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Fishing in Guatemala Season Summary 200-2009
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The most popular time for fishing in Guatemala is the dry season - or approximately November through May. Guatemala has a well deserved reputation for calm seas that make the commuting to the action painless and easy
January through March is when things really go crazy - the fish are usually stacked in and close to shore - so the fishing day is long and hard on angler and equipment alike. April until the end of June is when we tend to see most repeat clients who enjoy a little more laid back approach to their fishing, and while there is still a good buzz about the place, with plenty of fishing action - it is not as frenetic as the prior quarter. Last year was almost a repeat expect for the odd challenge that was thrown at us.
The first chgallenge was the onset of tough financial markets in the US and Europe that certainly effected discretionary income. It is only for the very afflicted that going to the Sailfish Capital of the World is not discretionary, it is mandatory ! This lack of visibility caused us to defer some of our planned spending until later or closer to the main season - when we knew we would have to execute things in parallel to ensure smooth operations, but at least we were confident then of the numbers of anglers that would be coming to chase billfish. Guaranteed to be a bit of a panic, but we have done it before !
Sure enough, by November, the fishing was really starting to show some promise - we were catching consistent numbers of good size Blue marlin, and the Sailfish seemed to be concentrating around warm water and pods of baitfish - Making for excellent fishing only interrupted by the passing of the odd cold front through the region. The panic came though as word spread and more anglers were asking to come down on short notice to take advantage of the great early season we had been reporting - and our boats still needed some routine maintenance that had to be sandwiched between groups and into what were supposed to be laydays. But when the fishing is hot, we have to go out fishing - it's just the way it is.................. ............and the bite remained strong until Christmas.
These pesky cold fronts - unusual to see so many of them in the calm and warm waters of Guatemala so late in the year - continued to rush through unpredictably, making the fishing unpredictable in their wake. We continued to hope for our more usual stable weather patterns as we moved into our "3rd quarter" and the New Year. By the second week of January, our hopes and expectations for a record season were bubbling just below the surface (literally !). The weather had become more stable, and we were seeing early season fishing and numbers of sailfish that we had not seen in years ! There was a week mid January when we were fishing every day and bringing back to the dock exhausted anglers - having raised 40+ fish most days, and some days way in excess of that ! Those are the kinds of numbers that we do see reasonably regularly - but typically later in the season, from end of January until mid-March................could that possibly mean things could get even better ??
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