Burnt out Sunburned Swordfish Tournament

[Skip Smith]

Chage of dates! August 2, 2008

The new Sword Club Outing Rules

1. Two seperate divisions.
2. You may register for the outing at the following locations:
RJ Boyle Studio (954.420.5001) ,Deerfield Beach.
Global Fish Mounts of Pompano Beach (954-942-1417),
or send an email to skip@customshootout.com
3. This is a boat outing not an angler tournament.
4. Two fish may be weighed per boat. Cumulative weight wins.
5. Official tournament channel is VHF 72.
6. Conventional Rod and Reel as well as Electric Reels are permitted per their divisions. Non-Electric Reel boats will be inspected at the weigh-in
7. No buoy gear is permitted.
8. All fish will be reported through the SESC yearly outing.
9. Boats may leave from their home port.
10. Boundaries for fishing:
Government Cut is the South Boundary
Boynton inlet is the North Boundary
11. Lines in at 11am
12. Lines out at 7pm. If you are still hooked up at 7pm you must contact the committee boat.
13. Scale will open at 6pm and close at 9pm.
14. The weigh station will be at ?
15. All hookups must be called in at the time of the hookup.
16. Eligible swordfish for the weighed category must be 47 inches short length measurement. (a NMFS legal fish)
17. In the event of a tie, the first boated fish will be the tie breaker.
18. Bad weather will postpone the outing to Sunday Aug 3rd.
19. All participants who enter the outing do so at their own risk.


RELEASE CATEGORY:
In an effort to promote conservation Global Fish Mounts will donate a 60 inch swordfish mount to the boat with the most released swordfish- Time dated digital photos required to win the prize.

We will try and have a pop-up tag available during the tournament too

[Skip Smith]

LHP marina has given us a price to use the dock that we cannot afford (almost 4 figures)

We need some ideas for another location.

Help!

[Disco Lady]

Ñoooooooooooo!!!! thats alot of Mula....Skip.

[OFFDUTYpushbutton]

14th street, Hillsboro Inlet Marina(maybe Capt. Skip Dana can help), Lauderdale Marina

[NightCrawler]

Skip call the Sands on the intracoastal and Atlantic blvd. That is where we have our club (PBOA pompano beach offshore anglers) weigh-ins.
There's plenty of dock space, A nice area to the left of the bar to setup the scale. We usually have the capt meeting and awards ceremony there too.

It's a win-win for the sands since we spend money on food and drink.
Call them or I can give you a contact to our club officials, maybe they can help.

ps. only thing is not sure about how you would setup the kinda scale you would need
to weigh one of the slobs that are sure to be caught??

[Broadbill-Pro]

Fairly sure we have an offloading site, will know today.

What we will need is a truck with some type of lifting device for a few hours. The truck will be able to park close enough to the seawall to lift the fish off the boat.

Make sure it has your Company name on it as the weigh-in will probably be televised

[Skip Smith]

Thanks for all the help everyone!

It looks like we have a place and a truck due to Vinny & Ron working their sources.

We will let you know the details as soon as we confirm everything.

Thanks guys!

[CaptKen]

18. Bad weather will postpone the outing to Sunday July 20th.

[billspilingup]

Ummm... the weather date is before the actual tournament?

It's been corrected. Nevermind.

[Broadbill-Pro]

Tournament will be held on August 2nd. Weigh-in will be between 6-9pm at the Fish City Marina (+/-200' South of the Hillsboro Inlet Charter dock).

[Skip Smith]

You can get an entry form by sending me an email or go to RJ Boyle's shop and pick one up there.

skip@customshootout.com

We have had 6 boats ask for entry forms so far. Three of them have signed up at RJS.
One for the Manual division.

The weather report looks good too.
SATURDAY
SOUTH WINDS 5 TO 10 KNOTS. SEAS 2 FEET OR LESS.
INTRACOASTAL WATERS A LIGHT CHOP. SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS.

[OFFDUTYpushbutton]

We're in fishing with O-Sea-D! Looking forward to putting one in the boat!

[billspilingup]

Best of luck to everyone!

[OFFDUTYpushbutton]

Any updates on number of boats or anything??

[Broadbill-Pro]

RJ says the number of boats looks better than last year.

Good luck to everyone, weather looks awesome.

SATURDAY...SOUTHEAST WINDS 5 TO 10 KNOTS. SEAS 2 FEET OR LESS.
INTRACOASTAL WATERS A LIGHT CHOP.

SATURDAY NIGHT...SOUTHEAST WINDS AROUND 5 KNOTS BECOMING AROUND
10 KNOTS AFTER MIDNIGHT. SEAS 2 FEET OR LESS. INTRACOASTAL WATERS A LIGHT CHOP.

[Uncle Buck]

Will there be a captains' meeting?

[Skip Smith]

the Captain's meeting will be tonight at RJ's shop. The meeting will start at 5:55pm and it should be over by 6pm.

Quite a few people are coming by his shop to drop off their $$$ and entry forms at 6pm.

After that its off to the Cove for cocktails.



Well the meeting went great, 14? boats to battle it out.

[ballyhu]

So what happened??????

[OFFDUTYpushbutton]

Frick and Frack won with a 350 and change, Vitamin Sea was second with two fish for a total weight of 300 and change. The fish were definitely there. Someone switched our hooks with rubber ones, and we went 0-9 with a stretch where we had a bite on 7 consecutive drops. Can't get them every time!

[Skip Smith]

The weigh-in was a fantastic set up. Thanks to Vinnie and Ron for putting this together.

Jeff the owner of South Florida Diving Headquarters, South Florida Diving Headquarters
located at Fish City Marina was kind enough to let us use his dock and even moved his dive boat to make more room for us. What a first class operation.

He let one of our club members David Weiler back up his truck with a hydrolic davit on the back, right up to the seawall. We were able to pick each fish up right out of the boat with it, to weigh each fish.

Everyone that fished the Outing and that stopped by the docks said they had a great time! Most everyone caught fish or had plenty of bites and pulled off some nice fish.

The Tactical 1 released a 700 lb plus 6 gill shark.

RJ Boyle and crew on the Datsnasty, threw a 3/4 sword on the dock along with the Mako that ate it.

The Mako was 257.5 lbs and the Sword was over 100.

The following fish were weighed in:

1st place: Frick & Frack 357 lb fish
2nd place: Vitamin Sea with two fish, 147.5 and a 156. total of 303.5
3rd place: Tactical 1, 241.4 lb fish
4th place: Skirt Chaser, 85 lb fish.

Photos were taken by quite a few onlookers and hopefully someone will be able to post a few on here.

The Guts girls, Amy Heemsoth, Graduate Student, Oceanographic Center, Nova Southeastern University and her friend gutted every fish and took home their treasures to study.

Thanks to Ron, David and everyone that fished the event!