Heading Offshore for Another Fantastic Day of Sport Fishing: A Crocodile Bay Photo Blog

Crocodile Bay guests venture out into the Pacific Ocean for a day of offshore fishing in the Osa Peninsula and bring in some dorado and roosterfish. Another sunny day in paradise.

Going Fishing
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Early morning and heading out the dock to get on the boat to go fishing.

Costa Rica Fishing Boats
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Crocodile Bay fishing boat fleet.

Offshore Fishing
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The Croc of Gibraltar, one of Crocodile Bay’s fishing boats, heads offshore for a day of fishing.

Costa Rica Inshore Fishing
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Crocodile Bay fishing boat headed inshore to do some fishing.

Fish Close to Boat
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Big surprise when this big game fish suddenly appeared on the surface of the water so close to the boat.

Reeling in a fish
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Fishing and reeling in a catch.

Marlin Jumping
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Beautiful marlin jumping and saying hello.

Roosterfish
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The prize roosterfish catch for the day.

Dorado
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Well I caught a dorado…excellent.

It's a small roosterfish
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A small roosterfish is my first catch for the day.

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.