08 WON Tuna Jackpot Report...

[Dylan]

A few of us made the journey from the damp state of Oregon down to Cabo via jet last week.
John the big guy behind Eat Me Lures hosted us all at his humble abode overlooking downtown Cabo and the Arch; Casa Los Peces.. Our objective was to have a great time, meet some new folks, reconnect with prior buddies.. Maybe catch a fish or two.. We accomplished all that.
Managed to snap a few photo's of the madness....
The tournament registration came first, this was at Plaza Paraiso at the Cabo San Lucas Marina. What a great event to fire things up.. We got a booth next Berkely, got to meet Horace, Bob and a few other chill dudes... Other major sponsors kept trying to steal our models.. Next year your paying for em!
Team Eat Me Lures consisted of Team Capt John of Salem, Or.. Milt of Albany, Or.. Richard of Yoncalla, Or, Ken of Garibaldi, Or and Dylan of Portland, Or.
Registration came first, and it was a breeze... The party has just started...



Heres Louis Duhart of Duhart Productions, he is the one that takes care of the tournament dvd productions..

And Team Eat Me Lures...

And a few more pics of the nites festivities... Good times had by all forsure....



Gotta love it when others get into the action..

Bossman with his daughter and wife.


Eat Me Girls handing out schwag...


Here is our tournament arsenal...

Day one of the Western Outdoor News Tuna Jackpot was hours away by the time we all got back to the Casa from a night out..
We had a great sunrise.. Boats are heading out to the Arch to line up for a shotgun start..












Once we got out to our prospective fishing grounds we saw lots of free jumping striped marlin, which i was able to get photo's of.. Also saw 2 airborne Mako's.. Pretty badass seeing those at 10-20' off the water...








Check out this gal doing a stripey on the fly.. Savage!

I cant condone bow riding as its dangerous...

During the Striper madness, this sealion popped up.. I think his message to the birdies is that the bait is his!

Two fins..

We managed to pick up a few dorado..


Day two couldn't have arrived sooner..
There werent as many rats around.. It was a little windy in the morning, which meant lack of birds.. White caps.. making it hard to find fish.. Afternoon arrived.. We then found a school of porpoises, and a few yft mixed in.. Spent a few hours fishing the kite.. I was soo waiting for a yft to smack down the cabby skipping ontop of the surface... No dice..
Then I proceeded to freeline a larger cabalito with a 4/0 owner.. bad choice... surface detonation ensued.. the cabby was smacked and then I let er run 30yds.. clicked it over, fish on! It then dove and popped off shortly after.. Smacked the bait again then popped off.. Lesson learned.. DO NOT use a small circle hook with a tiny "bite"..Im almost certain the reason for loosing the fish was because the "bite" was unable to penetrate the jaw. Lesson learned, always bridle up your baits, and a 8/0 next time for a large cabby. One expensive screw up!!!!!! We also had the largest dorado the second day up till 15 minutes before the "lines out" however a larger wahoo was caught and bumped us out of the Dorado/Wahoo jackpots.
Heres the winning fish. 240+lbs..



Fish on!!

[El Capo]

Very nice post.

[Ravens16]

Dude, awesome pic's and report!
Just freaking nuts, free flying Marlin
Thanks bud!

[Nauti Natured]

Freakin awesome!!!!! That tournament looks like a blast!

[clt_capt]

Awesome marlin shots. Some pretty good bait pics too...

[Capt Josh]

Excellent report amigo! Glad to see you putting the skills to work Dylan, sooner or later you and John are going to hit the jackpot!!! Looks like you had a blast!

[lilharcher]

What's up Dylan.......sounds like you had a lot of fun. Bummer on the big fish.

BTW, tell that old hag with the bolt ons to keep em in her shirt......hahahahaha....jk

[stew]

Nice yellowfin tuna. That was caught on one of the RedRum Sportfishing boats owned by John Donavan. I was supposed to have been on that boat for the tourney but I had to cancel due to family reasons.UGGHH!!! That big fish was caught on one of my custom spreader bars that I rigged for those guys. Awesome fish. 2 1/2 hour fight. Man. I wish I had been there. Great job to the RedRum Team. Capt. Eric

[Captain Fred Archer]

Kudos to Team Redrum.

That will make the third time that the WON has been won or big money made in it on spreaderbars. The guys who did it the first two times are customers and good friends of mine who didn't want to admit what they caught their fish on or how for obvious reasons. Of course, those fish were caught on our bars, tournament fishing models, using a technique described in my book, SuperBar Bible. I'm glad to see bars in general coming out of the closet in that tournament, because they are death on tuna and everything else. SuperBars were designed, developed and refined over literally thousands of days on the water in Cabo.

As always, please be sure to check our bars and the unbelievable new Spiders out and any other bars that you are interested in by in my case, PM'ing me and giving me your email address so that I can shoot the story on our products out to you.

And as a special for my fellow SFC'er's, a complimentary copy of the new SuperBar Bible will go out to those who ask for a catalog. That's a thirty dollar gift for openers and the technique used to win first place and high in the money, along with the names of the guys who did it is included in that book. I will have to limit this to the first 25 members who respond.

[sportfishingusa]

Kudos to Team Redrum.

That will make the third time that the WON has been won or big money made in it on spreaderbars. The guys who did it the first two times are customers and good friends of mine who didn't want to admit what they caught their fish on or how for obvious reasons. Of course, those fish were caught on our bars, tournament fishing models, using a technique described in my book, SuperBar Bible. I'm glad to see bars in general coming out of the closet in that tournament, because they are death on tuna and everything else. SuperBars were designed, developed and refined over literally thousands of days on the water in Cabo.

As always, please be sure to check our bars and the unbelievable new Spiders out and any other bars that you are interested in by in my case, PM'ing me and giving me your email address so that I can shoot the story on our products out to you.

And as a special for my fellow SFC'er's, a complimentary copy of the new SuperBar Bible will go out to those who ask for a catalog. That's a thirty dollar gift for openers and the technique used to win first place and high in the money, along with the names of the guys who did it is included in that book. I will have to limit this to the first 25 members who respond.

YOU ARE SO FULL OF BS....