68th INTERNATIONAL MARLIN AND TUNA FISHING TOURNAMENT PUERTO VALLARTA 2024

Presentation of the 68th INTERNATIONAL MARLIN AND TUNA FISHING TOURNAMENT PUERTO VALLARTA 2024 Nov 13 -16

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In 1956, a group of friends from Vallarta met with Engineer Juan De Dios De La Torre, who, motivated by the experience of having obtained first place in fishing in New Zealand, convinced them to organize a competition to attract fishermen from other parts of the Republic, and they would confirm the abundance of fishing in the Bay. These friends, who were the founding partners, all of them entrepreneurs and visionary people, pioneers of various businesses (three of them were Municipal Presidents), believed that sport fishing could be the trigger for tourists to visit us.

From the first tournament we had participants from the United States, so since 1957 it was ambitiously named “International Sailfish Fishing Tournament”. With the help of our strongest sponsor (Mexicana de Aviación), Puerto Vallarta was promoted as a fishing destination for tourism. This tournament was the first promotional effort for this city and it continues to be our main objective. This Club wants to put Puerto Vallarta on the international fishing map, along with other destinations such as Hawaii or Los Cabos, which we have nothing to envy.

Sport Fishing leaves a significant wealth spill, far above other tourist attractions in Puerto Vallarta. This Fishing tourism repeats its visits according to the seasons of arrival of the different species, since fishing can be practiced all the time.

The Puerto Vallarta Fishing Club and its emblematic Fishing Tournament have persisted until now for 60 years because it was built on very solid foundations –Efrén Calderón told me recently […] the Fishing Club cannot die, its history supports it […]–, honest men who first formed a family and built a heritage with continuous, persistent work, without advantages or fraud –not like today’s style where some often amass formidable fortunes overnight–.

When founding the Club, they built an institutional umbrella for sport fishing. However, I dare to reflect that a special award is needed to honor the sport of fishing for sport per se; the award, although valuable, should be essentially symbolic, the Golden Garland for Sport Fishing. This award, for the species that are promoted today in the tournament, will have to be caught with a line of a maximum of 30 pounds.

The prizes should be presented to the winners in a solemn ceremony, in an emblematic place in Puerto Vallarta, by our most beautiful women, who would also give the winners a kiss; all in memory of that beautiful romantic era of the late 1950s when the Puerto Vallarta Fishing Club was conceived. I bet a peso on whoever accepts the challenge –because that is what I want to win– that many will compete just like in the old days, just for the pleasure of fishing; to prove that whoever achieves that kind of feat achieves the honor because the honor is deserved.

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