Guanacaste Costa Rica Fishing Reports
Tamarindo and Gulf of Papagayo
You are welcome to enjoy reading our frequently updated Guanacaste fishing reports from the gulf of Papagayo and Tamarindo fishing region. We update our fishing reports for fishing in Bat and Catalinas islands and Tamarindo deep sea fishing region as the charters have been done. Keep updated on Everything about our fabulous rooster fishing charters, sailfishing in Tamarindo, how the fish is biting now, where it happen and more.
July 03,
- Jesus Mendez aboard the CORMORAN took Michael Rutkowski and his wife, from the Hilton Papagayo, fishing at the nearby Punta de Palmares (here in the gulf of Papagayo) for a half day. They raised 2 sailfish, 7 dorados and one yellowfin tuna.
July 02,
Today our boat the CORMORAN with Jesus Mendez captain was fishing at Bat islands with clients Nathan Clay and a friend out from Playa Conchal. They landed two sails, 7 dorados and 2 rainbow runners.
June 30,
- This picture says all what we could say about today's fishing!!!. A great day for Mr. Friend and his family from the Four Seasons Papagayo aboard the LA CHILA-G boat. Jesus Mendez, captain, took them fishing out to Bat islands here in golfo de Papagayo; they raised 9 sailfish and one big yellowfin tuna.
June ends with a good score of sails and some marlins released, also a lot of dorado and yellowfin tuna caught. Seems like it will continue and we are going to have good fishing on July since there are a large number of small dorado schools everywhere here in the Golfo de Papagayo and specially at Bat islands, so we know billfish are somewhere around here looking for food.
June 27,
- Adrian Mendez, aboard the SEA-SNAKE, took Glenn Jackson, from the Hilton resort fishing out to Bat islands, he raised a sail and 9 dorados.
- Mr. Dennis Omanoff and his family, from JW Marriot, Hacienda Pinilla Tamarindo, were fishing aboard the LA CHILA-G at Bat islands and caught 15 dorados.
June 26,
- Bryan Shackleford and a friend, fishing out from Barcelo Langosta in Tamarindo were fishing aboard our LA CHILA-G with Arnaldo Mendez captain. They raised a sail and two dorados.
June 21,
- Our boat LA CHILA-G with Arnaldo Mendez captain was fishing today at the Bat island with a group of 4 from the Hilton Papagayo resort (Patrice Gunter and his family), they raised 4 sailfish and 4 dorados.
June 17,
- Jesus Mendez aboard the LA CHILA-G boat took Stephen Bass from the Paradisus Melia Playa Conchal fishing out to the gulf of Papagayo. He caught 3 sailfish, two dorados and two yellowfin tuna.
- Lino Guido, the WAHOO captain took Justin Drebris from the Occidental Grand Papagayo Resort fishing out to the Bat islands. He landed a sailfish and caught a bunch of other fish: 2 dorados, a nice yellowfin, two rainbow runners and a lot of bonitos.
June 12,
- Jesus Mendez aboard the LA CHILA-G boat took a family from the Four Seasons Papagayo Resort for a half day inshore fishing and caught 10 dorados here in the nearby Punta de Palmares in the golfo de Papagayo.
- Arnaldo Mendez, the CORMORAN boat captain took Karen Streets and her family fishing out to the Bat islands. They caught 5 dorados and one sailfish.
June 11,
- Jose Mendez, the ALBATRES captain, took Karen Streets and his family inshore fishing at the golfo de Papagayo. They caught a roosterfish and 3 dorados.
June 07,
- Lino Guido, the WAHOO boat captain, took William Myfield and his family, from the Four Seasons Papagayo resort, fishing to the Bat islands. They had a great fishing day, landed a sail, caught two dorados. Mr. William were fighting with a 400lbs blue marlin for 2 hours, however after that time the fish broke the line.
- Nelson Mendez, aboard the TUNAFISH took Walter Monteach and his family for a half day inshore fishing here in the golfo de Papagayo. They raised a sail and caught two dorados and a wahoo.
June 05,
- Fishing out from Ocotal beach, Gary Stickler and his friend, aboard the LA CHILA-G with Jesus Mendez captain where fishing at the Bat islands for a full day charter. They raised 4 big sailfish and 9 dorados.
- Arnaldo Mendez, the CORMORAN boat captain, took Jimmy Whalen and his friend (from the Ocotal beach) inshore fishing in the golfo de Papagayo for a half day. They caught 5 dorados and one wahoo.
May 26,
From Jesus Mendez captain: "Right now we have a very nice weather with shiny mornings and some rains at the afternoon and about fishing, well it has been rising, dorado, tuna, wahoo, rooster, sail, marlin... and so on, maybe it is due rains (this is the transition month between dry and rainy season), we have very good catchs in all species. We can see a large schools of small fish in the golfo such as dorado and tuna or bonitos; are abundant...we can see them, they are not alone ..."
Granville Engle and 3 friends fishing out from Flamingo beach caught 8 dorados and one sailfish in a half day fishing charter aboard the CORMORAN boat with Arnaldo Mendez captain.
May 24,
Matteiw Contreras and two friends fishing out from Playas del Coco aboard the CORMORAN boat caught 8 dorados in a inshore charter.
May 20,
Brett Walker and some friends from the Four Seasons Resort were fishing aboard the LA CHILA-G boat with Jesus Mendez captain. Jesus took them fishing at Bat islands and landed a nice sailfish, a roosterfish, one mahi and one cubera snapper.
May 19,
Grant Levy and two frineds, from the Four Seasons Papagayo, where fishing with Jesus Mendez, the LA CHILA-G captain, at Bat islands (here has been the action lately). They relased a 600lbs Black marlin, 5 dorados, one wahoo and one yellowfin.
From the captain: "The picture show a big marlin fighting, however it was impossible to take it up to the boat to take some pictures, so i decide to cut the double line".
May 17,
Jesus Mendez, LA CHILA-G boat captain, took Phillip Jarrel and two friends from the Four Seasons Papagayo resort fishing offshore to the Bat Islands. They landed a fabulous 500lbs Black Marlin, a 450lbs Blue Marlin, a nice sailfish, one rooster fish and two jack jurels.
Phillip uploaded a small video to YouTube and send us the link, play it you too.
May 07,
Captain Jose Mendez on the ALBATRES took Eric Pulland and friends (from Playa Negra - Tamarindo) half day inshore to the nearby Catalinas island and they caught a sailfish and a lot of tuna.
May 04,
Captain Nelson Mendez on the TUNA-FISH took family Decker (from Condovac Playa Hermosa) offshore/inshore fishing to Bath islands. They caught 7 dorados and two big neeedlefish.
April 14,
Beth Norris and 2 friends were fishing out from the Four Seasons Papagayo resort aboard the CORMORAN boat. They wanted to have some fun and action offshore, so Lino Guido captain took them out Tamarindo beach and caught a bunch of different fishes: 5 yellowfin, one dorado and a big wahoo.
