{"id":5059,"date":"2012-03-10T07:26:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T07:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=5059"},"modified":"2012-03-10T07:26:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T07:26:15","slug":"rota-fishing-derby-set-march-15-and-16-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/rota-fishing-derby-set-march-15-and-16-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rota Fishing Derby set March 15 and 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Walter J. Sutherland<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>San Isidro Church Council and its supporters are sponsoring the Rota Fishing Derby on March 15 and 16.<\/p>\n<p>The entrance fee is set at $150 per boat, which covers two anglers. Each additional angler costs $25.<\/p>\n<p>Fishermen from Tinian, Saipan, and Guam are invited to help support the church&#8217;s building fund drive. All boats must be in by 6pm on both days in order for their submissions to be accepted; upon registration boats set out to sea early as 6am.<\/p>\n<p>The Top 3 place finishers in the billfish, wahoo, skipjack, mahi, and yellow tuna categories will all be awarded cash and other prizes.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, since the event will take place during Rota&#8217;s San Isidro village fiesta, all competitors are invited to stay over after the event and partake in Saturday&#8217;s festivities. However, an exclusive awards banquet will held for participants on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to make signing up easy for off-island entrants, event officials will be present on Tinian, Saipan, and Guam to help ensure a snag-free registration process.<\/p>\n<p>Off-island boats can begin fishing once they leave their home docks and do not have to travel all the way to Rota if they do not have a worthy catch to submit.<\/p>\n<p>The awards ceremony will take place at Sainan Ina San Isidro Church, which is also the venue for Saturday&#8217;s island-wide fiesta.<\/p>\n<p>For more information or to obtain a registration, call 532-9362 or 285-4018 or email diego@pticom.com or pete_rmc@yahoo.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Walter J. Sutherland Reporter San Isidro Church Council and its supporters are sponsoring the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}