While charter fishing trips are our passion, we are more focused on the overall experience rather than sheer numbers of billfish released per day. Our crews can do the number thing (proven by top boat ranking in tournaments), we prefer to offer a charter fishing experience that provides skills for your next fishing trip with us or anywhere else in the world. Many of our clients come to Guatemala to learn specific skills, such as bait and switch, or big game fly fishing. We feel our crews are some of the best of the best in the sport fishing world, and who better to learn from than the best. They will spend the time with you to make sure that at the end of your trip your goals have been met.
Guatemala is undoubtly the #1 sport fishing location in the world for sheer numbers of billfish. While known as an incredible sailfish location, it offers some impressive Marlin action also if you can get a bait by the sailfish.
Huatulco Mexico is not as well known for sport fishing, but we believe this location is the next sport fishing hot spot. It has incredible structure, and a total lack of pressure and unmatched beauty. It offers year round action on billfish, tuna, wahoo, and inshore species.As a guest on any fishing charter that we operate, you will experience a consistant level of crew skill and professionalism that is rare in the sport fishing charter community.
Huatulco (pronounced “wah-toolco”) is located roughly 250 miles southeast of Acapulco and about 300 miles northwest of Guatemala’s rich fishing waters. Huatulco offers that hard-to find combination of deluxe facilities, an unspoiled natural setting, and great fishing opportunities making Huatulco an enticing destination. The Bahías de Huatulco coastline is characterized by landscapes that are a combination of beaches, cliffs and crags, barren islets and coral reefs and a beautifully rugged coastline. Huatulco is a series of nine bays stretching for 22 miles with 36 beaches which make it one of the prettiest stretches of Mexico’s Pacific Coast. The nine bays around Huatulco are noted for beautiful, soft sand beaches. Some of the beaches are so primitive that they are only accessible by boat.
Black, blue and striped marlin, sailfish and swordfish run in high concentration within a couple of miles off the beaches of the nine Bays of Huatulco. In addition to these Super Grand Slam Billfish species, you can count on a large number of dorado, yellowfin tuna, pacific cubera, amberjack, roosterfish, sierra mackerel, jacks and snook. The visible rugged coastline gives the angler an impression of the great fishing structure that is just offshore of the bays and not far from the Middle America Trench, with its drop-offs, seamounts, a warm northerly flowing current that brings with it a bounty of baitfish as well as lots of marlin, sailfish, yellowfin tuna, dolphin and other game fish species. Several proven charter fishing hot spots are within short runs of the Marinas. One popular location is 2 miles west of Cacaluta Island, where canyons in the 5,000-foot range peak in some areas to within 800 feet of the surface. Marlin and other pelagics are also found around several seamounts 18 to 30 miles offshore at the edge of the Middle America Trench. Another good close-in spot is Tangolunda Bay, which is just offshore of the main resorts.The banks of this bay have a pronounced drop-off that draws tidal rips close to the mainland. Just southeast of Huatulco in the direction of Guatemala, Rio Copalita and Bahia de Conejos form the confluence of a river and a bay which attracts large blue and black marlin and a good bunch of inshore species such as roosterfish and snook. Well-defined tide lines and color changes can be found each day, which draw schools of bonito, tuna and dorado which, in turns, attract large predators.
Sailfish are present most of the year with peaks occurring April thru mid-September and November-February if the rain season in October-November cooperates with abundant rains. During these peaks months, 15 to 25 sails raised is common.
Black marlin have a very excellent run between November and May and the big girls show up in August. Huatulco’s blacks usually average 450 pound in the high season, while fish around 700 pound are more realistic in August. Blue marlin show up between April and September averaging well over 450 pound. Stripe Marlin can be present in March and April averaging 150 pounds, but are unpredicable. Swordfish are present year round with a peak in activity between April and August.
Yellowfin tuna are abundant between October and June. Dorado are available year round. Cubera grouper, Roosterfish, and snapper prefer the warmest months of April thru August, while Spanish mackerel and Amberjack are plentiful October thru March. World record-size Snook are present between May-June and August-November.
In Huatulco, you can go scuba diving among the coral reefs, go sea kayaking on any of its nine bays, climb the sea cliffs, go mountain bike riding through the local sierras, rappel down waterfalls and go white-water rafting on the Copalita River, among many other exciting adventures.
At present Huatulco's dining, shopping and nightlife are just emerging. Sightseeing includes popular bay tours, ecological excursions, beach combing, and horseback riding. The sports scene offers tennis, every imaginable water sport, and golf. Huatulco also has some of the clearest water on Mexico's Pacific coast, and their are some great diving and snorkeling spots
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