Bisbee's Los Cabos Offshore Day 1
Posted: October 16th, 2011, 12:54 pm
Sushi Saturday
Cabo San Lucas, BCS | by Capt. Dave Lear
Is Weight Watchers a side effect of the La Nina oceanic condition? Could be. The fat marlin failed to make an appearance, but the tuna certainly made up for the absence as the first day of the 10th annual Bisbee’s Los Cabos Offshore tournament wrapped up Saturday evening. A 204-pound yellowfin topped the big fish leader board by the time the scales closed at 8 p.m. The hefty sashimi was brought to the boat in an incredible 14 minutes on 130-pound tackle.
“That’s the biggest tuna I’ve caught here in Cabo,” explained Lance Fudicker, who boated the big catch aboard the Wild Hooker. “It ate a live skippie off the Gordo Bank. The seas were flat calm and the bite was slow most of the day. Then, two minutes before lines out, that fish ate the downrigger bait. We had a good time and our plan tomorrow is to go out there and catch the biggest marlin.”
Only one marlin was brought to the scales the first day and it didn’t meet the minimum weight of 300 pounds. A total of 25 billfish were released however, a mixture of smaller blues, striped marlin and sailfish. The daily marlin jackpot prize money will roll over to Sunday.
A near-record 69 boats are competing in this year’s event. The total cash prizes top $282,000. Besides blue and black marlin, yellowfin tuna weighing more than 40 pounds and dorado exceeding 30 pounds are eligible in the game fish division.
Chris Vincent, owner of the local charter boat Go Deeper, broke the ice Saturday when he boated a 99.1-pound yellowfin after a brief tussle. The tuna was hooked the same time as a sailfish, giving the veteran crew a unique double-header.
“Our crew is pretty competitive, but we’re definitely having fun out there,” a smiling Vincent said after the weight was announced by weigh-master Jack Teschel at the scales in downtown Cabo San Lucas. Vincent’s tuna ate a green and yellow flathead pusher lure.
Mike Timon, fishing aboard the Blue Marlin I, recorded a yellowfin that registered 89 pounds. Eduardo Guluarte on the Dottie B II also landed a 134-pound yellowfin on Saturday. No qualifying dorado came to the scales the first day.
Fishing resumes at 8 a.m. on Sunday after the fleet takes off like a bat out of hell from the famous Los Arcos rocks standing sentinel over the Cabo harbor. The contestants have until 5 p.m. to land a marlin that could be worth more than $150,000, depending on the entry levels, and 7 p.m. to make it to the scales.
You can follow the action all day at the Bisbee’s LIVE Scoring website brought to you by CatchStat.
Will a big blue or black find the hook? Stay tuned to find out as the 10th annual Los Cabos Offshore tournament, sponsored by Cabo Riviera Marina and Golf Resort, draws to a close.
Cabo San Lucas, BCS | by Capt. Dave Lear
Is Weight Watchers a side effect of the La Nina oceanic condition? Could be. The fat marlin failed to make an appearance, but the tuna certainly made up for the absence as the first day of the 10th annual Bisbee’s Los Cabos Offshore tournament wrapped up Saturday evening. A 204-pound yellowfin topped the big fish leader board by the time the scales closed at 8 p.m. The hefty sashimi was brought to the boat in an incredible 14 minutes on 130-pound tackle.
“That’s the biggest tuna I’ve caught here in Cabo,” explained Lance Fudicker, who boated the big catch aboard the Wild Hooker. “It ate a live skippie off the Gordo Bank. The seas were flat calm and the bite was slow most of the day. Then, two minutes before lines out, that fish ate the downrigger bait. We had a good time and our plan tomorrow is to go out there and catch the biggest marlin.”
Only one marlin was brought to the scales the first day and it didn’t meet the minimum weight of 300 pounds. A total of 25 billfish were released however, a mixture of smaller blues, striped marlin and sailfish. The daily marlin jackpot prize money will roll over to Sunday.
A near-record 69 boats are competing in this year’s event. The total cash prizes top $282,000. Besides blue and black marlin, yellowfin tuna weighing more than 40 pounds and dorado exceeding 30 pounds are eligible in the game fish division.
Chris Vincent, owner of the local charter boat Go Deeper, broke the ice Saturday when he boated a 99.1-pound yellowfin after a brief tussle. The tuna was hooked the same time as a sailfish, giving the veteran crew a unique double-header.
“Our crew is pretty competitive, but we’re definitely having fun out there,” a smiling Vincent said after the weight was announced by weigh-master Jack Teschel at the scales in downtown Cabo San Lucas. Vincent’s tuna ate a green and yellow flathead pusher lure.
Mike Timon, fishing aboard the Blue Marlin I, recorded a yellowfin that registered 89 pounds. Eduardo Guluarte on the Dottie B II also landed a 134-pound yellowfin on Saturday. No qualifying dorado came to the scales the first day.
Fishing resumes at 8 a.m. on Sunday after the fleet takes off like a bat out of hell from the famous Los Arcos rocks standing sentinel over the Cabo harbor. The contestants have until 5 p.m. to land a marlin that could be worth more than $150,000, depending on the entry levels, and 7 p.m. to make it to the scales.
You can follow the action all day at the Bisbee’s LIVE Scoring website brought to you by CatchStat.
Will a big blue or black find the hook? Stay tuned to find out as the 10th annual Los Cabos Offshore tournament, sponsored by Cabo Riviera Marina and Golf Resort, draws to a close.
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