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Costa Rica Fishing Report
April 2009 - by Todd Staley



First things first. Sometimes I forget things. A little more often than I’d like to admit as time passes. Long time customer Allen Ryals sent me a little note reminding me that I didn’t include him in my last report. I won’t include that note but the short one I forgot was:

Todd,
What a great trip! we went 108 for 58 in 5 days! Unbelievable. We came here to catch 11 to get to 100, and smashed that by 47 fish. Now that’s the Costa Rica I remember!
Allen

PS - here's a pic for you

Allen and long time fishing buddy Steve (Baldy) Ulman had caught their 100th sail at Crocodile Bay Resort.

On to a more current fishing report. I was feeling invincible. Every day I was meeting happy clients at the dock having day after day of double digit sailfish. Then the earthquake hit. THREE TIMES. The hardest jolt was a 6.3 on the Richter scale with an epicenter only a few mile from the resort in the center of the Golfo Dulce. It shook my friends house on the other side of the country enough for him to run outside and he soon called when he heard where the epicenter was to see if all was OK. I wondered if it rattled houses that far away, what would it do to fish just 20 miles away. After I changed my britches some weird things began to happen.

The next day the fish quit biting. Bubbles were rising from the sea floor, you could smell dead fish, and soon the water temperature climbed to 90 degrees up to 30 miles offshore. Whether it was a result of the earthquake or just a coincidence, I don’t know, but the cloud with a silver lining I was riding turned into a washboard country road. This lasted about 10 tens and the fishing began to pick up but it continued to be weird.

For example marlin began to show in big numbers six weeks early while the sails remained elusive. The sails finally showed a week later again and the marlin bite has remained strong. One day 6 boats had 19 marlin up in the spread. The number of marlin catches have been too many to list and the fish have run between 200 and 500 pounds. Regular groups like Lee Klein, Bob Perimiam, and Walter Oster’s groups all had marlin. The sails are averaging six to 10 per boat with some days boats raising nearly 20.

Snapper have been extra active since having their brains rattled by the earthquake. Lately many fish from 30 to 50 lbs have been caught and roosters, jacks and African pompano have also readily taken baits. Every picture tells a story.

Todd Staley,
Fishing Director
Crocodile Bay Resort,
Puerto Jimenez, Costa Rica

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