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Gone Fishing! Encounters with the Marine Life of the Osa Peninsula

These Crocodile Bay guests headed out for a day of offshore fishing in the Osa Peninsula and here is what they caught:

Crocodile Bay Pier
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Early morning and Crocodile Day boats are ready to head offshore for fishing.

Roosterfish
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Roosterfish Catch!

Sailfish
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I love today! I’ve caught a sailfish!

Long Fish
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Father and son fishing team catch a very long silver fish!

Costa Rica Fishing
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My, I’ve caught a giant fish.

Tiny Fish
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Oh my what a tiny fish!

Killer Whale, Orca
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Killer Whale in the surf!

Underwater Sail Release
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Underwater Sail release

Dorado
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It’s a really big Dorado!

 

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Sportfishing Calendar

January

Tuna, marlin and dorado taper off. Number of sailfish begins to increase.

February

Prime time for sailfish. Occassional marlin, tuna or dorado.

March

Prime time for sailfish.

April

Sailfish numbers drop mid-April and some marlin begin to appear.

May

Slower for billfish. Typically we start seeing schools of spinner dolphins with yellowfin tuna.

June

Slower for billfish. Spinner dolphins with yellowfin tuna.

July

Marlin begin to appear. A chance for black marlin as well as blues and striped marlin. A chance for tuna.

August

Marlin and tuna.

September

Slower for billfish. A chance for tuna and dorado.

October

Dorado begin to appear in numbers with marlin close behind.

November

A mixed bag of dorado, marlin and some big tuna.

December

Marlin, dorado, tuna and sailfish are all possibilities.