A total of 21 boats entered, consisting of 55 senior male, 7 senior female, 5 junior male & 1 junior female angler (68 anglers in total).
There were 96 strikes, 84 hook ups, 52 Tag/captures resulting in 28 Light Tackle Black Marlin, 1 Heavy tackle Black Marlin, 1 DQ’d Heavy tackle Blue Marlin, 1 Light tackle Sailfish and 21 other species.
Congratulations to our Champions from the tournament listed below:
Champion Team overall: Reel Crazy, 35,000pts
Champion Angler Overall: Jack Grimes, 20,000pts
Champion Angler Runner Up: Curl Foster, 15,000pts
Champion Male Angler- Light Tackle: Jack Grimes, 20,000pts
Champion Male Angler- Heavy Tackle: Rod Johnston, 12,500pts
Champion Female Angler- Light Tackle: Melanie Stewart, 15,000pts
Champion Female Angler- Heavy Tackle: Not awarded
Champion Junior Angler: Thomas Cross, 5,000pts
Champion Junior Angler Runner up: Jack Dutney, 5,000pts
Champion Angler Other species: Ben Massurit, pts 112.5pts
Champion Boat-7m & Under: Athrill, 10,112.5pts
Runner up Boat- 7m & Under: Reel Nauti, 10,000pts
Champion Boat- over 7m: Reel Crazy, 35,000pts
Runner Up Boat- over 7m: Chaos, 35,000pts
Meritorious Effort Award: Southwell family – on Sownami.
First Billfish- Day one: Peter Watts @ 8:26am
Last Billfish- Day one: Melanie Stewart @ 15:18pm
First Billfish- Day two: Oska Davis @ 8:20am
Last Billfish- Day two: Tim Graham @ 16:28pm
Calcutta
1st place – Reel Crazy $5592
2nd Place- Chaos $2796
3rd Place- Site office $932