San Carlos Sport Fishing Newsletter
10th November 2007
A few trips this months with Guests coming
from USA, Friends from Costa
Rica and David coming from Australia.. Tarpons and Snook are
present, we had Good fishing in all
these trips…
A special note concerning our fishing with David: 3 tarpon on fly rods #12… Many
more on conventional one of them estimate around 170lb…
All fish released in good shape…
We now use barbless hooks… May be a few less fish at the boat but much more challenging fishing for
Angler less damage to the fish.. We now almost do not use the gaff, we grab the fish by the lower
Jaw...
No barb hooks: much safer for the guides and everyone
aboard…
Fighting a 200lb
Tarpon in Jungle River on 20lb test
from a 22
feet open sportfishing boat is a serious matter.
Yesterday with David we made our traditional day of
"Relax fishing" and went for Rainbow
bass in Solentiname Archipelago…
We fished 4 hours caught 3 big Rainbow , then 11 Wapote
(Bass) and more than 20 Mojara… Also entire Archipelago is now crowded of
Birds… Impressive!
So good fishing in San
Juan river and around. We changed season are now in the beginning of (Local summer ) so fishing will be the
same till at least the end of April 2008. It’s time to be in touch for
reservation as my High season start from beginning of December till end of April.
I only have 5 sportfishing boats my company is small and will go on like that to
always be able to only offer a customized and dedicated service to guests
coming.
No guests this week so tomorrow I am going on an
exploration trip further down river. The plan is
to go down to San Juan Del Norte on the
Caribbean sea a long ride (130Miles ) …further down than Castillo
45
miles away from my Guest House (it is on this short part of the river than so
far I organize trips) Fishing on our way…discovering…David our new Australian friend will do it with a
canoe
with one of my guides!!! I go down in a
motor boat…so two versions of the trip…Will write a report on that…
PS: I like to add than on all these trips we did not see
any other Sport fishing boat...This is what I especially like in what I offer One of
the best Tarpon fishing in the world but absolutely off the beaten path.
Best Regards,
Philippe from the Jungle
of San Juan River