| We first fished in the Marlin Club's Invitational
Light Tackle Tournament in 1972 being lucky enough to take my 1st Marlin
in Local Waters. At the time this was the only inter-club
Marlin tournament on the West Coast. However, while we prepared to fish
down there the Los Angeles Billfish Club was in the process of
initiating a new tournament to be held at Avalon, Catalina Island.
Despite having our home port at the Del Rey Yacht Club in Marina Del Rey
we regularly brought the boat to San Diego for the Albacore fishing and
tried to support the Marlin Club by fishing in their tournament as often
as possible. From time to time we met with success and still have some
of the trophies we managed to take home. In addition, we regularly
fished in the LABC Avalon Invitational. In fact, in the 18 years of the
Avalon Tournament the "KEN-DAN" was the only boat to fish in all 18
tournaments. Along with the LEGEND, JO-JO IV, and the ATUN we the 4th
team to win the tournament twice. Thus, I present to you some of our
efforts. I should also add that while all of this was going on two more
anglers were added to our log: inevitably both Kenneth and Daniel were
to record their 1st Marlin and regularly added to the family album. |
