Guatemala’s Spirited Silver Demons
Think you’ve caught some spirited fish before? Think again.

Think you’ve caught some spirited fish before? Think again. Consider the Pacific sailfish. On a fly. Not a real fly, of course–or more precisely, a whimsy of fluff on a hook posing as a natural insect–but rather a 10-inch-long gob of chicken feathers dyed hot pink and lashed to a miniature harpoon. Behind the eye of the hook and in front of the fluttering hackles is a chunk of foam stuck with a pair of comical-looking cartoon rattle eyes.

Thrown with a stout 14-weight fly rod from the transom of a 32-foot fiberglass Blackfin Flybridge into the clear-blue Pacific Ocean some 30 miles off the Central American coast of Guatemala, the concoction pops and gurgles and looks like a squid. Sort of.

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