We hosted 20 anglers at Sport Fish Panama Island Lodge in January – the first group larger than 17. That was made possible by the fact that Shane Jarvis added a fifth boat. The other enabling factor was the fact this his right-hand man and master carpenter Steve Volk completed another house on the property.

This November we must’ve brought the crap weather with us to Panama because it rained for much of our four and a half days on the water. That didn’t necessarily affect the fishing, which was still superlative – and in some respects better than either of our prior trips – but it did for us to think about what to chase on which days.