Finnseeker
04-02-2008, 08:40 PM
Press Release
Cabo San Lucas Mexico, March 19, 2008
New Advisor/Committee Member
The WCBRT is pleased to announce and introduce Ned Wallace of the famed sport fisher, "Tiger Spirit" to the Committee and advisory board of the WCBRT. Ned and his boat Tiger Spirit, are no strangers to the tournament winners podium. With Ned's many years of tournament fishing experience and respect in the Sportfishing industry, the Committee of the WCBRT will greatly benefit from Ned's input and advice. We welcome Ned onboard and thank him for his support.
Video Camera's
Teams are encouraged to use their own personal video camera's for WCBRT events. We recommend this to further back up and verify released billfish in addition to tournament supplied digital cameras. Personal video footage will be accepted and reviewed each day by the seven member independent advisory rules panel, should there be any dispute. A tournament supplied disposable camera will also still be supplied, as previously, but we recommend each team have a dedicated video onboard to capture video footage of each of their marlin releases.
10 Series Television Filming
The WCBRT has entered into an agreement to start filming a pilot, made for television show, that will air on Versus Television. The May 2008 WCBRT and December 2008 WCBRT tournaments will be used to create the first ten series television show. The Camera crews will arrive on the May 13th to film several teams preparation, pre-fishing and will follow those teams throughout the WCBRT series during the course of the year. The producers have agreed to donate 15% of the proceeds from the TV show back to the WCBRT, which will in turn be donated to The Billfish Foundation/Norma 029 Mexico Fund and the Los Ninos del Capitain Children's Charity of Cabo San Lucas.
33 Certified IGFA Observers
The WCBRT is pleased to announce a highly successful IGFA certification observer course was recently held in Long Beach on March 15, 2008. This certified observer class was organized by WCBRT Committee member Bill Morris and run by Dan Anderson and Jason of the IGFA. The WCBRT now have a minimum of 33 new IGFA Certified observers that will be flying down to participate and observe in the WCBRT. In addition, the WCBRT has received several requests from other longtime IGFA certified observers and IGFA representatives to participate and observe in this years WCBRT. A big thanks to the IGFA for its support and putting the IGFA observers class on! The WCBRT will have the most certified IGFA observers in a any tournament at any one time to date.
Observer Tournament
As a thank you to all the participating WCBRT observers, the WCBRT will be putting on a new "Observer All Release Billfish Tournament" (OARBT) on May 21, 2008 from 7:00 AM until 3:00 PM. WCBRT observers will be fishing on several of the various tournament team's boats who have graciously donated their boats and crews to help the observers compete against each other in a one day Observer Tournament. The same rules apply for the OARBT as the WCBRT, with the exception that the tournament crews sponsoring their boats will serve as the observing officials on the observer's releases.
The top observers of the OARBT will be awarded trophies at the awards dinner during the evening of May 21st along with the WCBRT tournament winners. Once again without the tremendous support from several teams donating their time and boats to thank these observers, and offering up their boats to observers, this thank you day tournament would not have been possible. Should anyone else wish to offer their boat / crew for the OARBT fishing day, we would appreciate this as well as the observers, so we can make spread the observers out on more boats and create greater competition amongst the observers teams.
IGFA Qualifying event
The WCBRT is pleased to announce that it has been accepted as an IGFA qualifying event for the prestigious IGFA World Championship event held each year in Cabo San Lucas. The IGFA World Championship is the week before the WCBRT each year.
Sponsors
The WCBRT would like to thank Eagle Claw for their support and sponsorship with providing the mandatory 8/0 EAGLE CLAW L2004EL- NON OFFSET CIRCLE hooks for the WCBRT tournaments. Please note, this is the only tournament approved / legal hook allowed with live and dead baits in WCBRT events. Teams will be subject to WCBRT observer and or committee inspections daily for use of this particular and unaltered, WCBRT tournament legal hook.
The WCBRT would like to thank King Sailfish Mounts for their Gold sponsorship and support of the WCBRT. KSM has been a longtime partner, supporter, sponsor of The Billfish Foundation. This partnership and support of the WCBRT's conservation efforts will bring more attention to Cabo San Lucas from other sponsors who support the efforts of all conservation based tournaments in Cabo San Lucas.
The WCBRT would like to thank Pacific Coast Sportfishing Publication for its Gold Sponsorship support and sponsorship of the WCBRT this year.
The WCBRT would like to thank Roffer's Ocean Fishing Forecasting Service, Inc., No Worry's Restaurant and Bar, QuickRig Corporation, Marlin World, Pelagic High Performance Offshore Gear, Berkley, Minerva's Baja Tackle, Cabo Villas, and Southern California Marlin Online web site for their support and sponsorship of the May and December 2008 WCBRT.
The Committee
www.wcbrt.com
http://homepage.mac.com/thumbprintmemory/iMovieTheater6.html
http://homepage.mac.com/thumbprintmemory/iMovieTheater15.html
2007 MINI WCBRT RESULTS -Video Clip 1 Video Clip 2
Team "Reelaxe" Wins and Sets New World Record
Cabo San Lucas Mexico, 9th Dec 2007 - Mini WCBRT Results and New World Records Set
Cabo considered the Striped Marlin Capital of the World by knowledgable blue water anglers, was certainly not disapointing as world records were shattered in numerous catagories! This tournament was designed by fisherman to be a tournament "For fishermen by fishermen". The Mini WCBRT Dec 7th & 8th was introduced after the prestigious WCBRT three day all circle hook May event, being a 100% catch-and-release tournament.
The Mini WCBRT was designed to take advantage of Cabo's most productive time for stripped marlin. And it was a huge success! The team average for the two day tournament was a mind blowing 231.4 fish per boat. With the high individual angler catching 59 marlin in one day. More than most serious marlin fisherman will catch in a life time. All the marlin were released!
The WCBRT tournament produced more released striped marlin ever in the history of a money tournament worldwide all on circle hooks. The World Championship Billfish Tournament is an IGFA qualifying event. The WCBRT has again proven and leads the way for other billfish tournaments by putting on a circle hook only, 100%, "No Muerto" ( No Kill) release money tournament in Mexico.
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The 2007 December 7th & 8th Mini WCBRT produced an amazing record setting 1157 billfish released for 2 days for an average of 115.7 marlin released per boat per day ! Team Reelaxe recently set a World record of 179 marlin released in a single day November 3rd, 2007 shattering this record in the tournament by releasing 190 striped marlin on day two of the tournament setting a NEW WORLD RECORD. Another tournament world record was set for the most released marlin in a single day in any tournament by a single team and the most released striped marlin combined for the tournament 1157 for 5 teams.
The New World record 190 striped marlin was captured on the Reelaxe's 8 boat cameras, underwater cameras and by video of the tournament camera crew filming onboard Reelaxe on day two. Team Reelaxe was - Chris Badsey, Dave Brackmann, Steve Brackmann, Alex Rogers, Jose Espanoza , Mark Clayton, Saul Contrearus, Dennis Poulton. Top angler was Reelaxe angler Jose Esponoza with a personal best and tournament record of 59 released stripped marlin in a single day.
Team Reelaxe released a total of 330 striped marlin in the two day tournament setting another tournament record for a single team in two days. With IGFA qualified observers and WCBRT observers aboard tournament boats, the catches were photographed and documented and filmed with video camera's including the tournament hired independent video camera crew documenting all released fish at the boat in accordance with the IGFA and WCBRT rules. Observers were randomly assigned to boats on day one and then the top 3 teams on day 2 carried an observer on board their boats.
DAY ONE RESULTS:
Reelaxe
140 releases
Get Over it
139 releases
Tenacious
91 releases
Bull Rider
79 releases
Cabo Villa
49 releases DAY TWO RESULTS:
Reelaxe
190 releases
Get Over It
189 releases
Tenacious
103 releases
Cabo Villa
89 releases
Bull Rider
88 releases FINAL RESULTS
1st Place: Team Reelaxe
330 releases
2nd Place: Team Get Over It
328 releases
3rd Place: Team Tenacious
194 releases
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Cabo San Lucas Mexico, March 19, 2008
New Advisor/Committee Member
The WCBRT is pleased to announce and introduce Ned Wallace of the famed sport fisher, "Tiger Spirit" to the Committee and advisory board of the WCBRT. Ned and his boat Tiger Spirit, are no strangers to the tournament winners podium. With Ned's many years of tournament fishing experience and respect in the Sportfishing industry, the Committee of the WCBRT will greatly benefit from Ned's input and advice. We welcome Ned onboard and thank him for his support.
Video Camera's
Teams are encouraged to use their own personal video camera's for WCBRT events. We recommend this to further back up and verify released billfish in addition to tournament supplied digital cameras. Personal video footage will be accepted and reviewed each day by the seven member independent advisory rules panel, should there be any dispute. A tournament supplied disposable camera will also still be supplied, as previously, but we recommend each team have a dedicated video onboard to capture video footage of each of their marlin releases.
10 Series Television Filming
The WCBRT has entered into an agreement to start filming a pilot, made for television show, that will air on Versus Television. The May 2008 WCBRT and December 2008 WCBRT tournaments will be used to create the first ten series television show. The Camera crews will arrive on the May 13th to film several teams preparation, pre-fishing and will follow those teams throughout the WCBRT series during the course of the year. The producers have agreed to donate 15% of the proceeds from the TV show back to the WCBRT, which will in turn be donated to The Billfish Foundation/Norma 029 Mexico Fund and the Los Ninos del Capitain Children's Charity of Cabo San Lucas.
33 Certified IGFA Observers
The WCBRT is pleased to announce a highly successful IGFA certification observer course was recently held in Long Beach on March 15, 2008. This certified observer class was organized by WCBRT Committee member Bill Morris and run by Dan Anderson and Jason of the IGFA. The WCBRT now have a minimum of 33 new IGFA Certified observers that will be flying down to participate and observe in the WCBRT. In addition, the WCBRT has received several requests from other longtime IGFA certified observers and IGFA representatives to participate and observe in this years WCBRT. A big thanks to the IGFA for its support and putting the IGFA observers class on! The WCBRT will have the most certified IGFA observers in a any tournament at any one time to date.
Observer Tournament
As a thank you to all the participating WCBRT observers, the WCBRT will be putting on a new "Observer All Release Billfish Tournament" (OARBT) on May 21, 2008 from 7:00 AM until 3:00 PM. WCBRT observers will be fishing on several of the various tournament team's boats who have graciously donated their boats and crews to help the observers compete against each other in a one day Observer Tournament. The same rules apply for the OARBT as the WCBRT, with the exception that the tournament crews sponsoring their boats will serve as the observing officials on the observer's releases.
The top observers of the OARBT will be awarded trophies at the awards dinner during the evening of May 21st along with the WCBRT tournament winners. Once again without the tremendous support from several teams donating their time and boats to thank these observers, and offering up their boats to observers, this thank you day tournament would not have been possible. Should anyone else wish to offer their boat / crew for the OARBT fishing day, we would appreciate this as well as the observers, so we can make spread the observers out on more boats and create greater competition amongst the observers teams.
IGFA Qualifying event
The WCBRT is pleased to announce that it has been accepted as an IGFA qualifying event for the prestigious IGFA World Championship event held each year in Cabo San Lucas. The IGFA World Championship is the week before the WCBRT each year.
Sponsors
The WCBRT would like to thank Eagle Claw for their support and sponsorship with providing the mandatory 8/0 EAGLE CLAW L2004EL- NON OFFSET CIRCLE hooks for the WCBRT tournaments. Please note, this is the only tournament approved / legal hook allowed with live and dead baits in WCBRT events. Teams will be subject to WCBRT observer and or committee inspections daily for use of this particular and unaltered, WCBRT tournament legal hook.
The WCBRT would like to thank King Sailfish Mounts for their Gold sponsorship and support of the WCBRT. KSM has been a longtime partner, supporter, sponsor of The Billfish Foundation. This partnership and support of the WCBRT's conservation efforts will bring more attention to Cabo San Lucas from other sponsors who support the efforts of all conservation based tournaments in Cabo San Lucas.
The WCBRT would like to thank Pacific Coast Sportfishing Publication for its Gold Sponsorship support and sponsorship of the WCBRT this year.
The WCBRT would like to thank Roffer's Ocean Fishing Forecasting Service, Inc., No Worry's Restaurant and Bar, QuickRig Corporation, Marlin World, Pelagic High Performance Offshore Gear, Berkley, Minerva's Baja Tackle, Cabo Villas, and Southern California Marlin Online web site for their support and sponsorship of the May and December 2008 WCBRT.
The Committee
www.wcbrt.com
http://homepage.mac.com/thumbprintmemory/iMovieTheater6.html
http://homepage.mac.com/thumbprintmemory/iMovieTheater15.html
2007 MINI WCBRT RESULTS -Video Clip 1 Video Clip 2
Team "Reelaxe" Wins and Sets New World Record
Cabo San Lucas Mexico, 9th Dec 2007 - Mini WCBRT Results and New World Records Set
Cabo considered the Striped Marlin Capital of the World by knowledgable blue water anglers, was certainly not disapointing as world records were shattered in numerous catagories! This tournament was designed by fisherman to be a tournament "For fishermen by fishermen". The Mini WCBRT Dec 7th & 8th was introduced after the prestigious WCBRT three day all circle hook May event, being a 100% catch-and-release tournament.
The Mini WCBRT was designed to take advantage of Cabo's most productive time for stripped marlin. And it was a huge success! The team average for the two day tournament was a mind blowing 231.4 fish per boat. With the high individual angler catching 59 marlin in one day. More than most serious marlin fisherman will catch in a life time. All the marlin were released!
The WCBRT tournament produced more released striped marlin ever in the history of a money tournament worldwide all on circle hooks. The World Championship Billfish Tournament is an IGFA qualifying event. The WCBRT has again proven and leads the way for other billfish tournaments by putting on a circle hook only, 100%, "No Muerto" ( No Kill) release money tournament in Mexico.
.
The 2007 December 7th & 8th Mini WCBRT produced an amazing record setting 1157 billfish released for 2 days for an average of 115.7 marlin released per boat per day ! Team Reelaxe recently set a World record of 179 marlin released in a single day November 3rd, 2007 shattering this record in the tournament by releasing 190 striped marlin on day two of the tournament setting a NEW WORLD RECORD. Another tournament world record was set for the most released marlin in a single day in any tournament by a single team and the most released striped marlin combined for the tournament 1157 for 5 teams.
The New World record 190 striped marlin was captured on the Reelaxe's 8 boat cameras, underwater cameras and by video of the tournament camera crew filming onboard Reelaxe on day two. Team Reelaxe was - Chris Badsey, Dave Brackmann, Steve Brackmann, Alex Rogers, Jose Espanoza , Mark Clayton, Saul Contrearus, Dennis Poulton. Top angler was Reelaxe angler Jose Esponoza with a personal best and tournament record of 59 released stripped marlin in a single day.
Team Reelaxe released a total of 330 striped marlin in the two day tournament setting another tournament record for a single team in two days. With IGFA qualified observers and WCBRT observers aboard tournament boats, the catches were photographed and documented and filmed with video camera's including the tournament hired independent video camera crew documenting all released fish at the boat in accordance with the IGFA and WCBRT rules. Observers were randomly assigned to boats on day one and then the top 3 teams on day 2 carried an observer on board their boats.
DAY ONE RESULTS:
Reelaxe
140 releases
Get Over it
139 releases
Tenacious
91 releases
Bull Rider
79 releases
Cabo Villa
49 releases DAY TWO RESULTS:
Reelaxe
190 releases
Get Over It
189 releases
Tenacious
103 releases
Cabo Villa
89 releases
Bull Rider
88 releases FINAL RESULTS
1st Place: Team Reelaxe
330 releases
2nd Place: Team Get Over It
328 releases
3rd Place: Team Tenacious
194 releases
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