Posted on July 28th, 2024
The 2024 Big Fish Classic is in the books and it was an absolutely awesome event! I’m sitting here waiting for all the dough to be counted, but I know who the winners are so we’re gonna report out. I’ll add dollar amounts after the award ceremony, but here are your winners for the 2024 Big Fish Classic.
Biggest Fish
1st Place RoShamBo 535 Lb Blue Marlin
2nd Place. Primary Search. 305 Lb Bigeye Tuna
3rd Place MJs. 288 Lb Bigeye Tuna
Biggest Stringer
1st Place. MJs. 1077.5 Lbs
2nd Place. RoShamBo. 535 Lbs
3rd Place. Jacked Up. 458 Lbs
Biggest Yellowfin
1st Place. Reel Moore 118.5 Lbs
2nd Place. Euphoria. 110 Lbs
3rd Place. Billfisher. 74.5
Biggest Mahi
1st Place. Off the Hook. 27.5 Lbs
2nd Place. Undertaker. 26.5 Lbs
3rd Place. Reel Estate. 23 Lbs
Heaviest Billfish
Split Bill. 105.5 Lb Swordfish
away from the tournament, Dan Cavey and his crew had an awesome day of bottom fishing with the limit of sea bass from inshore structure.
Captain Dave Caffrey of On The Run charters has had a nice weekend with some bluefish and some keeper flounder.
Captain Mark Spagnola of Dusk to Dawn bow fishing, kept his shooters busy today with some nice rays from the south bay.
Captain Chris Mizurak of the Angler reported that fishing was so so today, but he was still able to put his anglers on some Seabass and a couple of keeper flounder.
Captain Monty Hawkins of the Morning Star enjoyed beautiful weather and good fishing on today’s trip.
Private charter? Naa, just a really light rail. Gorgeous day though. Jamie gave a pair of pyramids a push atop Al Berger’s Reef and off we went..
Tried mahi a couple times. Water near perfect for inshore these days & 77 degrees – even had flying fish. I had hope.
But no.
I expect we’ll have em back inshore again soon.
Wasn’t a mahi trip anyway so I quickly went back to plan A.
Sea bass bite was on.
Who can figure.
My six guys (Yup! 6!) caught almost every drop all day. Mark took bragging rights (and very little money!) for today’s pool.
We also had the very first under-9 inch male of 2024 today..
Calm.
Cool.
Great bite.
Wonderful day.
Tomorrow is a mahi trip advertised with sea bass as a back up. They’ve got to be here again any moment..
Hoping for pics of beautiful fish tomorrow!
Have openings for Tuesday’s cbass run…
Cheers,
Monty
three year old Peyton Corey got this Spanish mackerel after an osprey dropped it on the beach Right in front of him.
Dave, Jared, and David caught these keeper flounder between 17 1/2 and 21 inches in front of the commercial harbor on minnows.
Check out our new YouTube with a limit of flounder!!