Cap­tain Do­minic Wal­lace with crew Dean Fakoory and Glen Char­lotte on board the ves­sel 'Roller Troller' took first place in this year's T&T Game Fish­ing As­so­ci­a­tion an­nu­al Bud­get Ma­rine Wa­hoo Blowout tour­na­ment in the wa­ters of T&T on Sat­ur­day and Sun­day.

The two-day event at­tract­ed on­ly 10 boats with 46 an­glers. Ac­cord­ing to the or­ga­niz­ers the small num­ber of par­tic­i­pat­ing boats was a di­rect re­sult of poor fish­ing and rough seas off­shore. A to­tal 143 pounds of fish were caught in two days with over 80lbs of it do­nat­ed to the Christ Child Con­va­les­cent home of Diego Mar­tin. Two Sail­fish were al­so caught and re­leased by the win­ning boat, which braved the weath­er and trav­elled to To­ba­go in hopes of a more fruit­ful catch.

Roller Troller was the on­ly boat to suc­cess­ful­ly put Wa­hoo on the scale af­ter brav­ing the weath­er on day one and fish­ing off of the Sis­ters in To­ba­go.

Wal­lace and crew came to the scale with two Sail­fish re­leas­es and a Wa­hoo weigh­ing in at 11.9 pounds. Nar­row­ly mak­ing the 10 pound min­i­mum weight, it was the on­ly Wa­hoo to make the scale on Sat­ur­day.

Chelsea Lock one of five women in the tour­na­ment, on the boat Queen B al­so graced the scale on Sat­ur­day with a Do­ra­do weigh­ing in at 11.75 pounds. This gave Queen B and cap­tain Trevor Bhag­wans­ingh enough to win sec­ond place and al­so won Lock - the best woman an­gler for the event.

On Sun­day the fish­ing was even more dis­mal as many boats opt­ed to cut their day short and head back in for a swim. With the tour­na­ment al­ready won Wal­lace and his crew de­cid­ed to stick it out till the end hop­ing for the best in the rough seas. The T&TG­FA ex­tends thanks to spon­sor Bud­get Ma­rine, Carib and the Min­istry of Sport for their con­tin­ued sup­port the pro­mo­tion of the sport of fish­ing and con­ser­va­tion in T&T.