Captain Joe Riley reports that he and the Sherman group of 4 had an exciting day of fly fishing on board the Perla Del Mare. After raising a few sails to the teasers they ended up 3 for 4. To top off the day the Perla raised a Black Marlin. They hooked, fought and released the approximately 350 lb fish on conventional tackle within 10 minutes. Lets hope there luck…
We returned from Panama on supper bowl Sun.Fished five days at Aqua Adventures.We fished most of the time in Costa Rica,and one day a hannibal bank.We had no luck with marlin,but did real well with Tuna in size if not numbers.Fish were 300,225 and167#.there was a great marlin bite at Tropic Star that week 95 marlin for 12 boats.
The hot bite the last few weeks has been south of the Los Suenos Marina but it seems to be moving back in our direction. The fishing yesterday out of Los Suenos was better than the day before and the boats were only running 30-35 miles instead of 40-45 miles…we hope that trend continues.
The biggest surprise is the steady marlin bite…there are still good numbers of blue marlin, black marlin and striped marlin in the area and many boats are getting a chance or two at marlin everyday. I heard yesterday that there were lots of boats with marlin releases and several with grand slams.
The marlin photo above was sent to me by Mark Janzen on the Mar 1 in Quepos…nice marlin pic.
The Sail bite was red hot! A group caught 10 Sails total, including 3 Doubleheaders! All together they raised about 20 fish, 5 doubles, a triple, and a few singles and got about 18 bites, hooking about 15, but jumped off a few of them. It was a great day fishing!
Fun day inshore with a group today. A nice Broom-tail Grouper on a butterfly jig. 2 Cubera Snappers, 1 Mullet Snapper, 1 Sailfish and some other small stuff.
