End of the year wrap-up

The final week of December has been great for RedRum clients with loads of fish to brag about. Sierra and Yellowtail have begun to show up and folks are having a blast inshore with the light tackle fishing for these guys and Roosterfish. I, for one, would have thought the Roosters would be gone by now, but with the water still relatively warm the Roosters are still hanging around.

Offshore fishing has been great as well. This year is certainly looking similar to last year where we saw tons and tons of Marlin in December and January. Heard of a boat that ran to the Finger Banks yesterday that released over 50 Marlin and caught 20 Dorado. As some of you are aware, these guys "catch" Marlin a little differently with the boat doing more of the work; still an impressive feat nonetheless. Golden Gate has been the bank of choice for our Captains and the action there is non-stop with whales, dolphins, sea lions, and of course tons of fish.

Reports out of the East Cape and Sea of Cortez are showing Tuna, Dorado and Wahoo so we hope to see some of those fish in our waters soon.

All in all it has been a great year for RedRum Sportfishing and our anglers. Captain Omar on ReelRum will take the "Top Captain" of the year award in stylish fashion. An early season Swordfish, a monster 650lb Blue Marlin, and the winning Yellowfin Tuna in the Los Cabos Tuna Jackpot were all very impressive. We are however, very happy with all of our Captains and each and every one of them had great years and some fantastic catches.

With over 1000 charters and over 4000 clients this year, we couldn't be happier with2008. That being said, we are really looking forward to 2009. More fish to catch, more records to break and more tournaments to win.

We wish everyone the best in 2009 and look forward to seeing each and every one of you at some point this year. (Even you Mr. Flores)

I also want to say a special thanks to Luis Vela, our former office manager. I am not sure John Donovan will ever let Luis completely leave RedRum and he knows he will always have a place at RedRum and in our hearts. None of what we are today could have been possible without him and the work he has done the past two years. We wish you the best in your next adventure Luis, and no that you are missed by many in CSL.

-Ryan

December 22nd Fish Report

The estimated 80 degree weather, strong sun, and no wind led to a pretty good day of fishing for the Redrum boats that headed out today. El Nuevo and Rum Runnin both fished between The Lighthouse and Golden Gate, a spot that has been filled with fish for at least the last 2 months. I have seen countless Marlin released as well as almost double the amount of Dorado as compared from last year.

Today was Marlin all around! Our good local buddy Kaye Peters headed out with her family from out of town. They were an awesome group to host as some minor electrical problems in the morning postponed their departure time. After getting them out I hoped they would have a good day, as I do with all of our anglers heading out. Since I know Kaye I didn't want to have to put up with her making fun of our crews if they didn't put them on the fish! Luckily for me they were fishing with Cesar! When I saw El Nuevo come back this afternoon with 7 Marlin and 7 catch and release flags flying high I was very proud and lucky that Alex and Cesar were on that boat! They did a great job! As did the Peters for reeling in the 7 Marlin! The biggest was a little over 200 pounds pulled in by the smallest member of the party! So to Kaye, Kathy, Ryan, Austin, Lane, Nataly and April, it was a pleasure meeting you guys, take care and enjoy the stories!

Mr. Ian Slome and his son Ben almost did not make their trip to Cabo as they were held up in some nasty weather in the NYC. They're sure glad they made it down! They fished with Rum Runnin today with Javier and Lobo as Manuel has taken a small vacation for the Christmas holiday. Javier and Lobo were able to put them on 3 Stripe Marlin, all for releases. They have one more trip lined up with Rum Runnin on Wednesday to give it their best shot at some more big fish! Cheers and Congrats Slome's!

It's pretty cool that it is 3 days away from Christmas, it's 80 degrees out and sunny outside and the Marlin bite is still going "off"! I know Mark Stange and Jorge Flores are both loving reading this report as they are dressed in probably 15 layers of clothing, gloves and hats on! For the rest of you dressed in layers take down some tequila and keep thinking of us!

Saludos,

Luis

December 15th Fish Report

Although there aren't too many people fishing Cabo these days our boys are still have some nice luck when the oppurtunity presents!

Omar had the sole charter for Redrum today on Reel Rum. He headed out with Don England his son Brad and 2 daughters Ashley and Lindsay. They had a great day. Since Cesar had nothing going on with El Nuevo he decided to jump aboard and head out with Americo to up the chances of getting some fish. Of course, Stripe Marlin came first, one for Mr. England. Next up was Brad who caught and released a heck of a Stripe Marlin, 97"! Than the girls took their turn at one and after a little help from Cesar and Americo landed it too! Great day for the four of them! Not to mention the nice 35 pound Wahoo that they caught along with the Bull Dorado that was reeled in as well!

Great job guys!

Saludos,

Luis

December 10th Report

Again, sorry for the delay folks. We just completed a weeks worth of remodeling our office down in Cabo. Although we aren't completely finished yet at least I have my computer to get behind and touch base with my anglers again!!

Some pretty gnardly winds blew in late this afternoon cooling the temperature down quite a bit. I am actually going to wear a long sleeve shirt to leave the office! I may even have to put pants and shoes on tomorrow morning, hopefully I'll be able to find my shoes... haven't used those things since last year!

Todays Report:

Captain Ramon still has the reins on El Nuevo as Alex is still out of town with his family in the mainland. He continues to wow his clients with his ability to put them on fish. With Tantrum still out of the water for her re-hauls Cesar is having a ball fishing on El Nuevo. Today the boys took out the Rice party from Red Oak, Texas. The 5 of them had a blast with Cesar as he likes to show - hands on, how to fish. Mr. Douglas Rice caught 110" 170+ pound Stripe Marlin while Mrs. Rice was able to bring one to the boat as well. Pleasure meeting you folks!

Javier and Mickey had the pleasure of fishing with Redrums very own John Donovan today! John headed out with his Attorney Jonathan Pikoff and longtime Redrum buddy Marshall Gill a.k.a Pelon. Although they really wanted to get some Dorado for the grill tonight they had a good time catching Stripe Marlin. John hooked into each of the 3 Stripe Marlin that were caught today but was nice enough to pass the rod to his buddies to let them continue the fight. "The fun part for me is too hook into the fish and I get great joy out of seeing my friends catch the fish, especially if they haven't caught one", John said. He also wanted to add that "a day on the water beats a day in the office"!!

December 3rd Fish Report

It's good to be back in the saddle...

I hope everyone's Thanksgiving was as relaxing as mine was back in South Texas. It's always good to get back to the Redrum Family here in Cabo.

It's good to see the boys are still fishing hard.

After moving Tantrum out of the water for some major rehauls Cesar has moved over as mate on El Nuevo. Ramon and Cesar fished with the Utley group this afternoon and caught plenty of Dorado. Mr. Utley boated a beautiful 51" Bull that is going to look great on his wall! Great job!

Javier and Americo were back together today on Rum Runnin as it was Mickeys day off and Americo was available because Reel Rum stayed behind for an oil change. Mr. Ray Hernandez and his friends had some pretty good luck catching 2 Stripe Marlin and a Dorado for dinner! Looks like Americo and Javier still got it!

Kent Sommer and his family came down again to fish with Redrum. He was fishing today on Red Beam with Marshall and Lobo. 3 Dorado and a Stripe Marlin made their day. They will be enjoying their Dorado and Misiones De Kino Restaurant tonight which I gurantee will be the second best highlight of their trip down here! Of course fishing with Redrum is going to be #1!!! Great too see you again Mr. Sommer.

Off to enjoy my last month in Cabo! BBQ and Mojitos for everyone!

Saludos,

Louie

November 24th Recap

I knew the fishing was good but man, it seems like it just keeps getting better!

To pick up where we left off on my last report...

Joey Minieville and Cesar did catch and realse 16 Stripe Marlin today at Golden Gate. I have never seen anyone happier to catch Marlin like that! It was awesome to see how happy he was when he showed into Tantrum slip as people actually had to stop because of all the flags she had on her out riggers. What I thought was funny is that Joey told me he might want to catch at least 1 Dorado for dinner tomorrow. We will see if Cesar remembers how to even catch one after the great weekend he had with Billfish!

Rum Runnin had an outstanding day with the Wilbur family. Mr. Bruce Wilburn brought his whole bunch down to do some Dorado and Tuna fishing. Dorado and Tuna is exactly what they got. Javier and Manuel took great care of them and hooked them into a school of Tuna where they pulled out about 10 Yellowfin and later in the afternoon they caught 6 Dorado! Great job guys! You have filled my freezer to the top!

The Deloney family on Reel Rum also had their fair share of Marlin as Omar and Americo really tired out mama Deloney! She was pooped after catching her Stripe Marlin as were the 2 youngsters! Awesome job guys and killer seahorse!

Mr. Bickel brought his family down from Dallas Texas to test their hand at the billfish on El Nuevo. Captain Alex was able to get each one of them (5) hooked into a Stripe Marlin before calling it a day. They had a little trouble with the last one but being that they were not going to give up nailed it and brought her to the boat for a few quick shots and a release! Nice meeting y'all!!

Off to Texas tomorrow for Turkey Day with the family! Be back in a week. Will try to keep the updates comming from home!

Saludos,

Luis
Team Redrum

Late November Recap

Sorry about the delay folks. With all the fish being caught lately I've been too busy with our vacuum sealer getting everyones catch frozen!! That's a good thing!

So here it goes..

November is shaping up well with the Marlin bite still being the best we have seen it all year. I was able to spend a few days out on the water myself with Ryan and his cousin Josh. We saw more Marlin than you could imagine and we were able to hook into quite a few tiring Josh out! I had never seen Golden Gate more lively than it was these days last week and the weeks prior.

Most fish are being caught by chasing a school of live bait or catching up to the birds. The birds are almost a sure sign that there are Marlin, Tuna, or bait under them. This style, known as "run and gun", can make it pretty interesting for clients who have never experienced this type of fishing before. With this technique our anglers get to see the kind of chemistry our captains and mate share. For example, for the folks like the Fitch party, the Garcia group or Roger Jump and his friend they got to see how Javier and Manuel can work all day without really having to shout at eachother. "They seem to be on the same exact page all the time", Jay Fitch told me after his day out with the crew. Cesar and Raymond on Tantrum are a little more lively in the way they catch their fish. Just ask Kandee Baird, Mike Matthews, the Narrods, and Joey Minieville who caught heaps of Marlin while running around Golden Gate.

Whatever your method may be you could almost be guranteed to come down here and hook into some Stripe Marlin. If Marlin is not your fortay and you want to head out for Dorado.

There has been plenty of Dorado near by, up towards the Lighthouse all the way to Golden Gate. Yesterdays performance by Javier proved this to be true. Jim Montagna and his friends were very interested in catching some Dorado for a large dinner. They also thought it would be fun for the 3 of them to "at least catch a Marlin a piece" like Jim told me in the morning. Sure as heck, Javier picked up quite a few Dorado on the way up to Golden Gate on the troll. Once they arrived to Golden Gate Manuel went to work and hooked them into 1, 2, and 3 Stripe Marlin.

How about Tuna?? Kandee Baird and Mike Matthews are long time Redrum anglers. They love to head out with Cesar as they have grown a friendship over the years. Yesterday I had them on Reel Rum as Cesar was occupied. Although they weren't very happy with this they agreed to it and the fish gods took care of the rest! Because they were understanding of the whole situation Reel Rum was the first boat to land on a school of Porpoise that had plenty of Tuna under them. After all was said and done they landed 11 Yellowfin Tuna all over 30 pounds! Mike had to leave some meat behind as he had filled his cooler to the brim! Great job guys!

Back to Cesar on Tantrum. Joey Minieville from Lousiana came down to do some "Marlin Fishing". "That is all I want, the more the better, I am going to release each one of them but Marlin Marlin Marlin" he told me. I knew he came to the right place and especially on the right boat. Cesar headed out with Joey yesterday and they caught and released 8 Stripe Marlin. Mr. Minieville could not believe his day and was extremely happy with the outcome. Cesar just radioed me a little while ago and said that his clients were comming back and were very disappointed. He told me I should get ready for an a** chewing when they returned. When I began to ask him why he began to laugh with Joey in the back ground saying "'cause we only caught and released 16 Marlin" in his LA. accent! Needless to say I hung up on them. Cesar is always a good time!

With Omar on Reel Rum and Alex out on El Nuevo I will have a full report later this afternoon but some people like Jorge Flores just can't wait for of our boats to get back before a report! HAHA enjoy my friends!!

Adios,

Luis
Team Redrum

Captain Cesar Rides Marlin for Release

After this young Marlin came up to the boat very tired and slow Cesar thought it would be best to try to revive her. We tried the manual way but it did not work and Cesar offered to get in the water to move it around and pump some air back in her gills. This is the video we caught of it and glad to say the Marlin was fine and fully reenergized.

November 12th Report

With a moon a little larger than normal last night I was a little worried about today. Thank I remembered that I was in Cabo and that full moons have not affected our fishing in the 2 years that I have been here! When the boats came back in this afternoon I remembered why!

Reel Rum was the first boat back in her slip this afternoon. Hilary and Ryan Leifheit called me last week and wanted to get on a boat for a fun day of fishing. Omar was the right guy to head out with, he and Americo landed 8 Stripe Marlin for the catch and release as well as 1 Pacific Sail. The couple had a great time as this was there first off-shore adventure. Rest assured they will be getting off shore again, hopefully with us! Great job guys.

Steven Turner fished with Cesar on Tantrum this morning. "All I want to do is catch a Marlin, get it up to the boat and take a few pictures of it" is what Mr. Turner explained to me this morning be for he headed out by himself. Cesar was the guy to do it with and was able to get 2 up to the boat for photos! Great job Mr. Turner!!

Mr. and Mrs. David White brought their friend Jancie Bruce to fish with them. They headed out on El Nuevo with Juan and Alex and had a great day. Slim was able to get each one of them hooked into a Stripe Marlin for the release and also a nice Dorado for dinner! They will be headed to Misiones de Kino for that awesome platter that Israel and the gang does so well! Making me hungry.

Tomorrow is the start of another busy weekend for us with the Juaquin Classic starting up again! We are excited about having our good friends down and hope the fishing keeps up for them!

Guess I was wrong about the moon!

Redrum Takes Home 1st Place at WON Tuna Jackpot!!

2 Hour 45 Minute Fight Leads to Record 244 Pound Yellowfin!!

This past weekend Redrum Sportfishing was fortunate enough to fish in the Western Outdoor News Tuna Jackpot. El Nuevo led by Bob Kuerner, Rum Runnin with Bobby Smith and Reel Rum led by Redrum owner John Donovan represented the line up for 3 of the 97 teams that entered this years event.

Omars boat, Reel Rum was entered in as team #85 and consisted of Americo as our mate, John and Ryan Donovan along with myself as the anglers. We spent Wednesday and Thursday fishing all day to no evail. We landed 2 small Dorado on day 2 that was it. Finally on Friday all of our waiting around paid off as we landed the big one.

Trolling a green imitation squid about 200 feet off the back of the boat we all began to get a little restless. John and Ryan were sleeping down on the bottom of the boat while Omar, Americo and I sat up top sharing conversation that only seem to come up when you have been on the water as long as we were without any action.

I went for a snack while Omar headed to the front of the boat to have a little time to himself and wonder why things had been going so slow for us. Americo and I BSed for a while about life back in the US and his previous home of Mazatlan. Omar sat back down in his seat saying that he thinks he saw a boat chasing some porpoise a little ahead. I went down to get the binoculars and handed them to Omar. It only took him a split second and he decided we were going to run and see what was going on. To our disappointed it was only a couple of Frigget birds and no porpoise anywhere. That led Omar to even more disappointment and he headed turned the boat hard North and things quited down again.

About 15 minutes after the sighting heading NW off the Lighthouse (maybe 30 miles) our luck changed! In one split second the only Penn 80 that we had in our spread started screaming and screaming hard! Ryan jumped up from his "boat sleep" grabbed the rod/reel and started yanking on it to make sure the hook was set. Once all the chaos settled down on the boat and we were sure the fish was hooked we all began to try to guess what it was. Omar cancelled out the possibility of it being a Marlin or Dorado because there was no action immdeiately after the strike. Our next thoughts began to be either Wahoo or Yellowfin. Being that no Wahoo was weighed in on day 1 we were happy with either.

Ryan began to fight the fish stand-up style until the strength of the fish broke the stand up belt. 20 minutes later Omar cancelled out the possibility of a Wahoo because of the style of fight that the creature was showing us. About 20 minutes later the Yellowfin Tuna serviced for a few seconds and we got to see what kind of animal we were dealing with! As soon as the Tuna saw the boat for the first time she slammed down deep and in that moment the fight began!

For the next 2 and a half hours John, Americo and I took turns making sure Ryan was as comfortable as possible. When we talked about it later Ryan and I agreed that he drank at least 8 12 oz. bottles of water! The important part about fighting a big Yellowfin Tuna is not to rush it, stay patient and take your time. Ryan did just that. My attention span is about is small as hoochie lure so I was all over the boat. I even found myself doing pull ups from one of the metal bars that runs across the boat just to keep me from going insane!!

The fight was blow for blow the whole time. Each time Ryan would get a few cranks in and make up some of the line he had lost the tuna seemed like she was allowing it only to gain her ground as soon as Ryan would stop. This went on for over 2 hours. I still do not know how Ryan is functioning after a fight like that! Knowing that we had to be back to the weigh station at 5 pm Omar started to get a little nervous. There is nothing you can do when fighting a big Tuna except wait it out, unless you want to lose the fish. This fish we were not going to lose and Ryan made sure of it! Ryan slowly increased the drag by the milimeter until there was enough on it to pull this freight train to the boat.

Americo and I were assigned to gaffing the fish as soon as the leader came to the boat. Mind you, I have never gaffed a fish that size in my life. I have gaffed plenty of smaller Dorado but a fish that size and that importance I was a little apprehensive. Luckily for us she came up with no gas left in her tank, we were able to gaff the fish precisely. It took everyone on the team to haul it over the side of the boat and onto the deck. After I took a second glance I noticed that the fish had nearly straightened out my gaff.

As soon as we got the fish to the boat, hugs and high-fives were shared all around until Omar said "alright, this fish no count until we get to scale". Americo got the boat ready for the run and Omar began putting the pedal to the metal. It took us about 2 hours and some change to get back to the Marina. On the cruise over when we began to be able to spot land I looked over and Ryan as we decided to take a seat on the front of the boat for the ride in and said "Cabo has never looked so beautiful". He agreed and our nerves sat in.

Ryan estimated the fish weighed 214 pounds, John 412, and I undershot and said 207. When we finally got the boat to the weigh station there were over 400 people waiting there as the buzz had picked up on the Marina that Redrum was bringing in a big fish. We woooed and wowed the crowd as soon as we pulled in. I over heard one of them tell the other, that there is no fish that would even come close to ours. That's when I knew we were in good shape. We made our way through the applauding crowd to the scales. The group of people had formed a large mass surrounding the scales as there were rows of people 10-15 deep.

I have never been the focus of so many camera flashes in my life. It kind of makes you dizzy after a while. But we had a blast. The second we got it to the scale and hanged the fish the crowd grew silent. Ryan decided he was going to give a good slap to the fish as it hung. This cancelled the fish and we had to do it all over again. The second time the fish hanged there we made sure nobody touched it as we did not want to have to lift the Tuna again! As the crowd grew silent Paul from WON announced the number "Two hundred and Forty Four pounds" everyone went crazy!! The fish was over 30 pounds than we estimated and over 100 pounds from our nearest competition.

Interviews and parties occupied the rest of our night and into the early morning. Working the next morning was a little difficult!! It was well worth it.

There will be pictures to follow as soon as we get them pulled up on the computer.

Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed!

Saludos,

Luis

November 3rd Report

Just a few days before the WON Tuna Jackpot starts we are beginning to see a lot of Tuna around! We are crossing our fingers that they stick around for a while but we are definately enjoying them while they are here!

The Kruger party headed out on Rum Runnin today and had an excellent time. Javiers boat Rum Runnin was an awesome showing of Blue Marlin Flags and White Tuna flags when she pulled into her slip. They counted 8 catch and release Stripe Marlin and countless yellowfin tuna! Great job guys thanks for filling our freezers!

Mr. and Mrs Goodnight came in off a cruise ship today and caught and released 3 Stripe Marlin as well as a Sailfish. They were only on the water for a couple of hours and definately stayed busy the whole time. Alex and Juan had a great time fishing with them as well.

The Vela party from the South Texas CCA fished for their second day with us today and continued their success of Stripe Marlin. On day 1, Baldo Vela and his freinds reeled in 14 Stripe Marlin, today they were able to catch and release 6 of them and spent some time reeling in Yellowfin Tuna as well.

The Yzaguirres and Guerras also joined the Velas in thier Father-Son trip this year. The kids fished great with Omar and Americo on Reel Rum. On day one they spent their day catching and releasing 8 of them. Today the group caught 6 Stripe Marlin.

It was great having all the CCA groups down here. We have a great time putting you guys on fish and everyone is first class!

Saludos,

-Luis-

November 2nd Report - Tuna Landing!

Yellow fin have finally arrived!

Red Beam was the first boat of the fleet to arrive in her slip today. When RedBeam pulled into the slip today she was sporting some flags that I had not seen in a long time. Those white Tuna flags sure looked great on one of our boats. It had been too long since I had seen them and they were a beautiful sight to see. It got even better when I saw the size of the Yellowfin that Jay Simmons and his dad pulled in. 4 nice 50+ pound Yellowfin Tuna!! They hit the school early and fished it for a few hours. They were back early and plenty tired! Great job guys!

Our CCA group of the McCoys also had a great time fishing with Javier and Rum Runnin. They caught and released 6 Stripe Marlin and also were able to catch 4 Yellowfin Tuna. They were ecstatic about the catch and had a great time fishing with Javier and Manuel.

Dean Patsko from the West Coast came in off of the Oosterdamn Cruise Ship early this morning. He had just gone through 4 surgeries on his right shoulder after seriously injuring his bicep. Cesar told him that he would take care of him and help him out if they might hook into a Marlin. Might they sure did! In 5 hours Cesar and Mr. Patsko were able to catch and release 14 Stripe Marlin and a Sailfish! My hat goes off to Mr. Patsko, great job my friend!

Dave Kruger and his gang had a great time fishing with Alex and Juan. A few mechanical problems did not slow them down as they were able to catch and release heaps of Stripe Marlin as well as Yellowfin Tuna! Great job guys!

My Morning and the October 29th Report

People may not believe me but today was ANOTHER great day of fishing!

We will start off with this morning...

Tantrum had a no show so Rene (our mechanic) decided it would be a good oppurtunity to change out the air filter on Cesars boat. Once I the McElligot showed up for Rum Runnin, the Kytes on Reel Rum and the Boden part that were fishing on Nuevo all got sent off the guys that stuck around got a little bored. Cesar decided he was going to make a test run with the new air filter. Myself, Jesus, and Raymond decided we would head out with him. We were not prepared to what would come next.

As soon as we made the turn past the Arch to head up the Pacific side we noticed about 25 boats all fishing around the Lighthouse. Needless to say, we couldn't resist! Without even having to communicate with the other, Cesar gunned the boat right toward the ball of boats. The Lighthouse isn't too far at all and maybe took us about 10 minutes to get out. We dropped one line to see if we would have any luck with bait... sure enough Raymond brought in about 8 mackerals! The 3 of us, minus Cesar all grabbed a rod, made sure the hook was still good and got ready to rock! At that time Cesar gunned the boat towards a group of birds that were crashing on top of a large bait ball just about 250 yards away. We waited for his word and once he placed the boat in the perfect spot we all casted the live bait out. This may seem not possible to you guys but I promise, within 25 seconds each one of us had a fish on! None of us could believe it.

Trying to maneuver a boat with 3 Stripe Marlin hooked on is not easy, unfortunately after a good 5 minutes of fishing my fish would be the one to get off - leave it to the rookie! I looked up at Cesar and all he could do was laugh and give me the "oh well" face. After about a half hour Jesus had to cut his line because it darted in the complete opposite direction than Raymonds Marlin. Being that Raymond is Cesar's full time mate, he had to help his boy out! About another 25 minutes Raymond got his to the boat. He passed me his camera phone and I snapped a few shots. We released the fish and all had a good laugh about what just happend. Not to forget that Jesus and I pushed Raymond in the water and tried to push Cesar but if you knew Cesar once he says no, its NO!

The rest of the day was great as well. Ramon on El Nuevo was back into the slip by 12:30pm with 5 Stripe Marlin all caught and released. Erin Boden and group were more than happy with Juan and Ramons performance.

Omar also had a great time with the Kytes party. The four of them were able to catch 5 Stripe Marlin as well!

MrElligots had another great day fishing on Rum Runnin. Today they caught and released 5 Stripe Marlin and were fortunate enough to catch a 93" Pacific Sailfish. One of the bigger Sails that I have seen in a while! Great job guys!

Well I hope you guys enjoyed reading about how terrible my job is!

Saludos.

-Luis-

October 27th Report

Just Another Day in Fish Paradise

If you are one of those folks that sits and watches FishTV dreaming of being able to catch at least one Billfish in your life you should be emailing me yesterday getting booked to fish on one of Redrum's boats!

Golden Gate has not let up a bit in about 2 weeks. The amount of Stripe Marlin being spotted is amazing. Thankful to a large majority of our clients that are practicing catch and releasing we have been in "high" Marlin season a lot longer than we were last year.

Today was no different. Tantrum headed out with Mr. Paul Powell and his son Jon. They had the pleasure of fishing Mr. Popular Himself, Captain Cesar!! To repeat one part of the day from Paul, he said "as soon as we got to what I think was Golden Gate Cesar opened the boat up to full steam, threw it down in reverse, all while Raymond was getting the live bait ready. Next thing I knew we were hooked up into a Stripe Marlin. Raymond grabbed another rod that was rigged with a live bait hook, took a livey from the bait tank and tossed it out to another Marlin swimming around. He hooked that one too! Cesar maneavered the boat in such a way that we were able to get them both to the boat for pictures. We were exhausted after fighting the fish for over an hour each and it wasn't even 8:15 yet!"

They crew went on to catch and release 2 more Stripe Marlin and headed in early after such a great day on the water!

Our other group came off of the Oosterdam Cruise Ship and were off their tendor and on El Nuevo by 9:00am. Alex got them to Golden Gate about a little under an hour, it was on from their! They were able to catch and releasae 5 Stripe Marlin as well. Off El Nuevo and back to the cruise ship before 3:30! Not many places in the world you can go to that will give you that kind of fishing!

Look for more fish to be brought in as our weather has been excellent lately and November just around the corner!

HOW ABOUT THOSE TCU FROGS?!

Weekend Recap

The Redrum Fleet did not slow down a bit during this past weekend with the Bisbee Black & Blue Tournament going on. We stayed busy all weekend and although we did not have any boats rented out for the tournament we did have a great time catching Stripe Marlin and Dorado.

We are still fishing the Pacific side and catching multiple some time double digits in Stripe Marlin. Longtime Redrum anglers Steve Bergey, Brad Bowen, and Ray and Bob Young came down for their annual trips and slaughtered the Stripe Malrin Catch and Release count hitting double digits everyday.

Steve and Brad caught 19 Stripe Marlin, 3 Sailfish and countless Dorado during thier 4 days fishing with Omar and Jesus on Reel Rum.

Ray and Bob Young did about just the same fishing on both Reel Rum and Tantrum.

Our CCA group from Texas also fished very well with Alex and Juan on El Nuevo. Their first day they landed heaps of Stripe Marlin and yesterday the guys went out again and landed 11 Stripe Marlin and a couple of nice Dorado.

Today the fishing is just as solid. Rum Runnin, El Nuevo and Reel Rum headed out and caught and released a combined 23 Stripe Marlin. Omar and Alex were able to hook into some Dorado as well while Javier focused mainly on the Stripes!

Bring on another week!!!

- Luis -

October 21st Fish Report

A slight breeze was delivered out on the Pacific waters that helped cool off our anglers today from all the hard work they were doing reeling in plenty of fish all day.

Brad Bowen and Steven Bergey shined again today on Reel Rum with Omar and Jesus. Again they were able to catch and release 5 Stripe Marlin and 1 nice Sailfish. They estimated the Sailfish at nearly 130 pounds. These guys have fished with us for 2 days and have caught over 10 Billfish! They were also able to bag 2 Dorado for the freezer during thier outing this afternoon. These crazy guys still have 2 more days fishing with Omar so he better keep it up as they have already hit their par twice!

Brett and Elizabethe Miller and Mr. Erb had another great day fishing. Today they headed out with Alex and Juan on El Nuevo and they were certainly glad they did. Aside from the 5 Stripe Marlin they were able to catch and release, El Nuevo was also able to pull in 6 Dorado for the boat. This group has also done some serious fishing in the last 2 day, 8 Stripe Marlin and 6 Dorado is not bad way to finish off a 2 day fishing excursion. Great job again guys and we look foward to seeing you again next year.

Brent Harris and his group spent their last day out on the water with us and boy are they glad to fish with Javier on Rum Runnin. Javier and Mickey took the boys that had not had a chance to catch Marlin yet. The boys put the pressure on him, Javier loves fishing under pressure! Sure enough, as soon as the boat came in the Marina I could hear the whooping and hollering comming from Don Ferguson and Brent Harris. Javier worked his magic and was able to put the guys on 8 Stripe Marlin! They had the day of their lives and enjoyed every second of it! Don Ferguson caught a beautiful Stripe Marlin measuring 96" and over 135 pounds. Great job Don!

Jim and Holly Candia had a wonderful time "hooking" Marlin today! They had a little trouble keeping the finicky critter on the line. For some reason the Marlin keep shredding the leader and would get off. They were able to finally get one up to the boat but Holly unfortunately wasn't able to get hers. Cesar was able put them on 4 nice Dorado that they did boat. Dont worry, we are determined to get Holly her billfish so we already discussed their plans for their next trip down here!

Jill and Paul Kohner headed out on Red Beam with Marshall and "Lobo". Luckily they were looking to hook into Billfish! 3 nice Stripe Marlin and another large Pacific Sailfish were caught and released on Red Beam. The Kohners had a great time enjoyed their time on the water with Redrum. We will be expecting their pictures because Jill told me that the picture that she took of Paul and his Sailfish showed the Sail of the fish drapping over Pauls shoulder.

It's crunch time down in Cabo right now as we are only a short time away from The Bisbee Black and Blue Tournament. There is a lot of hype and the town is starting to really pick up. With the 870 pound Marlin that won the Bisbee Offshore it is going to be interesting to see what special fish is going to be brought up to the scales for the Black & Blue.

-Luis-

October 20th Fish Report

As fate would have it the bite was crazy the day after the tournament ended. All of our boats did extrememly well today leading with Cesar on Tantrum.

Again Cesar wowed his clients with his Marlin catching skill. With Americo on his boat for the day the boys got right to it. They hooked their first Stripe Marlin at about 9:00am and didn't stop until they pulled thier lines at a little past 1:00 pm. 6 Stripes Caught and Released in total as well as a Bull Dorado well over 30 pounds.

The "Catch of the Day" was a 350+ Blue on the Red Beam. Jennifer and Dean Hogencamp headed out with Marshall and "Lobo" on Red Beam. A little before Golden Gate the crews brought down the outriggers and the crews got to work. Their Dorado bite stayed consistent all day catching 8 over average male and female fish. During the mist of all the Dorado bites Marshall was able to hook the couple into a nice Blue Marlin. The fight lasted almost 2 hours according to Dean. Congrats on the great catch guys and we look foward to having you fish again tomorrow!

Javier took good care of Brett and Elizabeth Miller. Their friend Mr. Erb headed out with them as well. The 3 of them were able to hook into 5 Stripe Marlin, catching and releasing 3 of them and having the 0ther 2 get off. They are out again today on El Nuevo so we will keep you guys posted.

Omar had one heck of a day with Redrum Longtimers, Steve Bergey and Brad Bowen. These 2 anglers come down once a year, when they come down they are here to fish. Omar will be hosting them 2 days on his boat and Cesar will take over for their 2nd two days out on the water. Omar started them off on a good note yesterday (once the boat problems were taken care of) catching and releasing 5 Stripe Marlin and a Pacific Sailfish! Not a bad way to start off a 4 day fishing excursion, now the par is set!

Alex and Juan headed out again, this time with Mr. and Mrs. Lauber. The couple was really interested in catching Dorado or Tuna. The Dorado Alex thought, shouldn't be a problem. The couple hooked into a pair of really nice size Stripe Marlin. Double hook-up, Double-release. Well done. Than Alex was able to hook them into a nice estimate 40 pound Bull. As soon as that was boated Juan had a slam on his live bait and they were able to boat another large Bull. Great job guys, and way to work!

Kenneth and Barbara Arthur had not had a chance to fish this trip since their sons were the ones elected to fish with Alex and Juan on El Nuevo for the Bisbee Offshore. There was no way they could come to Cabo and not fish so they decided to get the whole family together and head out with Rene on Utopia. After a long night around Cabo the night before the 4 couples headed into the office! Eventually we got them all together and out for the day. They had a great time on the beautiful yacht and also had some great fishing. 4 Stripe Marlin by the end of the day. Mr. Arthur was a little disappointed that the boys only let him get one of them but "oh, well"! It is always great having you guys down. Take care and see you soon.

I sent a half-day charter out this morning and the boat already returned with more Dorado than they could even carry in my office!! We used a partner boat and the captain and mate said that everyone that ran towards Golden Gate should have a great shot and catching plenty of fish.

Where are the Tuna???

Tournament Coverage Bisbees Offshore

As most of our readers know Redrum was fortunate enough to have 2 of our boats fish in the Bisbee Offshore Tournament this past weekend.

The Arthur family from Concan, TX buddied up with Alex and Juan to fish on El Nuevo. They did a great job both days. The first day Alex lined them up on a Blue Marlin and they got a solid strike. Unfortunately, the fish drove straight down for at least 15 seconds and finally popped the line. They said it was like a freight train pulling at the end of the line. We didn't get a weight, specie or size of the fish. All we knew that it was huge! That's how fishing in tournaments goes! The rest of the first day resulted in several strikes but to no avail. The second day was a little bit slower as not many boats were hooking into much fish at all. They ended the tournament with no qualifying fish but had a great time.

Team Utopia was also unsuccessful in raising any qualifing fish to the boat but being the first large tournament the boat has entered laid some good experience for the crew and the boat.

Thanks for those who participated in the 2008 Bisbee Offshore Fishing Tournament and to those who supported Team REDRUM!

October 14th Fish Report

We had yet another great day on the water today. Reel Rum fished a half day and caught and released Dorado almost from the time they set the spread out 'til the time they came in! Jim Giles is going to be one tired old fart tonight! It's always good to have him come down and fish with us, even if it does mean having to put up with his fish stories the next few days, the boys love him!

Javier and Americo had an excellent day with the Sherards. They were able to catch and release a nice Stripe Marlin as well as several Dorado.

Guy Dansie and his family had the time of their lives fishing with Cesar on Tantrum today. They caught more Dorado than they could imagine, had a few big boys get to the boat that couldn't be boated but they had a blast doing it! Great family from Utah! Hope to see you guys again in the future... GO TCU!

Dave Olson had a day cleaning up on some massive Bull Dorado. Slim told me they got 5 bull Dorado to the boat that measured up to my shoulder. Now, I am not a very tall dude by an means but a Dorado that goes as high as my shoulders is a big Dorado! We hope you had a good time Mr, Olson and that we work with you again in the future.

Utopia headed out for the day. Bottom line, had a monster Blue Marlin on the line for over an hour. Unfortunately the fish popped the leader.... moving on.

We are looking foward to having an exciting weekend here at Redrum as we have 2 of our boats entered in the Bisbees Offshore Fishing Tournament. Longtime Redrum angler, Barbara Arthur and her family will be fishing with Alex and Slim on El Nuevo. They have had some excellent luck in the past with us catching big Dorado and Marlin.

Ryan "Picoso" Donovan, Frank "Pancho" Zoch, Stephen "White Pants" Draper and Rayner "Liquid" Smith will make up our second team representing Redrum. They will be heading out on Utopia for the 2 days with Rene and Mickey. This salty team has fished our waters plenty of times in the past and should be able to make an impact on the leader board early!

Stay tuned for updates on the 2 participating boats and keep your fingers crossed!

-Luis

More pics of the monster!!

October 13th Report

Danny Blue

I know I haven't posted in a while. I sat and wondered all day today on how I was going to cram 2 weeks of awesome fishing into one report. As I was sitting behind my desk thinking I got a call from Captain Omar on Reel Rum. I could barely hear him as we had a pretty crappy connection. He was fishing about 25 miles out and all he kept saying in Spanish was to "get the camera ready". Last time Omar called me with such news it was back when he caught his first ever Swordfish.

As he got a little closer about to where I could talk to him he told me he had a big Blue on and that he thinks it may be over 500 pounds. Dave Haverkate came in off of the Holland Cruise Ship with his 2 brothers and father. They headed out on Reel Rum a little bit after 9 o'clock this morning just wanting to "catch a few fish". Their first catch was a nice Dorado, right off the bat. After the Dorado they trolled around for a while until something big struck the white, blue, and black lure. The fish damn near spooled the reel on the first run and did so on 3 other occasions. The Haverkates passed the rod around 3 go's each person until finally about an hour later the fish was boated. It took all 5 guys to get the fish to the boat.

As the fish came to the dock, Ryan and I hopped on the take pictures and head to the weigh station. By this time a crowd had already formed around the scale as word had passed quickly around the Marina of the monster fish. Before we could get the Haverkates to the scale the fish had been weighed and it was all over the radio. "650 pounds, six - five - zero"! The family stood proud as they had their pictures taken by the random tourists walking the Marina along with their wives and friends who had also caught word and headed down themselves.

Once the fish was lowered I put the measuring tape to him and it measured 148.5 inches. That has been the biggest fish caught since I have been here, Omars first Blue over 500 pound and Jesus' 2nd largest fish just slightly behind his 700 Blue some 10 years ago!

Congrats to Omar, Jesus, and the Haverkate family for such a nice catch!

Pictures and further reports to follow ASAP, time to celebrate with the boys!!

Cheers.

-Luis

From the Inbox

I recieved this email and photos from Mark Sweetwood upon his arrival back to Seattle.

"Guys,

My dad and I had a fishing trip with Redrum this week that exceeded all expectations. Altogether, we caught 17 Darados, 4 Marlin, and 1 Wahoo. I was also treated with a tuna hunt that was right out of a National Geographic film! The highlight was seeing my 76 year old dad spend an hour bringing in a large Marlin. I really enjoyed the passion for fishing shown by Javier and Americo. Javier is a wild man when it comes to hunting down the Marlin which was a key to our success. Americo was a great mate and was as thrilled as we were to catch fish! Thanks for an expereince of a lifetime and we'll see you again next year!!"

-Mark Sweetwood

Seattle,Washington

Vela Escuela - Rum Runnin, October 3rd

The Hunt

Yesterday I headed out with Javier and Americo on Rum Runnin for my latest "Vela Escuela" expedition. Mark Sweetwood had been fishing with Redrum a couple of times this week prior to our trip out on Rum.

With the Dorado and Marlin bite the way it has been Mark wanted to try for something new Over the past 2 days fishing with us he had tired himself out catching over 5 Billfish and up in the higher -teens of Dorado. Mark suggested that today he wanted to try for Tuna. Now the Tuna bite hasn't been strong but Javier is not one to back down from a challenge. Immediately he got on the radio and starting asking other boats if there was any report of Tuna.

We arrived at the fuel dock early and Javier began to mingle with all the other captains waiting for their morning "fill 'er ups". He had gathered information that there was a school of Yellowfin about 15-20 miles straight off The Arch. Now that we had our full tank of diesel we were on our way.

Once we past The Arch we headed directly towards the sunrise, the sun an awesome mixture of yellow, orange, and red with a clear blue sky back ground. It looked like something you would see in a painting. I thought to myself "why am I leaving this"!

Mark and I got to get to know eachother a little bit as we watched Americo get the gear ready for the day. Americo began to change leader out, check line and hooks, make sure knots were tight enough. He began to explain to Mark that the bill of a Marlin can scratch and damage line or leader to a point where it pretty muchs acts like a saw and saws through it. That's why he likes to change out the line every morning.

After getting my "Knot Tying 101" lesson from Americo I headed up top to see what my buddy Javier was up to. I sat next to him on the tower continuing to watch the sunrise making small talk with him about his wife and kids who I have gotten to know over the years. He pointed at his GPS and showed me where we were heading. He explained that we were heading to a spot where the water drops off to about 4,500 ft. and is a big playground for Porpoise. "Maybe 30 minutes" he said. We talked the rest of the way out and Javier was even nice enough to share his morning snack with me. Think tuna fish salad made from Dorado. I think I may have pissed Americo off by eating his half of it!

We finally arrived to our spot and set out our spread. The water was blue, calm, and all looked pretty promising. Some time went by as we trolled and glassed the water looking for porpoise, birds, or sunning Marlin. We spotted a group of 10-15 birds flying up the Pacific, Javier followed them but to no avail. Shortly after we recieved a report that there was a small school of porpoise crashing around about 5 miles towards the shore. The excitement grew while Americo switched out the lures to smaller hoochies and cedar plugs. We understood it was a smaller school and that the Tuna were "hit or miss". We arrived and spotted the school of about 15-20 dolphin. It looked more as if they were playing with eachother rather than slamming on bait. Javier executed a couple of pass throughs but "nada" as he would say. "The Tuna no hungry" Americo explained to Mark.

We strayed from the school of porpoise to follow another flock of birds that seemed to be crashing on a bait ball. Some porpoise were crashing around but still, no Tuna to be found. After a while of not seeing anything at all Americo spotted a large group of birds, not crashing on bait, but just cruising. Sure enough they were trying to catch up to a huge school of porpoise. The school must have been 50-60 large. When 50-60 dolphin are jumping out of the water at different times it looks like there are hundreds and hundreds of them. We slowly trolled through them, making several pass throughs. To our suprise no strikes. Javier yelled at Americo to pitch a live bait and that he was going to run the boat slowly as if we were trolling the bait. I even got in on the action and pitched another "livey" thinking the more bait in the water the better. Nope!

We passed through hundreds of porpoise, changed our lures and gear out all day we even had Americo do a little Tuna Dance for us. The only thing that made us accept our defeat was that none of the other twenty plus boats were catching Tuna either.

Javier was not going to bring Rum Runnin back empty handed, we headed away from the boats, closer towards the show and up towards the Pacific a little bit to see if we could at least land a Dorado. Sure enough, as soon as got up North just a little a nice 30+ pound Bull Dorado struck!

Now at least we didn't have to head home skunked in October!

Next week I will be heading out with Cesar on Tantrum. Let's hope he doesn't throw me off the boat!!

Early October Report

Kickin' Off the Month with a Bang

The new month has brought no lack of excitement in it first few days. The bite has continued to be outstanding up and around the Golden Gate area. Our boats have been comming back to the slips with 3-5 Stripe Marlin releases daily and more Dorado flags than you can imagine. It has been an exciting start to the month and we are looking foward to it getting even better!

September 30th Fish Report

Marlin Playground

Today was one of those days that Golden Gate is just filled with Stripe Marlin. Bait balls were boiling up all over the place as boats were running and gunning to get them hooked.

It's not hard to believe, Cesar and Tantrum lead the fleet with 4 Catch and Release Marlin as well as a few Dorado. He headed out with Cary and Jaime Parsons, this was their 2nd day fishing and had a blast with Cesar. So much that they decided they were going to fish again with him tomorrow! Just Cesar being Cesar!

Omar and Jesus had an excellent time with the Hooks party. The 3 ladies each got to catch and release a Stripe Marlin. The biggest one, probably the biggest one of the fleet was an estimated near 200 pounds! Luckily they were also able to catch some nice Dorado for a quick lunch at Soloman's Landing. Cheers!

Matt and Julie Crowl had an awesome time with Javier on Rum Runnin. They were able to land 3 Stripe Marlin. One was a single that Julie landed and the next 2 were brought up during a double hook-up! Of course Javier was able to get them into some Dorado. Matt was going to take it back to the hotel to get some "fresh California Rolls" made from his catch! Sounds good!

John Rolfes and his group headed out with Alex on El Nuevo and had a blast. Juan a.k.a "Slim" was able to hook into 3 Marlin which they were able to bring up to the boat for a quick photo session and back into the water for the relase. They will be enjoying fresh Dorado for dinner as they were able to bring in 6 nice Bulls to the boat.

Our good buddy from the Make-A-Wish Foundation Dave Pirie spent his last day on the water with us. He has fished with us for the last 4 days and was all set on catching Billfish. I must admit fishing 4 days can tire anyone down here, that's not including the nightlife!! Today they spent the better part of the morning chasing a school of Popoise around and catching Yellowfin Tuna. They were able to reel in about 6 nice ones, smallest being about 35 pounds and the biggest Dave estimated was about 45-50 pounds. By the looks of the steaks they are going to be enjoying Yellowfin for quite some time! Daves daughter caught her first yellowfin and was somehow convinced that she had to eat the heart of the fish since it was her first one! She did it! I'm sure Marshall (the captain) and her dad Dave had something to do with that. Great seeing you guys again and best of luck to you!

September 26th Fish Report

Friday Fishing Frenzy!

1/2 days seem to be productive today as two of the four charters we sent out today were half-day trips. Rum Runnin had one with my buddy Chris Steidinger from Misiones de Kino. He and his wife headed out and landed a few Dorado and were also able to catch a Stripe Marlin during there 5 hours with Ramon and Americo.

Ken and Adrianna Schaufelberger headed out with Cesar on Tantrum for their half-day. Although they really wanted to catch Tuna, Cesar explained to them that the Tuna are a little out of range for a half-day charter. Running about 15-25 miles out, a half-day charter will not give you enough time. They were still able to catch plent of Dorado to pack in our freezer to take back to Neenah, WI. with them!

Our buddy from TX, Chad Foster fished on Reel Rum today with Jesus and Mickey. They hooked into pleanty of Dorado during their trip and had a blast. They will be enjoying their fish tonight at Misiones de Kino restaurant. Maybe a cocktail or two?

Brandon Hoey and his group finally got to Cabo after having to wait for what seemed like an eternity for these guys. I have not seen a group be more excited to be on vacation and fishing down here. The gang had a killer day on their first run with El Nuevo. Alex put them on 4 Yellowfin Tuna, 6 Dorado and a Stripe Marlin catch and release. Not bad for day 1 of 3! Let's see if they can out do themselves the next couple of days. They let Alex know that the "bar has been set"! He didn't quite know what that meant but smiled and said "yes sir" anyways!

Jason Jacobs headed out with his buddies on Red Beam. The group will be fishing a second day but decided to get 5 out on the Beam to see how much table fish they can get. They loaded up on plenty of Dorado! On Sunday they will be heading out on 2 boats, ReelRum and Tantum. The're going to be looking for Billfish so we will see what happens.

TGIF!!!

Enjoy the weekend everyone!

GO FROGS!!!!

Saludos,

Luis

Cota and Briseno Fishing Trip 2008

Victor Cota and family came along with the Jesse Briseno and his family for one heck of a fishing trip. This is the email I recieved earlier today from Jesse along with some good photos!

Enjoy...

"Wow, what an experience with Redrum and its crew. We (Cota & Briseno) family spent three days fishing and had an amazing time. The first day out Victor was a little sick but still managed to bring in his first dorado. My son (Chris) and I (Jess Jr) managed to land 23 dorado. Yes, 23 dorado in one day. Even Manual and Cesar got into the action, landing the biggest dorado of the day.
The second day Vicotor Sr. was able to land many dorado including a marlin; that truely made his day. Chris also landed many dorado and even landed a 200lb marlin. Awesome, Awesome experience. On the third day we strictly set out to catch some marlin. My Dad (Jess Sr.) landed numerous amount of dorado including a sailfish. In the three days fishing with redrum we probably cought a total of thirty-five dorado, 2 marlin, 1 sailfish. We could not have asked for a better experience. Thanks, to all of the redrum rum crew. You guys were all great."

September 24th Fish Report

Reel Rum headed out for a half-day of fishing with Mr. Denotter and his buddies. Today Americo and Ramon took reins of the boat and they brought some luck with them. In 4 hours the group of 4 was able to bring four 40+ pound Yellowfin Tuna to the boat as well as 6 Dorado! They were back to the Marina by a 1/4 past 11:00 am! Don't you wish every day was like that?? I know it would make our job a little easier!

CCA member of the Lousianna chapter, Mr. Larry Bloomquist and his group fished again with Alex on El Nuevo. Slim was on it today as the group really wanted a couple of Marlin. Slim was able to hook the group into two nice size Stripe Marlin, both brought to the boat and released. Of course, a couple of Dorado were caught along the way during the troll from The Old Lighthouse to Golden Gate where they spotted the Marlin.

Our good buddy Joe T. is fishing with his good buddy Capt. Alex tomorrow on Nuevo, the 2 have been fishing Nuevo ever since Alex came to Redrum nearly 2 years ago. Keep you guys posted..

Saludos,

Luis

September 23rd Fish Report

Kevin and Amanda Kosik had a good day fishing with Cesar. He wasn't able to put them on any Marlin like we expected but that's fishing. The Marlin were phinicky today, only one was caught and it was caught by Slim on El Nuevo. The Kosiks spent the day reeling in Dorado. That's nothing to complain about!

Not only did Slim, the mate on El Nuevo put the Bloomquist party on a nice Stripe Marlin he also hooked them into a YellowFin Footy Tuna and 4 Dorado. They will be heading out one more day with Alex and Slim, hoping for.. of course, more Marlin!

Javier a.k.a El Chivo (Goat) fished with our buddy Keith Spencer from California. Rum Runnin spent the day on the prowl for Marlin but to no avail. They still had a great time catching Dorado, seems to be the norm! But hey, no one's crying!!

I can feel the town starting to prepare itself for the Tourney season starting next month! Pretty exciting!

Saludos!

September 22nd Fish Report

While most of the boats in the fleet stayed back today to get a little TLC from the crew, Rum Runnin was out doing what she does best!

Javier took care of business as usual representing the only Redrum boat out on the water today! He and Mickey did a great job with Kevin Kosik and his wife. At the end of the day the tallied 3 Catch and release Stripe Marlin. The biggest of the day was slightly over 105" and weighed nearly 200 pounds according to Mickey, it was caught by Mrs. Kosik (not that it matters, right Kevin)!!! They were also able to catch a couple (4 ) nice Dorado for the freezer.

The couple heads out tomorrow with Cesar on Tantrum. With the Marlin bite picking up again Im sure Cesar can pull something out of his sleeves. He always does!

'Til Tomorrow.

Luis

September 19th Fish Report- Different Day, Same Results

Ryan, Brooke and I met Steve Boeckman at Misiones de Kino, a great local restaurant back in Febuary. We had just got done with a long day of fishing and had plenty of food to share. We sent a plate of fresh ceviche to his table. He had just gotten engaged and he and his fiance were celebrating with a good meal. After some small talk about the fish we sent over we brought out the tequila and the good times rolled after that. We have been in contact with Steve and tomorrow he gets married!!

Today we sent him and his buddies out to of course have a good time but more importantly to catch enought fish for a 40+ person dinner at Misiones tonight! I am happy to say that they did both! Steves group on his boat caught 11 Dorado while the other boat fishing wtih Javier on Rum Runnin caught plenty of Dorado as well as a nice Tuna and a Squid for some calamari appetizer! We are glad everything worked out and wish you 2 the best of luck!

Victor Cota and his friends headed out on El Nuevo today. Cabo night life may have gotten the best of them last night! They had some pretty interesting stories this morning when they showed up to the Redrum office. They cut their day a little short but were still able to catch plenty of Dorado! Victor and the gang have a couple of more days fishing with us, we'll keep you posted on their success!

Larry Schwarz and his sons fished on Reel Rum today and had a great time. Each of the guys were able to catch at least 5 Dorado. The larger ones were kept and Jesus was able to release the ones that looked like they still needed some time to grow! Great job guys and thanks for the releases.

TGIF!! Have a good weekend everyone!

September 18th Report

Kelly Ehlers and his buddy Jared had an awesome time fishing with Cesar on Tantrum today. The 2 were not too sure if they were going to be able to squeeze in a day of fishing while down on vacation but they are sure glad that they did. Cesar immediately put them on Dorado, they are every where right now! They caught 8 nice size bulls before 11:00am! Than the fun came, Raymond spotted a Marlin and hauled down the ladder for the live bait rod, sure enough, seconds later Jared was hooked up. An awesome 106" 180+ pound Stripe Marlin caught and released. Kelly also fought a Mako shark for 15-20 minutes before she got off the line. Great day guys. See you next year!

Our CCA group, Mr. Harry Johnson and his boys fished for their 2nd day on El Nuevo. Alex took great care of them both days. Yesterday they caught more Dorado than they could imagine. Today their plan was to look for Tuna. Unfortunately they could not find the school of Tuna, as they have seemed to have moved a little out of Cabo reach right now. No worries though, the 10 Dorado and 2 Stipe Marlin they caught kept them pretty busy!!

After checking out these CCA folks fish I'm starting to think they are some pretty good anglers! Pretty lucky too!

Dr. Rick Schneider brought the whole gang down from Kerrville, TX to check up on the Redrum crew as well as get some fishing in with his 2 boys Rich and Corey. The gang headed out on Rum Runnin this morning. After not hearing from them all day because of low signal on our 2 ways I was happy when I saw her cruise back into the Marina with boat full of smiling faces! The gang loaded up on Dorado, much released (gracias) which included a double hook-up of 50+ pound Bulls! Elizabeth, Rich's girlfriend caught the biggest fish of the day. An estimated 120 pound Pacific Sailfish! Of course, it was great seeing all of you guys. As always it was an awesome time with the Schneider family!! Thanks for everything.

Well off to vacuum seal fish!

Saludos,

Luis

September 16th Fish Report

Reel Rum was the only boat to head out of the marina for Redrum today. An early morning storm gave us a little scare about the Marina closing down but it lightened up aroun 5am. It proved to help out the fishing because the Breadon group caught over 20 Dorado today. They only kept 3 per angler and had plenty of meat to add to their catch from yesterday! Great job gang! 2 days of great Dorado fishing with Omar and Reel Rum.

We expect the bite to continue to be as solid as it has been the past couple of days so if you are interested in hooking into some nice Dorado shoot me an email at info@redrumcabo.com

Adios,

Luis

Pic of the Day - "To be alive a plus, To be on the sea a bonus"

Mr. Greg Mutch and his 71" Dorado. Mr. Mutch fished with us last month, several time with Alex and El Nuevo. He fished alone each day and he was glad he did. Mr. Mutch wrote me an email today and this is what it said:

"Good afternoon Luis,

Sorry this is a bit late but here (I hope) is a photo of the 71” Dorado I caught on El Nuevo on 22 August.

Thanks also for putting the harness on board. As a two time cancer survivor my left arm has been ravaged by surgery, chemo and radiotherapy. With a poor grip I would hate to drop a rod overboard!

I did not think the fishing was slow during my charter and you can see why. To be alive is a plus, to be on the sea a bonus, my largest sailfish and Dorado and a marlin after a 10 year wait - delight! Thanks guys.

Keep up the fish reports, they brighten up dreary days in London.
Will I be back – certainly. Will I fish with Redrum - definitely.

Best Wishes

Greg"

We applaud Mr. Mutch for showing us what it is really like to be a true passionate fisherman!

Cheers,

Luis

September 15th Fish Report

After spending most of last week locked up inside our houses due to the tropical storm that cruised over Baja the boys have been fishing with vengence!

The weekend was excellent for catching and releasing Stripe Marlin and Sailfish as well as Dorado.

Today was another one of those days. More Dorado than we can even vacuum seal in our office! Our good Redrum buddy Thomas "Chuck" Corley from Fort Worth, TX sent his dad down to fish with us today on El Nuevo. Chuck has had his own luck on El Nuevo, catching and releasing Stripe Marlin in the past. Mr. Corley came in and loaded up on more Dorado than he imagined! Him and his buddy Jerry Weber from TX caught and released over 10 Dorado and kept 10 nice Bulls for the freezer. Chuck should be expecting a couple of nice dinners with Mr. Corley and his fresh Dorado catch!

Mr. and Mrs. Content had a killer day with Cesar too. Tantrum got them hooked into 7 Dorado as well as 6 Yellowfin Tuna! Great day!!

Mr. Assenza came down withhis group and had a home run day with Javier and Americo on Rum Runnin. They were able to clean up on Dorado as well, each of the 5 of them were able to catch 3 Dorado! They will definately be taking home a full ice chest! To add to that, Americo also hooked them into 2 Stripe Marlin releases.

Mr. Breadon and his crew from Oregon fished their first of two days with us today. They were lucky to fish with Omar and Manuel on Reel Rum. They had 2 Sailfish hooked but unfortunately got off as well, but caught plenty of Dorado to keep them busy all day! They head out again tomorrow with Omar to see if they can repeat the day.

Keep up the great job Team Redrum!

GO COWBOYS!!!

September 6th Report

El Nuevo and Tantrum headed out today as the only 2 boats to fish for Redrum. They both had very good days fishing the close to shore up near Golden Gate.

Lois Friedman brought her family and friends down from the Washington area to fish with Alex on El Nuevo. They had a great (although hot!) time catching 4 Dorado as well as a monster Sailfish, the fish was a tad over 105" long!

Kirk Stradley, Rich Gough, and Samy Gough fished with Raymond and Tantrum today. Cesar is still being lazy - taking his one week vacation! He calls me everyday to see how well his boat did and is excited about comming back next week! Anyways, the boat continued her ways catching 4 Dorado, 2 Yellowfin Tuna, and a Sailfish! Great job guys and "pat-on-the-back" to the crew.

Off to watch some college football!

GO FROGS!!!

NFL kickoff tomorrow as well!

This may get me fired but... GO COWBOYS!!!

For the other 99.9% of the Redrum Team...GO PATS!!

September 5th Report- CCA meets El Nuevo!

Alex and Ramon were happy to fish with Whitney Thomas and her family. The group from the Coastal Conservation Association of Texas won a couple of days fishing with Alex and El Nuevo and started off on a great note today.

On their first day of fishing the group was able to land 3 nice Dorado and a Stripe Marlin that measured 107" weighing an estimated 180-190 pounds. Great way to start off your trip.

The Thomas' will head out again on Sunday to see if they can out-do day 1. Alex was up for the challenge!

Thank you to all the members of CCA for thier role in Coastal Conservation.

TGIF! Enjoy the weekend folks!

September 3rd Report - Dorado Everywhere

Operation: Rooster, Sail, and Dorado!

Ron Kilgarlin and his wife Shawn had a great day on Utopia today. I spoke with Mr. Kilgarlin yesterday afternoon regarding his charter. He told me his gameplan was to catch head out early to try to catch some Roosterfish inshore around the Arch. After that he wanted to head out looking for a Sailfish for his wife, she wanted one bad! Their last goal was to land some Dorado for dinner for the next couple of days. Outcome: Rene and Raymond went to work. I told them of Mr. Kilgarlin's gameplan they talked about it for a minute and agreed to it. So, before sunrise they were already out past the Arch getting the gear ready for the Rooster. Sure enough, within minutes they were already hooked into a few of them. Mission Accomplished. Than they headed out towards Golden Gate where they were going to try their hand at the illusive Sailfish for Shawn. As luck would have it for the Kilgarlin, they landed a 100", 125-130 pound Pacific Sailfish! The boys got it measured and they were able to release! Great job. Naturally a boat full of Dorado followed as they are everywhere right now!! Congrats on the excellent day gang!

Next we had Omar and Reel Rum. Mr. Gibbs brought along his 2 buddies for thier first fishing experience in Cabo! They could not have had a better day. As soon as Jesus threw the lures out early in the morning they hooked into a Sailfish double! The Sails put up a good fight and took great concentration from Omar. It is very difficult to get both fish to the boat during a double hook-up. They tend to run in different directions making it hard for the Captain to turn the boat either way. On her way towards Golden Gate she was able to pick up about 7 Dorado for the group. Once they got to Golden they were able to spot a basking Stripe Marlin, pitch bait to it, catch it and release it. Great Day Gentlemen!

Rum Runnin also had a great day catching plenty of Dorado with the Kaser group. Mr. Oscar Blomgren from Chicago headed out with Marshall on Tantrum today and had a great day picking up a few Dorado to throw into the freezer at the Redrum office. One was of pretty good size, about a 50" Bull. As if we don't already have enough in here! Dustin Hanson fished on El Nuevo with Ramon and Slim, he bagged a 55" Dorado that is soon going to be sitting on his mantle at his home in Texas! He is also heading out again tomorrow to see if he can catch and release a Stripe Marlin with Alex and Slim. Hopefully he can get it done in 5 hour trip!!

I'll keep you guys posted.

Hasta Manana.

September 2nd Report

This morning El Nuevo and Tantrum headed out to pick up from where they left off yesterday. Both of the boats did extremely well today just as they did yesterday.

Aaron Martens, Brent Chapman and Steve Van Nievwenhuyse headed out on El Nuevo with Alex and Slim. The guys are professional Bass fisherman and wanted to test their hand offshore for a change. They did very well catching and releasing a Stripe Marlin as well as 12 Dorado.

Raymond headed out on Tantrum once again. This time with Tammy Davis and her husband. They also did very well catching and releasing a big Sailfish and a Stripe Marlin. They tore it up on the Dorado as well, were able to catch 12 Dorado as well.

The Dorado bite is going off right past The Arch all the way up to Golden Gate. If you are interested in hooking in the Mahi give me a call and come our way!!!

Tight Lines.

September 1st Report

September is here and we started off the month with a bang!

Alex took Mr. Jeff Kilpatrick and his wife out for their 2nd day of fishing today. Mr. Kilpatrick opted to fish the Sea of Cortez side today as it was something he has never done before in his years of fishing Cabo. The bite was a little slow, a Blue Marlin struck the line, and a Sailfish hit happend early as well. They were able to catch and release a fairly large Sailfish before everything was said and done.

Javier had a great first day back from his one week vacation. He and Americo headed out on Rum Runnin and tore it up. Aaron Barthel and his friends from South Carolina did a great job catching heaps of Tuna and Dorado. They will have plenty for dinner tonight and than some!! Great job guy.

Ron Kilgarlin and his wife, Shawn did just as well on Utopia with Rene and Raymond. They were in and out of yellowfin and Dorado all day and had a very good time on the beautiful boat. They are going to try their hand again with Rene to see if they can land a nice billfish for Mrs. Kilgarlin! I will let you guys know how that goes on Wednesday!

Kyle Park and Lindsay Campbell headed out on Tantrum today with Omar and Jesus. Omar and Jesus hoped on Tantrum since Cesar took his day off today and Raymond was fishing on Utopia. The boat followed suit like the other boats today and caught 8 Dorado. Kyle was also able to catch and release a Sailfish. Good job guys.

3 boats heading out tomorrow. I will keep everyone posted!

Remember, comments are welcome!!

August 31st Fish Report

Well, what to say other than "another great day to fish Cabo"!

Alex did a great job today catching 6 Dorado and a Catch and Release Marlin. El Nuevo fished very hard with Mr. Kilpatrick and she was happy to bring that many fish to the boat!!

Rum Runnin had a great day with Texas Native Allison Hoejak. They tore it up catching 8 Dorado and releasing a nice Stripe Marlin!! Great job guys

Dean Brown and his group had another great day fishing on our 2 28' boats. Cesar and Omar did a great job putting the guys on fish as they caught a combine 12 Dorado and 4 Stripe Marlin!! Great job dudes!!

Cheers!

Luis

Fish Report August 30th

Slight overcast leads to great day of fishing for the Redrum Fleet!!

With dark clouds spread across the skies of Cabo we had some pretty weary clients in the morning during check in. This didn't stop our boys from fishing hard and getting into a mess of fish!

Alex and Juan had another great day with the Rutherford group today. The group landed a Sailfish early in the morning, sat through a light storm for a couple of hours, and managed to come back and land 3 Stripe Marlin and a 40+ pound Dorado. They were able to release all of the Marlin and kept the Dorado for dinner! You guys were quite the treat and are welcome back anytime!!! Hopefully sooner than later!

Dean Brown and his group headed out today on Red Beam and Rum Runnin and managed to catch heaps of Dorado again!

Cesar had a killer day with Larry Friesenhaun from Jourdanton, TX today on Tantrtum. Larry fished solo today and managed to catch a 96" Stripe Marlin, a 105" Sailfish and a 45 pound Dorado. He was very content with his day and as an owner of a 54' Viking himself, was very impressed with the way Cesar and Ramon fished. Great job Larry.

Jaqueline and Marc Dondero caught and released a Stripe Marlin. Omar and Jesus were also able to hook a Dorado for dinner.

Great job to everyone who fished with Redrum today!!

GO FROGS!!

Big Dorado Day!

Well, the fishing has stayed very consistent since the storm rolled through this past weekend and today was no fluke. The boys found fish between the Lighthouse and Los Arcos, a few miles off shore.

We'll start off with Dean Brown's group. Dean and his buddies are good friends of the RedRum family that come to fish with us each year. For one reason or another, Dean had to back out of the trip this year, but his buddies picked up the slack. They fished with TantRum and ReelRum today an brought in a combined 7 Dorado, and 1 Marlin.

Next was the Rutherford group from Houston. They are staying at the Portofino condos and fishing aboard El Nuevo. After a few follies actually getting to and settling in the condos last night, they had a great day today. Mrs. Sandra Rutherford has dreamed of bringing in a Marlin for a while now and all it took was a quick trip to Cabo. The rest of her party caught Dorado, one each for a total of 4.

Shane Smith brought a small group down as well, and today was the first of two days fishing for these guys. The first boat, Red Beam, caught 3 Dorado and a Sailfish. The second boat Rum Runnin' caught 4 Dorado. Great job guys, enjoy those filets.

Finally, our good friend Traun over at Cabo Ticket, took out a few of his friends from Tasmania. Luis got a day off from the office as well as he joined their party. They fished hard and caught 5 Dorado, one that was over 60 inches. Good stuff fellas.

Tuna, Dorado, and Sails!

What a great day to fish Cabo! The Port reopened today after being closed for 2 days after a small storm rolled into Cabo Saturday night. It proved to help out the fishing as it was an awesome day for Yellowfin Tuna, Dorado, and Sailfish.

El Nuevo led the day with 16 Yellowfin Tuna caught, 6 were released and Kenneth Yates and his family ended their day with 10 40+ pound Yellowfin Tuna. Not forgetting the 4 Dorado they caught as well. The group still has 3 more days with us on the water and will be targeting Billfish the rest of the time as thier ice chests were filled with one day out with Ramon and Slim! Great job guys!

Tantrum also had a great day catching 7 Yellowfin Tuna and 3 Dorado. Travis Tuberg was battling thelack of sleep that Cabo will impose on you this morning but mustard up the strength to get those fish to the boat and in the freezer! Great job buddy!

I was lucky to head out fishing myself today along with John and Ryan Donovan. We figured we should at least be able to get some fishing in ourselves! Omar took us out on Reel Rum along with Rene. We were only able to fish a couple of hours but during the time we were out we landed a huge school of Sailfish and had a quadruple hook up! I have never really seen anything like it and it was awesome to be a part of it!

Let's hope the fishing stays this good for all those Redrum anglers making their way down here in September!!

Saludos,

Luis

End of the month Report

Hey RedRummer's!! Sorry for the delay with the reports. Things got kind of slow on us after the first week of August but boy are they realy picking up now.

This past week was a great week for fishing if you like Dorado! Each Redrum boat that heads out seems to be bringing back at least 4 nice Dorado a trip. On top of that we are continuing to see Stripe Marlin and Sailfish all over.

We battled through a full moon that didn't seem to phase us too much. The Billfish bite slowed up a little bit but the Yellowfin Tuna and Dorado bite replaced any down time on the boat! Yesterday there was a monster 71" Bull Dorado caught on El Nuevo. Slim says that he thinks it might be the biggest one he has ever caught. Alex thinks it's the biggest El Nuevo has ever brought in!!

There has been some major cloud coverage the past few days and we sat through quite a storm early yesterday afternoon. The cloud coverage has kept the fish hungry and we hope they continue to stay hungry for us.

We are excited about what the final quarter of the year is going to bring us. September through December is generally our "peak season" and if it has played out like the first 75% of the year we are going to be in excellent shape. We are expecting monster Bull Dorados, lots of Yellowfin Tuna and the big Billfish to finish off the year.

If you aren't set up yet you better look into Comming down and help us meet our expectations!!

Check for the end of the day report a little later in the afternoon. Tantrum and ReelRum are out right now trying to track down the big ones!

Saludos,

Luis
Team Redrum

August 6th Fish Report

Jesus took out Reel Rum today with Ramon as it was Omars day off. Mr. Tim Gesnez and his family had a great day!! As recent locals they enjoyed a great day of fishing with Redrum.

The group was able to catch and release a nice Stripe Marlin but the Catch of the Day was a nice Bull Dorado! The DohDoh measured 61" and weighed 67 pounds! Great catch!!

Tomorrow we hae Rum Runnin, Reel Rum and Tantrum heading out. Hopefully they will do as well as Jesus today!!

Tight Lines,

Luis
Team redrum

August 5th Fish Report

Yesterday Alex walked away the Captain of the Day. Today the award goes to Javier on Rum Runnin. El Nuevo and Reel Rum also headed out today but could not get into the same groove as Rum Runnin.

Terry Peckham and his children (3) headed out with Javier and Ramon today. They started their day off hooking into, and releasing a Stripe Marlin. Terry told me when he got back "that fish put on a great show for us, jumping out of the water over 15 time, it must have been a young one"!! Later during the trip Ramon hooked into another Stripe Marlin for a catch and release. The catch of the day happend as the last figh was hooked. "We knew it was something big when we didn't see it come up for a while", Terry said. Javier later told me in my office "the fish never really jumped but we knew it was hooked good". Finally, after an hour and a half of fighting the fish the Blue Marlin was spotted near the boat. A few minutes later Ramon had a hold of it. The fish measured 114" and weighed 275 pounds! Mr. Peckham's got some pretty impressive kids, all excellent anglers! Great job guys!

Tight Lines,

Luis
Team Redrum

August 4th Fish Report

El Nuevo Redrum had luck on her side today as many boats around the marina came back empty handed. Alex ran 30 miles to get to his "honey hole" where he was able to catch and release 2 Stripe Marlin. One of the Marlin put in a good fight lasting almost an hour. They also caught 2 Dorado. One of the Dorado, over 60 pounds got off right before Slim could gaff it. It had been false hooked near the eye and never hooked correctly.

Red Beam had a Sailfish strike but couldn't keep the fish on. Javier and Rum Runnin had 3 Sailfish get off as well. The boat was also able to raise 2 Stripe Marlin but Americo couldn't get them take the bait.

Utopia, El Nuevo, Rum Runnin and Reel Rum are on deck to head out tomorrow with hopefully a little more luck than today. They may have to buy Alex dinner to find out where he fished today!

A very Happy Birthday to Redrum angler from South Texas, Tommy Vela. We'll make sure to have a tequila for you at RIPs tonight!!

August 3rd Fish Report

A rain and lightning storm rolled into Cabo late yesterday afternoon that lasted into the late evening. I had doubts that the boats would even be able to head out this morning. It's a good thing they did because the fish were biting!

Coastal Conservation Association (CCA) member Thomas Lacy from Fort Worth, TX brought some of his buddies down to fish with Redrum for a couple of days. Their first day was with Slim and Alex on El Nuevo. They landed a nice Stripe Marlin to start the day and raised a couple of Sailfish later in the afternoon.

Javier came back from a shutout day yesterday to catching and releasing 2 Pacific Sails and catching a nice Dorado for dinner. Mr. Saxton and his group had an excellent time on Rum Runnin.

Ramon took out Tantrum today with Terry Peckham and his buddy. They had a good time catching and releasing a Stripe Marlin.

It seems like the storm is far gone now as it's all clear and sunny skies again in Cabo. It's been a real pleasure having the Sailfish around as long as they have been. We have seen some with good size too and more than we have in years. That's a good sign of our anglers practicing their catch and release. We applaud you guys for that!

Comments are now welcome on the Fish Report so feel free to send a short write up about your experience, ask a question, or just drop a quick hello!

Cheers,

Luis!

August 2nd Fish Report

Juan aka Slim and Ramon led the Redrum fleet today on Redrum. As Alex took his day off, Ramon took over at the wheel. Slim was able to hook the Stringer party into 3 Sailfish as well as a Stripe Marlin all for the release. The group also caught a nice Dorado!

Rum Runnin couldn't get any luck on her side today. 2 Sailfish were spotted and approached but they couldn't get anything to bite. The Medina party from McAllen will have another go at it tomorrow on Red Beam.

Reel Rum trolled all day without much luck. They caught a Dorado early in the morning but that was all of the action they saw until Cesar, on his way down to get ready to head in spotted a Marlin. After casting 3 casts at it to no strike, he reeled in the rig and changed his bait out to a larger one. SURE ENOUGH!!! 30 minutes later, Mr. Conlin had his Stripe Marlin to the boat! 108" and 172 pounds of solid fish!!

Great job to all Redrum anglers!!

Let's hope it doesn't rain as some clouds seem to be moving in!!

Saludos,

Luis
Team Redrum