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Swimming Hole: Puerto Cabezas
Submitted by Miskito Alan on Tue, 2005/07/19 - 13:06.
Beautiful Tuapi Swimming:
Sorry: No "Skinny Dipping" Here - Unless no one is around.
Tuapi is a fresh water creek ("crik" in Biloxi) that empties in the Caribbean Sea. Tuapi is located about 20 minutes by car from Puerto Cabezas in the small village of (guess where) Tuapi.
The water is warm and shallow and also deep. The adjoining picnic grounds are beautiful and a great place for a "southern bar-b-que" and the "beer drinking" is not so bad either. ______________________________________________________________
you got me hooked
fishing must be good .... ya got me hooked!
cant wait to get some things sold and some finances in order to get there.
october seems so far away....dammmm
The best TarponandSnook Finishing youcan ask for.
The RAAN and the RAAS must have the best snook and Tarpon fishing. I had a guy by the name of Larry Dahlberg and his crew come down to film some fishing off my boat back 1999 in Pearl Lagoon and Karawala area. This tape was featured on his ESPN show "The Hunt for Big Fish". You can also find copies of it in Ft Lauderdale Fishing Musuem. They had landed some excellent Tarpon the biggest of which over 220 LBs and Larry , who is an expert said that was, at least then, a world record, but lacked the proper certification as the closest one in Costa Rica.
The snook was also abundant, and with a world record at about 57 LBS caught in Costa Rica (I donot know if any of these records still hold) they caught one that was over 55LBS without the head which was chopped off for dinner preperation. Excellent Fly fishing too in the back waters.
Unfortunately due to problems with the Aleman people back then, we never got the permits for import without duties, and about 6 months after the boat(s) disappeared along with my guide. Now there are a few more resorts offering this sort ofthing, mostly out of Costa Rica, but they take their guests into Nicaragua waters for fishing.
It really is a gold mine for sport fishing waiting for people to come. In BC Canada, Salmon Sport Fishing is a Billion dollar a year industry. In Lake Ontario, the salmon drive and perch hunt bring in 500 million or more to local economies each year.
Sherif
sherif (Sorry--Granada Sherif).
I built a seafood plant at "Bar Point" in Pearl Lagoon in 1992. The plant was located at the bar mouth from the lagoon to the Caribbean. In front of the plant; some of the workers caught 100+lb Tarpons by hand and sometimes used their machetes. I have processed many pounds of Snook from that lagoon that was caught by the fisherman and I exported the fish to Alabama. Snook is illegal to export into Florida.
Phil has almost made me a vegetarian and I'm eating Snook again tonight for the fourth consecutive night. Our Snook in Port usually comes from "Laguna de Bismonia" or "Rio Prinzapolka" up here in the north Atlantic Coast.
I have a friend who fishes five sport fishing boats on the Pacific side and one day, I will put his info here on "NicaLiving". The best Snook and Tarpon fishing sites are in the lagoons of the Atlantic Coast and Rio San Juan where the "Gringa Ticas" bring the tourists and thief the fish from Nicaragua. ____________________________________________________________________
Your friend from the Pacifc...
Is that Dale Dagger by any chance?
No Dale.
Two full-time "Gringos" exist in Puerto Cabezas. I have 15 years on this beautiful Atlantic Coast and John Wayne has had 15 great years in Puerto Cabezas.
I don't know Dale Dagger; but, Dale is good friends with John Wayne.
I think that Dale is the man that was with John Wayne when he traversed the "Rio San Juan" from "Monkey Point" to "Granada" or wherever. _________________________________________________________________
That Infamous Dale journey ....
I was there in Bluefields at the time he did that.... I wanted to do it with my boat, but chikened out.... I did not like the idea of a 52 footer trying to surf the wave to get the river.
I Knew a Steve.
I remember Steve Sanderson, Steve Alexander, Steve Woods, and a few other Steves like Steve Yates; but, I don't remember this Steve Irwin. Must have been before my time in Nicaragua.
No critters & no danger -- Whatsoever. ___________________________________________________________________
Pearl Lagoon....
You must have know people like Ben McCoy, and some other gems from the pearl area. Ben was the first to show me how to eat Welks. I am not sure if the plant still exits in the area, does it? Was it taken over by the Bluff people or the Corn island people? This must have been a good business. I took 14 fishermen(Jamaicans) from bluefields on the boat for 1 night & 2 days and we caught about 1500 KG of Snapper in that time....We sold it bluefileds for 7 cords a LBS. for fish at or above 1 pound and little less for smaller ones. That was back in 1999.... I used to know a guy in Bluefields by the name of Jim, an old american, who was exporting River Lobster,which are delicious... to the US, among other things which landed in jail in bleufields recently...and a good thing too.
Ostiones! wow my wife came back recently from bluefields I had her bring back some shrimp and Ostiones... the Shrimp ( i mean shrimp not Chacalines) is still 25 cords per pound.. the same goes for 100+ in Managua.... how is Puerto Cabaeza for things like that?
About the critters.... they occasionally have Bull sharks that wonder into the lagoons. but they are very very rare. and If you stay fishing in one spot too long... you better be quick on hauling your fish out of the water, or else you will get half snappers out.
The worst experince I had was fishing off a Panga in teh backwaters... We somehow distrubed a bird that was perching on a branch over the water. Once the bird flew, the branch snapped back and Bee Hive fell out of it... They were not too happy about us being there... We jumped in the water...
Pearl Lagoon
Sherif (sorry - Granada Sherif); I used to have 15-20 McCoy's working for me at the same time and I can't remember who was who. I had a special (real McCoy) one working for me a long time and I'll think of his first name in a little while. Maybe Ben McCoy.
Actually, George Morgan from Corn Island and I started that seafood plant in 1992 and I sold my part to him around 1995. After I was out of the plant, George Morgan made a beautiful blue-crab operation there; but, that crab thing really never worked properly for much time for whatever reason. The plant today only serves as an "acopia" for the Pasenic plant in Corn Island.
Yes, your Jim, (I would never talk with him) probably exported no river shrimp because he had no export license. Jim Buchannan came to Pearl Lagoon and Bluefields with a 13 year old Hondurian wife and a baby. Jim helped George Morgan set up the crab operation at "Marcaribe". As I'm sure you know; Jim was sentenced to 8 years in jail in Bluefields for molesting minor aged girls and served about 3 years and is out on the street now and I hope that I never see him again in any lifetime.
Don't eat the oysters from Bluefields or Pearl Lagoon. God only knows the bacteria count in the water. I eat Gulf of Mexico oysters fried, broiled, or raw because those are checked by the respective state health people. ___________________________________________________________________
So why they call him Morgan the Pirate?
Any insights, I heard stories from my Captain (Napoleon Gutierez who lives on the Bluff).... I know I could not buy anything in terms of land on Corn island without pretty much going through him. I had one time looked at a property on little corn...It was paradise.. It belonged to, his name escapes me, but I think you referred to him as your brother in one of your posts.... I think that was the same person... He owned or owns a few lobster boats there... a pretty decent guy...and a nice family.
Rumors of Corn Island.
My brother (Mexican) owns about 30 acres in Corn Island and owns no land in Little Island.
George Morgan does own many acres of land in Corn Island; but, but, no one has to go through him to buy land. One of my very best friends in this world, Marvin Wright, owns almost as much land in Corn Island as George Morgan.
I have done business with George Morgan for 14 years and I am still doing business with George Morgan as we speak. George Morgan is forever the best person in Nicaragua to deal with in a business arrangement.
The "Crabs in the Barrel" thing is an Atlantic Coast deal where the unsuccessful people try to bring the successful people to the bottom and that trash talk is what you have heard about George Morgan. _________________________________________________________________
Now i know better....
You are right... I guess there are too many people who say a lot of things. Back then, there was almost a palatable envy of people who have done well for themselves in the region. I understoon from Gino during a conversation with him a long time ago that George Morgan had helped him alot and he had only the best things to say about him.
The Morgan connection
And thanks to Miskito Alan, I know George's niece, the lovely heaven on earth in Puerto Cabezas...
Granada Sherif, why don't you head over one of these times with me to Puerto Cabezas????
I would love to head out there....
I am waiting for my Mule to get out of the garage.... Should not be too long now... maybe 2-3 weeks
Gino
Of course, Gino is one of my very best friends and should be coming back from Montreal in September. ___________________________________________________________________
P.S>
I have been to his bar in Montreal a few years ago....
Oh My God....
You mean i am dying????
Well the only thing I can say is that i wish I were there back in the early nineties...
OhHeck ! No Danger...No TV
No possibiity of cashing in on one of those idiot extreme'danger TV shows ? Like young gorgeous bodies...not satisfied annihilating each other in business.... ...My propsed danger show.....eating out in fast food places i US...watch those kids...I teach nurses aides (when I am well rested!). Many come from first jobs in fast food....they ask why wash hands....lots of HUH ? That is extreme living !!! All it takes is rumor...a msytery...they wil come like flies. Willow