Costa Rica Offshore Trip Lands Three Tuna and Two Sailfish

Three tuna and two sailfish is not the kind of scoreline that needs inflation. Out of Herradura, Captain Jorge and Whisper Fishing Team turned a request for a nice offshore experience into a compact day that delivered both table-fare and billfish action on the same run.

The April 23, 2026 trip came aboard the team’s 29-foot boat and finished with three tuna and two sailfish. That mix matters more than a single headline fish, because it shows the crew found an offshore pocket where multiple pelagic species were feeding well enough to keep the rods busy. For an angler paying for a Costa Rica charter, that is the kind of result that signals real value: steady action, not just one lucky shot.

The report also landed in the middle of a strong April stretch for Herradura. FishingBooker’s April listing for the area included another Whisper Fishing Team outing on April 22 that produced three sailfish and three tuna, which points to a bite that held across consecutive days rather than flashing once and disappearing. In a place like Herradura, that consistency is the story. It suggests the boats were working productive water, likely around bait, current breaks, or other offshore structure that kept yellowfin tuna and sailfish in the same neighborhood.

That lines up with the broader seasonal pattern on Costa Rica’s Central Pacific coast. Local fishing calendars say April is still a strong month for sailfish there, while yellowfin tuna become more consistent, and NOAA describes yellowfin as highly migratory fish that favor warm water between 64 and 88 degrees Fahrenheit. FishBase places sailfish in the same highly migratory camp with a broad eastern Pacific range. Put together, the species pairing from Herradura reads like exactly the sort of mixed offshore setup experienced anglers hope for in the dry season.

The setting helps explain why the trip mattered. Los Sueños Resort & Marina, just beside Herradura Bay, says William Royster dropped anchor there in 1991 and envisioned a destination resort on the site, and it still bills the area as the “Billfish Capital of the World.” That reputation is built on days like this one, when a 29-foot boat with Captain Jorge delivered tuna and sailfish in the same outing and gave Herradura another solid data point for anglers timing a Central Pacific run right now.