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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