The first thing I should say is that the fishing in our region of Costa Rica has been pretty good. There are enough sailfish around to make it interesting and double digit raises have been common. Some marlin has been around lately with several in the 200 to 350 pound range landed. Football tuna have […]

First thing I should say is that fishing has been pretty good. There are enough sailfish around to make it interesting and double digit raises have been common. Some marlin has been around lately with several in the 200 to 350 pound range landed. Football tuna have made their presence. Hopefully the bigger boys are […]

John Katter brought down a group of friends and went 6 for 10 on sails one day and 5 for 10 another.  Most are struggling to get less fish.  A large group of sails has been reported just to the north of us, so fishing should return to normal soon.

JUST IN: We have only had a sailfish jump INTO a boat once in our 15 years of operation, yesterday it happened twice! Check out the video and pay extra close attention to what the two anglers do when the sailfish heads toward them on the boat! Priceless!

Monster Marlin, Sailfish, Roosterfish, and Dorado provide our first guests of the season with “plenty of monsters”! Sergey Chmykhov and Mikhail Fedyushkin Land a Monster at Crocodile Bay! Happy Halloween! This week we kicked off our 15th season of sport fishing and adventure at Crocodile Bay Resort, Costa Rica, and the monster fish showed up […]

First I would like to thank Will Briegel for filling in for me while I concentrated on some other things. I made three trips to the states in the last few weeks. The annual ICAST tackle show is a great chance to see what is new in the fishing game as well as catch up […]

Marlin Thunder Offshore and Roosterfish Light it Up Inshore at Crocodile Bay Resort! Costa Rica Fishing Report, August 2013 By Will Briegel filling in for Todd Staley from www.crocodilebay.com Catching at least one blue marlin has been commonplace for those venturing offshore during their three day fishing packages, and if you’re not lucky enough to […]

Roosters  Rampage and Sailfish “Fly High” in July! Costa Rica Fishing Report- July 16th, 2013 by Will Briegel from  www.crocodilebay.com   The   last few weeks of fishing have put the “sizzle” in our summer season for families,  couples, and avid anglers who visited us looking to do some amazing fishing, relax in our Spa […]

Happy Birthday USA! “Wishing you and your family the very best this Fourth of July! What’s on your birthday “Fish List”? by Todd Staley Fishing Director Crocodile Bay Resort, Costa Rica www.crocodilebay.com Offshore has been a hunting game of late. The big rush of marlin is late arriving in true Latino fashion. The big school […]

Adrenaline Rush! Pandemonium Among the Porpoise Pods Off Costa Rica www.crocodilebay.com   www.sportfishingmag.com           T e x t    a n d    p h o t o s    B y    D o u g    O l a n d e r While there might be better ways to hook the really […]

Sportfishing Calendar

January

Tuna, marlin and dorado taper off. Number of sailfish begins to increase.

February

Prime time for sailfish. Occassional marlin, tuna or dorado.

March

Prime time for sailfish.

April

Sailfish numbers drop mid-April and some marlin begin to appear.

May

Slower for billfish. Typically we start seeing schools of spinner dolphins with yellowfin tuna.

June

Slower for billfish. Spinner dolphins with yellowfin tuna.

July

Marlin begin to appear. A chance for black marlin as well as blues and striped marlin. A chance for tuna.

August

Marlin and tuna.

September

Slower for billfish. A chance for tuna and dorado.

October

Dorado begin to appear in numbers with marlin close behind.

November

A mixed bag of dorado, marlin and some big tuna.

December

Marlin, dorado, tuna and sailfish are all possibilities.