Full-Day Fishing Quepos

8-Hour Offshore Fishing Charter from Quepos

The full-day fishing charter from Quepos is the definitive way to experience one of the world's premier sportfishing destinations. With 8 hours on the water and an experienced Pacific captain at the helm, you access offshore grounds 20–40 miles from shore where the blue water holds extraordinary concentrations of Pacific sailfish, yellowfin tuna, wahoo, and mahi-mahi.

Departing the Quepos Marina before dawn, the boat reaches the first productive grounds as the sun rises over the Costa Rican coastline — a stunning sight that sets the tone for a remarkable day. The captain reads the water constantly: tracking current edges on the sonar, watching for bird activity above bait schools, and monitoring fleet radio for reports from other boats. This intelligence — combined with decades of personal experience — is what puts you on fish.

Pacific sailfish are the signature species of Quepos offshore fishing. These spectacular billfish — reaching 8–9 feet in length and leaping 10 times their body length from the water on the strike — are the stuff of angling legend. On the best days, the captain finds large aggregations of sailfish corralling baitfish balls at the surface — a wildlife spectacle of extraordinary intensity that happens to be accompanied by exceptional fishing.

When the sailfish aren't on, the full-day format allows the captain to find the yellowfin tuna schools — 30–100lb fish that school in the current breaks and provide some of the most physically demanding and rewarding fishing in the ocean. Wahoo lurk in the current edges, striking with lightning speed. Mahi-mahi (dorado) gather around floating debris, their electric blue-green coloration marking them as one of the most beautiful fish in the Pacific.