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40 Years in Pictures

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Own a piece of fishing history! The much anticipated BBC 40th Anniversary DVD is now available. The just completed DVD features over 2,000 pictures from the last 40 years of the Bahamas Billfish Championship! The anglers, the crews, the fun, the fish and, best of all, the memories ... They're all here on one DVD.

Take a walk down memory lane - Get a glimpse of some of our seasoned anglers and crew when they were much younger. Not only have the hair styles changed over the years but so have the dress codes for angler meetings. Watch as the 'battle-wagons' evolve and the host resorts develop and expand.

The DVD has five 'chapters' so you can select the time frame you wish to view. Or, if you prefer, savior the memories from 1973 thru 2013 as a one-hour, forty-five minute show.

The price is only $30. Proceeds go to the BBC Scholarship Fund.

Savor the Memories!

 

Click here to order your copy of this pictorial history of the BBC!

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The 40th Anniversary Series in Review

By Al Behrendt

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The 2013 Bahamas Billfish Champion, Cowpoke, started the season with a third place finish at the Guana Cay Championship. It was Team Pandemonium that grabbed the spotlight at the opening tournament of the BBC's 40th anniversary season. 

Bahamian angler, Sandy Roberts' three blue marlin releases on day two of the Guana tournament propelled Pandemonium into the lead. The Treasure Cay based team added another blue marlin release on day four to insure Pandemonium owner and captain Kim Kuhnle his first ever BBC tournament win. Pandemonium finished the tournament with an impressive 2,400 points.

Kuhnle said of the win, "We had an absolute ball! In all my years of marlin fishing, this is the first time we caught and released three blues in one day. Considering that no one on our team is less than 56 years of age made it even more rewarding." All four of Pandemonium's blue marlin were caught on lures. Kuhnle went on to say, "My 1990 Buddy Davis is certainly not the newest boat in the fleet. Our win shows that the older boats still raise fish."

 


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Why Fish IGFA Rules?

By Capt. Skip Smith

 

Most billfish tournaments use IGFA rules as a basis for the tournament's rules or they incorporate IGFA rules in their rules. Then they add the "except for" to compensate for the rules they need changed or omitted.

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What are the tournaments really trying to get out of the IGFA rules? They are attempting to define how short or long a rod can be, gaffs, fighting chairs, harnesses, outriggers, safety lines, what kind of hook sets can be used and more. 

All of the IGFA information and standards are really important to have, but there are only nine angling rules and over a dozen rules covering acts or situations that will disqualify a catch. No doubt too few rules to address the way we fish these days in a tournament.

In reading the IGFA rules, you will find the introduction states, "To promote ethical and sporting angling practices" and then later to use the word "intent" of the rules and to how the rules apply as they cannot address every scenario. The rules were meant to provide sportsmanship between all anglers and to make sure the fish had a fair chance to fight and that we all were using rods and reels within the same perimeters along with the fishing line being the same test as the existing 'record.'

 

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      Congratulations to the following teams - Wave Paver - 1st Place and Jichi - 3rd Place at the Abaco Blue Marlin Invitational; Fa-La-Me - 2nd Place at the Bermuda Big Game Classic and team 'Mama Who' fishing on the Challenger with Capt. Allen Card - 1st Place at the Seahorse Anglers Club Billfish Tournament ... The opening of the new terminal at the Marsh Harbour International Airport is reportedly still two months away.      

      Reports just in say Brunswick Corp. sold its Hatteras and Cabo brands to Versa Capital Management LLC affiliate Navis HCY Acquisition LLC. ... Is Bailey Bobbitt actually becoming a 'Proper Scottish Gentleman?' ... Thanks to Carol Bareuther for another nice article about BBC champion Cowpoke in the latest issue of All AT Sea ... Reliable sources report that US Trust's John Dominico and his wife Susan visited Orchid Bay during their recent cruise through the Out Islands.

       The contract to dredge the channel into White Sound on Green Turtle has been signed and work is scheduled to begin later this month ... Congratulations to Chris Higgs on his new position with Morningstar Marinas on Lake Norman in North Carolina. Quite a change from Boat Harbour ... Capt Monty Lopez was so impressed with the old pictures from BBC tournaments past that he is working on a new social website called 'Legends' ... Speaking of 'legends,' be sure to order your copy of the new BBC DVD 40 Years in Pictures.

 

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Changing Behavior

The satellite-tagged dolphinfish tracked from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to eastern Cuba in 2012, provided a wealth of information. One interesting aspect was how its deep-diving behavior changed over the Dolphin Study course of the track. The recorded depth track of the fish is hard data of its behavior on the days depicted.      The fish's geographic location on these days is speculative, because the daily/hourly speed and any variation thereof at which this dolphin traveled is not documented by the instrument. For the purpose of this discussion, we will assume a constant travel rate of 17.162 miles per day since the fish traveled 520 miles in 30.3 days.

The focus of the following graphs is the nighttime diving behavior. The best way to view this behavior is to maintain the continuity of each dark period. Subsequently, the 24-hour observation periods were structured to run noon until noon. As you look at these 24-hour records of the fish's behavior, keep in mind that they are like a photograph, a snapshot in time. 

A single dive is defined as lasting from the last record of less than 30m before descending below 30m to the next record of less than 30m. It should be noted that there were only four daytime dives below 30m during the entire monitoring period but one was the deepest dive recorded for this fish, 164m or 538 feet.

 

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