Bisbee's Los Cabos Updates

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Dave Lear
Silver King Communications
Los Cabos Day 2



Sunday Brunch
By Dave Lear

October 19, 2009


Every big-game tournament is different, and the Bisbee’s 8th Annual Los Cabos event was no exception. With Hurricane Rick hundreds of miles away churning steadily towards the Baja peninsula, the bite turned on on Sunday as two marlin and several nice tuna came to the scales. In the end, Team Las Mananitas emerged triumphant with a 438-pound blue marlin, which earned $169,049 in prize money.
Las Mananitas, a 36-foot Rampage Express, was following a school of porpoise when the big blue pounced on a blue and purple Bost lure. Angler John Pfister of Wichita, Kansas, took 20 minutes to land the billfish. Local Bisbee’s veteran John Domanic was the wireman and his brother, Scott, of Point Pleasant, New Jersey, manned the gaff. Captain Mauricio Abarroa of Los Cabos was at the wheel. Celebrating their honeymoon, Scott’s new bride, Alison, was on board offering Pfister encouragement. John Schaible of San Jose del Cabo, was also part of the winning team.
“This is what it’s all about,” Pfister said at the awards ceremony as swells from the approaching storm washed across the beach. “It’s fishing with friends and a great crew. It doesn’t get any better.”
The Bottom Line, a 50-foot Hatteras, came in second in the billfish division after weighing in a 391-pound black marlin. In the release division Tenacious earned top honors after releasing two blue marlin for a total of 600 points. Doghouse was second with a blue and two striped marlin releases, followed by Marlin Master II with a blue and a sailfish. At total of 41 billfish were caught by the 57-boat field, with 37 released.
Richard Sebour of Baltimore, Maryland held off the competition in the tuna category by landing a yellowfin that tipped the scales at 99.8 pounds. Sebour, a member of Team E3Escapes, fished aboard Spartacus At Sea, a 60-foot Hatteras skippered by Capt. Steve Geary.
The Los Cabos event served as warm-up for the 29th Annual Bisbee’s Black & Blue Marlin Jackpot Tournament, the world’s richest billfish contest. The Black & Blue is expected to kick off tomorrow, but Hurricane Rick may force a change in plans.

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