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Here are the winners of the Perry Optimist Club Tournament. Unfortunately, my 5.30 trout was a bit out of the running.

Trout 1st Mark Glow 7.15
Trout 2nd Paul Falcone 5.65
Trout 3rd Steve English 5.60

Red 1st Ross Brenner 8.05
Red 2nd Sam Roberts 7.90

Cobia 1st Shane Edward's 15.10

Youth Trout 1st Travis Straw 3.20
Youth Trout 2nd Abbigale Cope 2.90
Youth Trout 3rd Maicie Clark 2.50

Youth Red 1st Hunter Ross 6.25
Youth Red 2nd TJ Wilson 6.10

Good Fishin - Steve Stinson

Hard to believe a 15 lb cobia took it

those are nice inshore fish!

Quality fish for sure. Tough luck Steve, that yours didn't even make the leaderboard. It would have in most tournaments.

Salty Gator wrote:Hard to believe a 15 lb cobia took it

. For real. I saw a 50”er swim by our boat. It took a pin. Fight lasted about 2 seconds.


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SHOWBOAT wrote:those are nice inshore fish!

For sure. I found the weight of the first and second place reds a bit hard to believe. NFGFC fishes all year and we rarely see them over 7.5 lbs and still under 27 inches. We caught some reds, but none even close to the weights listed.

I caught a trout in it a few years back just over 29 inches and just under 6 pounds and didn't place I feel your pain.Makayla had the biggest shiner out the 3 weigh in lol.

We’re they pinching tails? Seen a couple 8# slot fish in our territory, but not a lot.

I don't know because we didn't weigh-in a red. The weigh in at Econfina was pretty relaxed. There were a lot of trucks, trailers and boats, and too many damn golf carts, but not a lot of folks actually weighing in fish.

SHOWBOAT wrote:We’re they pinching tails? Seen a couple 8# slot fish in our territory, but not a lot.

We weighed in a 25 inch red..... and yes they pinched the tail.