Setting:
The Que Vela, Captain Tom's 34-foot super-panga; 40 miles off the Pacific coast of Guatemala
Cast of Characters:
- Captain Tom, Panamax Sailfishing (@panamaxsailfish)
- Jon, iFished.com (@iFished)
- Salty, SoCal Salty (@socalsalty)
- Fish Allen, expat living in Guatemala (@No_Twitter)
- Victor, non-English-speaking deckhand (@No_Twitter_2)
- Me (@mattrevors)
- Dorado (@Coryphaena hippurus)
- Pacific sailfish (@Istiophorus platypterus)
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| This dorado became the freshest sashimi ever moments after this photo was taken |
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| Sailfish on the fly rod = biggest smile ever |
One broken rod tip was a bargain of a price for that smile. Trust me.
Salty snapped some video & did a kick-ass job editing it. See the video in his original post here, or watch it below.
2 comments:
That's quite a coordinated effort to get you hooked up. It sure looks amazing.
Yeah, it's quite the operation; it takes three guys: one to tease the fish over, one to control the boat/jam it into neutral, and one to cast (i.e., me).
I was sort of lucky-after-the-fact that I got to see what happens when a sail hits the teasers w/o the actual pressure of having to make the cast, because the first time the sailfish wouldn't be teased over to me.
I say 'after the fact' because I did have a shot & hooked up shortly after that, where if we didn't have another shot, none of this post & associated big smile would've happened :)
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