Stuff We Like Inspired by our Travel
Fishing should be fun. Part of that is art and food and other things that don't put fish in the boat, but nevertheless make you enjoy the process more.
Tee of the Week – Everybody Wants Poon
Can Sammy Hagar double haul? Is David Lee Roth a deep cranking fiend? We don’t know, but apparently Eddie Van Halen could shred the silver king.
Dress Yourself in Diving Birds and Screaming Drags
As if I needed to get any more excited for our upcoming return to Sport Fish Panama Island Lodge, every time I turn on the Google machine it seems to taunt me with another reminder about how excited I am. While I’ve already acquired four new items that will accompany me, I keep discovering new clothing that brings to mind both the epic offshore and inshore fisheries that await me.
House Divided Comes Full Circle
With 50 species of fish to be caught in the Gulf of Chiriqui, I still wasn’t certain I’d catch my bucket list species, but I put in my time targeting them inshore. We went inshore and targeted them. We cast, we trolled and we CAUGHT my rooster. In fact, I caught two of them.
Cubera Be, Cubera Bop
The stated purpose of our April 2021 trip to Panama is to catch big yellowfin tuna on topwaters, but I’m told that the beauty of the Gulf of Chiriqui is its multispecies bounty, including inshore beasts. Now that I’ve watched 8,342 videos about the place, I’m intrigued by Cubera Snapper, a gamefish that I previously was unaware even existed.
