FISHING REPORT

January 10th - 16th, 2016

Weather Conditions: Mostly fair weather, a few rain showers here and there.

Winds: 5-15 mph a few mornings showing some winds from the West turning to every direction.

Air Temperature: Highs are in the mid 80's, lows were in the mid 70's.

Water Temperature: Temp: 79 F. degrees

Barometric Pressure: 29.8 - 30.05

Sunrise: 6:26 am Sunset: 5:38 pm

Moonphase: The first quarter moon was on January 16th.

WHAT GUESTS WERE CATCHING:

BONEFISH (Macabi): Lots of bone fish for all of those who threw at them. Sarah and Matt, Greg, Marc and Jason, Terry and Cole, John, John 2, Jay, Tom, Ron, Todd, Stewart, Eric, Jim and Steve got some good fishing time in and were rewarded with out cooperative bonefish. Not to be left out� Shelly and Brandon, Brad, Matt and Mark, Joe, Russ, Rusty, and Ed, and Mike and Cindy rounds out the bonefishing crowd. We try not to take bonefish for granted here, but it seems everyone will catch a bonefish if they have the determination to work at it.

PERMIT (Palometta): Todd's permit was a part of his grand slam this week as was Charlie's� but Matt broke into the permit world with a lovely fish! Several more permit were landed this week thanks to the good permit weather.

TARPON (Sabalo): Ed was the tarpon master with 2 real good size tarpon he landed while blind casting down by Long Caye. Long Caye is known for its migratory tarpon fishing in the summer and early fall but many people don't know there are some big fish down there year round. It took some blind casting to some rolling fish to get them hooked up. Todd's tarpon was a part of his slam, Charlie was missing the tarpon for a while but pulled through.

OTHER SPECIES: Rocco got a nice snook, some barracudas were landed, jacks, snappers and others!

Grand Slam: Our grand slam heroes this week were Charlie and Todd. Charlie started the week on fire and Todd finished the week on a high note cranking in a bonefish, permit and tarpon in a single day. There is recognition by the IGFA for any grand slam caught so I hope you guys file an application for your certificate!

FLIES THAT WORKED

FOR BONEFISH - Pretty much if it was in front of a bonefish it worked, but our guides seem to like the simple lead eye CI special.

FOR PERMIT - Christmas Island Special, Bauer Crab.

FOR TARPON - Black Death, White toads!

This Week's Summary:

Permit were hungry and the fishing pressure is light at the lodge.

Fish On!
Ed Blank [email protected].