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Sportfishing in Costa Rica

By info ⋅ October 23, 2008 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

Alright, so you want to go deep sea fishing on your next trip to Costa Rica? I just have one piece of advice before you do so, be prepared to dish out some cash and you will have to do it without any guarantee of catching anything. My friends and I rented a boat (this is what you do in Costa Rica) for about $500 for a half day. We could have paid an extra $100 for a full day (and yes, this is how they get you), but we felt $500 was enough. Our guides were nice and they served us as much beer as we wanted. Our guess was that this was to help us get over not catching anything by the end of the tour. So there we were the four of us, sitting in the back of the boat as our captain took care of everything. Suddenly we were joined by 10 or so dolphins who I could have sworn were playing with us. This in fact was a magical experience and was without a doubt the highlight of our day. But as the half day neared an end, our boat got closer and closer to shore until we finally caught something not worth reeling in. At the end of the day we were a little down about not catching our Marlin, which our guide told us we had a great chance of doing. Overall, I would say the $500 was not worth it. We could have done a lot more with that kind of money.

This post was submitted by David Lauzon.