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Written by Capt. Starrs

Published: 02 January 2011

Happy New Years my anglers!!!!
The word ''sabiki'' was very useful this past week.  I made it out with some friends and clients who demanding that we used live bait found at the near by buoy on the way out to the bill fish grounds.  We loaded up the live well with at least 15 blue runners with sabiki rigged poles.  We made a 14 mile run off shore and started trolling dead bait until we found an appropriate live bait spot.  It was 1 hour into our trip that we spotted a large bird resting on what appeared to be a large pillion.  We made a couple passes and nothing was biting, but we knew something was below.  We then got our fin nor spinning gear and shimano bait runners rigged with our live bait and deployed them with a one motor trolling speed.  I mostly had the boat in neutral.  From that point we were busy with the bites.  One after another dorado were hitting the bait and we landed 8 dorado all over 15 lbs, one was 30 lbs on the scale.  As the afternoon slowed down, the sail fish began to take over.  We landed 6 sail fish and hooked 8.  Despite the ''slow'' bite we did alright and we repeated the same procedure with great success for the next 4 days of fishing.  A great way to end 2010, onto another great year of fishing and new interesting clients.

Tight lines!

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Written by Capt. Starrs

Published: 23 December 2010

We are already getting our next group on Christmas day.  26th and 27th we will be way off shore chasing bills.  The bite has slowed down by Guatemalan standards, but 40 miles south east will get us in fishable water.  Yesterday one boat released 15 sails, which is great, but they had to push way off shore for it.  The water temp is around 84 degrees and perfect for marlin and sails, just need a bit more blue water to turn this fish on again.

Points I will try and hit despite the 40 plus mile hike:

13° 20.92´ N / 90° 20.55´ W

44.5 NM 153° Mag.

Tight Lines and Merry Christmas

Capt Starrs