Los Suenos December report, getting better
After a very untypical hot sailfish bite in the beginning of this past october,
the bite Had really tapered off in november, through the transition between Green and Dry season here. Most of Novemeber and the beginning of december was quite slow with allot of dirty green water keeping the clear blue out 30 to 40 miles for several weeks.
most boats were only seeing 2 to 5 billfish per day, but there was a steady marlin bite through it all, usually getting a shot or 2 a day. during the Los Suenos marlin invitational (november 30-dec 3rd) there were a few strong numbers posted, but it was far from consistent, and most of the good bites were 40 to 50 miles out. a few of the top boats caught up to 3 marlin per day, and a few boats reported getting shots at 6 to 8 in a day. the sailfish numbers were pretty low, most boats only seeing about 2 -6 a day, unless pulling dredges, which seemed to double the number of sails you would see in a day.
Usually dredges are not necessary for a successful day in these parts.
the WBS world championship in early december( 8th-11th), had even lower numbers. and most of the fish that were being raised through this time, were quite shy or finicky, coming up on a teaser and leaving, often not switching off, or fading back to a rigger bait.The GOOD NEWS:
we are getting to what is traditionally peak sailfish season here (Jan-April)
& In the Past couple weeks these numbers are improving, and the fish are feeding much more aggressively.
the blue water has moved in much more closer and can be found about 20-30 mile run from the marina. and seas conditions have mostly been the flat calm seas Costa Rica is known for, making it an easy run to the grounds.
Boats are now seeing 5-10 sails per day , and still getting about a shot per day at a marlin on average
in the past week we caught 5 sails each day we fished offshore, and a few dorados as well.
there are a plentiful number of dorado around this season, after a fairly scarce showing last dry season. most are 18-40lbs, but we often catch some monster ones here 60+.
Peak tuna season is May-october, but there have been a few around, especially if you find some spinner dolphins offshore with birds diving. the larger yellowfins move in and out throughout dry season traveling the currents with the spinners, so you never know when you may be able to fill your coolers with some fresh sashimi. make sure whatever boat you fish on always has some good spinning gear with poppers ready for them. aboard La Vida, this is one of my favorite things to do, if you have never cast poppers on spin gear to yellowfins, then you are really missing out on some of the most fun fishing possible.we catch allot of 60-100lb tunas on poppers, and sometimes bigger ones. they often will readily bite trolled cedar plugs but mostly small ones, and it is not quite as fun. for the biggest ones,( they can get around 300lb here) try a bridled up live skipjack or bonito in from of the spinners.
there are almost always some smaller yellowfins around the 26 rock, mixed in with bonito, and lots of other stuff.
the 26 is very productive year round, and what is there changes all the time. a mix of inshore species- several types of snappers, AJ's, Jacks, and pelagic's- dorado, sails, sometimes even black marlin are possible there during dry season ( Jan- May), and lots of smaller wahoos join the mix during green season. you can troll around it a bit, but it is a great spot to live bait, jig, and/ or popper fish for anglers who like to actually do something other than watch baits trolled behind the boat.Inshore, also had a slow spell in november, but has really picked up early this month. the bait is showing up in good numbers, and the rooster fish bite is good, and there have been lots of nice sized cubera snappers moving into the gulf of nicoya. Jeff dry on the wingman has caught several nice ones in the past couple weeks.
While inshore fishing here you will often catch lots of other species, such as amber jacks, Trevallys, jack cravelles, houndfish, mackerels, and grouper.
the bottom fishing out in 250-400ft range has been good throughout the past month, lots of conejo's (tilefish) cabrillia's(grouper), and a few Congrios (conger eel). try squid on dropper rigs, or butterfly jigs.
I only did one day of bottom fishing this month, and we caught aout 30 tiles, 5 grouper, 11 snapper, and then moved to the 26 and caught 1 AJ, 1 Mullet snapper, and a couple small yellowfins.
I will post pics as soon as i figure out what is up with the "upload file errors"Capt. Michael Alligood
Reel Intense Adventures
561-459-5355
alligood_michael@yahoo.com
≈~≈The Daily Catch Team≈~≈
No comments:
Post a Comment