Fishing Reports

Marlin Madness returns to The Zancudo Lodge in the Southern Zone of Costa Rica. Over the weekend the fleet when 12-18 on Marlin 9 Blue Marlin and 3 Stripe. The best part about it is that the fish are close only 20 miles out. A few sailfish has been landed…

If you’ve been following our updates, I’m sure you’re well aware that this has been the most epic fishing season ever. Over 300 BLUE MARLINS caught along with huge TUNAS and a crazy amount of SAILFISH, DORADO and ROOSTER FISH. On 2 of my personal trips this season, we witnessed…

MONSTER ROOSTERS and Jacks Inshore is hot here at the Zancudo lodge in Southern Costa RIca. The fleet is also catching 2-3 sails daily with a few dorado mixed in. Also check out the baby marlin we caught 36inch

WOW the tuna bite is wide open. Most of the fleet are landing between 3-15 a day Our high speed Contender boats are using their Raymarine Super HD 12kw radar to find the schools. Plus a few a few sailfish and marlin.

Fresh tuna and fresh photos – Gallery only!

The Zancudo Lodge has high-speed Contender 32st to get you on the bite fast. Thanks to our Raymarine 12k radars the boats will get you on the tuna bite detecting birds 6 miles out. Check out their latest and greatest fish finders. Our captains are getting the sounders dialed in check out the side, 3D and chirp sounder all used together to get the best picture of where to find the tuna around close to the boat.

Wide open Tuna bite today plus a few sails. Over 18 fish landed by our crew. Nice Grade 60lb-180lb releasing most of them. The biggest tuna was 180lb on the scale.

The tuna bite is still fantastic Kipp Felice his dad and brother in law hooked a few 100lb+ers but mostly their fish were in the 60lb class. The Black Hawk from New York and his son fought a big tuna for over 2 hours on an Okuma Makaria 10 landing the fish it weighted 120lb. The sailfish bite is also steady her in the southern zone of Costa Rica.

Lots of sailfish we are starting to see double-digit days finally. Plus there is a good tuna almost daily. For all the latest please check out zancudolodge.com

“Year of the Tuna” here at The Zancudo Lodge. Thanks to our Raymarine 12k radar we were able to mark the birds 5 miles out. A small price to pay to find the fish it was a Wide open bite. Lots of nice grade 80lbers. Only kept 5 but caught over 15 fish. The same with one of our other boats.