Shane Jarvis

Propiedad de Paradise Lodge, Isla Paridas hosted another great group of guys..... Peter, Dan, and Matt Arvan along with their good friend Sean York for a few days of blue water hunting here in the Gulf of Chiriqui, Panama. The guys from North Carolina were looking to target Yellowfin Tuna and Black Marlin offshore and we got into them! Not 10 minutes into the first day out at Hannibal Bank we put the hook into a 450# Black Marlin that ate one of our live baits! Sean put the screws to the fish and had him to the boat in under 30 minutes. The fish must have jumped fifteen times! I put together this video from the footage I took and the underwater video of Matt took at the release...

http://youtu.be/PCAfG5sxN4k

The following days we fished at Isla Montuosa and Hannibal to try and raise another Marlin but green water moved in and we didn't get another shot. The Yellowfin Tunas although are up into the Gulf of Chiriqui in full force. Fish are busting all around if you find the Porpoises and bird activity. YFTs were hanging still down south around Jicaron/Jicarita with cooler water and showed up one day at Isla Montuosa. It wasn't always easy enticing these Tunas to bite as they are still being very picky. We ran from group to group of different YFTs, during our days, to find the ones that were interested in eating our baits. We did have numerous hookups..... we got a few and missed quite a few but we did okay! We got hits on Blue Runners and quite a few on Poppers! "POP!, POP!, POP!" all of us were screaming as the guys were casting on the boiling Tunas. We had a great time and Pete and Sean were able to fill both their coolers with fresh YFT for their trip back to the US!

Capt. Shane Jarvis

Propiedad de Paradise Lodge

Isla Paridas, Panama

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Fish Species: Black Marlin and Yellowfin Tuna
Bait Used: Live Bointo and Green Jacks
Tackle Used: Shimano
Method Used: Live Baiting
Water Depth:
Water Temperature: 82
Wind Direction:
Wind Speed:
A Black Marlin going nuts after the hookup!
A Black Marlin going nuts after the hookup!

A nice Yellowfin Tuna for Dan Arvan.
A nice Yellowfin Tuna for Dan Arvan.


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Shane Jarvis

About The Author: Captain Shane Jarvis

Company: Propiedad de Paradise Lodge

Area Reporting: Hannibal Bank, Gulf of Chiriqui, Panama

Bio: As an avid fisherman/outdoorsman I first came to Panama in 1999 on a fishing trip to see what all the fuss was about. I had heard great stories about Marlin and Tuna at Hannibal Bank and of the amazing diversity of the fishery in the Gulf of Chiriqui. After that first trip I was obsessed with Panama and came back many times to fish eventually moving here for good 3 years later. I shipped my boat down and began guided sport fishing charters in 2003 and broke ground on our private island lodge on Isla Paridas. A couple of years later we opened Propiedad de Paradise Lodge as the perfect spot, in the heart of the Gulf of Chiriqui, for anglers to fish the Hannibal Bank and Panama's world class fishery in style!

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