From back Stefan Boden, Christian Machate, Jon Theuerkauf and Dominik and Yannick Machate.
Snr Jon 'No Sancocho' Theuaerkauf came down for his 7th annual Guatemalan excursion from Feb 12th through the 14th. Christian Machate and sons Dominik and Yannick came back for their second trip all the way from Switzerland and brought with them good friend Stefan Boden from Hamburg, Germany. It is always good to fish with regulars and they started off well, even though it took us a while to get on to the fish when we finally did the afternoon bite more than made up for the very slow morning. Jon kept up to his form from last year, when he didn't miss a fish, and showed the mates up today as well not missing a fish all day. Great job seeing he is only down once a year! For the day we raised 24 sails and released 14 from 20 bites.
Yannick with his first fish of the trip.
Things kind of slowed down for us the next day. It blew from the east and made the run and first couple of hours fishing hard work, we got into a couple of fish early though with a few blue marlin being seen out wide we went out looking and got off the sail bite. 3 from 7 bites for the day and a nice sized mahi meant going out wide and to the west the next searching for the new 'bite'. Beautiful water and bait meant high expectations, near the end of the day we finally got on to an area and raised 10 sails releasing 3 from 8 bites before having to return early to meet the guys return chopper ride to the City. Christian and Dominick got into the action on the last day trying their hand at bait and switching, they had it down and are ready for next years trip for sure.....
10th of February we welcomed long time local 'Antiguans' Korey and Linnitt Peterson along with Korey's brother Kary and friend Pete Wood, both from Washington State and down for a few weeks R&R in Guatemala. A trip to Guatemala cannot be complete without sampling whats on offer in the "Sailfish Capital of the World"......an often and deservedly repeated quote from Kary during the day. The crew had an awesome time with pretty much consistent action through the day and heating up in the afternoon to finish with a triple hook-up, two in the baits and one on the fly.....We started the day on conventional tackle and just after lunch with 14 releases under the belt we changed to the fly. the afternoon bite heated up and we teased in some red-hot sails that resulted in some incredible bites right behind the boat. The day ended with 18 from 25 bites on the bait and 4 from 7 bites on the fly. A truly memorable day for all on board.....
Korey and Linnett hooked up to a double header...
Pete Wood and his first Pacific sail.....
Kary and a billfish on the fly!!
Korey and one of the bigger fish of the day caught with his first cast of a fly rod to a sailfish....
I'll be featuring some great shots taken from Stefan Boden that the has kindly left with us in the coming weeks. Appreciate the shots Stefan!
The bite out to the west we found looked promising for the short amount of time that we were out there so we are looking forward to the next few days on the fly with Guatemala regular Jim Williams and his crew. There is still some availability in the coming months so get in touch to experience the "Sailfish Capital of the World"!!
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I want to thank you so much for giving us the "trip of a lifetime", (until the next one). Capt. Chris, Alex and Conejo were first rate at finding and helping us catch all these sails. The staff at the beautiful "Sailfish Oasis" were first rate right down to the best steak ever accompanied by ice cold Grey Goose.
I never imagined I'd be catching sails on a fly but now it's all I think about and I can't wait to get back out there again.
Thanks again! Korey
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