The Florida Keys Gold Cup Sailfish Championship triple-crown sequence will welcome anglers Thursday by Sunday, Dec. 5-8, with the 61st Islamorada Sailfish Event. The event is a major fundraiser for the Islamorada Constitution Boat Affiliation.
Social occasions might be headquartered on the Whale Harbor Restaurant and Marina complicated at MM 83.4 oceanside, with a kickoff to registration, a guidelines assembly, cocktails and a gala banquet on Thursday, Dec. 5 at 6 p.m..
All-release fishing is ready for 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 6-7, and eight:30 a.m. to three p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8. Cocktails, an awards banquet and raffle prize drawings comply with Sunday’s fishing, starting at 6 p.m.
Optionally available classes provide boat groups extra alternatives to win prize cash. Classes embrace Day by Day, Total Entry, Grand Puba, Go Huge and Enjoyable Fish. Extra entry charges are elective and aren’t required to enter the event, in line with organizers.
A couple of areas are nonetheless accessible, with entry charges of $795 for the primary angler fishing aboard a vessel and $675 for every further angler. The junior angler (beneath age 16) entry charge is $350.
Two subsequent fishing occasions within the Gold Cup Collection embrace the Islamorada Fishing Membership Sailfish Event scheduled for Jan. 14-15, 2025, and the Cheeca Lodge Presidential Sailfish Event set for Jan. 17-19, 2025, when the sequence culminates and an general Gold Cup champion is topped.
Final yr, 76 sailfish had been launched with practically $80,000 awarded to the winners in the course of the sixtieth Islamorada Sailfish Event. Group Trophy Hunter launched 11 sailfish for the event victory.
Register at islamoradasailfishtournament.com or by contacting Dianne Harbaugh at 305-522-4868.