FISHING REPORT

Weeks of May 17th - May 23rd, 2016

Weather Conditions: Partly cloudy to begin and end the week, mostly cloudy in the middle of the week.

Winds: The winds were 15-20 mph for most of the week out of the east, finally calming to 10mph by the end of the week.

Air Temperature: Highs were between 83º and 90º with lows in upper 70's and low 80's

Water Temperature: Temp: 81 F. degrees

Barometric Pressure: 29.82 - 30.00

Sunrise: 5:16 am Sunset: 6:20 pm

Moonphase: The full moon was on May 21st.

WHAT GUESTS WERE CATCHING:

BONEFISH (Macabi): The bonefish Bonanza ended with a bang with hundreds of bonefish caught during the trip, which ended early this week. It was nice to see some returning guests back at the lodge and for those making their 2nd, 3rd, or 20th visit we are very grateful! So many names to list but all the guides were busy this week, and lots of bonefish were landed. There were about 6 guests who had never landed a bonefish and it really didn't take too long to get them on their first bonefish. The high number for a day was 34, the biggest of the week was about 5 pounds.

PERMIT (Palometta): More than a dozen permit were landed this week, with at least as many hooked but not landed. David, Steve Andy, Rick, Terrell, Vincent with 3 fish to the boat, Richard, Doug, Parker, john and the true star was

TARPON (Sabalo): Tarpon were hard to come by with the cloudy or windy weather but Vince and his son Michael decided to use some bait one day and ended up jumping 11 tarpon with just one to the boat. Epps got a beauty , Doug got one as part of his soft slam. Julie hit a nice pods of fish rolling in some murky water and hooked up a couple , and landed just one.

OTHER SPECIES: Jacks, Snappers, Barracudas, ladyfish

GRAND SLAM: Several people where a tarpon whisker away from grand slam but it just didn't happen this week. The closet event was Doug who managed to get a slam over the length of his trip.

FLIES THAT WORKED

FOR BONEFISH - Christmas Island Specials, Crazy Charlies, gotcha and various other patterns

FOR PERMIT - Christmas Island Specials, Various crab patterns, small avalons

FOR TARPON - Small white deceiver, black death, tan toad, light natural cockroach

This Week's Summary:

Orvis' Spring Bonefish Bonanza finished up early this week with some great weather and some big bonefish totals. A big thanks goes out to Jody and Jake from Orvis for hosting this event. They will be returning in June for another Bonanza ~ so call Orvis travel if you would like to join the fun.

Fish On!
Ed Blank fish@elpescador.com.