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IGFA Certifies New Snook All-Tackle World Record

On March 6, 2014, Orlando-based fishing guide Ward Michaels caught a 59 1/2-pound Pacific black snook in Puerto Quepos in Costa Rica. This week, the IGFA certified that catch as the new all-tackle world record. The previous record for Pacific snook was 57 pounds 12 ounces and was set in 1991 in Costa Rica. Michaels […]

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Angolan Team Wins 2014 Offshore World Championship

Anglers participating in the 15th Annual Offshore World Championship (OWC) in Quepos, Costa Rica, this past week set a new world record for most billfish released in a tournament. By the final weigh in, anglers had logged 2,735 billfish releases. Participating anglers boated 2,724 sailfish, seven blue marlin, one black marlin, and one striped marlin. […]

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2,170 Billfish Caught in Leg I of Los Sueños Signature Triple Crown

Leg I of the first annual Los Sueños Signature Triple Crown was held January 22-25 on Costa Rica’s central Pacific coast, and the three days of fishing turned out to be an epic, record setting event. Over the three days, 42 teams released on average more than 50 fish per team, including a combined total of […]

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ABC’s Good Morning America Gets it So Wrong

A few days ago Inventive Fishing shared a video from Crocodile Bay Resort on the Osa Penninsula in Costa Rica depicting a sailfish leaping into the transom of one of Crocodile Bay’s charter boats. Well, ABC’s Josh Elliot ran the clip on Good Morning America on Friday as the “Play of the Day,” but completely messed […]

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Sailfish Jumps into the Boat; Anglers Jump into the Ocean

Crocodile Bay Resort on the Osa Penninsula in Costa Rica has a reputation for getting fish to the boat, but a couple of days ago they posted the video embedded below to YouTube showing that sometimes the fish may come more willingly than expected. Crocodile Bay Resort, Costa Rica promotes sustainable catch and release fishing […]

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