Tournament #5 Recap

What a weekend it was for fishing! With serious doubt if the weather would cooperate or not, tournament #5 turned out to be beautiful weather. The anglers going out on Saturday were rewarded with multiple billfish per boat. 


Pulling in at 7:45 pm Saturday evening, the Aly Gator & Wired Up had a lot to celebrate. Wired Up released six sailfish and one white. Ashleigh Pundt reeled in three of those sails and the white, while anglers AJ Hecker and Lan Ingram reeled in the rest. Aboard the Aly Gator junior Marlin Johnson released two white, Aly Gerloff & Gary Edwards released one more white each, totaling four white marlin for the boat. 


The Fin Stalker released two sailfish (caught by Laurie Soechting & Claudette Jordan) and one white marlin. Laurie also weighed in a dolphin at 21.25 lbs. which put her in second place in that division. 


Todd Hester made a solo trip aboard the Double Trouble and it paid off! Todd released the only blue of this tournament. He also released two sailfish. 


The Wildcatter gang reeled in three sailfish with D.A. Hughes III & Matt Jones on the rods. D.A. also weighed in a wahoo at 13.6 lbs. which landed him at third place in that category. 


Fishin Impossible and Tico Time also released one sailfish each. 

Tournament #4 Wrap Up

What a great weekend it was for fishing! With the Deep Sea Round Up going on and the CCBGFC Tournament #4, there were boats everywhere weighing in fish. Congratulations to all our members who won awards in the Deep Sea Round Up!

This tournament there were a total of 22 billfish released (2 blue marlin, 6 white marlin, and 14 sailfish).

Our first year member Bill Glendening released his first blue marlin aboard his boat, Cuz We Can. Bill's wife Cheryl also released 4 sailfish this tournament.

Also releasing sailfish were David & Laine Bradford, Ashleigh Pundt & D.A. Hughes, III.

Dylan Hester aboard the Double Trouble ended up with a great weekend! On Sunday Dylan caught a Grand Slam! Dylan also released a white marlin the day before.Congratulations Dylan!!


Alyssa Soechting on Finstalker released a white marlin, along with Wildcatter D.A. Hughes III. 


Ashleigh Pundt brought in the largest dolphin of the tournament, weighing in at 24.85 lbs. and caught on Wired Up. Overhauled brought in the second largest dolphin caught by Ray Pearson and weighing 17.65 lbs.


New member Karen O'Rear caught the second largest snapper weighing in at 12.15 lbs. aboard the Irish Jig. Also aboard the Irish Jig was Leigh Ann Irish who caught the largest snapper of the tournament at 12.30 lbs.

In the junior division Marlin Johnson & Hunter DeBerry both released white marlins. Marlin also released a sailfish.

Courtney Triplett on the Reel Easy caught the largest junior red snappers at 7.7 lbs and 7.4 lbs.

Marek Belcher aboard the Cuz We Can reeled in the largest wahoo of the tournament hitting the scale at 24.20 lbs.

Below are some pictures sent in by David Triplett and his crew aboard the Reel Easy. Thanks David for sending these in! If you have any pictures you would like to see posted here or to the website please email them to ccbgfc@ccbgfc.org.

See everyone for tournament #5!!