The IGFA Great Marlin Race Winner

With 30 satellite tags deployed in blue marlin, black marlin, and sailfish in six countries, the second year of the IGFA Great Marlin Race (IGMR) has come to a close. The IGFA’s billfish research program, working in collaboration with Stanford University, held seven tagging events in 2012-2013 that tracked a total of 17,059 nautical miles (nm) on imperiled billfish species worldwide, covering more than 5,000 nm more than the previous year. Every fish track is available to the public and to researchers to help them learn more about billfish, but the fish that travels the farthest is crowned the annual IGMR winner. This year’s winning fish was a 360 kg (794 lb) black marlin outfitted with a satellite tag sponsored by Peter Teakle during the 26th Annual Lizard Island Black Marlin Classic in Australia, which travelled 2,577 nm – 15% of the total distance recorded in the entire year – before the tag popped up after 69 days.

LINK (via: The IGFA)

Vintage Chum - IGFA Permit Pics

Jus a few of the IGFA vintage permit images courtesy of the Watery Rave.

Sara C. Farrington: IGFA Fishing Hall of Fame

Sara C. Farrington racked up a number of angling firsts and wrote the book, Women Can Fish.

IGFA updates rules to encourage all-release tournaments

It's about time.

The International Game Fish Association — the Dania Beach-based organization that certifies world records and operates a fishing museum and the Fishing Hall of Fame — recently produced a new set of release rules to encourage all-release fishing tournaments.

LINK (Via:The Palm Beach Post)

Fly Fishing Film Tour Gala @ the IGFA

On Friday night April 23rd Hell's Bay Boatworks,
 The Fly Shop of Miami and ESPN Outdoors will be hosting
 a dinner viewing of the Fly Fishing Film Tour at the IGFA.

The event will begin at 6 P.M. with cocktails and appetizers during the silent auction. Visit with attendees and fishing celebrities including Flip Pallot, Chico Fernandez and Jose Wejebe. Will Benson and Dave Teper, the producers of "High in the Lowlands" one of the featured films, will be in attendance. Watch clips of "Pirates of the Flats" and slides by Pat Ford in the IGFA Theater. At 7:30 they will be serving a dinner of Guy Harvey approved sustainable seafood and showing the Fly Fishing Film Tour.

Tickets can be purchased through the Hell's Bay Boatworks Online Store.
Or reserve your ticket by calling Hell's Bay Boatworks'main office
at 321-383-8223 or The Fly Shop of Miami at 305-669-5851
Pricing is $150 per ticket or $1,500 for a table of 10.
We accept Visa, Mastercard or a check.

This is a benefit dinner for the Bonefish and Tarpon Trust and the IGFA. All proceeds from the dinner ticket sales and the silent auction will be split between the Bonefish and Tarpon Trust and IGFA.

IGFA Launches new North Pacific Coast Grand Slam Club

Our man Agent Montana just tipped us off on this:

IGFA Launches new North Pacific Coast Grand Slam Club

The IGFA recently announced the creation of a new North Pacific Coast Grand Slam Club giving inshore anglers there an opportunity to earn recognition for outstanding angling achievements.

The new grand slam consists of Chinook salmon, rainbow/steelhead trout and Dolly Varden. Anglers must catch all three of these species in the same 24-hour period in order to qualify as a North Pacific Coast Grand Slam recipient.