Sport Fishing Costa Rica Offshore - Inshore - Kayak - and Surf fishing

2. GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
Since it is a family, the characteristics do not vary much from a species to another one, with the exception of the colors or tonalities of such, reason why to generalize we could say that:
Generally the head and the height of the body always the length overall of its body will be of 2,5 to 3 times; the dorsal fin has 10 thorns with 12 radios; the anal fin with three thorns and 8 radios; between 47 and 52 grudges in series horizontal under the lateral line.
Its body always will be elongated and tablet, which allows him to be a powerful swimmer or at the time of going towards its prey or at the moment at which it feels the steel of the hooks nailed in his buccal cavity.

Given
FEEDING the voracity of the snapper, the nourishing phantom is characterized for being ample in all the sense of the word, crustaceans, fish, mollusks, equinoderms and annelids.
The snapper is considered like carnivores feeding itself preferably with crustaceans, shrimps, throughout the year.
During its youthful stage, until the 20 centimeters in length, they are fed almost exclusively on shrimps and because during this stage they please to take shelter in mangles and lagoons coastal.
Soon in its mature stage, when emigrating to deeper waters and therefore of more activity, they begin to practically consume of everything what it is put to them to the front, fish, crabs, mollusks, etc.

The FISHING OF the snapper

the snapper is a fish that we could call cosmopolitan, since practically we will be able to as much find it in a great variety of species in the Atlantic coast as the Pacific one.
It is a beautiful and powerful specimen, whose physiological and morphologic characteristics are almost identical between the great range of species and cures difference is basically in the colorful tonality and of each one.
Before initiating this chapter, the reader must know clearly the fact that the snapper is untiring predators and will attack or by hunger or territory, everything what he puts himself to them to the front.

1. FISHING TO DEPTH
As or it scores in the previous Chapter, the snapper is a species that pleases of the depths finding them it until the 100 or 125 meters, reason why if the fisherman decides to go in search of them and has detected a low or marine precipice, or by means of the sonar or by passed experiences, in which it grows a school or shoal of fish of snapper, will be necessary to dedicate good leaves to the time to the call depth fishing.

At the time of making the decision to fish to depth, the fisherman it will have to be clear that it will be able to capture snapper of great stature and power, reason why at any moment will have to be prepared for violent enlistment and to assure he himself one will be due to count on sufficient line in capacity and amount, first to place the bait to depths that oscillate the 80 to 100 meters if second is wanted and so that the same one is not going to be burst at the time of the resentment.
Also the technique is due to heft to use, without with cane or line by hand.

In first of the cases, the experience mainly says to me that it is quite difficult, at the time of making enlistment and if it is a species of medium size, the truth is that it is going to cost to feel the resentment.
However if one fishes with cord and spool of hand, the resentment will be almost predictable but violent for the hand, reason why necessarily it will be due to use gloves of leather (cleaning rod) or in its defect, will be due to make a leather thimble to place in the forefinger and thus to avoid that he himself is burned or cut by the cord;

However, if to obtain the thimble it is difficult or one has forgotten in house, we will be able to count on two alternatives you practice more, first to cover the finger with electrical insulating tape 3M or what I have seen use the local fishermen, a tire piece #16 for bicycle, whose diameter is right the one of a forefinger.
The line, whose capacity will not have to be inferior to the thirty pounds, will have to count on sufficient plummet so that when falling to precipice is not transported by the currents to other places and in addition so that the fall is constant and vertical. There are some who please besides to install two or three hooks to the lines so that if a bank or shoal of fish of snapper goes through for example, they are managed to hook one in each hook perfectly.