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Olympics Come To Guatemala Fishing
I understand the attraction of most of the Olympic sports......
Watching the guy with the flaming red hair risk life and limb on a snowboard clearly demonstrates the triumph of skill, practice and confidence over the fear of defying gravity.
I have to admit however that some of the other wintersports are not quite so entertaining to me and could easily be replaced by the most popular participant sport in the western hemisphere - fishing.
The luge is one of the Olympic Sports that always grabs attention.
Recall how when you were young, you went flying down the sledding hill.Imagine what it would be like with your face only a couple of inches from the ice, but now you're doing 10X the speed ? Talk about adrenalin !
If they have one such race though - do they really need the "skeleton" ??
Face-forward doing ninety miles an hour I'm sure is exciting for the athlete, but it is still just sledding - what about conidering icefishing as a replacement ?
Same thing for the summer; if the Olympic Committee managed to get their heads around including "Croquet" in the summer games (1900) or "Tug of War" (1920), surely they could consider sportfishing ?
All catch and release of course.
Maybe we should start a new campaign to have winter/summer complementary fishing exhibition sports in the next games.
We just need to raise about $20m for lobbying, as of course we would have to fly the whole Olympic Committee to all the best sportfishing locations in the world for a couple of years so that they could convince themselves that 20 million fishermen may not be wrong about it being one of the most technical and exciting sports on the planet.
Clearly fishing in Guatemala would be the perfect start to the evaluation, as they would be guaranteed to raise sailfish and catch billfish !!
Testifying to this recently were the Rivers Group who fished with us last week, bringing 91 sailfish to the boat over the course of 3 days.
Other groups had similar results, on average raising over 30 billfish per day at about 30 miles from the dock.
All of this happened as we approached the new moon, which is often regarded as one of the best moon phases to chase predatory fish.
Since then, the fishing has slowed down a bit, but even in Guatemala we don't raise those kind of numbers consistently every day ! Recent days have seen raises of about half that amount - in the 10-15 range - but there continues to be great sport and just as crucially there is lots of carnadas.
There has been a strong current pushing down from Mexico, and the Captain's have been on the lookout for Striped Marlin - which would be unusual in these waters, as we see mostly Blue Marlin and the odd Black Marlin - but it would definitely mean that there would be great action and some fantastic picture !
The recently great fishing though (and hopefully !) will continue until the end of April and even into May we have seen a strong and sustained Marlin bite - so in that regard the season here in February is only just starting !
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