It was another beautiful week for fishing on the Osa Peninsula with temperatures in the upper 80¢s and clear blue skies every day. We are getting an inch or so of rain overnight which is a welcome event for all of us locals. The rain keeps the gardens green and the dust down. The inshore fishing is red hot as always with some big snappers and roosterfish coming to the boats and the offshore bite has remained steady.
The Brousard group came in from Louisiana and fished 2 boats on Sunday. Capt. Javier on the Wavejammer guided Chelsea, Kristy, Aaron and John to 2 sailfish released for 6 raised and caught 6 snapper up to 25 pounds inshore. Ms. Betty and Mr. Ron fished with Capt. Oliver on the Moondancer and put a full day in offshore and it paid off. They saw 8 sails come into the spread and hooked 6. 2 spit the hook but they landed 4 plus a big dorado for the table.
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Costa Rica - Crocodile Bay
Tue Mar 04 2008, 07:42AM
“Come on down, they are jumping in the boat,” and “you should have been here yesterday,” are two phrases I never want to use. One brings bad luck and the other can get you punched in the face. Last month as soon as I reported that the fish were biting like crazy, masses of bait moved in and full bellied fish don’t have much energy to chase brightly colored lures trolled overhead. Then guests and captains reported seeing many groups of three or four sails up on the surface with their sails open, lazily cruising. When this happens, there is usually one female followed by two or three males and when they are thinking about making babies they don’t think a lot about eating….
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Costa Rica - Parrot Bay Village Report
Mon Feb 11 2008, 10:00AM
The new moon is upon us at Parrot Bay Village and the billfish should be biting our hooks off, but coincidentally large schools of juvenile sardines and flyingfish have moved into the area. This is great for attracting the predators to the fishing grounds but it also fills their stomachs. We are still getting 6-8 shots at sails and 1 or 2 marlin bites a day but not the 20-25 that we were hoping for. The good news is that when the bait moves on, the billfish remain in the area and begin looking for food. We provide this in the way of Moldcraft Wide Ranges and ballyhoos rigged with 8/0 circle hooks.
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Crocodile Bay Resort Fishing Report
Tue Feb 05 2008, 05:04PM
“El Nino” of last year has become just a painful memory as the sails showed up in droves this week. Yesterday over 200 rose to the teasers. Frequent guests Allen Ryals and Steve “Baldy” Ulman were top boat with 10 releases, while Team PMS (pre marlin syndrome), consisting of southern belles, Jane Flatt, Janet Bowling, Ginny Maynard, and Linda Cagle, used their Tennessee charm to coax 9 to the boat.
Ryals and Ulman had an amazing week, taking lots of sails, a 500 black marlin, a 300 lb yellowfin tuna, (new lodge record) and a 54 lb dorado.
Larry Staab teamed up with wife Helen and pulled on a 300 lb blue marlin on light tackle for over 4 hours on light tackle.
Dorado are still around and many over 30 and some over 40 lbs hit the decks this week.
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Costa Rica - Parrot Bay Village Report
Mon Feb 04 2008, 09:02AM
The fishing offshore has been just as hot as the whale action. George White and his friends from White¢s Marine in South Carolina fished on our 2 boats early in the week and found good sailfish action on Monday. Capt. Oliver and Capt. Steve raised 22 sailfish and released 12 on Day 1. On Wednesday George had his eyes set on a big tuna and Capt. Steve found him one by 9 a.m. After 2 ½ hours a yellowfin weighing 175 pounds hit the deck. George¢s buddies Carl and Alex fished with Capt. Oliver on the Moondancer and released another 6 sailfish on pitch baits. Day 3 found Capt. Steve and George on the hunt for marlin, but the pair could not resist baiting up the school of tuna that they found 5 miles from the beach. Another 2 ½ hours and another tuna. This one weighed in at 235 pounds. They had hooked and fought another fish that was bigger but lost him at the boat after 2 hours. Carl kept up on the sails releasing another half dozen and a cooler full of dorado. Thursday the group stayed inshore and hammered the snappers and jacks, releasing 2 jacks over 60 pounds and a handful of roosterfish. Many thanks to the White¢s Marine group for bringing us a pile of tackle and parts for our Suzuki outboards.
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Costa Rica - Parrot Bay Village Report
Tue Jan 29 2008, 09:15AM
With the full moon waning, we were all expecting this week to be one of the hottest of the season. Conditions have been perfect for heading to the offshore waters in search of black and blue marlin, sailfish, tuna, wahoo and dorado. There are a huge pods of juvenile sardines and flying fish that are holding the gamefish within 20 miles of the dock, which equates to a 45 minute run for our 29’ Sea Vee center consoles.
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Costa Rica - Parrot Bay Village Report
Tue Jan 22 2008, 11:18AM
We have come into prime fishing season on the South Pacific Coast of Costa Rica and the catch reports show the same. We are fishing our 29’ Sea Vees full-time for tuna, dorado, sailfish, and black and blue marlin offshore and roosterfish, jacks, grouper, and giant Cubera snappers on the inshore reefs.
Captain Oly on the Moondancer started off the week flyfishing for sails, dorado, and marlin with Chris and Dave from Canada. Chris kicked off the day with a 30 pound dorado on the fly, then followed that with a beautiful Pacific sailfish also on the fly. After a 1 hour battle, the fish was released. 4 other sails were hooked but jumped off in the course of the fight. Captain Steve on the Wavejammer fished inshore with some fellow Jersey boys and released 13 roosterfish up to 40 pounds, 4 amberjacks, 2 blue jacks, 1 dorado, and 8 snappers, the biggest being a 30 pound brute that fell for a Shimano jig.
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Costa Rican Tarpoon Bite is On!
Fri Oct 26 2007, 08:48AM
Costa Rica is kicking out some great Tarpoon action now as you can see below
It`s the September Anual Surfcasting Tournament on the Atlantic Coast of Costa Rica, the best season for it. From July to Jenuary excellent for Snook, Tarpoon, Big Jacks, Sharks, Barracudas and Snappers. We use Jigs, Spoons and Mirrorelure Artificial Lures. with medium light rod and a 506 Abu Garcia Reel with 12 lbs. test line.
