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Big Fish!

August 21, 2008 - Blue marlin bite was hot this last week. On the International Billfish Tournament held on Club Nautico de San Juan the action was very good with some boats raising up to 4-5 blue marlin in one day. We had a very lucky day with a 100% hook up rate… we land 3 for 3 on blue marlin the day before the tournament start. The first fish was about 250 pounds, the second about 100 and the 3erd blue marlin was about 350 of pure power. We were able to raise 9 blue marlin on 5, 1/2 day charters, I think it was very good for the amount of time on the water. Also 2 blues were over 500 pounds. It was a bag of fun this week. We did not fish the tournament but I was glad it put up with the expectation of every fisherman on the event as usual…..congratulation to the staff who organize the tournament.

In the lagoons this tarpon are here and thick. We have about 4 school of tarpon on a steady action all day long for the last week concentrating the action on the peack tides. The average size of tarpon are about 10 to 40 pounds but some bigger fish were hook and land on several boats in the San Jose Lagoon over 60 to 70 pounds. This last week Capt. Mike has guide some customer at night fishing a strong incoming tide with a full moon and the average size of tarpon were between 40 to 80 ponds and he also guide a 15 to 18 pounds snook. Good job Mike.

We have a full open agenda for the next coming month. Oct is my favorite month in San Juan with incredible mix off shore and great action inshore, flats seas condition and all light tackle. Off shore we will use TLD 20 from Shimano and TLD 16 to target sailfish, mahi-mahi, wahoo and white marlin. We also fish fresh ballyhoo and circle hooks from Owner when we fish off shore. Thanks to the people who contact us about the comments from others charters services about my and other guides permits, thank you for your support

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categories fishing tarpon | admin | datetime August 21, 2008 11:46 am | comments Comments (0)

Caribbean Winter Action

Last month was a very good off shore month with a mix bag of sailfish, white marlin, blue marlin and wahoo up to 40 pound. Capt. Many and mate Frank were able to guide some customer to up 9 bites of bill fish in combination of blue marlin, sailfish and wahoo. Also the mahi-mahi season is full in, yesterday the boys guide Mr. Alan Kaufman to a sailfish, spearfish and 4 mahi-mahi. All this action were on Shimano TLD 20 with 20 pound test…. sweet and light. Some other recreational boats were able to land the limit for mahi-mahi per boat(10). The down side of this action is the ocean, it start to blow 15 to 25 knots wind, during high pressure ares. This mean if you are going to book a fishing trip for off shore make sure you are aware of the seas condition, ask the capt. how big the ocean is, how big are the waves, Puerto Rico can be very windy and hard on seas condition. If you have 20 knots wind you still can go out and it will be bumpy but not bad or dangerous if you don’t get sea sick.

In the lagoons the action was a little slow compare with Oct and part of Nov. The tarpon frenzies still happening on peak tides. Tarpon are averaging 10 to 40 pound with some tarpon on the 80 pound class. We are normally fishing the tarpon with anchovies on Owner circle hooks. The average tarpon landed per 1/2 day is 4 to 6. We have snook average 3 to 12 pound. End of Feb, March, April and good part of May is our big tarpon season were the big girl visit our lagoon system. The average size of tarpon at this time frame are 50 to 120+ pound. On the Tarpon Sniper we use Shimano Stella 10000 and 20 lbs test with Owner Mutu Light Circle hook to target this big tarpon. On the fly fishing for tarpon we use 10wt Sage Xi-2 with Tibor Riptide reel.

WHEN YOU BOOK A TARPON ASK THE GUIDE HOW MANY THOUSANDS OF TARPON THEY HAD GUIDE, HOW MANY YEARS OF EXPIRIENCE, HOW MANY TARPON OVER 100 TO 140 POUND THEY HAD GUIDE, BIG TARPON SEASON IS RIGHT UP THE CORNER, DO YOUR HOME WORK, WE HAVE VERY GOOD GUIDES IN THE AREA, AVOID RIP OFF.

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categories Deep Sea Fishing, fishing tarpon | admin | datetime December 7, 2007 10:19 pm | comments Comments (0)

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