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Sportfishing Weekly Fish Report.
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Fishing
Report: 10/17/16 to 10/24/16
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Bisbees
Black and Blue Finishes!
Bisbee
Richest Tournament in the World!
Bisbee Total
Purse Hits $3,511,900
Bisbee
Results Inside!!
Lots of
Black and Blue Marlin for Tournament!
Blues, 400
to 500lbs all Week Being Landed!
Striped
Marlin Fishing Good!
Tuna
Tournament Coming Soon!
Tuna Seiners
in the Area?
Lots of
Dorado!
HEADLINES:
October 24, 2016
Bisbee Black
and Blue Tournament Results 2016
The Bisbee’s
Black & Blue Marlin Jackpot Tournament, the richest sport-fishing contest
in the world and presented this year by Orca Coolers, is the unofficial
Pacifico Index. By all accounts the 2016 edition was a resounding success with
an overall purse of $3,511,900 at stake for the 121 boats entered.
On the big
stage in front of the Puerto Paraiso Mall Saturday night, Julio Fernandez and
his Quiteña Team claimed the biggest share, a $2,183,000 payout, after landing
the largest fish of the week. Fernandez outlasted a 534-pound black marlin on
Thursday, and that catch swept the top team, jackpot, captain and all but one
daily jackpot categories. Fernandez is from Tampico, Mexico and Quiteña (62
Viking) is led by Capt. Rich Hamilton.
Veteran
B&B participant Russ Armstrong, Capt. Frank D’Anna and the crew aboard
C-Bandit (75 Titan Marine) captured second-place honors with a 416-pound black
brought to the scales on Friday. That fish was worth $685,000, counting the optional
jackpot winnings.
Gilles
Asunsolo of Mexico City and his family/buddy team scored big while fishing on
Drakkar, a 65 Hatteras. His 349-pound blue marlin, which ate a pink/silver
Braid plunger lure, earned a check worth $40,500 for third-place honors and
various jackpots.
For the
second year in a row, Team Five More Minutes (Luhrs) made the trek to the
B&B awards stage. This time it was to pick up a $10,800 check for
fourth-place honors. The team brought a 344-pound blue to the scales Friday,
the only other qualifier for the day besides C-Bandit’s.
Fastball (82
Viking) owner Bobby Patton and his pal Chip Wagner combined to record a
304-pound blue, worth $487,200 as the fifth-place tournament and the rollover
jackpot winner in the daily $20,000 Chupacabra Challenge division. This
optional category had eight teams competing for the winner-take-all prize.
After the check was presented, Patton generously donated $10,000 each to the
Los Cabos Children’s Foundation and the Bisbee’s Fish & Wildlife Conservation
Fund. Chris Erickson of Cabo won the $10,000 Conservation Fund raffle (cash
stuffed in an Orca Pod cooler), which he promptly donated to the children’s
foundation as well.
Last year’s
big winner, Tranquilo (57 Spencer), easily earned top team honors in the
Release Division, led by Capt. Victor Julio. Those efforts resulted in a payout
of $68,510. El Suertudo was the second-best release team ($23,715), followed by
Team Bibi ($13,175). Blue and black marlin under 300 pounds, plus striped
marlin and Pacific sailfish caught and successfully released, earned points
based on time. For the week, a total of 234 billfish were caught by the
121-boat fleet, including 175 blue marlin, nine blacks, 56 stripers and three
Pacific sailfish.
“It’s been a
killer week,” Tournament Director Wayne Bisbee said after all the camera
flashes and fireworks bursts had faded into the night. “We had some quality
fish come to the scales, plenty of the usual drama and we gave away an
armored-car’s worth of money. I’d like to thank our nearly 1,000 anglers from
around the globe that participated and to all our fantastic sponsors who make
all this craziness possible. I hope to see everyone here again next October
24-28, 2017, for our 37th season.”
Jc
Sportfishing Charters is a family owned and operated business and has been
fishing in Cabo San Lucas for the past 18 years. Jerry, explains that his
charter business is geared more for families and novice anglers, making sure
everyone who charters a boat with him have a great time and lots of fun. We
welcome families, and groups. We want everyone who fishes with us to take all
the sites in and have a memorable experience. This is what is most important to
us. We have and do a few tournaments each year and can cater to fisherman who
might be interested in tournament fishing. Well let’s get on with the fishing
report for this past week.
WEATHER: The
weather has been really good but the only thing is we can not shake this
humidity. It has been horrible and really comparable to September weather. We did
have a storm like 3 oclock in the morning Saturday, well Friday night or
Saturday morning which ever you like. Lots of wind and some rain but it did
blow pretty good.
WATER: Well
the water has been cooling down some and we expect it to continue to cool over
the next few days. It has had a effect on the fishing it seems when the water
cools some we are seeing more action.
Please check
out Tempbreak to get a good idea on
water temperatures.
BILLFISH:
The Blue Marlin fishing has stayed really good all through the tournament. 400
to 500 lbs fish have been landed all week. The Blues are being caught from the
Light House to Margarita on live bait and lures. The Striped Marlin fishing has
been still pretty strong with some good number throughout the fishing grounds.
If you use ballyhoo, lures and live bait for the Stripers you will most likely
land some fish. The hot spots for Marlin are from Grey Rock to the Pump House.
The Sailfish bite is still pretty good also on the pacific side up and around
Ranch Migrino with most being landed on ballyhoo closer to the beach from ¼
mile to 2 miles off shore is the hot spots.
DORADO: The
Dorado fishing has been wide open from Los Arcos to Antenna on the PACIFIC side
with most being on the smaller side but some 15 to 35lbs Dorado in the mix.
Most of the fish were hitting ballyhoo, so keep that in mind if you’re going
for Dorado. There is good Dorado action still happening.
SWORDFISH:
Hasn’t heard of any caught this week.
WAHOO: The
Wahoo fishing has slowed over the past week with really not the numbers we were
seeing but still ok.
TUNA: Due to
commercial Seiners pounding this area for the past 3 weeks, we are thinking the
Tuna tournament coming up soon, might be a tough nut to crack. We are hoping
this isn’t the case but with these guys out there raping the waters in numbers
we really don’t know how fishing is going to be.
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INSHORE: The
inshore fishing has just been ok, nothing special with some small Dorado,
Sailfish and Amberjack are what is happening. There has been some good
Amberjack action reported using iron. Small Tuna on sardines has been good
inshore if you can find the sardines. From Grey Rock to the Pump House has been
the area for decent Tuna and even Sailfish action using ballyhoo. Some small
Dorado every once in a while have been landed.
It might be
worth grabbing a Panga and going out for a 5 hour excursion to see what happens
inshore.