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Nuku‘alofa wins TIGFA Xmas fishing competition [1]

Nuku'alofa, Tonga

Monday, December 14, 2015 - 22:38.  Updated on Thursday, April 14, 2016 - 15:08.

'Onelua Mataele, Stephen Cooper, Eddy Palu, Christian Palu and Grade Wicker

The Nuku’alofa Fishing Club was declared the winner of the Tonga International Game Fishing Association’s 2015 Christmas fishing competition on Saturday afternoon, 12 December at the Nuku’alofa Fishing Clubhouse.

The annual TIGFA competition spread over three days has two phases, one among club members and the other between the two national Game Fishing Clubs of Vava’u and Nuku’alofa.

Neal Dalgety, an executive member of the Nuku’alofa Fishing Club, said that on the national level, Vava’u had been dominating the annual competition, but not this year, when they managed to accumulate only 110.14 points comparing with the Nuku’alofa Club's 212.31 points.

This year’s three-days competition took place on December 5, 7, 12 , and the major sponsor was the Popao Brewery.

Top five Nuku’alofa male anglers:

  1. Christian Palu – 598.33 points
  2. Morrison Dansey – 325.00
  3. Derek Leonard – 289.62
  4. Zandy Sugar – 122.73.
  5. Stephen Cooper – 79.17

Top four female anglers:

  1. Ioana Sugar – 470
  2. Tess - 70.50
  3. Avril Cummings – 36.67
  4. Lucia Latu – 33.00.
  5. Beth 30.83

Top junior:

1. Ashleigh Middleton - 54.17

Top five teams:

1. Pacific Rose - 649.17
2. Moonshine - 593.00
3. Valu Lahi - 507.08
4. Sailfish - 325
5. Malinoa - 159.17

Christian Palu, the top male angler. Nuku'alofa Fishing Club, 12 December 2015.
Stephen Cooper. Nuku'alofa Fishing Club, 12 December 2015.
Soa Fellows, 13-years-old and the youngest angler in the competition. Nuku'alofa Fishing Club, 12 December 2015.
Ralph Fellows, GP Orbassano, Zanty Sugar and Branko Sugar. Nuku'alofa Fishing Club, 12 December 2015.
Christian Palu, with his fishing trophy and a carton of Pōpao. Nuku'alofa Fishing Club, 12 December 2015.
Ashleigh Middleton with Roger Middleton, club captain. Nuku'alofa Fishing Club, 12 December 2015.
Branko Sugar. Nuku'alofa Fishing Club, 12 December 2015.
Avril Cummings. Nuku'alofa Fishing Club, 12 December 2015.
Derek Leonard and Grade Wicker. Nuku'alofa Fishing Club, 12 December 2015.
Ioana Sugar, prize for heaviest fish of the tournament with Grade Wicker of Pōpao Brewery. Nuku'alofa Fishing Club, 12 December 2015.
Ross Chapman and Grade Wicker. . Nuku'alofa Fishing Club, 12 December 2015.
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