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Big Game Fishing In Costa Rica
Costa Rica
- Where you will almost always find calm seas, plenty of sunshine and a variety of sport fishing opportunities that keep even the pros coming back over and over again.
As you leave the harbor, you enter the south Pacific where it drops to over 1000 fathoms just a few miles offshore. This deep blue water is where we find the Marlin, Sailfish, Tuna and Dorado.
Out there in the deep water, the usual method is trolling hook-less rigs with baits and teasing the fish to the boat where we either cast our fly or pitch a live bait or dead ballyhoo to the fish. This up close and personal method of hooking the fish so near the boat makes for some extremely close initial jumps with the billfish.
Puerto Quepos also boasts some of the worlds best inshore and bottom fishing for Roosterfish, Cubera Snapper, Snook, Amberjack, Wahoo, Jacks, Grouper, Bonito and much more. The bottom is speckled with reefs and other rock formations making excellent structure for the fish that inhabit it. On Costa Rica's Pacific coast, the beaches offer various structure as well making the surf fishing outstanding.
Off-shore game consists of mostly large sailfish-in the 80-120 lb. range, blue and black marlin, dorado (mahi mahi), wahoo and tuna...sometimes to over 300 lbs.
The "norm" inshore is trolling live baits or lures while casting from the bow. I will position the boat in casting range of Sheer rock cliffs, reefs (both submerged and visible), schools of free busting fish, river mouths and other currents and structures for either conventional or fly casters for some lure crushing action.
The "other" offshore fishing is the rod bending aggressive action provided by Grouper, Red Snapper, Rock Snapper, Cubera Snapper and other bottom fish.
On many of our trips both inshore and offshore, we are accompanied by schools of Dolphins, different whales, sea turtles and sea birds. The opportunities here are overwhelming to any angler, so it is always a good choice to be ready and open for whatever may occur. We practice catch-and-release on all billfish with no exceptions.