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Bite Back On After Heavy Rains; Mahimahi Hot

Rain, rain and more rain is the only way to describe the weather we had in mid-October, but once it stopped the sun came out and the weather returned to normal with nice days, light breezes and a few afternoon or evening showers.

Boats up and down the Pacific coast are catching good numbers of mahimahi with some sailfish, marlin and tuna in the mix. The fishing on the Caribbean side continues to be good, and the water levels are up but the bite steady at Lake Arenal.

Northern Pacific
Tamarindo reports some good fishing after the rain and wind stopped. Nick and Stacey Branca, caught a 300-pound blue marlin and a half dozen nice mahimahi on the Talking Fish. Kimball and friends also went out on the Talking Fish and caught a sailfish and a dozen mahimahi.

The Good Day Team reports a good mahimahi bite in the Flamingo area. They fished on the boat Online and caught 17 mahimahi in the 30- to 40-pound range and three nice sailfish.

Capt.Warren on the Bushwacker last Sunday caught one sailfish and 15 mahimahi from 20 to 30 pounds. He said it was raining so hard they couldn't even take photos.

Central Pacific
Capt. RJ Lillie on the Predator fished a current/trash line 14 miles out with a group of guys from Florida, who caught 10 mahimahi from 20 to 25 pounds on a half-day trip. The guys were happy to fulfill their promise to bring home enough fish to feed their group of 20.

Capt. Dave Mothershead on the Miss Behavin took an international group – a North American, an Italian and two guys from Mexico – out for a day offshore last week. They fished 25 miles out and caught a couple of sailfish and a mahimahi before 1 p.m.

Capt. Jeremy Trujillo on the R&J took a couple from the U.S. state of Tennessee out for a full day offshore. They caught a sailfish, a tuna and four nice mahimahi. Trujillo said they fished in green water 25 miles out from Los Sueños Marina.

Southern Pacific
Capt. Chris Bernstel on the Kinembe II reports a slow inshore bite in the Quepos area. He went offshore last week and caught a marlin, a sailfish and a dozen nice mahimahi; everyone has been catching big numbers of the latter, he adds.

Capt. Dave Dobbins in Quepos took a couple of guys out for a half day of inshore fishing. Angler Van Porter released a nice roosterfish, and Roger Morales caught and kept a nice grouper for the grill. Morales caught his fish on a 30-pound test hand line. Dobbins also put a hurtin' on a dozen or more small snapper. (My personal goal for this year is to catch a sailfish on a hand line.)

Felipe Fernández and the guys on the Good Day II in Quepos caught 14 mahimahi and released a sailfish and a 400-pound blue marlin on a recent trip offshore. Fernández also reports good numbers of mahimahi being caught in the Quepos area, even though the blue water is 45 miles out.

Leanne Batten with Quepos Sailfishing Charters had client Chris Stuart fish offshore last week with Capt. Glen Morales on the Reel Deal. They had nice weather and calm seas, and caught three nice mahimahi.

Please catch and release all marlin, sailfish and roosterfish.

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