leaving in 36 hours for my yearly trip to CR. plan is for 5 days of billfish/tuna/dorado/roosterfishing on the Pacific side, 2 nights in San Jose for the night life, 6 days on the Caribean side for tarpon/snook, 1 more night in San Jose, then back to reality. report to follow in a couple of weeks. CAN'T WAIT TO WET MY LINE!!

Sounds great. I'm going next year. Doing a long-range trip out of san Diego and another trip to Fla this year. Be sure to post a report. You can skip the Blue Marlin Bar part though. LOL

i will skip the Blue Marlin report but not the "experience"part!!. i am probably going on a 10 day trip on the Excel out of San Diego in Oct. still in the planning phase.

What charter service/lodges did you book with? What hotel do you stay?

right now i am in the Admiral's Club at DFW. Staying at Crocodile Bay Resort on the west coast and Casa Mar Lodge on the east coast- both places i always stay. great fishing- nice people- nice facilities. fun starts tomorrow( well actually tonight at the Blue Marlin).

Please take pictures - but not in the
Blue Marlin. My old eyes will surely not stand it. (Been there and earned the T shirt)

Palmer
You could check out the webcam. You might not be as old as you think.

Is this the correct web site for the web cam?

http://www.delreyhotel.com/eng...ar/webcam/index.html

Yep I can never get it to work though

just got home. more to follow but short version is best tarpon fishing ever. my bother-in-law and i landed 48 in 5 days, jumped about 125 more. sailfishing slow but tons of tuna and dorado. night life unchanged(excellent as always).

Looking forward to complete report

Jerry, how 'bout some pics? you can pm me the pics of the "nightlife"

Brad, here are a few pictures of the fish. The guy with the tarpon and jack crevalle is my brother-in-law. Sorry but the nightlife pictures are best kept in a password protected file!!!!!

That is a hell of a bull dolphin, are you going on the long range tuna trip in Oct.?

haven't decided. still looking for a cancellation hunt in Africa(or elsewhere) that interests me.

48 Tarpon in 5 days
WOW!

my brother-in-law( who is from south Ga. by the way) and I were completely exhausted each night. when you fight that many fish to the boat and spend hours more on others that you lose, it takes it's toll. but man, is it a great kind of tired!!! in addition we lost track of the number of jack crevalle hooked and landed or lost. at times you couldn't get a fly/ bait/lure down to the tarpon swimming under the boat because the jacks would beat the tarpon to it.

Sounds like a hell of a trip!
I am putting that on my list of things to do.

Me too Too many things to do and not enough time

Dollar,
I stayed at Croc Bay last april for 5 days, had an awesome time, HOT waitresses eh?

Steve