Tuna Report Tamarindo, Costa Rica Report- June 7th

CR Gamefish · Jun-07-2008, 08:08 PM

Today was the first day of descent weather!!! Finally got to wring out the Ol' foul weather gear- Thank you lord, there is a god!! .... its been 2 weeks of nasty, wet, tropical storm wish-wash, offshore & inshore slop that has kept us hanging over the rails and pinning ourselves to the gunnels! Geezus Kristo.. My heart goes out to those Quepos boats that were lost... This kind of thing really never happens here and was a big surprise, caught alot of us off-guard.

Had fellow BloodyDecks member "BentRod84" Matt Gilchrist and family in town and fishing on the boat for 2 days.
The first day was pretty washy and rainy(ocean conditions), I think Matt drank to much the night before but he was laid out on the front casting deck while his Sister was bent over the rails most of the day exchanging holy thoughts at the sea.. Lots of green water, lots of chop, and lots of trash and debri floating around. We managed to Raise 1 Sailfish and 1 Striped Marlin - both fish came and went as fast as they showed up and was tough to get a bait on them quick enough. Crossed paths with 2 other tailing Sails that did not want to bite. Trolled back to the beach in the afternoon after going 25miles offshore looking for blue water.. came to the inside reef and landed 1 Yellowfin Tuna about 15lbs. Weather looking snotty for the next couple of days so we post-poned the 2nd day..

Day 2, June 7th. What a turn around weather wise- finally!! Party Sunny, glassy calm seas, and blue water right up close to the beach. Not to mention the current went back to normal.. Ran straight out to the drop, 10 miles, and found some spinner dolphins holding a ton of Tuna! Tuna jumping, busting and ripping everywhere around the pod of porpoise.. nice 30-40lbers with an occasional bigger tuna blowing up the water. Must have released over 15-20 tuna, kept about 6 nice ones, could have kept going all day.. They were even hitting the larger marlin lures.... Matt went through alot of his lures honing and testing the tuna bite ratio per color combo- kind of nice when you can pull out some of your own personal lures and see the get hammered!! . After catching about all you can handle, and after hearing some reports of 40lb. Wahoo's being caught on the inshore reef in the morning, we B-lined it back towards the barn. Spun around the reef for an hour in the afternoon and saw some small football sized yellowfin boiling under some birds.. trolled some wahoo plugs and jigs around for 1 small Dorado, and about 3 or 4 Bonito. Great day on the water, and lots of meat in the cooler! One note: did not see a single Billfish all day- weird?! that wont last though...

My camera is still down but I expect Matt will have some photos up soon we he returns back home.

Capt. Adam Hermsen

Weather or Knot · Jun-07-2008, 10:49 PM

Thanks for the report Adam! Ya got me drooling! Sounds like a great second day. See ya in July!

Brandon

squirtis · Jun-09-2008, 06:56 AM

Nice Adam....

yea that weather sucked huh...

the boys here said yesterday the blue water finally started it's return to Panama water....WOW what a long month it was with Red Tide...

Get those damn pics up man..

Curtis

p.s. Got a guy who should be contacting you in a couple of days for some fishing in July I think..

seamajor · Jun-09-2008, 02:40 PM

Right on Adam. Its nice to see alittle sunshine. Still on the slow side off of Playa Famingo. Jumped only 1 Dorado, and some Skipjack yesterday. Beutiful day on the water.

CR Gamefish · Jun-10-2008, 09:34 AM

Was out yesterday, June 9th, and found some spinners dolphins holding lots of tuna again!!! Same deal, kept 6 that were over 40lbs. each and released alot more.....the were jumping on all big & small Lures. Birds running 200 yards out front of the porpoise diving on big boils and jumping tuna..

We also had 1 nice Striped Marlin throw the hook, Released 2 Sails, and raised 1 more sail. Water was sheet glass all day, like a mirror, and the water was blue clean all the way up to the beach!!! Yea-HAH. June is some of the best weather conditions here out on the water.

Capt. Adam

CR Gamefish · Jun-10-2008, 09:54 AM

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Originally Posted by seamajor

Right on Adam. Its nice to see alittle sunshine. Still on the slow side off of Playa Famingo. Jumped only 1 Dorado, and some Skipjack yesterday. Beutiful day on the water.

Hey Harry, has there been any flurry's of Wahoo around the Catalina Islands?? We have been having some shots at em on our reef out front... just wondering if anyone has hooked any around your playground? The water is also soo blue, clean 2 miles off the beach. Been fishing with Chepe, Junior, and Gene(the 31 Gamefishers) down here south of Tamarindo alot lately- they have been fishing farther south from Flamingo.
Capt. Adam

BentRod84 · Jun-13-2008, 08:28 PM

hey adam, thanks again for getting us on the fish. i had a killer time fisihng with you and next time im in costa rica ill be fishing with you again. every body had a killer time the second day when we werent quite as hung over. the first day was cool to when were wernt puking up all that tequila. ive got a bunch of killer pictures ill be posting soon.
thanks,
matt

seamajor · Jun-14-2008, 08:49 AM

Very interesting. Gonna try in the morning.

BentRod84 · Jun-25-2008, 10:18 PM

hey adam,

finally got some, pictures. we had such an awsome time. hope to fish with you again next year. ill post more pictures as i get them. thanks again
-matt

bait

some bloody decks

the ocean smasher... best boat in costa rica

guys fish

matts dorado

it was suppose to be a wahoo

some nice tunas

more tuna....

hollys fighting her biggest fish

hollys second biggest fish

some of my lures that were getting bit

our mate leo

one of my tunas

and another

megan and guy fighting there fish

megans FIRST FISH EVER !!!

CR Gamefish · Jun-26-2008, 07:50 AM

Hey Matt
Thanks sooo much for posting the Pics...thers some bloody decks for sure! Glad you guys came down, glad to have hooked up with you guys, and lets definatley get you back out again sometime. Lets see more pics!!
Keep in touch my friend..
Capt. Adam

Aguaazulcharter · Jun-26-2008, 10:56 AM

Nice day man, the fishing has picked back up down here too, we just have to manouver around the red tide currents. Lots of the small yellowfin, and nice sized wahoo. I speared a nice Pargo the other day too. As far as the Billfish go, the marlin have picked up, and i am starting to see a lot more Sails too.

CR Gamefish · Jun-26-2008, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Aguaazulcharter

Nice day man, the fishing has picked back up down here too, we just have to manouver around the red tide currents. Lots of the small yellowfin, and nice sized wahoo. I speared a nice Pargo the other day too. As far as the Billfish go, the marlin have picked up, and i am starting to see a lot more Sails too.

Nice Pargo! Ya, the snapper have actually been on the bite lately around the inshore reef, seems like they might be on the chew. Some nice Cuberas coming up off the live bait (bonitas). The red tide has been plugging up the inshore bad.. having to get outside of it to find blue water and the billfish. We lost a very big yellowfin tuna yesterday off a pod of spinners,,, got cut off by porpoise brushing up against the line- must have been over 200lbs. for sure!! Lost half the spool in minutes and was on the chase full bore! We might be fishing closer down your way this next week.. water has been dirty red and green up in this direction- found the clean blue water yesterday off San Juanillo, and closer to the ledge.
Capt. Adam