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Dana Point, California. -- January 24th, 2002
Dana Point Mako Madness Tournament July 21st & 22nd Results & Ruling The 2nd Annual Dana Point Mako Madness Tournament was an outstanding event and very successful keeping each team vying for positions, points, whilst searching high and low for the tagged mako and the big one to claim the $ 50 000.00 cash reward for the released Mako. In addition to beautiful Ford Truck F150 from Sponsors Burch Ford which was on display tempting each team. Saturday mornings Shotgun start went without a hitch and all 39 teams checking in for the start racing out to their secret spots. The beautiful 35ft Cabo Express was loaned by Cabo Yachts to the tournament as the official tournament boat filming this event. First Hook up came at 6.34 am and will receive a special reward of a beautiful signed original Mako artwork from Boyce Images, one of the tournament sponsors. The tournament channel 71 was non stop from this point onward with teams calling in their hook ups and releases all day. Many tournament boats reported double and tripple hook ups. Then came the first boated fish for the day called in from Team West Marine also a huge sponsor approximately 66 inches (100 lbs) creating a buzz at the weigh station. Leading Saturday for the most releases were Team Huh-Dad (9) from King Harbor, Team Line Dance (9) from Marina Del Rey and Team Joan Boat III (9) also from Marina Del Rey. The word soon got around Team West Marine were coming in to weigh their fish which weighed in at 110 lbs and rocketing them into first place with the extra 410 pts. The story of the day left Team West Marine in first Place overall on points but they had not entered all the daily side pools and were kicking themselves for not. The success of the release format saw 147 released mako’s and one landed fish on the first day keeping all very busy and the teams on edge with each hook up, proving that we can all go fish a tournament, have fun and release fish. Leading for Saturday heading into Sunday were: Sunday got off to a good start once again with the Cabo Yachts tournament boat in chase filming the whole start, hook up’s and releases. Sunday at 6.30 am saw Happy Times from Marina Del Rey with the first hook up of the day and releasing the fish at 6.41am. At 1.41pm Team Tamara called in and landed their fish at 1.48pm and were heading in with a large mako which was brought to the scales weighing 199.2 lbs pushing them into first place with 597 pts. A radio transmission was relayed that the Boat Goat II was coming in with a 600 lb fish and sent the whole dock a buzz with press, media and the crowd swelling in anticipation. The tournament Cabo raced out to meet them while they were heading in dragging the huge fish behind the 24ft Skipjack at 21 knots and filmed the fish been towed in. Everyone was rooting for them to see if they were going to make it in before the 6.00pm cut off time since they were +- 23 miles out after 5.00pm. The huge mako was brought to the scales and took several ppl to hoist this massive fish out the water onto the docks. Now Dana Fuel owner John van Dixhorn had a challenge, could this fish actually be weighed in this size since it looked larger than the 600lbs and ropes and pulleys were adjusted accordingly to try and make it fit. The first attempts failed and the fish had to be lowered again and all adjustments made. The huge mako was caught by Tom Brooks of Torrance with his two sons on board Toby 16 and Tyler 14 weighed in at 832.6 lbs, 125 inches in girth and 68 inches around, this had placed team Goat II well into first place and set to claim the Burch Ford F150 Truck. Several teams filed protests which had to be reviewed and considered
in the meantime the first 3 placed team Captains had to submit to lie detector
tests which were conducted on site immediately by a leading independent Polygraph
specialist. Whilst polygraphs were conducted all tournament participants enjoyed
Sundays unofficial standings pending protests and polygraph results
were 1st Place Team Line Dance Captain Russ Whitman from Marina
Del Rey Official Places and standings: The winning Team Line Dance will be sent to the qualifying IGFA Rolex World Championship in Cabo San Lucas May 17th –19th 2002 to compete against all this years tournament winners from all IGFA qualifying events. The success of Finnseeker’s release format has resulted in sponsors already requesting to sponsor next years tourney which will be held the last weekend of July 2002 for the 3rd Mako Madness Tournament out of Dana Point Harbor. The sponsors made the tournament a success said tournament Director and all the participants acknowledge this was the biggest Mako Tournament and most successful ever to be held out of Dana Point with the 2002 tournament slated to be even larger. Since both the Ford F150 Truck and the $50 000.00 tagged Mako were not claimed we are hoping to do this again next year. Proceeds from the tournament benefit Make a Wish Foundation which we hope to once again be supporting. We have proven that we can all fish in tournaments and enjoy ourselves
by releasing fish to conserve our fishery off our coastal waters said Chris
Badsey and he hopes that all future tournaments would follow his July 23rd Note: The information in this statement has been provided to clarify a chain of events that has transpired with regards to the official tournament protests. The Dana Point Mako Madness Tournament results are pending and will remain pending including any and all pay out until full and final clarification and all issues resolved Video footage and data from the tournament is currently been reviewed and the results will be made available and released as soon as all issues have been resolved. Un-official results: 1st Place : Goat II 2539 pts
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