Hit the vid for some info on the upcoming MidAtlantic Tournament at Sunset Marina!
We just finished up day 3 of the 3oth Annual Poor Girl’s Open and I have to say it was an awesome event! Congratulations to all of the 800 lady anglers on some awesome catches and congratulations to Shawn Harman, the Harman family and everyone at Bahia Marina and FishTales that helped put this tournament together once again this year. To date the Poor Girl’s Open has donated more than $2 Million to the American Cancer Society so they are the biggest winners of all. Here are your 2024 Poor Girl’s Open winners!!
Billfish Release
1st Place Sea Hag 8 White Marlin Releases
2nd Place Cabana 6 White Marlin Releases
3rd Place Pachanga 5 White Marlin Releases
Tuna
1st, 2nd and 3rd Place Sushi 49.7, 49.5, 49.0
Mahi
1st Place Espadon 53.3 Lbs
2nd Place Prime Hook 30.3 Lbs
3rd Place Nauti Norwegian 30.2 Lbs
Wahoo
1st Place WOP 49.2 Lbs
2nd Place All In 42.8 Lbs
3rd Place Restless Lady II 18.9 Lbs
Jr Angler
Ava Helwig 2 White Marlin Releases
Away from the tournament Captain Monty Hawkins of the Morning Star had a great trip for mahi today.
Mahi Mayhem 8/17/24
Not a lot of boats out. NOAA’s calling for small craft warnings today was an April Fools joke of sorts – was beautiful off there as I thought and wrote it would be. Of course, with Ernesto’s 4 to 7ft looooong period swell*, I wanted a flood tide both departing and returning to minimize slop at the mouth of the inlet. Got it too.
When swells are rolling in and the current rushing out?
Oyyy..
Danger.
Instead? Inlet was nice. Ocean was beautiful.
Ryan and Andy did the deed on our mini-block unit at Lucas Alexander’s Reef.
Man, talk about Reef Builder’s Karma – today’s heaviest mahi took both their hooks–they both had him on; they won the pool & Reef Raffle too!
Dern sure nice to see absolute mayhem on the rail again.
By far our best day of mahi fishing this season.
Cheers,
Monty
*If 4 ft waves have a 5 or 6 second period – distance between tops (actually I think the measure the troughs – but tops are easier to discern) it’ll be ROUGH!
If 12 ft swells have a 14 second period? Nice day on the rip, but be careful around the inlet.
Captain Tony Battista of Saltwater Adventures had Skip Courtney of Sunset Provisions, Skip’s son Mike and his grandson Keegan MacHeachen on board this morning when Keegan used a live spot to catch this very nice 23.5″ flounder that weighed just over 4 pounds.
Won some money and caught a limit of flounder last week….check it out!!
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