FISHING REPORT

Weeks of August 27th - September 3rd, 2016

Weather Conditions: Great weather for half of the week. A little too windy the rest of the week. An occasional rain shower here and there throughout the week.

Winds: 0-10 mph mostly from the east early in the week, 10-20 late in the week

Air Temperature: 88 to 90 degrees with lows between 78 and 80 degrees

Water Temperature: Temp: 81 F. degrees

Barometric Pressure: 29.83 - 29.91

Sunrise: 5:36 am Sunset: 6:06 pm

Moonphase: The first quarter moon was on August 29th

WHAT GUESTS WERE CATCHING:

BONEFISH (Macabi): Bonefish were found in shallow water tailing, they were found in deeper "muds" and they were found flashing in large schools on deeper flats. Singles, doubles or schools of hundreds were encountered. The bonefish were a little shy on the flats in the afternoon on calm days as the water temperature would get up too high. Most of the fishermen were leaving pretty early to take advantage of cooler temperatures. Some solid 3-4 pound fish were caught and lots of our normal 2 pounders. Even our DIY anglers got some bonefish on both the reef side and the lagoon side.

PERMIT (Palometta): The permit parade continues with everyone getting shots at permit if they spent a few hours concentrating on them. John started it up, Travis added to the list, Peter got his first, Matt and Will had permit whisperer success as we had a total of 12 permit landed over the week. Ms. Shari was the permit queen of the week as the only female angler to land one this week.

TARPON (Sabalo): Marina from the UK started the week off with the first tarpon of the week and her first tarpon ever, a nice 30 pounder and she landed 2 more solid fish at 20 and 35 pounds. Marina's beau, Edd also landed 2 tarpon on the last day and fat 70 pounder and a frisky 10 pounder. John U. landed tarpon, Keelan landed her tarpon, Josh came through with a tarpon that was part of his slam, Mike was successful, Larry landed a real big one, Ken added a tarpon to seal his slam, Peter managed a tarpon to the boat, and Matt and Will both landed tarpon on their slam day.

OTHER SPECIES: Jacks, snappers, barracudas, ladyfish, cobia, snook, tripletail and more!

GRAND SLAM: OK� another 5 Grand Slams this week! Plus a week long slam for Peter. Congratulations to Josh, John, Ken, Matt and Will for racking up the plaques on the Grand Slam Board in the board! The spectacular weather, the guides experience and the angler's skill all came together for these guests. Lots more guests were sooo close with 2 of the 3 species in a day.

FLIES THAT WORKED

FOR BONEFISH - Christmas Island Specials, Gotcha, Foxy Clouser, Squimp

FOR PERMIT - Squimp, Mantis shrimp, small Avalon.

FOR TARPON - Black death, white toad, black bunny, olive Cockroach

This Week's Summary:

5 Grand Slams� need I say more? Ok, how about 1 boat landed 4 tarpon in a day, another had 25 bonefish. Spectacular fishing.

Fish On!
Ed Blank [email protected].

Fishing photo of the week:


El Pescador guest Larry and his tarpon

El Pescador guest Michael and his permit