Offshore Fishing

Do not miss the offshore fishing action for sailfish and marlin, tuna, dorado and wahoo.

Inshore Fishing

Try your hand inshore fishing for the hard fighting roosterfish and jack crevalle.

Bottom Fishing

For some of the finest grub in Costa Rica be sure to spend some time bottom fishing for snapper and grouper.

Golfito Costa Rica Bottomfishing

The many reefs inside of the gulf are excellent holding structure for the many types of snappers that you will find here. The most prized, however is the giant cubera snapper and we commonly catch them to 40 pounds and the 50 and 60 pound fish are there for the angler skillful enough to take them from their rocky domain.

Grouper is the other prized bottom dweller and we catch many types with the broomtail grouper being a favorite of any bottom fishing addict.

Much of the bottom fishing is done with live baits, but we also target some species with dead baits and even chunk baits. The snapper range from cubera and red snapper to rock, mangrove and yellowtail snapper, silky and mutton snapper, spot snapper, mullet snapper and more.

Grouper come in many sizes as well. The goliath grouper is the largest, and we catch big broomtail grouper as well as gag grouper, black and red grouper, calico grouper and others.

Aside from bait fishing, we use different styles of jigs for the snapper and grouper. The action can be fast and the jigging often triggers hard hits from the larger fish.

While fishing the deep water we often come up with other stuff like amberjacks, conger eels and pompano, but on some of the really deep drops, you never know what might eat your bait.

If you are going to spend some time fishing in Costa Rica, you really should get out and try your hand at bottomfishing and put a little dinner on the table while you're at it.

Golfito Fishing Charters specializes in custom fishing packages in Golfito Costa Rica that include sportfishing in Golfito, lodging in Golfito, flights to Golfito, ground transfers in Golfito and San Jose. Fishing packages will be customized according to the length of time you will be in Costa Rica, how many days fishing, how many other activities etc. The size of your group and type of fishing will help decide which boat will fit your groups needs.