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I just returned from a two and a half week stint in Costa Rica. The work schedule was a bit more intense this visit and I wasn't able to get out on the water quite as much as I would've liked. Everything came together this last weekend though, and I got out both Saturday and Sunday.
Saturday I had a few friends who own a tree-house development (seriously) come down in a quest to fill their solar powered freezers with dorado. With some good reports of big current lines and lots of fish south I figured it was going to be pretty achievable....and of course we would drop the jigs a few times as well. We left the docks at 5 and made the 30 mile run down the river and south along the coast to a point that I hadn't dropped on for a while. At 6:30 we had jigs sinking to their mark...well before most charters in the area even leave the docks. It ended up being the right spot to hit first as I had never seen such a mass of fish on it in past visits. Everyone hooked up right away and within 45 minutes we had amberjack up to 50 lbs., several albacore, and some colorado snapper in the boat. We also pulled the hook on what must've been an enormous cubrera as well, as the jig was pretty torn up with the imprint of giant pointy teeth.
Dorado were our target of interest on this day though so we picked up and started running towards some areas of reported currents lines a bit further off-shore. Not much was happening for most of the morning besides a couple uninterested sails coming into the spread (first ones of the year), but at around noon we spied a piece of coiled floating rope with a couple birds circling off in the distance. We saddled up and probed it with a couple of stickbaits. By the time Guillermo's rapala x-walk and my gunz tailwalk hit the water it was electric with blue, green and yellow streaks...plenty of big, aggressive dorado around for all. We both hooked up to 20 lbers. on those first casts. The next half hour was pretty much WFO.
With my friends busy on the surface rods Guillermo and I dropped a couple of jigs down to see just how hot the bite was. I hooked up on a 150g lazer eye and a 200g benthos did the trick for him. This is the third time that I've hooked dorado on jigs. Even better than that though is the ability of a jig to stir up and excite fish. Often times I've teased sedentary fish holding deep up to the surface with a jig where a stickbait or chunk of ballyhoo will eventually put them in the fish box
Managed to pull in this tripletail as well
lots of little sharks and triggerfish in the area...they got this skipjack before we could toss it in the tuna tubes.
Unfortunately, some dolphins came in to feed on the blue runners and small skipjacks also holding under the flotsam and scared the dorado off in the process. I pulled some marlin lures and cedar plugs around the dolphins for a while in hopes of a billfish or larger tuna, but nothing was happening, so we headed home.
Ended up with a pretty good haul though, with plenty of light left to clean fish and drink beer to boot. Ended up going 6 for 12 on the dorado. Every fish was caught on a jig or a stickbait...most on lighter tackle as well...lots of fun!
Sunday we left at first light once again and this time headed north to the foruno bank. This is a bank that has alot of good bottom structure that in addition to holding lots of snapper and grouper, brings in alot of bait and the full plethora of pelagics. It was pretty much worthless this day though....plenty of bait in the area, but no current lines, no fish on the sounder, and no surface activity. I did manage to mark some good new bottom strucutre while trolling the surrounding area though. After this we headed to the diablo reef to jig. The fishing was pretty slow here, but we did manage one big AJ that went about 60 and pulled the hook on another that was surely larger.
After thoroughly exausting ourselves we jigging we hit up a shallower blue-water reef around 2 o'clock for the evening snapper bite. This is where the day really came together. First cast with an orange OTI Komodo and I had 6 orange balls chasing down my popper. One of the blobs hit, and a few minutes later I had this 25 lb. mullet snapper in the boat.
I ended up going 3 for 6 on mullet snapper over the next 2 hours...all on the orange Komodo.
My buddy Dede was the captain who originally taught me how to fish poppers here and we always get a bit competitive in the boat, so understandably he is getting pretty bothered by the fact that I'm outfishing him pretty badly at this point in the evening, but with this giant cubrera in the last 15 minutes of fishing he can easily claim title as "rey del dia" (king of the day).
the cubrera absolutely destroyed a pink river2sea dumbell. I'll be lucky if it can survive one or two more fish like this.
And of course every fishing day in Costa Rica ends with a nice sunset over the ocean.
For anyone who is interested in posessing these Costa Rican experiences for yourself I encourage you to check out our website www.sierpedelpacifico.com
We have 18 homesites still available. Each one comes with a boat slip on the river and some pretty spectacular views of the river, rainforest and 3 surrounding mountain ranges. 24/7 access to the Pacific Ocean is available 365 days a year in all tides by all sizes of watercraft...just a 10 mile run to the mouth from Sierpe del Pacifico and 20 miles to blue water. All of this is available at a starting price of $40K. Pretty affordable when you consider slips and slips alone are starting at $179,000 at the new marina in Quepos.
Inquire through our website or PM me for more info.
check out my buddy's treehouse development as well
www.fincabellavista.net
Done with the shameless plugs....
pura vida - Cassidy
www.sierpedelpacifico.com
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