NEED HELP ON FISHING CUBA........PLEASE HELP!!!!!!

[Loui R]

Hello Guyz n Girlz,
Im new on here so a quick hello to you all, hope we are all well!!!!!!
I`m looking for some advise which i`m hoping will change my holiday. ;-)
I am going to Cuba, hotel Playa Costa Verde in guardalavaca on Thursday this week and was interested to try my luck fishing from the shore, being a carp angler in the uk, it’s a bit alien to me fishing so far away in such different circumstances. Are there any pointers you could give me as to what sort of tackle to use spinners/dead baits what sort of fish I should be targeting and what sort of features and tidal conditions I should look for along the coast and rock lines.
I will take a small spinning rod with an alsortment of plugs and lures also was thinking of taking a beach caster with me; do you think this will be sufficient?? what sort of tackle/set up for a beach caster or is spinning sufficient??
I am desperate to get a bend in my rod whilst out there, any thing will do obviosly the bigger the better but every thing is more than welcome!!
Also if you have any information regarding big game days out there that would be great too!!!
Any advice would be much appreciated!!!
Many Thanks

[laut]

I caught a lot of snappers and eels at night after dinner and before breakfast. Look for sea grass bed and cast your hook onto the sea grass bed and wait for them to take the bait. The snapers only about 14 inches and 20 inches but they fight hard and good eating. I also caught some rock fish, just don't touch it with your hand. I was using cut bait sardine and shrimp from the restaurent. Just ask the chef. I had a lindy rig set up using a 3 oz lead, 2 ft 15 lb leader line and a small No.4 hook. Bring steel leader and surgical tube lure from Cabelas for Barracudar. Bring flashlight and steel glove for handling the Barracudar, they have BIG teeth.

[Loui R]

I caught a lot of snappers and eels at night after dinner and before breakfast. Look for sea grass bed and cast your hook onto the sea grass bed and wait for them to take the bait. The snapers only about 14 inches and 20 inches but they fight hard and good eating. I also caught some ice fish, just don't touch it with your hand. I was using cut bait sardine and shrimp from the restaurent. Just ask the chef. I had a lindy rig set up using a 3 oz lead, 2 ft 15 lb leader line and a small No.4 hook. Bring steel leader and surgical tube lure from Cabelas for Barracudar. Bring flashlight and steel glove for handling the Barracudar, they have BIG teeth.


Mate your a legend, did you manage to have any Barracudas???
What time is good for them?? Any specific baits n tactics for them??
Cheers for this Mate, feel like one of those anoying kids on the bank.....what does this do!! (only messin Kids, if you dont ask you`ll never know) ;-)

[laut]

The best time for fishing is before all the tours are up and ready to go swimming. I fished from 9 pm - 2 pm with flashlight attached to my hat !! bring mosquito repellent. Don't touch those rock fish !!! I also fish from 6 am - 9 am just before everyone want to go swimming and scare all the fish away. Barracudar don't take any bait at night. The best time is during the day time. Get some surgical tube lure from Cabelas under salt water fishing section or do a search on surgical tube in internet and make some by yourself. I have never try it but I have heard a lot of good stuff about it. Those Barracudar love this type of lure since it looks like eel or needlefish. Bring big deep diving hard body crank bait with tiger pattern color (yellow, red with black stripes on the body). good luck. bring glove and steel leader line for those Barracudar.

[marktheshark]

Hullo matey
Fished the area a few years ago. There's not much inshore, just barracuda and some snapper. The cudas will take poppers, Toby spoons (20g, spun very fast) and tube lures. You can also catch plenty off a pedalo, plus jacks, needlefish and small snapper, using shrimp or cut bait and wire traces.
Didn't take a big game boat but did take a Hobiecat. Most of the hotels' watersports guys moonlight by taking you trolling offshore for 10-20 CUC/hr. The reef falls into deep water quite quickly. They do it from around 7am (when the breeze gets up) till 9.30, when the centre opens. We hooked some stonking fish 400 yards offshore: a 50lb whitetip shark, tunas, lots of cuda, jack, snapper, kingfish - and got busted off by a huge wahoo too. Most deep diving lures worked fine, Rapala Magnums and Shad Raps the best, but we got the shark on a tuna skirt with needlefish strip, and the skipper's favourite lure was a little 11cm jointed plug in olive with a yellow belly.
Your spinning gear will be OK for small fish from the shore but I'd use something heavier in case a big snapper hits. You need boat gear of at least 20lb for the Hobiecat - the skipper said he'd caught marlin fishing that way before.
Good luck

[laut]

check out this website http://www.proangler.co.uk/fishing_in_cuba.htm this guy doing very good in Cuba just fishing from the shore by Cayos along the bridge. It depends on what you are looking for. You won't catch any Marlin or Yellow fin Tuna from the shore but you will catch many snappers and Barracudar...etc. good luck fishing.

Hullo matey
Fished the area a few years ago. There's not much inshore, just barracuda and some snapper. The cudas will take poppers, Toby spoons (20g, spun very fast) and tube lures. You can also catch plenty off a pedalo, plus jacks, needlefish and small snapper, using shrimp or cut bait and wire traces.
Didn't take a big game boat but did take a Hobiecat. Most of the hotels' watersports guys moonlight by taking you trolling offshore for 10-20 CUC/hr. The reef falls into deep water quite quickly. They do it from around 7am (when the breeze gets up) till 9.30, when the centre opens. We hooked some stonking fish 400 yards offshore: a 50lb whitetip shark, tunas, lots of cuda, jack, snapper, kingfish - and got busted off by a huge wahoo too. Most deep diving lures worked fine, Rapala Magnums and Shad Raps the best, but we got the shark on a tuna skirt with needlefish strip, and the skipper's favourite lure was a little 11cm jointed plug in olive with a yellow belly.
Your spinning gear will be OK for small fish from the shore but I'd use something heavier in case a big snapper hits. You need boat gear of at least 20lb for the Hobiecat - the skipper said he'd caught marlin fishing that way before.
Good luck

[AbuCuba]

check out this website http://www.proangler.co.uk/fishing_in_cuba.htm this guy doing very good in Cuba just fishing from the shore by Cayos along the bridge. It depends on what you are looking for. You won't catch any Marlin or Yellow fin Tuna from the shore but you will catch many snappers and Barracudar...etc. good luck fishing.


I emailed this guy (Mike) and he gave me his phone number to give him a call. He was kind enough to chat for nearly an hour giving advise, tips etc and some great stories...a good chap!:thumbsup: