Dorado
Dorado
There are plenty of dorado in Guatemala. We catch them to 40 pounds with some regularity. There are times here when dorado from 15 to 25 pounds are thick enough to be a nuisance.
Our lodge record went 61.
The World’s Best Volume Billfish Fishery. A Click Away.
Sometimes we find trees floating offshore that are covered in dorado. This is great fun.
We keep spinning rods with poppers on the boat. Watching a big bull dorado eat a popper is incredible. The fight, which takes place as much out of the water as within, is really fun too.
We catch plenty of dorado trolling—either hooking them out of the riggers or pitching a bait to a big one. It’s also quite a bit of fun to see the blunt head of a big bull dolphin, all lit up in yellow and neon blue, knife its way through the spread to pile on a long rigger or crash a teaser.
Sailfish Oasis provides the complete Guatemala experience in a way that is boutique, curated, and makes you the star of the show.
If a dorado comes up when we’re fly fishing, you can cast to them too. No matter how you catch them, dorado bites are a fun part of the action here.
They are colorful, fight well, and the chefs are never mad to see them coming. Once you try our dorado fingers—or ceviche, or seared mahi-mahi—you’ll understand why.
