UNLIKELY CHAMPIONS

It’s better to be lucky than good; happy boats catch fish; we’re just here to have a good time—we’ve all heard the same old idioms about tournament fishing for years. But sometimes a story comes along that really highlights those sentiments.

The 2022 Costa Offshore World Championship, held this past April in Quepos, Costa Rica, hosted 37 teams and 168 anglers from 18 different countries. It’s perhaps the most internationally diverse tournament of its kind in the world, and yet there’s not a dime of prize money to be won—it’s all for the title of Offshore World Champions (plus a boatload of trophies and prizes). Every team fishing had