Below find a collection of Todd’s articles on billfish conservation, fishing tips and stories and more from over 30 years in Costa Rica’s most rugged jungle regions. Learn how to catch roosterfish, Cubera snapper and everything you’ve always wanted to know about sailfish!
From his first job at Rio Colorado managing Archie Field’s world famous tarpon lodge to talking marlin fishing with Hemingway’s captain of the Pilar, Todd shares his experiences and adventures of over 30 years working for some of the worlds most famous fishing operations in Costa Rica.
TALES FROM THE JUNGLE
Havanah Day Dreaming: Cigar Smuggling and Conversations with Georgio
Costa Rica Expat Living: The Journey to Getting my Costa Rican Passport
In Costa Rica – it’s not always about the fish: An angler’s aside
Costa Rica’s ocean creatures inspire hand-crafted sculptures
Learn how to catch everything from Snook to Sailfish on the Fly with these articles from various fishing magazines and local newspapers throughout the years
Tales from life in the Jungle and on the water from Puerto Jimenez to San Jose and Rio Colorado.
From bringing back Costa Rica’s yellowfin tuna and saving dolphins to his unfinished dream of making Sailfish a National Symbol. Browse a complete archives of Todd’s conservation articles throughout the years.
Tales from life in the Jungle and on the water from Puerto Jimenez to San Jose and Rio Colorado.
Three Billboards Outside San José, Costa Rica: Can fish bring a country together?
Fishing for science: Tagging and studying sailfish and marlin habits
Young biologist’s only sailfishing trophies are tissue samples
Reader not fond of ‘torturing fish’ – but sportfishing isn’t the problem
Sport fishing group donates food baskets to Costa Rican coastal communities
Illegal fishing kills Costa Rica marine life and tourism in Golfo Dulce and Southern Zone
Costa Rican sport fishing group asks for ban on sale of sailfish
16,000 Dead Sailfish in Costa Rica: Sport Fishermen can help change that
Costa Rica’s New Sailfish Ruling, Conservation or Smoke and Mirrors?
Charter Fishing Operators in Costa Rica….. Stop being Idiots!
Time for Costa Rica Sport Fishermen to Unite
Guatemala Conservation Meetings leads to Bucket List Fishing
Three Billboads utside San José, Costa Rica: Can fish bring a country together?
The Fight to Give Costa Rica Tuna Back to Costa Ricans
Tussling for tuna: Costa Rican fishermen fight for a local resource gifted to foreigners
Costa Rica tuna decree seems to be working
Opinion: Costa Rica’s dolphin hypocrisy
Project advances to move tuna sein boats 100 miles from coast
Illegal fishing kills Costa Rica marine life and tourism in Golfo Dulce and Southern Zone
Costa Rica delays protection of dolphins
Costa Rica´s Tuna Regulations Affect Dolphins and National Fishermen
Articles featuring Todd’s IGFA Awards and More
Chester H. Wolfe Award
Barry M. Fitzpatrick Conservation Award
“I’ve always been crazy about fishing – find something you love to do, then try to make a living at it. That’s the key to life.”
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.”
– Ernest Hemingway
Staleys follow dream to Costa Rica from the Captain’s Vault By TERRY TOMALIN Published Aug. 23, 1991 Tampa Bay Times Have you ever dreamed of walking into your boss’ office…
An excerpt from The Tampa Bay Times featuring the backstory on Todd Staley’s first move from Florida to Costa Rica
Have you ever dreamed of walking into your boss’ office some Monday morning and dropping a resignation letter on the desk? “See you later,” you say with a confident smile. “I’m going fishing.”
The thought may have crossed your mind once or twice, but if you’re like most people, your mortgage, car payment and stack of credit card bills quickly brought you back to reality.
“What am I nuts?” you might have said to yourself. “Give up everything that I’ve worked for to follow some dream? I must be crazy!”
But being called crazy never bothered Todd Staley.
“I’ve always been crazy about fishing,” Staley said. “Find something you love to do, then try to make a living at it. That’s the key to life.”
And that is what Staley plans to do. Next month, the 37-year-old former telephone technician and his wife Jennifer will embark on the adventure of a lifetime.
They’ve sold their cars, furniture and television sets, and stocked up on all those little amenities that are hard to find in the jungle: shampoo, razors and dental floss. In three weeks, they’ll pack up their fishing rods and Hawaiian shirts, then take off for tropical Costa Rica.
There, Staley will assume the helm of the Rio Colorado Lodge, a 36-guest fishing resort, nestled in the rain forest at the mouth of a tarpon-filled river. Jennifer, who until recently operated a local guide referral service, will oversee the lodge’s kitchen and housekeeping services.READ FULL ARTICLE FROM TAMPA BAY TIMES 1991
