Fishing Report
Capt. Chris Van Leeuwen
December 16, 2009
Pacific Coast - Saltwater Fishing Report
Flat 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 Guatemala for a few days, Scott Emery, Dallas
Davidson, Nick Wright and Chris King joined us for one day of fishing.
Chris King organizes the big money tournaments Sailfish Cup and World Championship out of the Miami Beach and the Key West every year. It was
a late start for the group who flew in late the night before, we left the dock at 0900 and after running 24NM to the SE put lines in at 1000.
It wasn't long before the action started with the fish mostly coming up in multiples, only 4 singles out of the 17 releases from 21 bites, the
rest in doubles, a triple and a quad. We also boated 3 nice mahi-mahi before pulling lines in early a little after 2pm and heading back to
the dock. A great day out for the guys and congratulations to Nick who not only caught his first ever sailfish, though 2nd through 5th as
well....
Dec 4th-6th we had a group of 9 staying down at the Sailfish Oasis enjoying the great setting and food along with awesome fishing. Both
boats were out, on Adios owner Craig Johnson was joined by friends Don Milner, Steve Goodchild and Chris Collins, on Allure, as previously
mentioned we fished with Dave Valtierra and his camera crew and co host Leroy Gonzales and Tony De Hoyos III along with Allure co-owner Hill
Dishman.
First day out Adios ran out wide finding green water before heading back in and to the east, they eventually found a great bite about 33NM
from the marina and had steady action for the rest of the day releasing 18 from 22 bites from the 26 raises and a nice 30lb mahi. On Allure we
found a few fish to the east though 14NM out and although hearing the better action out wide elected to stay with the pick that we were on
and it paid off, a few misses has to be expected with the sharp learning curve though the crew got some great footage, both above and below the water with 11 releases from 21 bites and a nice mahi.
With all the great conventional action from the previous day we changed to the fly and returned to the same area, after a quick briefing on how
it is done on the fly we raised a red hot double, Dave hooked the first and mate Alex the second, both on the fly.....a great start! From there on in the fish were a little finiky and we tried on the fly though pitched baits back to the ones that wouldn't tease. Still a great day
with 24 raised and 4 from 7 on the fly and 7 from 10 on the baits.
There were a lot of fish around today on the surface tailing in pairs and groups though very hard to get them into the spread. Adios made the
most of the ones that came in releasing 8 from 15 bites.
Things slowed some the last day, a small front pushed through making a chop on the water and the boats spread out looking as the fish seemed
to have gone down. Adios went west and off-shore and ended with 4 from 5 bites, on Allure we stuck with the fly and east, though heading
off-shore more than the previous days, it was a slow start for us though the afternoon picked up, we raised 12 sails, though getting them
to tease and bite the fly was hard work, we did release 1 from 3 on the fly and 3 from 4 on the bait as we pitched back again to the lazy ones.
A great trip was had by all and the camera crew were excited by all the footage accumulated over the 3 days, all commented on the outstanding
facilities and food at Sailfish Oasis and we are all looking forward to the up-coming season. The fishing picked up again on Monday as previously mentioned and is good out there right now.
We still have openings so get in touch for the trip of a lifetime on either of our boats and a great stay at Sailfish Oasis....
You can visit www.rodsandreelssportfishing.com to learn more about fishing Guatemala or to make a reservation.
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