Fishing Report for January 26th

Bienvenidos from Hooked on Panama Lodge We had Terry Baddock, Kyle Roan and wife Lynn here June 17th for 2 days of fishing and a few days of relaxing. Terry, Kyle and I worked together on Party Boats back in the 70’s and early 80’s in Freeport, Texas, before I moved on to Hawaii.
More Texans here at the lodge J Chic, Tina, Jimmy, Katherine, Larry and Jean friends of Rex and Connie fished for 3 day during their week here with us. While they here we got to celebrate Chic’s 70th birthday!
Over the last week we had Bill and Michelle Harkrider with their friends P.R. and Margret Burk. These guys were fishing with Captain Chaka and his mate Carlito.
We had Bill and Pam, Steve and Janet back for their second year in a row along with their friends Tom, Ele, Dan and Linda. They fished for 4 days on the Miss Baru with Captain Oliver and Mate Carlito.
2 Black Marlin and they actually had a triple hook up Blacks but only managed to release one. I can only imagine the chinese fire drill that was. Probably why I don’t have any marlin photos from them. 4 nice size sails, 1 large rooster and several snappers.
Fishing has been good. The tuna bite is still on fire. On the 17th and 18th, we were part of the Great Panama Fishing Challenge. A country wide tournament put on by the Panama Marine Resource Foundation. Several of the lodge’s here were involved.