FISHING REPORT

Weeks of June 26th - July 2, 2016

Weather Conditions: Partly cloudy to clear 50% and overcast skies 50% with some scattered rain showers.

Winds: Moderate out of the east ranging from 8-20 mph being calmer in the afternoon hours. With 90-degree air temps, we love the east breeze off the 80-degree water!

Air Temperature: Highs from 87 to 90 degrees with lows just below 80 degrees

Water Temperature: Temp: 81 F. degrees

Barometric Pressure: 29.94 - 30.05

Sunrise: 5:21 am Sunset: 6:30 pm

Moonphase: The last quarter moon was on June 26th

WHAT GUESTS WERE CATCHING:

BONEFISH (Macabi): As usual, the bonefish were cooperative although no big ones this week. We did record lots of our standard one, two and three pound fish, with one boat boasting 24 fish for the day. There was also some good success off the dock with bonefish, permit (a tiny one) and a tarpon hooked off the main dock!

PERMIT (Palometta): The permit population continues to amaze the guides and guests, although the success ration this week was not as strong as last week. Higdon caught his first ever permit here at the lodge and almost made a slam out of it but the tarpon seemed to outfox Higdon. Ian and James also joined the permit club with some good sized permit. One of our youngsters caught a 5 inch permit off the dock!!

TARPON (Sabalo): Alexander returned to El Pescador after being here just 2 months ago. Luckily he brought his good luck charm ( Ivy). Ivy loves the yoga class down the beach, reading by the pool and welcoming Alexander back from a hard day of tarpon fishing. Two tarpon to the hand for Alex this trip, so I would say it was a great success. Mike and Craig were also successful when it came to the silver king.

OTHER SPECIES: Jacks, Snappers, Barracudas

GRAND SLAM: No grand slams despite a few attempts since some of the permit were landed quite early.

FLIES THAT WORKED

FOR BONEFISH - Christmas Island Specials, Crazy Charlies, Bunny gotcha

FOR PERMIT - Christmas Island Specials, Bauer Crab, Merkin

FOR TARPON - Black death, gummy minnow

This Week's Summary:

A quiet week at the lodge giving us all time to get to know the guests even better!

Fish On!
Ed Blank [email protected].