Whether you’re trying to hammer some success at Casa Vieja Lodge, Anglers Inn, Sport Fish Panama Island Lodge or Bear Trail Lodge, it pays to dress the part. I like to get geared up for our adventures by painting my fingernails and toenails to reflect my quarry.

In Panama, some of the charter boats work together with the commercial boats, making use of makeshift fish aggregating devices to catch monster yellowfin tuna.

A triple is always a good thing. Here are two examples of three of a kind from the Gulf of Chiriquí. Which hand would force you to push all of your chips to the center of the table?

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.

Whether your father introduced you to fishing or you brought him into the sport, there’s no better way to celebrate than by hitting the water together. As Father’s Day approaches, we recommend time in the boat, but even if you’re not able to fish together, you can still show him how much you appreciate his influence with a fishing-themed gift.

Two years ago I shipped home 50 pounds of incredible halibut from Alaska, and on last year’s trip back we checked through two boxes of salmon as luggage coming home. We use it to stock our freezer, bribe our friends, and remind us of good times in faraway places. For my money, though, there’s no fish as good as sushi-grade tuna.

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.