Catching Sailfish In Nosara
Sportfishing in Costa Rica is a traditional craft handed down from one Captain to another over the the years. Different areas of the country have varying tactics. FishingNosara is a charter fleet from the Nosara area of Costa Rica and they have invented some fishing tactics of their own to catch massive Marlin, Sailfish, and Yellowfin Tunas.
Nosara’s exclusive High Speed Bait and Switch Tactic is a great approach for awesome offshore fishing. It creates maximum action and the fish hit extremely close to the boat. The spread consists of medium or large sized high-speed lures running off both outriggers and the shotgun line. They add two teasers off both outriggers and one teaser back in the exhaust alley. The high-speed lures are trolled off 50 or 80 class rod and reels at 9-10 knots. The pitch baits are rigged with live bait (Black tuna or Blue runner) or dead bait (Black tuna strips or Ballyhoo strips).
The larger fish like to bite on the high-speed lures but also will come up the spread towards the teasers bouncing along the surface. The spotter mate on the canopy tower identifies which fish species are in the spread and relays to the cockpit below on which line or teaser the fish has fixated. The crew immediately extracts the teasers to draw the fish in close. The appropriate size pitch bait is dropped back to the target fish on either TLD30 or Penn 50W (depending on fish size) and the switch is complete. All that’s left is to hold on for the fight of a lifetime.
FishingNosara’s medium sized/high speed spread run at 9-10 knots is stunningly effective on big Marlin, Dorado, and Wahoo. The primary advantage of this Bait and Switch tactic is that you can aim the right bait/tackle combination to the target fish to virtually guarantee a hard strike
For the safety of both fish and angler, FishingNosara uses only circle hooks for pitch baits. This guarantees safe live releases of ALL Sailfish and Marlin caught by the team.
Check out all the happy people that have applied this technique for yourself! FishingNosara publishes a monthly fishing report and maintains archives of the reports. Tight Lines!
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