Jan 6 – Costa Rica
Well, that sure was a successful trip. We ended up catching 5 marlin, 42 (ish) sails and innumerable dolphin for the 6 days of fishing. Not bad at all!
The weather was predictably great with flat seas and sunny hot days which moderated at night. Except for the last day, that is. It blew in the morning! We all thought we were in the Atlantic. By the end of the morning, things had settled back down and we started seeing fish, especially after we ran a little to get a change of scenery. It turned out to be a great call.
One interesting note – Chowie and his understudy, Arturo, managed to both hook the same fish twice in a day! The first time is was a Dolphin that was apparently starving and the second was a Sail that decided he couldn’t eat just one. Both circle hooks were right next to each other in the Sail’s jaw. It was a pretty easy release.
Hope you like the pictures, more reports coming soon as De Mako is fishing pretty steadily for the next couple months.


Bermuda
Costa Rica
Panama







MAKO, the boat the Club will run in Bermuda, is probably being sanded as we speak. Let me explain. MAKO is being built by Sunny Briggs in North Carolina. The new MAKO is the third boat Sunny built for Allen and me. If you have ever watched one of these boats constructed, you know that the process is 1/2 sanding, 1/2 everything else. Sunny, Jeff and the guys are doing a great job pushing to have her done by May 1. She is going to be pretty! I can’t wait to see her overboard. We will add pictures of both of the boats when we get back from the upcoming trip.