The good fishing has continued here in Guatemala this past week with good numbers of sails in the spread, as well as blue marlin and mahi's. On Monday 29th we welcomed back fishing with us on the fly Carl Lehner, this year he came with his daughter Jessica for 3 days on the long wand.
29th proved a little slow in the morning as we scouted out to the west on the flats looking for the fish, we did find a huge log loaded with bait and mahi mahi so had some fun catching enough for lunch and dinner, with all the bait on the log we tried a little live baiting for about 20mins with little luck. Pushing further off shore we got into some sail action in the afternoon, we raised 11 for the day teasing in 4 to the back of the boat and released 2 from 3 good bites late in the day. At least we knew where to start the next day......
Carl with his first of the trip
30th, with the current pushing east and offshore we ran about 8NM to the east of where we finished off, pushing off-shore we found a nice honey hole that gave us steady action through the day. As with the day before the fish were a little tough to tease all the way in, though the ones that did came in like freight trains and produced great bites on the fly. Jessica got in on the action today after a short lesson by Carl, she did well releasing 2 from 2 bites, the last fish of the day a nice one of around 100lbs+. All in all we raised 23 sails and released 3 from 6 good bites, there were a couple of bill swipes/poor bites as well. Mid afternoon we raised a nice blue of more than 400lbs, the fish teased all the way to the back of the boat and Carl cast the fly, a big fish to attempt on the fly though with fly fishing especially, it's all about the bite.....unfortunately we didn't get the bite on the fly though it did inhale the pitched mackerel. Soon after we raised another blue that came up on the long teaser though did not tease in. All in all a great day.
Dec 1st we stopped on a wad of birds working bonitos, just off the bait we raised a nice blue that pushed up on the long teaser though did not stick around. Trolling off-shore we soon raised another blue on the short bridge teaser, the fish stayed deep though and with Carl ready with the marlin fly we tried to tease it up, no luck, it stayed deep all lighten up, tail and pecks a neon blue, we pitched the mackerel and got a good bite, Carl got strapped into the stand-up gear and released the blue of around 250lbs.
A little slower on the sails today, though we did get some incredible fly and teaser bites from some super aggressive sails, we had a couple of shots at double headers and Jessica again fished well just missing one fish all day, Carl was 100%, from 10 sails raised we released 4 from 5 bites, Jessica again got into another great fish, this one even bigger than the previous day of around 120lbs.
Jessica's big fish takes to the air...
And after a tough scrap we got the big sail in for a photo before releasing it. Nice job Jessica, a helluva fish on the fly!!
At the end of the day we raised a hot 200lb blue marlin, the fish teased in well and Carl cast the marlin fly, the fish stayed under the fly circling it, though not committing and we could not get the bite despite our efforts, after long seconds we decided to pitch the mackerel bait and as soon as the mackerel hit the water we got an aggressive bite just feet off the transom, what a sight. A great way to finish off the trip for Carl and Jessica and we look forward to fishing them again in the near future!
Dec 2nd we hosted a wedding party from Canada and the US down from Antigua for the day. Chris Warus the groom had 5 of his buddies along, Tim Frederides, Howard Heppleman, Mike Conrad, David April and Andrew Kipfer for a morning of fishing before having to be back in Antigua for the wedding rehearsal in the afternoon. We had a great time, albeit short, the guys all got into fish releasing a handful of sails and boating a couple of nice mahi's
The team.
We also raised a blue marlin today, another fat one that swiped its bill at the bait though didn't eat.....
We got Chris back to Antigua in time for his rehearsal and met with them all after Chris and Terry's big day on the 3rd. Antigua did not fail to impress and they all raved about their off-shore experience as well...Guatemala is a great destination without a doubt.
Previous to this we had Chief and Johnny Tauzin and Jay Survant, Jay got some great images on his new camera including this beauty, a big mahi bull, lighten up in full flight...
Jay Survant with the results.....
The fishing is great out there with plenty of sails and a good mix of blues as well, the season is shaping up to be a cracker and we want to make the most of it....you should to. Get in touch with us to secure some dates and be there with us to experience billfishing at its best.
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