I’ve just returned home from a week’s fishing in Panama hosting a group of seven anglers. It was a week during which we encountered what can accurately be described as ‘testing’ conditions. Throughout the entire time one song played continually on a loop inside my head; thankfully it was a decent song! The chorus of You Can’t Always Get What You Want from The Rolling Stones 1969 album Let It Bleed perfectly sums up our week!
I saw her today at the reception A glass of wine in her hand I knew she would meet her connection At her feet was her footloose man
No, you can’t always get what you want You can’t always get what you want But if you try sometime you’ll find You get what you need Panama is one of the great sport fishing destinations of the world. You’ll find this small country bookended between Costa Rica and Colombia at the eastern end of Central America. It’s a country that features prominently among my favourite angling locations. Up until relatively recently Panama was fished almost exclusively by Americans then, at some time during the 1990s, word of
