BELIZE FISHING REPORT

APRIL 24, 2021 THROUGH MAY 1, 2021

Weather Conditions: Mostly sunny weather with moderate to fresh winds from the east /southeast at 15-25 Mph.

Winds: East/southeast at 15-25 Mph.

Air Temperature: Low 90's.

Sunrise: 5:24 am Sunset: 6:13 pm

Moonphase: Waning gibbous 62%.

WHAT GUESTS WERE CATCHING:

BONEFISH (Macabi): Huge numbers of bones were caught. In one day, we totaled over 100 fish! Most were in the 2-4 Lb range, with one fish of 4 Lbs.

PERMIT (Palometta): 42 Permit were caught between 10 - 35 Lbs.

TARPON (Sabalo): Nine Tarpon were landed. They ranged between 5 and 80 lbs.

OTHER SPECIES: Barracuda were around. Several big Jacks were caught.

GRAND SLAM: Robert F. had a triple grand slam fishing with Capt. Gordy.

FLIES THAT WORKED

FOR BONEFISH - Christmas Island Specials in gold, pearl and pink sizes 4 & 6, and Crazy Charlies in pink and orange.

FOR PERMIT - Mantis shrimp and Flexo crabs. Reggae crabs also worked.

FOR TARPON - White toads and purple toads have remained the flies of choice.

Week in Review:

Fishing was excellent again this week. Our Permit purple patch just goes on with no less than 42 fish landed! Permit are all over the flats at the moment. Nine Tarpon were also landed, and one triple grand slam was recorded. Robert F had a triple grand slam fishing with Capt. Gordy! Capt. Cesar had a Tarpon of 80 lbs. Capt Gordy was on fire with a weekly haul of 24 Permit and 7 Tarpon.

Fishing photo of the week:


Erin landed this very nice Permit while out with Capt. Cesar.