Photos from Tournament #2

Thanks to Relax, Let it Ride, and Irish Jig for sending us these photos from Tournament#2!

Blue released aboard "Let It Ride" 

Snapper and King caught aboard "Irish Jig"

Sailfish caught aboard "Relax"

Tournament #2 Results are in! Three blues and one sail released

Tournament #2 is done and the results are in!

*These results are unofficial. For the official tournament results please see the club website.

After tournament #1 was cancelled, members were ready to get out on the water for tournament #2! With 12 boats weighing in the weighmaster’s saw a lot of snapper along with some king, ling, dorado and wahoo.

Red Snapper – 35 weighed

Dorado – 7 weighed

Wahoo – 5 weighed

King – 2 weighed

Ling – 2 weighed

The heaviest Red Snapper weighed 19.40 lbs. and was caught by Leigh Ann Irish aboard the Irish Jig. Leigh Ann also caught the second and third heaviest snappers with a 18.75 lbs. one and a 17.30 lbs snapper.

The largest Dorado was caught by Bryan Richter aboard the Let It Ride and weighed 19.3 lbs. The crew aboard Reel Passion caught the second and third heaviest dorados. Wayne Crawford and Elfriede Crawford both caught 2.35 lbs. dorados. Wayne takes second place with his fish, measuring 22 ¼ inches in length. Elfriede’s fish measured 22 inches.

A junior caught the heaviest Wahoo on Over Hauled. Omar Angel weighed in a 33.75 lbs. fish measuring 51 inches long! Aly Gerloff caught the second place wahoo aboard the Aly Gator.  Her fish weighed 15.5 lbs. and measured 41 ¾ inches in length. The third place wahoo was caught by John Meyer aboard Let It Ride and weighed 12.10 lbs.

Only two Kings were weighed in. First place king goes to Leigh Ann aboard the Irish Jig. Her king measured 49 ¼ inches in length and weighed 37.45 lbs. Junior Omar caught the second king that weighed 8.95 lbs. and was 33 ¾ inches long.

The only two Lings weighed in were caught aboard Wired Up. AJ Hecker’s fish weighed 20.85 lbs. and Ashleigh Pundt’s ling weighed in at 13.85 lbs.

Four billfish were released this tournament (3 blues and 1 sailfish) for a great start to the season!

Let It Ride released two blue marlins and anglers were John Meyer and Bobby Richter. Cool Blue and Darlene Beeson released one blue marlin and Colton Floyd aboard the Relax released a sailfish early in the morning.

We hope all our members had a great tournament and got to enjoy a good day of fishing! Our next tournament is June 23^rd, this is the same date as the Texas Billfish Championship as well. Have a great week and we’ll see you on the dock!