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Guadeloupe Fishing Report
June 6 2007
Today was a great day!!
I met with Thierry again (he enjoyed so much his first day) to another boat ramp at 8 am. On the boat I had bring a 9 wt for snook, a 12 wt for big tarpon and a light tackle spin rod.
I poled Thierry in a little bay around 10 feet deep close to a deeper chanel about 50 feet. Several big ones where rolling in the spot most of them in the channel...after a follow in the less deep part of the spot Thierry ask me to throw a plug. So be it...first cast in the chanel wack!!! I hooked in a 50 pounder two jumps later he split the plug. "Thierry, reel on the fly rod and take the spin rod, the next one is for you" three cast later he hooked BIG MAMA wizzzzzzzzzzzzzzz god damn rush far away!!! Battle Royal!! the 'poon jumped 6 time on all. 45 minutes of intense fight...light rod...light reel the Mitzi handled the more than choppy water of the chanel very well and finally he landed the MAMA around 100 lbs, long and thick fish. Some quick shots and he swam away.
We moved to a close mangrove seeking snooks, we found one around 12 lbs in shallow mud that gave Thierry the fin. Tide, brownish mangrove water and hot sun not allow us to sight cast and action dramaticaly slows to no fish for the rest of the day...so what!! hte greatest part had been done and for Thierry as it was is second saltwater experience it was more than a succes.
Tight Lines
May 17 2007
The fishing has been excellent the last two weeks not so many takes but a lots of fish sight bonefish, tarpon, permit and snook.
We had some very nice days with 6-7 snook in the 4 to 15 lb range sight in shallow mud.
Some 7 lb and 5 lb had been landed.
The baby tarpon fishing is now excellent at low tide in mangroves. As we go futher in the hottest months big tarpons coming from the deep will arrive on the mangrove and mangrove flats on june july august and september.
We average 25 shots at sighted bones each days and the permit fishing is really great with good biters and at least 20 decent shots by day at tailers on the permit flats.
The week of the Super grand Slam we sight while wading an huge permit more than 45 lb and Dave had he great shot at him, both of us new he seen the flie as he turned on it when it hit the water.
On my side since the Super Grand Slam in end of April I caught 2 permits from a hungry bonefish school. Those fish once hooked are such great fighters.
Tight lines, hope to see you on my bow for intense fishing action. Don't miss the greatest months even if fishing is excellent year around.
4 pound permit caught at 5 pm tuesday 2 lb permit caught one morning.
a nice baby caught on sight at night The baby release
April 26 2007
I'm proud to anounce you that the first Super Grand Slam of the French West Indies history have been made that day while guiding fly fishing angler and friend Dave Teper from Florida. Guadeloupe join the VIP club of Belize, Mexico and Florida, the only places where a Super Grand Slam ever been reported. It is great for our fishery's credit and a huge path in the gamefishing history of France that I'm building here.
We started the day wading with a 5 pound bonefish on "big bones flats", then we went fishing mangroves on boat and caught a 3 pound tarpon and a 1 pound snook. We ended the day wading for a permit and after numerous shots at tailing permit, I put Dave on those two tailers, one of them, a 3 pounder grabbed a fly he tied, a fly I told him to use. They were not the biggest fish we have seen, but it says something special about the fishery. It was a day to remember for years and years. It was also the first permit on the fly for Dave and his his first Super Grand Slam.
Super Grand Slam on a Fly Rod
The French West Indies’ beautiful climate and warm water temperatures make for some great saltwater fly fishing throughout the entire year in Guadeloupe. March and April are great months to sight fish around the mangroves for species such as snook and tarpon. We have been catching some nice snook in the 4-12 pound range from our brand new flats boat, a Mitzi 17.
Tarpon sightings are averaging 20 per day.
The Guadeloupe coastline also has some great flats for catching bonefish and permit. We are consistently catching bonefish in the 5-7 pound range. Permit have also been appearing on the flats in good numbers lately. One of our bonefish flats had a pod of 3 permit in the 40 pound range! Permit are a much bigger relative of the pompano and a very exciting fish to fight with a fly rod.
Your fly fishing guide Alexis Ducros knows the right flies and the best spots to help you catch your dream fish. A guided fly fishing trip on the island of Guadeloupe is a trip that you will never forget.