Fishing Report February, 2008
This past week, Bob also known as The Hawk, flew into Golfito Bay, Costa Rica where I picked him up by boat. 20 minutes later we were at the lodge enjoying a cold one.
The Hawk fished 3 days, the first day we had 2 Yellow Fin Tunas, 3 Sailfish, 3 Dorados, a quick bite by a big Blue Marlin that we never hooked, and we lost a 40 lb Rooster fish at the boat on light tackle. That was the first day!
Day 2: We had countless Sails on light tackle including 2 at one time, so of course I had to catch one myself (check out the photo its a good one). At 1:30 or so we found the "Jackpot" a 55 gallon metal drum floating along with thousands of fish all around, it was incredible. The small bait fish were hiding under the can, the mid size fish were eating them, and so forth. There were Triple Tails, Yellow Tail Snappers, Sharks and fish tearing up the surface everywhere for 100 yards,but best of all the Tunas both Yellowfin and Big Eye were chewing, the Dorados were everywhere like F-16s in formation(to quote the Hawk). We grabbed the light spinning rods(12 lb test) and using a swimming plug from Long Island we went nuts. When we couldn't take it anymore, we had over 30 Tunas and 12 Dorados. Fish were everywhere, every cooler full and overflowing, fish all over the deck and the Hawk and I wiped out. The trophy that day was Hawk's 47lb Dorado on my favorite Shimano spinner (check out the photo).
Day 3: If you can believe we had anything left in us, we went out looking for the great Blue Marlin. We fished most of the morning with a by catch of a Sail and tasty Dorado, but at just past 1pm when all was quiet, the 30 Gold Penn International which was in the rod holder of the tuna tower started screaming off like we hooked a train going the other way. It was a Blue Marlin. It jumped from the water and peeled off line at full speed. When it was all said and done and the Hawk had the fight of his life, we brought him to the boat.
The snapswivel popped open when the mate had the leader in his hand, then I jumped in to put the loop of the leader back onto the snap clip, all while the Marlin was thrashing into the side of the boat. The pressure was on! At the exact moment I got the snap closed the mate, who was trying to unhook the fish , pulled the hook and released the fish and the plug/hook snagged the monster in the side and he took off again, peeling off 150 feet in seconds. The Hawk caught him twice. He did jump clean out of the water 10 feet high only 15 feet from the boat, but it was just madness.
We fed the whole town with Tuna and Dorado. Everyone in Playa Zancudo now knows The Hawk.
Enjoy the photos
Capt Sloan
 |
 |
 |
|
Fishing Report January, 2008
Fishing has been fantastic the last few weeks. We have been raising blue Marlin daily with two black marlin mixed in the 350lb-400lb range. Most boats are raising 4-5 sails daily and are catching 4-6 Dorado's per day up to 50lb.
 |
 |
Fishing Report December 10, 2007
We had a group in from Miami and had 7 boats for the past four days. I was only able to get the pictures from one of the boats. The past few days have been a little slow with the blue water pushing out. I checked Terri fin and a few boats made the 35 mile run to blue water with mixed results 5-6 sails a day and a few Marlin raised.
On the other hand the inshore action has been wide open. Yesterday one of the boats caught 3 roosters a bunch of Jacks and a few snappers. Today one of the boats had wide open roosters with mutable double hookups. They ended the day with 15 roosters the biggest being 52lb.
 |
 |
 |
 |
Fishing Report December 01, 2007
George Gray of Fairfax was down to the lodge for 5 days of fishing. Fishing was so good he decided to stay an extra day. George caught Dorado daily with a few sailfish and marlin mixed in. He quickly earned the nick name of Dorado George. His biggest was in the 35lb range.
On day three he fished with James Kohl of the Silver King Lodge. After a few hours of trolling and 2 dorado's Ablio his captain found a huge school of spinners with a big tuna under them. They managed two Yellow fin in the 60lb range. On Georges last day of fishing they were able to locate the spinners again and hooked up with big tuna estimated to be at least 200lb but the rod broke and the fish was lost. He still managed to catch a nice 50lb Yellow fin. Fishing in on so give me a call at the lodge if you want to come down and catch some fish.
 |
 |
 |
|
Fishing Report November 24, 2007
Our trip started at Banana Bay Marina where we enjoyed cocktails before taking a 20-minute boat ride to Zancudo Lodge.
There, the new owner, Gregg Mufson, and Lodge manager, Stefan, as well as the rest of the staff welcomed us. The Zancudo Lodge is all-inclusive and the meals are bountiful and well prepared. Each night we dined on fresh fish with tasty accompaniments. Packed lunches included sandwiches made with deliciously fresh bread; the breakfast at the lodge was truly amazing with the best bacon I ever had—this was terrific, since our fishing day began with a 5:30 A.M. wake-up call.
 |
 |
On Sunday, in the midst of the four-day fishing event, we took a boat tour up the river from the lodge and saw not only wildlife we had already seen, but also viewed crocodiles minding their own business while the locals fished for freshwater shrimp. The Robinsons took a one and one-half hour car ride to the Panama border for an afternoon of shopping and sightseeing.
 |
 |
The final fish count for the four-day, twelve-angler tournament totaled 66 fish: 2 Blue Marlin;12 Sailfish;1 Striped Marlin; 8 Dorado; 13 Rooster Fish; 3 Sharks; 2 Tuna; and 25 other fish. Top Angler: Cori Frankenfield with 5 Sail Fish; 2nd Place: Dave Frankenfield, 1 Blue Marlin, 1 Striped Marlin, 1 Sailfish, 3 Dorado, and 1 Shark. 3rd place went to Dave Powell with 6 fish, including 3 Sailfish.
Fishing Report August 28, 2007
We attached 3 zukers the ones I took off my boat when I sold it. After 2 minutes of trolling in front of the school. All three rods go off. I felt like I was on a albacore bite We landed two of the three. At this point I felt like our day was salvaged. We continued to troll in front of the school we live baited 7 fish with a total of 17 yellowfin 12-45lb. I was not able to get any action pictures since it was wide open till sunset. We left the school of tuna biting to return in the dark to our docks at 8pm.
Click to see the images 1 - 2 - 3
__________________________________________________________