La Guaira Bank Offshore Angling

La Guaira Bank, known locally as "El Placer," an underwater mound that rises nearly 50 fathoms from a 140-plus fathoms depth of the surrounding bottom. About 4 miles wide and 14 miles long, La Guaira Bank is just a brief 30 to 40-minute run from where the boats are docked. Aside from the incredible blue marlin action, the run of white marlin that takes place in La Guaira during the fall (August - December) is unparalleled and lets not forget the sailfishing. Many anglers easily amass double digit releases then, and some of our boats have recorded over 30 in a single day.

 

World renowned for its incredible marlin fishing, the La Guaira Bank is also home to a year-round population of sailfish, dorado, wahoo, and yellowfin tuna. The plankton-rich Southern Caribbean waters of the north coast of Venezuela drifting west flows over the natural ridge named El Placer (meaning the pleasure) It is a unique natural phenomena not to be found many places in the world today.

 

The El Placer bank in La Guaira holds one of the world's most impressive billfish concentrations. In the fall of 2001, again more that 300 billfish were released during the 3-day Grand Slam Tournament, with an incredible 33 billfish slams achieved by a field of 26 boats. Although some whites are caught on the edges of La Guaira Bank, most of them are found a bit farther offshore, in depths of 100-600 fathoms, west of the El Placer Bank and it is here the right crew means more than skill.

 

Blue marlin, white marlin and sailfish are found year-round, giving you a legitimate shot at achieving the distinctive "grand slam." Dolphin, Wahoo and Tuna also abound. Our Black fin 32' with tournament rigging is ideal for these waters manned by local and well experienced professional crew using the best in electronics and horsepower to get you to the fishing bank quickly + ensuring real quality fishing time in waters where an abundance of fish still is to be found.

 

When it comes to blue marlin, lots of fish are on the prowl off La Guaira throughout the year. Although our fleet releases a few specimen in the 500-700lbs class every year (a grander was released in 1997), most Venezuelan blues average 200-250lbs. However, what they lack in size they make up for in feistiness and in numbers. Fish from our Venezuela fish catchers - the Joropo and the Guarimba! It doesn't get much better than Venezuela sportfishing the La Guaira Bank. These boats are very popular so contact us early to get the dates you want.

 

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