wilderone - 1-8-2008 at 10:42 AM
By Ed Zieralski
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
January 8, 2008
Take a fishing pier, chum it up with a lot of bait, invite some kids for a tournament with the long-range goal to improve underwater habitat and
structure, all for better fishing. That would be a great concept here in Southern California, right? But considering all the legal, environmental and
bureaucratic hoops organizers would have to jump through, don't look for it happening here any time soon. Instead, it's happening 15 miles south of
Tijuana, at the Rosarito Beach Hotel's Sportfishing Pier, a 500-foot structure that hotel owner Hugo Torres has big plans for.
He'll start it off Jan. 20 with the inaugural Martin Luther King Weekend Barred Surf Perch Tournament at the Rosarito Beach Hotel Sportfishing Pier.
There will be free bait and refreshments for kids 14 and under. It goes from 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m., with prizes for the biggest and most fish. Tom
Gatch, author of “Hooked on Baja” and an authority on Baja travel and real estate, will host the tournament along with Torres, who also is the mayor
of the town.
“They plan a regular chumming regimen and also have plans to build up the reef in front of the pier,” Gatch said.
For more information about the tournament or Rosarito Beach Hotel and Sportfishing Pier, call (800) 343-8582.
Closer to home, Gatch will be at Borders in Mission Valley (1072 Camino Del Rio North) on Thursday night at 7 to discuss his book and sign copies of
it.
Hook - 1-8-2008 at 01:19 PM
This ought to make for a great photo op.................all those bodyguards around the kids and Torres.
Iflyfish - 1-8-2008 at 05:21 PM
Great event! I hope someone will post pics.
Iflyfish