Steven Valdez

An­gler Ryan Agar, fish­ing on the boat, "Po-Ke-Men" land­ed the biggest wa­hoo in the 2010 Bea­con In­sur­ance wa­hoo tour­na­ment on Sun­day.

His catch on the sec­ond day of the two day tour­na­ment came in at 48.1 lbs and won him­self $3,000 in prize mon­ey along with a Shi­mano 50lb rod and Reel cour­tesy Bea­con In­sur­ance, lures from Reel Tack­le and Seafood Ltd. and the pres­ti­gious tro­phy. Regi­nald Mac Lean placed sec­ond and fourth with his 44.9 lbs and 37 lbs wa­hoos caught on "Done Dig­gin". Mark De Ver­teuil came in third with his 37.8 lbs wa­hoo on board "La­dy M" and Alan Shep­pard on "Pair-A-Dice" placed third with his catch of a 29.2 lbs wa­hoo on the first day. Thanks to Regi­nald MacLean's two wa­hoos his team placed first over­all with 81.9lbs of wa­hoo. "Po-Ke-Men" placed sec­ond with 66.5 lbs of wa­hoo and "La­dy M" came in third place with 60 lbs of wa­hoo. Fourth place went to "Pair-A-Dice. "An­tic­i­pa­tion" came fifth with "Fan­cy Man" and "Mamzelle 11" plac­ing sixth and sev­enth re­spec­tive­ly. TTG­FA Pres­i­dent, Richard De Ver­teuil who fished on board "South­ern Cross" recog­nised that the tour­na­ment's catch for this year was dis­ap­point­ing but was none the less pleased at the lev­el of par­tic­i­pa­tion as the tour­na­ment which was al­so spon­sored by Sub­way and Copy-Rite had a to­tal of nine­ty six (96) an­glers com­pet­ing on twen­ty (20) boats. He com­ment­ed that the wa­ter on the North West­ern Coast of Trinidad was not clear and as a re­sult the catch may not have been good this year as in pre­vi­ous years.

He said his team trav­eled as far as 36 miles off Trinidad's North Coast in search of clear­er wa­ter and the hope of catch­ing the tour­na­ment win­ner. Tour­na­ment Chair­man, Chris Mout­tet in­di­cat­ed that the host­ing of the Bea­con In­sur­ance wa­hoo tour­na­ment at the Trinidad and To­ba­go Yacht Club con­tin­ues to at­tract large crowds that come to see the catch af­ter each day's fish­ing. Though there was not the usu­al large quan­ti­ties of wa­hoo to be seen at the weigh sta­tion the vis­i­tors and an­glers feast­ed them­selves to dou­bles which was pro­vid­ed by the spon­sors. The prize giv­ing cer­e­mo­ny was held at the Trinidad and To­ba­go Yacht Club on Mon­day where the win­ners re­ceived their prizes to­tal­ing over $35,000.