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 Caribbean Species SeasonsCaribbean Coast of Costa Rica, the target of most sportsfishing men is the acrobatic tarpon, possibly the most dramatic and exciting sport fish in the world. Tarpon are caught year round, but during the peak season, February through June, it is not unusual to raise 20 or more of the Silver Rockets every day, averaging 80 pounds, with plenty hitting the 100 pound mark or better. Tarpon are caught just outside the river mouths, in coastal lagoons and rivers, and more recently in the lower San Juan River, bordering Nicaragua and reached by boats from Barra Colorado and the Sarapiqui River. November through January there is a light tackle bonanza as immense schools of a small variety of snook known as calba move into the area. Calba average around four pounds and are taken on jigs and bass plugs worked along the river banks. When the run is on, you will hook a fish on nearly every cast. Two record cubera snappers and a jack crevalle world mark have been caught by tarpon anglers working just outside the mouths of rivers flowing into the Caribbean, an area with many barracuda, kingfish, giant groupers, sharks, tripletail, mackerel and other species. Hottest tarpon action is often outside the river mouths where leaping schools sometimes spread for acres in every direction. But when wind and surf prevent the boats from getting outside, tarpon can usually be found in the rivers and back lagoons as well. There you fish amidst incredible tropical jungles, with overhead branches draped in wild orchids. You are likely to see monkeys, brilliantly colored parrots, macaws, toucans, herons and egrets, while caimans and turtles bask along the shore. Big snook are most often caught by casting jigs and plugs from the beach near river mouths, but are also taken trolling along the shore just inside the rivers.
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