Freaking huge bull - Quepos CR

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• About Time 2 Posts: 22 Greenhorn

  September 2018 #2

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• Plastered2850 Posts: 1,842 Captain

  September 2018 #3

  Thats a big boy.

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• xenia Posts: 688 Officer

  September 2018 #4

  That fish could eat most of the dolphin caught off South Florida!

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• blakhawkdoc Posts: 212 Deckhand

  September 2018 #5

  Nice fish. beautiful color!
  
  

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• Garysmo Ft. Pierce, FloridaPosts: 1,191 Officer

  September 2018 #6

  Biggest one I ever saw..I'd love to catch one like that someday
  

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• pje Orlando , FlPosts: 767 Officer

  September 2018 #7

  Yeah , John's guys get it done down there . Dolphin that size and bigger are pretty common in CR , it's amazing how the fishing is down there with no commercial pressure . 

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• Strangegill88 Posts: 232 Deckhand

  September 2018 #8

  That's bigger than the one I got out of Los Suenos in May, mates estimated mine at 55 lbs... That one is closer to 75 I'd think. 
  
  
  

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• pje Orlando , FlPosts: 767 Officer

  September 2018 edited September 2018 #9

  Here are a few from a few months ago 
  
  
  
  
  

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• ginghy Posts: 31 Greenhorn

  September 2018 #10

  Pacific fish are bigger.
  i know the sailfish run much larger up to 200 lbs.

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• pje Orlando , FlPosts: 767 Officer

  September 2018 edited September 2018 #11

  The Dolphin are bigger in CR and Panama because they ran the commercial fleets out of their waters a while back . It dramatically improved the entire fishery . We used to catch fish of this size off of Florida , but our fishery has been in a steady decline the last 5+ years . Unfortunately it is only going to keep getting worse .

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• John McKroid Posts: 1,914 Captain

  September 2018 #12

  pje said:

  The Dolphin are bigger in CR and Panama because they ran the commercial fleets out of their waters a while back . It dramatically improved the entire fishery . We used to catch fish of this size off of Florida , but our fishery has been in a steady decline the last 5+ years . Unfortunately it is only going to keep getting worse .

  Steady decline the last 50+ years according to those who have been fishing that long   As much as people don't want to hear it, marine sanctuaries will help.

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• pje Orlando , FlPosts: 767 Officer

  September 2018 #13

  John McKroid said:

  pje said:

  The Dolphin are bigger in CR and Panama because they ran the commercial fleets out of their waters a while back . It dramatically improved the entire fishery . We used to catch fish of this size off of Florida , but our fishery has been in a steady decline the last 5+ years . Unfortunately it is only going to keep getting worse .

  Steady decline the last 50+ years according to those who have been fishing that long   As much as people don't want to hear it, marine sanctuaries will help.

   I should have said the last 10 years , has dropped off in a really big way the last 5 years . 

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• CaptJ Posts: 1,045 Officer

  September 2018 #14

  Yup, used to get em jumbo sized back in the seventies off Miami. Shows what happens when you kill all the little ones every season.

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