While I wouldn’t recommend fishing the Double Barrel poppers with trailer hooks for every species, it certainly is the perfect fly for machaca here in Costa Rica. I have fished these modified Double Barrel poppers all over the jungle and have found them to be extremely effective not only on machaca, but also on guapote (rainbow bass) and on mojarra as well. Something about the way the tail sinks down a bit while the fly is stationary and wiggles when it is popped drives these fish crazy.
Needless to say this was good news for us! This was the little something extra that we had been looking for and our hookup ratio doubled, if not tripled. This caused some seriously bad hookup ratios at first.įinally, I began to modify the the Surface Seducer Double Barrel popper flies I had been tying by putting a trailer hook out the back.
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The hard part was figuring out how to hook them.ĭue to the machaca’s piranha type feeding habits, they often strike at the fly and don’t exactly inhale the entire thing at once. Choose the Right Flyįiguring out that machaca are attracted to noise on the surface was the easy part. When making around 1500-2000 short casts each day, you will want to be sure to let the rod and line do as much work as possible. Using a large shooting head will allow you to get the momentum you need to slam that fly down on the surface as hard as possible.įly fishing for predators: 3 ways to entice an aggressive eat.
We discovered that slamming the fly on the water as hard as possible to mimic a falling chilamate is the best way to get their attention and generate a strike. You’re gonna need it! 2. Shooting Heads Are KingĪfter a few trips trying to target machaca on the fly, it became clear that ordinary fishing techniques wouldn’t get the job done on this toothy critter. So, do yourself a favor and keep that 8wt out. If you decide to fish with anything less than an 8wt, then you run the risk losing a bigger fish as he runs back into his hiding place. They are stout fish that quickly run towards cover when hooked.
Machaca spend most of their time cruising in quick rapids or cuts where they feel safe. While machaca aren’t the biggest fish you will find in these rivers, they certainly fight like they are. Now that you know what these fish are all about, lets get into some tips that will help you be successful during your trip. These are the characteristics that made me fall in love with these fish right off the bat. Machaca hit hard, pull like crazy, and jump like a baby tarpon once hooked. The average fish on a trip is in the 1-3 pound range with shots at 4-5 pound fish being very common.Īs a relative to the piranha these fish boast some pretty gnarly headgear that will quickly cut heavy fluorocarbon or even wire if it gets between the teeth for any length of time. The size of these fish vary greatly depending on a number of different factors such as fishing pressure, elevation, food sources, and fish populations in each river system. Their obsession with feeding on the surface makes them the perfect target for fly anglers. They eat baitfish, insects, flowers, and leaves, so they pretty much eat everything. This fruit falls from the trees into the river and machaca tear it up. They spend most of their time eating a local fruit called a chilamate. The machaca is a relative to the piranha and lives in the free-flowing, low elevation jungle rivers. So let me give you the rundown on this fish species before I get into some tips on catching machaca on the fly. When I first started talking to my friends back in Florida about how awesome catching machaca on a fly was, most of them had no clue what I was talking about. The Machaca Is One of the Baddest Freshwater Fish in Costa Rica, Hands Down.
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