About all we did Monday was catch bait fish for our trip in the big boat. My first fish was a real prize.
We did get a few fish for dinner last night...............you can keep anything in Costa Rica, but bill fish.
Day 2 fishing made up for day one!
We left in the "Outer Limit" (a 57’ Spencer Sportfish yacht) at 7 am in the morning.
Went about 35 miles out and started seeing dolphin and birds:
Put our lines out and started trolling
By 9 am I had my first sail fish hook up!
And landed my first Sail Fish!!!
To make a long story short, I caught two more Sail Fish by 10 am........(pics by the deck hand).
Then it happened, we hung a 300 lb Blue Marlin.............and he kicked my butt!!
After 50 minutes of this, he came undone!!
Losing the Marlin was disappointing, but we were 3 sail fish out of 4 and 0 Marlin out of 1. I was whipped and told Capt. Johan, " I am done and done". So we spend the rest of the day getting eating fish off the bottom.
Must have caught 15 grouper, snapper and other bottom fish!
The fishing today was great...............but the biggest surprise was when I got back to the marina, the wife informed me she had extend our stay 4 more days...............so I guess I won't be home until Saturday!
Thanks for the pics and report. Hope to see you this weekend.I am going to try to be down to the salt early Fri. afternoon.
