Blood, Guts & Glory

Blood, Guts & Glory

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"?

Little Neighbours

Little Neighbours The best part about anchoring the ship in Pina's Bay, are all of the wonderful people that would paddle over to check us out. The Mama Nido became the hang out spot, the coolest place in the bay, the place where everyone wanted to be.  Not a day went by in our 20 something days at anchor where we didn't have more than 3-10 different Little Neighbors all the time just hanging out. The kids would be hand lining for fish off of the back swim transom, everyone smiling and having a great time. Or swimming around the ship, laughing and giggling.

Every day after fishing, we would pull up to the Mama Nido and all eyes would be focused on our crew to see what they might pull out of their fish coolers. Our boys would often save extra pieces of Bonito or other fish, to give to our Little Neighbours, so they could use it for hand lining.

The back of the Mama Nido became a Canoe parking lot and a safe haven for people to congregate on when a big storm was rolling through.

 Here are some pictures of our Smiling Little Neighbours. We are headed back down to Pina’s Bay next week and I can’t wait to capture more of them!!!

 

  

 

 

Hand Lining in the early Morning Hours

We unfortunately had a Blue Marlin die on us, but that one fish most likely fed over 20 families from Pina's Bay.

A whole group of our Little Neighbours, just hanging out!

The Kids are pretty shy at first, but then they seem to love the camera!