Several great trip in this month.. Fishing as been very good
for Giant Tarpon and Snook it is expected to be the same till the end of Month
of March. This time I will not write upon my trips, I prefer to publish
a Testimony from one of our Guest Mr Mark Foster... Mark came in middle of
October with a group of 4 other angler , He own a great hotel in Maine..
It is always very important to receive comments of a true Known
Professional ... .Will be glad on request to send his E mail adress.
Dear Philippe:
I will write you a second note confirming our plans for January but I wanted
to write this note as a testimonial to the wonderful fishing trip we had last
week.
First I want to start, because it seems to always come up, by assuring anyone
who is considering traveling to Nicaragua that it is more dangerous in your
backyard. I have never met more caring or gentile people who's main goal is to
try to please. The service and the guides were as good as I have had anywhere.
The fishing was simply amazing.
There were five of us in two boats. We fished a combination of trolling, sight
casting and fly fishing. Clearly trolling is the most effective way to fish.
In three days of fishing we had more then 20 hookups trolling (two doubles)
with 8 fish landed the largest approx. 180 pounds.
In addition I landed one fish by sight casting directly to him with a light
weight spinning rod and hooked up three times on my fly rod fighting one fish
for over two hours over 4 or 5 miles of river before he threw the hook. We
estimated this monster at about 150 pounds and I am glad he won the fight he
deserved to. We fished about 6 hours a day and the smallest fish takes over an
hour to land. Do the math there wasn't much down time. The action was
constant.
A note on the fly fishing. This isn't a place for a beginner for a couple of
reasons. First the obvious these fish are huge and I mean huge. Second the fly
fishing here reminds me a little of steelehead fishing. I had my best luck
with a 350 grain 25 foot sinking tip cast parallel to the boat with the fish
taking the fly on the swing. Of the three fish I hooked I only cast directly
to one of them. The other two were pretty deep and took it on the swing. I
used a ten weight rod but if you have something bigger I would suggest you
bring it. No matter what you think about how much fun it is to catch big fish
on light tackle again let me repeat myself these fish are huge! You will need
all the help you can get.
The hotel in Granada is a lovely hotel in a historic Spanish town. These are
very good accommodations. I would suggest if you are bringing you wife unless
she is pretty hardy I would leave her here and go fishing in San Carols
without her. That having been said we loved the lodge in Sabalos. Its the real
thing pretty good food (be sure to have them get you some giant fresh water
prawns) GREAT service and the perfect location to tarpon fish. There was even
hot water when the breaker didn't pop. There were thousands of huge fish
rolling constantly right in front of the lodge. Dug out canoes going by and
people washing cloths on stones on the river banks. This is not for everyone
but if it sounds good to you then I can assure you, you will like it. The sun
sets were spectacular and as long as you kept the lights out at dusk NO BUGS.
The final thing about this is we only saw one other tarpon fisherman in three
day!
As this is both a letter and a testimonial I would like to again thank
Philippe and his entire EXCELLENT staff. I look forward to seeing you again in
January and will contact you as soon as I nail the dates down exactly.
W.Mark Foster
Fishing Adventures In Nicaragua and Costa Rica