A couple of shots of Dougs nice dorado taken on the fly jumping, and the end result.
On the 12th we decided to head out wide to the west seeing the current was pushing on on the edge out there and due to the slow action for the fleet inshore. Things started slowly though as soon as we got near the top of the drop off we got into a bit of action, raising a couple of doubles and singles, while fighting one of the fish we spotted some spinner dolphin acion off-shore of us and ran to it once we had released the sail. There were an incredible amount of birds on the spinners and yellow fin tuna were busting bait in front of them, on our first pass we hooked and landed a triple of nice tunas and on the second boated one from a double before putting the cedar plugs away and trolling teasers around the action hoping to raise a marlin for the fly. We raised a sail that bit and headed back to the edge to the area we had had the earlier action after seeing nothing more a round the spinners. There were fish around and Mark was in the water with his under water photography gear getting some great shots of a sail Doug had boatside.
In the afternoon we trolled teasers up the edge coming accross a log that was loaded with bait and big dorado, Mark, who is a photo-journalist was in the water again getting some great shots that we will be posting on the web-site soon. Thanks for the incredible images...! Doug and Steve got into a couple of nice 30lb+ dorado and we ended the day with 9 bites on the fly from the 14 raises.
Doug and Steve with their big dorado.
On the last day we went to where a reasonable bite had been found to the east, things started well and we were looking at a good day, though the action dried up before noon and we had a very long slow afternoon, not before raising 12 sails that were a little lazy and hard to tease in, though we did get 4 bites and raised a perfectly sized blue for the fly rod of around 150lb that teased all the way to the back of the boat though did not see the fly that was cast to it before swimming away. Very frustrating though raised the pulse levels of all on baord. There were at least a 10 marlin seen around the fleet of 12 boats, though all reported the same with the sailfish bite drying up in the afternoon. Still we had a great time with the Hatter brothers and hope to see them down here again soon.
14th Allure hosted Frank Love and Mike Seers, with the current pushing the blue water inshore to the bottom of the pocket, that's where we started and raised a finiky sail almost immediately. We then raised a nice blue of around 250lbs that teased in aggressively and crushed the bait, we were hooked solid to the fish on the pitched mackeral before it threw the hook in the third jump......bad luck Frank. The rest of the day was slow, mixing it up with the fly, baits and a bit of live-baiting that did not produce a bite. We ended up with only 5 rasied sails getting 2 from 3 on the bait and a couple of dorado to 25lb.
15th had Brad Jenkins and Denis Smith on board and we decided to head out to the west on the flats where we had seen a few jumpers and plenty of bait a couple of days prior. Mike on the Intensity started 6 miles to the west of us and was on them almost immediately. We trolled that way and had good consistent action though out the day, mixing it up on the baits first we released 12 from 18 bites and changed to the fly for the last 45 minutes of the day getting 2 from 3 bites before pulling lines in early at 1.30 so the guys could get back to the dock by 3.15. By all accounts a great day having 24 sails up in the spread.
We have a couple of days in though things are looking good out there with still a few marlin being seen and the sailfish bite picking up. More reports in a couple of days and we'll finish with this image of an incredibly lit up Guatemalan sail taken by Mark Hatter.
If you are reading this on the blog click on the images for a blown up view of these great shots............
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