Captain Miguel is without a doubt a master of his craft and the best Captain we could have asked for on our half day fishing trip. He took us out bright and early, 6 am, just in time to see a beautiful sunrise over the Bay’s waters on our way several miles out for some early morning blue water trolling.

Even though it was towards the end of the season, he had no reservations over us choosing trolling over the safer pick of shallow water jigging near Taboga Island. We trolled along an underwater structure near an underwater shelf for most of the morning. The result was several hours of exciting fishing pulling in a few picture worthy Spanish Mackerel and a Black Fin Tuna.

Once the fishing had slowed down he took us on a picturesque tour around Taboga Island on our way into the docks. Once there, he dropped us off for a small excursion around the city while he prepped our fish himself. Upon returning to the boat we were greeted with bags of fresh fish fillets and the freshest, tastiest Ceviche either of us had ever tasted. There’s nothing better than Ceviche made out of a fish you caught 30 minutes prior.

Miguel took care of everything and our amateurish nature of ocean fishing was never a problem. He had a knack for finding the good areas and made the whole experience extremely fun and memorable.

We ended up catching more fish than a tourist to the area would know what to do with and his good nature showed through more when he would take those fish we wouldn’t use and donate them to workers on the docks and piers.

100% recommend Miguel and Panama GEM Charters - 27’ Proline to anybody looking to do some fishing in the Panama City area and we will be looking his way if/when we make our way back down there for a longer fishing adventure.!!

Cheers!! #TightLines