black marlin
Just to do a quick update on some of my work that has been published over the past couple of months.
Sport Fishing Magazine
Cover of, In the Bite Magazine
Sport Fishing Magazine
Blue Water Magazine
Sport Fishing Magazine
Blue Water Magazine
Sport Fishing Magazine
Blue Water Magazine
Vancouver Sun, Travel Section
In the Bite Magazine
In the Bite Magazine
In the Bite Magazine
In the Bite Magazine
Vancouver Sun
We just finished Fishing on The Hooker and Picaflor this June and July down in Pinas Bay, Panama. There were some Big storms, Big Waves and a couple of Big Fish!
Check out the Gallery Below!
Here are more shots from our 3 months of Fishing in Pina's Bay, Panama. Some of these images where taken aboard the Picaflor, under the direction of Captain Adolfo. The first Marlin gave us a dazzling display. Jumping straight at us. The boat was powering forward and Justin, the angler, was reeling as fast as he could in order to take up line. When I get a chance later in the week, I will post the video that goes along with this fight. It was pretty amazing to see this fish jump like this. Nice release on the fish after as well.
Justin reeling his heart out to try and take up line on this crazy jumping fish.
This Marlin just kept jumping and jumping. These are the flights that photographers dream of.
Hook out and lure back, the boys release this nice Marlin.
The special Lure to win them all! Custom Made by Matt, even has our Mates face pictured in the Lure.
Marlin's Bill hitting the drop back bait
Mike Crossland taking a breather on his nice Blue Marlin
Justin trying his hand at pitching a fly back to a sailfish. The sail hit the lure a couple of times, but just couldn't get her to bite.
Nice Sail, our Mate Jonathan almost got a Bill in his arm.
JACK!!!!
The Captain looking over things!
Around 55 days of Fishing off of Pina's Bay Panama, have finally come to a close. We packed up the ships, pulled the anchors and headed on home. Overall the Fishing was not that bad through out Dec/Jan/ Feb, but the fishing was not the usual Pina's Bay Fishing that you would normally see at this time of the year. The Black Marlin didn't really show up in hordes like they normally do at this time of year, but we managed to catch a couple of those nice Black Marlin along with mostly Blue Marlin and some Stripes as well. Battle's where won and lost, full Blood, Guts & Glory stories where had.
Here is our total for Dec/Jan/Feb:
Raised over 51 Marlin
Caught 23Marlin (Mix of Black and Blue)
1 Grand Slam (Blue,Black & Stripe)
Caught over a Handful of Sails
Plentiful Tuna (1 over 200lbs) /Jack's/Mackerel
Bryan Trying his hand at filleting some Dorado.
Captain doing his thing.
Waylon getting on his first Blue Marlin!
REEL!!!!
Lots of Sails around through out Dec/Jan
Bryan on his Nice Blue Marlin
Double handing the reel to get the job done.
Jack Fishing
Waylon with his hand at Filleting
Some Nice looking Dorado in early Jan.
The Captain fillets over a 200lbs Tuna. "Is there something on my face"?
Finally I am back after a month long trip to Coiba, Panama. The Marlin Bite was a bit slow, but we filled our freezers with Tuna and enjoyed amazing Lighting Storms, saw huge pods of Sperm Whales, fished in some massive bait balls of Tuna and most importantly all of the crew didn't kill each other after 25 Day's together.
Here are some of the images that I got while out on the water every day. We had a mixture of groups fish with us , check out some of the pictures below!!!
