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Man after a week in Miami, Honolulu and Charleston, I was ready for some fishing action. My lil buddy (Tincan) prefished for us on Friday telling me stories of 25" trout and mass quantities of redfish, I was ready for a relaxing day on the gulf, in a tournament

I arrive at the ramp to see that Tincan had won the race to the ramp and had the front parking spot. . I load my stuff in to the boat, borrow some ice from Birddog and talked to Bay Gator before the mass of boats exit the basin.

We sped across the bay in the early morning light, coming off plane to a wonderful dance of mullet and near slick water. We start the day off chunking topwaters with alot of short strikes, we land a few trout and some redfish.

Spent the most part of the day in the back of the bay, fishing here and there...Looking for some good fish, never really found any good fish, like there was a few weeks back.

We were fishing along some spotty bottom and I saw the first of many masses of redfish....I see the school first from my perch and fire down range as I alert Tincan ...I hook up...Tincan hooks up....I see a nice rod and reel at my feet ....I stick my hooked rod between my legs, pick up the other rod and fire it into the melee and hook up ...I now I have two redfish on and only two hands....As by design Tincan loses his fish and I being the partner that I am, give him a rod with a fish to reel in

If you want to catch a redfish, I would say you need to goto St. Joe, we saw many, many, many schools of redfish...We also saw alot of big sharks, so you potential scallopers beware

We ran across one of the many schools of redfish and I fired into the sea of red...Hooked up, landed the fish and to my surprise the 26 7/8" redfish had 5 spots, so we threw it into the livewell...It was good enough to win us the most spots side bet with Birddog.

I cracked myself up with Tincan after lunch....I tied on a clown colored jerk bait, Tincan says, "What is that?" I say, "It's a clown, you know everybody loves a clown." I fire the lure down range and get a bite...I tell Tincan,"See, I told you everyone loves a clown, you know it's true, everyone likes you." I laughed for a few minutes over that one.

All in all it was a great day, we caught some trout, redfish and had alot fun, can't wait til next time (maybe tomorrow )...Thanks for the ride Tincan, had a blast

Man...wish I could have been there. I got to paint the house, put together a pack 'n' play...clean the garage...do some dishes...trim the hedge...I wanna go fishin'. So who won?

I don't remember exact names..I"m sure JT51 will give the low down....The difference between 1 & 2 was like .01 ounces...we had 4 or 5 teams over 11 pounds...We had 9.39 lbs

Gotta love the double hook up I'm sure TC appreciated you helping him out

That double pole catch and TC reeling in is got to be a tourney violation

High Hope wrote:That double pole catch and TC reeling in is got to be a tourney violation

Redfish wasn't part of the tournament

I guess with all that stiff competition you don't have time for pics.

That was a real nice red Chalk... All we could find were doubles...even caught one red twice

Rest of the story: Chalk let the big red go at the end of the day....about 6 folks ran over with nets hoping it would float back up one more time

Tough trout finding but fun tourney. And the reds...they were real and they were spectacular

It's always an adventure when fishing with Chalk. As usual, partner, it was a blast.

I pre fished Friday. All I can say is Friday was a much better day for trout. Capt. Fred, owner of Presnells, commented Saturday, after the tournament, the trout fishing is always tough when the water is as high as it was.

We had 16 boats participate in the tournament. The competition was fierce. The top weights were close. It was a heck of a tournament. Thanks to all who participated.

Place Name # of Fish Big Fish Weight Points
1 Casey Cook 5 3.71 11.71 50
Nick Nadarvich 5 3.71 11.71 50

2 Brian Showman 5 3.05 11.70 49
Rod Banua 5 3.05 11.70
Charles Heller 5 3.05 11.70

3 Larry Cobb 5 4.75 11.66 48
Clayton Brunson 5 4.75 11.66 48
Andy Brunson 5 4.75 11.66 48

4 Robbie Green 5 3.52 11.53 47
Bill Palmer 5 3.52 11.53 47

5 Dale Evans 5 3.04 11.36 46
Erica Bunch 5 3.04 11.36 46

6 Butch Taylor 5 3.18 10.78 45
Steve Taylor 5 3.18 10.78 45

7 John Wiley 5 2.93 10.43 44
Taylor Sherman

8 Jeff Suber 5 3.21 9.83 43

9 Jeff Trent 5 2.72 9.80 42
Austin Trent 5 2.72 9.80 42
Chuck Collins 5 2.72 9.80 42

10 John Vickers 5 2.68 9.38 41
Jim Chalkley

11 Ron Wilson 3 2.96 5.44 40
Britani Wilson 3 2.96 5.44 40
Alex

12 Alan Casselman 2 2.20 3.98 39
Taylor Casselman
Dawson Engstrom

13 Andy Smith 3 1.48 3.96 38
Srew Smith 3 1.48 3.96 38
David Mullis
Howard Goldstein 3 1.48 3.96 38

14 Dawn Dennis 2 1.69 3.10 37
Craig Dennis 2 1.69 3.10 37

15 Mike Melton 2 1.48 2.88 36
Colby Melton 2 1.48 2.88 36
Taylor Knapp

16 Derek Terry 25
Eve Dees 25

That was awful nice of you to let TC reel one in

Points and results have been posted on NFGFC.org.

That's a whole lotta fish fellas

What a difference a day makes! Good showing in the points though

Chalk wrote: borrow some ice from Birddog

Borrowed hell. That ice is gonna cost you exactly $90. I was running a special this weekend.