FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 2025
VOLUME 119, No. 23
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Eli Slater Fisherman of the Year 2025, has been fishing for over 50 years.
by KENVILLE HORNE ELI SLATER, who hails from the South Leeward Community of Clare Valley, has earned the title of Fisherman of the Year 2025. In the fishing competition that formed part of the annual Fisherman’s Day activities, Slater and his crew, in a vessel named Ingeli 2, returned a total catch of 988.8 pounds, including the heaviest single catch, a yellow fin tuna weighing
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Eli Slater’s boat – the Ingeli 2, which landed the heaviest total catch for the day. 123.6 pounds. The activities were held at the Calliaqua grandchildren. I have two grand girls wife that since Clare Valley was Fisheries Complex on Whit (Eliana and Elisha) in England. So, I getting so much fish these last days, Monday, June 09, 2025. told her this year I’m going to work I’ll just take the bait from Clare Slater’s entry in the earlier towards them. Whatever I accomplish Valley and go straight south-west.” staged Beach Seine is for my two grandchildren.” The vessel stopped at some 17 competition also copped the Describing his day, Slater said he miles from shore and the men set top prize with an impressive and his crew left home at 1.30 a.m. on about their fishing. catch of 4,346 pounds of Monday with a positive outlook this “Normally I’ll set 9 miles of line. fish. after checking the weather and But because of the event today, I just Among the prizes deciding on their fishing spot. use 6 miles of the line. As you can see, associated with the “Normally I go far over Barley soil it’s worth it,” said the excited man. Fisherman of the Year title was to fish, but I told my villagers and my a 60 HP four-stroke Suzuki Continued on Page 3. outboard engine. Speaking with the API following the completion of the The day’s fishing single activities, heaviest Slater catch landed declared, “I by the Ingeli 2 – feel excited.” a yellow fin He related, tuna weighing “I told my 123.6 wife I would pounds. do all this for my