tarpon fishing costa rica

tarpon fishing costa rica

Tarpon in Costa Rica can be taken in any month of the year. The king of game fish journeys from saltwater into freshwater at will. They roam the warm inshore waters of the Caribbean Sea along the entire Eastern seaboard of Costa Rica as well as venture up the many rivers that flow to the coast. Costa Rica Tarpon commonly travel up the Rio Colorado into the Rio San Juan all the way to Lake Nicaragua. Fishing is more apt to change day to day rather than season to season.

The fish are always present and current local weather conditions will play the major factor in what its feeding habits will be on any given day. Tico Travel's Costa Rica former representative and ten year resident of the country, Todd Staley lived in the jungle rainforest of Barra del Colorado nearly five years and we consider him somewhat of an authority on the habits of the Costa Rican tarpon.

He caught his first tarpon in Florida at the age of 10 and more than a thousand silver kings later they are still his favorite game fish. When asked by an angler what kind of a day they can expect for fishing tarpon in Costa Rica, Todd always gives the same reply. "On my worst day fishing tarpon here I hooked zero, but on my very best day I jumped sixty. I think I can safely say that you will fall somewhere in between those two numbers.

The best advice he can give is to listen to your guides and fish with the lures and techniques they suggest. Especially if you are an experienced tarpon fishermen and Fishing Costa Rica for the first time, leave that knowledge in your suitcase. The techniques for fighting a tarpon in Costa Rica are universal; the techniques used to fool the tarpon into taking your offering vary from location to location. The locals call them Asabalo.

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