B’Bugia is considered by Kingfisher match anglers a difficult venue to fish, due to the lack of fish available to catch in this bay. It all boils down to the amount of gill nets dropped into this coastal area, without any control whatsoever by the authorities concerned. For those who do not know what Gill nets are, they are long nets having a very small mesh, dropped into the sea by commercial and amateur fisherman. The mesh to these nets is so small that all fish big or small are caught from the gills, with the little fish killed and disregarded many a time.

Match was set for Sunday 7^th May at 5.00am, with a total of 30 anglers participating in this years singles league. On arrival it was evident that we would need to fish hard to obtain a considerable weight. This due to the fact that all the coastal shore had gillnets dropped some 100 meters off shore. 

The horn to start the match blew at 6.00 am, and the splashes of ground bait balls could be heard all around as we baited our areas to try attract whatever fish was available in the area. An hour later and the news started to spread that over Pretty bay area the mullet had shown up, with Adrian Nelson and Freddy Cassar landing the first few decent fish. Not long after a beautiful 1 kilo Awrata caught and landed by Darren Vella off the sandy bottom using a technique known to anglers as running ledger, this fish now registering to be the biggest fish of the season. As time passed those fishing San Gorg to Gorbachov monument area found it very difficult to catch good weights, with less than a kilo registered by any member, in this area. Here, the benefit of the point system, were those registering low weights can still obtain a number of points, for the section would have had all anglers registering low weights. The point system keeps the league interesting till the last match held in December, many a time with only a point or two difference between the first three leading anglers. 

Fish caught on the day-included mullet, bouge (vopi), horse mackerel (sawrell) and a number of bream and wrasse. The winners to this event were Adrian Nelson with 2.1kg, Jonathon Cassar 1.31kg and Darren Vella 1.16kg. The section winners to this event were Freddy Cassar, Neville Vassallo, John Attard, Stefan Borg and Clayton Camilleri. All winners were presented with trophies and vouchers sponsored by Mister Fish.

 All live fish were released back to their habitat, and the dead fish given to an orphanage to be consumed.