One of the highlights of the Destin Fishing Rodeo is watching the youngsters weigh in their fish. Some catch them off the charter boats, others off the pier and some right off the docks.

Just a little after 3 p.m. today, 11-year-old Jacob Bratcher of Kentucky along with his dad came walking up with a huge pinfish on a chain stringer. Weighmaster Bruce Cheves weiged in Bratcher’s fish and handed him a new rod and reel for his efforts. His pinfish weighed 1.2 pounds. This, however, isn’t Bratcher’s first Rodeo. Last year he weighed in a 2.2-pound catfish and the year before that another pinfish.

Bratcher, like all kids that enter a fish, received the new fishing gear and a certificate for his catch.

Just another way to show that everybody is a winner at the Destin Fishing Rodeo.

-Tina Harbuck

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