Barry Jackson and Ron Corsan fished with us this week and had what has become a “typical” days fishing for recent weeks - raising 5 sailfish and lots of Dorado (even had a Wahoo in the mix !). They both hail from Texas and are avid redfishermen -so sails and wahoo was a high speed change for them ! They are down in Guatemala helping out on a mission to support an orphanage, but managed to find the time to spend a day with us at the coast fishing - we sent them home with a five gallon bucket of fresh fish to share at their table……………….for the full fishing report read here :
http://www.greatsailfishing.com/en/2008-9_Guatemala_Fishing_Report.html
Fishing the Moon in Guatemala
Friday, February 27th, 2009We have just entered the new moon for fishing in Guatemala, so it seemes like an opportune time to raise it as an issue for comment. Many clients, friends and crazy associates demand that they organise to fish for sailfish in particular pacific sailfish around the new moon. No other time - even fishing in Guatemala - is good enough.Many other factors effect the fishing in Guatemala however - and I was struck when reading of recent studies, in particular one that collated statistics over a decade in Australia - that basically showed some correlation. The remarkable finding however was that there was correlation for the new moon (yellowfin, Mahi) - but also for the full moon (Black Marlin) !!
So much for that theory !
Why such different results ?
According to this study’s authors, currents effect the fishing significantly, and as we all know, the biggest tides occur everywhere during the full and new moons…….and different species react in different ways to the changing of the drive of the currents and the effects on the concentration or otherwise of baitfish.
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