2011 Sailfish School Report
January 16, 17 2011
Casa Vieja Lodge, Guatemala
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Greetings from the world class Casa Vieja Lodge:
I am writing this report from a hotel room at the Raleigh NC Airport, it is 3:00 Am and I can't sleep, please read this whole report, it is a good one.
January 16 2011,
Anglers, Ken Haupt, and Greg Hyland, along with photographer George Coley, all from Northern California joined me at 7:00 this morning aboard Intensity with captain Mike Sheeder and his mates Flaco and Waldo for their second day of their sailfish school. The seas were calm with sunny skies and 85 degree water and air temperature, fishing was slow for those of us who were fly fishing. All tree clients aboard intensity along with their instructor got to cast flies to sailfish, each angler got to hook and fight at least one of the 7 sailfish bites which we got from the 20 plus fish raised. We had some bad lick and made a few mistakes, and at the end of the day we released only one sailfish on fly from 7 bites. Some of the boats fishing bait caught as many as 20, tomorrow will be a much better day.
George, Greg, Ken with Greg's nice Sailfish on Fly
January 17, 2011:
Today Greg, Ken, and George all showed up ready for battle with the mighty pacific sailfish on fly rods. After a great breakfast at Casa Vieja, we boarded Intensity with captain Mike Sheeder along with mates Waldo and Flaco and left the dock at 7 AM. Just then a cell phone rang and there was a medical problem with Waldo's father so we pulled back into the slip where Waldo went to assist his ailing father and we picked up mate Christian. We steamed for 2 hours to a spot 45 miles from the marina and began to troll teasers in the calm seas with lots of sea life visible.
Soon we got our first Bite and Greg caught his first sailfish of the day, later George hooked and fought a nice sailfish only to break it off after a 5 minute battle, then by noon my buddy Ken Haupt hooked a really nice, wild pacific sailfish on a pink Cam Sigler fly. Ken fought this sailfish for 14 minutes without making any mistakes, (perfect angling) and then landed this awesome sailfish. After raising more than 20 sailfish and getting 7 bites this crew caught and released 3 sailfish for the day.
Ken Haupt, Guatemalan Sailfish on fly.
Captain Jake Jordan
Jake Jordan’s Fishing Adventures
PO Box 309
Havelock, NC 28532
252-444-3308
www.jakejordan.com
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