OFF TO PANAMA

So.......

Sansano, TallPaul and I are winging our way to Panama tomorrow for a week at a remote island base camp.  This is an exploratory trip of sorts with the Paddle Panama guru Henny Marais.

There are a couple articles in KFM that go into detail, but we're hoping for BIG roosters, Dorado, numerous jacks and snappers and especially the giant Cubera Snapper (Dogtooth Snapper).  An outside chance of Yellowfin and wahoo as well.

Rest assured we'll have plenty to report and pix galore when we return next week, but here's a couple teasers....


Adios!!

Allen

Nice, Have fun!

We'll be looking foward to the reports and pics.

I hate you guys. 

And then next year you'll be organizing a group trip Right?????????

jeez tough assignment . . . 

I'm sorry you guys have to endure that looks miserable

And then next year you'll be organizing a group trip Right?????????

Absolutely!!  That's the beauty of it all.  For less $$ than a SD long-range boat, we can go to deserted tropical paradise and fish our brains out from the yaks!!


This is the trip into the unknown which is always exciting. For me I'm set.  Polepole is my big-game guru and "Boon Companion" TalPaul super experienced as a traveler and great angler  (plus he's a paramedic, so I don't have to be the first responder if it gets bloody.....)

I've been to Alaska with Paul wild Foggy Bay, and he was at my side when I got my PB halibut on an unfriendly day at Pt Sur  (uuuh, Allen, that's a big fish.......).  And of course Sansano is a world traveling tuna fisherman years before he dropped a line off the kayak.  We've done AK and Baja a number of times together.

I'tell you it's totally different, getting away for a week or so, leave it all behind and learn  a new spot style and species fishing.  and pretty affordable too when you arrange things well in advance, stay away from hotels and restaurants etc.

Gotta keep packing.  We'll be out of touch no cel, no wi-fi so it will likely be Saturday the 20th before we can get any pix out.

Allen

Whenever you guys want to go ... Paddle Panama will book trips at any time.  http://www.paddlepanama.com/

Like all good adventures, we've needed to be flexible in planning this one.  We were supposed to start off with a day of fishing Peacock Bass in Lake Gatun (http://www.paddlepanama.com/portfolio-item/kayak-angling-vacationon-lake-gatun/).  But they've been doing work on this big reservoir and the water is all muddied up.  So we're heading to the coast a day early.  Originally, we were supposed to stay in a house on Cebaco Island (http://www.paddlepanama.com/portfolio-item/yakfishing-vacation-at-cebaco-island/) at the coast, but a B-I-G swell event (a 10 year event) is coming through this weekend, so we've switched locations.  We're moving to a remove location behind Coiba Island, which will block the swell in the area we are at.  There are no roads into here and it's a 1.5 hour panga ride to get there.  The fishing is supposedly better.  We'll be camping on the beach now.

What to expect?  We'll be targeting roosterfish, cubera snapper, amberjack, sierra, and bluefin trevally  inshore.  And tuna, wahoo, and dorado just offshore.   The local pangueros have been reporting tuna 2 miles from the beach, so hopefully we can paddle out to them.

-Allen

Time to start putting some money away.

Wow.

I am sooo jealous!

Winning

Sounds like fun. Have a safe trip.

Al


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Oh No...the site is crashing...getting all kinds of log in failures...can't post pictures....can't see any updated reports.....better stay home and fix the site and I will go in your place

Just kidding, have fun, be safe and catch some big fish

Have a nice fishing trip guys.  Looking forward to read the "live" reports from Panama.