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I absolutely love the pic of the awesome sunrise! As long as god allows me to witness a few more of those and allows me to maintain the memory of that special day… it’s all good! —Carl Riley – Angler
Today began a lot better than last night ended! At days closing we are in 2nd place of the tournament. We got one of the two qualifying fish landed today by team Ocho, reeled in by angler John Sellers.
Pisces Sportfishing sponsors both of our boats Great Escape; A 2005 48‘ Cabo and Great Escape Jr; A 2007 35‘ Cabo flybridge.
We exclusively use 100% Shimano reels, and Calstar custom rods. Both today and yesterdays fish were taken on jigs. Both were taken on 80WA Shimano Tiagara’s and 755XXH Calstar customs bent rods on our teak unlimited bluewater fighting chair with rocket launchers.
We brought in a 430lbs. Blue Marlin aboard our Great Escape:
Yesterday, team Ocho aboard our Great Escape nearly made the largest catch for this years Bisbee’s tournament! By nearly, we mean that team Ocho got a heartbreaking disqualification after a five in half hour fight by team angler Carl Riley of Galveston Texas. We were unable to get back into the scales before the nine o’clock deadline after running over 30 knots from the Gordo Bank with a full tank, full crew and our 800 pound Blue Marlin in the black of night.
Wayne Bisbee called the disqualification at 9pm, despite the fish being landed, locked down and loaded and heading back to the marina at 8:11pm, that’s our heart-breaker.
Seeing as today ends day two, and no one is nearly close to our 800lb. number, we would have had it.. Read the excerpt from bisbees.com or check out Cyber Angler’s drama.
It was a day for the record books and a night to remember. Following the most marlin ever weighed during a single day in its 30-year history, the real drama of Day One of the 2010 Bisbee’s Black & Blue came shortly after the scales closed at 9 p.m. local time. That’s when Carl Riley and his team aboard Great Escape, a 40-foot Cabo, weighed the largest fish of the day, an 800-pound blue marlin. The fish was finally landed 5 1/2 hours after it became tail-wrapped and died. Because Great Escape did not make it to the weigh station in time, the fish does not count in the standings.
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We had a customer call in Saturday and ended up fishing the next day, check out his catch! Continue reading
