INTERNATIONAL FLY & BILL FISH NEWS

Costa Rica

Latest news from Dar Randall and his most excellent Arena Alta Sport fishing group down in Golfito Costa Rica is sensational. The multitude of bill fish are hitting lures, flies and creating unbelievable ocean going trips for spectacular bill fish caught on the fly. Contact Dar at [email protected]. This great experienced deep water outfit is well known and respected for finding and humanely catching and releasing serious bill fish of all kinds.Costa Rica is home to much of the worlds finest ocean going fly fishing for bill fish, those in good shape and ready to take on hard fighting fish in bright eye popping crystal blue waters look no further. World class all the way for the more discriminating fly fishers these three hot spots are must do’s!

Africa

Ari Bert and his gang of African game fish chasers are having a banner year with excellent catches aboard their luxury yacht “ Walkabout”. The boys are knee deep in all kinds of fish from medium size fighters like Bluefin King fish, Ranbow Runner, Green Gobfish and large schools of of hard batteling Yellowfin Tuna in the 25-150 pound class. The tuna are massing and exploding upon huge schools of surface swimming prawns, an incredable sight flashing screaming colors against azure blue African ocean and tuna eyes alive with fight!! Wahoo, large sharks and Black Kingfish have been caught this year. Fly fishing purists who want to wrestle the big bad boys of both river and African ocean contact Ari bert at www.africanfishing.com

Slovenia

Rok Lustrik and his off the beaten path Slovenia fly fishing ( featured in February fly coloumn ) does feature oppertunities to catch and release a giant fish closely related to the Camin, the Hucho, Hucho pictured here with and all over the equally wonderful blond...

USA

Twenty miles off the coast of northern California deep ocean up swells have caused cold water thriving giant squid to be caught at depths of 400 to 1200 feet, they average twenty to sixty pounds or more and often hit the surface in fast twenty yard spurts complete wuth dark ink squirting tactics! An unusual oceanic phenoenenam possibly related to drastic deep sea temperture changes caused by global warming.

( See “ They came from beneath the sea “ by San Francisco outdoor writer Tom Stienstra, [email protected] )

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