Surly Mermaid and Hula Girl led the way taking home top honors and lots of hardware.

Friday, August 15th at 12:01am lines were allowed in the water and the first day of fishing for the Crow's Nest Yachts Invitational Fishing Roundup officially began.

The Round Up successfully brought in over 20 sportfishing boats, including CNY Fishing teams aboard Vikings, Tiaras and Contenders.

The 2-day event was hosted by Anthony Hsieh on the Pacific Provider mother ship of the EPYC (Eastern Pacific Yacht Club) at San Clement Island 60 miles off the California Coast.

"We wanted to create an event that met the expectations of our executive management and our high end cliental," said Rod Halperin, Director of Business Development."We all had an amazing time on the water thanks to our sponsors who ensured that each participant left with lots of smiles and at least one prize.

I would also be remised if I did not credit the wonderful staff on the Pacific Provider, helping us create a world class environment for our anglers."























The Crow's Nest Yacht's Fishing Round Up was designed to show our appreciation to our loyal customers that are also avid anglers.

Crow's Nest Yachts is known up and down the West Coast as the leader in selling both sportfishing yachts and luxury cruising yachts.
 





















CNY has supplied yachts to some of the leading West Coast anglers both male and female, including this years’ Round Up winner, Ali Johnson, captain of the Tiara 3900 Surly Mermaid.

Recap of Day 1: Entrants departed from home ports up and down the coast and fished their way to Pyramid Cove at San Clemente Island. By the 5:30 p.m. weigh in deadline many anglers came in with a variety of fish to weigh, including blue fin tuna, yellow fin tuna, Dorado, yellowtail, and Calico Bass. Hula Girl and Surly Mermaid both jumped to the head of the pack, followed closely by Temptation.



After weighing the fish the crew of the Pacific Provider treated our guests to delicious appetizers and special cocktails including the “San Clemente Sling” and “Pescador Punch” before a grand dinner on the aft deck.

After a hard day on the water, Drew the chef on Pacific Provider, knew just what to cook up, making the perfect end to a wonderful day of fishing.

Recap of Day 2: 

The day started off with breakfast delivered from the Pacific Provider to the boats that were still in the anchorage at 6 a.m



















Radio chatter was alive and well and the even the Navy got in the game "buzzing" some boats as they enjoyed a day in the sun fishing.






















By the end of the day several boats came in with fish to be weighed and winners were crowned.






















The evening was completed with a western themed barbeque dinner, freshly brewed Deschutes Mirror Pond IPA and Black Butte Porter and an array of giveaways from our generous sponsors.

























Ali Johnson and her Surly Mermaid took top honors in the tuna division with a 36.5 albacore and also won top lady angler and high boat. Chad Seeman and the crew of Hula Girl was a close second, taking largest Dorado with a 16 pounder and top men’s angler.




























Jewell Lure released the only marlin of the event, capturing the billfish division
























Temptation took the yellowtail division with a 14 pounder,
























and John Galli on Kathleen was the calico bass champion with a 5 pound bass.

Jack and Kristian Sloan shared the top junior award, each landing identical albacore aboard the Sharks Parlour.



"We would like to give a special thanks to Tom Ellsworth and the crew of Pacific Provider,

Viking Yachts 

and all of our sponsors for their participation.






























We would not have succeeded without you," said Anthony Hsieh, CEO of Crow's Nest Yachts.