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• The Annual Intra-Club Tournament will be 365 days beginning January 1st through December 31st

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• Intra-Club monthly Tournaments are the weekend after the regularly monthly club meetings. Fishing is from midnight Friday night until Sunday at 6PM. The trophy will be a rotating trophy awarded to the Top Angler at the next monthly meeting

by the previous months winner. There will also be a brown bag of $100 per boat, winning boat takes all. – not required to enter the tournament.

Any fish caught in these tournaments count in the 365 day tournament.

This tournament will be held every month, weather permitting - decided by the Tournament committee.

In the event of bad weather, the tournament will be postponed 1 week, after that it will be cancelled.

Guest boats are very welcome to fish our Intra-Clubs, but do not accrue points for the 365 day trophies.

Before each Intra-Club tournament, we will try to have a Captains meeting on Friday night.

Points and meatfish rules are the same for both tournaments.

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• All club tournaments are catch and release only for billfish. Tagging billfish is highly-encouraged, but not required.

* All meat fish must be weighed on a certified scale.

* A club boat is a boat owned by a club member, all other boats are considered non-club boats. If a non-club member catches a fish on a club boat, the points will be counted for Top Boat at the end of the year. If a club member catches a fish on a non-club boat, any points or trophy will be awarded to the club member, not the boat.

 

Annual Club Tournament Awards – C&R, wahoo, dolphin, tuna and king mackerel include 2nd and 3rd Places

- Top Boat (Decided by points)

- Top Angler (Decided by points) If a billfish is reported, Top Angler and 1st Place C&R are the same. If no billfish reported, meatfish will be the determining factor.

- 1st Place C&R

- 1st Place Wahoo (Decided by weight, 20# minimum)

- 1st Place Dolphin (Decided by weight, 20# minimum)

- 1st Place Tuna (Decided by weight, 20# minimum)

- 1st Place Boat Swordfish (Decided by weight, 47” minimum or current minimum)(no Individual award, boat only)

- 1s tPlace King Mackerel (Decided by weight, must meet minimum legal length.

- Out of Territory - Awarded to the club member who accumulates the most points for billfish caught and released in any water outside of the club fishing territory – see attached chart for club fishing territory. (85 to 90 degrees west and south to 27 degrees north)

 

JUNIOR ANGLER AWARDS (decided by points) wahoo, dolphin, tuna, king

mackerel and spanish

Include 2nd and 3rd

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- Top Jr Angler (Decided by points) If a billfish is reported, Top Angler and 1st Place C&R are the same. If no billfish reported, meatfish will be the determiningnfactor.

- 1st Place Wahoo (must be legal size, no min weight)

- 1st Pace Dolphin (must be legal size, no min weight)

- 1st Place Tuna (must be legal size, no min weight)

- 1st Place King Mackerel (Decided by weight, must be legal size)

- 1st Place Spanish (decided by fork length) (must be legal size)

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All ties decided by date and time on catch card

Any club angler who catches a fish on any boat gets points toward angler awards.

If a guest on a club boat catches a fish, the club boat is eligible for top boat award points.

All club tournaments are catch and release only for billfish. Tagging billfish is highly-encouraged, but not required.

All meat fish must be of legal size.

All meat fish must be weighed on a certified scale.

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*POINT SYSTEM – for billfish

     - 101 points for Blue Marlin

     - 50 points for White Marlin

     - 50 points for Sailfish

     - 50 points for spearfish

- Only billfish listed above count.

- Only released fish count for points.

- No line bonus points.

- Catch cards must be submitted within 30 days of catch to count.- Catch cards are located at : obsfc.org

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The following species caught in accordance with IGFA and club angling rules will be considered eligible fish in competition. No fish weighing less than the listed minimum weight will be eligible for any competition, except Jr Anglers in intra club competition only.

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Keep up with current regulations, if any of the below is impacted, these rules automatically

change.

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Blue Marlin

None Catch and Release only

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White Marlin 

None Catch and Release only

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Sailfish 

None Catch and Release only

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Spearfish 

None Catch and Release only

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Swordfish 

None, 47” Lower Jaw Fork Length or 25” cleithrum to keel (or current

Size limit)

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Bluefin Tuna 

None, 73" Curved fork length (or current size limit)

 

Yellowfin Tuna 

20lbs.  27" curved fork length (or current size limit)

 

Bigeye Tuna 

20lbs. 27" curved fork length (or current size limit)

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Blackfin Tuna 

20 lbs.  None

 

Wahoo 

20lbs.  None

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Dolphin 

​20lbs.  None

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King Mackerel:

10lbs, 24 “ fork length (no weight minimum for Jrs, just legal size) 

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Spanish Mackerel:

This category is Jrs only. No weight, fork length only. Fl and Fed Size and regulations are not the same as Alabama.

 

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