Costa Rica Fishing Reports

Glen is a long time client now and fishes with me about 3 times a year, days like this are why…

The morning started out great as before we even got to where we were headed, we slowed to a troll long enough to drop back a single ballyhoo and drag it past a pair sailfish that were sunning themselves. They were hungry and one took the hoo, fish-on. We released it and got back up on plane still having someplace to get to.

This time it was a lone tree trunk that had to hold a dorado or two that made me slow to troll speed again. I was about to give a seminar in the effectiveness of a Williamson plastic ballyhoo. First we drop back a single plastic hoo and just as soon as it gets where it needs to be, hammered! First dorado on the deck. Turn around, drop back plastic, hammered, repeat. As Glen was fighting the fourth mahi, I tossed out an 8 ounce diamond jig and we had #5, or wait, that’s #5 in the rod holder waiting for Glen to finish with #4. At #7 we called in a nearby friend and left them with the log and throttled up once again for where we were headed. There had to have been 40 dorado on this single log and we could have easily spent a half a day pulling life from the area, but we had somewhere to go.

Once we arrived to the hump i wanted to fish, we started to make bait and it was plenty cooperative and before long we were loaded up with bonito. We slow trolled the baits stopping over top of rocks to let them settle and were rewarded with hard bites from various species of snapper, AJ’s and giant rainbow runners(40 pounders) through the day. The snapper in the photo was the best of the day and we picked up another sail while looking for the marlin that eluded us.