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JACKPOT TUNA
TOURNAMENT FINISHES!
Tuna
Tournament Big Fish 298lbs!
Tuna Tourney
Results Inside!
Tuna
Scattered All Over Fishing Grounds!
Yachts Eat
Up Fuel Looking for Tuna!
The Guys
were Chunking Squid by the Buckets!
Marlin and
Dorado Fishing in General Slow!
166 Boats
and Only 4 Wahoo Caught?
Water Temp
84 at the Golden Gate?
Water
Temperatures are Really Warm Still?
HEADLINES:
November 8, 2016
LOS CABOS
TUNA JACKPOT BREAKS RECORDS
Team America
on the Tu Corazon out of the East Cape captures the title and the hearts of the
awards crowd with the story behind the 298-pound tuna
CABO SAN
LUCAS – The largest tuna tournament in the world – the 18th Annual Western
Outdoor News Yamaha Los Cabos Tuna Jackpot – wrapped up with an awards ceremony
filled with emotion and jubilation last Saturday night. Why not celebrate the
biggest tourney in Cabo each year? Or that records were broken in payouts, and
that eight fish over 200 pounds came to the scale, one of them the winning 298
pounder the first day from Gordo Bank? Or that a record amount of money was
raised for cleft pallet surgeries on Baja children?
The awards
dinner was held for the first time on the massive Cruise Ship Pier in the Cabo
San Lucas IGY Marina where more than 750 anglers, friends, family and
dignitaries gathered to celebrate what Tournament Director Pat McDonell
described as “an exceptional experience with the final two days of weigh-ins
being epic! With 168 teams, 25 more than last year, the event broke its own
attendance record and offered the highest payout ever, $747,500.”
First place
and the championship went to Team America consisting of David Macklis, Angelica
Cota and Juan Collins, all from Los Barriles, Baja California Sur; and Chucky
Van Wormer, son of the late Bob Van Wormer, Baja pioneer and founder of Van
Wormer Resorts in Los Barriles. Fishing aboard the Tu Corazon, captained by
Alejandro Cota also of Los Barriles, Van Wormer landed a 298-pound yellowfin
tuna, the second largest in the event’s history, earning the team $179,975 for
First Place Overall, Day 1, $500, $1,000 and $2,000.
Accepting
the award and the five commemorative hand-carved hook trophies and custom Jon
Pettey tuna rings, Van Wormer explained that the team name “Team America” was
chosen to honor the life of the 11-year-old niece of the captain who lost her
battle to cancer at 5:20 a.m. Nov. 3, just before they began the first day of
fishing.
Van Wormer,
filled with emotion, explained, “We were so sad for the loss of America’s life,
but we felt she went straight to heaven and was watching over us.”
Turning to
the Second Place winners and the largest payout in the event’s history, “Reel
Quest”, he added, “Congratulations. You may have had the best equipment and
good luck; however this time we had a little angel watching over us.”
Previous
winners aboard the Reel Quest with Captain Tyson Valli were Brad Stevenson,
Northbrook, Ill.; Dick Landfield, Yorba Linda, Calif.; Henry Arras, Temecula,
Calif.; and Bill Savage, Cabo San Lucas, BCS, Mexico. They received the largest
payout in the history of the event: $331,950 for Second Place Overall, Day 1 (161-pound
tuna), $10,000, Day 2, $500, $1,000, $2,000, $3,000, $5,000 and $10,000.
Landfield
acknowledged, “In all my years of fishing, I have never, never had the team
that we have now. I couldn’t be happier as the owner with our team!”
There were
six teams that divided the $747,500 in total payouts. The other four teams
were:
• Team Jones
Fish 1 (Team 62), Vaquera, Robert and Christina Jones, Cincinnati, Ohio; Billy
Senters, New Richmond, Ohio; and Zack Nell, Third Place Overall $4,175.
• Lux Team
(Team 111), Picante Pride, Diego Ferrer, Luxembourg, Germany; 53.2-pound wahoo,
Day 1, $60,400.
• Team Dr.
Pescado (Team 133), Dr. Pescado II, Jaime Rendon, Jorge Escamilla, Juan Bosco
and Felipe Xhembe, Cabo San Lucas, BCS; 52-pound wahoo, Day 2, $60,400.
• Team Reel
Gold (Team 140), Reel Gold, Murray Wright, Cabo San Lucas, BCS, Dave Patterson,
Jon Crawford, Vancouver, BC, Paul Bonovich; 230-pound tuna, Day 1 $3,000 and
$5,000, $110,000.
There were
nine events tied to the tournament, many of them tied to charity efforts. In
all, $40,000 raised for this year’s charity, “Smiles
InternationalFoundation.org,” will be matched by the pharmaceutical industry.
Each $1,000 raised will ensure four surgeries for children. The money was
raised via t-shirt sales by Minerva’s Tackle at check-in, donations, sales of
tickets for the Grand Prize Raffle ($5 each), A live auction of a trip to
Florida organized by Dave Bultheis and the other attending sponsors, a silent
auction, and a charter trip on the Cabo Escape for the second day’s shotgun
start.
The big
donation was a $27,000 bid on the Florida trip won by longtime Tuna Jackpot
participants Melinda and Stew Webber. It was later revealed that Stew, a chef,
said later the Foundation’s work struck a chord with him as he was born with a
cleft pallet and other facial deformaties and was abandoned by his family, but
after corrective surgery he was adopted. Attending the event was Dr. Jeffrey
Moses and his wife the Foundation coordinator Maribel Moses.
WEATHER: You
cant beat this time of year for Cabo weather it is one of the best times of
year for coming to Mexico and specifically Cabo San lucas. We have been having
day time highs in the low to mid 80,s and the lows at night in the low to mid
60,s. Its really nice and we could even stand for it to get a Little cooler
son.
WATER: Still
warm wáter lingering in our area and I noticed on the tembreak map it looks
like there is pockets of the warm stuff still up there in some areas on the
pacific side. Up as far north as the Finger Bank and south to Golden Gate and
San Jamie banks.. This link which will show you water temperatures for the
southern half of Baja.
BILLFISH:
The Marlin fishing in general has been way down lately. We think it is because
La Nina and warm water temperatures in the area when the water should be much
cooler than it is now. We have haven’t been having much of a bite compared to
what it was a couple weeks ago.
DORADO: The
Dorado action isn’t happening right now, it seems it has slowed big time over
last week or so. There wasn’t very many caught this past week.
SWORDFISH:
Hasn’t heard of any caught this week.
WAHOO: There
was only 4 wahoo caught during the tournament out of the 166 boats!
TUNA: The
COMMERCIAL Tuna seiners are gone now as it seems they left right after the
tournament. Weird? But anyway the bite has been just OK, with nothing special.
There is still some schools scattered around with mostly football size fish
being landed, but the Tuna seiners have disappeared thank god!!
INSHORE: Low
numbers of Roosters over the past week and the inshore action hasn’t been
anything special. The pangas have been doing really well inshore for Dorado and
even the Wahoo fishing has been just ok tight to the beach. The productive
areas are from the Solmar all the way to the Pump House.