Pretty decent week early May, although kinda strange. Results have been varying greatly depending on days, boats and anglers. We've had great and shit days. Also, the jigging still isn't consistent. This year has been really tough for jigging. Quality of the jigging has always been cyclical here so we expect it to be back to normal soon. However, we had a few proper good days on jig this week, which is encouraging. It was nice to get double and/or triple hookup of different species on every drift again, we had almost forget what it feels like... Was also good to see a couple of trophy amberjacks in the boat, cause this year and last has been relatively poor for those.

There was a lot of opportunity for big cubera snappers this week and several were boated, but with about 18 being lost, the results are not quite what they could have been. Not blaming on the anglers, though, the boated/lost ratio is pretty average. One needs to remember these are the toughest of any fish to land and come prepared for some serious arm wrestling ! I was lucky to get a real trophy one on my afternoon out with Joe during his day off.

On the strange side as well, there are still no small or big yellowfin tunas around. There should be plenty around by now so we expect them to show anytime.

We're definitely into wet season fishing conditions now. The sardine activity at the coast is gone, the fishing is moving farther offshore and we use the lighter gear less as the focus switches to casting bigger lures on the deeper marks hoping for some trophy fish.

Pretty good fishing this week on the Tuna Coast of Panama. We are starting to see typical wet season conditions with a good mix of variety and some nice trophy fish mixed in. We saw much more cubera snapper than roosterfish this week, and also some trophy sized mullet snappers. The dorados were still around in good numbers and size, and there was some particularly fat jack crevalle, and many of them ! Overall, action on popper was pretty steady with the odd slow day. It's been a good week. On the bad side, the jigging is still poor and there is a big absentee so far this year: the small yellowfin tunas that are usually all over the inshore spot this time of the year. Only a matter of time before they show up. As always when they are biting good, the cubera snappers did some damage and most won their freedom. Check it out !

Pretty standard week really, a couple of slow days, a couple of trophy fish, and some frantic moments of activity. The wind is still strong and the conditions are still typical of the dry season, but we are starting to see more cuberas and mullet snappers. Check out the awesome variety !