Whooa!!....Samoa Tournament... A Great Success!!!!

Recently I had the pleasure of putting together an Australian team to compete in this years Samoa "SIGFA" International Game Fishing Tournament, held in early May each year. I arrived on ........

Both local and international anglers are getting ready for this year's SIGFA international tournament to be held May 6 - 12. After the successful introduction of a lady's day last year, this year's tournament will be based around four days of open competition and a dedicated day for the lady's tournament.  All anglers are welcome to register for this year's event.

Ray Bancroft fishing with  skipper Alfred Schwalger and deckie Peter Harrison aboard Alfred's boat Kingfisher 2 landed his first Blue Marlin (166Kg) while fishing in SIGFA's first local comp of the year. The fish put up a great fight and took all hands to bring aboard.

Congratulations Ray!

Pure Indulgence recently completed a live-aboard adventure to the Tongan islands of Tafahi and Niuatoputapu. Troppo Fishing Adventures were chartered by Swiss TV to help in the filming of a documntary about Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous novel Treasure Island.

Not only did the team manage to get spectacular footage of the entire journey, but also the fishing was excellent, with Marlin and Sailfish being tagged and released and plenty of other toothy critters to keep the team entertained. A great time was had by all.

I've just got back from taking a team of dedicated fishermen and women to Samoa to compete in the annual SIGFA International Game Fishing Competition and thought you may be interested in our results... We WON!

On The South Side of Upolu SIGFA just held the Tafa Tafa Classic with "Fish The Dream" taking first place with a great mixed catch of jumbo yellowfin, wahoo, masi masi and a nice Blue Marlin. Peter Harrison Won best yellowfin with one weighing in excess of 75kg.

Out the front of Apia the have been heaps of nice blue marlin with the best going to our mate Brian with one tipping the scales at 185kg. Lots of good wahoo and a report from Vaughan Simpson of plenty of marlin and a huge Bull masi masi the shattered one of his new Killwell sticks. Vaughans new boat Fua 2 (a 30ft White Pointer) is really running well and the boys are getting amongst the fish big time.

With the season hotting up, so is the water which means that we are gearing ready for the BIG BLUES AND BLACKS, JUMBO YELLOWFIN and lots of action.

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