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Hola Amigos,
I would like share with you, what a
wonderful week we just had hosting one
of the best fishing tournaments of the
world.
The 10th Annual Bisbee’s East Cape
Offshore Tournament, hosted by Hotel
Buenavista Beach Resort took place July
28 through August 1 in Buenavista, Baja
California Sur, Mexico. Fifty-three
boats and 254 anglers competed for
$274,350.00 in prize money.
In what is becoming a Bisbee's "Grand
Finale" tradition, it was the last fish
on the last day that won the 2009 event.
Cap’n
Jake, a 50’
Mikelson with Capt. Barrie Harnett,
pulled up to the scales at the last
minute with a 341-pound blue marlin
caught by Kent Andersson to squeeze out
the only other qualifying marlin of the
tournament by 31 lbs. The team aboard
Cap’n
Jake took
$77,871.40 for 1st Place and the Day 3
Marlin Jackpots.
The runner-up, however, took the big
money. Keith Jones, fishing aboard
Mi
Corazon, a 30’
Luhrs a local Spa Buenavista boat,
captained by Antonio Lucero Castillo,
caught a 310-pound blue marlin on the
second day and, in addition to 2nd
Place, won the Day 1 and Day 2 Marlin
Jackpots for a total of $124,784.60.
Mi
Corazon is no
stranger to center stage—they took first
place in 2006 with a 418-pound blue
marlin and share the record with
Copa
Gobernador for
the largest blue marlin caught in the
ten year history of Bisbee’s East Cape
Offshore Tournament.
The fishing was steady throughout the
three days of competition despite rough
seas, and the field posted 101 billfish
with a 95% release ratio: 36 blue
marlin, 1 black marlin, 37 striped
marlin and 27 sailfish.
Tuna were scarce, but the two that made
it to the scales were both over 100
pounds. First place went to Hotel
Buenavista Beach Resort sponsored team:
Fisherman with
Capt. Perico Sanchez Alarcon and angler
Daniel Fisher. The 174.4-pound yellowfin
won $17,997.00 for Top Tuna and the Day
3 Tuna Jackpot. Fisher’s son, Danny
Fisher, Jr., caught the third largest
dorado of the tournament, 51.4 lbs., and
won honorable mention as the top junior
angler.
The host location Hotel Buenavista Beach
Resort, sign up a record number of boats
on the tournament. We had 8 boats
fighting for the big money this year,
the boats that fished the tournament
were: Dottie BII (Capt. Vicente Cosio),
Dusty BII (Capt. Alejandro Castro),
Dusty BII (Capt. Rosario Cota), Alegria
(Capt. Juan Garcia), Careleste (Capt.
Carlos Agundez), Liliana (Capt. Marco
Yepiz) and fishing for only one day we
had the former winners of 2006, Tres
Hermanos (Capt. Ramon Tamayo) and Yanet
(Capt. Felipe Ruiz).
Home Team
Dottie B II with
Capt. Vicente Cosio, and team members:
Mr. Togo Hazard, Mike Mcgrath and Esaul
Valdez won the Day 2 Dorado Jackpot
(48.5 lbs.) they won $8,925.00.
Also
Alegria
made the 1st place Release Team,
obtaining the highest release points,
catching and releasing: 2 Blue Marlin, 4
Striped Marlin and 2 Sailfish.
One of the true highlights of the event
was the special day the Valdez family,
owners of the Hotel Buena Vista Beach
Resort, hosted for 15 boys from Casa
Hogar, a local orphanage. The boys
enjoyed a day of fishing, a picnic lunch
on the beach and splashed away in the
pool for hours. Casa Hogar was also the
recipient of several voluntary donations
made by various teams including 100% of
the proceeds from the auction of a
framed reproduction of the 1992 Bisbee’s
Black & Blue tournament art by Chuck
Byron.
The traditional time for the Bisbee´s
East Cape Offshore Tournament is the
last week of July or the first week of
August, so if you need more information
you can visit
www.bisbees.com or
call us to our 800-752-3555 or visit
www.hotelbuenavista.com |
