EPIC Blue Marlin Fishing in Costa Rica

My good buddy, Alex Stevens, gave me a call and he's like, bro, my neighbor has got a boat in Costa Rica. Do you want to come? I'm like, that sounds like a lot of fun, dude. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to make the trip. I had other plans, but our good buddy, Max McKinley from Maxwell Charters, you guys have seen him on the show before. He took my place and they had an amazing trip. You're going to love this. Check it out. That's him. Yeah, buddy. Fish on, fish on. Got it? Yep, got it. I just need the clip. Fish on, guys. Oh, no. Woo! Woo-hoo! Yeah, buddy! Big one, buddy. Oh, look at him go! Oh! Yeah, buddy! He's coming for you! Coming right at us. Oh, yeah. He's digging. Digging deep. All right. Now we're slowing down. All right, leader. Got it? Little bit, yeah. Yeah! Nice fish. Yeah, buddy! That's what I'm talking about. Woo! Big fish, man. Just reeling this slack in. Nice. Dude, that fish is insane. How big do you think that fish was? Maybe 300. 300? Yeah. 300 pounds. I mean, that's awesome. We've been catching them like that all morning. It's like nothing to them out here, but this fishery's flat, amazing. We're gonna put some more lines out, start trolling again, see what we can't catch. So when I feed it, what do I do? How long? You're gonna drop it in the free spool. It's already, the only thing it's got on one is the clicker. You gotta take the clicker off the gear and go. You stop. Take the clicker off. Put your thumb on it. Free spool. Just let it go. Like five, 10 seconds? Palm Beach five count, I like that. Got another marlin on. Been jumping across here a couple of times already. Seems like it could be a solid fish, maybe a black, we don't know yet, but he's kind of chilling on the surface, so we'll see if we get some more jumps out of him. After he went off, he'd just kind of been chilling on the surface, so he should have a lot of energy beside the boat, so that should make things interesting. Later. We'll be later. Later. Yeah, I like him. Got another solid fish. Another one, dude. Let's get another. So we've been trolling for a while. It's the middle of the day, it's hot. We're averaging a bite every 45 minutes to an hour now, which is still awesome, but we're just gonna switch it up a little bit until we wait for this evening bite to pick up. We got some teasers out. No live baits, nothing with hooks is out there. Everything is fake. Everything is just meant to bring Marlin up to the surface. When the Marlin come up to the surface, we have pitch rods ready. We'll pitch a bait back to him, and hopefully we'll get a sick eat. There he is. Huh? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's right here. He's trying to eat the teaser. Same fish. That looked like it's the same fish. Same fish. Same fish is trying to eat the teaser. Oh, it popped. Hey, that was awesome. That was awesome. The same fish was trying to eat our teasers. The one that I had on. Wow. The fish is hooked up and he's trying to eat it. Oh my gosh. It doesn't get crazier than that. It doesn't. Feeding him? Is this the same fish? I swear. I'm ready whenever you are. Got him? Yeah. Yeah, buddy. He's running. He's jumping. There he is. Yeah, buddy. Is that the same fish? Yeah, it is. We had one teaser in the water, no baits. Unbelievable. He was trying to eat our other teasers, like you guys saw, and then he came off, and we were like, oh, whatever, you know? That was awesome. Then he comes back up 30 seconds later and hits another bait. Unreal fishing down here, guys. This is a big fish. It's a big one. Oh, man. Yeah. Yeah, buddy. Coming towards us. He's still higher, for sure. She was hungry. 25 minutes in, and this fish can still pull like this. I'll just say it again. I hooked him, or we hooked him the first time when he came up on our teasers, and he came off after a minute or two, and we thought nothing of it. We were like, okay, you know, whatever. We'll get a shot of the next one soon. Same fish comes up 30 seconds later in the same teaser spread. We pitch a bait to him, and the rest is history. Woo-hoo-hoo! Nice fish. Ha-ha. Oh, man, nice fish. That's a good one. Let her go. Woo-hoo! Thank you. Good job, guys. Wow. Guys, that fish, I mean, we probably had that fish hooked for 20, 30 minutes. It came up the first time, came up in the spread, hit the live bait that we pitched at it, came off, came back 30 seconds later, hit it again. I mean, I have no words. This place is amazing. Just make sure you guys come down here and check it out, for sure. Nice, Dolph. Still a nice fish, though, man. Still a nice fish. Got him. Nice shot. Nice little 12-pounder. Trolling from Marlin here, and we had a mahi take a full-size tuna down, so good-sized mahi. That's a beautiful fish. Tubes, as you can see. I'm gonna show you these tubes. These are actually really, really cool. I've never seen them in person. I've only heard about them. It's actually five tubes right here, and the high-speed pickup is just natural. It comes from the water coming up from the back inside of the tubes. All you gotta do is put baits in there head first, and the baits actually swim into the pickup coming from the bottom, so it's perfect, because you don't have to fiddle around a live well or anything like that. Just grab them by the tail, pick them up, and they're ready to go. Oh! Nice! Real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real! We've been, you know, really working hard today. It's been a little tougher, but we've already lost a few fish this morning. We lost a big dolphin, you know, but got this one hooked pretty good, it seems, so knock on wood. Let's land this Marlin. Yeah, buddy. Jumping! Woo! Big Marlin. Dargana. Yeah. Turn that handle. Come on, baby, come on. You're getting them now. Oh, yeah. Leader! Leader, leader! Woo! Good fish. Dude, that Marlin fought real hard. Yeah, he jumped a couple times. He stayed down deep, and we really had to pump him up at that point, so. Well, I think he got foul hooked a little bit, like that first one I caught yesterday. Hey, can't do anything about that, but. Even with circles. Yep. He'll slip in the mouth and get him somewhere else. Exactly. Big one, though, dude. He's still kicked off, so. Oh, yeah. Nice and healthy. Like 350, 400 pounder. Big Marlin, guys. Oh, yeah. Nice sailfish on right now. Come on, buddy. Woo! Big sailfish. Whoa! Yeah, I'm going over you. Can you spit it? No, he got it. Nice sailfish, man. Nice sailfish. That's sick. Nice sailfish, man. Nice sailfish. Nice. Yeah, buddy. Woo! Can I get a picture? Quick. Okay, guys. Well, guys, there you have another awesome sailfish. I mean, the thing was jumping everywhere. Just so acrobatic. These sailfish here, they're not eating goggle eyes. They're not eating mullet and pilchards. They're eating tunas. Like, you know, bonitas this big. And we have them out trolling for Marlin. 100-pound sailfish here is like nothing. It's average. So that's awesome fish. Gonna put some lines back out and see if we can get another one. Right there, he ate it! He ate it! Woo-hoo! We made the run, took the risk, made the run down here a little further south. See if we can get a black, and this is our second hit of the day. First one just took the bait off. It's thrashing! Oh, that's epic. Nice fish. Henry said it's a big one. It's a big one, guys. All right, back off the drag. Black Marlin to the boat! Pop! It's okay. That's a caught. It's a caught black Marlin. Woo-hoo! Hey, that's what we came down here for, guys. We made a little run a little further down south. Nice black Marlin. That was our second bite of the morning. Harry's stoked, I'm stoked. That was awesome, man. So, Harry, you were telling me earlier that back in the day, people didn't even have live wells. That's how this whole thing, skipping baits like this, came to life. Can you tell us a little more about that? Yeah, it wasn't just live wells. It was mostly the tuna tubes that we have now so that we can keep Benita alive for an extended period of time and fish him as live bait. And my opinion is the live bait is gonna produce at a higher rate than the dead baits. However, this technique you're seeing right here, this is a traditional technique used in this part of the world to catch black Marlin. And what you have, you have rigged Benita sewn behind teasers. This rig was used from the 60s on and was the primary way that guys fished down here. Oh my gosh. Oh, we got a really big dolphin on here, guys. We're trolling. We're a mile offshore, I mean. All right, 20, 30 pounds. Yeah! Woo! Nice dolphin, dude. Easy 25, 30 pound dolphin. Just crushed that lure, that imperial lure. We're just trolling, we're a mile offshore, guys. I mean, it's unbelievable. This fish hit like a freight train. He's jumping all over the place out there. Look how much meat he's getting, dude. Every little bit. This is the difference between fishing back home and fishing here. Back home, we would tell you, put your fish on ice immediately, get him cooled down so he's easy to fillet and fresh as can be. Right here, we just fillet him right on the boat, go inside and cook him up. We've been eating fresh mahi, tuna. I mean, triple tail, everything you can think of this trip. Every day on the boat, it's like paradise. You won't believe it. Got a huge marlin on right now. We're trolling into the inshore spot and just put out some Alex's lures, Imperium Outfitters, baby. Those lures are crushing it. Big fish, very big fish. Coming up, coming up. Coming up, let's go. Yeah, buddy! Look at him go, look at him go! Yeah, buddy! Blue? Oh, he's coming at us! Oh man, oh man! Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo! Big blue. Oh, dude, fish came straight out of the water here. It was jumping at us, it was jumping the side, throwing the lure all around. You just can't beat it, man. It's great. Come on, baby. Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo! Yeah, buddy! That was a good one. Thing is a beast, bro. Thing's an absolute beast. Been on this fish for, I think, about 20, 30 minutes now here. Yeah. Come up a couple times, going back down. Fish has a little bit of everything. We heard them whistling, came running out. Got a 600-pound blue marlin on one. Sure enough, hooked up on the beluga, man. Oh, dude. Lure's great. Those lures have been crushing it. This whole trip, those lures have been absolutely crushing it. This fish came on top of the water, it came back up, it's going back down. The most awesome scenario possible for fighting these marlin. They've given us such an aerial show out there, like it, can't beat it. Yeah, you too. All right! Forward! Forward, forward! All right, you're good. Oh yeah, here it comes, here it comes. Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo! Woo! What a fish! Hold his tail up! Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo! That's a good fish there, buddy. Woo! Hey! Yeah, buddy! Yeah! That's what I'm talking about. I can't even explain to you guys. There's 20 to 30 marlin both side. Dolphin, tuna, triple tail. I mean, we're eating them fresh as we're fishing for marlin. It's unbelievable. I mean, this trip has exceeded my farthest expectations and I can't say enough good things about this man and how he runs his ship and his crew. It's first class, second to none. The accommodations that they offer here in Golfito, Costa Rica. I mean, even for families, if you want to come down, you know, not just as a couple guys looking for an awesome fishing trip, but if you want to bring your family, he has a house right there that his wife designed herself. It's amazing. You guys can stay at the house. There's zip lining, jungle excursions for the family. It's unreal. So you guys really have to give this place a look for your next, you know, trip of a lifetime, really. I mean, it's a trip of a lifetime. And if you guys want to give Captain Harry a shout for this trip, the link will be in the description for a way to contact him. Other than that, we're headed back to the plane, go to Florida. So don't forget to subscribe, turn on post notifications, smash that like button. We'll see you next time. Black Tip H Fishing is brought to you by Frog Tongs, designed for you, created for the outdoors and Sudacore Nutrition.