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Gracie's Marlin

Gracie’s Marlin, all eleven hundred and fifty pounds or so of her, represented a pinnacle of sportfishing. It was, for all purposes, the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Being an eclectic mix of luck, art and pure sweat equity, the capture of a ...

Baby / Marlin

My dad hates hospitals so when it comes to such events as delivering babies, which perch on the edge of happiness and mayhem, you’ll probably find him on the Picaflor rather than in Labor & Delivery. So it worked out well for him when, at the time ...

Fishing "Indian Style" in San Jose

With the welcoming of Mama Nido to Panama, many opportunities to fish different areas were opened.  The mothership housed enough fuel to allow Picaflor and her crew to stay safely along side for almost a month at a time. With this came the availability ...

Large Fish, Fine Rum

The progression of a fisherman’s taste in activity is similar to that of someone who drinks alcohol. At first, he may be content sitting on the back of a pickup truck bed with a can full of night crawlers and a cane pole, looking for anything that comes ...

The Fish are Jumping in Panama

Although this is changing, Panama is still all-but closed to the sport fishing community. There’s simply little infrastructure the kind of which you find in the other more popular destinations like Los Cabos or Costa Rica. That makes for some very rich ...