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The One That Did Not Get Away |
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Wednesday, 12 March 2008 |
 (JFS) This is one of Tamarindo’s best kept secrets; Incredible Shoreline Fishing; fishing off the beach. For three solid weeks in March our coastal waters along the beach were teeming with anchovies and sardines, which in turn are fed upon by the pelicans and other birds from above and bigger fish from below.
On Saturday February 23rd Mainor Moya, a Costa Rican from Puntarenas got lucky. Not lucky perhaps to hook a fish this big, 40 lbs. or so, but lucky that it was a snook and lucky that this one didn’t get away as snook often do.
 Picture (Rita Besterman): Soon After Served at Sunrise Cafe
 Picture (Rita Besterman): A 50 lbs. Rooster Fish Got Away Clean
Early the following morning Arie, our local bartender from Nougi Bar/Sunrise Cafe, showed us his Macho fishing technique after catching a big Jack.
Using a medium sized pompano for bait, he got an immediate strike, and
a big strike at that; bigger than his Macho fisherman ego. He also was
drug into the ocean over his head, all 250 lbs. of him, only to have
this even bigger Roosterfish, 50 lbs.???, strip his reel clean of line
and swim off into the deep blue yonder. He claimed he was tired after
fighting the Jack, pobrecito (poor guy)!
Another tall, but true, fish story coming soon…An Angler’s Dream Vacation; on one day 38-fish…
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