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Not really sure, but it took 3 people to get it in position for the picture so it was heavy Ha!

Inshore fishing has been crazy good here with lots of big school of sardines running up and down the coast pulling all the fish out of their caves and rivers. Check out this huge BroomTail Grouper from last week: In addition to the gruoper, there have been lots of snook around lately too...

Quepos Fishing Report May 2016 Some of the best inshore fishing I can remember ever in May here in Quepos Costa Rica. There is a huge school of sardines that is parked right out in front of Quepos, and it has brought all the roosterfish, snook, snapper, seabass, and even big grouper out of...

Most definitely, we got it on ice right away and then the mates even took the head to make soup! We try to gaff them in the head, so it's not super cruel. We didn't tag the marlin, we just get them to the side of the boat, shoot some pictures and then the mate pulls the hook out! Would...

One of the biggest Mahi I've seen out here, check out the size on this thing! Fishing has been pretty good lately, best day this week was 11 dorado and a nice marlin, slowest day was 3 sails and a pair of dorado. Fishing is really start to pick up down here! Sorry for the bad colors, my...

Definitely a satisfying project, but now that it's finished, I'm really enjoying the boat!

Thanks. It kind of has the carolina flare hull wise, but they didn't bring the bow up. The was one of their earlier boats, the next boat they built they gave the bow a nice flare but it's essentially the same hull with just a couple of inches added to the bow. I'll include a picture of the...

We let the customers have as much fun as they want downstairs, but we have all the controls upstairs. My first year out, I had a guy get really really drunk and he thought it was funny putting the boat in neutral while I was trying to dock upstairs. Almost wrecked the boat, so I decided it's...

Working on that. There were 8 original ones, 3 sank from neglect, and there are two in really poor condition that I'm trying to negotiate. But even for a junk wood hull, they are asking 80K, so I'm trying to negotiate them down!

It's got a cummins 5.9 liter 250hp JWC. Runs about 19 knots (before it went 15 but we took off alot of weight!). More info...let's see... It's cold molded which means it's got three layers of 1/4 inch wood as a hull and no ribs or supporting beams. It's like a really big piece of plywood...

Yeah, it's a day boat that we charter, we never go out at night or over night, and it's always 80 degrees here in Costa Rica so the cabin was just an oven. Opening that up, we put the shade where the cabin used to be, and just left a small cabin up front where there is a bathroom and where we...

We spent 7 days a week, 14 hours a day, getting her back to new. Had to bring it all the way down to the hull and do a couple of patches, put in new hull and motor supports (the wood beams the motor sits on) and then built a small cabin up front with the bathroom and a ton of rod holders! It was...

Man, it's hard to say what's it's made of. They are pretty durable, but if the fish goes nuts when you grab it's bill and you don't get the bill close to the mouth, they'll break off. I've only seen it happen once, as my mate handles a lot of fish, and I imagine he already cracked it somewhere...

Ok, let's say your wife buys you a ticket to see Brazil. You are super excited to go, and while you are there, you want to explore the rain forest a little bit. let's say you go on a tour. While you are touring the jungle, you get caught in one of the native people's trap. They find you, and...

I finally got my new Nikon D5100 camera today, and today we took it out for the first time on the water. Got some really good aerial shots of some sailfish, and also some video from it. We were actually hooked up today, when a totally white, albino sailfish swam right past the boat. I've only...