Black Marlin, Hannibal Bank – November 10, 2011
Soon after listening to all the reviews of Marlin becoming caught out on Hannibal Bank very last week, while doing maintenance at the lodge on Isla Paridas, I finallly obtained out there to see for myself what all the chat was about. Initial time consumer, but no stranger to Panama fishing, Andrea Gonella and I received out to the Bank about 45 minutes ahead of the tide change all around nine AM.
It took a minor extended to get out to the Financial institution because of to the seas getting a great 2-4 ft. But the h2o clarity was great and there was very a little bit a bait all around. We speedily put four wonderful bonitos in the tubes and began to troll a couple of them with two are living Blue Runners out in the unfold. Not ten minutes later the small bonito gets eaten! Andrea will get to the rod, opens the reel, and allows the fish eat for for appeared an eternity. He flips the lever to strike and winds down difficult. A nice Black Marlin about 300# breaches the surface and helps make two or 3 more acrobatic jumps. My mate and I carry in the other baits even though the Andrea manages the Marlin that is peeling eighty# mono off the 5/ Tiagra. I start to again down. Ten minutes in the future, and a handful of far more sweet jumps, Andrea has the fish to the boat and Jorge has got the leader.
The seas continued to get rougher as the day went on and the wind started to blow. We slow trolled the liveys for a while more time about the lender. The bait was in thick but couldn’t get any far more takers. We proceed to set a handful of drifts over the substantial spot in which I was obtaining a powerful mark on the sonar in hopes of a Tuna or AJ. A few of baits down, a single drifting on top, and one bait up on the kite for for drifts and only managed to get a couple of strikes from small fish. It had turned off.
We decided to make a transfer to Isla Montuosa.The weather continued to worsen and rose to a great six ft. We noticed a mark of birds on the radar and went to check it out. We identified a floating piece of plywood. Andrea pitches a blue runner to a huge bull dorado, who enhales it, and he’s restricted! A few minutes afterwards the fish is boatside, a 30#er easily, jumps and he throws the hook correct ahead of my mate can get to him with the gaff. Damn!
Soon after that we make it to Montuosa get a handful of far more bonitos but the weather gets as well sloppy and we head back to the lodge. Even although we failed to do too well in the afternoon it paid out of finding to the Financial institution early to get the early bite.
It took a minor extended to get out to the Financial institution because of to the seas getting a great 2-4 ft. But the h2o clarity was great and there was very a little bit a bait all around. We speedily put four wonderful bonitos in the tubes and began to troll a couple of them with two are living Blue Runners out in the unfold. Not ten minutes later the small bonito gets eaten! Andrea will get to the rod, opens the reel, and allows the fish eat for for appeared an eternity. He flips the lever to strike and winds down difficult. A nice Black Marlin about 300# breaches the surface and helps make two or 3 more acrobatic jumps. My mate and I carry in the other baits even though the Andrea manages the Marlin that is peeling eighty# mono off the 5/ Tiagra. I start to again down. Ten minutes in the future, and a handful of far more sweet jumps, Andrea has the fish to the boat and Jorge has got the leader.
The seas continued to get rougher as the day went on and the wind started to blow. We slow trolled the liveys for a while more time about the lender. The bait was in thick but couldn’t get any far more takers. We proceed to set a handful of drifts over the substantial spot in which I was obtaining a powerful mark on the sonar in hopes of a Tuna or AJ. A few of baits down, a single drifting on top, and one bait up on the kite for for drifts and only managed to get a couple of strikes from small fish. It had turned off.
We decided to make a transfer to Isla Montuosa.The weather continued to worsen and rose to a great six ft. We noticed a mark of birds on the radar and went to check it out. We identified a floating piece of plywood. Andrea pitches a blue runner to a huge bull dorado, who enhales it, and he’s restricted! A few minutes afterwards the fish is boatside, a 30#er easily, jumps and he throws the hook correct ahead of my mate can get to him with the gaff. Damn!
Soon after that we make it to Montuosa get a handful of far more bonitos but the weather gets as well sloppy and we head back to the lodge. Even although we failed to do too well in the afternoon it paid out of finding to the Financial institution early to get the early bite.
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Captain Shane Jarvis
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