Grenada Billfish Tournament

January 24th, 25th, 27th 2011

The 41st “Grand Slam Grenada” Spice Island Billfish Tournament attracted a joint record turnout of Fifty One boats (last time we had this many was 1994!) carrying 244 anglers which somehow squeezed into the Grenada Yacht Club, home of the event. Boats entered from Trinidad & Tobago (27 boats – more than half the entry!), St Lucia (2 boats), Barbados (6 boats), Martinique (4 boats), United Kingdom (1 boat), and Grenada (10 boats). One boat “Rum n Coke” made the long voyage down from Antigua just to take part. The fishing was somewhat slower than last year with the official results showing sixty nine billfish released and only two blue marlin landed (biggest being four hundred and seventy three pounds by Cool Runnings from Trinidad and Tobago). Of course many more billfish escaped and additional catches of yellowfin tuna to 167 lbs and Dorado to 47lb kept anglers busy.