Catch the recap from all of our September action as well as a forecast for what’s next! September is always a special month in Costa Rica—it’s our Independence Month, and the whole country comes alive with celebrations. While parades and fireworks lit up the towns, the real fireworks were happening offshore and inshore on the […]

Nature’s Surprise: The Golden-Orange Nurse Shark of Costa Rica’s Caribbean By the Crocodile Bay Ecotourism Team What if we told you that even familiar waters off Costa Rica can still surprise us — that just when you think you’ve seen everything, something extraordinary appears? That’s exactly what happened just a few weeks ago off the […]

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.