Good tuna action in July !

Better late than never, here are some reports from July and August:

Mid-July, we had the pleasure to see Ken and his son Daniel return to the lodge. They fished for 4 days and had good numbers and variety of inshore species on their first day. Second day was a tuna fest and they gladly invited me for a taste of the action on the 3rd day. The Tuna Coast really deserved it's nickname as we had a great day on tunas again, going from one frenzy to another all day long, catching many sizeable fish on popper. 4th day was spent inshore again but was kinda slow.

Check out the kind of action we had on tuna ! We did release a few fish but kept many. It can prove quite dangerous to try to remove a popper from tunas and we are not too strict on releasing the tunas since you don't hurt tunas as easily as you may hurt an inshore fishery if you are not cautious.

Next groups were late August. Our good amigo Paul returned to the Panafishing lodge with his sister, and we had the pleasure to meet Brian and his crew. Fishing was so-so. Apart for a few crazy topwater bites, notably on roosters, most of the action was on jig, and better yet, on slow-jig. When slow-jigging greatly outfish speed-jigging, you know that the fish are not really in a feeding mood. Edurado's boat stayed inshore, and all best fish fell for a slow jig. Javier's boat mostly stayed inshore and when he did try to go out for tunas, they were not cooperating with only 1 decent fish landed. I joined on the boat one day and while the day was nothing special, we had a great 30 minutes of popping. Besides the usual suspects, some monster bull sharks attacked our poppers a good half-dozen times. A few of them were absolutely enormous. Seeing a 400+ pound fish grab your popper is guaranteed to get your adrenaline pumping !!! It really made my day...