Crocodile Bay Resort Selected to Host International Roosterfish Tournament in November 2018 The PanAmerican Delegation recently sent representatives from the USA Angling team and the Mexican Sport Fishing Federation to choose a location for the First International Roosterfish Tournament. They scouted out several locations in Costa Rica and decided Crocodile Bay Resort, Costa Rica  would […]

Costa Rica Fishing Report – January 2018 by Captain Allan Smith  – December is a fun time of the year at Crocodile Bay Resort, Costa Rica. The kids are on vacation and we get a lot of families down for a fishing holiday in the tropics. 

Marlin, Sailfish, Dorado and Roosterfish keep Anglers Smiling in December at Crocodile Bay Resort, Costa Rica Thank you to Paul and his group from Sportquest Holidays out of the UK for this monster rooster photo.Crocodile Bay Fishing Report – December 2017 by Captain Allan Smith – November and December have yielded some of the best […]

3 Boats Released 60 Dorado Yesterday! Happy Thanksgiving! Update 11/22/2017 – 450 lb Blue Marlin Released! Happy Thanksgiving Update 11/14/2017 – This past Friday three of our boats went 21, 18, and 17 on doardo and one boat released 15 roosterfish!November Costa Rica Fishing Report out of Crocodile Bay Resort, Costa Rica – By Capt. […]

Pick your Month…Find Your Fish! We hope you enjoy this exciting Costa Rica sport fishing “highlight reel” featuring actual anglers from 2017. Below this video you will find Costa Rica fishing highlight reels from each month of the year so you can see what 2017 guests caught during the month when you’re ready to take […]

This past month we were joined by Mike Haunton and Andrew Majury from Canada. They fished with us for five days. The bite was a little up and down but they ended up releasing fifteen roosterfish one day and another day they landed thirteen snappers. Mike and Andrew really enjoyed having fresh fish for dinner every night.

Crocodile Bay Resort and FECOP sponsor Gray Fish-Tag Program to help study, understand and protect roosterfish populations in Costa Rica UPDATE: NEW VIDEO – Tagging Roosterfish out of Crocodile Bay Resort, Costa Rica   Crocodile Bay Resort’s Fishing Director, Todd Staley is on a six month leave helping FECOP with fishing conservation. Crocodile Bay is  […]

Lights, Camera, Action! – Check out the September “Video Fishing Report” from our guests this past month at Crocodile Bay Resort, Costa Rica! August and September have been good months for roosterfish. If you are in search of a trophy roosterfish, the “Green Season” (April 15 through December 15th) offers some of the best inshore fishing of the year.

1 Boat, 3 days, 128 fish, 12 Species The roosterfish are schooled up and they are hungry.  In the first two weeks  of August we released 94 roosterfish with only three boats on the water each day. Some highlights included the Alameda group that started off their vacation catching twenty-seven roosterfish and a mixed bag […]

Crocodile Bay, Costa Rica Fishing Features by Fishing Director Todd Staley It’s Not Always About the Fish (Article by Todd Staley from Sol de Osa) One of the most exciting days of fishing I ever had was in a lagoon in Nicaragua accessible only by passing through myriad rivers and creeks on the Caribbean side of  […]

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.