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Inaugural Bisbee's Costa Rica Offshore 2026 - Official Tournament Recap | $2.155M Purse, 1,820 Fish

Costa Rica answered Bisbee's call. 🇨🇷🎣 For the first time in Bisbee's 44-year history, the world's richest sportfishing series hosted a tournament outside of Mexico. 79 elite teams descended on Marina Pez Vela in Quepos, Costa Rica for the Inaugural Bisbee's Costa Rica Offshore — an all-release billfish format that delivered non-stop action, record-setting release numbers, and over $2.155 MILLION in prize money across 15 paying positions. This is the official recap. Every shotgun start, every double-header, every dockside celebration — all condensed into the story of how a new legacy began. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏆 2026 CRO TOP RESULTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🥇 TOP BOAT — PURA VIDA ($929,850) 62 Paul Mann | Capt. Rudy Arguedas Owners: JC & Aileen Gonzalez 59 sailfish + 3 blue marlin released 🐟 TOP TUNA — NORTH STAR COSTA RICA ($186,550) 187 lb yellowfin | Capt. Randy Morales (35 Swordfish) 🐬 TOP DORADO — HOWLER ($79,450) 60.91 lb bull dorado | Capt. Jean Carlos Segura Serrato (38.3 Viking) 👩 TOP LADY ANGLER — NIKITA TIMMERMANS Salochankita (74 Viking) | Capt. Andrew Mason 18 sailfish released 🍹 FLOR DE CAÑA DAILY HAPPY HOUR WINNERS: Trophy Fly (Capt. Mainor Oporta) • Pura Vida • Fish Tank ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📊 BY THE NUMBERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ - 79 boats competing - $2,155,900 total prize purse - 1,722 Pacific sailfish released - 33 blue marlin released - 2 black marlin released - 55 tuna weighed - 8 dorado weighed - 15 teams paid ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 LINKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▶ Tournament Info: https://bisbees.com/tournaments/bisbees-costa-rica-offshore ▶ Live Scoring & Results: https://bisbees.catchstat.com/Default/Tournament/LiveScoring?TournamentID=379 ▶ Register for 2027: https://bisbees.catchstat.com ▶ Bisbee's Store: https://shop.bisbees.com 🗓 MARK YOUR CALENDAR: The 2027 Bisbee's Costa Rica Offshore returns to Marina Pez Vela April 6–10, 2027. Registration is OPEN. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🙏 THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💎 DIAMOND: Pelagic Gear • Bisbee's Fish & Wildlife Conservation Fund 🏅 PLATINUM: Cross Chartering Yacht Transport • Eckard Enterprises • Galati Yacht Sales • Viking Yachts 🥇 GOLD: Elite Marine Stabilizers • Parador Nature Resort & Spa • Willis Custom Yachts • National Car Rental • Bisbee's Bourbon • Bisbee's Real Estate Group • CatchStat.com • Marine Art and Trophies And a massive thank you to our host, Marina Pez Vela, the country of Costa Rica, and every angler, captain, crew and family member who made the inaugural CRO a tournament for the history books. Pura Vida. 🌴 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 SUBSCRIBE for full recaps from every Bisbee's event: Costa Rica Offshore, East Cape Offshore, Los Cabos Offshore, and the $11.5M+ Black & Blue — the Super Bowl of Sportfishing. 👍 Like this video if you're ready to fish Quepos in 2027. 💬 Comment below: Who's your pick for Top Boat next year? #Bisbees #CostaRicaOffshore #Sportfishing #Marlin #Sailfish #Quepos #PuraVida #MarinaPezVela #AllRelease #BillfishTournament #OffshoreFishing #BigGameFishing #TournamentFishing #PelagicGear #VikingYachts