The fishing has remained quite close in with boats finding good numbers of sailfish as close as fifteen miles from the Marina Pez Vela. Of course the crews would prefer to fish for food for the table particulalrly at this time of year, and so have been happy alsmost every day as we have come across lots of good sized mahi-mahi.

Sailfish are well known for their speed and fighting prowess, but there is little doubt that a hooked dorado can put up an equal fight – especially once they catch a glipse of the boat and perhaps realise what their prospects may be!

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The weather has not been very kind this summer season, but the fishing in Guatemala has remianed strong and remarkably consistent all the way through. The water gushing from the highlands has pushed a lot of debris out to sea that has provided some fantastic dorado fishing. You normally associate “gaffer” dolphin with “schoolies” – but we have had schools of dolphin in the 10lb class at the stern of the boat on many occasions. This provides some outstanding light tackle and flyfishing opportunities.

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While Guatemala is renowned for its billfishin, the summer months bring the opportunity for great predator fishing – such as mahi mahi and wahoo as well. The floating logs and weed provide “targets” for the boats to fish – and often bringthe opportunity for some outstanding saltwater flyfishing as well.

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Throughout it all pretty much we fished usccessfully – and although the climatic effects of the quakes were hard to predict, we were able to continue to raise fish and bring many to the boat throughout.

The weather was more difficult or less predictable than usual – with several cold fronts coming through the region in the peak fishing months of January and Febraury…….but again, the fishing recovered quickly and most days we continued to raise at least double digits of billfish for clients.

For a detailed and month by month summary of the season see here : http://www.greatsailfishing.com/en/SeasonSummary.html

high as 27,000 feet is an indicator of the potential of activity !

This constant seismic activity does not appear to have any significant impact on the fishing in Guatemala – even the large magnitude quake in March had no noticeable effect on the concentrations of billfish – seems like it is only us land dwellers that are effected by such things. The fishing although slower than a month ago,  has remained quite consistent. Decent numbers of sailfish – but a LOT of Blue Marlin showing. Some days our boats have been reporting 3-5 raises of marlin for the day with perhaps one or two hookups. What has been noticeable however is how concentrated the fishing has been – most days the sportfishing fleet has ended up within a couple of miles of each other over concentrations of bait, but outside of that diameter, the pickings have been slim.

Natural bait was to be found in the City as well, with the Miss Universe regional competition coming to a climax this past weekend.Ms Alejandra Barillas was crowned as Miss Guatemala 2010 and will represent the country in the Miss Universe competition.

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You may have read how the Hawaiian coastline was largely evacuated lest the wave came ashore. Being roughly in the path between the epicenter and Hawaii, we thought it prudent to at least move the boats from their moorings and set to sea ….. just in case. Of course the local captains had heard it all before and were slightly bemused by the whole thing, but better safe than sorry.

With some delight, minutes past the appointed hour for this huge wave to pass the latitude of the marina, the radios lit up with the chatter over channel  71 that the boats had been hit by a “massive wave” that was estimated at 1.5 feet. They were grinning when they came back to dock at the triumph of local knowledge over gringo science. Still better safe than sorry.

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Our advice is to head straight to the coast and get out fishing, not time to be trying to sightsee in either the capital or Antigua !

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The fishing is great !

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The SST charts saved us a ton of fuel and our clients a ton of time searching for the blue water and finding the hot bite. The blue water was moving radicaly from day to day – see our full fishing report here :

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