Costa Rica Fishing Reports

David and Kim from Holland joined us today and though i had forwarned David that the billfishing had been very slow, he stuck to his guns and wouldn’t be persuaded to fish for wahoo, tuna and dorado though that bite was hot. He was determined to catch his first billfish, so i decided to make a long run to find some schools of bonito and do some lilvebait fishing.

We found good bait and right away had plenty and with 5 live bonitos behind the boat we crept around for all of about ten minutes before we hooked up a beauty of a blue marlin that was in the 425 pound class…on a TLD 15!!! Needless to say, we were outmatched on the light tackle, but thanks to some crackerjack boat handling and a cooperative fish, we had the beast leadered 3 hours and 7 miles later.

A short run back to the bait and we were almost immediately rewarded with a double hookup of sailfish. We ended up pulling the hook on one and released the other sailfish. The rods went back in and were quickly hammered by a pair of big jacks, of which one got off and the other was released. Bait was getting tougher to catch and we missed a couple more bites before calling this one a day and heading home with a very, very happy fisherman.