At the end of August, we hosted a group of repeat customers from Germany who usually come during the dry season. The idea was to focus on tunas and so I chose a week right in the middle of the tuna season, with medium tides that usually gets the tunas feeding on top. Well, that did not turn too well as big tunas could either not be found or would not feed during the whole length of the week ! Needless to say this was a disapointment but also an unpleasant surprise as I was absolutely sure there would at least find a couple of good tuna bites during that week.
We ended up doing mostly inshore fishing and to my surprise (again !), there was quite a few tarpons around, which we usually see more around May/June and October/November. Over a dozen were jumped, mostly on topwater but also on slow jigs. Some were monster fish in the 150 lbs class... But none was landed !
We were reminded of 2 lessons:
1/ On the Tuna Coast of Panama, conditions are ever changing and it's really hard to predict how the fishing is going to be and what fish specie will bite best. This is not only true for tuna, throughout the year we see a lot of variation in the bite for all species. Which leads us to the second point:
2/ It's always good to come with an open mind and be ready to adapt and enjoy whatever is biting good, even if it may not be your first target specie. This is excatly what the guys did by spending more time inshore rather than trying to catch tunas that were simply not in a feeding mood.
Despite the disapointment, most of the guys will return for tuna season 2019 so let's hope they can make up for it then !
We ended up doing mostly inshore fishing and to my surprise (again !), there was quite a few tarpons around, which we usually see more around May/June and October/November. Over a dozen were jumped, mostly on topwater but also on slow jigs. Some were monster fish in the 150 lbs class... But none was landed !
We were reminded of 2 lessons:
1/ On the Tuna Coast of Panama, conditions are ever changing and it's really hard to predict how the fishing is going to be and what fish specie will bite best. This is not only true for tuna, throughout the year we see a lot of variation in the bite for all species. Which leads us to the second point:
2/ It's always good to come with an open mind and be ready to adapt and enjoy whatever is biting good, even if it may not be your first target specie. This is excatly what the guys did by spending more time inshore rather than trying to catch tunas that were simply not in a feeding mood.
Despite the disapointment, most of the guys will return for tuna season 2019 so let's hope they can make up for it then !
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