CR marlin bite

I'm getting reports from Costa Rica of an epic marlin bite, with some of our boats raising a dozen marlin/day. The Spanish Fly had grand slams 3 days last week. We had a group that fished on Monday, they caught a big blue marlin, 3 dolphin, 5 tuna and a big wahoo.

Guess what? I'm outta here.....on the way down to check it out myself.

The Down East Guides will be staying behind and holding down the fort, Anna will be around to book you out on the water. The trout fishing remains good, plenty of pups and good albie fishing. I should have packed some in the suitcase for bait.........

hot mixed bag fishing and TEN POUND TROUT

Capt. Gary, Capt. Ray and Capt. Lee have been running some fantastic light tackle trips over the past week. All three guys have had some hot speckled trout fishing and each one of them is targetting a different area.

The photos are courtesy of Capt. Gary who has been mixing it up, fishing for albies on the pretty ocean days, but when the wind is blowing, he's been up the creeks around Oriental. Plenty of limits of nice trout and the occassional 25+inch pup.

Capt. Lee has also been doing the "albie thing", but he has been spending more time poking around South River, casting mirror lures and catching lots of citation-sized trout.

Not to be outdone, Capt. Ray carried some Pamlico County techniques to the rock jetty at Cape Lookout on Saturday. They caught the pups and yearlings in the surf, then headed to the jetty. Of the 15 big trout that his crowd landed, 5 were citations, 4 of those were over 6 pounds and the largest weighed 10 pounds, 4 ounces. That is a HUGE TROUT. Hope to get a picture from the customer.

Thanks Gary for these pics. All of these Down East guides have a few scattered openings, drop us a line to fill them up.

Oh, I almost forgot, the bluefins are starting to make an appearance.

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great fishing.

Plenty of those green albies busting through red bait balls makes for a great day. Along the beach we finished up the morning sight casting the pups from the tower. Meanwhile, Capt. Lee was back in the marshes catching a lot of really nice speks. Capt. Ray had a great day with the bottom fish. Things got off to a late start this fall, but they are going good now.

when it all comes together......

Conditions have to be just right, but when it all comes together it's pretty cool. We drifted for 4 hours with a bait ball "stuck" to our boat, albies underneath and they were hungry. We ended up playing with them on poppers. Steve and Richard were well into their double digits on the fly. Congrats to Capt. "Extreme" Brian, he was fishings in the same area with the same action.....if not even a little better. Smiles.

bait balls

Really fantastic albie fishing yesterday with double digit releases on the fly. Calm seas, lots of bait balls and lots of hungry fish. It all went to crap today with a SWester blowing 30. Northerly winds are expected which will make it calm on the beach, this all should translate into some really good albie fishing.

Some other highlights, Capt. Charles caught 47 trout at the jetty two days ago, Capt. Lee caught 30 in South River, we caught a 35 pound king mackeral on Sunday.

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