This past June, I had the pleasure of joining the folks from Penn Reels at Crocodile Bay Lodge on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica. The goal was to pit the new Penn Spinfisher V against some tough customers before the reel was to be released at ICAST the following month. The variety of gamefish in Costa Rica is mind-blowing. Roosterfish, tuna, sailfish, snappers, jacks, and on and on all did battle against the new Penn Spinfisher V, and the reel performed beautifully. After using the reel in Costa Rica, I can’t wait to use it on big stripers and bluefin tuna back home. Here’s a quick video Penn put together from our trip. Enjoy.
[…] The 45-minute flight from San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica where our group had landed the night before, gave me a better understanding of the expansiveness of the country’s wild terrain. At times I thought I could reach out and touch the green mountaintops as we navigated through the many peaks and valleys in a twin prop Nature Air plane. It wasn’t long before I spotted the Puerto Jimenez landing strip— all 200 yards of it—which was our final stop on the trip to Crocodile Bay Resort. […]