Playa del coco SportFishing

Sport Fishing

This is one of the Northern Pacific region's main attractions. Artisan and recreational fishing are possible, but of greater interest are the tournaments in which several world billfish records have been broken. The fish are returned to the water after weigh-in.

Costa Rica is an angler's dreams come true. 
The country's Pacific ports and beach resorts provide access to some the best deep-sea fishing in the world, while the canals and rivers of the northern Atlantic coast feature world-class snook and tarpon fishing. https://billfishingcostarica.com/sport-fishing-in-costa-rica-north-pacific-guanacaste/

Billfish are the country's biggest attractions, with abundant sailfish and marlin off the Pacific coast, but the fishermen also hook plenty of other feisty fighters, such as wahoo and roosterfish. Deep-sea fishing is the country's forte, there is also has great freshwater fishing in Lake Arenal and the larger rivers in the Northern Zone, where anglers can fight with the small but ornery guapote, a hump-backed fish also known as the rainbow bass. You can book your fishing charter here

Costa Rica's central Pacific coast has long been known for its world-class Sailfish, Marlin, Yellowfin Tuna and Dorado (Mahi-Mahi) Sportfishing. We catch and release hundreds of billfish each year!!

Our prime fishing season is December - May. But we catch fish year-round because the Gulf of Nicoya is a magnet for many different species of baitfish. Our prime fishing season is also the dry season, so the seas are generally calm December to May. Our waters abound with whales, dolphins, turtles, manta rays, and many other species of marine life throughout the year.
Seasons by species: read more here https://papagayofishingcostarica.com/guanacaste-fishing-season/

Marlin: Caught every month of the year; with mid-November to early March exceptional, then slowing a bit from April into early June when it picks up again, peaking in August and September.

Sailfish: Sailfish are caught throughout the year; with May through August normally the top season. They may begin to thin out in September and from late August through November.

Tuna: Peak months for tuna are probably August through October; but when all these fails, there are always tuna, anytime of the year you want to look for them, and more often than not when you'd just as soon avoid them to concentrate on billfish.

The yellowfin and some bigeye tuna are often found well inside the Santa Catalina Islands, 30 minutes or less running time from the beach, while schools of 12 to 20 lbs. are usually abundant on the outside. You frequently find concentrations of 40 to 60 pound tuna, and there are plenty of the 200 to 400 lbs caught every year.

Mahi Mahi or Dorado: More properly known as dolphin, these colorful gamester are most abundant from late May through October when the seasonal rains flood the rivers, carry in and out debris that forms trash lines close inshore that they like to lie under. Troll past a floating long and you'll like hook a Dorado.

Wahoo: The first showing begins about the time the rains start in May, peaking in July an August. Most are caught around the rocky points and islands, but you will pick one up occasionally fishing offshore.

Roosterfish: available all year, but are more caught in the Papagayo Bay area from November through March. That may be because more boats in the northernmost area of this region are fishing inshore during those windy months, and the roosters like the structure of the shoreline and islands where they're found 50 to 60 feet of water.