Worldwide Roosterfish Match Group Wins 2023 Costa Offshore World Championship offered by Continental

The 2023 Costa Offshore World Championship offered by Continental was held Sunday, April 16, by means of Friday, April 21. A complete of 29 groups comprised of 138 anglers converged in Quepos, Costa Rica, to battle it out for the celebrated Offshore World Champion title. Really a world billfishing championship, all competing anglers—representing 19 nations—are required to hook their very own fish beneath Worldwide Recreation Fish Affiliation guidelines and have earned their spot on this invitational match by profitable an official qualifying occasion. This 12 months, groups launched a complete of 267 sailfish and 46 blue marlin for a median of 10.79 billfish per group. 

The Costa Offshore World Championship offered by Continental is an unique invitation-only match. Angler groups earn their invitation to take part by profitable certainly one of over 75 official qualifying occasions around the globe, then journey to Costa Rica to characterize their native match and nation. At OWC 2023, 19 nations have been represented, together with Australia, the Bahamas, Brazil, Canada, Cape Verde, the Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Croatia, Fiji, Grenada, Jamaica, Kenya, Mauritius, Mexico, Panama, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab Emirates and america. Collectively, the 2023 OWC angler groups and company traveled a complete of greater than 750,000 miles to attend this worldwide championship—the equal to circling the globe greater than 32 instances! 

The match started with anglers and company arriving on the Parador Resort and Spa, a luxurious resort surrounded by tropical canopies alive with native wildlife and internationally acknowledged as certainly one of Costa Rica’s most prestigious resorts. Groups have been gifted with Costa backpacks full of swag from sponsors, Man Harvey offshore efficiency shirts and Man Harvey T-shirts. That they had a Flor de Caña rum tasting earlier than drawing to find out their boats for the approaching week, adopted by a poolside captains assembly carried out by Match Director Jennifer Dudas and a connoisseur dinner. 

Angler groups fished out of the official host marina of the OWC, Marina Pez Vela, Costa Rica’s largest full-service marina, aboard a special Costa Rica-flagged constitution boat every day, together with these by world-class builder Maverick Yachts Costa Rica. OWC anglers comply with IGFA angling and deal with guidelines concentrating on marlin, sailfish, tuna and dorado and use video verification to earn billfish launch factors. Blue marlin are value 500 factors, sailfish are value 200, and tuna and dorado (mahimahi) have to be 25 kilos or extra, with groups allowed to weigh as much as two fish per species per day to earn extra group factors per pound and awards. 

Including to the status of this occasion, the skilled group from Sport Fishing Tv—the award-winning fishing, journey and journey sequence—was available all through the week, capturing all of the motion on, above and beneath the ocean, in addition to again on land, for a four-part sequence that can air on Discovery Community, Outside America, and extra media distribution channels. 

Congratulations to the Worldwide Roosterfish Match Group representing Mexico, together with anglers Karen Comstock, Rodger Comstock, Judy Franich, Rocky Franich and Paul Steigerwald, because the 2023 Offshore World Champions. Throughout 4 days of fishing, they launched 14 sailfish and 4 blue marlin for a complete of 4,800 factors. Along with Bodo Muche bronze trophies, the first-place group earned a grand-prize package deal together with the championship gold rings by VanMark Jewellery Designers, Costa sun shades, Garmin Quatix 7 watches, Man Harvey limited-edition prints, Man Harvey championship attire, Yeti Ramblers, a Penn reel, Flor de Caña rum, Massive-T lures, AFTCO fillet knives, and customized Coastal Carolina chopping boards. 

As 2023 OWC champions, our first-place group can be invited again to compete in all future Costa Offshore World Championships. The second- and third-place groups will obtain an invite to fish within the 2024 Costa Offshore World Championship offered by Continental. 

Second place was earned by the Marina Pez Vela Open group from Costa Rica, together with anglers Kevin Gannon, Saso Apostolovski, Bost Jan Leben, Roman Ursic and Boris Piculjan. They launched a complete of 13 sailfish and 4 blue marlin, and weighed a 39-pound dorado to attain a complete of 4,639 factors. The second-place group obtained gold championship pendants by VanMark Jewellery Designers, King Sailfish Mounts trophies, Man Harvey limited-edition prints, Costa sun shades, Yeti Ramblers, Garmin Quatix 7 watches, a Penn reel, Flor de Caña rum, Massive-T lures and AFTCO fillet knives.

The Brazilian group from qualifying occasion Torneio de Peixes de Bico positioned third total with 4,262.2 factors. Evandro Soares, Nilo Cottini Filho, Gustavo Santos and Walter Muller launched two blue marlin and 16 sailfish. In addition they weighed a 36.02-pound dorado and a 26-pound dorado for an additional 62.2 factors. The third-place group obtained silver championship pendants by VanMark Jewellery Designers, King Sailfish Mounts trophies, Man Harvey limited-edition prints, Costa sun shades, Yeti Ramblers, Garmin Quatix 7 watches, a Penn reel, Flor de Caña rum, Massive-T lures and AFTCO fillet knives.

The High Angler award for the 2023 Offshore World Championship was offered to David Fingland of the returning 2003 OWC Championship group from Bermuda, with a complete of six sailfish and two blue marlin launched for two,200 factors. The second-place angler was Yves LeCourt from Group Mauritius, with 4 blue marlin and two sailfish, and the third-place angler was James Thackeray fishing for the Fiji Basic group. The highest angler obtained a Garmin Quatix 7 watch and a Launch Marine customized OWC teak cigar field. First- by means of sixth-place anglers obtained King Sailfish Mounts trophies, Costa sun shades, Yeti Ramblers, AFTCO Alijos combating belts and launch gloves, Flor de Caña rum, Man Harvey limited-edition prints, Massive-T lures and Coastal Carolina chopping boards. 

The Costa Offshore World Championship offered by Continental is sponsored by many industry-leading corporations, together with title sponsor Costa Sun shades, presenting sponsor Continental Tire, Marina Pez Vela, Yeti, Man Harvey, Parador Resort and Spa, King Sailfish Mounts, Garmin, AFTCO, Flor de Caña, IGFA, Maverick Yachts Costa Rica, Bodo Muche Studio-Foundry, Pacifico Journey Companies, Outside America, Seakeeper, Launch Marine, Tropic Star Lodge, 2Costa Rica Actual Property, Corona, VanMark Jewellery Designers, Marlin, Salt Water Sportsman, Sport Fishing, Coastal Carolina Reducing Boards, Massive-T Lures, Penn and IWS ScaleMaster.Congratulations to all our groups who participated within the 2023 Costa Offshore World Championship offered by Continental. Save the date for our 2024 occasion, which can happen Sunday, April 14, by means of Friday, April 19. For extra info, go to offshoreworldchampionship.com. To search out an Offshore World Championship Official Qualifying Occasion close to you, please go to offshoreworldchampionship.com/qualifying-events.