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Moving Day: Getting Your Sportfisher From Here to There

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Photo courtesy Sevenstar

by Dave Ferrell

Magazine articles, TV shows, and social media posts continually bombard your owner with the news of tremendous action, amazing catches and/or incredible numbers in some far-off place on the globe. Cape Verde, Madeira, Australia, Galapagos Islands, Costa Rica, Tahiti, Papeete, Canary Islands, Panama, Azores even the Mediterranean Sea; all locations with a mystical pull that goes beyond the quest for big fish or big numbers, targets that represent adventure pure and simple. Going to these places, chartering a local captain for a couple of days is a lot of fun—staying and fishing on your own rig an entire season, or several, is life-changing.

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Big Oh Takes First at Pescadora Billfish Championship

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Big Oh girls fishing team

Photo courtesy The Pescadora/Tony Cadorin

After two days of fishing the Big Oh team took first place in the 2020 Pescadora Billfish Championship with 27 sailfish. Vaquero came in second with 16 sailfish and one marlin. Grand Slam followed in third with 17 sailfish.

The 300th fish of the tournament—a blue marlin—was caught at 1:42 p.m. by Morgan Welch on the Outage!  

Official score for tournament is 180 sailfish and six marlin.

Below are the results and photos of the 2020 Pescadora Billfish Championship presented by Costa Sunglasses:

Female Angler of the Year – IGFA – Camila Ingram

Female Angler of the Year – Hook and Hand – Lori Bagliore, Team Fuhgeddaboutit

      • 1st Place, Day 1 Winner, Day 2 Winner – Big Oh – 27 sailfish
      • 2nd Place – Vaquero – 16 sailfish, 1 marlin
      • 3rd Place – Grand Slam – 17 sailfish
      • 4th Place – Outage – 10 sailfish, 2 marlin

Dorado Division – Grand Slam

Tuna Division – Stress Reliever

Top Tagging Team – Team Shoe and Team Pescadora
Top Tagging Angler – Britney McCrae, Team Kelly Dawn
Best Video Submitted – Game Fisher II
Best Team Name – Chardonnay Castaways

There was a total of 34 boats, approximately 400 registered participants, 330 sailfish and nine marlin.

two bots driving off

Photo courtesy The Pescadora/Tony Cadorin

5 girls smiling

Photo courtesy The Pescadora/Tony Cadorin

holding yellowfin tunas

Photo courtesy The Pescadora/Tony Cadorin

caliente boat and crew in cockpit

Photo courtesy The Pescadora/Tony Cadorin

Photo courtesy The Pescadora/Tony Cadorin

Photo courtesy The Pescadora/Tony Cadorin

Photo courtesy The Pescadora/Tony Cadorin

Photo courtesy The Pescadora/Tony Cadorin

Final Results: 2019 Los Sueños Signature Triple Crown Billfish Series

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Fish Tank was the clear and undisputed Series Champion of the 2019 Los Sueños Signature Triple Crown, finishing with an almost unbelievable 17,400 points (144 sails, 6 marlin). Kudos to the team and especially to Laura Jessen who, despite a broken foot, released 6 sails this tournament alone and 34 sails over all three legs!

Los Sueños Resort and Marina, located at Playa Herradura on Costa Rica’s Central Pacific Coast, held the third and final leg of its sixth annual Los Sueños Signature Triple Crown billfish series, presented by Chantilly Air, March 27-30, 2019. Forty seven of the best and most competitive teams came together to release a total of 1,234 billfish over three days.

Going in to this event, the reports were that fishing was slow with 3-6 fish a day being average. We were pleased to see the teams find the fish when the radio went off with an early bite on Day 1 and ended with a nail-bite inducing finish on Day 3. With 100 points awarded for each sailfish release and 500 points for each marlin release, marlin always end up making a difference for the podium finishers. After all the scorecards were reviewed, a three-leg Triple Crown total of 3,945 billfish were released (3,820 sails and 125 marlin) – or 444,500 points achieved by the 51 teams that participated this year, 38 of which were registered in all three events. [Read more…]