marlin costa rica fishing

marlin costa rica fishing

We fish mainly over penicals, sea mounts and ridges for both species. These structures are like an ocean cafeteria to marlin. Why do you ask? Bait, Bait Bait. The favorite bait for marlin are skipjack tuna. These tuna usually hang around these structures, because of the upsweep of the currents below. The currents bring up food that the skipjack feed on. We spot the tuna either on the depth sounder or see them feeding on top of the water.

Our method for catching the tunas is to troll white jigs through the feeding tuna. Most of the time we get multiple hook ups.The bait is then reeled up and we have a wet towel to put the tuna in while he is rigged up to troll live.We use rigging floss and insert a bait needle through the top of the eye socket. This is called brideling the bait. Then twist the hook a few times to take up the slack in the floss.When completed your hook should be tight above the eyes of the bait.

We use 300lb test fluorocarbon leader with a 16-o or 20-o circle hook depending on the size of the bait used. The rods we use for Costa Rica marlin fishing are 80lb class, with 50 wide reels spooled with 80lb test clear line. This gives you plenty of back bone in hauling in your prize catch. We fish 2 to 3 rods at a time for multiple hook ups on marlin. There is nothing better than a double hook up on marlin....This makes my job a challenge which one do we go after first??? The answer the closest one first.

When we are Costa Rica marlin fishing using live tuna we adjust the boat speed so the tuna swims along effortlessly and looks good. When we get over the structure we put the boat into neutral and this allows the baits to swim down deeper.This method seems to produce more bites from marlin. If we have no luck the boat is put into gear to move on down the structure. Next time you are fishing in Costa Rica you should give this method a shot when fishing in Costa Rica for marlin, it produces.

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