75th Silver Sailfish Derby Record Catch

[Capt Chuck]

Silver Sailfish Derby Final Stats
These are the official results as I worked the radio recording the catches..............................>

""""" 46 Boat Derby fleet released 1,174 Sailfish"""""""""

The boats fishing the 75th annual Silver Sailfish Derby ended the three-day tournament with a total of 1,174 sailfish releases....shattering numerous records along the way! It is likely records were broke that we don’t even know about....The World’s Oldest Sailfish Tournament has made history again!
Who says you have to go to Mexico or Costa Rica to catch a Sailfish!!!!

Top Ten Boats:Get Lit – 58
Jichi – 44
Sandman – 42
El Palacio – 41
Princess Lily – 38
Barefoot – 36 (on time)
Finding Nino – 36
Miss Annie – 35 (on time)
Weez in the Keys – 35
Double Diamond – 34

Top Four Anglers:
Bill Danko, Get Lit – 24
Adam Cohen, Tales Gone Wild – 22
Tony Greaton, Native Son – 20 (on time)
Ricky Quataheta, Jichi – 20

notes & notable catches :

• All Derby boats used tournament approved non-offset circle hooks manufactured by Eagle Claw (model #L2004 series)
• Lucky Sailfish Award goes to fish #959 - Mark Lane aboard the “Lady Lane” (fish that broke the previous 3-day record)
• First sailfish of day 1 - Tony Greaton at 8:04 a.m. aboard the “Native Son”
• Last sailfish of day 1 - Adam Cohen at 4:19 p.m. aboard the “Tales Gone Wild”
• First sailfish of day 2 - David Adams at 8:06 a.m. aboard the “Wicked Wahini”
• Last sailfish of day 2 - Charles Tota at 4:06 p.m. aboard the “Reel Lucky”
• First sailfish of day 3 -John Norcia at 8:04 a.m. aboard the “Enterprise”
• Last sailfish of day 3 - Dacia Thomas at 2:07 p.m. aboard the “Reel Joy”
• Day 1 catch per boat average was 14.33 sailfish - a new tournament record!
• The 2012 Silver Sailfish Derby set a new 3 day boat average record of 8.50 sails per boat average. The previous record was 6.45 set in 2011.
• Too many records to list were broken this year - We’ll be telling this story for a while!

Also a 59lb Wahoo & a 36lb Cobia was weighed in. Another pending record club catch(non tourney boat) was weighed in. A nice 79# Cobia on 20lb test

[DonV]

HOLY COW Chuck!!!!!!!!! 8.5 Sailfish per boat, just outstanding!

[gofastsandman]

Outstanding.

Nice post Capt. Chuckles. The town is abuzz.

Sandman? Hmmmm indeed.

There is nothing nice about a big Cobia in a boat. Get it in the box.