Cubera Snapper
The cubera snapper is the other headliner of the inshore fishing in the Gulf of Chiriquí. They are maulers of the reef.
Cubera are powerful fighters. They run like cut snakes when hooked. If you’re on the rod, you’ll have to take care (and exert brute force) to keep them from getting back into the rocks.
- Check out our Sport Fish Panama Island Lodge Guide to Cubera Snapper
We catch many of our cubera on bonito. Drifting a chunk of fresh dead bonito over a high spot is like tossing in snapper candy. We catch others trolling live bonito.
If you are lucky enough to tangle with one of these brutes on a popper you are in for a spectacle. When a big snapper eats a topwater, it looks like the explosion of a hand grenade. It is awesome.
We catch big snapper and tangle with lots of them. Many of our guests come down to try to catch them here—and with good reason. We have a hell of a cubera snapper fishery and we release them.
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