Casa Hogar's big fish.WESTERN OUTDOOR NEWS
The hurricane is history as far as the fishing is concerned in Baja California Sur.
Hurricane Odile left a huge mess after it struck Cabo San Lucas on September 14, but it wasn’t enough to prevent its richest sportsfishing tournaments from going ahead. The richest, Bisbee’s Black & Blue, drew 125 teams that competed for US $2.14 million in prize money.
While some anglers did well in picking up a share of the prize money, the biggest winner might not have been an angler at all, but Casa Hogar, a local orphanage for boys. The team that drew one of the “give-away” entries, and was fishing on behalf of the orphanage, was the event’s top winner after Omar Castaneda landed the biggest qualifying fish, a 385-pound bue marlin.
Casa Hogar was the beneficiary of the team’s $258,325 in winnings.
The biggest cash winner of the tournament was the team Sporty Game when Carlos Cervantes landed a 337-pound blue marlin on the event’s final day, for a payout of $1.68 million.
The tournament also succeded in helping local fishermen get back to work through a program in which a private benefactor donated a number of the $5,000 entry fees on behalf of those fishermen who booked a local charter boat at a fixed fee.
Fifty teams took up the offer and helped local fishermen recover from the damages inflicted by Odile.
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