First group in May was Martine and Jean-Pierre, who visit us from France every year. They were very unlucky with the big ones this year, losing 4 big cuberas and 2 huge roosters. The best action was had on the silk snappers, as 3 days in a row they left the spot after catching over 20 red snappers between 10 and 30 pounds, and releasing most of them. A notable catch was Martine's huge Colorado snapper, which was way over the 20.4 pounds all tackle record.

Below, Jean-Pierre is posing with a big snook caught by a local fisherman. We don't target them, but there is some real big snooks around. We also saw lots of tarpons rolling close to the lodge. Every year we see more and more, and May seems to be the best time for those. I wen trying for them a couple of times, but they did not want my stickbaits these times. There was lots of fish though, and I am positive there was fish over 200 pounds in the lot. Never seen tarpons that big before, despite having spent 2 months fishing in the Keys. Hopefully one day we'll have it figured out because it is rather silly to have those fish around and hardly ever catch one...

Next was our new friends Steve and Matt from the UK. Both the popping and the jigging were unusually slow during there stay, with very low numbers. Fortunately, they got a few big ones which made the trip, including an impressive beast of a roosterfish. Well done guys !

Then end of April has been up and down. Once again, what started as a rather slow week for some Germans guests ended up real good when some big roosters and some good cuberas started to show. The Tuna Coast of Panama sees a lot of influences from various currents, sea temperature and weather changes, so the fishing is ever-changing and a slow day can always be followed by an excellent one (or vice-versa, unfortunately !).

The very end of the month was less spectacular, and we experienced one (if not the) most difficult week of the season. Even when it is very tough, there is always some moments of activity with jacks, amberjacks or smaller fish, and there might be a few nice fish every now and then. The highlights was 2 big cuberas (caught almost one after the other by the same angler) and 2 nice roosters, and a hammerhead shark. We are also seeing more and more tuna and dorados as the wet season settle, and there has been a few big wahoo biting the poppers and stickbait, which were all lost. We are looking forward to have one to the boat as the average size on these wahoos is huge, maybe 60 pounds.