CARIBBEAN CUP ARUBA
Varadero Marina, Aruba-- For the second straight year, the Southern Pride fishing team has emerged victorious in the Chivas Regal Aruba Caribbean Cup; in 2010, they competed aboard Ted Smith’s brand-new Weaver sportfisherman, making her initial passage from the East Coast through the Caribbean to her new home in Costa Rica. The team wanted to return to Aruba in order to defend their title in 2011, this time fish- ing aboard a chartered vessel, the Curacao-based Papucho. The angling team of Gerard Aliseo, Tucker Colquhoun, Mariano dal Maso and Jimmy Taylor, with Capt. Charles Heldewier-Vignon at the helm, finished the tournament with 2,300 points: three blue marlin, four white marlin and two sailfish.
With the low-slung mountains of Ven- ezuela visible in the hazy distance, the tournament kicked off with great weather and 19 boats participat- ing. The forecast was for calm seas throughout the week although local rain squalls would produce rough con- ditions from time to time. The good news was the fishing: many locals had reported a great marlin bite in prog- ress. One team to find hot action dur- ing their pre-tournament scouting was Capt. Butch Cox’s Prime Time, who scored a Grand Slam of three different billfish species the day before the tour- nament. It was a telling sign of things
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to come, as the Prime Time would score another Grand Slam on the first day of fishing to lead nearly the entire tournament only to fall from first to third on the final day of fishing.
Finishing in second place was Team Priority, Jim McCord, Jim Vaughan and Hans Kaspersetz, fishing aboard the Driftwood. They scored 1900 points in the tournament (five blues, one white and one sailfish). The Caribbean Cup marked the successful return of this team, once a top contender in the Presidential Challenge series just a few years ago.
In the angler standings, Anthony Pin- zon won first place with 1500 points fishing aboard the Driftwood, an Aruban-based 35-foot Bertram char- ter boat. They were followed by Rob Belcher on the Prime Time with 1000 points in second place and Jeff Stin- gel, fishing on Frank Pettisani’s Exile in third with 900 points.
The Chivas Regal Aruba Caribbean Cup serves as an important fundraising event for The Billfish Foundation. The tournament directors presented Elliott Stark from TBF with a check for $5,000 on behalf of the event participants, with a promise to continue to support billfish conservation in the Southern Caribbean through the Adopt-A-Billfish satellite tagging program and more.
Sporting Traditions: The Magazine · 2011 Edition ·
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