Fishing Report - 11/10/07

GREETINGS FROM THE TROPICS

BLACK MARLIN, WAHOO, CUBERA SNAPPER, DORADO, AMBERJACK

PESCA PANAMA FISHED WITH THREE DIFFERENT GROUP OF ANGLERS THIS WEEK.  FROM THE PACIFIC NW WAS OUTDOOR WRITER DAVE VETTER AND HIS FISHING PARTNER RAWLEIGH IRVIN.  FROM OHIO CAME LAKE ERIE FISHERMEN ROBERT FEYES,  RICHARD BIRO, MARK SAUVEY AND CHRIS CLEMONS.  THEN WE HAD A GROUP COMPRISED OF FOUR COUPLES THAT INCLUDED SCOTT AND HEDI OOSTING, DENNIS AND JONI TUBBERGEN, JIMMY AND JERI WOHL, JENNIFER TRAUTMANN AND DAVE TUXBURY.  THIS GROUP LIKED TO FISH AND GET DOWN TO THE MUSIC.  TO SAY WE HAD A GREAT PARTY TIME AT THE BARGE BAR THIS WEEK WOULD BE AN UNDERSTATEMENT.

WE HAD AN EXCITING WEEK OF FISHING FOR CUBERA SNAPPER. THE LADY ANGLERS SECURED THE HONOR OF CATCHING THE LARGEST CUBERA WHEN JENNIFER LANDED HER 65 POUND FISH.  SECOND AND THIRD PLACE WENT TO DAVE AND RAWLEIGH AS THEY BOTH CAUGHT 60 POUND CUBERAS.  CHRIS TOOK THE FOURTH PLACE POSITION WHEN HE LANDED HIS 50 POUND CUBERA BUT HE ALSO CAUGHT A 50 POUND ROOSTER FISH ON THE LAST DAY.  SO THIS MIGHT HAVE MOVED HIM UP IN THE STANDINGS IF WE WERE REALLY HAVING A CONTEST.   YOU WILL BE GLAD TO KNOW THAT ALL OF THESE LARGE FISH WERE RELEASED TO HELP INSURE A HEALTHY POPULATION OF FISH IN THE FUTURE.  HERE AT PESCA PANAMA WE ARE PROMOTING CATCH AND RELEASE.

THE WAHOO BITE WAS ON IN MOST AREAS.  DAVE AND RAWLEIGH WERE FISHING WITH CAPTAIN TOMMY AT "WAHOO ROCK" WERE THEY LANDED FIVE WAHOO IN SHORT ORDER.  BUT THE BEST WAHOO STORY CAME FROM ROBERT, RICHARD, MARK AND CHRIS.  WHILE CASTING A GT BULL A WAHOO, "SKY ROCKETED," MISSED THE LURE AND LANDED IN THE BOAT. THE FISH WEIGHTED 33 POUNDS AND NOT A HOOK MARK ON IT.  LUCKILY NO ONE, OTHER THAN THE WAHOO, WAS INJURED.

BUT THE BIGGEST NEWS OF THE WEEK WAS THE BLACK MARLIN BITE WE HAD LAST MONDAY ON THE  FAMOUS "HANNIBAL BANK."  JUST AS THE TIDE CHANGED THE BITE TURNED ON.  THE OHIO ANGLERS WERE FISHING WITH CAPTAIN TATIN WHEN THEY HAD A DOUBLE HEADER ON BLACK MARLIN. BOTH FISH WENT FOR SLOW TROLLED LIVE BONITA.  AFTER AN EXCITING FIGHT THAT INCLUDED LINES BEING CROSSED AND ANGLERS SCRAMBLING AROUND THE BOAT, THE FISH WERE BROUGHT TO THE BOAT AND RELEASED.  THIS PAIR OF MARLIN WERE BOTH IN THE 400 LB CLASS AND LOOKED LIKE A PAIR TO TWINS. AFTER THE RELEASES, BACK IN THE WATER THE BAITS WENT AND ANOTHER MARLIN HOOK-UP.  THIS BLACK WAS EVEN BIGGER!  WHEN IT WAS WIRED AND RELEASED THE FISH WAS ESTIMATED TO BE IN THE 500 LB CLASS.  THE SQUID RIGS WERE PUT OUT TO CATCH MORE BONITA FOR BAIT AND A BLACK COME UP AND ATE THE BAIT RIG.  STILL NOT DONE, BAITS WERE ONCE AGAIN PUT IN AND A 300 LB BULL SHARK WAS HOOKED-UP AND RELEASED.  THERE WERE STILL MORE MARLIN IN THE AREA BUT THESE ANGLERS WERE TOO POOPED TO PULL.  OH, THESE GUYS GOT SOME GREAT VIDEO OF ALL THREE MARLIN JUMPING AROUND THE BOAT.  YOU CAN BET THEY WILL BE SHOWING THIS TO ALL THEIR FRIENDS FOR A LONG TIME TO COME.

NEXT CAME JIMMY, SCOTT, DENNIS AND JONI FISHING WITH CAPTAIN MACHO IN THE SAME AREA OF HANNIBAL BANK AT THE SAME TIME.  THEY CAUGHT AND RELEASED A BIG 500 LB BLACK MARLIN AND FOLLOWED UP CATCHING A SMALLER 250 BLACK MARLIN. THE "BITE" WAS ON AT HANNIBAL BANK!

WHILE ALL THIS WAS HAPPENING DAVE AND RAWLEIGH WERE FISHING NEARBY WITH CAPTAIN TOMMY WHEN THEY ALSO HOOKED-UP ON ANOTHER BLACK MARLIN.  DAVE FILMED AWAY WHILE RAWLEIGH SINGLE-HANDEDLY FOUGHT THE FISH ON STAND-UP TACKLE.  WHEN RAWLEIGH GOT THE MARLIN TO THE BOAT FOR A LIVE RELEASE IT WAS ANOTHER MARLIN THAT WOULD BE IN THE OVER 500 LB CLASS.
 
DAVE WAS WANTING TO TRY FOR SNOOK IN THE "SNOOK HOLE." THOUGH THE BITE WAS NOT REALLY ON HE WAS ABLE TO ENTICE A COUPLE OF 10 TO 15 LB FISH TO BITE HIS HOOK.

SOME NICE SIZED DORADO ARE STARTING TO SHOW UP OFFSHORE.  SEVERAL DORADO IN THE 35 TO 4O LB CLASS WERE CAUGHT THIS WEEK.  MARK HAS A PHOTO THIS WEEK OF A REALLY LONG DORADO THAT HE CAUGHT.

SEE, I TOLD YOU AT THE START THAT THIS WAS AN EXCITING WEEK OF FISHING AT PESCA PANAMA.  THANKS TO ALL THE GUYS AND GALS THAT WENT FISHING WITH US THIS WEEK.

TIGHT LINES,
CAPTAIN JAY GUSTIN