Costa Rica Fishing Report from FishingNosara
Costa Rica Fishing Report Archive | FishingNosara
The Explorer has cemented a reputation as a true catch-all vessel; in late July the barroom brawler scored every major type and species of fish in our stretch of water.
As usual the Pacific Sailfish have been thick and Captain Fico has been there to capitalize.
Also offshore the Super Panga found some excellent Yellowfin Tuna.
The action was hot inshore as well, with Amberjack and big Cubera Snappers on ice plus lots of beautiful Rooster fish releases:
Raul Arteaga and his family are a fun-loving bunch of anglers from the Lone Star state, and they had a big time on the Harvester with Captain Alex.
After several awesome Sailfish releases, the Mega Panga came inshore and bested this excellent Cubera Snapper.
The Wanderer welcomed Nick Palumbo and his family for a great day of hybrid inshore / offshore action on July 15.
This big Cubera Snapper was scored early in the trip near to shore.
In the afternoon Captain William headed out to Sailfish City and found a swarm of high-flying Sailfish.
Adrian Paredes and his group had a big day with Captain William reporting seven Sailfish release on their July 13 trip.
Nice work by Mate Johnson to keep these fights short and sweet leading to safe releases.
Check out this high-flyer:
Big fish above the water means big smiles on board!
Later on they moved inshore and nabbed two swole Cubera Snapper:
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“Great day on the water. Dreams came true on our trip to Nosara.” wrote Adrian in and email. ย “Thank you Captain William and mate Johnny for putting us on 7 beautiful sailfish and two tasty cubera snapper. I can’t wait to go back!”
The barroom brawler Explorer closed out the month with a wide variety of great action with clients Britta and Sam Gramer .
Very energetic Sailfish release by this young angler, but the Explorer also mopped up inshore, including this big old Amberjack:
This pair of Rooster Fish releases are certainly bucket-list worthy:
Plus the Super Panga filled the fridgerator with this beefy Cubera Snapper on ice:
Kim Gill’s group kept the heat up with an excellent second day of fishing on June 21. Big Rooster Fish releases were the first order of the day on this inshore morning.
After the quartet of trophy fish releases, they added to the icebox with a whopper Cubera Snapper
This second bigger fish lived up to it’s name with an attempted SNAP:
All is a day’s work by the Master Captain William!
The Wanderer had a splendid day of offshore action on June 11.
After an early Sailfish release, the flagship stayed offshore and scored a few football-sized Yellowfin Tunas.
The next day the Wanderer returned offshore and nabbed several more great Sailfish releases.
After all the offshore success, Captain William and Mate Johnson switched it up and moved inshore to best this awesome Cubera Snapper:
The Explorer started the month of June with a fantastic run of great catches. The Sailfish were thick offshore and the Super Panga was all over them.
Later in the week Captain Fico stayed inshore and filled the fish box with tasty filets of Dorado and Cubera Snapper.
While inshore, the legendary Explorer also scored several bucket-list caliber Rooster Fish releases.
Great work by the 26-foot barroom brawler!
The Wanderer engaged in close-quarters combat inshore with some of the biggest lunkers of the year so far…check out this MASSIVE Cubera Snapper that got things started:
Then they filled the trophy case with a pair of sweet Rooster Fish releases:
Great work by Captain William and the legendary Wanderer!
The Harvester is dialed-in and Captain Alex’ clients are reaping the rewards on the mega panga.
Craig Sutton joined the crew for an afternoon offshore and released a bunch of nice Sailfish.
They also nabbed this sweet Cubera Snapper late in the day. Captain Alex has been experimenting with shorter hooks to help land these monsters, and it looks to be paying off.
