The Dirty Work rises again at the Tailwalker Tournament this weekend. We had a rough start not finding any bait south of Georgetown jetties, so we decided to go try to jig some bait up. Which all we could find was blue fish so we had to roll with that. We got our baits in the water about 8:30am. We had our first hook up at about 9:30 landing a 25lbs kingfish. So with that one in the bag we started hunting for a bigger one. At about 11:00am it hit. The fish came past all of our baits and took our longshort line. The fight was on. Amelia did a wonderful job, backing the drag off and taking her time. We knew this was a good fish the first time it came to the top. We finally got to stick the fish at about 11:30am. When Joe stuck it he knew that it was big. We got it in the boat and the celebration began. We decided to cut our day short and head to the scales. After waiting until 3:00pm we got to weigh in. When the scale top out at 41.40lb we knew that we had a fish that would be hard to beat. Saturday we backed it up with an 18Lb kingfish. We ended up winning the tournament and Amelia won lady angler:smiley:
That is a 41.10lb kingfish and you can see how small our feet are to the fish
Randy is about 5 10’ and holding the fish up for us to see how long it was!
Last year all divison three tournaments were won by SC Locals. One boat from Murrells Inlet, one from Moncks Corner, one from Beaufort and two from greater Charleston.
The year before they were all locally won excepting Savannah which was won by a north carolina boat. Two of the winners (tailwalker and charleston) were in 23’ boats.
Many of the folks I know who fish tournaments are or were builders and are struggling. Last year the gas prices deterred folks, this year the economy has deterred more people.
