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Hey Guys,
Here's an update for any of you guys planning on a fishing trip over the next week or so. It was posted in today's Tico Times.
It looks like fishing has been unusually slow on the Pacific coast recently. This time of year, offhore fishing is usually red-hot on the Northern Pacific coast. Then again, it could turn on again, like a light switch. Before you go out, check with your captain to see where the bite is happening.
If the billfish aren't chewing offshore, then you might opt to stay inshore for some Roosterfish, Cubera Snapper, Grouper, Dorado, etc. But if the heavy rains have the inshore water all churned up, then you might be better off to just stay in your hotel, and tear up the 'pink snapper'.
Good luck.
Fishing Unusually Slow On Entire Pacific Coast
Tico Times
About the only fishing action has been on the northern Caribbean coast, where tarpon are still solid just outside the Colorado River mouth.
Dan Wise, operator of RÃo Colorado Lodge in that region, said Florida anglers Robert and Anne Clancy came in Thursday of last week for a five-day trip, and Robert said he has been trying for his first tarpon for 12 years. According to Wise, on his first day in Costa Rica Robert got three of the silver rockets to the boat for release.
They got blown off by a heavy rainstorm on Saturday, but went three releases for 21 hooked on Sunday, with Anne nailing one that would have weighed more than 150 pounds.
Another client, Ralpy Grisham from Alabama, scored three releases for five up on Sunday, and by noon Monday, when Wise called us with a report, he had released five tarpon.
West-coast fishing has been about as slow as I can ever remember for this time of year, from Golfito in the south all the way north.
Roy Ventura reports from his lodge at Playa Zancudo, on the southern Pacific coast, that the Golfito region has “green water every way you look, with no billfish in sight.â€
Ventura hosted a film crew from the United States and saved the day by fishing them inshore, where they scored a lot of snapper, and grouper to 40 pounds, but he said they had to work hard for them.
The only report from the Quepos area was from J.P. Sportfishing, which had 15 sailfish releases May 19-27, but apparently nothing since then.
Even the far northern coast, which should be hitting full stride by now, has been slow.
Wetass II skipper Sonny Kocsis reported on Monday that the best fishing has been inside the Bat Islands, about 30 miles from Tamarindo, where his boat in three days missed a marlin but scored three sails and some snapper.
Nothing doing to the south, off Playa Carrillo, he added.
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