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Originally Posted by azapa
thanks Spago. You know the Chileans MUST be going, but I also KNOW they have no money to check the place out first.
I will try to find out who the team will be. The recent nationals (to decide who goes) in Antofagasta, north of Chile, have been canceled first due to pathetic bureaucratic and organizational issues, and now due to HORRIBLE storms we have been having in the ocean.
As you may guess, Chileans do well in crappy, cold, current filled water with 1 to 5Kg fish. I'm not hoping for too much in VE! But of course, I'll be hoping for a team, or individual win!
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It's not going to be easy for the italians, as well. Conditions, fish and techniques will be totally different than ours over here.
Our team did good in Brazil 2002 and even better in Chile 2004, but this world champs in Venezuela are gonna be much different. It looks like the typical sort of Caribbean hunting situation, with a few very big fish to hunt with very powerful guns. One of our team members reported that he tried to shoot a 30kg tarpon from 2 meters with a double bands Cayman: he aimed to the gill plate, but the 6,5mm shaft just bounced back. He checked and the shaft was BENT!!! Not exactly the mediterranean type of situation...
