BSG American Angler November 10 Day - Making It Happen Captain!!!

Evening Folks

The November Bob's Sporting Goods 10 Day on the American Angler is coming up very soon and I am starting to Get Geeked Up for the trip. Variety is what Sammy always says about a 10 Day, It is all about Variety. I really enjoy being in Baja in the Fall and really look forward to the adventure.

Jig Stick...Check.....Salas Jigs...Check....50 lb? Check.....60 lb...Check....130 lb...Check. Getting ready for the trip is part of the fun. The World Wide Web adds to the Geek Factor with the On the Water Reports from the boats on the grounds. Check out the images from the American Angler Website on the Sports Chalet trip.

Just enough good weather for some nice action

Getting a little break from the weather this morning, we were fortunate enough get a taster on the elusive wahoo. Jig strikes and a frenzy of exciting hook-ups, bites and bite-offs can best describe the morning's action. The wahoo bite was not long lived, so by mid-day we found ourselves wandering north and capping off the afternoon yanking and cranking on some nice grade yellowtail. With the weather still in our favor, we are continuing north looking for a strong finish in the final days of the trip.

Today's photo shows team 2 after one of our morning stops, with Bill Randall proudly displaying his pending IGFA line class record wahoo that unfortunately was terminally wounded in the heat of battle.

Wed. Oct 28, 2009

Today we woke up to our new scenery and were able to sit on the anchor all day. With beautiful fishing conditions, things felt right but after a few hours of the morning, it was apparent that today was one of those days where rail time was a must. Scratching all day on four different kinds of species - from tuna up to 95lbs to those pesky wahoo made it all the more fun not knowing what your bite might be.

With the weather not in our favor, we are going to pick it up and change area codes once again.
In today's photos, Richard Tanaka shows off one of his better tuna for the day and Mr.Bob snyder shows off his first skin of the trip.

SWEET.. See you guys after Turkey Day

Wes Davis - Billfish Royal Slam Club

From: Mark Davis

Sent: October 2009

Subject: FW: Wes Davis Billfish Royal Slam

A proud moment. MD

Hey Gang

Shop Regulars Mark and Wes Davis with some fantastic news - It is Official

It is a proud moment for all - Nice





A Huge Accomplishment for Wes - Congrats!!!!

Quilon - Tourist Spot

In Kerala, Quilon is nearly 60 kms. from Trivandrum and situated in the banks of Ashtamudi lake. The town has several old temples, churches, mosques and the surrounding areas have great scenic charm. A variety of flowers, shrubs and trees grow on its banks and are reflected in the deep blue waters. There is a boat club in the Ashtamudi lake. Prominent on its shores are the Thevally Palace and the Government House. Luxuriant groves of coconut palms greet one every where as the boat moves through lakes, lagoons and canals.

The Thirumullavaram beach near Quilon is a beauty spot and an ideal place for sea-bath and it is best place for morning walks. This is a very beautiful picnic spot and it is very well connected with bus facilities.

Mannadi Velu Thampi Memorial - Tourist Spot

Mannadi: This village is at Kerala. In Kerala's freedom struggle, this is a village of utomost importance, for Velu Thampi, the Dewan of erstwhile Travancore (1801-1809) attained martyrdom here is his fight against the British to free Travancore from British suzerainty.

At the place of his martyrdom, there is a memorial called Velu Thamp Memorial Kalari. A sword is kept within it to remind the people of his great self-sacrifice. To the people of Mannadi, February 10 is a day of great importance - the day of martyrdom of that gallant hero of Kerala. This is one of the important tourist spot in Kerala.

Rancho Las Cruces BCS Part II

Greg Stoney - Cerralvo Phatty

From: Greg Stoney

Sent: Tuesday, October 2009

To: bob hara

Cc: matt sautter; Robert N. Hara; Todd Garrett; Phil Lindholm

Subject: Re: Rancho Las Cruces BCS

It was a great trip Bob! thanks for the pics.

Here's a couple of pics of the fatty that Christy and I got on Sat., gaffing that one solo was kinda fun...

Stoney AKA Culo Cagado

Classic Stoney Stern Shot

No - Thank you Stoney for a Ripper Trip down to Las Cruces. Deluxe!!!!!

Ezhimala Tourist attraction in Kerala

Ezhimala or Mount Eli: Ezhimala is about 25 kms. north of Cannanore town is a strange landscape in Kerala. It is as high mountainous area just on the brink of the sea. It was popular landmark of ancient foreign sailors. Plans are afoot to develop this unique place into a major a tourist center.

During Sang period Ezhimala was H.Q. of Ezhimala Radi. In old literatures, Ezhimala is referred as Ezhil Malai i.e. beautiful hill. Later the name changed as Ezhimala. Ezhimala’s beautiful beach is the major tourist attraction. The ancient mosque, stone pillars and the rare medicinal herbs are seen near the Hills. You can see the beautiful scene of jumping Dolphins in the Ezhimala beaches is another tourist attraction.

Gol Gumbuz in Bijapur, Tourist attraction

In Karnataka, Bijapur is well know for Chalukyan temples. It was also the capital city of Adil Shahis. Gol Gumbuz is a fine example of Islamic architecture. It dominates the entire Bijapur and is one of the largest structure of its kind in the World. It covers roughly 1,672.2 meters. It is a huge cube, with a vast hemispherical doom.

There are octagonal towers of all the four corners. It is roughly 60 meters in height and 43 meters in diameter. There is a whispering gallery, which echoes a whisper twelve times over. This is fine example of engineering, architecture and acoustic. This is one of tourist attraction places in Karnataka.

Coorg - Karnataka Tourism

Coorg: The other name for Coorg is Kodagu. It is called as "Scotland of India" because of its beauty, calmness, mountains, lakes, coffee plantations along with orange, black pepper and smiling rice fields. The atmosphere is superb during April and it gives you a feeling that you are in a fairly land. It has a attractive fort, now converted and houses a temple, a chapel, the prison and museum etc. A ridge known Raja's Seat, here Kodagu royal's used to come in the evenings to watch the beauty of Sunsets. The town has a Gold course. Around medikeri there are waterfalls an ideal picnic spot-Abbey Falls and Irupa Falls. Nagarhole National Park is very near from here. If you find time during April, have a visit to Coorg and enjoy the heavenly atmosphere.

Bangalore Tourism

Bangalore is the capital of Karnataka and it has a superb pleasant climate all over the year. Bangalore is truly cosmopolitan city. Though Kannada is the official language, yet one feels perfectly comfortable speaking English, Hindi or any south Indian languages. Vidhan Soudha, Cubbon Park, Lal Bagh, Fort of Tippu Sultan, ri Guru Gangadhareshwara temple are some of important places in Bangalore for Tourists.

Vidhan Soudha: Built entirely from Bangalore granite a tribute to temple architecture, houses. Legislative Chambers of the State Government and offices of the administration are functioning here.

Cubbon Park: Situated in the heart of Bangalore, this park is around 300 acres of land. In 1864, the former Commissioner of Mysore Mr.Cubbon laid the foundation stone for this beautiful park.

Bal Bhavan: Walking distance from Cubbon Park,this is a paradise for children. It guarantees a lot of fun, joy in all sort of varieties and shapes and ocean of discovery.

Gulbarga in Karnataka Tourism

In Gulbarga splendid structures of Indo-Saracenic style are abundant. Here the Islamic architecture took its root in the 14th century and began spreading in South India. Jama Masjid of Gulbarga is modeled on the cathedral at Cardoba in Spain. Its roof encompasses as area of 40 x 50 metres covering the entire courtyard.

Kalyani: It is the 10th century capital of Chalukyas and ancient capital of Jain Kings. It is said that at its peak it surpassed in beauty and splendor of all other cities in the World.

Rancho Las Cruces BCS - 8 in 3 Days

The Haras - Wahoooooooooo

Hola Amigos

I wanted to share some images from my recent trip down to Rancho Las Cruces Baja Ca Sur. A really cool spot to fish the exotics and an awesome spot to get away from the Rat Race of our Day to Day. This place is full speed 100% Deluxe when it comes to Location, Amenities, and First Class Service.

I was pretty fired up to fish days before the trip with Visions of Wahoo on the Brain 24/7. This was the first time I had gone to Las Cruces in October and was curious to see if we could hook a Wahoo or two. Jessica and I rolled down to Las Cruces with my long time fishing bud Greg Stoney and his wife Christy We were greeted to the Ranch with a squall of rain from a passing hurricane. The rain passed and we off to the races trolling our usual spots.

Tijereta

Grey Light to the Island

Jessica Hara and Greg Stoney - Dorado

Now wer talkin................

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Island View

Jessica's New "Atomic Dog" Friend

Sun Downer on the Embarcadero

Las Cruces

Day 2 Wahoo

Lookie Here.........

Afternoon Trolling Scenes

The Dorado were thick on the high spots making it tough to target Mr. Wahoo. The line would start to rip off the troller, then it would start to bounce and we would turn our heads to see the flat bouncing in the air like a rag doll . D'oh Nothing wrong with Dodos...We were just after the Hoos....Time of Day

Funny how I would always "hear things" on the long trolls like a screaming clicker or a ZIP Blast of line off the spool of the reel. The vibrating Coke can rolling around the deck of the panga was always good to make you turn and look at the trolling gimmicks.....

Gotcha.....

MINE!

Boom Boom POW

Tools of the Trade

Las Cruces Beach Scene - Ocean Front Walk

Chillin in the Afternoon

Happy Hour on the Patio

The recent rains made the landscape nice and green

Day 3 - Quality

The day started out slow, but we kept at it and we found the ones that wanted to bite. Time of Day is what we learned. Keep pounding the high spots and one of them is bound to make a mistake.

Doubles

Double Up - Boom Boom POW

We had a nice double late in the day. It went pretty smooth with four trollers out and two hanging, but we were talking about How Wrong it could have went.......

Wahoo Abuse
ABUNAI! (Dangerous)

We ended up with over 20 Dorado, 1 Yellow Fin Tuna, and 8 Nice Wahoo for 3 days on the Troll. Stoney has the wahoo fishing gig pretty wired. 35 Years of Experience fishing the Island really shows. Stoney stayed a few extra days so stayed tuned for another report. Same Bat Time, Same Bat Channel.........

Thanks again G for a Great Trip - - Boom Boom Pow!