This one is for you Bob and Corey!

The day started off great with nice sunny weather and pretty calm seas for the Pacific. Swells really didn't peak over 9 feet. Most of them averaged around 4'. We're getting ready to fish out of the Flyhooker. The owners used to live in Seattle. Great operation and had a wonderful time. If you need a recommendation, this is it. www.flyhooker.com



After a short 15 mile run, we found the tuna. Hmmmm, smoked vac-packed tuna. Yummy! No big ones, but most were of the football variety. Yellow tails and bonitos were common. No dorados, which was a real bummer. That was the one fish I really wanted a live photo of. Oh well.



Filling the cooler up with tuna, we went in search for Mr. Stripped Marlin. We went 2 for 3. Didn't take long for the 1st marlin to be caught. Was in the 160ish pound range. I let my buddy, who's never really fished before, land the first fish. This fish swallowed a surface tossed live bait and was hooked in the gills. This fish eventually died on us and was kept by the crew. Major bummer.





With 10 minutes of fishing time left, LastChance Parker hooked in to another nice 160ish pound marlin! Yee Haw!

This fish went out and down, pulled out about 400 yards of line and I played tug-of-war for about 30 minutes. Had blisters on all my fingers when we finally got it to the boat. My fish was tagged and released, as it was hooked in the corner of the mouth and in great shape. No blood was seen coming from the gills (kiss of death for a marlin).

My buddy isn't that good on the camera, but this is what he managed to take.



Time to let this big fella go!



With a tag in it's back, away this fish went.



Finally, we gave our left over bait to the pelicans and birds in route to the Marina. In all, a great day on Big Blue. Have fun Bob/Corey, and I can't wait to see your photos!

Nice pics Parker, thanks for sharing..

Very cool Parker!

Ill be back in Cabo in march. Cant wait!!!!

I'll be there for a week in April....

Nice Pic's Parker, what an awsome time you must have had.

Yeah, we had a good time in Cabo. This was a gift from my old boss 4 years ago. We just now took her up on her offer to use her time share for the week.

A couple more photos that I liked.

This Mexican Sea Chicken followed us in to the marina. It just wanted our left over live mackerals.



Katie and Dad on the beach.



Don't know why anyone would care, but if you want to see the entire Cabo 2003 gallery, feel free.

http://steelhead.fish.washington.edu/~parker/gallery/cabo2003

I'm curious here... How do you get your little girl to take that pacifier...

My little boy is 6 months old and won't touch one, he just spits it out... Its the B B or nothing...


Oh, wait!! nevermind I just answered my own question...

cool pictures looks like i need to start saving some $$. did you get that marlin on a vision hook?

i'm getting married july 3rd and the little lady and i have decided to go to mexico for our honeymoon...i have been leaning towards cabo san lucas...we want to fish at least one day(i'm lobbying for 2), i was just wondering where would be my best bet for that time of year???

Great pictures Parker. I love Cabo always have a great time and meet great people down there. I know that beach in front of Pueblo Bonito well, we always stay at the Blanco. Breakfast at the office every morning. I have a timeshare down there at the Plaza Las Glorias I need to find the time to use or at least rent it to a fisherman.

Nice fishes and it looks like that strange bright orb thing in the sky was in full view as well. What a concept. Fishing in the sun...

Anyways, I was curious if your captain used circle hooks for the billfish. I know they're becoming a lot more commonplace on a lot of the billfishing grounds. I think Costa Rica just make them required in many areas.

Just wondering if places like Cabo are switching to them yet...

That does it. We're back down there in May!

Thanks for the pics Parker Looks much warmer than most the adventures we've had together!

Wish I could say our warm trip was to a little better fishing area ... but we'll get some in and some golf, gambling, snorkeling, windsurfing, etc ... so we'll keep plenty busy!

ARUBA BOUND ... 33 DAYS & COUNTING

The wife and I ... headed to La Paz in March.. staying in the Las Arcos again.. fishing with Capt Victor for some bad ass Tuna... our BBQ can't wait !!! The diff between La Paz and Cabo ??? about half the cash when you go out for dinner

Windsurfing eh Bob?

Have you ever done that before? Its loads of fun.

Here's a little hint:

To get really good at it you've got to tie a fish carcass on a string and tow it around... its amazing how fast you can go once that dorsil fin pops up behind you...

me and a couple of buddies are heading down to cabo in may after we get done with school. was just wondering what outfit you went out with and what type of price.

Ok, here the answers to your questions:

Piper - she was weined by 6 months, but we had introduced a bottle to her by month 3. (soon to be) Dr. Parker works, so she had to boot the kid of the boob.

Caught Steelin - No, not a Vision Hook. Vision really only targets the salmon/steelhead/bass markets.

B. Gray - No, not a circle hook. "J" hook.

Sturgio - see my original post above. www.flyhooker.com $450 for the boat. Put as many, or as few people in it as you'd like. 2 is nice, 4 would be ok, 6 would be pushing it. It was a good American run operation, and I'd highly recommend them. They strongly practice tag & release on their billfish, and the Mexican crew for the boat was fantastic.

Any more questions?

No Piper ... New to us. The place we're stying for half our stay also is a boardsailing center ... and they have a three-day intro course that we're gonna do. I'll suck, but who cares!

Sturgio,
You should hook up with Firedogs offer for the time share, the Plaza Las Glorias is a very cool place to stay, cannot help much about price as the wife surprised me a few Christmas's ago and once for a Fathers day present it overlooks a small fishing fleet of "pachangas" landing big blues in a 30' Betram is a blast,but for a measly c-note+6pk, spotting and casting live bait to big blues in a 14 footer w/a 40hp w/o fighting chairs is a RUSH!!!!

31 days and counting 'til Christmas Island!! (keep your fingers crossed for me...everything is coming together at the last minute for me!)

Ryan you going to Christmas Island????

Yep!...it its a job requirment I leave for Hawaii the morning of January 11th...spend the day and night in Hawaii and leave for the Island 6 am Monday morning.

I fish Monday, Tuesday, Wednsday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and return to Hawaii Monday and leave for Home 730 pm Monday.

It is a tough job, but as they say, someone has gotta do it! I still have spots if you want to go!