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With an exceptionally wet ending to the rainy period, the season took awhile to move into full gear.  The faucet turned off in earnest right around the first of the year, the rivers cleared quickly and the fish showed up in the rivers hungrier than ever.  Since then, we`ve been having great fun  in our favorite backcounty haunts - both on the Rio Terraba and the Rio Sierpe.  We`e seeing lots of snook and  red snapper in the mangroves - and best of all, they like our poppers!  Also there are exceptionally large jacks and abundant pompano and roosters on the flats. 
A couple of our mid - winter  guests (John, Verna and Jeff from Colorado) caught a few trevally (one about 25 pounds) just 1/4 mile off shore, several smallish (12-15 pound) roosters, pompano on our sand flats while wading, a 175 pound sail, an unexpected dorado (a rod breaker) , bunches of 8-12 pound bonito, several large jacks....all in one week...speaking of diversity! 

Brendan from Oregon had a memorable day in April landing 13 nice dorado the day after a good rain produced trash lines close to shore.

In late March water temperatures soared to close to 90 degrees (an unusual occurrance) and fish up and down the Pacific Coast went into hiding. But  June and July have been solid as a rainy May ushered in clear weather and cololing water temperatures, which brings fish in close especially on incoming tides.  We move with the tides to insure we're in the best place as the day progresses .  We've got a few new discoveries deep in the backcountry that we are just beginning to exploit ....its a place that fish have likely never seen a fisherman let alone a fly!!

We`e pretty much booked through August and are receiving lots of calls for when we reopen in November and through Christmas/ New Years.   Interestingly , many of our clients who are return travellers to Costa Rica  who have now discovered our South Coast area are giving up on Guancaste and Quepos.  Our new 20 miles of paved Coast Highway leads to (what we think) are the best collection of beaches in Costa Rica and to the quaint villages of Dominical, Uvita and Ojochal - with umpteen things to do and ve…ËusPOST http://pagebuilder.yahoo.com/members/tools/pagebuilde/server/write/logs/activity HTTP/1.1 X-Domain: us.1.p l.left = image.x + ((200-l.clip.width)/2); le Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0 Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 03:23:58 GMT X-Powered-By: ASP.NET X-AspNet-Version: 1.1.4322 Cache-Controlpan style="font-size:10"> Pura Vida f
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