Four years ago, while fishing with a jig for corvina at the mouth of the Terraba River with his son Steve, they landed their first Pacific tarpon. Jesús instantly remembered the huge fish scales he ...

Tarpon, Megalops atlanticus, is an Atlantic species not indigenous to Pacific waters. The Caribbean side of Costa Rica is world-famous for its tarpon fishery. The first time I encountered a tarpon in ...

But the size of the fish, and where it was caught, are remarkable in several ways. For one, it was caught in the Pacific Ocean. Tarpon are widely heralded as only indigenous to the Atlantic Ocean. But ...