Pedasi Fishing

Pedasito Lounge and Cafe is located in the heart of the charming historic down town Pedasi. Enjoy a unique concept that merges casual rustic culture with an eastern Mediterranean style.

Indulge yourself with our gourmet coffees, boutique wines, breakfast items, soups, salads, sandwiches, pastries and delicious desserts. 

Relax inside our lounge or on the outdoor patio with a cup of organic coffee, a glass of wine, wonderful food, great conversation, island music, and a friendly comfortable atmosphere, where rustic culture and fine foods come together.

 Pedasito lounge and cafe offer guests the following amenities:

• Indoor Lounge
• Outside Patio
• Wi-Fi Internet
• Plasma Tv´s
• Bamboo Bar
• Rare Books
• Hammocks
• Serving Breakfast
• Air Conditioning
• Local Coffee
• Imported Wines

Playa Venao, just thirty minutes drive west from Andromeda Ocean Estates, is one of Panamas best surf spots with a consistent south swell that attracts surfers from all over the world.Just 25 miles south of the picturesque town of Pedasi Panama and the local airport, Play Venao is a surfers dream.One of Panama’s top surf breaks- Playa Venao is a surfer’s paradise noted for its 6 to 10 foot waves.

This place is a wave machine!  Boasting waves that are world renown, Playa Venao is a surfer’s paradise.

The best sport or for those who want to learn and get an excellent workout, Venao’s year round surf season is world renown and peaks during the months of December through June. In the months of March through May, visitors from all over the world join the world’s top surfers who battle for surf and boogie board trophies, not to mention the beautiful young people that follow the sport.

One of the driest regions, the Azuero Peninsula has just two seasons, one golden and dry, the other green and lush. In the golden season you find clear blue skies and crisp offshore breezes, while the green season hosts intermittent rain and sun to bring out the lushness for which Panama is so famous.

Playa Venao will offer an exciting mixture of old-world touches with modern amenities and luxury set within an eco-friendly community.  Set at the foot of rolling hills on a majestic bay, Playa Venao is a premier and unique community, being designed with every comfort you may desire while preserving the environment.

Take a walk in the large parks, watch the rolling surf on the beach or walk the village streets paved with European-style cobblestones. Dine on exquisite gourmet and local fare as you gaze upon red Spanish tile roofs and lush greenery with the scent of the deep blue Pacific Ocean in the air.

The beaches and waves are joyfully shared by surf lovers, jogging enthusiasts, couples strolling on the beach and children playing in the sand. All ages can be found mixing and breathing in life.

The options are virtually endless; hiking, fishing, kayaking, and horseback ridding are only some of the many alluring day adventures for the athletic enthusiast.  Just outside of town lies an enchanted forest with hidden waterfalls and abundant bird life.

The Pedasi Real Estate area offers world-class surfing, diving, snorkeling and hiking, and nature lovers can explore Pedasí’s rich natural heritage, a utopia of wildlife exploration. Pedasí’s waters are also well known for fantastic sport-fishing, yielding record catches of blue marlin, big-eye and yellow fin tuna, Pacific sailfish, wahoo, mahi-mahi, grouper, snapper and amberjack.

As prime beachfront land in Panama grows ever scarcer, investors and developers have been looking to this sleepy stretch of coastline on Panama’s central Pacific for the next wave of development, and discovering in the Azuero Peninsula the very heart of Pana

Pedasi now hosts an annual fishing tournament held by Pedasi Fishing, another local sport-fishing outfit, which this year drew dozens of boats and hundreds of spectators over the weekend-long competition. In fact, it is the abundant fishing, in addition to the area’s dry climate, clear waters and country charms that have drawn increased tourism and development to the area in recent years.

While Pedasi boasts a small marina for launching small and mid-size boats, Mr. Grimes says a world-class marina would boost the area’s profile to no end.  “We need a marina,” he says emphatically. “I can’t tell you the number of people with money, that have boats, that want to come here. To support the type of activity that I can see happening here, you need a first-class marina.”Everyone agrees that a large-scale marina will do much to boost Pedasi’s reputation in the sport-fishing world, but even without it, the word is spreading fast.

Many developers are targeting fishing enthusiasts, building gated communities tailored to their needs, with beach clubs and waterfront storage lockers to easily store fishing gear.

“Pedasi is far from everything, and really authentic. You can fish, surf, bike, ride horses, all in a very special place,” says Daniel Rudas of Dekel Panama S.A., the development group building Andromeda Pedasi, the town’s first vacation community, slated to begin construction in early 2009.

He and his partners hope to attract serious sport-fishers among their clients, envisioning a multitude of fishing yachts anchored offshore in Pedasi’s future.

Tourists and developers aren’t the only ones drawn to the bounty of these Pacific waters. Marine scientists from around the world visit the Achotines Laboratory, in face of the Frailes Islands. The laboratory has been operating in the Pedasi district since 1985, studying the life cycle of yellow-fin tuna. Because their numbers are so plentiful in the waters offshore, scientists can easily collect dozens of juvenile tuna to raise and breed in large, specially-made tanks.

Their studies are helping to provide clues as to the feeding, breeding and migration habits of these tuna in the wild — about which little is known to date — in hopes of instituting conservation programs to prevent the population loss seen in the blue fin tuna, whose flesh is so prized for sushi and other Asian dishes.

“The commission (the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, which oversees the Achotines Laboratory) also works to reduce tuna by-catch,” says lab technician Daniel Perez, “through experimental nets with escape hatches to see if juvenile fish are able to escape while restraining mature tuna.”

Future studies will also include sailfish, he says, which is good news for sport-fishers; their work will help ensure game fish off Pedasi remain plentiful for generations to come.