From the Crocodile Bay Lodge, Puerto Jiménez
by Todd Staley, Fishing Director
Fishing has had its ups and downs since my last report. There have been slow days and there have been some really good days. Patience pays off for offshore fisherman. A few marlin mostly to 300 lbs and a few dorado have popped up and the sails come in flurries, get scarce and then show up again.
Frontiers Travel sends sportsman all over the world and sends us a good number of guests and when Line Bouthillette took over the Costa Rica side of their operation she wanted to check us out on her visit to the country.
Line and her boyfriend, Eric Pferdekamper only had a day and a half to spend with us and spent their first day hiking through the rainforest where their camera nabbed a grand slam of monkeys, (all four of the species we have here) macaws, toucans, and such. see monthly eco-report.
On day two they went fishing. “I really want to catch a sail but the boss says I need to bring back photos of roosterfish,” Line commented as she boarded the boat. So rooster fishing off we went. On her first cast she hooked into a 55 pounder that wasn’t camera shy. Line connected with a snapper, white tip shark and lost a rooster and at 9:30 we decided to move offshore.
To make a long story just a little shorted, the couple went 8 for 11 on sails, missed a big dorado and saw a couple variety of whales. Line also now holds the record for the fastest time from hooking a fish to having it in the boat, THREE SECONDS!!!! After coming up on the short teaser the fish ate felt the hook and the first jump was in the boat. Unfortunately I was standing where it decided to land. With a lucky blow from my forearm, which I learned getting beat up by guys twice my size playing center for the school football team, the fish went overboard and took off on a 200 yard run. It took Line longer to land this fish than the others and we all joked that it was because it already knew what waited on the other end of her string.
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