Sport Fishing for Dorado

It’s a sunny day in Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula and Crocodile Bay‘s Captain prepares the boat for a day long fishing trip with a sport fisherman hoping to catch some Dorado. With good water conditions and perfect weather, it should be a good day for fishing.

Heading out to catch Dorado
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Heading out to catch Dorado

 

Fishing for Dorado
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It looks like he might have a Dorado on the line.

Dorado Catch
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 Sport fishermen holding the prized Dorado catch

Dorado Closeup
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Time for a closeup…smile

Sport Fishermen Holding their prized Dorado Catches
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Back at Crocodile Bay’s dock sport fishermen show off their prized Dorado catches for the day.

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.