We had a great trip on a mothership of PSFL last year and I arranged the mothership trip again with 8 anglers this year.

I was a fun trip catching lots of tuna on popping rods.  

We released all tuna except a few for dinner. 

The Hannibal Bank was hot before your trip, but tuna were on and off there. But we chased yft on popping rods and each angler who could cast had 5 - 6 hookups with 30 lb - 90 lb on each day on poppers except the last day.

We fished inshore briefly and managed to catch two roosters and some jacks on popers. 

I used this opportunity to test our 9'2" - 10' Black Hole  yellowtail/tuna popping rods.

arriving at David, Panama

arriving at PSFL

ready for fishing.

first tuna with light 9'2" Black Hole Striper rod

used sardine.

fighting a tuna with light Black Hole Cape Cod Slow Pitch 632 rod on a jig.

It was great to meet Macho on the water with whom I fished several years when he worked for PSFL.

bait bite

tuna to be released.

our second boat

ready for dinner at mothership after fishing.

baited hook. I think tuna are too many to eat those baited hook there. :)

We usually atarted with bait in Hannibal Bank.

Then, we chased yft on surface

foul hooked turtle on a jig

80 lb tuna using light 9'6" Black Hole Striper rod

I tested the light Black Hole Cape Cod Slow Pitch 632 rod for tuna. The rod is only 6 oz and we landed 100 lb tuna with it in Panama last year.

While it took about 20 minutes using the same rod to land a 100 lb tuna last year, we lost this time after 50 minutes using about 25 lb drag.The big tuna could be a cow. We used JM PE8 reel filled with 80 lb Jerry Brown Hollow/100 lb Yozuri Flueoro Carbon leader line. 

mothership

relaxing on the mothership after fishing

popping tuna