By Laura Gutierrez of Immigration Help Costa Rica Elections in the home countries of the U.S., Canada, and E.U. (and other countries) have been painfully divisive affairs these past decades as the social engineers behind the curtain pull on the levers of influence. As such, many of us are tempted to avoid the subject. We are either preaching to the choir or engaged in hostile exchanges with tho...

Using live bait and a surf rod US Expat Mike Hughes caught this 5-foot Nurse Shark the morning of Sunday January 27th on the beach in the Esterillos-Bejuco area south of Jaco. More than 100 bystanders witnessed the hour-long battle. "The locals were all amazed that I as able to get it to shore. I do have the biggest surf rod in Costa Rica.I was physically beat and for a while I thought I had an...

During a conversation with my good buddy and fellow competitor Merv Low last night, he mentioned how I 'fished blind' because I don’t use any electronics. I jokingly replied "on the contrary Merv, it’s the lack of electronics that makes me fish with my eyes wide open". When you are fishing with no gps and no depth finder you are forced to use every bit of available data such as birds, visible l...

After five days of intense kayak fishing Jaco Beach resident Lance Clinton claimed 3rd place out of a field of 12 finalists selected worldwide to compete in the annual “winner-take-all” Los Buzos Panama International Kayak Fishing World Championship 2019. The 1st place winner – James McBeath of Canada -- took home $10,000. “The tournament was great. Caught some great fish and finished in third,...

Jaco Beach resident and super kayaker Lance Clinton leaves New Year’s Day for Panama as one of 12 finalists selected worldwide to compete in the annual “winner-take-all” Los Buzos Panama Kayak Fishing World Championship 2019. Clinton, 49, a former stock broker from Seattle, was chosen by the event’s organizers as Costa Rica’s top kayak fisherman. He turned professional four years ago and is spo...

The seventh edition of the Lionfish Capture Tournament in Gandoca, Manzanillo, Limon, will take place September 29 and 30th and registrations are now open. This event is organized by the Association of Artisanal Fishermen of the South Caribbean through the Area of Conservation Amistad Caribe (ACLAC) and other institutions. The purpose of the activity is to help control the invasive species, a ...

Over the past few weeks Costa Rica has been the site of multiple world class sport fishing events. The Los Sueños Signature Triple Crown The Offshore World Championship Sport Fishing Tournament The Marina Pez Vela Open The Quepos Billfish Cup Costa Rica is quickly becoming one of the most important destinations for sport fishing aficionados in the world. The variety of marine s...

A total of 51 teams of 30 different countries are taking part of the Offshore World Championship sport fishing tournament that began this April 15 and will carry on through April 20 at Marina Pez Vela, Quepos. Among the participating countries are USA, Australia, Angola, Mexico, Fiji, Brazil, Bermuda, South Africa, New Zealand, Panama, Spain, Croatia, Canada, Trinidad & Tobago and Costa Ric...

The Fishing Tournament Marina Pez Vela Open kicked off today, April 12 at Quepos, Costa Rica and will extend through April 14. The billfish team event will crown the team that tallies the most billfish points during the tournament. Prizes pay down to third place (first, second, and third). The tournament will award trophies, cash, and prizes to the team(s) that score the most accumulated point...

The Quepos Billfish Cup organized by Marina Pez Vela in Costa Rica will take place this week March 14 through March 17. Here are the details of this event as provided by Marina Pez Vela: “The Quepos Billfish Cup is a three-day billfish team event with top-team honors going to the team that tallies the most billfish points during the tournament. Prizes pay down to third place (first, second, ...

Out alone at sea in his small Hobie kayak Lance Clinton is King of Jaco Bay. Nobody can touch what this former Seattle stockbroker does in Costa Rica’s largest beach town. He’s a one-man wrecking crew armed with a fishing pole and a GoPro camera. Needless to say he loves the fight. “One of my favorite aspects of catching fish from a kayak is the adrenaline rush. Here I am in this tiny little pl...

Whenever anglers get together to talk about Costa Rica fishing trips, there is always a strong chance that Los Sueños Resort and Marina will be mentioned. When a developer and deep sea fishing enthusiast from the United States took a voyage around Herradura Bay in the early 1990s, a new era in the burgeoning Costa Rica fishing charters industry started. It took more than 10 years for the dream of ...

One of Russia's wealthiest individuals had over $20,000 in cash seized yesterday afternoon, Thursday, October 26, 2017, at Costa Rica's main Juan Santamaría International Airport near San José when he was leaving for his home country after a vacation. Andrei Bokarev, 51, whose wealth is estimated by Forbes at $1.69 billion, had arrived in a private jet earlier in the week and participated in a ...

Commonly known as lionfish but also called zebrafish, the marine fish of genus Pterois spp is a venomous fish and an invasive species in the Caribbean Sea. They are well known for their ornate beauty, a common species in aquariums, but it represents a problem as it has been described as “one of the most aggressively invasive species on the planet” and it feeds off smaller native species of ecol...

Situated in Quepos, Costa Rica on the outskirts of Manuel Antonio National Park, Costa Rica Fads is one of the top charters for offshore & fad fishing in Quepos, Costa Rica,said the company which organizes customized FAD tours to their special offshore fishing sites. What are the FADs? FADs stand for Fish Aggregating Device and are set up on naturally occurring sea mounts from 100-13...

Three 2018 world-class sport fishing tournaments at Quepos' Marina Pez Vela - near Costa Rica's Manuel Antonio National Park - have just been announced. Sport fishing enthusiasts who like to plan ahead can start off the new year with a January 11 - 13 tournament: "The Rockstar! Offshore Tournament presented by PELAGIC is a team event with cash, prizes, and awards estimated to over $100,000. La...

-- Gulf Coast and Central American Yacht Facilities to Collaborate on Service, Training, Activities Coastal Alabama’s Saunders Yachtworks and Costa Rica- based Marina Pez Vela have formed a strategic partnership that will allow the two full-service yacht yards to capitalize on their overlapping customer bases, announced the Gulf Coast shipyard earlier this month. For Saunders, the af...

Sport fishermen in Costa Rica are even happier than usual these days with regular sightings of larger schools of fish and dolphins, said the Costa Rican Fishing Federation, FECOP. They are chalking the increasing up to tough restrictions signed into law by Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solís in 2014 prohibiting tuna purse-seine operations within 45 miles of the coast. "This effectivel...

The Offshore World Championship in Quepos, Costa Rica is the largest and most prestigious sport-fishing tournament in the world. The world-class event, held for the fifth consecutive year in Quepos, Puntarenas near Manuel Antonio National Park includes 55 of the world's best sport fishing teams. From April 24 - 28, at Marina Pez Vela, in Quepos, more than 300 people will compete to see who has ...

More than 15 teams from Costa Rica, Brazil, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, the United States and Slovakia will face off later this month in a sport fishing tournament at Quepos’ Pez Vela Marina. This round, from April 20 - 21 is designed as a competitive warm-up prior to the World Fishing Tournament, which will take place April 24 - 28 also at the marina in Quepos, near Manuel Antonio National Park...

Manuel Antonio National Park receives many visitors during the high season, attracted by the amazing flora and fauna found here and of course by the white sand beaches beaches which offer a piece of paradise on earth. There are five beaches in the Manuel Antonio area: Playa Espadilla: This is the public beach in Manuel Antonio, most tourists stay here since you don’t need to access the park ...

The disappearance of these fish would affect Costa Rica's US$599 million per year sport fishing industry, say experts. The Costa Rican Fisheries Federation (FECOP, its initials in Spanish) called for protecting marlin and sailfish from commercialization based on recent studies that show the large economic benefits reaped from maintaining healthy sea populations of these fish. “The data shows t...

Punta Arenas, Chile, Dec. 12 — Researchers are doing the science needed to help the planet survive "south of south," officials said Monday at the inauguration of the Scientific Circulation and Innovation Hackathon in the Chilean city of Punta Arenas, a forum that has attracted young entrepreneurs from seven South American countries. A whale watching excursion in Chile's far south, source Fac...

Source: OWC Job generation, increased tourism and healthy profits from equipment sales are the highlights of a new market research report by Technavio. Costa Rica gets a special mention within the report: The research study covers the present scenario and growth prospects of the global sports fishing equipment market for 2016-2020. To calculate the market size, the report has taken into con...

EZ Waves Google PlayEZ Waves, an online charter booking service for fishing, sailing, kayaking and all other water-based activities, announces its launch today with nearly 500 captains available for bookings in the United States, Costa Rica, Mexico, Canada and Norway. EZ Waves is the only program that streamlines the maritime booking process, providing live scheduling that allows guests to book o...

Source: MSP Officers from the National Coast Guard Service of Costa Rica rescued a school of juvenile sharks estimated to have been born only a few days before getting caught in an illegal fishing net. The rescue took place in the Pacific Ocean, specifically in the Abangares maritime sector of the Gulf of Nicoya, province of Guanacaste. According to an official press release issued by the M...

Wikimedia Commons Tamarindo, Costa Rica - March 21, 2016 /PressCable/ -- The owners of a vacation rental home in Costa Rica have launched a new report on the Top 10 Best Fishing Spots in Costa Rica. Having lived in the area since 2009, they are well versed in the local fishing opportunities and want to help vacationers plan their fishing trips at the best possible time. Villa Thoga is a ren...

Wikimedia Commons With hundreds of miles of coastline, the Guanacaste region offers spectacular fishing options in Costa Rica. Although most of the competitive offshore fishing tournaments in Costa Rica are typically organized along the Southern Pacific coast, Guanacaste and the entire Northern Pacific region is a haven for deep sea anglers who wish to enjoy their fishing vacations. This artic...

Source: @KevinHart4Real Instagram Actor, writer and stand-up comedian Kevin Hart recently enjoyed offshore fishing, hiking, forest canopy tours, ziplines, and relaxation in Costa Rica. News of his visit to our country, which included his children, fiancee and future mother-in-law, arrived via the social network Instagram. A few Instagram photos and videos show Mr. Hart in a sports fishing c...

Source: U.S. Embassy Officers from the National Coast Guard Service of Costa Rica recently arrested a fugitive tour operator who was wanted on a murder charge. According to official press release CP-1518-2015 from the Ministry of Public Security (MSP), the arrest took place in the coastal community of Quepos earlier this week. The MSP press release explains that officers assigned to the Coa...

(1888PressRelease) August 12, 2015 / Jaco, Puntarenas -- Jaco Fishing Charters is excited to announce the launch of our new sport fishing charter website. The new website primarily focuses on booking fishing charters off the coast of Jaco, Costa Rica but also provides useful information for the avid sport fisherman or first time angler wanting to learn more about sport fishing adventures off of th...

Wikimedia Commons San Jose, Costa Rica – Online sports betting company, 1Vice.ag is moving beyond giving away free money and bonuses to giving vacation prizes to attract new and existing clients.  This summer, 1Vice is giving away an all inclusive vacation to Costa Rica for four people that will last five days and four nights. When 1Vice opened its doors to the gambling public back in 2011,...

NEW YORK, June 3, 2015 (Magazine.org) – Just in time for spring and summer fishing fun, Outdoor Sportsman Group – Integrated Media today announced the launch of Rigged & Ready Powered by RAM — an innovative new online program aimed at putting anglers onto the hottest places to fish this season. Powered by a custom website designed especially for RAM Trucks, In-Fisherman.Com/Rigged-Ready mak...

Longline tuna haul. Source: Greenpeace. Washington, Apr 23 (EFE).- Oceans are worth at least $24 trillion, but their economic value is threatened by pollution, climate change and overexploitation, according to a report published by the World Wide Fund for Nature, or WWF. Working with The Boston Consulting Group and the University of Queensland's Global Change Institute, WWF appraised the oc...

The rescued French tourists. Source: MSP An offshore fishing charter expedition in Costa Rica turned deadly for a French tourist who was on vacation with friends and relatives. According to a press communication by the Ministry of Public Security (Spanish initials: MSP), officers from the National Coast Guard Service identified the victim as Huberts Nicolle. The tragic accident took place a...

April 15, 2015, QUEPOS, Costa Rica. — The fleet of 67 international teams from 28 countries charged out of Marina Pez Vela under picture perfect conditions yesterday, April 14,th for day two of the 16th Annual Offshore World Championship tournament. The end result was a new single day tournament record with 940 sailfish, 1 black marlin and one striped marlin being released. The white hot bite c...

Source: OWC Sportsfishing teams from around the world are getting ready for the 2015 edition of the Offshore World Championship, which takes place in Quepos, one of the best offshore fishing spots in our planet. The press release below was issued by a Caribbean team that is very serious about winning this year’s championship: Christiansted, USVI (PRWEB) April 12, 2015 - Cane Bay Partners VI...

The two coastlines of Costa Rica are blessed with abundant marine life, excellent weather, and very nice people who are eager to teach newcomers to the world of deep sea fishing the wonders of going offshore. First-timers who want to learn more about deep sea fishing should plan a trip to Costa Rica for the purpose of becoming acquainted with this recreational activity. To this effect, the followi...

Quepos is one of the most important sites for world-class sportfishing in Costa Rica. Long renowned as one of Costa Rica’s prize fishing destinations, anglers have luck offshore of this popular Central Pacific port town just about any month of the year – though December through April mark the peak season for landing marlin and sailfish. Big game, luck, fame and prize money have lured hundreds o...

Source: OWC Twenty teams of competitive anglers from the United States, Canada and Central America (including Costa Rica) will participate in qualifying rounds ahead of the Offshore World Championship, which will take place in Puntarenas later this year. Nearly 200 anglers from around the world are vying for a spot in this major sports fishing tournament, which in 2014 was dominated by the tea...