Central America Fishing Guide

The 2022 peak billfish season in Costa Rica is underway and the marlin bite has been on fire. November is the month where we transition from the green season back to the dry season, so the fishing generally offers a mixed bag offshore and the conditions can vary drastically from year to year. By...

Another summer is in the books, as is yet another productive green season of fishing in Costa Rica.  Because the months of December through April are considered the peak fishing season in Costa Rica, many assume (incorrectly) that by default the months of May to October must therefore be the...

After some very hit or miss billfishing in February & March, April delivered more of what we are accustomed to during Costa Rica's peak billfish season. Too many times April is viewed as the scrap month of the peak billfish season: the broken chips at the bottom of the bag or that lone skinny...

After the billfish left us a bit perplexed in February with great numbers to the north along the Nicoya Peninsula and very little action to the south by Quepos, we were hoping that March would bring a return to normalcy. We are still in the midst of a historic pandemic however, so why did we even...

February is one of the busiest months of the year to go fishing in Costa Rica, and despite lingering concerns related to the pandemic, this year was no different.  From billfish & tuna on the Pacific to tarpon on the Caribbean, even our freshwater rivers & lakes started producing big...

The new year got off to a great start with some red hot fishing in Costa Rica. The sailfish bite was steady throughout the month, with a few 20+ fish days thrown in the mix. Marlin were plentiful, including a few days where lucky boats raised as many as 2-5 fish!  To top it all off, the trend over...

It's not often that offshore sport fishing and seasonal weather patterns are the calming influences one looks to for stability in life, but not every year is 2020!  In a year filled with social unrest, a heated presidential election, economic turmoil, worldwide border closings, and of course the...

Writing this in November 2020, I can only hope that this blog becomes an out-of-date relic - a unique moment in history I'm putting into an online time capsule - sooner rather than later.  Here we are, in Month 9 of the COVID-19 pandemic that has affected nearly everyone in the world directly or...

You've begun planning your Costa Rica fishing vacation but you aren’t sure where to go. Which beach town, which marina, or even which coast! These are all major questions as the weather, fishing seasons, and even available species varies greatly from one region to the next and certainly from one...