Marshalls Billfish Club
All Micronesia Fishing Tournament Marks 10th Anniversary
In this year’s 10th annual Mobil All Micronesia Fishing Tournament in Majuro a 301-pound marlin won first place. In contrast to last year’s “All Mike”, when a new record was set by Kyle Aliven hauling in a record smashing 562 pound marlin, this year’s tournament produced only two marlin.
Still there were plenty of good fishing stories about the big ones that got away, and all of the off-island fishing teams went away with prizes. This year’s tournament, organized by the Marshalls Billfish Club (MBC), featured teams from Pohnpei, Guam, Saipan, Nauru, Kwajalein, Ebeye and Majuro, and two from the Pacific rim: New Zealand and Japan.
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The biggest fish of the tournament — the 301 pound marlin — was caught by MBC angler Ronnie Reimers, who won this year’s President’s Cup, an award recognizing the best fisherman of the year.
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The big cash prizes, however, went to team Pohnpei, captained by Alex Tretnoff, which caught the second place marlin (140 pounds), first place wahoo (31 pounds) and second place barracuda (20 pounds), netting $4,800, plus trophies. The team, that also included anglers Tim Park and Steve Lindsay, picked up two round trip Pohnpei-Majuro tickets from Continental for next year’s tournament.
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Rules for the Mobil All Mike tournament reserve most of the cash prizes for visiting teams, so that the two Majuro teams entered cannot win cash prizes for biggest fish, only for most points based on total pounds of catch.
Team New Zealand, which included anglers Dennis Smith and Craig Howe, won the first place tuna prize of $1,000, another $200 for placing third in total pounds, and two round trip tickets Majuro-Honolulu on Aloha Airlines for a 53 pound yellowfin.
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MBC’s second team, captained by Kyle Aliven, caught a 31 pound barracuda, the second largest in All Mike tournament history, and just one pound short of the record.
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The “Roi-Rats” team of Rob Corbin and Mike St. John from Roi-Namur at Kwajalein Atoll, caught a third place wahoo and third place tuna to win trophies. Team Gugeegue, also from Kwajalein and captained by Paul Kabua, won the third place barracuda trophy.
To encourage teams that didn’t catch fish or win trophies to come back next year to fish, Outrigger Marshall Islands Resort presented one person on the Saipan, Air Nauru and Aloha Japan teams with seven complimentary nights at the Outrigger.
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| 10th Annual Mobil All Micronesia Fishing Tournament | ||
| Official Results | ||
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| TEAM | CAPTAIN | LBS |
| BILLFISH | ||
| Marshalls Billfish Club | Ronnie Reimers | 301 |
| Pohnpei | Alex Tretnoff | 140 |
| TUNA | ||
| New Zealand Village Bar and Grill | Dennis Stretch Smith | 53 |
| Marshalls Billfish Club | Kyle Aliven | 18 |
| Roi-Rats | Kwajalein Rob Corbin | 14 |
| WAHOO | ||
| Pohnpei | Alex Tretnoff | 31 |
| Pohnpei | Alex Tretnoff | 27 |
| Roi-Rats | Rob Corbin | 25 |
| BARRACUDA | ||
| MBC | (Dragon) Kyle Aliven | 31 |
| Pohnpei | Alex Tretnoff | 20 |
| Pohnpei | Alex Tretnoff | 17 |
| Gugeegue, Kwajalein | Paul Kabua | 17 |
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