Lots of action reported on both coasts.
Off Playa Carrillo on the northern Pacific coast Kitty Cat skipper Rob Gordon reports he was fishing Tico Times readers Mike and Rebecca Patterson from Florida last Sunday, trolling inshore off Carrillo with a few bites from small dorado, then moving about 18 miles outside where the marlin were working, and immediately getting a major bite.

After a three-hour battle they released an estimated 600-pound black, followed immediately by a blue marlin estimated at 200 pounds that gave them a 15-minute, crash-and-burn battle. For dessert, Mike scored a quick release on a sailfish, giving him a coveted small slam.

A couple of days before that, Gordon fished clients James Norton and Jenny Powell. They had a late start and the wind was blowing pretty good, but 21 miles out they had a triple sailfish hookup, with one caught and released.
"Then we raised and missed another and about noon and 18 miles offshore, the client said he wasn't feeling too good and to give it another 15 minutes and head for home, but I couldn't let him get away that easy," Gordon said. "In less than 10 minutes we had a 325-pound blue on, which Jenny fought for the first 15 minutes and James finished off in the next 10."

Out of Quepos, on the central Pacific coast, Ra