It was another good week down on the East Cape. This week started with the Tournament
Anglers Association 2014 Marlin Tournament at Hotel Palmas De Cortez. The TAA had 24 anglers fishing 12 boats
over three days. They caught and
released 90 Striped Marlin, 2 Sailfish and 1 Blue Marlin. The group also landed a couple of nice
Dorado that came in at over 40lbs. (see pictures below). The winner of this year’s tournament was Danny Brooks and the
winning team of Dick Wallace and Danny Brooks.
Once the TAA tournament ended, the Fathers, Sons and
Amigos tournament come to town with tournament organizer Jack Richardson and his
group of 64 anglers. This is one of
the most organized groups of the year and do they ever make good use of their
time down here with us. The group
started with a “Super Panga Shoot Out” on Wednesday were anglers fished from 20
super pangas to compete for the largest fish. On Thursday the group switched to Deluxe
Cruisers to compete in a three day fishing tournament. Yesterday evening the guys put together
a great clothes give away for the community. Each angler brought down with them a
suitcase or ice chest full of clothes and it was given away yesterday afternoon
to almost 200 local who live in the East Cape area. It was a wonderful event and we all would
like to thank Jack and his crew for a great event. The group here through the weekend and
we wish them good luck on their remaining days on the water.
The big story came out of Hotel Playa Del Sol where
hotel guest Michael Miranda landed a fish of a life time. Miranda who is from Olympia Washington
landed a beautiful roosterfish which we estimate to be well over 70lbs. Miranda was fishing with his friend Eric
Ryan on the super panga Siboney with captain Juan Carlos. We then saw another great roosterfish
landed by Bill
McInerney of Vacaville, CA which we estimated to be over
60lbs. McInerney was also fishing
on the super panga Siboney with captain Juan Carlos. Needless to say it was a good week for
the Siboney.
That’s it for this
week amigos!
Until next week!
Eddie Dalmau/Baja’s Van Wormer
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