Posts Tagged ‘fishing guatemala’
Monday, January 16th, 2012
We were honoured to welcome the new President of Guatemala to Greatsailfishing recently. While the fishing trip did not raise our normal and recent productivity for sailfish, he was very happy to fill a cooler with Dorado and Tuna.
President Perez Molina was not able to spend the whole day fishing in Guatemala, and so we remained closer to shore, hoping to raise sailfish in the temperature breaks or around bait. Most billfishing this past week was out around 40 miles from shore, so we did not have tiume to Take President Perez Molina that far in pursuit of billfish – but we all had a great day and enjoyed meeting and fishing with him. Our full January Guatemala Fishing Report is here : http://www.greatsailfishing.com/Guatemala_Fishing_Report.php
Tags: fishing guatemala, fishing trip, Fishing Vacation, guatemala fishing report, President Perez Molina
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Friday, December 9th, 2011
Despite some tough fishing conditions in Guatemala, we had a successful tournament with 31 competing boats over 4 days bringing an average of 10 billfish to the boat each day. For the full fishing report see here :
http://www.greatsailfishing.com/Guatemala_Fishing_Report.php
The fishing conditions do seem to be settling down – or at least the fish seem to think so as the billfishing in Guatemala has become far more consistent over the course of the last few weeks and as we head into the main part of the fishing season in Guatemala. We have had a couple of fronts come through that have really churned up the water throughout November and the early part of December, but the seas have calmed down a lot in the last few days and we are looking forward to a great fishing season.
Tags: fishing guatemala, guatemala fishing report, guatemala fishing tournament, ILLTA, pez vela
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Saturday, February 26th, 2011
If you have been waiting for an economic reason to try the fishing in Guatemala, this could be a great opportunity for a last minute trip while the fishing (and the weather) is still HOT !!
American Airlines announced a quick-fire sale for flights to Latin America that must be booked THIS WEEK – out of several convenient gateways. Happily the travel dates coincide with dates in April when the fishing is still great, the sailfish are still hungry, the weather is warm and we have availability in one of our luxurious Guatemala Fishing Beach Villas.
The peak of the fishing season in Guatemala for billfish is in January and February – as this is when most anglers have seen just about enough of the continuous cold fronts up North – and hanker after some warm weather and outstanding fishing. Guatemala fits all of these criteria, and so prime dates in these months tend to be booked up to a year in advance. See the full report here :
http://www.greatsailfishing.com/Guatemala_Fishing_Report.php
Tags: cheap flights to Guatemala, fishing guatemala, guatemala fishing report, guatemala fishing trip
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
It does seem like this rainy season has been one of the longest and most persistent for many years in Guatemala. This hasn’t stopped us fishing of course, and in all clouds there is a silver lining, even if those clouds tend to be dark and rumbling in the distance !
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!
read our latest fishing report(s) here
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Tags: billfishing, bluewater fishing, fishing guatemala, fishing trip, mahi mahi dorado, pez vela marina
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Monday, August 23rd, 2010
The rainy season in Guatemala which starts in June and continues until September brings with it some significant benefits for anglers visiting Guatemala. The rivers fill as the rainwater makes its way down from the highlands – and with it brings debris and material that flows out into the ocean. This debris – some pieces as large as treetrunks – get washed offshore and provide shelter for small fish that start the predatory food chain.
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.
The new Guatemala fishng season is nearly upon us, you can register here to read how we did last season and to signup for our latest fishing reports as the fishing season gets underway.
http://www.greatsailfishing.com
Tags: antigua guatemala, fishing guatemala, fishing trip, fly-fishing, guatemala city
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Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
This was a fishing season in Guatemala that faced down many natural challenges – from volcanoes to earthquakes to floods at the tail end of the season.
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
Tags: billfishing, blue marlin, fishing guatemala, fishing trip, guatemala fishing report, pez vela, sailfish
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Despite some follow on tremors, the huge earthquake in Chile did not have any effect on the fishing in Guatemala. The boats went to sea in search of sailfish, but with a cautious eye towards the waves as the possibility of a rolling tsunami existed.
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.
read the full report here :
http://www.greatsailfishing.com/en/weeklyfishing.htm
Tags: billfishing, fishing guatemala, guatemala earthquake, guatemala fishing report, pez vela, pez vela marina
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