Just booked a trip with these guys Has anyone fished with them, or fished the area. I've been watching the videos for a year decided to treat myself to a 40th birthday present
I stayed and fished 7 yrs ago, enroute to a 50th bday trip to Coiba. May have changed hands, great area and fishing. PM if you want to chat. I fish those kinds of waters a lot.
I will work on it. It was 7.5 yrs ago. Have to look for photos. Had 1 really big epic multispecies day, spent 3 days there based on an offhanded tip, then continued on to coiba island for a week.
At los buzos, the guy that was running the place was from the same small town in Washington where I lived for many years, was getting the place up and running. Went there as I heard the area was really cool while touring with my wife prior to meeting a bunch of buddies for a week of fishin mayhem on coiba. They had a giant open air palapa (big round palm thatch roof and post structure) for the bar, restaurant and sorta hq on the beach. They had 3 price levels of lodging, we were going to stay in the nice midrange private rooms across the street, new paint smell was too much and they offered a really nice villa on the slope above with an amazing ocean view for cheap. Spent new years and the next few nights. Big black sand beach to swim surf or surf cast from. A lot of good tackle available at the time, but boat was being assembled, so it wasnt available.. They loaned me some top notch gear and I fished on the neighbors panga for fuel + not a lot of $. We did about a 10 hour day with a mix of trolling, casting,and snorkeling. Had shots at roosters and snapper. Tuna run near shore there, ended up hooking multiple yellowfin, landed and kept 3 25 to 35 lb, got 2 really nice Dorado. At the end of the day, kayaking distance from beach in front of lodge, 60+ lb yft were crashing bait- within casting distance. Wife informed me that we had 100+lbs of ahi in boat and she was ready to head in, 10 hrs was enuff.
I reasoned that I was about to see that every day off of coiba and didn't put up a fight...i was going there specifically to pitch big poppers at tuna, but I did not see that again.
Very rough drive to get there. Neat place. Great fishing. Planning on returning.
Thanks JRK, I wasn't ignoring your post i just stopped following it after it went a few weeks without a response. I am booked for August if i can still get there. I'm extremely stoked. It looks like a 6 hour bus trip from Panama city to get there. I can't wait
Cool. Wanna chat more let me know. Should be very rainy and fishy in August. The drive from Panama city was a little tough. Some interesting towns on the azuero peninsula. Also spent some time in Sante Fe, to the right instead of left off main hwy. Beautiful little mtn town...
Yeah it was a tough call August is the rainy season but from my research its also when most of the fish are running especially the sailfish which would be epic catching in a kayak. I need to do some major biking to get my legs in shape for the hours of peddling required to troll in a kayak. Learning some Spanish wouldn't hurt either
