Went down to Nicaragua and Costa Rica for vacation and decided to do some fishing as well of course. In Costa Rica we left out of Playa Flamingo onboard the Plautus, which is a great boat with a very experienced captain and crew. We had a sailfish come up in the spread but never got him to take any. A little while later we hooked up to a big blue marlin. This was my dad’s first marlin and its been his dream for a long time. It was taken in two hours on 30 pound class tackle 
. It was successfully released boat side and never taken out of the water. The captain said it was about 500+ pounds. We had a few more sailfish come up the rest of the day but never got any hooked up. It was still a very memorable experience with the family. We later fished in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua where my brother and I caught two roosterfish on a half, but very windy day.
