The ORIS National Big Game Tournament in aid of the Puttinu Cares Foundation

[Gogo]

Today I passed on the results to be checked and later posted.

Now that my work is over I wish to thank all members of the organizing committee namely Mr. Joe Baldacchino, Mr & Mrs. Nicholas Palmer Morewood, Mr. Antoine Debono , Mr. Colin Borg Cardona and Capt Nigel Dunkerley for the support and help they gave me through out the event.

However another group of person who many a times worked in the shadow of us Organizers must be given the credit for the ultimate success for the Briefing and running of the Tournament. These persons as judges, inspectors and helpers were the back bone of the organization.

Permit me to mention these voluntiers. If I miss someone please forgive me. All merit an equal BIG FANTASTIC THANK YOU.

Order of mention is not on merit but as they come to my mind.

Mr.Frank Abela , Mr. Crispino Borg, Mr.Renzo Cilia, Mr Emanuel Rotin; Mr Reno Falzon,Mr Tony Schembri, Mr. Jesmond Gatt; Mr Robert Attard, Mr. Quattrocchi, Mr. Marco (Medic), Mr Frans Mercieca, Mr. Gareth, Capt Richard Gabriele and Mr. Mathew Gabriele. I am sure that there are others who gave their help on support boats.
Forgive me but I must include my son Mark who prepared the display for the briefing and mastered my boat (Yellow Flashing Light) during the inspection and start of event.

It was a pleasure to have at one's side such hard working and dedicated persons.

Thanks Again

Joe

[malvizzu]

Any chance of watching some footage of the competition?

[The_Gaffer]

A number of you have been in touch with me asking when the final result will be out.  As posted earlier by Dr.Joe, the results are finalised and have been sent to others for cross checking.  They should be up on the forum board by this evening.

Robby is also preparing the financial statements for this event, and will be posted here on the forum for all to see.

On a different note, we are now underway to organise the awards ceremony.  This will be held at Angolina Resturant, same place as the pre tournament briefing.  Most probably it will be held on a week day.  The awards ceremony will kick off with a BBQ, €10 per person, including free wine. 

We'll put up a post advertising the awards ceremony details, and hope to see you all there.  Remember, the culmination of all this activity will be the presentation of a cheque to the Puttinu Cares Foundation.

[Oblada Melanura]

May I congratulate the organizers for all the work and effort. It's not easy to organize ca. 100 boats.
The only suggestion is that we could meet a bit later than 2.15 AM. We later spent more than an hour idling on the boat. An extra hour's sleep would be welcome. At the end of the day everyone was running on empty. The other thing is the start. At a certain point it looked dangerous. I was worried about the smaller open boats even though I was on a larger boat (Seabiscuit). For some, it took the form of a race, which is not the case.
All in all we really enjoyed it and we have to congratulate the organisers for their sterling work. 
Where could we watch the results online?

[SEAFOX]

@ Malvizzu - according to Mr. Fish, who was officially appointed to film the whole event, 2 full programmes on "Mr. Fisherman", 2 sessions of approx 45 mins each., would be aired within 3 months time.

@ Shanook - veru ta , we give Baghira the lures for "free", plus some lessons the week before then he hooks a huge Alonga, u ahna baqjna bit toma.. ..heq..I suppose we do have to pass on our experience to the younger guys..Baghira may win the competition next year if he goes for it!..and Tony why is he calling us all "Mr."...what wrong with this guy?

[fisheye]

@ Oblada Melanura I know the feeling I was on one of those small open boats. I was expecting such thing so seeing that due to the rough sea I was not going to be able to plane properly and speed up with the others I decided to stay back until the big once planed their boats and headed out of sight. Still was a bit of a choppy ride until all cleared but better than being caught in the middle without any space to properly manoeuvre into that choppy sea. Maybe if the the sea was calm I would have been among those in front since my boat takes much less time to plane and pick up speed than most of the big once. Better luck next time but yes If I may I would suggest that boats start in groups according to their size especially in rough sea conditions. But even if we caught no fish, had to head in by 11.00 because of a seasick crew and  a flat tire on the trailer we still had fun and enjoyed every moment of it. BIG Well done to all organisers and Thank you    

[shanook]

I dont know Colin maybe he is a gentleman now that he has caught his 1st Alunga. He has gone up a step in the ladder mmmmmmmmmnext thing u know we have to call him 'my lord'.......

[shanook]

The ORIS National Big Game Tournament Results

1st Place - MFC6797 Mr. Joseph Cassar - 10 Fish, Total Cumulative Weight 80.38kgs

2nd Place - MFC6798 Mr. Edwin Cilia - 6 Fish, Total Cumulative Weight 48.44kgs

3rd Place - S11838 Mr. Alfred Cassar - 6 Fish, Total Cumulative Weight 41.22kgs

4th Place - ON1233 Mr. Michael Albanozzo - 6 Fish, Total Cumlative Weight 35.88kgs

5th Place - MFB1762 Mr. Alexander Fenech - 4 Fish, Total Cumlative Weight 45.66kgs

6th Place - MFC1485 Mr. Emanual Arpa - 4 Fish, Total Cumulative Weight 31.30kgs

7th Place - ON13336 Mr. Christian Aquilina - 4 Fish, Total Cumulative Weight 30.26kgs

8th Place - ON16762 Mr. Adrian Cutajar - 4 Fish, Total Cumulative Weight 29.40kgs

9th Place - MFC5769 Mr. Joe Baldacchino - 4 Fish, Total Cumulative Weight 24.22kgs

10th Place - MFC5421 Mr. Janis Desira - 3 Fish, Total Cumulative Weight 40.34kgs


Biggest Fish - MFC5421 Mr. Janes Desira - Bluefin Tuna 120cm / 26.22kgs

Biggest Alonga - MFB 1762 Mr. Alexander Fenech - 16.68kgs

FINAL PRIZE LINE UP

1st   Oris Prodiver marine watch + €100 voucher + 3 Trophies (Jos. Debono Jewellers)   €2000 + €100 voucher            
2nd   Raymarine A70 Digital chartplotter inc maps + €75 voucher + 3 trophies (RLR)   €1750 + €75 voucher            
3rd   Okuma Makaira 30 WII reel + €50 Voucher + 3 trophies (Buona Pesca Trading)      €650 + €50 voucher         
4th   Grauvell Big Game rod and reel combo (Misterfish)    €500            
5th   Maguires Polishes Hamper       €170      
6th   Boat Care Products Hamper      €150         
7th   Humminbird Fish Finder Piranha MAX105 (Camilleri Marine)         €105      
8th    €100 voucher Buona Pesca trading               
9th    €75 voucher Buona Pesca Trading               
10th   €50 voucher buona Pesca trading   

Special Awards    
Biggest Alonga caught       Lineaeffe Big Game reel and rod      €600
biggest Fish caught           Lowrance HDS-7 Combo FF&GPS incl transducer  €1650

[baghira]

 

dawk ix xjuh tieghi.... (colin u seafox) 

Pitty you don't have a young daughter my age, so that after a while insead of Mr. I would call you DAD

P.S. Shanook this was my 3rd alonga.....
I have caught 2 back some years ago........
Probably witht he increase in fuel prices, these will remain my only 3.....

[fishman]

No no no no.....  That wasn't my boat. Sorry for all those who thought that it was my boat, my boat is sh..! compare to that boat as you notice it is a professional fishing boat for just an 18 foot boat. That boat belongs to my friend his name is Johan.

Congratulations for all of those who won in this competion. Prosit guys!!!
And for the others (including me) better luck next year.  

[malvizzu]

Well done to all participants and especially to the winners. Another big well done to the organisers, as from comments read further up, organisation went all smoothly (apart from the sea )

[guido99]

A big prosit to the organisers, sponsors and other entities that made this event happen and congratulations to the winners of this tournament. Although the conditions were tough it is encouraging to see such nice results at the weighing station. I myself only caught one about 6.4kg proceeded to the weighing station knowing i did not stand a chance of winning anything but this was a competition and the one of the highlights being boats returning with fish to the weighing in station. Also i believe it would be nice to publish all the catches, and not just only the top ten, this being for the sake of a confirmed catch report for competition day.

[skip]

Mike, we'll have them up tomorrow, just waiting for a small confirmation on one point.

[guido99]

Great 

[baghira]

really great