From the Crocodile Bay Lodge, Puerto Jiménez
by Todd Staley, Fishing Director
November 8, 2003
We opened again November first after a month of sprucing up the place getting ready for the season.. The sails started the season a little picky but dorado have made up for the slow times. Ron Schimdt hadthe big fish of the week with a 250 lb blue marlin. Daughter Tammy added a nice dorado for dinner.
Arturo Restauro and Johnny Sanchez from San Francisco picked up a couple sails and when inside to bag 10 nice snapper. Don Kullgren from GMAC in Wisconsin bagged the big rooster this week at 45 lbs. Every day the fishing has been improving so I expect some big numbers in my next report.
November 14, 2003
As I predicted the fishing and the catching has improved everyday. More sails are coming up in the teasers and there are more dorado, tuna, and the lady in the blue dress danced several times this week. Rhonda Slubowski and good friend Pat Hill started it off this week as the two ladies out-fished the guys. They topped off their trip when Rhonda whipped a blue marlin three times her size. They released the "lady in the blue dress" that was estimated at 350 lbs.
We also had Reel Adventures TV down this week. Leader Jeff Aderman had crew Mike, Scott fishing and Tony "the Frog" doing the underwater filming. Friends and sponsors Mike and Barbara Padula from MP Lures with them. They teamed up for 17 sails up, 3 blue marlin up, and a mixed bag of tuna and dorado to 35 lbs. Big fish was a 500 blue that was released after a three hour battle. Inshore the bagged a 30 lb dorado, 14 lb mackerel and big jacks. Every day it keeps getting better. A good number of marlin are in chasing tuna and dorado. I expect next report to be even better.
November 20, 2003
Janeth Oporta caught the big fish of the week when she hooked and landed Fishing Director Todd Staley. ust kidding. This report is a day early this week because tommorow I am getting married and probably won't be able to tell one end of a fish from the other! I love it when a prediction comes true. I'm no Jean Dixon or nothing but the fishing just keeps getting better.
Mark Sydney and Charles Statford picked up some roosters and a nice fat wahoo inshore. Some cubera snapper have been breaking strings and jacks over 30 lbs are testing arm muscles. The great news is the sailfish have decdided to join the party offshore. Still lots of dorada, smaller tuna, and a few blue marlin muching on them.
Mark and Valarie Brown each bagged their first sails when they landed five after having 28 fish up in the teaser in one day. Today they bagged several nice roosters including a 40 and 50 pound. " You must have mistaken us for VIPs" they commented on how the total staff here attended to them while here. Thanks for the great compliment! John Beath from Western Outdoor News took a monster 130 lb sail on the fly on 20 lb tippet.
Next weeks prediction...... It will get even better.
November 28, 2003
Well I just got fired from the Equirer as a predictor of the future. The sails took a Thanksgiving day break and their numbers dropped way off. Anglers were able to pluck off one or two a day and a few dorada but it was a crash dive from last week when the numbers were up in the twentys.
There have been a good number of marlin this week with fish over 500 lbs being hook but the biggest brought to the boat went around 350. The roosters were the saving grace this week when more than a dozen fish over 50 lbs were released and the cock fight was just around the corner from the lodge. Several triple hook-ups were recorded as they moved numbers moved in to feed on small sardines.
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