where it all began
Initially, the local motorboats Andesa, from Commander José Thomaz, and Paola, from Commander Paulo Ramalho, started searching the seas South of Cabo Frio. They adventured in longer oceanic distances with great results, and inspired some of the club’s fishermen – such as Commander Denison Duque Silva, from Dang, Commander Carloman Maia de Oliveira, from Baccarat, Commander Leonardo Bochner from Binoca, and more – to explore and study this new perspective.
With encouraging results, under the regency of the Fishing Director Carloman Maia de Oliveira, the organizing group of the Cabo Frio Marlin Invitational Tournament was built, composed by the diretor himself, Denison Duque Silva, João Franklin Neto and Hélio Barroso.
From 1994, the tournament was played during the summer, in two diferent phases exclusively destined to the blue marlin fishing.
THE FIRST EDITION
The following teams participated at the first edition of the tournament, executed in 1994:
ANDESA
BACCARAT
BOM DE BICO
DAMG
MISS FLAMENGO
PAOLA
PATTY
SARGAÇO
Motorboat Miss Flamengo
Champion of the first edition of Cabo Frio Marlin Invitational Tournament in 1994
THE CHAMPION
TEAM:
MISS FLAMENGO
CAPTAIN:
HÉLIO BARROSO
SECOND PLACE
TEAM:
DANG
CAPTAIN:
DENISON SILVA
THIRD PLACE
TEAM:
BACCARAT
CAPTAIN:
CARLOMAN OLIVEIRA
why invitational?
The oceanic fishing in the region was casual and individual, until a group of associates decided to create the “Cabo Frio Marlin Invitational Tournament”. The word INVITATIONAL meant that the invitation was indispensable for those that wanted to take part, either associates or members of the congenial clubs, because of the docking limitations of the club, given the large number of accessions, atracting motorboats from Santos, Ilhabela, Vitória and Salvador.
Joao Franklin, Captain of Sargaço and his 145kg Bigeye Tuna captured in Cabo Frio in 1994.
In 2001, under the regency of Delta Madureira, Mauricio Paixão e João Franklin Machado Filho, ten of the best captains of the world were invited to take part of the tournament, that now had it’s first international edition, attracting the interest of italian, french and american fishermen on the following years.
Motorboats berthed at the docking pier of the club in Cabo Frio
world landmark
On the eight edition of the Tournament, held in 2001, fishermen Eurico Soares from Team Komplot of captain José Wagner, captured the Largest Blue Marlin of Brasil in oficial fishing tournaments, with 575kg. It placed Brazil between the five regions of the world where the largest blue marlins are captured, and the tournament gained prestige internationaly.
The capture of the 575kg Blue Marlin in Cabo Frio, a city that has one of the largest areas for oceanic fishing in the world, encouraged sport fishing and became a tourist attraction after the instalation of a replica of that fish on the Boulevard Canal in 2012. At the time, it’s meat was donated to the city’s charity institutes.
“During an hour and 40 minutes we fought very hard to bring it to the boat. It was a fight that a fishermen with so much experience like me wouldn’t forget, because for the first time i thought the fish could beat me, and then, 50 more minutes to board it. It was very exhausting. All that under the afternoon sun.”
Said Eurico to "Jornal Livre" a local newspaper.
Komplot Team
Eurico poses next to the 575kg Blue Marlin.
The sculpture with 3,80m, manufactured in fiberglass with a metallic structure by the visual artist from Cabo Frio, Marina Vergara. In 2018 the City Hall realocated the sculpute that now can be found ate the Praia do Forte.
the champions
1993-2017
largest species
1993/1994
Marlin Azul – 241 Kg - Luis Carlos Nolasco MISS FLAMENGO
1994/1995
Marlin Azul – 294 Kg - Evandro Soares
BACCARAT
1995/1996
Marlin Azul – 307 Kg - Eduardo Aranha
SPLENDORE
1996/1997
Marlin Azul – 369 Kg - Alberto Quintaes
SUNSET
1997/1998
Marlin Azul – 481,6 Kg - Walter Godoy
ANDESA
1998/1999
Marlin Azul – 546,8Kg - Renato Gil Barbosa
LAUROCRIWA
1999/2000
Marlin Azul – 243 Kg - Luiz Carlos Almeida
SARGAÇO
2000/2001
Marlin Azul – 575 Kg - Eurico Soares
KOMPLOTT
2001/2002
Marlin Azul – 423 Kg -Walter Godoy
ANDESA
2002/2003
Marlin Azul – 349 Kg -Raphael Coutinho
TATI-I
2003/2004
Marlin Azul – 279,5Kg -Miguel Dórea
REGINA DÓREA
2004/2005
Marlin Azul – 420,5 Kg -João Victor Dias
VIRA LATA
2005/2006
Marlin Azul – 329,5 Kg -Paulo Vivacqua PICANTE
2006/2007
Marlin Azul – 477 Kg -Renato Gil Barbosa LAUROCRIWA
2007/2008
Marlin Azul – 464 Kg -Antônio Vilarejo
PONTA NEGRA
2008/2009
Marlin Azul – 477 Kg -Renato Gil Barbosa LAUROCRIWA
2009/2010
Marlin Azul – 464 Kg -Antônio Vilarejo
PONTA NEGRA
2010/2011
Marlin Azul – 349 Kg -Raphael Coutinho
TATI-I
2011/2012
Marlin Azul – 390 Kg -João Paulo T. da Costa PONTA NEGRA
2012/2013
Marlin Azul – 279,5Kg -Miguel Dórea
REGINA DÓREA
2013/2014
Marlin Azul – 349 Kg -Raphael Coutinho
TATI-I
credits
Conception / Project
Texas Produções
Content Revision
Eliseu Soares - Fishing Deartment Director
Mario Sergio de Queiroz - Fishing Department Manager
Content
Relíquias da Pesca Website
Livro História do ICRJ
Livro Tempos de Pesca
Fishing Department of ICRJ
Special Thanks
Vicente Arruda Filho
Collaboration
Mario Sérgio de Queiroz
Marcos Coelho
Translation
Fadrick Barroso