gamefishermen
p. 38 · Read in the full issue
Travel
Prize on line to lure gamefishermen
TWO of Fiji’s best-known island resorts have jointly established a
scheme designed to help gamefishing in
the region develop to its full potential.
Castaway Island and Musket Cove Resort have offered a FS 10,000 incen tive for the first person to catch a 300 kg, or larger, marlin in the waters of the Mamanuca Islands group where the resorts are located.
The initiator was Musket Cove’s owner, Dick Smith, who built Cast away Island 25 years ago. Smith suggested the prize at the end of the Fiji International Billfish Tournament, in November. Catches at the tournament did not set any records but the variety of marlin and sailfish landed, or tagged and released, proved the sport had undeveloped potential.
Smith’s initiative resulted in a 50/50 arrangement through Castaway’s Rob Walker, general manager of the island resort’s parent company, Pacific Ven tures (Fiji) Limited.
The conditions which apply are: • the fish must be a marlin of any
species and 300 kg or better,
• the fish must have been caught in the designated fishing waters of the Mamanuca Island (a map is available from the address below), the fish must be weighed on either Castaway’s or Musket Cove’s gantry and the weight verified by management of either island, • it must be hooked and landed under International Game Fishing Associ ation rules, • IGFA approved rod and reel must be used and a sample of the line used must be submitted for verification, • The appropriate IGFA form must be completed and witnessed.
Further information is available from Tracy Walker, President, Castaway Gamefishing Club, Castaway Island,
Private Mail Bag, Nadi Airport, Fiji
Islands. Facsimile: (679) 65753 □