[Willy]

Hello guys, well here I am in Venezuela. I think they should rename this country the twilight zone. Basically don,t come here for anything! There are no boats, no fish and plenty of poverty. La Guaria looks like a war zone. Our hotel is complety empty. Well chalk it up to experience. After 2 full days of washing bait I am leaving early. By the way is it normal practice to save the ballyhoo from the previous day and wash it again the next day? I just thought fresh bait would be good every day, what a joke.Well I am headed to Costa Rica to set fire to more deneros.

[Nick_Fuegi]

I just booked a trip to go there for four days in March. If it's like you say, I'll be sure to post here. I'm hopeful that the crew I'm hooked up with will do me proud. Fingers X'd!

Any further info you can provide on things to watch out for would be appreciated.

[Nick_Fuegi]

Let us know so we can at least try our luck with someone else.

Dave

[Williy]

Answer to your question we fished the GIGI4. Mickey mouse set up. If you take a close look at everything you would not bother wetting a line. Bad knots and conections, rusty dull hooks. The wraps where coming off the rod guides. Before booking this trip we spent a combined 50 hours doing research, we like things to go smoothly. We had our warning signs and ignored them because we belived in the quality of the fishery here. After the big mud slides which occured here in 1999 80,000 people where killed and half the coast line wiped out.The infastructre never recovered in this part of the country. It looks like a war zone not a tropical paradise. The garbage is piled a mile high across the whole coastline.All the hotels are abandon execpt 2. I dont want to sound whiney but this is what it is. If you really want to come here go to Margarita Island, but you will pay double. By the way a $100.00 pair of my fishing pants are ruined because of the black tar crap they had spread on the gunnel of our boat and I sat on it, go figure that one out? This country needs serious help. I do fisheries research for a living, the La Guaria banks or the rest of the world are not the same. Global warming has changed all the weather patterns and the historic primes times are all different, do your home work! Cheers I think I will just get another bottle of rum. By the way if the fishing is supposed to be so good here why where we the only boat on the sea?
Willy

[Williy]

New update I am sitting by the pool here just waiting for my flight tommorow. There is some kind of carnival starting today here. The police and army are out in force lots of machine guns in the streets. I went up to the roof of our resort with my binoculars to glass the army and the ocean. What do I find all over roof top of our fine resort? Handfulls of 9mm pistol casings! Lock the doors!! Say adios muchacos!
Willy

who did you book your trip with and how much did you pay?

This fellow may have had a bad experience but there's definitely nothing wrong with the fishing -- if you fish with good captain like Bubba Carter or Jimmy Grant they will put you on some fish, on a nice boat, with nice tackle. If you go the bargain basement route, that's what you are going to get a cheap trip. And if machine guns scare you -- don't fly through Miami. In short, one guy's bad trip doesn't mean you can't catch fish in Venezuela -- Bubba Carter caught a Fantasy Slam two weeks ago with two Grand Slams on the previous two days. Call South Fishing for a good trip.

[Willy]

Hey in a perfect world we know Bubba perasonaly you cant get hold of him nothing exist here. There reprogram our room key ever ten minutes because of the crime so the staff dosent break into your room. The last time we fished with Bubba was 1995 when did you fish with him last? Just being honest.

Willy

[Williy]

Hey in a perfect world we know Bubba perasonaly you cant get hold of him nothing exist here. There reprogram our room key ever ten minutes because of the crime so the staff dosent break into your room. The last time we fished with Bubba was 1995 when did you fish with him last? Just being honest.

Willy

[Willy]

Sorry after so much rum I just shorten the info. We just met a group of retired doctors here on a humanatarion mission they are horrified at this place, I dont blame them. We payed $550.00US per day for a 31ft boat.They gave us a ton of beer and food, I mean like 50 bottles. Ok you guys lets get this straight I was going to book for 4 days at $1000.00 per just for mysely nobody else so I am no hacker. They originally tried to charge me $2000.00 per day because they thought i was rich. I would pay $2000.00 a day if it was worth it.