Congradulations to Tom and Ramon and the entire team! They run a first-class operation and are great amigos.
Does anyone know what lure the Extraction caught their fish on? I can see it in the pictures, and my guess is a Zuker's 5.5. I know Tom pulls alot of Bomboy lures, but this doesn't look like one of the ones I sold him. My website www.marlination.com is your best source for Bomboy lures. Sorry for the self-promotion.
I believe day 2 calcutta's will roll to the Extraction, making it a very, very nice payday.
The 10 Brothers Fishing Team, a collection of siblings and in-laws, were the big winners in the 29th Annual Bisbee’s Black & Blue Marlin Tournament, which ended last night. The cash prizes and other awards were presented at a festive awards ceremony at the Plaza Puerto Paraiso in downtown Cabo San Lucas.
10 Brothers team member Anthony Boratto outlasted a 305-pound blue marlin on the last day to win the biggest prize of the night. Fishing aboard Extraction, a 48-foot Ocean Yacht, Boratto’s largest fish ever earned the team $559,363. The awards included second place in the tournament, tournament jackpot and captain categories, along with daily jackpots, which included rollovers from the previous day when no qualifying fish were boated.
“It was a tough fight,” Boratto said at the scales. “My shoulder still hurts, but it’s the best pain I’ve ever experienced. That’s the biggest fish I’ve caught in my life.” The Extraction is skippered by Capt. Ramon Hiram Montano Ruelas, of Cabo. This is the fifth year the 10 Brothers have competed in the Black & Blue.
The San Diego, California team fishing aboard Mi Novia, a 50 Mikelson Yacht, is taking home $436,603 after landing the largest fish of the event, a 375-pound blue marlin. Angler Bryan Miller and his buddies won first place in the tournament, jackpot and captain awards, along with four jackpots from Day 1.
In the release division, Ole Ole, fishing on a 33 Blackfin, pocketed $33,150 by releasing the first blue marlin. Carpe Diem and Reata del Mar were also awarded cash prizes for releasing blues. Seventy-one billfish were caught by the 94 boats fishing this year’s event, with 67 set free for a release ratio of 94.4 percent. Surprisingly, no black marlin were caught this year.
“It was an unusual tournament for us, to say the least,” tournament director Wayne Bisbee told the packed crowd on the plaza before the fireworks finale. “A week ago we were looking at cancellation because of Hurricane Rick and a lot of our teams couldn’t make it. But we pulled it off thanks to the group that stuck with us. So thank you all for coming, thanks to our wonderful sponsors, and we look forward to bigger fish and bigger awards next year as we celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Black & Blue.”
[QUOTE=zanegler;810442]Congradulations to Tom and Ramon and the entire team! They run a first-class operation and are great amigos.
Does anyone know what lure the Extraction caught their fish on? I can see it in the pictures, and my guess is a Zuker's 5.5. I know Tom pulls alot of Bomboy lures, but this doesn't look like one of the ones I sold him. My website www.marlination.com is your best source for Bomboy lures. Sorry for the self-promotion.
I believe day 2 calcutta's will roll to the Extraction, making it a very, very nice payday.
I believe that is a "Green Snott" lure from Minerva's. I think the brand is actually Alure or Acme. I have similar Petrolero. It is a good color to imitate a YFT.
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WOW! Couldn't have happened to a nicer owner and captain! Both are good friends and very deserving. And I like the family aspect of the anglers. They have obviously worked hard and long for this. Good to see them triumph.
TJ Dobson, who was the captain of Bottom Line, the boat that sank, is also a good friend of very long standing (his brother Bobby and I were partners in our charter fleet.) He, like Ramon, is simply an awesome fisherman and captain, so I am delighted about how the two of them did.
You know, little things mean a lot when it comes to friendship. TJ was there for me when I had to be air-evac'd out of Cabo to the states and was gone for months and he took in my great, good friend, Shadow Girl the black Labby and took care of her until I could come back down for her...a good man. The finest kind, in fact.
Felicitaciones, amigos! Ahora, las atuns grande! Adelante!
Last edited by Captain Fred Archer; 10-27-2009 at 01:59 AM.
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Mongo,
I forgot about your post for a sec. I don't know for sure, but that lure sure looks like one of those Grande Allure's in "guacamola". As you obviously know, they are VERY popular lures down there and have been for a long time now, although the next size down is the most popular. They are the company that came up with what is probably the most popular lure down there - or at least one of them - "petrolero" - one of the first production "upside down" skirted marlin lures with the dark colors on the bottom and the light on the top.
That big one is really a monster! In the pertolero color it was our go-to teaser when the big Humboldt squids were in town. We didn't fish it armed with a hook because the hookup and landing ratios were bad due to the fish not getting a good "bite" on it because of the large diameter and heavy hard head. We had to use it as a teaser only. We solved that by going over to big, hollow squids that are dead ringers for the real squids, and that offered great hookup and landing ratios because they collapsed when a big fish hit them and there was nothing left but the hook.
We fished the big squids, which ranged from fifteen to twenty inches long, as chasebaits running behind narrow pods of smaller hollow squids. They work a lot better than the single, hard lures...not only on big marlin and tuna, but on the smaller billfish and tuna, dorado, and wahoo that also got nuts for the big squids when they are around.
It all started with good, old petrolero, so I have a lot of fond memories for that lure and the company that came up with it.
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