Topwater Tuna action in Costa Rica

 Months ago I took a trip to Costa Rica and wrote a little report here  http://fishwrecked.com/forum/costa-rica-tuna-sailfish-trip-photos-video

Now I've finally finished my little edit of the fishing. 
Short of it is, chasing Spinner Dolphins around for Yellowfin Tuna, once located start throwing stickbaits and plastics at busting fish and then shout with excitement at the awesome surface strikes..
Pay close attention to 1.22
Pretty damn good

https://youtu.be/vK6p_82b4Eg

Filmed mostly with a Gopro Session 1080P at 60FPS Protune on (not entirely stoked with the picture quality, alot of noise and bad shading)
Watch in HD and it still looks great though.
Cheers,
Kurt

____________________________________________________________________________

Storyteller with a camera, check out my fishing movies
https://www.youtube.com/user/kwillo89
https://www.instagram.com/kwillo89/


ricey's picture

Posts: 738

Date Joined: 24/12/09

1:03

Wed, 2016-08-31 16:23

The moment the trip nearly ended...

 

Tuna are awesome.

____________________________________________________________________________

Wise man says - first take the plank out of your own eye before trying to take the speck out of somebody else's.

Boydy's picture

Posts: 623

Date Joined: 26/09/12

"Top fun"

Wed, 2016-08-31 17:12

 Cool vid, definitely 1:03 I even crossed my legs hard!

scano's picture

Posts: 1247

Date Joined: 31/05/07

Great video

Wed, 2016-08-31 17:26

 Nice work. Surely those yft have larger predators? Should have live baited one

____________________________________________________________________________

 

 

K_willo's picture

Posts: 167

Date Joined: 07/05/12

 Hahaha I'm glad someone

Thu, 2016-09-01 16:15

 Hahaha I'm glad someone picked up on this, yes I defintely almost lost my Saltiga combo in there. 
Thats a good point Scano, We were constantly moving so I'm not sure a livie would have been viable, we did have a teaser in the water though as we were definitely in Sailfish territory.

____________________________________________________________________________

Storyteller with a camera, check out my fishing movies
https://www.youtube.com/user/kwillo89
https://www.instagram.com/kwillo89/

Posts: 3246

Date Joined: 15/08/09

What a great vid - congrats

Thu, 2016-09-01 16:31

Can see why you won't forget that in a hurry  What combo you running there?

Posts: 755

Date Joined: 29/03/13

awesome

Thu, 2016-09-01 19:24

 just watching that made me wanna go out and target longtail tuna

____________________________________________________________________________

Down the Line

 

Catch the Experience 

K_willo's picture

Posts: 167

Date Joined: 07/05/12

 Running an old Daiwa Saltiga

Sun, 2016-09-04 16:53

 Running an old Daiwa Saltiga 4500 with SOM spool, rod was a Saltiga 63S PE4. I had a Yamaga popping outfit setup for exactly this and I arrived in Costa Rica to find the top snapped off the Yamaga, not happy, thanks TSA. 

____________________________________________________________________________

Storyteller with a camera, check out my fishing movies
https://www.youtube.com/user/kwillo89
https://www.instagram.com/kwillo89/

ranmar850's picture

Posts: 2702

Date Joined: 12/08/12

Nothing, just nothing, beats topwater

Fri, 2016-09-09 21:34

 You just can't beat popper and surface stickbaits for fun. Seeing 10 kg of longtail or 15kg plus of spaniard greyhounding out of the water directly behind your lure then swallowing it midair, nothing beats that.