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face. Currents moving east from Mexico and west from Panama collide off Guatemala, creating enormous nutrient-rich eddies that attract and hold baitfish, which in turn attracts gamefish. Everywhere you look there is marine life. Not just sailfish, but whales, spinner dolphin, sea turtles and diving marine birds. Best of all, about 75 percent of the time this marine show happens in flat seas. Calm conditions that make Guatemala the ideal spot for first time fly fishermen wanting to catch billfish or new-to-offshore Each bungalow is beautifully decorated with fishing families seeking an introprivate bath, air conditioning and Wi-Fi. duction to the sport. In short, anyone who doesn’t like rough sea The Fishing conditions will find the ocean off the Port of San Sailfishing off Guatemala is phenomenal, the Jose a pleasure. best found anywhere in the world! Ah, but so is Sailfish, blue and black and striped marlin, wathe fishing for mahi, yellowfin tuna, wahoo and hoo, tunas and dorado are caught yearmarlin. Catching 15 out of 25 sailfish bites plus round. However, the peak billfish season is Octoscores of dorado and tuna is a routine day here. And when the waters are teaming with bait, as is usually the case, the catch rate can climb to three or more times that number. Guatemala holds the single day record of 124 sails released on conventional tackle and 57 on fly. No other fishing destination approaches the billfish numbers found off Guatemala. The reason for this amazingly consistent productivity has to do with the submarine mountains found just offshore. The bottom structure and the ocean currents that interact with it A blue marlin is always in the picture or you can plan your feed oxygenated water trip when they are most abundance. or upwellings to the sur-
