Capt. Alex Livingston hosted Jerry Johnson from Bocas de Toro, Panama and Jim Thompson from Sacramento, CA for their first visit to the Rio Negro Sport fishing Lodge. Jerry reports that they had three “magnificent” days of fishing. The first day, 4 Sep 01 they fished the South end of the Azuero Peninsula, West of Tony Pena’s coined “Tuna Coast.” In Jerry’s words, they caught “Wahoo by the boat load”, schoolie Yellow fin Tunas, Cero Mackerel and too many Jacks. The second day fishing off Isla Cebaco due West of the lodge they caught “huge Peruvian Amberjacks on a dumb looking lead jig”, the largest pushed 100 lbs, more schoolie Tunas, Cero Mackerel, snapper and Broomtail grouper. The third and final day they again fished South of the lodge and caught “enormous Wahoo, Tuna, and the biggest Pacific Sailfish any of us had ever seen. We released him, but estimates are 150 to 200 lbs.” As usual the sailfish was caught by accident while dragging a CD14 Rapala on 2 foot wire leader and 30 lb mono, trolling for Wahoo and Tuna.
