BILLFISH MECA......THROUGH MARCH 29th '16

March 17-19, Great to see these guys back in Guatemala! The fishing was red hot 30nm to the east, though every morning we sacrificed a few hours working the deep water in close for blues. First morning nothing, over the next 2 morning's we raised 4, one big fish in the 600lb+ class that was pushing water and whacking at the mackerel though didn't eat! Another teased though didn't switch and we pulled the hook one of about 300lb before James tagged and released his first blue marlin of about 400lb+

The afternoon sail bite was red hot all 3 days with the crew doing an excellent job releasing 99 sailfish from 169 bites! We're not seeing many of these this year, though Christine boated this beauty mahi which fed us for a couple of lunches and dinner...

 30lb bull

Over the same time period March 17-19 the above crew fished the Capt Hook, chasing the numbers every day they were on the bite out to the east and released an incredible 153 sails from 190 bites!! Some great averages there from some hard core fishos, nice going fellas on a great trip!

March 21 & 22 Scott Kozak was back, this time fishing with us on Allure II with his work crew from Michigan. Early on in the morning Scott hooked and released one of these on 20lb test off the right teaser...

Nice first day on the water!! The sails were biting steady and his crew had a blast pitching to some hot sails off the teasers! We ended with 65 releases from 99 bites on the sails, 1 from 2 bites on blues and 1 from 1 on striped marlin over their 2 days here.

March 23-25th we welcomed the above group for their first time to Guatemala and had a great time with them here during 'Semana Santa', or Easter week, one of the biggest weeks of the year in Guate. They fished well, and by day 3 were baiting 'em like pro's with a total of 68 releases from 113 bites. Chad runs his 48ft Sportfish so had him up there for a couple of hours on the last day....

Good times with good people and we're looking forward to seeing them back here again soon!

March 27-29 It was great to catch up with Doug and Hollis, I first fished with these guys back in '04! This time they were with Pat and son Matt Snyder all from Sydney, Nebraska. Fishing was on the first day out with 67 sails in the spread and 33 releases from 58 bites...

The bite slowed down some the next 2 days and on the last morning on the way out the water quality was back to blue in close so we stopped short looking for a marlin. Within 10mins we had one hot on the teaser and 25 mins later Matt released a nice fat fish in the 325lb class..

Within 20 mins of releasing this fish we had huge bite on the short teaser, another blue in the 300lb class whacked the mackerel around, acted very spooky, darting around the bait and disappeared. Definitely some good blue marlin action in the deep water just 12NM off the breakwall......Keen to beat their PB here on sails we picked up after that and ran offshore for 20 sailfish bites and a total of 56 releases from 103 bites. Great trip and a PB on billfish!