Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Last Week's SOFLA. Icy Front Makes Angling History...
While I was inshore fishing with captain Ken Collette last Friday, I reported that I did quite well.Little did I know that the offshore waters had been cooked into a flat blue consomme full of sailfish. My colleague Rudy Gomez of CyberAngler (www.cyberangler.com) linked me to the Mayor's Cup Tournament (http://www.mayorscuptournament.com/) with the following jaw dropping results:
January 26, 2009, Miami, Florida - (Credit to Mayor's Cup Tournament)"When most anglers think of double-digit billfish fishing they think of foreign destinations like Guatemala and Panama; each famous for their high catch and release counts. But this past weekend demonstrated that Miami sailfish action is as hot as anywhere in the world as the Sea Vee Mercury Mayor’s Cup broke several records.The fishing started of lightning fast. How fast? In the first hour of fishing 101 sailfish were released. The pace continued as radioman Dan Kipnis struggled to keep up with all the calls. “It was pure pandemonium,” he commented. “It’s never been quite like this. This is historic.” The hot bite continued all day as the teams were on pace to break the one-day release record of 403 releases set by the Sailfish Kickoff in 2005. Of the 55 teams fishing, more than half of them had double-digit releases and 5 teams had 20 or more releases. And what about the record? It was smashed with 422 releases in one day! The top boat for Saturday was “Get Lit” with a total of 22 releases. “Advanced Roofing” released 18 sailfish on Saturday and led the outboard division.
Expectations were high for Sunday’s fishing. Teams were hoping to eclipse Saturday’s numbers, but it would be difficult giving Saturday’s blistering pace. The second day brought plenty of lead changes and the fishing was also red hot. Again, many teams had a double-digit day with “Wound Up” having the most on Sunday with 15 releases. On the outboard side “Rock Star” had 10 releases to lead the day. In total, another 238 fish were released on Sunday brining the two-day count to 660 releases; a 2-day tournament record in the United States!
And here's another "kicker" from an email by friend and famous photographer Pat Ford:"Big jacks moved into Stuart last friday and hung around thru sunday. Naturally I got up there on Monday and only caught the last trickle. We only had a few small pods and it was over by 9am. Lots of mackerel though."
Jan Maizler
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