Big finish on Day 1
October 1st, 2007, 6:49 pm · Post a Comment · posted by williamh
After a slow start Monday morning, the 59th annual Destin Fishing Rodeo had a big finish with 66 fish total weighed for the first day.
At 6:45 p.m. there were five boats waiting in line to weigh their fish - Cari Lynd, Miss Willie May, First Light, Big John and Perfect Shot. And that’s not counting the folks that walked up with fish from party boats or catches they reeled in off the pier.
The two biggest fish of the day were brought in on the Big John with Capt. Todd Allen. First his crew pulled out a 14-pound scamp. Then they brought out the big guns. Angler John Martin weighed in a 56.4-pound warsaw grouper and then a 61-pound grouper to take two top spots on the leaderboard. Capt. Allen said they caught the two big fish about an hour apart in about 320 feet of water.
The first day finished up with Capt. Brady Bowman and the crew aboard the Perfect Shot hitting the docks last and claiming three spots on the leaderboard - black snapper (8.8 pounds), ladies amberjack (19 pounds) and triggerfish (4 pounds).
-Tina Harbuck
