The following are excerpts from
several reports we have received in the past few days about the incredible
sailfish action in Guatemala
We do have some openings available contact Yvonne if you are interested in
getting in on the action.
6th-10th March: The Gilleece group timed their trip pretty well with Hugh Gilleece SN (Jay), Hugh Gilleece JR ( Jimmy), Randall Ward and Richey Denzler joining us for 5 days. The guys came down to Guatemala specifically to learn how to use circle hooks and for the first day and into the second the mates hooked the fish before the guys took over. Things started fairly good and by just after noon on the first day we had released 20, the afternoon died for us and we ended up with 28 from 46 bites. Day 2 the bite started and it was good consistent action releasing 50 from 73 bites. Day 3 and the cockpit was all theirs, another great day saw us with 41 from 67 bites and that was despite leaving the bite for a couple of hours looking for bonito to do some marlin live baiting further offshore. We ended the day back in the bite after Ronnie! Hamlin called saying he was getting bitten pretty good. The next day the bite just got better and better and we could have racked up some good numbers but for muchas sancochos!! Day 4 saw us back at the dock with 51 releases from 93 bites. Their last day started slow, the goal being 30 fish for 200 releases for the trip, it looked for a while to be a tough one, but the afternoon bite went off and we pulled lines when we hit 50 releases from 71 bites. What a great trip, the guys releasing 55 a piece, 220 sailfish released for the trip.
I thought for sure the bite would start to slow, wit! h the action being so good for the previous 4 days……Wrong…... We had the day off and on the 11 th the bite pretty much peaked, and we only wish we were out there to be a part of it. The reports were incredible with a couple of new records being set, Capt Ronnie Hamlin on the Captain Hook with his dream team of anglers released 124 sails and were back at the dock at 4.30PM. Capt Chris Sheeder aboard the Release fishing with his boss´ Jim & Liz Turner had a world record breaking day releasing 57 on the fly!! Jim accounted for 54 of those personally which blew the old record away. Congratulations to all, unbelievable stuff.
12th-14th March: Father and daughter team Dave and Amanda Perryman from Palm Beach, Florida timed their trip pretty well too. Not like the day before, but the fishing was still incredible out there. We started on the fly and the day started slowly releasing 8 from 12 bites before moving to the baits by late morning and ended with 53 releases from 73 bites from a red-hot afternoon bite. The next day was more of the same starting on the fly Amanda released 7 from 15 bites, with multiples coming into the spread every time the teasers were put in the water it was awesome stuff. The morning was red hot this time around and we changed to the baits by 10.30, Dave and Amanda got into the thick of it, hooking the majority of the fish and just missed out on the 50, getting 49 from 81 bites on the bait. The afternoon bite slowed and you had the feeling things w! ere starting to die down. It proved to be, it couldn't go on forever and on the last day we concentrated on the fly releasing 10 from 19 bites and 4 from 5 bites on the conventional tackle. Still a great day raising 47 fish all up…….Amazing fishing, in an amazing fishery. There are still a some openings now, or start planning your trip for next season to experience the world's premium bill fishing.
12 March 06
Guatemala explodes, sailfish are every where, the past week has shown staggering
No. of sails released with boats releasing between 40 and 70 fish each a day,
this peaked yesterday with a single boat releasing 124 fish! If my info is
correct this will be a new W Record for No. fished released in a single day, all
other boats that day released between 70 and 95 fish each, AND ANOTHER BOAT
BROKE THE SINGLE DAY RELEASE RECORD ON THE FLY BY 30 FISH, with a total of 57
releases, one angler actually releasing 54 of those fish to smash the exisiting
record. Fishing stayed hot to day with the top boat releasing 81 on baits. Lets
hope the dream continues. Until next time.