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I am always exited by the opportunity to catch a new species of fish on the fly. Especially when it is a hard fighting, knuckle busting, bull dogging, drag screaming sports car of the sea like the Yellowfin Tuna. These fish are amazing. They light up when they hit and they pull like freight train. You can see the ocean in their big dark eyes. They look like a perfect piece to the giant puzzle that is the ocean. Despite language barriers, late nights and moon phases my buddy Jason and I managed to communicate to the panga boat guys that we wanted Yellowfin and we wanted them on the fly. Not as easy as it sounds when you consider that most of the tourists these panga boat guys take out are satisfied to sling bait, hook a couple fish and be back at the hotel by noon sipping margaritas next to the pool. Usually, neither captain nor client cares what species is caught or how. And their comprehension of English goes from decent to nonexistent when you start asking them to do things they don’t want to do. Our panga captain was interested in getting us into fish although he certainly did not understand why we did not want to bait up every rod in the boat. To him it must seem very silly to waste time with a silly little fly when the fish will ready chow down live Sardinas. We, however, were on a mission and we did not care of about the difficulties involved. We wanted Tuna on the fly and did not mind searching water for hours looking for the busting bait, floating debris and swarming birds that indicate Tuna on the prowl.

They were difficult at best to find. The search was made even tougher for me because the ocean had stolen my prescription polarized sunglasses during a bit of a “wave misjudgment” incident while surf casting the day before. It took us several hours and much searching but we finally found what we were looking for. Once we found the fish the hook-ups were plentiful and we were satisfied.