Barra de Navidad fishing tournament January-2011

Barra De Navidad Fishing Tournament January 2011
Captain Steve Torres and team ana Maria take 1st place
team in Barra de Navidad tournament
Great week of fishing from start to finish. We prefished
the day before the tournament checking out the fishing
grounds it was perfect conditions nice warm water 80-82
flat blue sea's our first bite of the day was a small striped
Marlin probable about 60 lbs jmark reeled her in quick
and Freddy pulled the Marlin aboard for a quick photo
and then released her to be caught later.

Day 1 of the tournament We headed out aboard the Ana
Maria at 8 am, same great conditions clean warm water
and alot of stripers about 40 miles offshore. We had our
first hook up about 11 am Captain Steve Torres yelled
hook up and Jmark Martin was in the fighting chair ready
to go We relled in a small striped Marlin 26 kilos in about
15 minutes and back on the hunt, 2nd hook up came
about an hour and a half later caught by Freddy
Rodriquoz a little bit bigger in size 29 kilos,

Day 2 Same plan we hit the fishing grounds about 8:30
am and the bite was cold for us, until about 2 pm when we
found a Mahi Paradise they were jumping everywhere as
soon as we had one in the cooler another was ready to
be gaffed We caught 22 in total 7 that qualified.

Day 3 We found even warmer water temps and had our
first bite around 10 am anotgher striped Marlin 28 kilos
about 2 hours later we had our 2nd bite of the day our
biggest Striper of the tournamnt 39 Kilos we trolled for
more Marlin for about an hour, thenn decided to back to
the mahi hotel there were still jumping all over the place
but there was alot more traffice then the the day before
probable 20-25 boats enjoying the mahi fishing we
caught 5 more qualifers trolled for Marlin abother hour
then headed back to the Marina for the final weigh in, not
to many big fish this year but still a lot of action all 3 day’s
and team Ana Maria came out on top with total of 4
striped Marlins, and 12 Dorado’s 2,290 points for 1st
place team. see more photos here