CROWNING CHAMPIONS IN COSTA RICA
THE NUMBERS ARE SIMPLY STAGGERING: 42,217 billfish releases in 84 days of tournament competition since 2004, for an average of more than 500 billfish releases per tournament day. Big days? Sure—how about the second leg of the series in 2016, where 43 boats racked up 2,752 sailfish releases in three days, for an average of 64 fish per boat? During that one you could release 75 sails in three days and not even make the top 10. Miss one or two bites and drop from first to third, or from third into obscurity—it happens every year. Incredible and incredibly consistent action, season after season, with some of the top teams on the hottest boats in the world. Those are just a few of many reasons why the Los Sueños Signature Triple Crown has achieved its current level of popularity, but the road to success certainly was not an easy one.
Los Sueños Resort and Marina is perched like an osprey on the central Pacific coast of Costa Rica, overlooking some grade-A prime fishing real estate. Bill Royster happened upon the property in Herradura Bay while traveling along the coast of Central America aboard his long-range sport-fisher during a sabbatical in 1991; at the time it was a 1,100-acre cattle ranch, nothing more. It took nine years and miles upon miles of red tape, but in 2000