The Experience

Making fishing dreams come true.

You're not guaranteed a 700-pound black marlin or a 250-pound yellowfin today. But you damn sure might — and this place is in the business of making it happen.

Imagine waking up and looking at the Pacific Ocean from your bed. The same waves that helped you drift off now tumble onto the beach, fifty feet from the coconut-palm path that leads to breakfast. Sunrise here exudes anticipation.

Tropical fruit and coffee wait at the long table in the dining room. A friendly face takes your order — bacon, eggs and toast, good fuel for a day's tuna fishing. Your friends arrive over the next ten minutes. Everyone is excited, even those who hung out with Abuelo last night. After breakfast you walk down to the beach, load into the panga, and the crew pushes off the sand. This is your morning commute.

You are ready to fish

The best day of fishing you'll ever have.

The big Yo-Zuri poppers on the giant spinning outfits and the 50-wides ready to deploy bridled live baits on 12/0 circle hooks reinforce the anticipation. What unfolds over the next ten hours could well be the best day of fishing you'll ever experience — and that's no "blind luck, anything could happen" promise.

These fish are here, and your captain and crew catch them often, many times a year, for guests from all over the world.

Explore the fishing

A private island

Surrounded by world-class water

You're staying a week on a boutique lodge on a private island, squarely in the middle of the Gulf of Chiriquí — Hannibal Bank, Coiba, Isla Montuosa.

This is home to perhaps the best black marlin fishery in the northern hemisphere, and among the best destinations anywhere for yellowfin tuna, roosterfish and cubera snapper. It's not just the size and number of fish — it's the density, quality and diversity. Depending on the season and how the water stacks up, you can realistically target black marlin, yellowfin, dorado, sailfish, roosterfish and cubera on the same trip, with a real shot at blue marlin and wahoo.

Many of them in the same day. Trolling live baits around Montuosa, you can work roosterfish and black marlin within 500 yards of one another — without ever reeling in your baits.

More than just fishing

Mountains of sashimi. Then dinner.

The charm of the place extends well past the fishing. You're staying in a quaint, beautiful private cabin, appointed with everything you need to relax. And the food is really, really great — the highlight being the fresh yellowfin. Fish always tastes better when you know who caught it.

The nightly onslaught starts with a giant appetizer tray and a cocktail, ready as you come up from the boat. Dinner is a sit-down affair — food good enough that, anywhere else, you'd have to dress up for it. There's nothing formal for 200 miles. Then it's memory foam and the sound of the Pacific. Hard to imagine life getting better — except you get to do it all again tomorrow.

Food & beverage Lodge amenities

A week in pictures