Casa Vieja Lodge - April reports

[Legend]

Fishing report from Capt. Erik Lorentzen at Casa Vieja Lodge, Guatemala. "But first a list of characters, so I don't have to repeat everytime:

Cañaso - 37 Daytona with Capt. Chico Alvarenga
Finest Kind - 40 Whiticar with Capt. Ron Hamlin
Intensity - 37 Gamefisherman with Capt. Mike Sheeder
Release - 37 Merritt with Capt. Nico Melendrez
Rum Line - 40 Gamefisherman with Capt. Chris Sheeder
Spindrift - 38 Stolper with Capt. Nicho Alvarenga
Twenty - 40 Rybovich with Capt. Jason Brice
Pelagian - 37 Rybovich with Capt. Erik Lorentzen

The numbers and what they mean: first is number of fish raised, the middle is number of fish bites, and lastly the number of fish released.

We use dead large medium ballyhoos on circle hooks and Cam Sigler fly poppers. So here's my report starting with April Fools Day - which wasn't any joke - these are the actual figures:

01 April:
Cañaso 49-37-28
Finest Kind 65-61-44
Release 51-48-21 with Al's group from Latvia
Rum Line 49-5-2 on the fly

02 April:
Cañaso 33-26-17 with 1 blue about 250# released
Intensity 52-41-28
Release and Al's Lativan group 56-38-10
Rum Line 44-8-3, 1 blue raised

03 April:
Cañaso 15-5-1 on the fly and 5 on bait
Finest kind 14-7-2 Dr. Sherman's party on the fly and 2 blue marlin bites on the fly
Intensity 13-3-2 on the fly, 2-2-0 on blues
Release 21-16-1 on the fly with AL’s Latvian group
Rum Line 34-13-4 on the fly
Afinity 34-30-21 on bait

For Al's group, the Janis Legzdins group from Latvia, aboard the Release the figures for their first three days are: 128-102-32. Not bad for a group of trout fishermen - doing their own hooking first time on circle hooks! They are going to Tikal for a couple of days, then back fishing on the Release for three more days. So, I will have another report for this group later this week.

04 April:
Cañaso 37-27-17 on bait
Finest Kind 21-8-1 on fly (Dr. Sherman)
Intensity 26-10-3 on fly
Rum Line 26-11-6 on the fly

05 April:
Cañaso 22-19-12,
Finest Kind 25-9-4 Fly, 4-2 on sails conv.
Intensity 31-8-4 fly
Release 25-11-2 on bait.


06 April:
Cañaso 15-13-4
Rum Line 21-9-4 fly

07 April:
Cañaso came in early caught 2 dolphinfish
Intensity 29-25-15
Release 40-30-5, 1-4 on the fly – Al’s Latvian group on their 2nd trip
Rum line 26-11-5 on the fly"

[Legend]

08 April:
Release 33-28-16 with Al’s Latvian group (5th day)
Rum Line 26-12-5 on the fly

09 April:
Finest kind 16-2-2 on the fly
Release 35-30-19 – with Al’s Latvia group (6th day)

For the 2nd leg of the Legzdins trip, the figures were 108-88-40 + 1 on fly
For their 6 day total …. 236-190-72 + 2 on fly

Congratulations go out to Capt. Nico Melendrez on the Release & his mates for a job well done. And to the anglers: Janis Legzdins, Kaspars Roznieks, Gatis Klimass & Oskars Berzins - great to have you in Guatemala and hope to see you again!

10 April:

Cañaso 11-10-7 bait, raised three blues, no bites
Finest Kind 15-2-0 on fly
Afinity 19-18-15 Bait

Release 13-7-2 on fly
Intensity 15-6-2 fly, 1-1-1 blue on bait 200#
Rum Line 12-3-1 on fly
Day one for the Chip Rizzotto group from Montana, Pennsylvania and Canada. There are many first-time sailfishers, but very experienced in skinny water.


11 April:

Cañaso 22-19-13, 1-1-0 marlin, bait
Finest Kind 2-3-10 fly, 2-1-0 on blues 50#

Release 11-3-2 on fly
Intensity 21-6-4 on fly
Rum Line 12-2-0 fly
Day two for the Rizzotto group


12 April:
Cañaso 12-11-3 on bait

Release 17-8-3 on fly
Intensity 17-5-4 on fly
Rum line 12-3-1 on fly
Day 3 for Rizzotto group

13 April:

Release 20-7-5 on fly
Intensity 19-5-3 on fly
Rum line 37-28-17 on bait
Day 4 for Rizzotto group – looks like some gave up the flies for bait.