Last Monday, we left the condo at Playa Blanca to go to Pedasi.  Ray had friends, Dave and Bonnie, visiting from Western Canada for the last couple of weeks and we had been keeping rather busy travelling to Volcan, Pasoa Canoas, Playa Blanca and this time...a fishing trip in Pedasi.

We decided to leave around mid-day for Pedasi as we were staying with friends and they were working until 4 pm.  We planned to spend dinner with them, and fish early the following morning. 

At 5 am, we woke up, turned on the coffee pot, packed up the rods and sandwiches, and headed to the gas station to meet our captain.  Fishing in Pedasi is simple and uncomplicated.  No fancy boats, and no fancy prices.....but almost always lots of fish.  The day was perfect, cloudy / covered skies and no rain.  It was a couple of days after full moon as well.

 

We left the beach at 6:00 am and our captain told us that the fish were unusually far out this time.   While we motored out, we saw a dead female whale who had been giving birth but both had mysteriously died.  It was very sad.  We saw numerous other whales blowing their spouts, a few rays jumping out of the water.  One whale breached, very close to our boat and it was spectacular.

We motored for an hour before we threw out our lines.  It was around 7:00 am.  By 10:00 am, we lost count of the number of fish we had hauled in....somewhere between 15 and 17 fish.  And big ones !  It wasn’t that the fish were everywhere...our captain was fabulous and looked everywhere to spot the fish.  And he did so with expertise.

By 10:00 am , we decided to return to Pedasi so that we could head back to the condo at a reasonable hour.  We reached the beach at 11:00 and the captain spent the next hour cleaning the fish.  We filled at least two coolers full of fish, we gave some to the captain, to our friends and there was still enough to feed several large families. 

Our Boquete friends lucked in!  We handed out several packages with plenty left for ourselves !!!!  Tuna, wahoo and mahi mahi !