fishing in costa rica
Charters – Costa Rican Sport Fishing
Costa Rica offers some unparallelled fishing opportunities. Sport fishing inshore or off shore in Costa Rica is a treat nearly year round! The pelagic’s rotate through bringing Blue black and the occasional striped marlin to the Costa Rica blue water. During the summer months of costa rica dec. to june, the mahi mahi (or dorado as they are called locally) are running with the other half of the year being dominated by yellowfin tuna. A wahoo or three will grave your lines depending on where you are specifically in costa rica.
In shore fishing in costa rica offers some large specimens of some great eating and some great fighting fish! Cuberra snapper (pargo) get up into the 80-90lb range, amberjacks well surpass the century mark, the biggest rooster fish in the world cruise the beaches and shallows year round, Groupers of many variety, and white sea bass to spare (corvina) makes a day in shore a wild time, almost every time!
If you are looking to fish in Costa Rica Addictive Angler can help you out! We’ve fished the lakes, the rivers, the estuaries, and oceans all around the country and have great captains and guides to put you on big fish!
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The Ultimate Costa Rican Pacific Coast Fishing Trip – Part 1
San Jose isn’t you average million person city, but it isn’t without its charms. Hidden beneath a budding economy there is
some old architecture, and obscure art that adorn parks throughout the city, and every night there is a party, game, or other engaging festivity to keep you well occupied, but unfortunately there isn’t much in the way of fishing! After meeting up with some great anglers; Gaff, Porsche, and Ken we took our leave from the concrete jungle’s of San jose to some greener pastures a few hours away, La Fortuna, Costa Rica — Home of Volcano and Lake Arenal!
The scenic drive lasted a few hours, but combined with a few hairs of the dog to go around before we knew it we had arrived in La Fortuna, our home for the next couple of days. A relaxing stay at The Volcano Lodge with some bass fishing out on the volcanic lake, Lake Arenal and hopefully some delicious rainbow bass for the dinner table!
The Volcano Lodge was great, with friendly staff and a great buffet breakfast in the morning, but it was the view from their grounds that took the cake, The volcano stands tall amongst the vibrant green background of the eastern side of the ridge. Most of the year the peak of Arenal is obscured by clouds, but it seemed Costa Rica was going to be nice to us this trip as our view was nearly always clear for the days we’d be there, A item for the bucket list!
As should be the fishing! Lake Arenal boasts some large specimens of guapote (rainbow bass), Machaka, Tiger Bass, 
Blue-gills, and apparently clams! Porsche would be the first person that one of our captains, Tercio, had seen catch a clam in his 25 years of fishing on the lake (part of the video below)! Both boats, the other manned by a good captain and friend to Addictive Angler, Captain Ron, had a good day! In total we caught plenty of fish to occupy the middle of the table which is a satisfying ending to any good fishing trip!
Lake Arenal and La fortuna treated us extremely well a big thank you to our captain friends on the lake Cpt. Ron and Cpt. Tercio, La Perla’s in La fortuna for cooking up an exquisite meal for us, and The volcano lodge for accommodating some party animal fisherman, Sweet asses for all!
Enjoy the video featuring everyone getting in on a little Addictive Angling action — One tasty day after The Volcano guapote Hunt!
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