Costa Rica Fishing: ECONOMY FISH-ON-A-ME

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ECONOMY FISH-ON-A-ME

YUH?  SO?

Ok, so you’re all jazzed up about catching a sail fish on the fly rod in Costa Rica.  Or you might just want to try conventional fishing for sails, marlin, tuna, dorado and rooster fish..

I highly recommend it sooner than later.

As we all know FISHING = MONEY and it all boils down to that equation. . 

Most equate fishing money with expendable income.  Try looking at it this way:

“To me It’s a necessity“  Go ahead admit it.  Fishing does things for you that cannot be compared with fixing the roof, buying the kids the latest hand-held electronic communication device or supplying a new 2012 survival shelter.

For the past 11 years I have watched the current state of world economic affairs in regards to sport fishing as an offshore fishing captain here in Costa Rica for Crocodile Bay Resort and for close to 30 years as a guide in Alaska.

I still say do it now as apposed to later and I’ll tell you why.

In these past few years all those around us swore and still swear that we will all be begging for food long before the Mayan’s doom-laden prediction that the end of the world will occur in 2012..
I have observed and noted during these past few years that almost all of my clients talk about how THESE things are affecting them.  I don’t raise the subject because the last thing I want to talk about on my boat is your work.  I’d rather talk world wide fishing.  But inevitably someone does brooch the subject of world economic events and I can’t help but put in my twenty cents… accounting for inflation that is.

Most of them including myself are of the well thought out and discussed opinion that all of the people who can afford a trip outside their normal circle of fishing zones and have ventured to do so in the past three years or so, have had the same mental philosophy…

I’ll delete the expletives and keep in mind that we are all fishers after all is said and done, but to put it into a nut shell… They all have the mind set that either it isn’t as bad as the powers to be would lead you to believe or that even if it is and will get worse that now is the time to enjoy some of your hard earned money to treat yourself to something you’ve been wanting to do for who-knows-how-long.

Most have said that after looking at their current state of affairs that they decided now is the time.  After all, if all turns to fecal matter I did what I wanted to do and I’ll never have to say I wish I had when I had the chance.

Further more: What if the Mayans were right? In a year or so the fish could be catching us..

Do you think that if you stood on the street with a sign that read “Will Work For Sail Fishing Money” that anybody would donate?  Hell no.  Those that still have it will be taking this advice to heart and going fishing in Costa Rica to catch a sailfish on a fly rod or roosterfish using bait the size of the fish they are now catching from the pond next to the golf course.

I not only learned from my father about learning from other’s mistakes but to also learn from their successes.

So follow the advice of not only me but the approximately 1,242 people I’ve taken fishing in the past 4 years despite the price of oil, the stock market, the housing collapse and the heartbreak of psoriasis. “When all else fails, go fishing.”

Do you need help forming a fishing budget plan acceptable to you and the boss/wife??
Stay tuned for my next missive.

Fishingly yours

Cappy Will Kitsos

Crocodile Bay Resort

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