We fished with Dan Ross on the Ocean for Yellow Fin Tuna and caught 14 in about an hour for me and my wife. We also caught one large sailfish, my first ever!

We highly recommend the boat and it’s Captain as they know where to find the fish. Great customer service and we were pampered while on this fishing trip of a lifetime by our host and the crew! Food and beverages were top notch along with the fishing tackle and gear.

Jane and I will most definitely be back

Jerry B.

I will start off I have gone bill fishing in both Costa Rica and Mexico 4 times and Guatemala and Panama 1 time each. These trips were exclusively for those purposes. This trip was an for a Bachelor party. The crew consisted of 5 individuals including myself that had been going hard for two days and two nights. This is an ideal charter for a group that is on a budget. I would recommend no more than 5 and ideally 4 individuals per boat. This is per the fact you will not have enough opportunites for everyone to potentially have a shot at a billfish. Specifically, if you are fishing any month outside March, April, May. There is no head(toilet) on the boat if you have women joining or someone suffering from “bad ice.”

Fishing in the rainy (green) season can be a shot in dark. We avoided storms nearly all day until around 2:00 when they started pushing us inshore and a way from the deeper waters. Subsequently, away from the better fishing areas. Despite this we raised 8 sails and landed 3 of them. We landed the first two sails and raised seven by 12:00. Thus, don’t be late as the fish bite earlier in the day. We also brought in a single Skipjack Tuna that hit right out of the gate. Notably, the last Sail we picked up was at 3:30. Ironically, this occurred when the next angler up uttered “I guess it will only be two” in defeat per the hour of the day. All in all 3 lost their respective billfish virginity. We headed in after this to return to shore at around 5pm.

I will note going in June is not the ideal time to go for billfish. I was down for a bachelor party. If you are serious Angler go between March thru early May. You should expect to land 10+ fish per day minimally. The captain indicated he caught 26 Sails the first week of May on the boat. In early April the Los Suenos Billfish tournament landed over 1,000+ sailfish caught and released in a three day period amongst 30 boats.

The crew was solid and attentive. The Captian (Carlos) is very expierenced in the waters surrounding the area and mates on several billfish tournament boats that fish the Pacfic from Baja to Panama. His English is very good and has a good humor. We were given a solid offering of food/drinks consisting of:

-Ham and cheese sandwiches
-Pasta salad with fish (very good)
-Roterrise chicken (actually warm)
-Pineapple (cut on the boat)
-Imperial Beer
-Bottled juices
-Water
-Coca Cola and Squirt

The boat is a 30 foot center console Panga design boat, which can take the seas well.  We had seas ranging from 2-6ft and it kept us pretty dry. The center console is large and has storage to keep your things dry. I brought a 20 liter dry bag ($30 on Amazon) to keep my things together and subsequently everyone else’s. The boat has a canvas t-top that is extended to provide additional shade, which was crucial when the sun was out. It was mostly cloudly all day for us. We did run back in the rain, however the t-top and direction of the rain kept us from being drenched.

The boat has a single engine 175 HP 4-Stroke Suzuki. This allowed the boat to cruise around 17 knots out to the fishing grounds. There is a draw back to having a smaller single engine in that you will lose roughly 45 minutes - 1 hour of fishing compared to better powered boat. This is based on the additional time it takes get out and return for the prescribed fishing times. If you were booking for multiple days I would factor this in and look for a center console boat with 250 to 300 HP between a single or double engines setup. This should get you cruising at 25-30 knots out or go with a more pricy sportfisher that cruises at 25+ knots. Our run out and in was about an one hour and fifteen minutes each way.

You will board the boat via a tender directly off of the beach. For this reason and that the boat gets wet avoid tennis shoes and opt for sandals.

You will need to arrange or pay for your own transportation ($25 each way). We were staying in Hermosa Beach, which is why I selected this charter. I will note it is in fact not in Hermosa Beach, but in Playa Herradura / Los Suenos (35 minute car ride). I am shaving a star off because of that alone.

2 experienced Anglers, 2 Novice. Full moon, slow bite. Captain & Mate (Tony) worked very hard and were very knowledgable. No action on top. Ended the day on a deep drop.
Fresh Grouper for dinner!
We had a great time and will be repeat customers! Gracias!

We booked a trip at least a month ahead of time. We had confirmation emails for the charter. We arrived a day before our scheduled trip and called “Capt. Dan”, he had no idea of the following days trip despite the confirming emails. Capt. Dan said he would rearrange things to get us out on the boat. He would only take cash or PayPal. He picked us up at our hotel(the only thing he did for us) took us to the beach and we were shuttled to a boat. Not his boat. The crew greated us by telling us we were not his charter but he would rather take us 2 than the 3 he had scheduled. We paid Capt. Dan 950$ cash for trip. After looking at charter boats afterwards ,the boat he put us on was 200$ Less. We spent over 8 hrs fishing catching 1 sailfish in the first hr and nothing the rest of the day until the crew wanted to catch dinner for themselves on the way in. We deep dropped and caught 10-12” groupers, bout a dozen until I had to ask them several times to bring us in. We called Dan, he has’nt responded. We thought he should at least reimburse the 200$ for putting us on a less expensive smaller boat.