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Panama City

thanks for sharing, fwiw It would be better if you added some content with link the to another forum instead of just link .02

thanks for sharing, fwiw It would be better if you added some content with link the to another forum instead of just link .02
Good idea why don't you do that you have my permission.

We've been to Morro Negrito to surf and shoot fish. 6 of us headed down there in 2004 for a planned 2 week stay. I lived in Panama for 3 years before I moved to Florida in 1987. I loved living there and coming back was a great experience. The camp was just getting its feet under itself then. From Panama City it was like a solid 8+ hour bus ride to where we got dropped off with all our gear. The funny thing about that segment of the trip was that none of us knew when we were supposed to exit the bus. It was a public transit bus so it made 2 dozen + stops before it stopped at our departure location. We were all sitting waiting for the bus to move along when the bus driver stood up and pointed at us telling us to get the hell off his bus :D That ride was very interesting. There are still a lot of locals who do not like gringos at all and that was very clear by some of the looks we got on that bus ride.

After sitting along side the road for about 15 minutes wondering what the hell we should do and laughing about our situation a truck pulls up and instructs us to load our shit up and get in the back. After about a 30 minute ride we pulled off the side of the road along a canal that had 3 pangas waiting for us. It was low tide so we had to truck our gear out into the gravel-bed canal to the pangas. After a very cool ride through the mud-colored mangrove canals we busted out into the green and blue Pacific.

Arriving at the camp was cool….the captains of the pangas just opened up the old Merc’s till we practically hit the beach where we then glided up and came to a stop. We could smell food so we unloaded our gear quickly and sat down to a nice meal.

The surf in front of the camp was marginal that afternoon, a clean left point reeling in at 3-4 foot. We surfed it till the tide crushed it and we then grabbed our guns and started out for the Point. Lots of fish that I still have no idea what they were called, lots of snappers, jacks, and small grouper. We shot a nice stringer and came back in…..everyone at the camp was super stoked about the fresh fish.

We surfed in the mornings and shot fish between the tide swings (15 + feet). Surf eventually went flat after about 5 days so a couple of us left the camp to find surf in Bocas Del Toros on the Caribbean side. When we got to Changuinola (sp?) we found out that the place was booked solid due to it being Easter weekend, duh, everyone down there is Catholic. So we pressed on and crossed the border into Costa Rica and finished our stay in Puerto Viejo where we ended up catching Salsa Brava at 6 feet + on the sets for 3 solid days.

Great trip…..and I’d go back to Morro Negrito but I would want to be on stand-by to hit it on a SOLID swell.

Thanks for the info.