Fly Fishing for a Dancing Sailfish

Two anglers enjoy a day of fly fishing off the Osa Peninsula courtesy of Crocodile Bay. They were in for quite the adventure reeling in this dancing sailfish.

Sailfish Dancing
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March Sails

Sailfish trying to break away
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Holding the line while sailfish puts up a fight.

Fiesty Sail
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Fiesty Sail

Hooked a Sail
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Look we got him.

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.