The annual Broome Billfish Classic is on and judging from the first couple of days fishing its going to be another cracker. Tournament base reported 100 sails tagged by 10am on the first day. Yesterday was the annual Fatty’s Day event (in memory of Fatty Albert, founding member of the club who passed away in 2000).
You can watch the updates as they happen on the Broome Classic FB page here.
Day 1 stats:
Sailfish: raised-hooked-tagged – 512-345-233
Marlin – 9-4-2
Previous Year’s Tournament Totals for comparison
| Sails Raised |
Sail Tags |
Marlin Raised |
Marlin Tags |
Total | Boats | |
| 2008 | 404 | 88 | not avail | not avail | 88 | |
| 2009 | 1136 | 335 | 41 | 14 | 349 | 21 |
| 2010 | 351 | 105 | 53 | 23 | 128 | 19 |
| 2011 | 564 | 224 | 71 | 13 | 237 | 18 |
| 2012 | 589 | 210 | 50 | 12 | 222 | |
| 2013 | ||||||
| 2014 | 381 | 131 | 65 | 14 | 145 | 16 |
| 2015 | 571 | 196 | 63 | 12 | 208 | 22 |
| 2016 | 15 | |||||
| 2017 | 581 | 218 | 106 | 36 | 352 | 10 |
| 2018 | 672 | 347 | 40 | 8 | 355 | 17 |
| 2019 | 1270 | 608 | 22 | 6 | 614 | 14 |
