Port Vila Game Fishing Club 2015 Anchor Inn GAME FISH CLASSIC 21 st & 22 nd November 2015 Supporting sponsors Anchor Inn Credit Corporation Carpenter Motors Kingfisher Waste Management TNT Vila Distribution Thanks also to Salt Water Fishing/Shimano, Law Partners, Pandanus/Hotspots, The Havannah Resort, BRED Bank, Sharper Image, Tana Cine, The Beach Bar, Wet & Wild Adventure Park, Vanuatu Zipline, Vanuatu Helicopters, Wilco & Top Signs An Offshore World Championship 2017, Costa Rica, qualifying event.
Dear Anglers and Friends, 2015 GAME FISH CLASSIC 21 st & 22 nd November As the Tournament Director of the Port Vila Game Fishing Club I welcome you on behalf of our entire membership and committee to the 2015 International Game Fish Classic. Join us to fish, make new friends and toast the Anchor Inn and Credit Corp our Platinum Sponsors for their great support. The Club has again created a tournament for anglers with all levels of skill. We aim to have fun doing it - PVGFC is all about having fun with family and friends both from within and outside Vanuatu. Our November competition attracts a wide following with anything up to 20 boats competing ranging from rubber duckies to prestige game fishing charter vessels. Whether you are a bottom basher, fly fisherman, sport fisherman, big game aficionado, whether you like baits or lures, or just being on the water, Vanuatu offers a host of fishing action with many world records having been caught in our fish rich waters. Of course a non-profit club cannot operate without support from our sponsors and we are always looking for that support (!!). We encourage you to seek out their services or products wherever possible. The chance to fish the World Offshore Championships in Costa Rica is, again, the major prize to the Tournament. The Champion Team Tag & Release/Capture will receive an invitation to fish the Tournament and have up VT1,000,000 contribution to the cost of entry meet by the Club as part of the Team Prize. Please take the time to read through the tournament booklet and OWC rules and make this event a fabulous time to enjoy the thrill of fishing, some time on the water and building that special camaraderie that comes from fishing in a tournament of the calibre of the 2015 International Game Fish Classic. I trust you will all enjoy the weekend of fishing and wish you all the best in the tournament. Here s wishing you all a fun and safe weekend. Steve Bean, President - PVGFC
Port Vila Game Fishing Club Rules and Regulations All skippers and anglers should carefully read the selection criteria for the Offshore World Championships and the awards for Champion Team. The information follows on from these rules and regs. Tournament Times International Game Fish Classic Sign Up Thursday 19th November, Anchor Inn at 6.30pm. Fishing: DAY1: Saturday 21 November 2014 6:00AM Lines In 6.00AM Lines Out 4:00PM Weigh In: 5.30 PM - all fish to be at weigh-station by 5.30PM at the Anchor Inn DAY2: Sunday 22 November 2014 Lines In 6:00AM Lines Out 2:00PM Weigh In: 3.30PM - all fish to be at the weigh-station by 3.30PM at the Anchor Inn
Presentation Function The Anchor Inn, Sunday. Entry Fees and Eligibility The tournament is open to all ages and we encourage participation from the local community. Teams are to be a minimum of 2 anglers, with a maximum of 5 anglers per team. Entry fees: (Cash or Cheque only) Senior Angler: Vt 15,000 Junior Angler: Vt 8,000 Entry fees include: Tournament Shirt Drinks and Snacks at Briefing and Weigh In each day Presentation Dinner, including Beer and Selected Wines 1 Boat bag and Tournament Booklet per boat. A Skippers pack is also available at Vt9,000. Includes all angler benefits. It is a requirement that all nominated anglers are either: - a fully paid member of PVGFC; or - a card carrying member of an IGFA affiliated club proof required please. PVGFC membership form to be completed by new members on registration. NOTE: PVGFC membership is due for renewal at the time of this comp. All must renew to fish. Membership can be paid at the time of registration. Costs as follows: - Senior Member: Vt 5,000 - Junior Member: Vt 2,500 - Family Membership: Vt 7,500
Entry Forms All anglers must be entered on an official registration form attached to this document or downloadable at www.pvgfc.com. Disclaimer and Indemnity Entry to the competition for all skippers, crew, anglers and visitors is conditional on acceptance of the terms contained in the PVGFC disclaimer and indemnity which forms part of the entry form. Boat skipper or team captain must sign the acceptance. Briefing The Tournament Briefing will be held on Thursday 19 th November, 2015 at The Anchor Inn from 6:30 pm. At least one angler per boat must attend the briefing. Drinks and nibbles will be provided. All fees must be paid at the briefing. Skippers Pool In place of a Calcutta for 2015 the Club will run a Skippers Pool. Those skippers/boats that choose to enter will pay Vt20,000 each with a single winner prize pool of the total amount collected. Winning Skipper/Boat will be the highest point scoring boat capture/tagging combined. Weigh In Weigh In will be conducted at the Anchor Inn at the following times: Saturday 21 st November: 5.30PM NO FISH WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER 5.30PM Sunday 22 nd November: 3.30PM NO FISH WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER 3.30 PM
Times - Definitions Weigh In Lines In Lines Out 1730 hours Saturday, 1530 hours Sunday Time at which fishing may commence - 0600hrs Sat & 0600hrs Sun. Saturday 1600 hours, Sunday 1400 hours or at the latest time at which your boat can depart your fishing location and travel at normal speed to reach the Weigh Station by Weigh In. NOTE: Normal speed is your transit speed advised to Tournament Base when you log on each morning. This speed will be used to calculate lines out times for boats fishing in distant grounds, together with the lat. and long. advised by the boat to Tournament Base when they ceased fishing. TEAMS FISHING DISTANT WATERS SHOULD NOTE THIS RULE All fish presented to the Weigh Master must be accompanied with a completed catch form, included with the Registration Booklet. A roll of plastic tape is included in your boat bag, this MUST be tied around the tail wrist of ALL fish presented for weigh in. Please write on the tape using the supplied marker pens: Boat Name, Anglers Name, Line Class and Capture Number. The Capture Number will be supplied by Watchdog when the capture is called in. ALL billfish releases must be accompanied by the video footage of the fish at the boat being released and clearly identifiable. Time and date must be displayed. Fish may be transported to the weigh-in station by vehicle. Should a vessel have a fish, which is not capable of being brought to the weigh station by vehicle, then Watchdog should be contacted to make alternate arrangements.
In the interests of maintaining fish quality, catches may be brought to the weigh station gutted and iced. An additional weight factor of 10% will be awarded. Note that record claim fish must be weighed intact. RECORD CLAIMS: All anglers are required to submit to the Weigh master, upon request, the lure, leader, double line and rod and reel to verify conformity to IGFA rules. For any fish caught that may be subject to National or World record claims, it is required that the leader/lure, double and at least 50 feet of main line remain intact and be presented with the fish at the time of weighing. The Weigh master reserves the right to investigate any and all tackle on a boat to see that it conforms to IGFA rules. Anglers intending to make Record Claims should remove the required line, leader & lure immediately the decision is made to make a record claim. Mutilated fish will be treated in accordance with IGFA rules. All fish weighed and presented for weighing and not promptly removed after weighing become the property of the Port Vila Game Fishing Club. A record-processing fee of VT 1,000 will be charged for all eligible Vanuatu records. In order to support the sponsors of the Tournament, anglers are requested to wear the Tournament Shirts at the weigh in. Don t forget to bring your family and friends down to the weigh station to enjoy the spectacle.
Presentation Dinner The presentation dinner will be held on Sunday night 22 nd November at the Anchor Inn from 6:00pm. Again the PVGFC encourages you to invite non-anglers to come along and hear about all the fish that got away. Anglers dinner is included in entry fee. Non-anglers, including non PVGFC member skippers and crew, will be charged Vt 4,000 for dinner (beer, wine and soft drinks included), Children Vt 1,500. In order to confirm catering numbers we require that you purchase any additional dinner tickets at the time of registration. See the Nomination form for details. Seaworthiness and Safety It is the boat owner s responsibility to ensure that all boats entered in the Game Fish Classic 2015 Tournament are completely seaworthy and meet local Marine Safety Authority standards. The PVGFC accepts no responsibility for decisions made by skippers, crew members or competitors going out to sea. As noted above, all competitors, skippers and crew will be required to acknowledge a competition disclaimer at the time of registration. All boats must carry a functioning reliable VHF radio on board at all times. Any boat without a working VHF radio will not be permitted to enter the Tournament. All boats must also carry a minimum of 2 distress flares and 1.5 litres of back up water per angler. Radio Schedule All boats must be able to receive and transmit on VHF Channel 60 and must maintain contact with the Tournament control base Watchdog - directly or by relay through another boat at every sked. The first daily radio sked will be at 0705 hours and then every 2 hours, 0905, 1105, etc. (Advise grid location [alpha numeric from the SAR chart provided] and score i.e. strikes, hookups, landed, released.)
Boat skippers must sign "on" on departure and "off on return, both by radio to Watchdog. In the departure radio call skippers are required to advise team name, angler names and the total number of people aboard the boat. Boats that miss two consecutive radio skeds (directly or by relay) will be liable to disqualification for the day. Where reasonable concern exists for the safety of any vessel a search may be instituted. Variation to communication requirements may be made in the case of radio failure whilst at sea (e.g. mobile phone, satphone, HF) at the discretion of the committee. It should be clearly understood by all skippers that if their boat has limited radio range they will be required to operate inside the range of their fixed radio unit. This important safety aspect will be enforced. Fish hooked up prior to Lines Out may be played until the fish is either landed or lost, providing that the hookup and location were reported to, and acknowledged by Watchdog prior to that boat's Lines Out time. The loss or capture of such hookups must be reported immediately to Watchdog. In these circumstances, Weigh In timing may be extended to allow safe passage of the boat and anglers. Marlin hook-ups should be reported immediately to Watchdog. If boats are planning to go out of radio range e.g. Forrari you should advise Watchdog before leaving and relay scores through other boats wherever possible. Fishing Area Fishing will only be permitted within areas designated on the grid map included in this book. In the interests of fairness to small boat owners, eligible fishing grounds DO NOT include the area known as Erramango Sea Mounts, but will include all of Efaté to and including Mataso Island and Monument Rock. Exact guidelines will be provided at the briefing.
Fish Eligibility To be eligible for weigh in all fish must be: An IGFA recognised game fish 1. Weigh at least one third the weight of the line class (except Skip jack/bonito/mack tuna/scad etc must weigh double the line class used to be eligible.) Captured as per IGFA rules attached IGFA RATED LINE CLASS 15KG ONLY MAY BE USED. If you are unfamiliar with IGFA rules please take the time to read the attached IGFA rules and equipment regulations. Billfish Release The PVGFC encourages tag and release. Please NOTE WELL the important changes for the comp. Billfish will be considered caught when the leader is to hand and the fish cut away and free released. Tagging is therefore not required to qualify as a capture/release. FOR 2015 BILLFISH CAPTURE/RELEASE RULES ARE: Billfish are to be released on all line classes Release points awarded per table below Sailfish attract half points Spearfish will be capture only Fish may be weighed only if they are a Vanuatu or IGFA world record. Anglers must be certain that this will be the case
Digital video footage requirements Digital video footage must verify all release claims and be shown to the weigh master at the time the capture/release card is handed to the weigh master. To score an official release, the video footage must include sufficient continuous footage to (1) clearly identify the species; (2) show a team member, angler or crew touching the leader while the fish is still hooked; (3) identify the time and date of the catch; and (4) show the catch and full release of the fish. By digital photography the Club intends that live continuous footage will be provided by the team. It is understood that your camera may have limited battery life. The Club requires that any video taken be on the same camera and that pauses in time will be accepted. Date and time must be displayed. If there are two or more boats with the same number of billfish release points, the winner will be based on a count back to the first release points for an individual fish. Time will be taken as the time of release to be confirmed from the video footage and notification to watchdog. In the case of boats fishing outside of radio range it is up to the vessel to relay a message to Watchdog. The time the report is received is the time the fish will be recorded as released by the tournament referee. Weighed billfish must be removed from the gantry by the angler or skipper. Line Class Points CAPTURE AND RELEASE POINTS BY LINE CLASS: LINE CLASS: 15KG MARLIN / BROADBILL 1500 SAILFISH 750 Line class points will be awarded using the following formula: POINTS = Fish Weight X Fish Fighting Factor X 100 Line Class The following fighting factors will apply:
Marlin (all species) - refer specific rules above Sail Fish / Spearfish refer specific rules above 2.4 2.4 Tuna (Yellowfin, Big Eye, Dog Tooth) 2.4 Mahi Mahi 2 Wahoo 2 Trevally (all species) 2 Barracuda 1.8 Rainbow Runner (juniors only) 1 Skipjack / Bonito (juniors only) 1 Examples: 30kg Yellow fin on 15kg line 30 X 2.4 X 100 15 7kg Mahi Mahi on 15kg line 7 X 2 X 100 15 = 480 points = 93 points IMPORTANT NOTES FOR ALL CAPTURE ANGLERS 2. To be eligible for weighing, fish must weigh greater than 1/3 rd of the line class fished. 3. Skip jack/bonito/mack tuna/scad etc must weigh double the line class used to be eligible. 4. All fish are to be labelled with the tape provided in the boat bag, including boat name, angler name, line class and capture number. 5. Line class 15kg only. 6. MAXIMUM OF 3 FISH OF A SPECIES PER ANGLER PER DAY - anglers may only weigh their best 3 fish of a species per day for capture points for prize categories other than Champion Team.
7. PRIZE FOR BEST BOAT / CALCUTTA PLACES - points allocation for best boat will be calculated on the basis of the best 3 fish of each species for the boat for each day (i.e. regardless of how many anglers are on board) plus billfish release points. 8. GILLED AND GUTTED FISH - in the interests of maintaining fish quality, catches may be brought to the weigh station gutted and iced. An additional weight factor of 10% will be awarded. Note that record claim fish must be weighed intact. Penalties Any angler caught cheating, misrepresenting captures or not competing in the spirit of the tournament will be disqualified from the tournament or hung, drawn and quartered at the Committee s discretion.
A SPECIAL MENTION TO ALL OUR SPONSORS The PVGFC Committee would like to thank all those persons and organizations both from Vanuatu and Overseas who have generously assisted with the organization of the 2015 Game Fish Classic. Without your help and the help of all our contributors noted the event simply would not happen THANKS TO ALL OF YOU. We ask that all Club Members support our sponsors in the same way. Below is a list of our generous sponsors and donators: Anchor Inn Credit Corporation Carpenter Motors Kingfisher Waste Management TNT Vila Distribution Salt Water Fishing/Shimano BRED Bank Law Partners Pandanus The Havannah Resort Sharper Image Top Signs Vanuatu Helicopters The Beach Bar Wet n Wild Adventure Park The Jungle Zipline
The Offshore World Championships The 2015 Game Fish Classic is a qualifying comp for the 2016 Offshore World Championships to be held in Costa Rica, April 17 22 2016. The Championships are fished as purely catch and release and as such the Club has chosen to award the Offshore World Championships Invitation to the Champion Team at this year s Game Fish Classic. The Costa Rica Tournament organisers have their own specific set of rules for the Tournament and these are available on the OFC website. The Club suggests all interested anglers should visit the site and read the rules. Following is the Club s stipulation for the awarding of the major prize.
Awarding of the OWC Invitation, trophy and prizes. The highest point scoring team capture, tag & release/free release will be awarded the following: - Name plate on perpetual Anchor Inn trophy. - Prizes as allocated by the Club. - Invitation to fish the Offshore World Championships, Costa Rica. - Entry fees to the OWC to the value of Vt1,000,000 for a maximum of 4 anglers. In the event that the winning team is not able to travel to Costa Rica to compete the following applies: - Awarding of a Vt500,000 cash prize only. - Prizes as allocated by the Club. - Name plate on the Anchor Inn trophy. Awarding of the OWC Invitation in the event of the above: - The second placed team capture/release will be given the opportunity to accept the invitation to compete at the Costa Rica event.
Prizes and Giveaways Champion Team Invitation to fish OWC Costa Rica - total points billfish release Team shirts for Costa Rica Entry fees to a value of VT1,000,000 to the OWC Runner Up Team - total points billfish release Champion Team - total points capture (excl Billfish) Runner Up Team - total points capture (excl Billfish) Other categories to be competed for are as follows. A selection of great prizes from our sponsors to be determined. Champion Angler Tag & Release Runner Up Angler Tag & Release Champion Angler Capture Runner Up Angler Capture Champion Female Tag & Release Champion Female Capture Champion Junior Angler Runner Up Junior Angler Lowest scoring boat Heaviest of Species Yellow Fin Tuna Mahi mahi Wahoo Heaviest other species
PORT VILA GAME FISHING CLUB INTERNATIONAL GAME FISH CLASSIC COMPETITION LOG DAY 1, 15 NOVEMBER 2014 BOAT: Watchdog Grid: CALL GRID STRIKE HOOKUP LAND 7.05 AM 9.05 AM 11.05 AM 1.05 PM 3.05 PM 4.05PM CAPTURE DETAILS TIME FISH LINE CLASS ESTD. WEIGHT TAGGED Y/N ANGLER
CONTINUED TIME FISH LINE CLASS ESTD. WEIGHT TAGGED Y/N ANGLER
PORT VILA GAME FISHING CLUB INTERNATIONAL GAME FISH CLASSIC COMPETITION LOG DAY 2, 16 NOVEMBER 2014 BOAT: Watchdog Grid: CALL GRID STRIKE HOOKUP LAND 6.05 AM 8.05 AM 10.05 AM 12.05 PM 2.05 PM CAPTURE DETAILS TIME FISH LINE CLASS ESTD. WEIGHT TAGGED Y/N ANGLER
CONTINUED TIME FISH LINE CLASS ESTD. WEIGHT TAGGED Y/N ANGLER