From the Crocodile Bay Lodge, Puerto Jiménez
by Todd Staley, Fishing Director
September 6. 2002
The rain that has plauged much of the country has forgotten the south-west seaboard and we have been blessed with very good weather. The fishing has also been very good. Allan Hekel and Lanny Rominger have been hunting and fishing together almost two decades. They teamed up here with a variety of roosters, snapper, sails, dorado, amberjack and a nice blue marlin.
The big story this week though is roosterfish on the fly. Many have said the roosterfish is the most difficult fish to fool with a fly. Tom Boyd has been here three times to figure them out. I think he's on to something. It took a prototype fly to do it. The fly is a sardine imitation and nothing like I've seen before but it sure had some results. There is a few bugs to work out on the fly, but it could ease the aggravation of many who have watched a roosterfish charge their fly only to turn away at the last moment.
Tom took several roosters incuding a 50 pounder that inhaled his offering and ended up losing it to a big shark. Fishing buddy Arnie Costello landed a 40 pounder and in all caught 11 different species on the fly. "We started using live sardines to tease up the fish but put them away because we were getting more strikes on the fly than the sardines," said Boyd.
September 17. 2002
Charles Cogliandro and Tom Taylor spent six days on the water looking for some light tackle action on topwater lures. They caught a smorgasboard of things including roosters to 60 lbs, huge jacks, barracuda and some corvina to ten pounds. This is how Charlie described his trip.
"The variety and size/class of fish is some of the best I've seen. Top water action, especially on roosters and jacks is phenomenal, and make no mistake, all these fish will hit topwater. With this beautiful setting, Crocodile Bay is a fisherman´s paradise."
Also down this week was an old fishing buddy from a zillion years ago, Dave Zalewski with girlfriend Marti Saylor from Florida. They also took several roosters to 35 lbs but opted to spent their other two days offshore. They connected with several sails and dorado the first day out but finished with a 300 lb blue marlin, sail, tuna and dorado the next day making for a grand slam. They were off next to the base of Arenal Volcano to spend a couple days at the hotsprings. Sounds to me like the did the honeymoon trip.
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