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Pacific Coast of Guatemala - April 15th, 2007
supplied by: Great Sailfishing
RECORDED: 
82 °
FISHING: Good
This Guatemala fishing report is for the week ending April 15th 2007 and is prepared by The Great Sailfishing
Company operating out of the new Pez Vela
Marina.
“Steady as she goes” about describes the season at this point. The bite has been consistent day to day with blue water beingfound as close in as 12 miles but more usually 30 or so fromthe dock.The boats have been raising double digits and bringing to the boat 7-12 as an average day. There remains a strong Blue Marlin bite,with multiple raises and sometimes multiple hookups occurring withreasonable frequency.The Joint Venture had the Villatoro party on board on Thursday, bringing9 sailfish to the boat, one Blue of about 250lbs and another of about400 lbs – they even had a 50lb+ bull dolphin thrown into the mix. The weather is still great, and the seas remain calm – this is a great timeof the year to come down fishing as just about anything can happenevery day – and often does ! If anything, we are hoping for the bite to get even stronger as we runthrough the waning moon – we shall see. Our Favorite Fishing Quote for the week: “Anglers….exaggerate grossly and make gentle andinoffensive creatures sounds like wounded buffaloand man-eating tigers.” ~ Roderick Haig-Brown Contact us at: enquiries@greatsailfishing.com or to register for our
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Pacific Coast of Guatemala - March 26th, 2007
supplied by: Great Sailfishing
RECORDED: 
86 °
FISHING: Great
This Guatemala fishing report is for the week ending March 26 th 2007 and is prepared by The Great Sailfishing
Company operating out of the new Pez Vela
Marina.
As one of my old bosses used to tell me……”The hardest part ofForecasting is the predicting the future bit……..” …………..and we have been predicting/hoping for some weeks nowfor the bite to pick up to the standards expected of the rich watersof Guatemala.Finally the blue water has moved closer in and the appropriate starsseemed to have lined up so that the billfish have concentrated andare feeding well. There has been a steady improvement each dayover the last week, with the numbers of fish raised each day now comfortably in the teens and twenties.The “Reel Diver” had a high day late in the week with 35 raisesand constant action through the day.The Karr party had “11 by 11” fish to the boat yesterday, when they decided to switch and try some reef fishing for Pargo and Grouper – buta strong start to the day ! The Blue Marlin are still around, but the numbers have diminished asthe conditions now are clearly more favourable for Sailfish. We are hoping for the bite to continue through the new moon, and look forward to the last part of the season (hopefully !) being the bestpart of the year for our clients over the next 6 weeks. Our Favorite Fishing Quote for the week: “Reading about baseball is a lot more interesting thanreading about chess, but you have to wonder : Don’tany of these guys ever go fishing ?” ~ Dave Shiflet Contact us at: enquiries@greatsailfishing.com or to register for our
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Pacific Coast of Guatemala - March 19th, 2007
supplied by: Great Sailfishing
RECORDED:
86 °
FISHING: Fair
This Guatemala fishing report is for the week ending March 19th 2007 and is prepared by The Great Sailfishing
Company operating out of the new Pez Vela
Marina.
The fishing remains tough up and down the Pacific Coast.We have resorted to technology to attempt to find the Sailfish byimporting satellite images of the oceanic thermal gradients.It is apparent from these that there has been a cooler bandof water sweeping the coast and driving the warmer waterfurther out to 100+miles. Of course a couple of degrees can make allthe difference, and probably accounts for the consistent Marlinand Tuna bite that we have been experiencing for the last few months. Most of our groups have been averaging in the low single digitsfor billfish catches for the last couple of weeks – obviously vastlydifferent to the same week last year when the record of 152 Sailfishin a day was set!It is disappointing, but the crews are working hard, and as importantly all of the crews are working together as a team to find any pocketsor pods of active fish. There are days when things seem to be picking up, and the raisecount is consistently in double digits for a few days……..only to fallback down again.The positive news is that the satellite images show warmer water pushing in , hopefully bringing the bait and the billfish with it ! The blue water temperature now is 82 deg.F so things are improving. Our Favorite Fishing Quote for the week: “Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns meninto philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buydecent tackle on a philosopher’s salary.” ~ Patrick F McManus
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Pacific Coast of Guatemala - March 6th, 2007
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FISHING: Excellent
This Guatemala fishing report is for the week ending February 12th 2007 and is prepared by The Great Sailfishing
Company operating out of the new Pez Vela
Marina.
I was hoping for one of those days; it has been a while since I manageda day on the water, and much longer since I managed a day with my wifeand two sons. We were inspired by the reports from the Carr party last week of Blue Marlin tobe found as well as Sailfish far to the West – so as the sun rose, we partedWays with the majority of the fleet and ran West for an hour to find blue water. It has been slow for Guatemala this “peak season” for some reason – single digits have been the norm, and this day started in much the same way. The crewworked hard to keep the baits fresh and trying different patterns to try and temptthe sails to turn on – but it took 3 hours of trolling to raise the first sailfish.My 11 year old son took the challenge and Capt. Marvin did a great job of working the boat to get the sail over the transom in 10 minutes for my youngestson’s first ever sailfish ! We took a quick 300 photos. and released the fish to swim away. My 12 year old son was next in rotation, and patiently concentrated on the teasersfor 2 hours. Doesn’t it always seem to happen this way ? We were just finishing offour lunch that Oswlado the first mate on the Reel Diver had lovingly prepared, when The yell resonated from the bridge : Marlina !!............. and there it was, focused onthe centre teaser. Oswaldo grabbed the 50WT rigged with a freshly sewn bonita belly and pitched it while I thrust the remnants of lunch into the trash. As I looked up,I could see the huge shadow of a very large marlin redirect its focus now to the freshbait just tossed. It inhaled the bonita and the reel screamed – the fish was well hooked. “Mas Mas” screamed Capt. Marvin to wake us up from the action – and we pitchedRigged ballyhoo back to two more apparently hungry bills. Two quick hook ups andwe were there……………….3 Blue Marlin hooked up at one time !! Now what to do ?? Some of the chaos was relieved when in the melee two lines crossed while all threemarlin were running and we lost one of the fish – regrettably the largest. We still had a double header underway however. We maneuvered the boat so that one fish was offthe bow and one was off the stern, and we started to feed line to my son’s fish so thatwe could focus on bringing the other fish to the boat. Oswaldo made busy connectingline as the fish off the bow just continued to run…………Twenty minutes later, we had the first Marlin, approximately 300lbs to the leader and aclean release was executed. Now my son was faced with a still fresh marlin and 1000ydsof Dacron between him and the fish…………..he faced the challenge with a brave face…. An hour and several bottles of water later, we hauled in Matthew’s first Blue Marlin – a goodfish of around 400lbs. Some quick pictures, and the third marlin of the afternoon disappearedinto the deep blue water. It had been a Great Day out on the fishing grounds of Guatemala. Our Favorite Fishing Quote for the week: "Game fish are too valuable to be caught only once." ~Lee Wulff Contact us at: enquiries@greatsailfishing.com or to register for our
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Pacific Coast of Guatemala - February 26th, 2007
supplied by: Great Sailfishing
RECORDED:
88 °
FISHING: Good
This Guatemala fishing report is for the week ending February 12th 2007 and is prepared by The Great Sailfishing
Company operating out of the new Pez Vela
Marina.
This is seeming to be a confusing season; we had a great bite in late December and early January….and then it went cold. Both in the senseof the veracity of the bite, and also for the relative water temperature.It appeared like we had recovered, and the fishing was coming back to the “norm” of catches in the teens for February………… but it has stayed stubbornly in the single digits for most days.Up and down the Pacific coast, we hear similar reports of less aggressiveand less numerous bites than expected for this time of year……..but we live in hope and anticipation of it really turning on. On the positive side, we are seeing and catching a good run of Blue Marlin :The Carr party had 2 good sized Blues in the spread on their penultimatedays fishing. Unfortunately the fish refused the fresh Bonita belly baits, and despite being surround by tasty teasers of all flavors, and just wouldn’tbite seriously. I’m happy to report however that that was resolved on their final day as they hooked up and brought to the boat a 500lb Blue Marlin……agood trophy to accompany the 7 sailfish caught that day. Congratulations ! Our Favorite Fishing Quote for the week: "The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing" ~Babylonian Proverb Contact us at: enquiries@greatsailfishing.com or to register for our
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> contact us at greatsailfishing@yahoo.com This Guatemala fishing report is for the week ending
February 12th 2007 and is prepared by The Great Sailfishing
Company operating out of the new Pez Vela
Marina.
This is seeming to be a confusing season; we had a great bite in late December and early January….and then it went cold. Both in the senseof the veracity of the bite, and also for the relative water temperature.It appeared like we had recovered, and the fishing was coming back to the “norm” of catches in the teens for February………… but it has stayed stubbornly in the single digits for most days.Up and down the Pacific coast, we hear similar reports of less aggressiveand less numerous bites than expected for this time of year……..but we live in hope and anticipation of it really turning on. On the positive side, we are seeing and catching a good run of Blue Marlin :The Carr party had 2 good sized Blues in the spread on their penultimatedays fishing. Unfortunately the fish refused the fresh Bonita belly baits, and despite being surround by tasty teasers of all flavors, and just wouldn’tbite seriously. I’m happy to report however that that was resolved on their final day as they hooked up and brought to the boat a 500lb Blue Marlin……agood trophy to accompany the 7 sailfish caught that day. Congratulations ! Our Favorite Fishing Quote for the week: "The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing" ~Babylonian Proverb Contact us at: enquiries@greatsailfishing.com or to register for our
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Pacific Coast of Guatemala - February 23rd, 2007
supplied by: The Patient Angler
RECORDED:
86 °
FISHING: Fair
The only bad thing about spending a week during the month of February fly fishing for Sailfish in 82 degree ocean water and 85 degree daily air temperature, is getting off the plane to be welcomed by a 34 degree temperature and a stiff breeze.
Traveled to Guatemala last week with a group from bend to fly fish for Sailfish and Marlin out of the town of Iztapa. The weather was great with sun filled days and temps in the mid 80’s. The ocean was nice and flat for us and the blue water (warm water) was only 10 miles offshore which made for short boat rides to the fishing grounds. The fishing was a lot slower than the last time I was there, only raising around 10 Sailfish a day. Normally this time of year yields the highest concentration of Sailfish in the world, and it’s not uncommon to see 50 or 60 Sailfish behind the boat each day.
The first day was a learning day getting everyone up to speed on the nuances of teasing billfish up, the bait and switch and hook setting techniques needed to catch these magnificent fish on the fly. We would take turns on deck, changing every time the angler on deck would get a shot at a fish. We had a few missed fish at first, but soon everyone was developing the confidence and skills needed to get the job done. Bruce Schafer was the first to hook and land a Sailfish on our trip. It was the energizer Sailfish that came out of the water like a missile and grey hounded toward the horizon, and it kept going, and going, and going. Finally Bruce turned the fish and after a half an hour of reeling in close to 200yds of line with an 8 ft fish on the other end, the Captain grabbed the bill and pulled the Sailfish in the boat for some quick photo’s. I think every time we brought a Sailfish onboard the stocks for film and digital photo companies around the world, would go up a few percent. Hans Eriksson was up next and we only had the teasers in the water for a couple of minutes before a Sail crashed the spread, Hans made a nice cast and the fish shot over and tried to grab his fly. The hot Sail missed the dual 6/0 hooks and disappeared for a second or two, only to come out of nowhere and hammer the fly on a dead run and this time it was a solid hook-up. Hans did a great job during the fight and soon had the fish next to the boat for the release. Graig Martini may have been last to land his first fish, but he certainly wasn’t the least. Graig, even being the new guy to the saltwater fly fishing world, ended up the top rod on our trip with more hook-ups than anyone else. Overall it was a great trip, everyone caught Sailfish on the fly, we shared the water every day with Dolphins, Whales and Sea Turtles and the best part was enjoying the experience with a great group of guys.
The Patient Angler
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Pacific Coast of Guatemala - February 12th, 2007
supplied by: Great Sailfishing
RECORDED: 
82 °
FISHING: Great
This Guatemala fishing report is for the week ending February 12th 2007 and is prepared by The Great Sailfishing
Company operating out of the new Pez Vela
Marina.
As you walk down to the dock in the early morning……you can sense it. The season in full swing – the clients know it, the crews know it, andmost important of all, the fish know it and are cooperating. It is still dark, and the marina is a hive of activity, as almost every boathas spreader lights on and the crews are working to prepare the boats for the day. Coolers are being stocked; ice is being delivered in 100lbbags, bait is being rigged and drags are tested and set for the day.Even though our crews do this almost every day now, they still have a smile on their face, as the fishing has been good, and just as importantly, ithas been consistent. The run to the blue water has come in a little to about 25miles, but oncethe lines are in, the action has generally started quickly, and has remainedconsistent throughout the day. Most boats most days are reporting catchesin the mid teens to twenties, with the fish being particularly aggressive for the early bite – multiple hook ups are the norm in the morning. There still seem to be plenty of marlin – both striped and blue – aroundand they have bee aggressive even towards the smaller baits and teasersthat we are dragging for the Sailfish. We anticipate it only getting better from here !! Come down and let’s go ! Our Favorite Fishing Quote for the week: “Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary." ~Patrick F McManus Contact us at: enquiries@greatsailfishing.com or to register for our
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Pacific Coast of Guatemala - February 4th, 2007
supplied by: Great Sailfishing
RECORDED:
83 °
FISHING: Great
This Guatemala fishing report is for the week ending February 4th 2007 and is prepared by The Great Sailfishing
Company operating out of the new Pez Vela
Marina.
OK – so now I’m confused…but maybe the fish are as well. The“Common Wisdom” purports that during the brightest moonphases, the predators are more able to find a meal at night – and so feed constantly, diminishing their appetite and usualaggressive feeding during the day. It was during a full moonin March 2006 that the Sailfish were practically jumping in the boat –and Guatemala (re)set the record book with up to 124 to the boat in a single days fishing. When fishing here was slow (by Guatemalastandards) through the new moon in January, we weren’t anticipatingmuch help as it rose through full at the start of the month. But just to confound us………….the bite steadily picked up, and continues toimprove. So much for the fish playing by the rules (see last weeks “Favorite Quote”. The blue water is still a ways out, at 35-50 miles, but Rick Quadeand party made the run (despite the full moon!) and were rewardedwith counts in the high teens to low twenties. Each of our boats alsohad a Blue Marlin in the 350-450lb class over the weekend as well. The marlin action has been constant this season so far – even reports of “Granders”, with at least one caught. Blacks and Stripeys havebeen making a showing as well. Following on from our filming for ESPN with Cindy Garrison, we werepleased to welcome Mike Keyes of “Keyes Outdoors” down this past week filming a show for FOX SPORTS to be shown in 5m homes in Mid West. Lookout for The Great Sailfishing Company coming to a TVin your neighborhood! Our Favorite Fishing Quote for the week: "Three-fourths of the Earth's surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn." ~Chuck Clark Contact us at: enquiries@greatsailfishing.com or to register for our
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Pacific Coast of Guatemala - January 28th, 2007
supplied by: Great Sailfishing
RECORDED:
79 °
FISHING: Good
This Guatemala fishing report is for the week ending January 28th2007 and is prepared by The Great Sailfishing
Company operating out of the new Pez Vela
Marina.
It has been unusually slow fishing for Guatemala over the last couple of weeks – the common wisdom among the wizened captainshas been that the water temperatures at the colour changeshave either not had enough gradient, or the temperatures themselves have been a couple of degrees below normal.This had resulted in bait not concentrating, and hence the Predators find it harder to find food, and they themselvesbecome harder to find. The weather has improved significantly this last week – and it certainly seems to have positively effected the fishing. The bluewater has come in to about 30 miles from the dock, we are seeing regular billfish raises in the low teens per day – along with catches of good size (20-25lb) yellowfin tuna and dorado.s Our catch of the week has to go to the Wuori party, who aredemonstrating their skill at hooking up to the sails – but somewhat unusually for Guatemala also managed to hookup to a feisty striped marlin this week – and saw another inthe spread. Our Favorite Fishing Quote for the week : “It has always been my private conviction that anyMan who pits his intelligence against a fish and losesHas it coming”My biggest worry is that my wife (when I'm dead) will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it ~John Steinbeck Contact us at : enquiries@greatsailfishing.com or to register for our
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Pacific Coast of Guatemala - January 15th, 2007
supplied by: Great Sailfishing
RECORDED:
81 °
FISHING: Fair
This Guatemala fishing report is for the week ending January 15th2007 and is prepared by The Great Sailfishing
Company operating out of the new Pez Vela
Marina.
Well it has certainly been a mixed bag this past week. The fishremain somewhat unco-operative – the fleet is spreading farand wide each morning to find blue water and aggressive fish.The first has not been generally found until 35-50miles from the dock, which makes it a long first run. The good news here is thatfresh coffee is served on the way out, and the big heavy Bertramsmake as good a coffee platform as the comfy couch at Starbucks. The second remain more difficult – the fish are there ok., but seemto be finicky and slow to really chase the teasers or the profferedbaits. The mixed bag for the Fetterman party came in the form offeisty yellowfin tuna that make about the best sashimi that money can buy – especially on the high seas with all the accoutrements.The mixed bag for the Edgar party was formed by good sized bull dolphin that were duly served up to the group for dinner thatevening ……..it always tastes even better when you just caughtit yourself that afternoon. The billfishing seemed to improve from the low single digits that weexperienced at the beginning of the week – and we are encouraged(or at least thinking positivey) with the waning crescent moon. My senseis that a couple of decent sacrifices to the fish Gods should do it for usso please come down and help out. We were asked by Mr Nowery to correct the fishing report from last week – we scored him with 3 raises on their first day, when in fact it was 5……….apologies to his team………..but one was a monster and almost countedas three………….. Hope you enjoyed watching Cindy and her sister fish on the Joint Ventureon ESPN2 last Sunday……………or almost as much as we enjoyed watchingthem ……………….and the fishing was great as well. Our Favorite Fishing Quote for the week : My biggest worry is that my wife (when I'm dead) will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it ~Koos Brandt
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