Kayak Fishing The Jungle For The ULTIMATE Dream Fish!

across the globe there are many remote fishing destinations that call to Anglers promising the chance to catch the fish of their dreams scattered across multiple continents these Untamed Waters test both skill and determination but there is one place one legendary stretch of ocean that draws thousands of Anglers every year a place where bucketless fish await those bold enough to Brave its unforgiving conditions welcome to the Pacific coast of Panama a true anger's Paradise but not without its dangers here you're hundreds of miles from the nearest hospital fishing at the edge of one of the world's most treacherous jungles and if that's not enough the best way to hunt these Giants is by kayak where 10-ft Coastal swells are just another part of the challenge it's a battle of risk versus reward but for me there's no question the chance to land the fish of a lifetime is worth it all so join me on this intense onewe journey through rough Seas a Relentless fever and illness and a final storybook Showdown with the fish of my dreams this is an adventure like no other and here we go good morning guys first morning we are about ready to launch see they're pulling our panga out kayaks are loaded up we are heading out it is time to go fish finally so we're going a several miles from here today we're going to head out and down around the point there and we're going to put the kayaks in the water once we get there saving us from having a long long paddle to get to the fishing spot so we're going to get on the panga get to our spot and then I will get back with you everybody say good morning to Robert you ready to do it oh yeah I'm pumped very flat this morning [Music] all right guys we are off let's do this all right got some fish busting up here I've seen yep there we go there's another one maybe we get us a good bait there we go got a bait got a bait all right I think it's a Bonita it's fighting like a Bonita oh I pulled loose damn it so while we're trying to catch our own baits the pangas are also out catching baits for us at the same time so if you don't have a bait and they get one for you you just go over they'll get your hook and put the bait on for you and then you can start trolling immediately Runners same I it what depth range do I want to stay in 40 to 80 is SP consistently and you lose that base then maybe we'll cut it off in between so we want to stay between 40 and 80 ft of depth when we're trolling that hard tail for the rooster fish and uh Robert said to keep it slow so we're just going to just slowly Mosey around here do some loops around them when you're using big baits like Bonitas sometimes it can be hard to tell if you've got a bite or if it's your bait freaking out on you because the baits will sometimes just pull the drag and you'll think you have a fish but you got to leave your drag loose because if a rooster fish picks it up and feels any resistance he'll drop it immediately I'm on nope come on you can do it I'm off it is getting warm I mean vas are all over guys they're just really hard for us to transport so I'm going to kind of ignore these right now and try to get some blue Runners if we can kind of keep alive and have them ready to go for when yall lose bait but who all still needs a bait right now B coming UPS it's good to kind of practice and learn grabbing those guys when they pop up all week it's really a game of patience cuz you want to give these rooster fish at least a 15 to 20 second run before you try setting the hook that was a bite so after bite I just wanted to make sure my bait was still alive cuz those rooster fish can crush a Bonita and kill it and then drop it and you're towing a dead bait behind your kayak all right guys it's been kind of a long morning had several life baits lost a big fish but look at all the Bonita busting right there hi Bon is still looking pretty healthy so not going to worry about it it always seems when you're not expecting it that's when you get hit this was a big bait so I wanted to make sure and let that fish run with it because I want it to be in his mouth when I set the hook all right might be on let's see there we go fish on NY pull a and just like that I lost another fish that's what's so frustrating about this is you can do everything right you can wait you can be patient not set the hook right away let him eat it and it still pulls the hook out of his mouth and just a quick mention that I have the honor of representing the United States and the kayak saltwater fishing World Championships in laa Mexico in March we do have to pay our own way in this so I'm going to leave a link in the description in case anybody wants to donate traveling internationally with fishing equipment gets very expensive so any amount of help is greatly appreciated miraculously my Pate was still alive I can't remember how many times he got hit but he was still swimming strong so I decided to just go with it did you still have eight on there after that yeah it was a rooster you can see the rubbings down the side of him but he's still swimming and it wasn't but 2 minutes later I just turned my kayak around and started heading in the other direction you come off no he dropped it no yep he scraped it all down the sides what happened what's ba look like is a rooster sh scrapes down the side damn let it eat man long you wait wait longer next time but sometimes you do every single thing right and it it just don't get by me there's always some luck involved in how they B it SW yeah works really well when that freaking Bonita got smashed three times and he lived through all of them but the last one Dam yeah it's got that like sandpaper scrapes on it yep so that was the end of fishing day one pretty frustrating I had multiple chances to land roosters and I just could not get a hook in them frustrating day oh thanks one two three [Applause] go it was so nice every day when we got back from fishing we had fresh Ceviche fresh fish dip waiting for us oh so good how's it de h i I was really good today at losing fish so this was the end of day one day two I woke up in the morning I had a fever I was coughing hacking I felt horrible I went ahead and fished all day but I didn't put the footage in because it was uneventful so now now we're just going to skip ahead to day three I felt maybe a little bit better but I still was not 100% we were heading out to a new spot today on day three and I really wanted to be excited but the fever was just keeping me down yeah I dropped on some spots that look loaded but nothing will hit you got line oh no it's just a jig I spent the first part of the morning vertical jigging without any Real Results I got hit a couple times but didn't hook any fish so figured it was time for some live bait to troll gracias guys over to the east there's a good B jumping all right guys we got a Bonita on let's go catch something all right I think we're on unless that Bonita's just running but I don't think he did I don't think it is all right let's go this was a tricky situation here I thought he had dropped the bait but he was actually swimming at me did I lose my rooster and I had my rod out to the side which is a compromising position in the kayak and he almost flipped me oh there he is he's got to still be on all right come on keep them hooked keep them hooked he just starts ripping drag out here this is what's called a Panamanian sleigh ride Big Fish yellow kayak Big Fish the power of these rooster fish is just incredible probably pound for pound the hardest fight fish I fought on my way brother here we're head over oh yeah good rooster good rooster oh [Music] yeah like a good size n nice [Music] man got him got yeah yeah look at that all right finally on the board yeah definitely a nice fish but it was not the giant trophy that I came to Panama for so I was still on the hunt sick all right shoot him yeah yeah go ahead yeah there you go he's yep no the rors though Robert from field trips with Robert Fields was hooked up to something massive it was so big he was having trouble even moving an [Laughter] inch Roberts got him something Dandy on it was so big that he thought he was stuck on bottom until it started swimming that's a heavy fish well that would probably eliminate shark wouldn't itude you still jacking with that one he's got to be out he's Towing you so I'd went off and fished and come back and he was still fighting yeah and it was like he chomped on it a few times first this is insane this has got to be a massive kubara I got to see what this is I can't fish until I see what it is he's giving up a little get him get him [Laughter] swordfish this fish was so strong Robert snapped his Ro giant Stinger oh it's a live Bonita whoa look at that thing M giant s not what we were hoping for but it was still cool to see something that huge ready want me hop out day three was in the books and I had the skunk off my back day four we were hit in a different area that contained a lot of rocks and shallower places is to fish so we were going to throw some bucktails and do some jigging in addition to trolling the life baits around day four was kind of a setback healthwise day three I thought I was getting better but day four I felt like crap does anybody have a spare pair of gloves the sun in Panama is brutal and the one thing I didn't keep covered was my hands I'll squeeze them in somehow thank you I had no clue your fingernails could get sunburned I'm ready to go to bed so between long breaks of just resting in the kayak I did actually throw the Bucktail jig a little when this happened if he's damn near at M then I tell him just keep going till he gets there but right there like the he's say 00 yard Bo yeah okay okay stay over there that's kind of zigzag like in closer to the coast get you know get up in like 40 ft even like 35 ft I don't know how much line you got out to a little bit 60 70 some and all right we're on guys that Z like sometimes they're they're really kind of focusing Clos to the coast in 30t of water they out 70 so I knew this wasn't a rooster but it was a strong fish putting up a good fight big nice what is this I thought you already got your boat not that big uh it's about uh eight 8 lb uh blue F volley oh sick all right guys I can't remember if I caught one of these at Tropic star or not I know I caught a golden travali but beautiful fish look at the purple almost iridescent it's like glowing what a beauty F hard too you want to no throw it throw it oh throw back yeah okay swim off can I get a refill yeah all right guys that's going to do it for today we got to get back in not a very productive day for me but everybody kind of struggled today so the fish just weren't aggressive but I feel worn down run down from the cold so I'm gonna go back and get some rest and uh try and get ready for the last day tomorrow so I'll see you guys tomorrow all right good morning guys last day in paradise I slept a total of about 14 hours yesterday and last night so I think I recharged the batteries just enough to make it through today so it's time to get it on and uh go slay some big fish so you see they're loading the pangas into the water and then we're heading out to some rocks way out there you can see the Rocks uh a lot of good chance at some big fish today so we're going to try and catch live bait drop some live baits down and if not we're going to jig a lot so uh looks like the tractor's coming for us so we're going to get started one moment gra good Lu thank you I only had one thing on my mind today and that was to hook a massive fish Jack had caught a rooster earlier in the week and had been crowing all week about how he' caught the biggest fish so until we got some live baits to put out I just decided to go ahead and drop the vertical jig and see what I could pull up off of the Rocks up Ed Ed [ __ ] you man there we go all right right we're on I'm on Big Fish whoa God dog what is this it's good size whatever it is got to keep out of the Rocks I just got a glimpse of them come on dumping me go this fish had a lot of fight in it and I was worried about it getting back down to the rocks STI with Bonita yeah see oh I thought I had something good oh no white tuna white tuna gotcha believe this is a Pacific Bonito the locals there call it a white tuna uh some of them eat it some of it don't uh a lot of them use them for bait all right marus species off the list all right got it out all right guys new species for me white tuna got him yeah I got all right you so the rest of that morning was pretty uneventful and time was becoming a factor there we go on L these Bonitas seem to be great bait for the rooster fish but the thing is they die so fast you have to get it off of your hook and onto your live bait rig quick or else it'll die before you even get a chance to fish it oh yeah perfect trolling size [Music] now I'm in business all right caught us a great bait of Bonita perfect size now we're going to do some trolling so IID literally trolled that Bonita for almost 2 hours and I was pretty sure he was dead so I decided to reel up and check him and sure enough he was so time was running out we only had about an hour left to fish and I was really getting discouraged just a little bit earlier Jack had caught a nice broomtail grouper and he was already talking trash about the fish he'd caught and that I hadn't so I was getting desperate it was really getting down to the end of fishing time and luckily Robert had caught a big hard ta and he gave it to one of the guys in the panga to bring over to me this was more than likely going to be my last bait of the whole trip so I had to make it count good thing about the hard tail vers the Bonita is the hard tails are very hearty and they'll live a lot longer than the Bonita grais another so I was off with my last bait of the whole trip trying to throw a Hail Mary on the last play of the game Rob where would you suggest to concentrate trolling this the water that was Jack making a joke he's real good at that when he's got the biggest fish on the board Rob did you copy that no I'm sorry come back go ahead where would you suggest concentrate trolling this big hard tail rooster City man get in like 60 ft 55 to 65 ft turn in the current just pedal slow enough you know just try to kind of hold still just let that thing Dance I mean the roosters are cruising so kind of like when you're lost in the woods like don't you know just sit still so they can find you same kind of concept I heard that water is a good place to put the bait there's that funny guy Jack again but I'll give you a guess as to who got the last laugh all right guys bottom of the n9th uh this is it we got about an hour left to fishing on the trip I got a giant hard tail out and see if we can make it happen fingers crossed then with about 30 minutes suff fishing left my bait started acting very strange I knew immediately this was a big fish but then my heart sank as I thought he'd dropped the bait what the hell just happened and then something amazing happened there we go all right I'm on big fish big fish that Sean yellow kayak all right guys this is it get away this is what we've been waiting for this was something so big that it was literally Towing my kayak at 4 to 5 mph you can see how fast the Pang is moving behind me and I'm not pedaling all this speed's being generated by the massive fish Towing my kayak I was at Max drag and it was all I could do to hold on to this rod and keep him from pulling it out of my hands this giant towed me around for literally 15 minutes but for the sake of the video I had to cut some of that footage out gotcha comeing to you [Music] oh he's going back every time I thought I had this fish beat he came back with even more more strength than before on the frisky Fin's custom rod what the hell is that Grande you saw yeah what color silver I was beginning to think this could be the fish that I had traveled thousands of miles to catch [Music] this is the point in time when most giant fish get lost right before you get them to the boat [Music] [Music] [Music] oh no yeah that's a rooster [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] yeah yeah look at that freaking giant dude oh my god dude Monster look that that is a tropy brother 100% day dude sick this video right now look this monster rooster for sha Lawless oh my god dude Beast oh whole day probably 50 that's why you fish to the last minute that's it man got him the bait last hour out here and there it is dude all right let me get pictures I told you guys bottom of the ninth I was going to hit a home run it happened I know I know when to quit and now's when to stop hope you guys enjoyed the video don't forget look up Los buos in Panama come here on vacation go fishing catch the fish of your lifetime and check out field trips with Robert fields on YouTube all right guys till next time tight lines I'll see you later