FISHING REPORT

March 27th - April 2nd, 2016

Weather Conditions: Mostly Fair weather all week

Winds: Moderate winds from 10-20 most of the week from the east

Air Temperature: Highs were between 83º and 87º with lows in the mid 70's

Water Temperature: Temp: 80 F. degrees

Barometric Pressure: 29.71 - 29.95

Sunrise: 5:45 am Sunset: 6:05 pm

Moonphase: The last quarter moon was on March 31st.

WHAT GUESTS WERE CATCHING:

BONEFISH (Macabi): Many first bonefish this week, to name just a few there was one for Susanne (who traveled from Sweden to get this done), one for Julie and several others that were very proud of their well earned bonefish pins. El Pescador recognizes anglers on their last night with bonefish, permit, tarpon or grand slam pins based on their fishing success during their stay here at El Pescador. We are happy to say there are EL Pescador pins scattered on hats, luggage, shirts and fishing vests throughout the world!

PERMIT (Palometta): Young Nathan beat his older brother (Illex) and his Dad (Adam) to the first permit of the week! Illex followed through with two permit later on during the week! Mike was thrilled with his first ever permit, Ben landed 3… count them 3 permit this week to put a punctuation mark on the end of the week. Even in the windy weather, permit were a little more cooperative than normal. Mikael (also from Sweden) landed his first permit and it was a gorgeous 17 pound fish that ate a crab fly.

TARPON (Sabalo): Our tarpon heroes of the week are Adam and Richard. Adam's was a beautiful fish about 50 pounds and Richard's was just as pretty but weighed in at 10 pounds. Richard's was interesting in that he caught his tarpon on his bonefish rig, The fish ate a crazy Charlie and didn't wear through the 12 pound leader. That is quite a feat!

OTHER SPECIES: 2 species of jacks, 3 kinds of snappers, snook, barracudas, and lots more!

GRAND SLAM: No grand slams this week but there were 2 very close calls.

FLIES THAT WORKED

FOR BONEFISH - The usual suspects, Christmas Island specials, gotcha and more

FOR PERMIT - Christmas Island Special, Bauer crab green, mantis shrimp tan

FOR TARPON - Chartreuse toad, Black bunny

This Week's Summary:

Another great permit week despite the big winds!

Fish On!
Ed Blank fish@elpescador.com.

Fishing photo of the week:


El Pescador guest Mikael's permit

El Pescador guest Susanne's bonefish