{"id":251022,"date":"2017-04-26T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T20:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=251022"},"modified":"2017-04-26T06:00:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T20:00:28","slug":"carmelita-ii-wins-mahi-fishing-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/carmelita-ii-wins-mahi-fishing-derby\/","title":{"rendered":"Carmelita II wins Mahi Fishing Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_251024\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-251024\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/mahi-pix-300x213.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-251024\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carmelita II anglers and their supporters pose with their catch after the weigh-in at Smiling Cove Marina during last Saturday\u2019s 13th Annual Mahi Fishing Derby.  (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Carmelita II ruled last Saturday\u2019s 13 th Annual Mahi Fishing Derby, beating more than 30 entries in this year\u2019s competition.<\/p>\n<p>The Alexandro Castro-captained Carmelita II reeled in a 28.95lb mahi to take the first place honors in the weekend tournament. Helping Castro haul the winning catch were his son Alex Castro Jr., Patrick Uluchong, and Tom Diaz.<\/p>\n<p>Carmelita II\u2019 catch was just over two pounds heavier that the 26.2-lb mahi Flame of Love got.  The runner-up was captained by Keith Joe Torres and has Cujay Echulico as his lone angler.<\/p>\n<p>In the battle for third to fifth place, a close fight emerged among Champy, Team As Teo, and Victoria. Champy captain Jesse Aldan was on board My Lady Gora and he and his anglers Jason and Champ Aldan, Bernardo Reoligio, and Keiji Takeda brought in at the Smiling Cove Marina dock their 25.5lb mahi to beat the 25.2 of Team As Teo. Paul Roberto was Team As Teo\u2019s captain and was joined on the boat (Conservation Minded) by anglers Ralph Torres, Joey Cruz, and James Roberto.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria of team captain Diego Benavente and his wife Vicky and angler Scott Shular finished  fifth after bringing in a 24.5lb mahi.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, tournament organizer Saipan Fishermen Association would like to thank the following for supporting last weekend\u2019s derby: MARPAC Budweiser, Docomo Pacific, Fishing Tackle, IP&amp;E, Yamaha, MINA, Marianas Visitors Authority, Rep. Joseph P. Deleon Guerrero, and the Division of Fish and the Wildlife<\/p>\n<p>SFA also acknowledged all the participants (anglers and boat captains) and volunteers and encouraged them to join the Saipan International Fishing Derby that will be held in July. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carmelita II ruled last Saturday\u2019s 13 th Annual Mahi Fishing Derby, beating more than 30&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":251024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[16514,16515,16516,434],"class_list":["post-251022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-alex-castro-jr","tag-helping-castro","tag-patrick-uluchong","tag-smiling-cove-marina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}