Mini Tom P. Invitational Tourny Results/Renegade Mike
Posted: Dec 16th, '09, 19:05
Myself, Tom P., the Doctor, and two other couples spent some time in Cabo last week. Had a blast.
High light of the trip - at least as far as fishing goes - included meeting Renegade Mike for a couple days of fishing on his B31 express. Sweet little boat.
Mike turned out to be a great guy, and he really knows his stuff. Ended up putting us on nine striped marlin in two days during a week of relatively slow fishing for the rest of the charter fleet. He and his capt./crew were especially patient and nice with my wife. We fished stand up, and he really worked with her on her technique.
Day one was a bit of Bertram weather. Mike says we are going to make a long run to catch some good bait, and it was indeed quite snotty. Only two other boats made the long run, and as we were jigging up bait, I look up to see the boat next to us has an angler leaning over each side just yakking up breakfast. Good times.
Wife got three and I had four, plus misc. dorado. I missed at least two due to sheer stupidity, and we had one that we could just not get the hook into. Saw a few more. Easily could have been 10 if I was on my game.
Rumor has it, unconfirmed mind you, that one of our very own, fishing some sort of tricked out Cabo on a high dollar charter in the much calmer water, ralphed twice that same day. I here tell they only had two striped marlin that day, but with the embarassment over the puking like a b. and whatnot, even those numbers are somewhat suspect. What the deal with these Hatt owners? Are they all pukers, or is it just Timmy and our mutal friend?
Day two was a bit slower because of some warm water moving into the area. Again, we made the long run for good bait and were rewarded with a couple more s. marlin and something like six or seven dorado. The Doctor and Sir Ralph elected to stay home day two.
I recommend Renegade Mike if any of y'all are down in Cabo. He and his team worked hard, were ready to leave early and stay late, and really did a great job. Can't say enough about how cool they were with my wife. Plus, you gotta love fishing these little Berts.
Final results - The Bert. 31 wins again, hands down. We were going to disqualify the Cabo, obviously as a non-Bert entry in the tourny, but why bother when they don't even give the Bert a run for its money?
Tom, as the event organizer, finished 4th cause, well, this ain't the UVI. But, he did win the Pepto-Bismal trophy as the most effective chummer.
All in all, a good time was had by all.
High light of the trip - at least as far as fishing goes - included meeting Renegade Mike for a couple days of fishing on his B31 express. Sweet little boat.
Mike turned out to be a great guy, and he really knows his stuff. Ended up putting us on nine striped marlin in two days during a week of relatively slow fishing for the rest of the charter fleet. He and his capt./crew were especially patient and nice with my wife. We fished stand up, and he really worked with her on her technique.
Day one was a bit of Bertram weather. Mike says we are going to make a long run to catch some good bait, and it was indeed quite snotty. Only two other boats made the long run, and as we were jigging up bait, I look up to see the boat next to us has an angler leaning over each side just yakking up breakfast. Good times.
Wife got three and I had four, plus misc. dorado. I missed at least two due to sheer stupidity, and we had one that we could just not get the hook into. Saw a few more. Easily could have been 10 if I was on my game.
Rumor has it, unconfirmed mind you, that one of our very own, fishing some sort of tricked out Cabo on a high dollar charter in the much calmer water, ralphed twice that same day. I here tell they only had two striped marlin that day, but with the embarassment over the puking like a b. and whatnot, even those numbers are somewhat suspect. What the deal with these Hatt owners? Are they all pukers, or is it just Timmy and our mutal friend?
Day two was a bit slower because of some warm water moving into the area. Again, we made the long run for good bait and were rewarded with a couple more s. marlin and something like six or seven dorado. The Doctor and Sir Ralph elected to stay home day two.
I recommend Renegade Mike if any of y'all are down in Cabo. He and his team worked hard, were ready to leave early and stay late, and really did a great job. Can't say enough about how cool they were with my wife. Plus, you gotta love fishing these little Berts.
Final results - The Bert. 31 wins again, hands down. We were going to disqualify the Cabo, obviously as a non-Bert entry in the tourny, but why bother when they don't even give the Bert a run for its money?
Tom, as the event organizer, finished 4th cause, well, this ain't the UVI. But, he did win the Pepto-Bismal trophy as the most effective chummer.
All in all, a good time was had by all.