Captain Carlos is scoring big on the Explorer, and on June 12 he took a trio of young anglers for a ride to Sailfish City.
These releases are all excellent accomplishments for these youngsters.
Tag: Sailfish
June 12, 2015
“The day was all about perseverance,” writes Patrick Vincent. “It was a little disheartening to see a giant blue marlin smash the teaser before we even had a bait in the water this morning. Then there was a slow morning bite.
Minutes after my afternoon nap, we were rewarded with a double header of sailfish. We quickly released twin 100lb Pacific sails.
Later in the day, we got to see one hell of a show. 200lb yellowfin tuna crashing sardines on the surface. I’ve never seen anything like 200lb yellow torpedoes going airborne while feeding!
What a great note to end our fishing on!
Well, the father/son billfish beatdown in Costa Rica has come to a close. We finished the week with 1 blue marlin, 2 striped marlin, and 11 sailfish. I’m back in Atlanta safe and sound, I guess it’s time to go back to the real world.
June 11, 2015
Mike Burling’s boys scored the biggest Dorado of the month on a wonderful June 11 trip with Captain William on the Wanderer.
This monster will definately keep the crew fed!
They also hooked up a nice Sailfish to round out the day.
June 11, 2015
Our great friend Richard Moran and his family took to the Discoverer for a fun day of Sailfish action.
Great to see such a pretty fish for this Jacksonville, FL fishing family!
Later in the day the battlewagon squeezed in a 2.5 hour Sunset trip and still found a Sailfish!
It don’t get much better than that!
June 11, 2015
The big boats were busy so Team Vincent chose the 23-foot Adventurer for some inshore action on June 11.
Their day broke with a big surprise…in nice Pacific Sailfish had wandered in less than 3 miles from shore.
“Some offshore fish crashed our inshore party,” Patrick reports. “We went 1 for 5 on sailfish, then scored two small yellowfin tuna, a mahi, 3 bonitos, a cubera snapper, a mullet snapper, and a jack.”
“Nice day on a small inshore boat.”
June 10, 2015
Mike Burling and his crew of legendary Fernandina Beach anglers have put a whopping on a lot of billfish in Nosara over the years, and they added to their legacy with a huge day of Sailfish releases on the Explorer.
They started the day with this sweet Double Sailfish release.
Great fish-handling by Mate Kevin to see to both safe releases.
The crew picked off Sailfish one at a time for the rest of the day, scoring four more releases.
June 10, 2015
It ain’t easy to keep the pressure on the blue water beasties after a Grand Slam (June 9), but Master Captain William makes the difficult look easy with extreme regularity.
Team Vincent marked up the scorecard again on June 10 with Sailfish being the main score of the day.
“We started the day with a triple header of sailfish, catching 2, an 80lb and a 100lb.”
“We moved the boat another 100 feet, then caught another sailfish, this time 90lbs.”.
“We finished out the day by catching another 100lb sailfish on the way in.”
Patrick and his dad have one more day on the Wanderer, so fingers-crossed that the hot streak continues.
June 9, 2015
June 9 was a landmark day for the Wanderer and the Vincent boys…let’s have Patrick tell the story:
“Today, with help from my Dad, I accomplished a fishing dream!”
“Together we caught a Billfish Grand Slam which means we caught three different species of Billfish in one day.”
“We caught a 200lb Blue Marlin, a 100lb Striped Marlin, and two Pacific Sailfish at 130lbs and at 80lbs!”
“It’s something to be proud of and always remembered and I couldn’t think of a better person to share it with than my dad!”
June 9, 2015
Our old pal Mike Burling is back in Nosara and he brought his posse of hard-fishing Northeast Floridians with him. They joined Captain David on the Discoverer and tackled bunch of nice Pacific Sailfish.
Mike also added a few Dorados for the dinner table to round out the trip.
Great work by the battleship!
June 8, 2015
Mark Perdue joined the barroom brawler for two full days of fishing and they scored big with Captain Carlos and Mate Kevin.
“The first day we went out, we had a double hookup with Carlos and Kevin in the Explorer in the first 20 minutes.”
“Then we found an old dilapidated net about 12 miles out and caught a couple of 80lb Dorado and as many smaller ones we could catch.”
“Plus many small yellowfin tuna. Caught fish around the net on almost every cast with spinning gear.”
