THIS WEEK OUR ANGLERS WERE FACED WITH THE AWESOME TASK OF REELING IN YELLOWFIN TUNA UNTIL THEIR ARMS ACHED. NOW DON'T YOU JUST FEEL SORRY FOR THEM? IT ALL STARTED NEAR ISLA LADRONES WHERE OUR ANGLERS LANDED A FEW YELLOWFIN TUNA AND A SEVERAL GOOD SIZE DORADO. NEXT THEY WERE FISHING AROUND ISLA MONTUOSA, BUT THIS WEEK THE ANGLERS FOUND GREEN WATER HERE AND FEW FISH. SO WHAT TO DO? HEAD STRAIGHT FOR HANNIBAL BANK WHERE THEY FOUND SCHOOLS OF YELLOWFIN TUNA BUSTING THE SURFACE. NOW THIS WASN'T JUST A SCHOOL OF TUNA. THERE WERE SCHOOLS OF TUNA EVERYWHERE! OUR CAPTAINS WOULD RUN ALONG SIDE OF THE SCHOOLS AS THE ANGLERS CAST IN THEIR POPPERS . THE TUNA WOULD CRASH THE POPPERS AS YELLOWFIN AFTER YELLOWFIN WERE HOOKED. LIVE BAITS WERE ALSO CAST INTO THE SCHOOLS OF TUNA WHICH WOULD RESULT IN A FEEDING FRENZY. MOST OF THE TUNA WERE IN THE 40 TO 60 LB CLASS WITH SOME 80 TO 100 LB TUNA MIXED IN. LET ME TELL YOU THE DRAGS WERE SCREAMING. THIS WAS FISHING ACTION AT ITS' MAX!

ANGLERS IN ON THE FISHING ACTION THIS WEEK WERE RETURNING ANGLER BILL HUELSENBECK AND HIS GROUP THAT INCLUDED TONY MAUTONE, ANGELO SAMMARTANO, WAYNE THOMAS, LANCE SEETON, BILL HANSON, JOE POSCH AND ROSS WHEALTON. MIKE AUGAT WAS BACK GUIDING A GROUP OF ANGLERS THAT INCLUDED GEORGE LOCKWOOD, BILL ROBIE AND ARTIE MCCLURE.

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK INCLUDE THE 300 LB BLACK MARLIN CAUGHT BY TONY AS CAPTAIN LUCHO WAS TROLLING PLASTICS OFF "THE WALL" NEAR JICARITA ISLAND. CAPTAIN TATIN HAD TAKEN LANCE TO HANNIBAL BANK TO TRY FOR A BLACK MARLIN WHERE THEY WERE REWARDED WHEN A 500 LB BLACK ATE THEIR SLOW TROLLED LIVE BONITA. MIKE WAS FISHING WITH CAPTAIN TOMMY NEAR JICRON ISLAND WHERE HE CAUGHT SIX DIFFERENT SPECIES IN A ROW. THEN THIS WAS FOLLOWED UP WITH GEORGE AND ARTIE CATCHING A DOUBLE ON ROOSTERFISH. ANGELO'S YELLOWFIN THAT WEIGHTED 205 WAS THE LARGEST TUNA CAUGHT THIS WEEK. SEVERAL LARGE SAILFISH AND SOME NICE SIZE DORADO WERE CAUGHT OFFSHORE THIS WEEK. ROOSTERFISH WERE CAUGHT BY MANY OF OUR ANGLERS. CAPTAIN TATIN HAD ONE OF THE BEST DAYS OF ROOSTER FISHING CATCHING AND RELEASING SIX FISH. BIG CUBERA SNAPPERS, TO 55 LBS, WERE CAUGHT THIS WEEK ALONG WITH YELLOW SNAPPER, RED SNAPPER, SILK SNAPPER AND MULLET SNAPPER. INCLUDE THE GROUPERS CAUGHT THIS WEEK AND BILL'S BIG CORVINA AND IT WAS SOME WEEK OF FISHING.

LOTS OF ACTION, LOTS OF VARIETY, LOTS OF FISH AND LOTS OF FUN! THANKS TO ALL OF OUR ANGLERS FOR CHOOSING TO FISH WITH PESCA PANAMA.

TIGHT LINES,
CAPTAIN JULIAN JAY GUSTIN

FISHING TIP OF THE WEEK: THE MOST COMMON ROD FAILURE WE ENCOUNTER IS NOT THE ROD BREAKING BUT LOOSING THE CERAMIC INSERT IN THE ROD TIP GUIDE. SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY IT BECAME FASHIONABLE TO TIE YOUR LEADER DIRECTLY TO YOUR MAIN LINE WITH OUT USING A SWIVEL. THE DOWN SIDE TO THIS IS WHEN YOU REEL THIS KNOT THROUGH THE GUIDE TIP AND THEN CAST, THE KNOT WILL IN TIME TEAR OUT THE CERAMIC INSERT. I RECOMMEND USING A SWIVEL THAT WILL NOT PASS THROUGH THE GUIDE OR BETTER YET, A LITTLE STOPPER SO NEITHER THE SWIVEL OR THE KNOT WILL NOT PASS THROUGH THE GUIDE. SOUNDS SIMPLE AND IT IS. THE STOPPER WILL SAVE YOUR ROD FROM BECOMING UNUSABLE.

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