n perhaps the most hotly contested tournament in recent memory, this year’s Costa Offshore World Championship presented by Continental had all the excitement we’ve come to expect from this event: a team representing the host marina nearly going wire-to-wire; another team of seasoned veterans who refused to back down from a challenge, even after scoring just a single sailfish release in the slowest-of-slow starts; and a top angler who kept his cool after four days of grinding it out in the cockpit. All of this happened amid the tropical paradise of the central Pacific and the scenic community of Quepos, Costa Rica, perched on the coastal edge of the rainforest