Current Guatemala Pacific Coast Fishing Conditions
Pacific Coast sport-fishing report

Week ending June 25th 2006

This fishing report is for the week ending 06-25-06 and is prepared by The Great Sailfishing Company which operates out of the new Pez Vela Marina,Guatemala.The fishing grounds for this past week have ranged from as close as 15 miles to as far as 40 miles. Seas this week have been mild ranging between 1 to 2ft to moderate at 3ft. This week skies ranged from cloudly to overcast days, with some days bringing light rains; however there as been a few nights with heavy downpours.Most days started with no to light breezes in the mornings and moderate breezes in the afternoons.

This week saw fair results with boats reporting releases in the low to mid single digits. Most boats reported 3 to 7 sailfish releases on conventional
tackle. Once again there were Blue Marlin in the spread. On Monday our boat the Joint Venture hooked up a 450lb. class blue but after a short fight the hook came loose from the bill. One other boat this week did
manage to release two blues. Those boats that went out for dorado were rewarded with lots of them in the 7 to 15lb. class beginning at the 15 mile mark.

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Week ending June 18th 2006

This fishing report is for the week ending 06-18-06 and is prepared by The Great Sailfishing Company which operates out of the new Pez Vela Marina, Guatemala. The fishing grounds for this past week have ranged
from 20 miles to as far as 40 miles. Seas this week have varied from mild ranging between 1 to 2ft to moderate 2 to 3ft seas. This week skies ranged from sunny to overcast days, with some days bringing light
rains; however there as been some nights with light to moderate downpours. Most days started with no to light wind in the mornings to light / moderate winds in the afternoons, same as the past two weeks.

This week saw fair to good results with boats reporting releases in the low single digits to low double digits. This week we were happy to host the Jay Halpenny party from Canada. Their first day (Tuesday) saw only fair results with releasing 3 sails out of 7 bites and 6 Dorado. On Wednesday they had a good days fishing releasing 11 sails out of 20 bites and also
boating 20 Dorado. On Thursday they also had another good days fishing with releasing 9 sails out of 14 bites. All on conventional tackle.

On Friday we welcomed the arrival of Sam Swisher and his son out of Boston. Their first day fishing was on Saturday and they had great day releasing 5 sails and TWO Blue Marlin,the first marlin (estimated at
300lbs.) first appeared off of the left teaser. With the marlin rig in hand (Penn International 11 50 wide with 50lb line mated to a tournament graphite rod) the fight was on.Thirty minutes later the fight was over
and the mates released the marlin to fight another day. About one hour later another marlin appeared off of the left teaser, estimated at about 200lb. Sam’s son chose light tackle and the fight began, about 1 ½
hours of a great fight the marlin was boat-side and released. Both of the Swishers had big smiles and explained that they were their 1st marlins and on the same day. Today (Sunday) saw another good day with 3 sails being released and another Blue Marlin in the 200lb. Class. That’s right, 3 marlin in two days with another day to go.

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Week ending June 12th 2006

This fishing report is for the week ending 06-12-06 and is prepared by The Great Sailfishing Company which operates out of the new Pez Vela Marina,Guatemala.The fishing grounds for this past week have ranged from as close as 10 miles to as far as 15+ miles. Seas this week have varied from mild ranging between 2 to 2ft to moderate 2 to 4ft seas. This week skies ranged from sunny to overcast days, with a some days bringing light rains;however there as been some nights with heavy downpours.Most days started with no to light wind in the mornings to light / moderate winds in the afternoons,same as the past week.The week started out with fair results with boats reporting releases in the low to high single digits but this weeks end saw only poor releases in the low single digits on conventional tackle.The silver linings is that most boats going out
this week caught 5 to 8 dorado's and some boats also caught a few yellow-tail.To register for our weekly fishing report and other information please click here : http://www.greatsailfishing.com/en/register.html or
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reports tell it as it is.

Week ending June 4th 2006

This fishing report is for the week ending 06-04-06 and is prepared by The Great Sailfishing Company which operates out of the new Pez Vela Marina,Guatemala.The fishing grounds for this past week have ranged from as close as 12 miles to as far as 30+ miles. Seas this week have been light ranging between 2 to 4ft. This week skies ranged from sunny to overcast days, with a few bringing light rain.Most days started with no to
light wind in the mornings to light / moderate winds in the afternoons.The week started out with fair to good results with boats reporting releases in the high single digits to mid twenties on conventional tackle.Fly fishermen were releasing their sails in the low to mid single digits.Unlike the past week these results maintained themselves thoughout the week.On
Friday the La Piragua released 25 sails.There's more good news in that the marlin bite still is active with a couple of releases being reported over the past two weeks. For more info. contact us at greatsailfishing@yahoo.com or visit our website at www.greatsailfishing.com and check out our free fly-fishing special for June.

Week ending May 21st 2006

This fishing report is for the week ending 05-21-06 and is prepared by The Great Sailfishing Company which operates out of the new Pez Vela Marina,Guatemala.The fishing grounds for this past week have ranged from as little as 10 miles to as far as 30+ miles. Seas this week have been moderate ranging between 2 to 5ft. with cloudy or rainy days plus light to moderate winds. The week started out with poor to fair results with boats
reporting releases in the low to mid single digits. Mid week found results acceptable with boats reporting releases in the 8 to 12 digit range. However, by Friday the fishing had once again really slowed down to the
very low single digits but the marlin bite still is active with the La Sirena releasing a 200lb marlin - On the Fly and the first of the Yellowfin tuna is
starting to appear.Today Sunday 05-21-06 the fishing again is picking up,our boat the Joint Venture (35ft.Bertram)released 4 sails,one 400lb.Blue Marlin and a 10 lb. Yellowfin Tuna.For more info. contact us
at greatsailfishing@yahoo.com or visit our website at www.greatsailfishing.com and check out our free fly-fishing special for May and June

Week ending May 14th 2006

This fishing report is for the past eight days ending 05-14-06 and is prepared by The Great Sailfishing Company which operates out of the new Pez Vela Marina,Guatemala.The fishing grounds for these past
days have ranged from as little as 15 miles to as far as 30+ miles. Seas at the beginning of the week have been mild ranging between 1 to 3ft.with sunny days and little wind.However,Saturday night brought in heavy
rains with some easterly winds causing some moderate chop. The fishing has been very good to good as Guatemala standards go with those fishing conventional releasing between 10 to 38+ sails per day (the norm
was in the low-twenties) with 15 to over 50 raises.On Friday our boat the Joint Venture released 38 sails.In shore fishing has cooled off when compared to the previous week along with the previous weeks Marlin
bite.For more info. contact us at greatsailfishing@yahoo.com or visit our website at www.greatsailfishing.com and check out our free fly-fishing special for April and May

Week ending May 6th 2006
Marlin, Marlin and more Marlin!!!!!

This fishing report is for the week ending 05-06-06 and is prepared by The Great Sailfishing Company which operates out of the new Pez Vela Marina,Guatemala.The fishing grounds for this week has ranged from 20 to as far as 30+ miles. Seas have been mild ranging between 1 to 3ft.with sunny days and little wind. The fishing has been fair to good as Guatemala standards go with fly anglers averaging in the low to mid single digits. Those fishing conventional were releasing between 8 to 12 sails per day with 15-20 raises. But the good news is that all of the boats that went out
this week have had marlin bites or released one or more Blue Marlins.Our last count totaled 9 marlin releases this week.Today our 35ft.Bertram The Joint Venture released 10 sails,one 225-250lb Blue Marlin and a few dorados. In shore fishing has continued to be good.For more info. contact us at greatsailfishing@yahoo.com or visit our website at
www.greatsailfishing.com and check out our free fly-fishing special for April and May.

Week ending Apr. 30th 2006

This fishing report is for the week ending 04-30-06 and is prepared by The Great Sailfishing Company which operates out of the new Pez Vela Marina, Guatemala. The fishing grounds for this week has ranged from 20 to as far as 40+ miles. Seas have ranged between 1 to 3ft. with overcast days and some rain. The fishing has been fair to good as Guatemala standards go with fly anglers averaging in the low to mid single digits.
Those fishing conventional were releasing between 10 to 15 per day with 20-30 Sailfish raised per day. In shore fishing has been good.On Wednesday one of our clients was rewarded by catching this years largest
Wahoo that weighed in at 62lbs.Along with the Wahoo John aboard our Joint Venture (35ft.Bertram) caught 6 nice Cero Mackerel and one jack.For more info. contact us at greatsailfishing@yahoo.com or visit our website at www.greatsailfishing.com and check out our free fly-fishing special for April and May.

Week ending Apr. 23th 2006

This fishing report is for the week ending 04-23-06 and is prepared by The Great Sailfishing Company which operates out of the new Pez Vela Marina,Guatemala.The fishing grounds for these past days have ranged from 15 to as far as 40+ miles. Seas have ranged between 1 to 3ft. with overcast days. The fishing was fair as Guatemala standards go with fly anglers averaging in the low to mid single digits. Those fishing conventional were averaging mid single digits to as high as 25 early in the week. In shore fishing has picked up,yesterday (Sunday) one of our boats caught
11 jacks,12 Sierra Mackarel and a nice 35lb Rooster-fish.We at the Great Sailfishing Company hosted several professional fly fishing guides who released 4 on the fly Saturday and 2 on Sunday,on both days the Joint Venture raised 20 sails getting 8 bites.For more info. contact us at
greatsailfishing@yahoo.com or visit our website at www.greatsailfishing.com and check out our free fly-fishing special for April and May.

Week ending Apr. 14th 2006

This fishing report is for the week ending 04-14-06 and is prepared by The Great Sailfishing Company which operates out of the new Pez Vela Marina,Guatemala.The fishing grounds for this past week ranged from 15 to as far as 35+ miles. This past week saw Guatemala's average seas which range between 1 to 2ft. The fishing was fair as Guatemala standards go with conventional still in the mid single digits to mid twenties.We at
the Great Sailfishing Company hosted several groups, one of our groups released 8,11 and 14 sails(Sat,Sunday,Monday)on our 35ft. Bertram the Joint Venture.Hugo Morales went inshore fishing on Wednesday and caught several large jacks,two large Roosterfish and other inshore fish.For more info. e-mail us at greatsailfishing@yahoo.com or visit our website at
www.greatsailfishing.com and check out our free fly-fishing special for April and May.

Week ending Apr. 7th 2006

This fishing report is for the week ending 04-07-06 and is prepared by The Great Sailfishing Company which operates out of the new Pez Vela Marina,Guatemala.The fishing grounds for these past week ranged from 10 to as far as 35+ miles. This past week saw some moderate seas in the 3 to 4ft.class at the first of the week which caused some anglers to return early with the week ending in calm seas. The fishing was slow as Guatemala standards go with conventional still in the low single digits to mid teens.We at the Great Sailfishing Company hosted a few several parties day charters with results as discriped above, which was par for most of the fleet.For more info. contact us at greatsailfishing@yahoo.com or visit our website at www.greatsailfishing.com and check out our free
fly-fishing special for April and May.

Weeks ending Mar. 31th 2006

This fishing report is for two weeks ending 03-31-06 and is prepared by The Great Sailfishing Company which operates out of the new Pez Vela Marina,Guatemala.The fishing grounds for these past two week ranged from 15 to as far as 45+ miles. This past week saw some rough seas in the 6 to 8ft.class which caused some anglers to return early. The fishing was slow as Guatemala standards go with conventional in the low single
digits to mid teens. Those who fished on the fly even saw some days with no releases on few bites.We at the Great Sailfishing Company hosted several parties / day charters with results as discriped above.For more
info. contact us at greatsailfishing@yahoo.com or visit our website at www.greatsailfishing.com and check out our free fly-fishing special for April and May.

Week ending Mar. 18th 2006

This fishing report is for the week ending 03-18-06 and is prepared by The Great Sailfishing Company which operates out of the new Pez Vela Marina,Guatemala.The fishing grounds for this past week has stayed in the
20 to 35 miles range with calm days and fairly flat seas for the first part of the day and with late afternoon winds causing lite to moderate chop. This
week saw most boats releasing sails in the mid twenties into the mid double digits on conventional. Still great fishing by most anyones standards but it did cool down compared to last weeks sizzling results.We at the Great Sailfishing Company hosted several parties / day charters including the Dr.Cimino party that released 35 sails on Friday and 33
yesterday(note:they were hooking-up most of their own sails).At the first of the week Sunday March 12th, the McFadden party released 77 on conventional which made their total over two days 136 on conventional and another 6 on the fly.Yesterday one of our day charters released 17 on the fly fishing on the Tranquility and our charter on the Stragos released 41 on conventional,also on Saturday March 18th.For more info. contact us at greatsailfishing@yahoo.com or visit our website at www.greatsailfishing.com and check out our free fly-fishing special for April and May.

Week ending Mar. 11th 2006
GUATAMALA RED RED RED HOT - BEST DAY EVER

This fishing report for the week ending 03-11-06 is prepared by The Great Sailfishing Company which operates out of the new Pez Vela Marina, Guatemala.The fishing grounds for the past week ranged between 18 to 30 miles with calm days and fairly flat seas with late afternoon winds causing some chop. This week saw most boats releasing sails in the mid twenties into the high double digits WITH ONE BOAT REPORTING OVER 100.Today it looks like another world record for most sails on conventional was set.This week saw the fishing going from hot to todays red hot / sizzling. We at the Great Sailfishing Company hosted several parties / day charters including the Harry party that released 39 sails on Wednesday and 49 on Friday. Today the McFadden party released 59 on conventional and another 6 on the fly.All of our parties enjoy the
comforts of The Joint Venture 35ft.Bertram with hot morning coffee and hot lunches,fresh fruit,snacks and real cold beer.Also the first part of this week saw Marlins in the spread on three different days with 3 hook-ups releasing one 300lb and one 400lb Blue Marlin great job Mr.Herdon.For more info. contact us at greatsailfishing@yahoo.com or visit our website at www.greatsailfishing.com

Week ending Mar. 4th 2006

This fishing report for two weeks ending 03-04-06 is prepared by The Great Sailfishing Company which operates out of the new Pez Vela Marina,Guatemala.The fishing for the past two weeks ranged between 13 to 25 miles with calm days / flat seas and late afternoon winds causing chop. At the first of the past two weeks fishing was only fair with most boats boating sails in the single digits to low teens on conventional tackle
and between 1 to 4 sails on the fly. However, this past week the fishing went from fair to good with most boats in the mid teens to mid-twenties on conventional and low single digits on fly (3 to 7). We at the Great
Sailfishing Company hosted several parties / day charters including the LUC VAN GIJSEL,HERDON and STYLES parties on our 35ft Bertram The Joint Venture.The Herdon party averaged 19 sails per day, the
Styles party 14 per day on their last 3 days. All three of these parties enjoyed the comforts of The Joint Venture with hot morning coffee and hot lunches, fresh fruit, snacks and real cold beer. Also, this week saw Marlins in the spread on four different days with 3 hook-ups. For more info. contact us at greatsailfishing@yahoo.com or visit our website
at www.greatsailfishing.com

MARLINS HOT FOR GUATEMALA

OVER THE PAST TWO DAYS THE JOINT VENTURE HAS HAD THREE MARLINS IN THE SPREAD AND YESTERDAY BOATED A 300LB BLUE AND TODAY BOATED A 400LB BLUE along with lots of sails and a few dorado.Along with the Joint Venture
the Release boated a Blue Marlin yesterday

Week ending Feb. 18th 2006

This fishing report for week ending 02-18-06 is prepared by The Great Sailfishing Company which operates out of the new Pez Vela Marina, Guatemala.The fishing this week ranged between 13 to 25 miles with
calm days / flat seas and late afternoon winds causing chop. At the first of the week fishing was very good with most boats boating sails in the low twenties to low 30's on conventional tackle and between 3 to 8 sails on the fly. However, later in the week the fishing did slow down a with most boats in the mid to high single digits on conventional and low single
digits on fly. We at the Great Sailfishing Company hosted the Mike Murphy party out of New Jersey on our 35ft. Bertram The Joint Venture,they boated a total of 44 sails over two days and then played two nice rounds of golf the following two days before departing to stateside this coming Monday.We also hosted the Overstreet party out of Chicago who boated 14 sails their 1st. day and 7 on their 2nd. Oh,yes they hooked up their own sails. Nice job and let us not forget a local charter of 5 new medical school grads who boated 22.

Week ending Feb. 10th 2006

This fishing report for week ending 02-10-06 is prepared by The Great Sailfishing Company which operates out of the new Pez Vela Marina, Guatemala.The blue water for this week is still averaging between 12
to as far as 30 miles,with calm days and mild seas at the start of the week which turned to gusty winds with choppy seas Wednesday,Thursday and Friday.This week started out with most boats boating sails on conventional tackle in the high teens to low 30's and fly fisher-persons in the 2 to 8 sails per day range. Thursday and Friday saw a decline due to choppy seas and green water.We at the Great Sailfishing Company
had three parties of fly-fisherman / conventional fishermen.The Cowen pary fishing on our boat the Joint Venture,35ft.Bertram, boated 60 sails over 3 days along with a few nice size dorado.

Week ending Feb. 3rd 2006

This fishing report for week ending 02-03-06 is prepared by The Great Sailfishing Company which operates out of the new Pez Vela Marina, Guatemala.The blue water for this week has been averaging between 12
to as far as 30 miles with calm days and mild seas but with late afternoon winds. This week started the Guatemala National Tury with 20 boats and the action has been good. The daily average for the week has been in the low teens to mid 20's with the La Serina boating 37 and The Release boating 44,both yesterday.We at the Great Sailfishing Company have had
three parties of fly-fisherman who have been boating between 2 to 6 sails per day along with one or two dorado and in the 20's on conventional.

Week ending Jan. 28th 2006

Prepared by The Great Sailfishing Company which operates out of the new Pez Vela Marina,Guatemala.The blue water for this week has been averaging between 8 to as far as 35 miles with calm days and mild seas but with late afternoon winds. The week begin with only fair results but started heating up on Wednesday with most boats averaging in the low double digits and by Friday 15 to 20 releases on conventional tackel was
the norm and don't let me forget about the marlin and dorado bite. There were over 3 nice blue marlin releases and some real nice bull dorado in the 40 to 50lb class. We at the Great Sailfishing Company had a busy week with over 30 charters and thank you all for your support.For more information,please e-mail us at greatsailfishing@yahoo.com or visit our web-site at http://www.greatsailfish.com

Week ending Jan. 14th 2006

Prepared by The Great Sailfishing Company which operates out of the new Pez Vela Marina,Guatemala. The blue water for this week has been averaging between 5 to as far as 25 miles with calm days and mild seas. The local fleet has been reporting only fair to good numbers of 7 to 12 sails releases per day on conventional tackle and between 2 to 8 sails on the fly.Our guests fishing on the Tranquility for 4 days had 6 sails on the fly Monday,7 on the Fly Tuesday,3 on the Fly Wednesday and 7 on the Fly Thursday.The fishing seems to have lightened up on Friday and Saturday with boats reporting releases on conventionial tackle ranging from 2 to 11 releases. For more information,please e-mail us at greatsailfishing@yahoo.com or visit our web-site at http://www.greatsailfish.com

Week ending Jan. 7th 2006

Prepared by The Great Sailfishing Company which operates out of the new Pez Vela Marina,Guatemala.The blue water for this week has been averaging between 20 to as far as 45 miles with calm days and mild seas
until Saturday which had high winds forcing the fleet to return early. The local fleet has been reporting only fair numbers of 6 to 12 sails releases per day on conventional tackle and between 1 to 6 sails on the fly. The boats have also been reporting some good size dorado's caught each day which helped take some of the pain of only fair numbers during the week. Our guests fishing on the Bora-Bora for 3 days and the Stragos for 2 days released a total of 30 sails on the fly,1 rooster-fish and 1 jack on the fly with some dorado on spinning.Our guests on the Tranquility boated 6 sails
and 6 dorados on Wednesday,6 sails and 1 dorado on Thursday and ending their 3 days with 9 sails / 1 dorado on Friday.For more information,please e-mail us at greatsailfishing@yahoo.com or visit our web-site at http://www.greatsailfish.com