Semana Santa Meets the Asian Invasion!

He did it again! Eizo with one of his four (almost five) permit for the week.
Some of the other amazing catches this week...

Easter week in Punta Allen is a wild, wonderful celebration. Our Mayan town became the setting for a unique blend of culture for our lodge full of native Japanese and business folk from Hong Kong. The permit fishing was pretty eye-opening as well!

It all really started with Kelvin Ng who had to cancel his trip to The Palometa Club last spring due to swine flu concerns and airline officials threatening to not let him back in to his home city of Hong Kong. A few weeks earlier famous Japanese angler, rod designer and fly shop owner Eizo Maruhashi was cuttin' it up at the Club by landing FIVE permit during what was probably our best week ever. Eizo decided The Palometa Club was the bomb and immediately rebooked for this year. Kelvin, who knew of Eizo's fame, also rebooked his trip for the same week in order to fish alongside the master. And the rest is now history...

Eizo ended up bringing four fishing clients this year from Japan and Kelvin stacked the deck with three friends of his own. Palometa Club managers Dick and Kaye Cameron took crash courses in Japanese (even though Kelvin and his pals spoke perfect English!) and the whole week went off without a hitch.

AS FOR PERMIT? SIMPLY SMOKIN'! Eizo almost had a five-fish-feat-repeat with four to the boat, but pulled the hook out of a 20-pound plusser on the last day. His client Mas landed three permit and also pulled the hook on a fish that the guides estimated at 25 pounds. One of his other clients, Wake, had one fish to his name then he broke the leader on an absolute hog which our guide Joni (who guided Dick Cameron to his world record size permit last year, estimated at 48 pounds) said was every bit as large as Dick's big fish.

Kelvin landed a permit, and his his pal John Mitchell boated a whopper! John's wife Selina landed her first bonefish, and then several more, and a very nice fly-caught 'cuda.

Back to the good times at The Palometa Club. Here's hoping our reputation carries us to good standing in the Far East.