Recent Posts ctfisherman.com en-us Tue, 26 May 2026 09:05:55 EDT https://www.ctfisherman.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=cfrm 5 connecticutfisherman@gmail.com https://www.ctfisherman.com/ubbthreads/images/general/default/rss_icon.gif https://www.ctfisherman.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=cfrm https://www.ctfisherman.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/1859873#Post1859873 gerg
on: 05/22/26 12:26 PM

I usually leave the dock with 300 gallons.

That's gonna get me a lot of miles on my cc.]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 12:26:39 EDT https://www.ctfisherman.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/1859873#Post1859873 https://www.ctfisherman.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/1859592#Post1859592 stripedo
on: 04/22/26 04:15 PM

We were in Nosara last June. There are secret FAD's right off the coast. We crushed the big yellows,150# class. We got them all on live skippies dropped down with cannonball downriggers. Lot of Blue Marlin caught around us as well. My buddy just got back. Got a 300# blue marlin on a 15 wt fly rod. Nuts.]]> Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:15:14 EDT https://www.ctfisherman.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/1859592#Post1859592 https://www.ctfisherman.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/1858689#Post1858689 Don P
on: 01/08/26 08:08 PM

I never fished Jaco, but my former neighbor moved to CR and developed 90 acres on a hillside overlooking Jaco and making a health retreat property…..not only building the buildings but clearing land, building the mountainside access roads, running utilities, etc….

I fished Zancudo Lodge which was an amazing 5-star operation from boats to fishing to food to rooms to resort care of its clients.

Zancudo Lodge Costa Rica

Caught my PB YFT 142#s …..saw them coming boat side with the dolphin/porpoise and I grabbed a live bait out of the live well, ran a hook thru its nose, threw it over the side against the boat and the YFT CRUSHED it!!!! & Mahi about 40+#s….co-fisher had a YFT on and I winged a billed lure out their and the Mahi Clobbered it!!!

AWESOME trip but the 10 of us paid for it…..like $50,000 for 4 days
]]> Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:08:53 EST https://www.ctfisherman.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/1858689#Post1858689 https://www.ctfisherman.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/1857446#Post1857446 CWood Man
on: 09/11/25 06:45 PM

Great stuff!!!!!]]> Thu, 11 Sep 2025 18:45:34 EDT https://www.ctfisherman.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/1857446#Post1857446 https://www.ctfisherman.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/1857272#Post1857272 Butter
on: 08/30/25 03:20 PM

I will be heading out, seems like everything is very far east canyons beyond veatch]]> Sat, 30 Aug 2025 15:20:13 EDT https://www.ctfisherman.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/1857272#Post1857272 https://www.ctfisherman.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/1857203#Post1857203 Doormat
on: 08/26/25 02:28 PM

This was posted by a commercial guy on another forum -

I would like to know how they determined every category was overcaught if they stopped tracking catch.

"NOAA stopped doing its job tracking the catch using the #*&! excuse that the new administration put an EO on any new rules or orders. NOAA insisted that in order to shut down a fishery it required a rule. Subsequently every category in 2024 was way overcaught, not just a little. The angling category alone by nearly 200 ton. Fearful that they would overcatch the entire fishery again this year and be required to pay the 25% tonnage penalty that ICCAT levies for running over 2 years in a row everyone has been cut. This is hard to follow unless you’re on top of it all the time and even then they make it difficult to follow. NOAA/NMFS is an autonomous group that historically makes the end users pay the penalty for their incompetence. It’s really pretty simple. They make rules and we catch the fish the experts are saying we can catch. When they dont do their job and too many are caught the fisherman get punished and the people not doing their job get a promotion and move on to screw something else up."]]> Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:28:21 EDT https://www.ctfisherman.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/1857203#Post1857203 https://www.ctfisherman.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/1857047#Post1857047 oldlymer
on: 08/12/25 11:07 AM

Maybe they shut it down along with the fishery ]]> Tue, 12 Aug 2025 11:07:01 EDT https://www.ctfisherman.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/1857047#Post1857047 https://www.ctfisherman.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/1857021#Post1857021 Butter
on: 08/11/25 06:37 AM

It was as calm as it gets. Should have pushed further probably or picked up and ran to a new spot mid day

]]> Mon, 11 Aug 2025 06:37:33 EDT https://www.ctfisherman.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/1857021#Post1857021 https://www.ctfisherman.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/1856996#Post1856996 The Real Iceman
on: 08/07/25 04:44 PM

Hell yeah!!! Nice Job Gents]]> Thu, 07 Aug 2025 16:44:15 EDT https://www.ctfisherman.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/1856996#Post1856996 https://www.ctfisherman.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/1856922#Post1856922 gerg
on: 08/03/25 11:41 AM

Yes, its me. I still have the boat in point judith.

Sometimes life goes sideways. ]]> Sun, 03 Aug 2025 11:41:26 EDT https://www.ctfisherman.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/1856922#Post1856922