Past tournaments rewarded only released mako's whereby this years tournament and format was modified
to rewarded both released mako's and caught mako's over 100lbs the required tournament minimum weight.

29 Teams entered this year with 5 teams been disqualified prior to start fishing for not having one team
member attend the mandatory Captains meeting on Friday night as required by the rules. As tournament
policy these teams were refunded their money including the two teams whom had to withdraw before
start fishing due to boat breakdowns.

With the new tournament format allowing teams to depart 4.00am after a visual check in 22 teams headed
out early on Saturday and could start chumming at their spots but were not permitted to have any lines in the
water until 6.00am start fishing.

At 6.21am Captain Matt Potter of team "Breakaway" last years 2nd place winners with over 30 released
fish started to radio in their catches. This is required to authenticate and document each catch and
release by means of the tournament supplied camera provided. The radio chatter could be heard
amongst other teams knowing that in this early stage of the tournament they all had stiff competition with
Team Breakaway setting the pace again.

Team Wine Cooler with angler Harlem Johnson from Fullerton California were the first team to call in
a boated mako at 1.18pm for the catch division and putting them in the lead which weighed in at 119.4 lbs.

Captain Bill Clark of Team Dream Weaver challenged Team Breakaway's releases at 7.28am and the
race was on between them in the exciting release division early in the day which changed by the minute
between the following teams in hot persuit Teams Psyco-Fish, Corina Corina, PE, Seawolf and Rough House.

Inbetween all the many releases team TailChasher with Angler Shane Robertson from Newport Beach
had boated their first mako at 1.22pm which weighed in at 125 lbs putting them into first place and
accross the board for the Saturday daily jackpots.

Team Irene with Angler Alex Hornaman from Garden Grove radioed in at 3.37pm that they had also boated
their mako which weighed in at 111.lbs putting them into third place overall by the end of Saturday

There were 66 released mako's by the end of Saturday with several big mako's lost and the top
relese teams for the day been Team Rough House 6 releases, Corina Corina 5 releases,
Seawolf, 5 releases, Dream Weaver 4 releases, Pe 4 releases.

Sunday started off with Capt Hal Williams of Team Ashley Ray calling in the first hook up at
6.03 am setting the pace for the day and boating a mako at 1.10pm weighing in at 89 lbs.
Capt Tim Heitkemper of Team Pilar found the hot spot Sunday with 5 releases and boating
a mako at 1.03pm which weighed in at 92.8 lbs.

Team Psyco-Fish with Captain Mike Moss and his 10 year old son Jacob Moss
boated their first mako at 11.34 am weighing in at 90.3 lbs and
with several releases Sunday found them in the running for Sundays jackpots.

Team Seawolf Captain Mike Schmidt called in that they had boated their mako at 3.35pm
and had 25 minutes to race in the harbour to get their fish to the scales before 4.00pm stop
fishing and the scales closing. Seawolf's mako weighed in at 88 lbs .

Team Captain Mark Urkov of Team Rough House from Huntington Beach were rewarded for the
most released mako's over two days winning the $2000.00 cash prize

The awards surprised many since no legal mako's were boated Sunday whereby putting the most
released teams in contention for the daily jackpots , all teams received their cash winnings at
the awards dinner and drawings. We thank all our sponsors and anglers for participating in this
years Mako Madness and look forward to July 24/25th 2004.

Tournament Results:

Big Fish Division:
1st Place Team TailChaser Angler Shane Robertson 125 lbs $7100.00
2nd Place Team Wine Cooler Angler Harlem Johnson 119 lbs $2568.00
3rd Place Team Irene Angler Alex Hornaman 111 lbs $1712.00

Most release Division:
Team Rough House 9 releases $2000.00
Team Corina Corina 7 releases
Team Seawolf 7 releases $1400.00
Team Breakaway 6 releases
Team Pilar 5 releases $ 900.00

Team Tailchaser : Jim Weisshaar , Jon Taylor, Shane Robertson, Tom Wessler, Capt. Bill Gorham

Team Wine Cooler : Harlan Johnson, Richard Lopez, Kevin Johnson, Peter Jimenez, Forrest Johnson III

Team Irene : Alex Hornaman, Gary Smith

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