January 21 - January 27
Sails, Marlin Plentiful on Pacific
Free Spooling
Jerry Ruhlow
Playa Carrillo is the hot spot for marlin on the Pacific, with virtually all of the boats hooking marlin daily and at least one Grand Slam reported, with a blue and striped marlin and a couple of sails taken on the Kitty Kat, skipper Rob Gordon reported. Jerry Ruhlow
On the White Magic, Mario Chávez had two marlin in the air, releasing a 350-pound blue after an hour-long battle on 30-pound line, jumped a second marlin, a few sails and some dorado.
Another group on that boat last week went five releases for 13 sails for a full day of fishing, going two for six on sailfish in the air along with two marlin to the boat and a few dorado. Another day, they went five for 13 sails and raised two marlin but didn't get the latter to the boat, reporting a lot of baitfish in the water.
On the central coast, Jeanette Pérez of J.P. Fishing Tours said sails are plentiful, with boats running about 90 minutes out of Quepos going six or seven releases a day, and seeing a few marlin, with ideal weather and water conditions.
All the way south, Todd Staley reports from Crocodile Bay that sails have shown as normal for this time of year, with most boats showing double-digit shots at them every day, with schools of squid on the surface and the sails and dorado “munching them like popcorn at a B movie.”
He adds that marlin usually thin out a bit this month, returning in larger numbers in March, but last week every boat out of the lodge had a marlin in the spread, with a few in the 300-pound range landed.
He also reports that rooster and African pompano action has kept inshore anglers busy, and a few snapper have filled dinner plates and snapped a rod or two.
On the northern Caribbean coast, rain was intermittent at Barra Colorado early this week, and the ocean rough on the outside, but the handful of anglers there jumped two tarpon at the river mouth on Sunday and had another in the air Monday morning.
Source: http://www.ticotimes.net/fishing.htm
