2010 Tournament Statistics and more…

INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT STATISTICS

• Growth of the Tournament – 2010 has brought another amazing turnout of 58 boats combined with Local and International Registrations.
• 32 Boats Participated from Trinidad, Tobago, and Barbados.
• 169 Anglers from Finland, The USA, Canada, Jamaica, United Kingdom, Barbados and Trinidad & Tobago. Comprising of:
  165 Male Anglers, 4 Female Anglers and of which 4 are Junior Anglers.
• We want to express our appreciation to all our anglers and boats.  The boats from Barbados and Trinidad thanks for making the effort to participate.  Our local boats thanks for once again coming out in our numbers to represent Tobago.
• Highlights: We saw 31 boats for our Bimini Start on Thursday. Congratulations to Female Angler Jeanne Aleong of Ega Beaver on a well fought 7 hour fight on Fishing Day 2.
• Species of Fish Caught or Tagged and Released  – Blue Marlin, Sailfish, White Marlin, Wahoo, Dolphin and Yellowfin Tuna.  A White Marlin was released by Angler Ryan Agar on Why Worry. We have not seen this many Tuna in a long time…
• Total Weight of Fish Brought to Scale 1,415.1  lbs.; Double last year’s overall weight!
• Statistics – 18 Blue Marlin, 1 White Marlin, 4 Sailfish, 12 Dolphin, 23 Yellowfin Tuna, 3 Wahoo.

LOCAL TOURNAMENT STATISTICS:

• 25 Boats Participated in the Local Division of the event.  We hope to see even more of the Local Tobago Fishermen here next year.
• Highlights: Total weight of fish brought to scale was 1,089.3 lbs. Congrats to Elton Phillips and Seon Barry onboard So Jah Say from Castara on their Catch of two giant Groupers weighting 264 and 236 lbs. Both pulled in on hand line.

* Overall, we have seen 2,504.7lbs bought to scale.

THANK YOU:

At the Closing of this, our Fifteenth event of the Tobago International Game Fishing Tournament, we would like to extend our deepest gratitude to all of those persons and entities that have truly supported and worked with us to make this Tournament a great success.

A special THANK YOU to our dedicated and valued Sponsors:

• To the generous support from the Tobago House of Assembly – Divison of Tourism and Sport and Youth affairs.
• Sterling Service Limited who sponsored the Prize of a Mercedes-Benz B-Class for the record Breaking Blue Marlin
• The Tourism Development Company of Trinidad and Tobago
• The Team at Vemco, Distributor of Gatorade, the official hydrator of the Tournament
• Carib Brewery - For coming on board with Battery, Black wolf and the official beer of the tournament.
• Digicel – Who have continued to support our local division.
• National Petroleum Marketing Company Limited for facilitating the Fuel requirements for the Participating Boats
• Amco – Dewar’s 12, Grey Goose,
• Matouk’s
• Tobago Water – The official water of the tournament.
• Lewis Appliances, D. Mankee Ltd., Yeti Coolers, Bar Code, BHP Billiton
• Blue Waters Inn, FCB, Republic Bank, J. Wong, G1 Enterprises
• Bodo Muche Studio, Black Bart Lures, Momoi’s High Catch Line

There are many more Sponsors involved in the Tournament that are too many to be mentioned, but who’s assistance is extremely important to the success of the event; Thank You for your contributions and support. We appreciate all of your efforts and hope to have you with us for our 15^th event!

We would like to warmly thank Our Judge, Mr. Robert Miller for his contribution to this Tournament.

A very special part of our Tournament for the last 8 years is Charlotteville!

Our Thanks to:

• Charlotteville Village Council
• The entire Fishing Community of Charlotteville and all of its Residents and Visitors
• Sharon and Walter of Sharon and Phebes Restaurant for their tremendous efforts
• Bayview Supermarket, Charlotteville NP Gas Station
• All of the Water Taxis who provided service to the participants, Thanks for a Great Job all of you and a special Mention to Anto for the extra service provided
• Charlottevilla, Blue Waters Inn, Man-O-War Cottages
• TEMA for all the coordination efforts throughout the tournament.
• Charlotteville Police Station
• Customs and Immigrations for accommodating us and to all other contributors. Thanks for your support and accommodations!

To our Anglers, we are happy to have had your support over the years! We hope you had a Wonderful TIGFT Adventure and we hope to see you back again in 2011!