La Ventana, part 1, the fishing trip

December 19 through January 3rd....

Our vacation to La Ventana was fantastic. Here is one portion the fishing trip.


The time was about 6 o'clock. We were supposed to meet up with the fishing boat captain. Little did we know we were supposed to meet him at the water.

Judy drove up to the road and told us "Hey the boat is down waiting for you guys at the water." So we ran down and jumped into the boat. Our captain was glad to see us.

It took quite a while to get to the fishing spot. The sun was starting to come up and we weren't even half way there.

Once we got the bait Klaus and Rijk got to work.

By this time we had caught three Jacks. But they were not good eating. Here Dan has a big bite. We had no idea what was at the other end.

You can see by his expression that Dan is pretty happy about his catch, a blue fin Tuna. Nice and big too.

There was another boat just a few feet away. Yes she was catching fish too.

There were quite a few bites. Here I pulled in a Dorado. Nice and a pretty good fight too!!!

Next Rijk hooked up to a Marlin. He really had to work that fish and the fishing pole. He was only using 25 pound test line and a very small hook.

At about 2 hours into the catch, Dan took a break. But he was ready with his gaff hook just in case.

At one point Rijk had to relieve himself. So he passed the reeling chores off to me. I just didn't want to loose the marlin so I was very conservative.

Klaus was taking videos, I was taking stills and Dan had the gaffing hook. But this fish was smart. It would come up to the boat and then go around and under the boat. Taco would have to take the pole and walk it around until the marlin was out from the bottom of the boat.

After 4 hours the marlin was finally giving up.

Now the trick was to get it on-board. The captain had his nose and Dan had the gaff and they were able to pull it in.

After a long boat ride we made it back to the beach. Here Rijk holds his prize.

There was a very nice young lady that was kind enough to take this shot of the group of us. Two Dorado's, one Tuna and one Marlin. Not a bad days work.

Next stop was kiting and dinner.

Here Mike Noel and Judy prepare dinner. We started out having a few pieces of the fresh Tuna raw, then Mike cooked a few pieces along with potatoes and stir fried veggies. MMMMM.

One shot I was very proud of was the sun just creaping through the clouds. The time stamp was 6:20 A.M.