2018 has been a RECORD year in every sense of the word! We had the highest guest count for our 14 year history and registered the greatest number of days fished on the boat charter side. Ultimately, we are all so thankful and blessed this season with fantastic fishing and…
Fishing Reports
Wow! What an incredible opening we are having this season! Due to the local conservation efforts, Costa Rica has finally limited the issuing of permits to TUNA SEINERS from 47 to now 7 and their catch is exclusively shipped to the local cannery. In addition to this, the seiners have…
The LODGE’s boats are STILL catching dorado and the inshore action has been steady with an abundance of Roosters and Cubera Snappers being released daily. The Marlin bite out at the sea mounts is a little on the slow side after a record setting December. BUT the tuna action continues…
THE ZANCUDO LODGE opened its 24th season with INCREDIBLE fishing, the best tuna fishing we have ever witnessed! Joining us for the start of this season was Beverly (Baja Bev)and Jeff Seltzer from Northern California. Their first few days were spent chasing big schools of tuna, hooking and landing many…
The fishing has simply been nothing short of AMAZING. It’s been a month of EPIC fishing where we’re able to locate big TUNA schools daily AND they have been biting. The always fun crew from Mustad (Jay Harris, Sam Root and Magnus Gunnarsson) was here for a visit and they…
We’ve come a long way since purchasing THIS rustic lodge in Costa Rica 12 years ago. Since 2015, the Zancudo Lodge is proud to be the ONLY fishing lodge in Central America to receive TRIPADVISOR’s Traveler’s Choice Award given to the top 1% of all hotels worldwide. This 2017 Season…
The rooster bite has been OFF THE CHART with most of the boats landing over 25 per day. The TUNA showed up as well and most are in the 40lb-80lb class. In all my years of tuna fishing, I have never experienced this incredible feeding frenzy and it carried on…
What an amazing and fun week it was. The Southern Zone of Costa Rica has really put itself on the map as being one of the top BLUE MARLIN spots worldwide. With an average of only 2 boats offshore per day, this record equates to an astonishing 3 marlins per…
The crews are hard at work getting ready to kick off the 2017 season and we are already off to a great start. The billfish season is heating up in Costa Rica and we anticipate an epic bite in the upcoming months. Last week we hosted John Vater and his wife…