It's Not Just Fishing Season, but Marlin Season
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Page 18 Sport Saturday, July 11, 2015 It’s not just fishing season, but marlin season perhaps the giants had decided tensions grew taut until the original two-day tally. When all flying fish from a kite seems to to start biting. With 160 boats end time came and went and all was said and done, there were get the attention of the larger combing the world’s deep blue eyes turned westward toward 51 marlin caught and released, specimens. briny for the fish that would Hawaii. 39 blues and a dozen whites. There are plenty of wahoo TIGHTLINES win gold and glory, surely Ber- Perhaps surprisingly, the si- Leading the fleet with 2,200 around but the warm water muda would be in with a chance lence continued and as the clock points was Captain Brent John- and maybe, little is known, they By Pickled Onion to claim the glory for yet anoth- ticked past midnight, Florida ston’s Irish Ayes. Second place move into spawning mode, so it er year. angler Anthony Johnson’s 652lb went to Sea Striker, skippered is harder to elicit a strike from Towering cumulous clouds, As the day wore on, fish- Madeira capture prevailed. by R Adrian Holler with 1,700 them. Trolling gets results but heat squalls, calm, hot days and ing concluded in the Western The catch had been made off points. Individual honours might entail a lot of dragging bright blue skies all charac- Pacific and Indian Oceans with the aptly named Pesca Grossa went to Brooks Smith on Uno for just a few strikes. Working terise high summer and peak no qualifiers being taken. As with skippers Duart Nuno Gon- Mas as the High Point Angler, deeper along the drop-off offers fishing season. the world turned, the Atlan- calves and Gerard “Frothy” De Elaine Jones was High Point shots at tuna as well as wahoo The high-tech fishing ma- tic Ocean came into play and Silva. The latter has a Bermuda Lady Angler on Mama Who, and and there is every likelihood chines cutting snow white eventually the word got out connection and had made his Samantha Schlandweller on The that a billfish will come slash- swaths through the channels that a fish had been caught off name fishing off Trinidad and Boomer was High Point Junior. ing its way through the spread. and harbours all speak to this Madeira. Between the internet, Tobago before the lure of the Things continue today and Over the deeper reef areas, not being simply fishing season, cell phones and other commu- big one drew him to the island tomorrow, even as the condi- schools of yellowtail snapper but marlin season. nication devices, it was quickly of Madeira. tions become more challenging, should be willing to please. The real start to what will learnt that 652lbs was the fish He must have picked it right; as the Triple Crown’s premier The last couple of years have inevitably become known to beat. this year’s payout is believed to event, the Bermuda Big Game seen large numbers of juve- as marlin week got off to a Here in Bermuda 203 anglers be $656,000, so perhaps you will Classic sees close to 50 teams niles coming up in clouds when bumper start when a boat on 37 boats were participating consider entering next year. competing for honours. Live fishermen chummed for robins. fishing off Cape Verde boated in the Bermuda Blast Tourna- With that out of the equa- scoring updates for this tour- They certainly cannot all have a 1254-pounder. The fish was ment, the first leg of the Triple tion, the competition here in nament may be found on the disappeared so there must be caught on 100lb test line which Crown, with most also compet- the Bermuda Blast heightened. tournament website at www. a reasonable crop of them out meant that it would not quali- ing in the World Cup. The bite With two days left to fish the bermudabiggameclassic.com. there somewhere. fy as a potential record in the was on, no doubt about that. hook-ups, losses and releases Traditional angling also If this does turn out to be the 80lb class, and it was shy of the Hook-ups were called in and continued. continues with the Banks being object of the exercise, remember all-tackle world record. Still, reports of fish lost and fish re- What was really notable on the preferred spot for tunas of to take lots of ice along. Yellow- many saw it as a bit of an omen. leased but no keepers. the final day was the number both the blackfin and yellow- tails spoil quickly and it is hot With the Blue Marlin World One local boat even managed of fish that were hooked far fin varieties. Chumming is the out there with plenty of oppor- Cup taking place a mere day lat- a double hook-up but lost the exceeded the number released, time-honoured tactic although tunities for some red hot Tight er, this seemed to bode well — larger fish. As the day wore on, thus adding minimally to the fishing a live-bait or rigged Lines! San Diego (Shields 7-3) at Texas (Lewis 8-4), 10.05pm Series detail: First match (Dhaka, South Africa won 12. Bryan Coquard, France, Europcar, same time. a-Megan Khang ............................................71-70--141 L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 7-6) at Seattle (Iwakuma 0-1), by eight wickets); Second match (Dhaka, Sunday); 13. Florian Vachon, France, Bretagne-Seche Envi- Lala Anai .......................................................71-70--141 BERMUDA 11.10pm Third match (Chittagong, July 15). ronnement, same time. Tomorrow’s games 14. Jacopo Guarnieri, Italy, Katusha, same time. Houston at Tampa Bay, 2.10pm FIRST ONE-DAY INTERNATIONAL 15. Geoffrey Soupe, France, Cofidis, same time. Oakland at Cleveland, 2.10pm Zimbabwe v India 16. Andriy Grivko, Ukraine, Astana, same time. MOTOR RACING N.Y. Yankees at Boston, 2.35pm Harare Sports Club (Zimbabwe won toss): India 17. Warren Barguil, France, Giant-Alpecin, same time. CRICKET Washington at Baltimore, 2.35pm beat Zimbabwe by four runs 18. Christophe Laporte, France, Cofidis, same time. NASCAR SPRINT CUP Detroit at Minnesota, 3.10pm India 19. Armindo Fonseca, France, Bretange-Seche Envi- Quaker State 400 ICC AMERICAS UNDER-19 WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS Toronto at Kansas City, 3.10pm *A M Rahane c Masakadza b Tiripano ......................34 ronnement, same time. After Friday qualifying; race today USA v CANADA Chicago White Sox at Chicago Cubs, 3.20pm M Vijay c Sibanda b Vitori............................................1 20. Geraint Thomas, Britain, Sky, same time. (Car number in parentheses) Somerset CC (Canada won toss): Canada beat San Diego at Texas, 4.05pm A T Rayudu not out ..................................................124 1. (42) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, owner points. United States by 37 runs L.A. Angels at Seattle, 5.10pm M K Tiwary lbw b Chibhabha ....................................... 2 Overall Standings 2. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, owner points. Canada †R V Uthappa run out (Sikandar Raza) ...................... 0 3. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, owner points. A Gill c A Patel b K Patel .............................................0 (After seven stages) K M Jadhav c Mutumbami b Chibhabha ..................... 5 1. Chris Froome, Britain, Sky, 26:40:51. 4. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, owner points. T Anantharajah lbw b Buch .......................................28 NATIONAL LEAGUE S T R Binny c Mutumbami b Tiripano ........................77 2. Peter Sagan, Slovakia, Tinkoff-Saxo, :11. 5. (78) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet, owner points. A Taploo b K Patel .......................................................8 Today’s games Chicago White Sox (Sale 7-4) at Chicago Cubs (Lester A R Patel not out .........................................................2 3. Tejay Van Garderen, United States, BMC Racing, :13. 6. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, owner points. A Khan c Phill b Buch ................................................34 4-7), 5.05pm Extras: (lb 2, w 8) .......................................................10 4. Tony Gallopin, France, Lotto-Soudal, :26. 7. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, owner points. MA Khan c Shoff b Buch .............................................7 Arizona (Corbin 1-0) at N.Y. Mets (Harvey 7-6), 5.10pm 5. Greg Van Avermaet, Belgium, BMC Racing, :28. 8. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, owner points. H Thaker c Shoff b Rao ...........................................121 Total (6 wkts; 50 overs) .........................................255 Atlanta (Wisler 3-1) at Colorado (J.De La Rosa 6-3), 5.10pm Harbhajan Singh, B Kumar and D S Kulkarni did not bat 6. Rigoberto Uran, Colombia, Etixx-QuickStep, :34. 9. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, owner points. †S Sivia b S Patel ......................................................31 Cincinnati (R.Iglesias 1-1) at Miami (Latos 3-6), 5.10pm 1-9, 2-60, 3-74, 4-77, 5-87, 6-247. 7. Alberto Contador, Spain, Tinkoff-Saxo, :36. 10. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, owner points. M Patel c Rao b Phill ................................................20 Fall of wickets: St. Louis (Lackey 7-5) at Pittsburgh (Burnett 7-3), Panyangara 9.2-1-53-0, Vitori 9-0-63-1; Tiri- 8. Zdenek Stybar, Czech Republic, Etixx-QuickStep, :52. 11. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, owner points. A Haseeb not out .......................................................14 Bowling: 8.15pm pano 8.4-1-48-2; Chibhabha 10-2-25-2; Cremer 10-0- 9. Geraint Thomas, Britain, Sky, 1:03. 12. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, owner points. S Khan not out .............................................................0 Washington (Zimmermann 7-5) at Baltimore (Mi.Gon- 47-0; Williams 3-0-17-0. 10. Warren Barguil, France, Giant-Alpecin, 1:07. 13. (41) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, owner points. Extras (lb 4, w 17, nb 5) .............................................26 zalez 7-5), 8.15pm Zimbabwe 11. Bauke Mollema, Netherlands, Trek Factory Racing, 14. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, owner points. Total (8 wkts; 50 overs) .........................................289 San Diego (Shields 7-3) at Texas (Lewis 8-4), 9:05pm V Sibanda c Harbhajan b Binny ................................20 1:32.