Fishermen’s Fleet La Paz B.C.S. fishing report Saturday June 12th 2010

This is not only a fishing report, no, it is also a report on the 2010 La Paz Classico charity fishing tournament. This years’ tournament was another success with just short of $10K being raised for the old folks. 15 boats participated in the affair, with about 50 people attending our awards dinner and auction. Below is George Hall paying careful attention to daughter Glynnis counting out some raffle tickets during registration. You can tell that George is serious because he has put his stogie on the table. Past winner Lou Cunningham is making sure that all goes well in his bid to repeat.

George was most generous in bringing a bunch of his friends and business associates. Some of them are pictured below. The fellow all the way to the right, Siegfred Althous, took top honors for having come the farthest for our tournament, all the way from Hamburg.

Another guy who really helped to support the tourney was David Doyle. A long time customer and friend David rounded up the extended family Doyle, including Ma, and came down to assist the old folks. Patty, Marylynn, and the gang had a great time cruisin’ La Paz.

As for the fishing, those cool nights are being supplied by cooler than normal water temps down here. Our fishing is much more like second week of May than that of June. The dorado were just starting to come in, with not a lot of fish, but some pretty good quality ones, as witnessed by this picture of David Bojevsky who took second place overall with this beautiful 44 pounder.

Of course David wasn’t all work and no play, he did take some time out to just float around.

First place overall was taken by Lee and Colin Daigle, fishing with Capt. Gildardo, catching a 45 pound cubera snapper. With both of his daily jackpots and the overall prize Gildardo was a happy man. Lee and Colin won an Accurate rod and reel, and observing the selfless tradition started by Lou, they donated the prize back to the auction in order to raise even more money for los viejos.

Speaking of the auction, we had a new auctioneer this year. Our old one, what was his name?, was off fulfilling family obligations and so we pressed one Thom Halligan into service.

Thom is the “gentleman” in the picture above and the lovely lady is his keeper Janet. Janet was very kind in donating a necklace and earrings that she made herself for the auction. The piece was titled “Dorado” and was beautiful.

A good time was had by all, as they say, except perhaps Lou who seemed a little grumpy for not achieving his goal of being our first repeat winner. I’m sure that this will just whet his competitive edge for next year. It was a good time, a good cause, and a good group. I’ll close this with a picture of a brace of very nice pargo and an action shot from the beach.

Thanks to all of you who helped so much: Lynn, John, Jorge, Glynnis, Mark, Kelly, Jane, the staff at the Perla, Miriam, Bernabe, Jay, Andy, Dave, George, everybody.

David

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