Welcome to the Mission Bay Marlin Club!

Presidents Message by

Tony Sanfilippo

Hello Everyone...The new board is in full swing and hard at work.  Most of the old business has been taken care of and we are now focused more on the future.  Some good ideas are being brought up so look for some positive improvements in the months to come.  Most importantly is to have fun and enjoy our favorite past time—Fishing! 

The Bay Only Potpourri Tournament saw some decent weather and decent fishing on Saturday.  Sunday morning was actually nice up until about 11am and that’s when it got real nasty.  Fishing slowed to a halt and it was blowing about 30 knts with off and on rain.  By 2pm the bay was a white out.  While the weather was holding though nine boats fished the tournament.  We had some great on the water prizes too.  Congratulations to the Lively One for being top boat in the Bay Only Potpourri Tournament.  2nd place boat went to Radar and 3rd place boat went to Sublimely Hooked.  Clint Lively (aboard the Lively One) took first male and beat out yours truly (aboard the Libre Jr.) by a very, very thin margin.  3rd place was a tie between Brent and Bob Hargraves on the Radar.  Thank you to everyone who fished the tournament and despite the challenging conditions made this a great event.

I have to say if you haven’t been to a pre tournament meeting or should I say captains meetings in a while we encourage everyone to show up.  It’s a great time to hang out and talk tackle, technique, well shoot anything fishing!  The food is great!  And we have great raffle prizes to give away.  You don’t have to be fishing in the tournament to come and enjoy the meeting.  We usually have a guest speaker for each meeting to talk technique for that specific tournament.

We have our Rock Fish Tournament scheduled for this weekend.  The weather is looking dicey though and there is a good chance it will get rescheduled.  We will send out an e-mail as soon as we have made a decision.  This is a great tournament to participate in.  I remember last year the competition was fierce, but all in good fun. 

Speaking of Rock Fish Tournaments, the South Western Yacht Club’s 42nd annual Bottom Fishing Tournament is May 5th.  Larry George and Robb Lane  are co-chairs for this years event and will be at our Captains meeting Friday 13th presenting on the highlights of the great works provided by this charity event to support the San Diego Hospice.  Last year the Mission Bay Marlin Club had a great showing.  Jeff Meeker, Russ Hughes, and I aboard the Dog House claimed the Club Trophy for MBMC.  Denyse Huff from our club got 1st place female angler and I got 1st place male angler.  It’s a great cause and the banquet dinner is epic.  All the fish caught is cooked and served that night.  You don’t have to fish in the tournament and can support the event by attending dinner.

So much for that cold water not coming in.  We were out last Saturday targeting Halibut and the water in IB was 54 degrees.  However I did get reports of warmer water in the 60’s in LJ later in the week.  But with storms on the horizon it will be interesting to see how things shape up for the rest of April and early May.