Travel & Outfitting

Fishing trips are a great way to get together with family or best friends. Time spent together outdoors can be a fantastic way to create lifelong memories. Fishing is good for your health, including your mental health. 

An All-Inclusive Fishing Adventure

It is a lot of fun, it really is. An all-inclusive trip to see us. I’ve been doing this trip for many years with the same outfits. You arrive at Panama Tocumen Airport; from that point on, you are fully guided the entire time until you reach the departure gate. Hundreds of my guests have passed this way.

What happens between arrival and departure depends on your preference, but it usually goes like this: an airport hostess brings your baggage ahead of you to a private passenger van, and you are off to the JW Marriott, formerly the Trump Ocean Club. As you can imagine, it’s a nice hotel. Everything you want is there.

The chauffeur brings you to the curb, the bellmen take you to reception to receive the keys to your reserved rooms. Up the elevator you go. The next morning, leave the luggage you don’t need at the front desk. As early as you want, usually 5:30 am, the chauffeur is at the curb. He brings you through the rear entrance to Albrook Airport, right into the hangar where the two airplanes we use are kept. You get in a plane and go. It’s a one-hour and fifteen-minute flight over the Panama Canal until you land here, where you meet me on the landing strip.

The police and I walk you down to the beach, out to the Joker, where you find my first mate, ready to fish. Introductions, the first beer, and we begin. As many days as you choose.

Your return is the exact opposite. We fish until 4:30, and you are in the air by 5:00.

What to Pack 

Pack whatever you want for Panama City. Sort out what you need for the islands in a soft sided bag. Leave your heavy luggage with the bellman.

 The Piper Seneca useful load is 1,000 pounds. So four 200 pound men may carry up to 200 lbs. in soft sided luggage.

The Islander  carries 1,400 pounds 

It feels good to travel light. Here’s all you really might need.

Printed copy of Jessica’s Itinerary with phone numbers and alternate procedures
Boat shoes
Fishing shirt (1) Long sleeve like Colombia, Tarponwear, Simms, Patagonia makes. UV protection, light weight, packs well, looks good, can wear the same one every day by showering in it with hand soap at night, hangs dry enough overnight.
Fishing pants (1) Pair of same Colombia, Tarponwear type.
Shorts (2) pair one you would want to swim in.
T-shirts (2)
Camera
Polarized sun glasses
Reading glasses
Hat
Sunscreen
Personal dive mask
Toiletries & medications
Passport

Direct Flights to Tocuman International Airport, Panama

HOUSTON Copa

ATLANTA Delta

NEW YORK: United, Copa
NEWARK: United, Copa
CHICAGO: United, Copa
LOS ANGELES: Copa
SAN FRANCISCO: Copa

BOSTON: Copa
MIAMI: American, Copa
LAS VEGAS: Copa
DALLAS: American
ORLANDO: Copa
FORT LAUDERDALE: Copa. Spirit
DENVER : Copa
NEW ORLEANS: Copa
TAMPA: Copa

TORONTO: Copa
MONTREAL : Copa

MADRID: Iberia
PARIS: Air France
LISBON: Coming soon
AMSTERDAM: KLM