FISHING REPORT

February 15th - February 21st, 2015

Weather Conditions: The weather was cool and mostly sunny early on with winds from the northwest ranging to Northeast. The north winds tend to draw all the water out of the area so tides were low. Our astronomical tides are so small that the wind directions and speed often override the tides. The winds finally turned to the east late in the week for some better conditions

Air Temperature: High 70's for the High. low 70's, for the lows.

Water Temperature: 78 F.

Moonphase: The new moon is on February 18th.

WHAT GUESTS WERE CATCHING:

BONEFISH (Macabi): Orvis' big bonefish trip included 24 guests from all over the US. Many thanks to Sharon, Susan, John, Dan, Kerry, Bill, Ron Joanne, Brian, Pat, Kasey, Mike, Brian, Harry, Spence, Mike II, Victor Austin, Joe, Miles, Tommy, Jim, Joyce, James, Hollis, Leslie, Tana, Michael, Brian and Holly for sharing their vacation with us and for the many stories of the hundreds of bonefish caught this week. Victor and Austin had a 40 bonefish day on their boat!! Many of theses guests were first timers to the salt and our bonefish (although a little shy in the north wind) came through for all.

PERMIT (Palometta): Our permit master this week is Dan from Ontario Canada. Brian from the UK and Captain Kechu teamed up to land a permit on their first day out in the windy weather.

TARPON (Sabalo): Or tarpon Master this week is Dan from Canada who teamed up with Captain Emir for a tarpon, Joe jumped one, Tommy landed one thanks to the guiding of Capt. Vince. 2 tarpon were landed with Capitano Junior with a day trip for Don. Martin hooked up 6 one day but all came loose shortly after hookup. Lots of near misses with numerous other tarpon jumped all in the 10-30 pound range. Captain Cesar guided Mike to a beautiful fish on his last hour of his last day - way to go Mike!

OTHER SPECIES: Snook, Barracuda, Snappers, Jacks, Triggerfish, shad

Grand Slam: Although he did not slam, our friend from the north landed a permit and tarpon on his last day with Captain Emir, but they could not land a bonefish! We all had Dan out on the dock that evening equipped with shrimp and a spinning rod hoping to break the bonefish curse and award the slam, but nothing doing. I have never seen this happen before, but Dan in his good spirits every day shrugged it off with ease... "I did the hard part."

FLIES THAT WORKED

FOR BONEFISH - Christmas Island Special, Gotcha, Crazy Charlie pink.

FOR PERMIT - Christmas Island Special, live crab.

FOR TARPON - white deceiver with blue back, Chartreuse bunny, Tan bunny, Black Death.

Guide of the week: Captain Vince for the special tarpon with a tarpon for Tommy!

This Week's Summary:

Half way through the week the wind kicked up and put a damper on the fishing as boats had to hide in the sheltered areas on the south end of the island. Despite the wind some anglers did well, but others found even the bonefish tough to hookup mid week. Later in the week fish started to get back to normal as the wind switched back to the easy.

Fish On!
Ed Blank fish@elpescador.com.

Fishing photo of the week:


El Pescador guest Dan and his Tarpon.