The victory of the Spanish team of Cesar Pecellin and Juan Vigara was the big surprise of the Classic Bass competition, held at Alqueva dam in Portugal. The Spanish winners didn't start off very well, however. On the first day the Portuguese teams took the best part on the classification board with a first place for Plínio Gonçalves and Paulo Vales with five fish that weighed 6.630 kg. Manuel Mariano and Fernando Silva took the second position with five fish weighing 5.810 Kg.
Bruno Nazareth and João Neves where third place with a limit of bass weighing 5.750 Kg. César Pecellin and Juan Vigara were in fourth with 5,560 Kg.
The second day of the event was not favourable for the Portuguese participants that were surprised by the performance of the Spanish teams, with José Iglesias Gascom and Sérgio Garcia Gelado winning the second run of the event, after capturing five fish weighing 5.479 Kg. After a tough first day of fishing, João Grosso and Fernando Cruz managed to end the second day in the second place with five fish with a total weight of 5.030 Kg. As for Joaquim Moio and Herminio Rodrigues, they ended in the third place on this second day with 4.960 Kg and César Pecellin and Juan Vigara took the fourth place with 4.26o Kg. Despite taking fourth on day two, they managed to catch the victory at the end of the event.
So César Pecellin and Juan Vigara are the big winners of this Classic Bass Soner Nitro Tracker Marine, with a total of 9.820 of bass captured. Plínio Fonseca and Paulo Vales took the second place with 9.060 Kg. And António ramos and Júlio Teresa were on the third position with 8.760 Kg. As for José Iglesias gascon and Sérgio Garcia Gelado ended with a fourth place with a total of 8.700 Kg. On the top five board bottom we had the Portuguese team Joaquim Moio and Herminio Rodrigues with a total of 8.310 Kg, the weight of 9 fish captured in the two day competition.
Filipe Campos, another competitor, captured a bass with 2.130 Kg, that gave him the prize for best bass of this Classic Bass Soner Nitro Traker Marine.
At the end, César Pecellin reminded that this was not a easy work because "the Portuguese teams show a good level of competition and they know Alqueva very well".
The Japanese team Seiji Kato and Hiroshi Takahaski, absolute beginners in this Classic Bass, ended with the 24th place with 3.440 Kg and ten bass captured. But Seiji Kato showed himself impressed by the quality of the Portuguese anglers and of the organization. The Japanese competitor, that flew over from Japan to Portugal in an 18-hour plane trip, appreciated that the organization took care of everything from the boats revision to the work with the participants".
Seijio Kato received lots of applauses by the public in Alqueva that crowded the place and exploded with every single bass present by in the competitors.
A last word for Soner people that work very hard for this Classic Bass so that we can offer a boat to the winners, believing in the work that APPA has developed in the last years.