Go fishing, Caye Caulker

my family and i have just returned from the best holiday of our lives on caye caulker, we stayed at the seaside cabanas. they arranged for a fishing and private island trip with Paps, we had the best day, he took us fishing where we caught barracudas, snappers and even some lobster and then back to his very own private island where he grilled up our catch and it was the delicious, definately the best food we had on the island and would recommend this to anyone visiting there. fantastic guy and really knows his stuff.
seaside cabanas is definately the place to stay, beachfront, pool, fantastic staff, and hotel bar.
make a trip to the reef to swim with the sharks and rays, 5 or 10 minutes from the island and definately a must do.
seaside cabanas tour shop helped us to arrange all of the above.
cannot wait to go back.

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The reason why my in-laws chose Caye Caulker as their "winter residence" is because they'd heard a lot about fishing off the coast of Belize, and before long they had of course found the best and most reliable guide on the island. His real name is Porfilio Guzman, but everybody calls him Piggie. He's such a nice man and he has years of experience taking people out on fishing excursions, so he knows where to find fish and he won't be happy until someone's caught something - even I somehow managed to catch a pretty decent sized barracuda and a big jack! We did try to catch some tarpon but they seemed to be in hiding so instead Piggie took us to different spots where we had fun catching some bonefish and snappers. For US$200 (BZ$400 - halfday excursion), Piggie picked and dropped us off at our hotel's dock, gave us all the rods and baits we needed, did all the "dirty work" (i.e. retrieving the hook from the barracuda's mouth!!), and spent all his time looking at the water, making sure that if there was a fish in the area we'd be able catch it. Make sure to bring some Belikin beers to celebrate your catch on the ride back to Caye Caulker!

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Big Fish Dive located to the southern end of Caye Caulker is an excellent dive and fishing shop. They also offer snorkelling tours, I believe.

All day deep-sea fishing trip cost US$240 for the boat, up to 4 persons allowed. Bait, reels, fishing equipment is all included. Though they said light snack fare (local fruits) would be included, we were not offered any.

I would not recommend fishing for anyone who was not already skilled in it. I'm not an avid fisherman, and I think I caught a total of 2 fish in 5 hours! My husband, on the other hand, is a fishing enthusiast and caught 20 or so fish. The experts, however, were the two guides with us, who managed to score a large barracuda that we ended up trading with a local restaurant, Hakuna Matata, for two dinners.

There were myriad of different fish species, including grouper, yellowtail snapper, and triggerfish!

The captain had a fishing line out as we were sailing, no rod or anything just a line and managed to snag a Barracuda, a big one. How he pulled it in without cutting his finger I don’t know! He threw it onto the part of the boat where I was dangling my feet, I got such a fright! A quick bash on the head and some violent flicking around and it was a goner. Quite disgusting really.
The barracuda got de-scaled and was soon barracuda steaks. Sam was fascinated to see the inside of a fish.

Do like the belizeans and go fishing. You don't need more than a hook and a string, and sit down and relax until the fish bites. Go to the Lazy Lizard at the split and you can even take a beer and listen to reaggae or r'n'b while you are fishing.

Beside diving you can go fishing, we didnt, but as you can see it is possible - but the name of the operator ??!!