WHAT AN EXCITING WEEK OF FISHING WE HAD THIS WEEK! FROM MARLIN TO MULLET SNAPPER WE WERE CATCHING FISH.

FISHING WITH CAPTAIN TOMMY WAS RETURNING ANGLER HAROLD BURKUM. HAROLD HAD BROUGHT HIS SON PHILIP TO FISH WITH HIM. RIGHT FROM THE START HAROLD WAS CATCHING ROOSTERFISH ON POPPERS IN THE PARIDAS ISLANDS. NEXT DAY THEY CRUISED OUT TO ISLA MONTUOSA WHERE THEY LANDED 10 BIG DORADO. THEIR NEXT EXCITING ACTION WAS ON HANNIBAL BANK WHERE PHILIP LANDED HIS FIRST BLACK MARLIN. HE LANDED THE 350 LB BLACK IN 20 MINUTES. WITH BAITS BACK IN THE WATER HE MISSED A HOOK-UP ON A SECOND BLACK THAT MADE A COUPLE OF PASSES ON HIS LIVE BAIT BUT WAS NEVER ABLE TO HOOK-UP. NEXT ON HIS LIST OF FISH TO CATCH WAS A WAHOO AND HE CAUGHT THIS FISH IN THE CONTREAS ISLANDS. THROW IN SOME BIG CUBERA SNAPPERS AND AMBERJACK AND THESE ANGLERS HAD A GREAT WEEK OF FISHING.

FROM SPAIN WERE ANGLERS JORGE MASIA PERACES AND ARTURO MIQUEL TORRO. THESE GUYS WERE CATCHING FISH ALL WEEK INCLUDING AMBERJACK, DORADO, CUBERA SNAPPERS, WAHOO AND A WHOLE HOST OF OTHER SPECIES. BUT THE SURPRISE CATCH FOR THESE ANGLERS WAS A 110 LB TARPON THEY CAUGHT WHILE FISHING NEAR JICRON ISLAND! NOW THERE IS A FISH THAT ISN'T EVEN SUPPOSE TO BE HERE!

MASTER GUIDE MIKE AUGAT RETURNED THIS WEEK WITH FISHERMEN SIMON GOLDSEKER AND DON PETERS. BOTH SIMON AND DON ARE ACCOMPLISHED FLY FISHERMEN. THEIR BEST FISHING ACTION CAME ON THE NORTH SIDE OF COIBA ISLAND WERE THEY FOUND HUGE SCHOOLS OF FISH CRASHING BAITFISH ON THE BEACH. WHEN THE ACTION DIED DOWN THE COUNT WAS 15 JACK CREVALLE RELEASED ALONG WITH 7 BLUE JACKS, 5 ROOSTERFISH, 4 CUBERA SNAPPERS A COUPLE OF RAINBOW RUNNERS AND SEVERAL ASSORTED SPECIES OF SNAPPERS. DON, WHO LIKES AERIAL FISH, HAD ONE ROOSTERFISH THAT CLEARED THE WATER 8 TIMES. MIKE TOLD ME THAT IN THREE DAYS THEY HAD 21 ROOSTERFISH STRIKES AND LANDED 14 OF THEM.

BUT HERE IS A FISHING STORY. SIMON WAS JIGGING WITH LIGHT SPINNING TACKLE WHEN HE HOOKED-UP. BUT THIS WAS NO BOTTOM FISH. WHEN THE FISH BROKE THE SURFACE IT WAS A SAILFISH. THE CATCH AND RELEASE WAS MADE, THE SAILFISH SWAM AWAY AND THE FISHERMEN WERE STANDING WITH A SURPRISED LOOK ON THEIR FACES. SEE, I TOLD YOU DEEP JIGGING WAS THE WAY TO CATCH FISH!

A GREAT WEEK OF FISHING, GOOD WEATHER AND SOME GREAT GUYS FISHING. THANKS FOR FISHING WITH PESCA PANAMA.

TIGHT LINES,
CAPTAIN JULIAN JAY GUSTIN

FISHING TIP OF THE WEEK: CAPTAIN MIKE AUGAT CAUGHT A LOT OF FISH THIS WEEK USING SMALL POPPERS. NOW THESE WERE NOT BIG CUBERA SNAPPERS OR HUGE ROOSTERFISH THAT WERE HITTING HIS PLUGS BUT THEN THAT WASN'T WHAT HE WAS FISHING FOR. THE SMALL SCHOOL FISH WERE PROVIDING LOTS OF ACTION ON LIGHT TACKLE. SO JUST MAYBE BIGGER ISN'T ALWAYS BETTER!

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