The bite is going off. It has been the last couple weeks. The blue water has been harder to find than usual, which puts importance on programs like Hiltons & Terrafin (Satellite Maps). Without such programs lots of time and fuel is wasted. Last week while on the fly we averaged 25 raises a day with 15 bites, while the bait guys saw 30 shots in a day.
NOW, the bite is getting much better. Sister boats of The Blue Bayou Lodge are seeing 50 shots on bait!!!! And blue marlin, with chances of seeing yellow fin too. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday we are back at it with two boats from our fleet, more fresh reports to come. Enjoy today's blue water report.
Tight Lines,
Capt Chris Starrs
The bite is going off. It has been the last couple weeks. The blue water has been harder to find than usual, which puts importance on programs like Hiltons & Terrafin (Satellite Maps). Without such programs lots of time and fuel is wasted. Last week while on the fly we averaged 25 raises a day with 15 bites, while the bait guys saw 30 shots in a day.
NOW, the bite is getting much better. Sister boats of The Blue Bayou Lodge are seeing 50 shots on bait!!!! And blue marlin, with chances of seeing yellow fin too. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday we are back at it with two boats from our fleet, more fresh reports to come. Enjoy today's blue water report. Tight Lines,
Capt Chris Starrs
First off I want to thank the El Salvadorian anglers, and countrymen for receiving us with open arms these past few days. The team Sails Pitch placed 4th over all out of 39 boats in the sailfish division. I am very proud of my boys and our angler Dell for representing. We take fishing very seriously at our lodge and this proves that!
Back to business. Our current fishing is report has been solid. Off the west side of the pocket towards Mexico about 20 miles the sailfish action is steady. Boats are averaging 25 bites right now, with big blues showing up here and there. The blue water could be better, but the sails are more concerned about tempature right now. We start up this weekend, more to come.
Capt Chris
Hola Anglers,
A few days ago I got word that there was a great marlin bite just short of the known 30-30 mark.
Great Captains like Capt Kiwi saw as many as 6 big blues, while releasing 2. And our Captain Hurcules went 1 for 2 on blues, and he indicated that the first one was over 400lbs.
Figures....it was my one day off.
Two days later 10-29-2014, I headed out with a local group. Very nice day, 15 second swells, flat calm, BLUE BLUE water. We tried inshore fishing, caught a couple nice bull dorado, and then decided to run off shore where the fellas left off some days earlier. We were 15 mins into troll when a nice blue lite up my center teaser (we run a flat teaser off the rigger, and two longer daisy chains off the rigger that I control from the bridge and the mates have a center teaser with a boat rod). We pitched the mackerel out, she grabbed it, dropped it and that was it. Good size fish, around 300 lbs.
We kept working the area when I caught in the corner of my eyes, a series of giant splashes a couple miles further off shore. I made the line to where I thought the last splash was and that's when it happened. My short flat teaser got crushed by something massive. The angler who had a sailfish bait on the flat clip couldn't avoid the bite (we wanted to use a 50 lb pitch bait Mack), and he was tight in a matter of seconds. 2.5hrs later!!! We released a BIG Blue over 400lbs on 20lb test! That's right, very hard to do. As we trolled in we raised a triple sailfish tease and released one sail. We decided to call it a day. Very exciting. We were strictly targeting the marlin. Sailfish seem to be in a different area further off shore. But when you hear a great marlin bite you drop everything and GO!!!!!!!!
Sailfish:7-3-1
Marlin: 3-2-1
Dorado: 3-2-2
Tight Lines,
Capt Chris Starrs
HOLA Blue Bayou Nation!
The bite is getting good as more boats make their way off shore these days. Oct marks one of the better months for targeting blue marlin in Guatemala, as well as the sailfish numbers are healthy to our standard (most boats raising 20 plus a day).
This past week we had many folks out enjoying the inshore bite as well as the off shore bite.
Inshore being the short 9 mile run to the ''cut'' where we are greeted with very blue water, and debris lines. These debris lines are holding as many mahi as you want, with blue marlin lurking as well.
However, we have found that 30 miles on either side of the pockets seams will get you into sailfish. The key being spread out with other boats and open communication on the VHF radios to make sure we are staying ontop of the school. These fish move very quickly and its very important all Capts keep an open mind on reporting. Each time we have been out, we have raised at least 1 blue, while pulling the hook on ever other bite (rusty anglers).
For now Terrafin (below picture) is showing us where the blue water is and isn't to assure the clients they are in the best possible water for catching the bills. Next week the Blue Bayou Lodge is very busy, so hold on for more reports to come.
