Fishing Tournaments in Los Cabos in 2025

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Los Cabos isn’t the lone spot wherever fishermen and women tin haul successful catches worthy millions of dollars. The rubric “world’s richest sportfishing tournament” is traditionally fixed to Bisbee’s Black and Blue, Los Cabos’ biggest lawsuit for implicit 40 years. However, the White Marlin Open successful Ocean City, Maryland is competitory with akin purses. Where nary different destination comes adjacent to Los Cabos is the fig of tournaments with million-dollar-plus prizes: determination volition beryllium astatine slightest 4 this year.

It is worthy noting that astir each section big-money tournaments are held successful Cabo San Lucas, but for Bisbee’s East Cape Offshore, which is based successful Buena Vista. For those funny successful participating oregon astatine slightest keeping up with the action, here’s the tourney docket for 2025.

Pelagic Triple Crown of Fishing Tournament

Water sports apparel elephantine Pelagic returns to big this yearly play kick-off, aft the lawsuit was canceled successful 2024. It’s a two-day squad sportfishing contention (six anglers per squad maximum) that targets billfish similar black, blue, and striped marlin; and crippled food specified arsenic tuna, wahoo, and dorado. Base introduction is US $4,000 per team, with $93,000 crossed the committee for each jackpots and challenges; the highest fig ever for this event. The purse exceeded $400,000 successful 2023 and should easy apical fractional a cardinal this year.

Dates: June 19 – 22
Location: Cabo San Lucas
Cost: $4,000 basal introduction per team, $93,000 crossed the board

East Cape Dorado Shootout

This is 1 of the largest determination sportfishing tournaments, with an mean turnout of 130 teams each year. What makes it truthful popular? In erstwhile years, the accidental to drawback the largest dorado (aka mahi mahi oregon dolphinfish) during the one-day tourney and triumph a marque new, fully-loaded 4×4 Volkswagen Amarok. Whether that’s the lawsuit this twelvemonth has not yet been announced, but currency and prizes supra fractional a cardinal dollars — a grounds for this lawsuit — are expected. Usually, implicit US $50,000 worthy of items are besides raffled disconnected astatine the post-tournament awards ceremony.

Dates: July 19
Location: Los Barriles, East Cape
Cost: Last year’s introduction was US $700 per team. TBA for 2025.

Ladies Only Fishing Tournament astatine Palmas de Cortez

The sanction is accurate. Only women tin vie successful this yearly East Cape sportfishing tourney (although captains and unit whitethorn beryllium men). Information different than the day has not yet been released for 2025. However, since its inception successful 2019, this tourney has been a fashionable summertime feature. Points are traditionally fixed based connected the benignant of food caught: 200 points for catch-and-release billfish, 100 for tuna, dorado, wahoo, roosterfish (also catch-and-release), amberjack, and crevalle jack.

Dates: July 26
Location: Los Barriles, East Cape
Cost: Last year’s introduction was US $300 per team. TBA for 2025.

Bisbee’s East Cape Offshore

The archetypal of this year’s large wealth events — past year, 80 teams competed for $1,675,000 — and the archetypal of Bisbee’s trio of tournaments successful 2025. Black and bluish marlin are prioritized, earning much merchandise points (300) than billfish similar striped marlin, sailfish, and spearfish (25). The teams with the apical 3 qualifying marlin (300 pounds minimum) besides instrumentality location astir of the prize money, though tuna and dorado categories are besides awarded. Each Bisbee’s bid tourney has an Early Bird Drawing and the victor gets escaped introduction into the pursuing year’s tournament. The deadline for this year’s Early Bird introduction is June 1.

Dates: July 29 – August 2
Location: Buena Vista, East Cape
Cost: $1,500 basal introduction per team, $36,000 crossed the board

Los Cabos Billfish Tournament

The adjacent sportfishing tourney to ace the million-dollar people successful Los Cabos could soon beryllium this one. After all, the purse exceeded US $767,000 successful 2024. The LCBT is the archetypal of 3 signature October tournaments, which combined past twelvemonth exceeded $10 cardinal successful purses. It’s besides 1 of the busiest successful presumption of drawback totals. For example, sportfishing was truthful outstanding during this tourney successful 2023 that a grounds 583 striped marlins were caught and released by the 42 competing teams. Billfish similar bluish marlin, achromatic marlin, sailfish, and spearfish are besides targeted, arsenic are gamefish similar tuna, wahoo, and dorado.

Dates: October 8 – 12
Location: Cabo San Lucas
Cost: US $5,000 basal introduction per team, with further challenges and jackpots

Bisbee’s Los Cabos Offshore

Commonly known arsenic “Little Bisbee’s,” to differentiate it from the “Big Bisbee’s” (that being the Black & Blue marlin sportfishing tourney that besides takes spot each October), the LCO is considered much charity-focused. Of course, the payouts are inactive enormous: US $2.7 cardinal successful 2024. But foundation is besides highlighted. Last year, implicit 11,000 pounds of food were donated to Hope for Los Cabos, providing upwards of 47,000 meals to section families successful need. The Early Bird deadline is August 1 for the LCO and Black & Blue.

Dates: October 13 – 18
Location: Cabo San Lucas
Cost: US $1,500 basal introduction per team, $36,000 crossed the board

Bisbee’s Black & Blue

Often referred to arsenic “the world’s richest sportfishing tournament” oregon the “Super Bowl of fishing”, this is the biggest lawsuit of the twelvemonth successful Los Cabos … and the astir legendary lawsuit successful fishing. Founded successful 1981, the 2022 purse of US $11,651,300 remains the benchmark, with $9 cardinal and $7 cardinal connected the enactment successful 2023 and 2024, respectively. Marlin indispensable transcend 300 pounds to suffice and boats whitethorn not task much than 50 miles from Cabo San Lucas. A 993-pound bluish marlin is the largest food ever caught successful the tournament.

Dates: October 20 – 25
Location: Cabo San Lucas
Cost: US $5,000 basal introduction per team, $84,500 crossed the board

WON Los Cabos Tuna Jackpot

The world’s astir lucrative tuna tourney has offered implicit 1 cardinal successful purses yearly since 2019. Last year’s haul was US $1.3 million, mounting the barroom precocious for 2025 — though whether anyone tin apical the tourney grounds tuna, a 383-pounder bagged successful 2009, remains to beryllium seen. Teams are capped astatine six anglers. However, the LCTJ besides caps vessel limits astatine 11, with up to 3 unit members and 2 observers permitted.

Dates: November 5 – 8
Location: Cabo San Lucas
Cost: US $1,000 basal introduction per team, jackpots and challenges available

Chris Sands is the Cabo San Lucas section adept for the USA Today question website 10 Best, writer of Fodor’s Los Cabos question guidebook and a contributor to galore websites and publications, including Tasting Table, Marriott Bonvoy Traveler, Forbes Travel Guide, Porthole Cruise, Cabo Living and Mexico News Daily. His specialty is travel-related contented and manner features focused connected food, vino and golf.

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