Captain
Frank Fines
Member since February 2016
Samara, Costa Rica
- Background
- Captain Frank Fines is a friendly, bilingual, and very knowledgeable local fishing guide in Samara, Costa Rica. Having fished since childhood, he first started working on local commercial fishing boats when he was a young teenager. Over the last four years, Captain Frank has dedicated his time to guiding charter fishing trips, and he has worked for several sport fishing boats as captain and guide. This experience has proven to him how much he loves sharing his experiences with anglers from all over the world, and he now he is proud to operate his own charter business aboard a fully rigged Mako 25 ft.
Hey, I'm Captain Frank Fines
- Background
- Captain Frank Fines is a friendly, bilingual, and very knowledgeable local fishing guide in Samara, Costa Rica. Having fished since childhood, he first started working on local commercial fishing boats when he was a young teenager. Over the last four years, Captain Frank has dedicated his time to guiding charter fishing trips, and he has worked for several sport fishing boats as captain and guide. This experience has proven to him how much he loves sharing his experiences with anglers from all over the world, and he now he is proud to operate his own charter business aboard a fully rigged Mako 25 ft.
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Fishing Reports
January fishing in Samara Beach
So far January has been all about groupers inshore and big yellowfin tunas and dorados offshore. Yesterday´s all day offshore tour was spectecular with 2 of 2 on blue Marlin, 4 of 6 on dorado and 2 of 2… Read Full Report →
27 Jan 2017 Samara Fishing Report
We had a fun day of fishing with Greg and Ann Sherlock from Wisconsin. It was a sunny day with calm and clear waters and just about 2 to 3 miles off shore we caught a couple of Yellowfin… Read Full Report →
12 Jan 2017 Samara Fishing Report
Catch of the day: Rooster 35 to 40 lbs, Yellowfin was about 10 lbs. We have been staying close to shore, about 3 miles. Mostly calm winds and flat ocean for the month of January. Read Full Report →
Amberjack caught inshore!
We went out fishing at 7 am in the morning. The water was a little choppy with a bit of swell. The weather stayed in between cloudy and sunny. First we caught tunas for bait and then we caught… Read Full Report →
Nice 10 lbs Red Snapper
Today we caught a very nice Snapper and a couple of Groupers. Water was calm and flat with blue sky at first and later on some clouds came by. Taylor and his dad had a good time offshoring. We… Read Full Report →
Fishing season start off - Grouper
It's fishing season start off here in Costa Rica and also for us. We took out 6 people on a inshore half day fishing tour, starting at 7:30 in the morning. The weather was cloudy all day as we… Read Full Report →
Fishing with my buddy Captain Ron
We had a really nice day, a little bit cloudy. Inshore, we went out about 9 miles, in 350 feet of water. By bottom fishing we hooked some smaller Groupers. Most of them we caught with bait. The big… Read Full Report →
Inshore fishing with good action
We have been catching lots of red snappers for the last two days. We lost a couple of fish on the rocks with life tuna. The water has been calm and had luck with the weather, not so much… Read Full Report →