917586560.post-4936304850436452624Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:23:00 +00002009-02-06T13:55:27.879-06:00http://fishinginguatemala.blogspot.com/2009/02/no-sancocho-sailfish-shootout.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kiwi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908040876917586560.post-3791215976965655044Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:47:00 +00002009-01-27T13:08:12.443-06:00MARLIN START BITING!!Rick Leeth, Mike Bromles, Benjamin and Ricardo Soler with two blue marlin flags flying.It was predicted that the marlin would start biting with the amount raised in the past few weeks and it seems they have started. On our last day out we released 2 blues on ALLURE with another 3 blues released amongst the fleet. Ronnie Hamlin on FINEST KIND got a black early in the day and http://fishinginguatemala.blogspot.com/2009/01/fish-report-january-27th.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kiwi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908040876917586560.post-5343560969221429871Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:57:00 +00002009-01-21T08:49:41.371-06:00January continues to be a great month here in Guatemala with boats releasing 15-35 sails a day fairly consistently from the last report through to the 19th. There have been marlin and plenty of big mahi-mahi in the mix too making for action filled days here off the Guatemalan coast.On ALLURE we had a couple of days in before getting back out into the action on January the 16th with Stallion http://fishinginguatemala.blogspot.com/2009/01/great-fishing-continues-through-jan.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kiwi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908040876917586560.post-7699167176339648223Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:21:00 +00002009-01-14T22:07:38.186-06:00We just finished an incredible week of fishing here in Guatemala with anglers on ALLURE releasing 198 billfish in the past 6 days, taking the total for 2009 to 250 releases in the first 10 days of the year!All the boats out there got into the bite with the guys on fly releasing up to 29 in a single day early on in the bite before the fish started to get finiky on the teasers later on in the http://fishinginguatemala.blogspot.com/2009/01/incredible-fishing-to-10th-jan.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kiwi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908040876917586560.post-3621106124929516648Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:18:00 +00002009-01-09T11:20:09.730-06:00Marlin fishing remained strong throughout December and the waters are filled with sailfish and dorado. Capt. Mike Genoun and his wife Leah visited Guatemala for their first time. Mike is founder and editor of Florida Sportfishing magazine. Fishing aboard Hooked Up, with Capt. Nestor, they started fast with a 350lb blue marlin and 17 sailfish on their first day out! Their second day continued http://fishinginguatemala.blogspot.com/2009/01/fishing-report-guatemala-jan2009_09.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sofia)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908040876917586560.post-8061818059382186660Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:18:00 +00002009-01-09T10:19:38.105-06:00Marlin fishing remained strong throughout December and the waters are filled with sailfish and dorado. Capt. Mike Genoun and his wife Leah visited Guatemala for their first time. Mike is founder and editor of Florida Sportfishing magazine. Fishing aboard Hooked Up, with Capt. Nestor, they started fast with a 350lb blue marlin and 17 sailfish on their first day out! Their second day continued http://fishinginguatemala.blogspot.com/2009/01/fishing-report-guatemala-jan2009.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sofia)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908040876917586560.post-535019768447504337Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:51:00 +00002009-01-05T22:26:12.447-06:00We had the week off from the 20th of December though the fishing was great right up to 24th and the 26th with the boats that did fish releasing 20-30+ sailfish and a few marlin seen as well. Since the 27th we have been fishing and the action has been steady with good fishing all round and some great days as well. Today we were called in from the west to the bottom eastern corner of the pocket by http://fishinginguatemala.blogspot.com/2009/01/great-fishing-through-5th-january.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kiwi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908040876917586560.post-8365665780911910523Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:14:00 +00002008-12-29T22:25:09.888-06:00 The sailfish fishing here in Guatemala changes after the second week of December. Good numbers have been reported as 20 sails in the spread per boat to 50 bites in the last couple days, fishing an average of 5 or 6 boats per day.I went out aboard the LA PENULTIMA as the captain, we run more of 25 miles without finding clear or blue water, finally we find the blue water in the 30 miles to http://fishinginguatemala.blogspot.com/2008/12/guatemala-25-dec-2008-fishing-report.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sofia)0