Report from Calrei. Today we went 1/3 blue and raised 1 more, we pull the hook on one 5m from the leader.
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Out of the tournament report from SMOKER. The last 3 days we fished with Matt and Chris from England and the boys had some pretty good fishing releasing 6 Blue Marlin and 1 White Marlin. One of the Marlin was a real nice one of 900 pound.
Before we finished a 5 day trip with our good friends Manolo, Jose, Alfonso and jose from my home island Gran Canaria. The boys released 8 Blue Marlin and Jose managed to catch his first 2 Blues ever.
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Out of the tournament report from SAMBO. We had a great time in San Antao with Martin and Rob from England with 7 Blue Marlin, 3 of them of 600 lb plus and 1 White Marlin.
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The PENN Challenge 2017 is done. 15 teams competing out of The Sportfishing Club Mindelo caught a total of 109 blue marlins. Except for 2 fish that died during the fight, all marlins were released.
PENN Force One, Toine van Ierland en Wim Huyberts won the and are now also the new EFSA Dutch Champion Big Game Fishing.
Best boat in tournament is La Onda mila. Best deckhand is Farel from Hebe. Most marlin is caught by Marty Bates.
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Out of the tournament report from SAMBO. Yesterday we went 1 for 2 and raiced 1 more.
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Not a single boat blanked. The 15 tournament boats caught a total of 31 blue marlin with an average size of 300 lbs each. All fish where released except for one that was tail wrapped and died during the fight. This fish was filleted and donated to the local hospital and to ICCA Mindelo, our charity goal in this tournament.
Today was a perfect day for one the Chinese teams. Team K. & R. Came in first place with 4 marlins. In second, again, with 3 marlins of which one was caught on a self pitched baitfish, was PENN Force One. These guys are now in the lead in the tournament.
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The wind picked up a bit during the second day. But that didn’t bother the teams. Some boats choose to fish the lew side of San Antoa, others went straight to San Pedro bank. The boats that fished San Antao fond some good fish.
At the end of the day a load of marlin was caught. Three boats managed to catch and release 4 blue marlins each!! The 15 boats in tournament managed to catch and release 24 blue marlin. A new record in the history of the PENN Challenge. Never before in the tournament’s anals we recorded 24 blue marlins in one day!!
Best boat today was La Onda Mila. Team Los Primos caught 4 marlins ending op in first place today. Extra points were gained by switching on the bait.
In second place came in PENN Force One.
Third place was for the Chinese team Ocean Sun.