So the sailfish have arrived in good numbers, the dorado are still around and the tuna are there for those who look for them.
Over the last few days we have had almost all you can want sailfish bites mixed in with a few dorado(mahi mahi) each day.
The tuna have become a little tougher to come by but they are around if you are lucky enough to find them.
We fished inshore for a few hours this morning and had plenty of action.
We caught about 6 Yellowtail Snappers, an Amberjack, a Dorado and some Jacks early.
Then we moved a little closer in and got a release on a mid size Rooster Fish and a baby Cubera Snapper.
We stopped on a grouper rock after working the beaches and picked up a few small grouper before heading home for lunch.
Fished a couple days with a couple from Washington this week.
The first day we headed offshore and unfortunately it was one of the roughest days of the year. While Melanie stayed strong and proceeded to catch a couple nice dorado and her first sailfish, her partner Dell was having a tougher time with the ocean.
After a slow morning the bite finally started early in the afternoon and we got a release on 1 sailfish, pulled hooks on a couple more and missed another bite or two before pulling the plug and heading for stable ground.
The next day we fished inshore and had picture prefect weather all day with calm seas and sun filled skies, and the fish even cooperated all day.
Right off the bat we put a couple Yellowtail Snapper in the cooler along with a nice Amberjack.
Then while slow trolling some live baits a lone dorado swam up along the side of the boat and quickly gobbled down the sardine I showed him, fish on!
We caught another dorado and missed yet another before we made the change to target Rooster Fish for awhile.
We got a few releases on mid sized Roosterfish and a Blue Trevally before heading towards the beaches for some more action with small roosters and jacks and then on to an early return back to dock.
Got out again today and the fishing is still on.
We were able to round up a few dorado early but we really wanted to locate some tuna, which we did.
What we found were some spinner dolphin and birds but no immediate signs of tuna. After working the school for an hour or so I decided to move away and give the fish a chance to turn on.
An hours trolling the current to the north produced nothing so we made our way back to where we left the dolphins and birds only this time there were tuna starting to feed.
We quickly started hooking fish in the 25-50 pound class…on poppers!
The action became intense with schools of tuna crushing balls of bait on all sides of us as we drifted along fighting fish. And though the light tackle is fun it’s no way to fill the coolers fast so we only managed a few fish, but they were all taken on spinning and light casting outfits.
Awesome day out with the family today!
The ocean was unseasonably rough this morning but after getting out there and set up, we were able to pick away at the dorado. 
Right away we put a few in the cooler, missed a few and had a couple pull the hook.
The highlight of the morning was the Blue Marlin that my hooked. Unfortunately we only got one jump out of him before the 25# mono gave and though we didn’t get the release, seeing him jump was good enough.
Late in the morning we I saw a couple free jumping mahi’s about a half mile off and headed over to investigate. Before we reached the area where I had seen the jumpers I noticed a couple birds sitting on what turned out to be a floating crate about the size of a sheet of plywood and about 3 feet tall and loaded with life.
We stopped the boat and drifted along side of the crate and proceeded to catch fish after fish on all kinds of stuff from jigs and poppers to live sardines and though we could have caught fish there all day, we took a couple skipjacks and bridled them to troll for a big marlin.
We covered about 5 miles of water before the bite came. About 5 miles from the coast one bait took a quick beating before the fish switched to the short bait and ate. I fed him and when I set the line came tight and he was on, I passes the rod to my dad however after just a few runs, a quick couple of head shakes and the line went slack. We reeled in a straightened out #9 Mustad circle hook.
Well these things happen and it looks like even though we got the better of the mahi, the marlin definitely got the best of us today.
The end of November is typically spring time here on the Osa Peninsula and a great time to put some fresh fish in the freezer. 
So with that in mind, we headed offshore to look for some dorado(mahi mahi) and Yellow Fin Tuna.
The dorado were more then willing to eat and we quickly put 2 or three in the boat and then made the move to look for schools of tuna. It took an hour or so of looking during which time we saw little excitement other than a single sailfish that Don did an effective job of not hooking.
Then a short time later we saw the birds on the horizon and the tell tail splashes of porpoise jumping and knew there would be tuna.
Right before we reached the action I put out a purple aluminum cedar plug to test the action and it didn’t take but a minute before our first hook-up and then Steve made quick work of this nice mid-size Yellow-Fin Tuna.
We proceeded to hook fish after fish for a couple hours and even though most of them came on the cedar plugs, Don broke off 3 on poppers(expensive day) and I managed to bring one to gaff on a popper on light gear.
The fish were feeding pretty heavily on a big school of blue runners that they had balled up.
The days tally was 7 tuna and 3 dorado on ice and another 5 or 6 tuna lost and a missed sailfish and an early return home to cut, pack and freeze.
Was a half day of inshore fishing with some buddies today and we had lots of Roosterfish action along the beach.
We had lots of bites and a handfull of releases on some nice size fish.
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