Colon City Panama

Colon City has a good fame for cruising and fishing on its blue Caribbean tropical waters. Christopher Columbus had arrived to this area after discovering Bocas Del Toro. Most of the population and culture is Antillean descendent and in most places feels more “Irie” than Latin America.

Colon City is Panama’s second largest City and it’s located on the northern “ Atlantic Coast” at 1 hr drive from Panama City. It is definitely a must when on a Panama Travel with panamacruise.com.pa . Places like the Free Trade Zone, San Lorenzo, Portobello and other areas of Colon are places rich in interesting colonial history and sights.

During times of the California gold rush, most of the public living on the east coast of the United States traveled to Panama in order to reach California. Traveling out to California thru Panama was cheaper, faster and less dangerous than traveling through the US. These groups of travelers or gold seekers would cruise on steam ships from the US east coast and into Panama’s Rio Chagres in order to proceed on an 80 km walk to the Pacific Coast. One of the reasons to build the Panama Railroad was to eliminate the long walk for these gold seeking Panama travelers. Colon city was founded in 1850 by Americans working on the Panama Railroad which was the first transcontinental railroad in the world. This Panamanian City was named Aspinwall after one of the builders of the railway and was built by the Panama Rail Road on a small swampy Island named Manzanillo.

Manzanillo or Colon City was a coral flat with no more than a mile by three-quarters of a mile in area. It was located at the entrance to Limon Bay on the Atlantic coast. Basically there was open salt water on it surrounding in the exception of its southern side, where a narrow channel, the Folks River, divided it from the mainland. This meaning it has been a great place for salt water sport fishing. After 40 years of its settlement, Aspinwall City was changed its name to Colon City by the Colombian government in memory of Christopher Columbus.

Now days, Colon City is an important port, commercial center, tourist destination and one of the entrances of the Panama Canal. It was made a free trade zone in 1953 and is the world’s second largest duty-free port after Hong Kong. Moreover, it is connected to Panama City by Road, Rail, Air and the great Panama Canal!

Fishing in Colon City Panama

Once you step foot in Panama City you will realize how close the Pacific coast is from the Atlantic Ocean. This leads to a very convenient option on learning about the Atlantic coast or jumping on short fishing or sailing charter in the blue waters of Panama’s Caribbean coast. The distance in between each other is about 80 km or 1 hr of drive. However, it would take about 2 hrs to get to the fishing zone where most anglers will find fishing opportunities for Tarpon, Spanish Mackerel, Red Snapper, Jack, Grouper, Wahoo, Marlin, Tuna, African Pompano and the famous Barracuda.

Fishing in the Atlantic coast of Panama is considered to be a unique experience due the underwater topography and the fact that many of the fishing zones have never been touched by development or commercialization. At the most you could expect to see some Kuna Indians going for the catch of the day using a hook and a line on one of their fishing canoes. The reef formation in this area is considered to be heaven for octopus, lobster, conks, crabs and reef fish.

Fishing Charter Quarry: Spanish Mackerel, Snapper, Shark, Barracuda, Tarpon, Grouper, Amberjack, Cubera Snapper, Amberjack, Permit, Snook, basically a great variety of shelf pelagic fish, shelf demersal fishi, estuary fish and slope fish.

Big-game fishing: Is recreational fishing and it is also known as offshore sport fishing or offshore game fishing targeting big game fish such as Tuna and Marlin in the open sea.

Trolling: is a method of fishing in which some form of bait, such as a fishing lure or a living fish, is drawn on a line through the water. Trolling from a moving boat is a technique of Big-game fishing and is used when fishing from boats to catch large open-water species such as tuna and marlin. Trolling is also a freshwater angling technique.

Fly fishing is a distinct and ancient angling method, most renowned as a method for catching trout and salmon, but employed today for a wide variety of gamefish species including pike, bass, panfish, and carp, as well as saltwater marine species, such as, snook, tarpon, bonefish, bass and others.

Angling: is a technique use in sport fishing and it is basically catching fish of an “angle”.

Estuary Fish: Estuary fish congregate in deep holes. Fishing the low and rising tide in these areas is good for good catches.

Slope Fish: Slope or bottom fish are fish types that live deep in the water and off the continental shelf of Panama.

Demersal Fish (Bottom feeding fish): Demersal fish type is of commercial interest and are mostly located to the upper 200m. Demersal fish is mostly located in the near shore rocky bottom areas of the Panama gulf coast. Some of the demersal fish you will find in a panama gulf sport fishing charter are groupers, sappers, jacks, pompanos, corvine among others.

Pelagic Fish (Surface feeding or free swimming fish): Pelagic fish are usually fish that live alone or in schools at or near the surface or the shallower areas of the continental waters of the Gulf of Panama. Some of the pelagic fish found in the Gulf of Panama are Barracudas, Amberjacks, Roosterfish and Sierras among others.

FAQS?

Where do we get to sleep while in a Colon City sport fishing charter by panamacruise.com.pa? Accommodations can be held on different resorts we operate with on Isla Grande or Santa Isabel . To learn more on accommodations please contact us.

How do we get to the Colon City sport fishing zone? Panamacruise.com.pa counts with a brand new 15 pax Nissan Urvan bus. We pick our clients directly at the International Airport or Hotel once they confirm.