FISHING REPORT

GRAND SLAMS AND WEDDING BELLS HEARD AT EL PESCADOR

Week of October 16th - October 22nd, 2011

Weather Conditions: Sunday was overcast with gradual clearing with overcast afternoon, Monday much improved with partly cloudy skies. The rest of the week was slight overcast to overcast with just a few peaks of sun.

Winds: Winds were out of the northwest all week meaning there was some good calm flat over by the mainland. Wind speeds were calm to 10 miles per hour

Air Temperature: mid 80's for the high, low 70's were the low.

Water Temperature: Mid 80's. Without wind the surface heated up quickly on the sunny days.

Moonphase: The week started near the Last Quarter Moon.

WHAT GUESTS WERE CATCHING:

Bonefish, tarpon, permit, cudas, jacks, snook, ladyfish, snappers, pompano, GRAND SLAM FOR JOHN

BONEFISH: Rick and Fritz lit up bonefishing losing track on their 3 days of fishing. Jeri (Rick's wife) went out one day and landed her first bonefish. Kimberly's first fish ever was a bonefish on a fly rod - nice…..it was on he sweetheart Scott's birthday!

PERMIT: John landed his first permit ever while wading with Luis (Gilberto's son - guide in training) then got 3 more on the same flat! John from Hatch reels boated a nice one on his way to a grand slam on Friday with guide Sinoe.

TARPON: Jeff is no longer a tarpon free man as he landed his first tarpon with Emir and hooked several more. His buddy Charles hooked a few but managed to break the 50 lb leader with some super human strip sets! Danny and John from Hatch Reels landed a few beauties out on Savannah Flats. Mark and his son Kyle came close to the record for most tarpon caught as they found an energetic school of 8-15 pound tarpon - 6 to the boat and many others hooked!

SNOOK: Mark and Kyle also had a banner day fishing the mainland for snook with guide Cesar. They had 10 snook to the boat. Mark and Kyle put in some 10 hour days.

FLIES THAT WORKED

Chatreuse clouser, Orange butt tarpon, Crazy Charlie tan, white deceiver, Merkin crab, Gotcha, Christmas Island Special pink and tan.

This Week's Summary:

Lots of good things to report this week despite the slight overcast that persisted most of the week..- Endless bonefish, a few permit and a bunch of tarpon.

Special congratulations go to Charles for the catch of the week: his successful marriage proposal to the lovely Allison. We are hoping for a honeymoon visit next year!

Guide of the week: Sinoe for the grand slam with John from Hatch reels but a too close to call second place goes to Cesar for his multi snook, multi tarpon day!

Ed - fish@elpescador.com

Fishing photo of the week:

El Pescador guests Charlie and Allison