Mark's Mahi - Katie's Shark

The first fights of the day were good ones!!!

We left the hotel at 7am after a quick five minute breakfast and headed off to Tamarindo to meet the boat. At about 7:30, the cab driver let us out on the beach in front of the Pescador restaurant (a very appropriate name), but when we asked him "where do we go?" all he did was point to some young locals at the water's edge. The young men then pointed to our boat, about 200 yards off shore. It wasn't the prettiest in the harbor, but it seemed ok.

The captain started out with a disclaimer that they weren't bringing up many sailfish at all, but Mahi and Yellowfin were still being caught. I suggested that we try half the day on billfish and if we have no luck, turn to what's eating. So we head out....

The tropical storm Alma that hit last week washed thousands of tons of debris in to the ocean. About 15 miles off shore, we start runing in to it. Huge full grown trees uprooted and bobbing in the surf (unfortunately a lot of man made debris as well). Dolphin fish (not Flipper), also known as Dorado (of gold) or Mahi Mahi (Hawaiian word) love to hang out and hunt around floating stuff. We came upon an enormous tree, which you can see in the video, and the action started...



... and look! Katie caught a bull shark !! (remember them Liz?)