Jen Wren boats team to win East Cape KIR tourney

7AM: Shot gun start and all the boats made their way to the squid hole to make bait. Skippering the Jen Wren Cabo I stayed there longer than most of the boats to load up on bait. Off we headed to the outside of Pescadero. We had limits the day before off of the light house but there were no big fish. Earlier in the week several larger fish were landed to the north. Out about nine miles, I picked up my gyros to start looking around.

The first thing I see is Chuy in Jen Wren BV off to my starboard. I ran a few more minutes and was lucky enough to run right into a huge school of spotted porpoise. Now we are about 12 miles out. I throttled back and we started chumming chunks of calamari. The tuna came for it instantly. I grabbed the radio and called Chuy. It only took him a few minutes to arrive on the spot. We already had three 30 pounders in the boat when the anglers on Chuy's boat had a triple hook up on calamari. They gaffed the 1st fish (about 20 pounds) when one of the other anglers said, "I'm getting spooled". Chuy was alarmed when he looked down at an almost empty Accurate Boss B2-30. He immediately swung the boat around and went after the fish. In a few moments they had it under control and in 25 minutes brought it to gaff.

Knowing it was probably a contender they headed to the scale. At 9:30 AM they were at the dock where the tuna officially weighed in at 143 pounds. That was enough to hold up and take first place.

Jack Wright was the angler to land the tuna. His Buddy Mark Locken of Seattle put the trip togather for 8 guys that had gone to high school togather. These boys know how to party. In 3 days fishing on the Jen Wren boats the 8 of them consumed 22 cases of beer. They won the tournament, managed limits of YFT everyday, released a monster blue marlin and several striped marlin.

Mark Rayor

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