Papagayo Fishing Reports
August 6th
- The Harms group were deep sea fishing aboard the LA CHILA-G boat and Arnaldo Mendez captain. They released 4 sails and caught 2 dorados.
August 5th
- Billy Summer and 5 more people from Playa Hermosa were deep sea fishing aboard our LA CHILA-G boat. Arnaldo Mendez, the captain, reported 7 sails landed.
- Odir Gutierrez, the CORMORAN boat captain, took a couple from Playa del Coco and released 3 sails and caught 3 groupper bottom fishing.
August 4th
- Van Webb and his wife from the Grand Papagayo resort were deep sea fishing aboard the CORMORAN boat. Odir Gutierrez, the captain, reported 7 sailfish released.
August 2nd
- Dan Shore and 3 more people were fishing for a half day aboard our MONO boat. They released two very good sized roosterfish.
- Roel Trevino and 2 friends were deep fishing aboard the TUNA FISH, they released two sailfish and caught 2 dorados.
- Ralph Diamond and two more people were deep sea fishing aboard the LA CHILA-G boat and released one sailfish.
Fishing Inshore and Offshore on late July
Fishing has been good for both inshore and offshore. Boats captain report sails and dorado, some marlins fishing offshore, while inshore fishing they report roosterfish, smaller dorado, jacks and other inshore species.
- Shannon Emery and his wife from the Riu Guanacaste has been fishing with us for two offshore days and they released 3 sailfish and 2 yellowfin tuna. Tomorrow is their last charter, half day inshore fishing for roosterfish.
- Jeff Friedland and his wife charters:
-*- In their first day of fishing offshore, on July 26 aboard the CORMORAN boat and Odir Gutierrez captain, they released a nice 100 pounder sailfish.
-*- On July 28th they were inshore fishing aboard the Bahamas boat and Jose Mendez captain, they ended the day with 4 roosterfish released.
-*- On July 29th they made a 6 hours charter aboard the Bahamas boat again, the were on one of 3 roosterfish and caught a jack jurel.
-*- In their last day on July 31st, they were offshore aboard the CORMORAN again and released 5 sailfish and caught a BULL dorado show on two pics.
This couple had a nice experience and promice comeback next year.
-*- Jeff send us a nice pic from his last charter to Alaska, thanks Jeff, very very nice Halibuts.
Deep sea fishing in Papagayo on June 15-16
As i reported before, offshore fishing is hot right now, with good sail and marlin biting. Inshore is good also for rooster, dorados and jacks.
- The Fling family from the Riu Guanacaste were deep sea fishing aboard our LA CHILA-G boat and Arnaldo as captain. They had a nice day releasing a 500 plus pounder black marlin, 2 sailfish and also caught 4 yellowfin tuna. I will have soon a video in youtube for the marlin action.
- Kip Laurence, his 3 of 4 days of fishing with us. Today was his second deep sea fishing day aboard the CORMORAN boat. He released 2 sailfish.
- On June 15, Larry Riggan and two more people were deep sea fishing aboard the CORMORAN boat. They released 4 sailfish and one black marlin.
Deep sea fishing in Guanacaste on June 14
Today seas conditions were a little rough, some unusual windy conditions in this frame time of the year; however, boats were deep sea fishing with a good success.
- A couple from the Hilton Papagayo, Tracy Cyree and her husband were deep sea fishing aboard the LA CHILA-G boat. They released a good sized Black, 350plus pounds, a second 200plus pounds black marlin, also released 3 very good sized sailfish, they also caught one dorado and one yellowfin for fresh sashimi and a cold beer aboard while fishing.
- The Cormoran boat also was deep sea fishing with less succes on billfishing; however, they caught 4 dorados.
- David Mendell and his wife from the Four Seasons resort were deep sea fishing aboard the Albacoras boat. They released a 250 black marlin and one sailfish.
Fishing lately - June 13
Boats/captains report good sail biting out of Flamingo/Tamarindo, around one hour boats running time.
- On June 11, Kip Laurence from the Riu guanacaste was fishing aboard our CORMORAN boat and released 4 sails and caugth one dorado.
- Kenneth Kristensen was fishing aboard LA CHILA-G and released one sail and caught one dorado.
Inshore Fishing out of Playa del Coco on June 10
- our friend Glenn Jackson and his family were inshore fishing with us aboard the CORMORAN boat. They had a fantastic day roosterfishing, his son was the lucky guy who released the bigger roosterfish.
Inshore / offshore charter on June 09
- Arnaldo Mendez aboard the LA CHILA-G boat took Albert Mouroa fishing out of Flamingo beach. They were offshore fishing in the morning and released one sail and fishing inshore in the afternoon and relsead 6 roosterfish.
Roosterfishing fest in June 07
ROOSTER AND MAHI - MAHI FISHING HAS BEEN HOT LATELY.
- Arnaldo aboard LA CHILA-G and Grevin Mendez on the BAHAMAS boat took different groups from Riu Guanacaste and Playa del Coco roosterfishing in gulf of Papagayo. They had a blast and released 6 rooster total and 10 dorados.
Enjoy a real Tamarindo Costa Rica Fishing for sail, mahi, marlin and others species with local captains.