The consensus was that, yes, the fishing here is amazing. Dave is a flats fisherman from south Florida with over 20 years of experience in the field. He has been fishing professionally for years and is the featured angler for South Florida on the Chevy Florida Fishing Report on Sunsports TV.

We had a great time fishing and most importantly had some nice catches...

On Friday we went out to the Foruno and started trolling with live bait. The bonito have been thick lately, making our stops to fill up the tuna tubes with Bonito short... and that's nice. We were trolling less than 15 minutes after getting to the hole, and about 15 minutes after that we had our first hook-up on a Pacific Sailfish.

After about a 15 minute fight, Capt. Dave Sutton released his first Pacific Sailfish off the shores of Quepos, Costa Rica on May 9th, 2008 on the Precedent. The Sailfish weighed about 120 lbs and was showing the brightest of blues when brought to the boat.

Jertberg fought a Sailfish soon after that but lost the battle before getting an official release.

After a few more Sailfish raised with some nice teaser slaps, we began fishing the bottom for Snapper, Grouper and whatever else. As nothing was happening on the bottom, we came across a drift of two trees. Each tree was about 60 feet long and the two were around 150 feet apart. As we came up on the drift, we had some sightings of some really nice Mahi, which we pitched some baits to but couldn’t get a hook-up. Fortunately for us, traveling with the big Mahi was hundreds of smaller Mahi., a group of nice Triple Tail and hundreds of thousands of Jacks, Triggerfish and other species willing to follow lures and attack cut bait.

We stayed with this drift for a few hours while the guys caught some Mahi, a ton of Jacks and played with the Triple Tail until their arms were tired.

Dave and Terry were excited to try every lure in their arsenal, catching Triple Tail on plastics, top water and on the fly!

After a full day of action and a bucket full of Triple Tail and Dorado, we headed home for a nice Costa Rican rainstorm and a Costa Rican grilled Triple Tail dinner!

Saturday was a day of traveling to Dominical in search of Roosters and other fish on the bottom.

And the day was filled with Roosters and some other fish on the bottom… perfect.

We began the day fishing with live Lookdowns as bait (because the Sardines have disappeared lately) and two Roosters were hooked up. One came to the boat and the other became a catch and release about 10 meters from the boat, giving a really cool display as it jumped out of the water three or four times on it’s way out.

And for the dinner plate, the Lookdowns also produced a huge Cubera Snapper big enough to satisfy all of our appetites that night at Juiberth’s.

The rest of the day was spent trolling. We raised a few Sailfish and had a hookup on one and got some nice jumps out of him for the video and photos.

Over the fast three-day trip, the Florida boys got a great taste of the fishing and life in Quepos, Costa Rica and have a plethora of tales to write home about.

And for the Quepos Fishing Report and Fish Quepos, we have been reminded once again that we have some of the best fishing in the world all year round.

If you are interested in an inshore or offshore charter on the Precedent, shoot me an This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or take a trip over to Fish Quepos for some more detailed information about everything offered here for fishing in Quepos.

Talk to you soon,
Nap