#1740539 - 04/18/1811:21 AM
GREAT GUATEMALA FISHING.
earl bird
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My son Steven(from California) and I were in Guatemala from April 10-April 16. After doing some research, we decided to fish with "Big Buoy Fishing" located in San Jose, Guatemala. We stayed at Eric Goetz's 9 bedroom, 11 bath villa. Eric was a most gracious host, and his desire to please his guests was quite obvious. His chef(Michy) and housekeeper(Aleida) followed in Eric's footsteps in cleaning our rooms and keeping us well fed. We started each day with a full breakfast. Once on the boat(from 7:30 A.M. to 4:30 P.M.) we had a mid morning snack (usually fresh fruit),followed by lunch(freshly caught Mahi-Mahi(Dorado),hamburgers, salads, tuna sushi, etc.), and then an afternoon snack. Once returning to the villa after a full day of fishing, we were treated with appetizers(Mahi-Mahi, taco salad, cerviche, or chicken wings) followed, after some cocktails, by dinner. We enjoyed steak, shrimp, Mahi-Mahi, smoked pork roast, etc. for this meal. Every meal was delicious and plentiful. This was an all inclusive package which included pickup from and return to the airport, daily transportation to and from the marina(5 minutes away), meals, liquid refreshments(24 hour open bar), daily laundry service, and four days of fishing, as well as cleaning and freezing of any fish that you may want to bring home. We fished for the four days out of Marina Pez Vela. This evidently is the only marina on Guatemala's Pacific coast. The boat was the Sur Reel, which is one of three 31 foot Bertrams owned by Eric. Three days we fished with Captain Kennedy, and one day with Captain Sammy. Our two mates, Locho and Marvin, were the hardest working mates that we have ever seen.
Our four day total was:
Sailfish - 44 released
Mahi-Mahi - 45
Tuna - 2
Averaging 11 Sails and 11 Mahis(up to 60 lbs.) per day made this an action packed fishing adventure.
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My in-laws retired to Antugua guatemala. We did a day trip to the same marina. We had a "horrible day" in which each of my 4 kids, my father and law and i all reeled in a sail. ( great day in my book) oddly enough we couldn't catch a dorado to save our life.
#1740578 - 04/18/1804:03 PM
Re: Fishing in Guatemala.
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earl bird
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Originally Posted By: Scout1
My in-laws retired to Antugua guatemala. We did a day trip to the same marina. We had a "horrible day" in which each of my 4 kids, my father and law and i all reeled in a sail. ( great day in my book) oddly enough we couldn't catch a dorado to save our life.
We actually went through Antigua. An interesting town.
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Great Trip!!
Those mahi are huge! Must of been a blast catching sails and big mahi all jumping...
Originally Posted By: earl bird
My son Steven(from California) and I were in Guatemala from April 10- April 16. After doing some research, we decided to fish with "Big Buoy Fishing" located in San Jose, Guatemala. We stayed at Eric Goetz's 9 bedroom, 11 bath villa. Eric was a most gracious host and his desire to please his guests was quite obvious. His chef(Michy) and housekeeper(Aleida) followed in Eric's footsteps in cleaning our rooms and keeping us well fed. We started each day with a full breakfast. Once on the boat(from 7:30 A.M. to 4:30 P.M.) we had a mid morning snack (usually fresh fruit),followed by lunch(freshly caught Mahi-Mahi(Dorado),hamburgers, salads, tuna sushi, etc.). Once returning to the villa after a full day of fishing, we were treated with appetizers(Mahi-Mahi, taco salad, cerviche, or chicken wings) followed, after some cocktails, by dinner. We enjoyed steak, shrimp, Mahi-Mahi, smoked pork roast, etc. for this meal. Every meal was delicious and plentiful. This was an all inclusive package which included pickup from and return to the airport, daily transportation to and from the marina(5 minutes away),meals, liquid refreshments(24 hour open bar), daily laundry service, and four days of fishing, as well as cleaning and freezing of any fish that you may want to bring home. We fished for the four days out of Marina Pez Vela. This evidently is the only marina on Guatemala's Pacific coast. The boat was the Sur Reel which is one of three 31 foot Bertrams owned by Eric. Three days we fished with Captain Kennedy, and one day with Captain Sammy. Our two mates, Locho and Marvin, were the hardest working mates that we have ever seen.
Our four day total was:
Sailfish - 44 released
Mahi-Mahi - 45
Tuna - 2
Averaging 11 Sails and 11 Mahis(up to 60 lbs.) per day made this an action packed fishing adventure.
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My son Steven(from California) and I were in Guatemala from April 10- April 16. After doing some research, we decided to fish with "Big Buoy Fishing" located in San Jose, Guatemala. We stayed at Eric Goetz's 9 bedroom, 11 bath villa. Eric was a most gracious host and his desire to please his guests was quite obvious. His chef(Michy) and housekeeper(Aleida) followed in Eric's footsteps in cleaning our rooms and keeping us well fed. We started each day with a full breakfast. Once on the boat(from 7:30 A.M. to 4:30 P.M.) we had a mid morning snack (usually fresh fruit),followed by lunch(freshly caught Mahi-Mahi(Dorado),hamburgers, salads, tuna sushi, etc.). Once returning to the villa after a full day of fishing, we were treated with appetizers(Mahi-Mahi, taco salad, cerviche, or chicken wings) followed, after some cocktails, by dinner. We enjoyed steak, shrimp, Mahi-Mahi, smoked pork roast, etc. for this meal. Every meal was delicious and plentiful. This was an all inclusive package which included pickup from and return to the airport, daily transportation to and from the marina(5 minutes away),meals, liquid refreshments(24 hour open bar), daily laundry service, and four days of fishing, as well as cleaning and freezing of any fish that you may want to bring home. We fished for the four days out of Marina Pez Vela. This evidently is the only marina on Guatemala's Pacific coast. The boat was the Sur Reel which is one of three 31 foot Bertrams owned by Eric. Three days we fished with Captain Kennedy, and one day with Captain Sammy. Our two mates, Locho and Marvin, were the hardest working mates that we have ever seen.
Our four day total was:
Sailfish - 44 released
Mahi-Mahi - 45
Tuna - 2
Averaging 11 Sails and 11 Mahis(up to 60 lbs.) per day made this an action packed fishing adventure.
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""Happy Talk" . . . . . Because it has worked so well thus far"
"It is not necessary to change; survival is not mandatory" - Edward Deming
"Unless we start to focus everything on this, our targets will soon be out of reach" - Greta Thunberg January 2020
"I spent most of my dough on booze, broads and boats and the rest I wasted" - Elmore Leonard.
Team Man Made Climate Change is Real.
"Such change demands on our part a serious and responsible recognition not only of the kind of world we may be leaving to our children, but also to the millions of people living under a system which has overlooked them" - Pope Francis September 2015
What a great trip. Does this top the 110lb halibut, the 65lb king salmon we caught in Alaska together? The food certainly looks so much better than the food we had in Alaska. I wished I could of been there. Edjal
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Just saw your post. Yes, far superior. Although our four trips to Alaska were great, this was much better - non stop action with several doubles and even triple hookups!! Hopefully we will return to take advantage of this great fishing!! Although my son will not be able to make the trip next year, I would love to return to Guatemala in 2019 (or sooner). Evidently the fall is the best time for catching Marlin there.
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