Posted on July 30th, 2018
I just returned from a long night at the 5th Annual HUK Big Fish Classic tournament and I have to say it was an exciting third day of action. We had a feeling on Friday when we found out that 65 of 67 boats would be fishing the second 32 hour window that scales action today might be crazy and we were right. We saw just about every offshore fish that we catch off of Ocean City at the scales today including white marlin, round scaled spearfish, blue marlin, swordfish, yellowfin tuna, bluefin tuna, bigeye tuna and wahoo. Money switched hands several times and in the end the big winners were the crew of the Reel Tight who weighed a nice blue marlin and received a check for over $240,000! Here’s how things kind of shook out. Thanks to Kristin Lewis for the photos!
Billfish Release Moore Bills 9 White Marlin $8,820
Small Boat Primary Search 188 Lb Swordfish $9,090
Heaviest Dolphin No Quarter 36.5 Lbs $14,850
Heaviest Wahoo Tail to Tale 51.5 Lbs $11,610
Heaviest Tuna Michael Joe 120.5 Lbs $21,060
3rd Place Big Fish Underdog 354.5 Lb Blue Marlin $19,590
2nd Place Big Fish Bent Tent 379.5 Lb Blue Marlin $48,725
1st Place Heaviest Fish / Heaviest Yellowfin Reel Tight $244,095
Outside of the tournament the crew of the Spring Mix II with Captain Chris Watkowski and mate Ayrton “The Kayak Kid” Pryor had a good day in the Washington Canyon putting their crew on one yellowfin tuna and three nice mahi.
Yesterday Captain Kurt Howell had a good day of fishing putting Robert Wieczorkowski on his first white marlin and adding a couple of yellowfin tuna for the box. Fishing with Kurt were Robert Wieczorkowski Sr. and Jr., Corey Cook and Paul Carlini.
Captain Chase Eberle of Chasin’ Tides Charters had some fun catch and release inshore shark fishing releasing some sandbar and sand tiger sharks.
Captain Chris Mizurak of the Angler had a good day of fishing today over ocean structure when he put his anglers on some quality sea bass and flounder on squid and strip baits.
Captian Monty Hawkins had a good day of “fluking” today over ocean structure as well. The report came in something like this…..Deer Editir, Demens flukes bitz a bit dis day. Piced are Linda Swinehart Of Pitman, PA – Carla Kotsifakis Of OC – Ryan Lignelli Of Mt Airy MD – Celso Villenvedo Of Ocean View De – Bill Evans (pool 21.25 inch) Ocean View – Beau Hagen Evers of Richmond – Bill Walsh of shuttered insane asylum – Jim Hagan Elliot City MD – And Flounder George Henning of OC
Cut bait – Gulp – squid strips & clam on Nat reef/Wreck
Cheers!
Captain Monty also did some great work on a reef in memory of our dear friend and couldn’t have worded the Facebook post any better…Just sank a barge In Memory Of Capt. Jack Kaeufer.. While standing by waiting for air bubbles to clear for a perfect set of gps coordinates I swore I saw triggerfish on my sounders..
Yup, it’s going to be a great place to freedive, Fish, and scuba.
We’ll drop thousands of reef blocks at Jack’s Reef too. Soon mussels & bryzoa will grow, then coral in their slow pace.
Thanks to all who support our reef constructions: thanks tonight especially to the many who donated generously in honor of Jack.
Going to be a great reef – Promise.
If you would like to make a donation to help build reef off of Ocean City you can check out the Ocean City Reef Foundation on their website here…..ocreefs.org
Captain Marc Spagnola of Dusk to Dawn Bowfishing had another good day of shooting with action on cow nosed and southern rays in the back bay.
