Mission Bay Marlin Club’s 46th Annual Marlin Tournament (Entry and Rules) is just a few weeks away!! This will be the big event of the season for our club. A custom rod and reel donated by Team Lively One has been added as an Early Bird Entry Prize! All entries submitted on or before September 20th will be entered into a drawing for this awesome prize. So get your entries in early!
Hope to see you all on the water for this fun event! Shawn
The 46th Annual Mission Bay Marlin Club MARLIN TOURNAMENT will be held on Saturday September 26, 2020. This year’s tournamentwill be open to MBMC member boats only.
This is MBMC’s signature annual tournament. It is a “CATCH AND RELEASE” OR “TAKE” MARLIN TOURNAMENT with all qualifying marlin catches eligible for tournament prizes. Entry fees are $100 per angler with an optional $50 Tuna Side Pot for largest tuna.
1st PRIZE – $1000 first place award, 2nd PRIZE – $700 second place award, 3rd PRIZE $500 third place award. Largest Tuna weighed by an angler in the side pot takes the side pot.
Raffle prizes will be awarded via tournament radio channel during fishing hours.
There are also several changes to this year’s tournament rules. So read them carefully and come to the Captain’s Meeting, which will be on Friday, September 25, 2020 at 6:00 PM Dana Landing Tackle Store.
The following link is for Tournament Rules and Entry Form. Hope to see all of you fishing this tournament.
Hi all….wanted to let you know that we released one this past weekend on the Chiqelin. Saw and heard of quite a few spread out over a wide area inside Catalina. Good number of jigfish and tailers and feeders with reports of biting sleepers 2 miles off Huntington. Sounds like more to come from below; hopefully this hurricane will push them up to our doorstep in the coming weeks.
Tight lines, Shane
This month’s Tuna Tournament will be held August 22 and 23th. Entry Form and Rules are linked here, on the MBMC website Tournament Page and are available behind the counter at Dana Landing Tackle Shop.
We are hoping you turn out and fish this tournament. There are TUNA to be caught! So get out and have some fun.
Stay healthy and good fishing!
Rafael Sanchez, Tournament Director.
Greetings everyone!
Well it’s August and fishing is in full swing. There is tuna, Yellowtail, Dorado and Marlin to be found offshore and halibut and bass biting inshore. I had a chance to fish marlin at Catalina last weekend and we caught a striper on a black and purple pakula lure on the Avalon bank. We released the fish so he can be caught again another day.
I wish I had more good news to write about opening up the functions of the club but it is what it is. We are still not allowed to hold social gatherings so the monthly seminars are on hold until the Covid guidelines allow us to have them. The board is still meeting through teleconferences monthly and discussing the functions the club can and can’t do. We hope you all understand that we have to abide by the Covid Guidelines and when allowed to the club will do its best to make it up to the members.
Tournaments:
The first tournament of the year was held last month and was our annual Yellowtail Tournament. We had only one boat enter and since there was only one boat we returned the entry fees. I know that things are scary for a lot of us and we ask for everyone to abide by the Covid Guidelines but we are trying to get things started. This month’s Tuna Tournament will be held August 22 and 23th. There will be entries online @ Missionbaymarlinclub.org and behind the counter at Dana Landing. I hope we can get a better turnout for this one.
The 46th annual Mission Bay Marlin Club Marlin Tournament will be held September 26th . This will be an intra-club tournament (meaning only club members may fish the tournament this year) and I hope all of you will do your best to fish this tournament . We have decided to keep the prize money the same as last year regardless of entries – First place $1000 Second $700 and Third $500. This is a great opportunity for a payday and hope that attendance for club members will be high! We will be giving out Captains bags, T-shirts and have some on the water raffle prizes for entrants. Each member will be getting an entry form sent to them with all the rules and details so we encourage you to participate.
Congratulations to Fish of the Month winner Jared Gilbert with a 46.7lb Bluefin tuna. Jarred traveled almost to the Cortez bank to capture the fish with a sinker rig.
Welcome new member, Nick Kane. Thank you for joining and look forward to getting to know you and all the other new members as soon as things get back to normal.
Thanks everyone for being understanding through this unprecedented time for our club. Stay safe and go fishing as much as possible since its one of the few places where the world seems normal.
Best wishes, Shawn