Catching Dorado in The Sweet Gulf

Photos of Crocodile Bay guests fishing for Dorado and other lovely sea creatures such as roosterfish off the beautiful Sweet Gulf. Dorado are booming this month in Costa Rica.

The Sweet Gulf
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Another beautiful sunny day on Costa Rica’s Sweet Gulf.

Pair of Dolphin
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A pair of dolphins playing in the Sweet Gulf

The Rainforest
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From the fishing boat you can see the beach and the rainforest of the Osa Peninsula.

Fishing Boat
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Fishing for Dorado in the Gulf.

Killer Whale
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Utoh, is that really a killer whale headed our way?

My Smile is bigger than the Dorado's
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Smile for the camera, we caught a dorado.

More Dorado
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We caught a dorado too.

Roosterfish
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I’m proud to have caught my roosterfish. Isn’t he something?

 

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.