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Thursday, October 27th, 2005Team Marcia D, crewed by Capt. Perry Johnston, Don Wilsey, and Kristen Johnston (age 14) of Oak Island, NC, caught a kingfish Monday, Oct. 10, weighing 35 lbs. 3 oz. to win the Wal-Mart FLW Kingfish Tour event in Morehead City, where a field of professional kingfish anglers competed for a share of a $300,000 purse. Team Marcia D earned a first-place check for $70,000.
“We honestly didn’t think our fish from yesterday would hold up,” said Team Marcia D member Don Wilsey of Southport. “We thought it would be a top-five fish, since the weather’s been bad, but historically, a fish like that around here in October wouldn’t hold up.”
P. Johnston commented after the win, “The 33′ Hydra Sport in the best king mackerel boat on the market.”
Rounding out the top five teams were Team Slip N Slide captained by Tom Aberle of Wilmington, NC (33 pounds, 10 ounces, $35,000) Team Streaker captained by Roger Walker of Jacksonville Beach, FL (31 pounds, 1 ounce, $15,250); Team Early Riser captained by John Parks of Jacksonville, NC (27 pounds, 12 ounces, $16,500); and Team Young Guns captained by Harvey Way Jr. of Bunnell, FL (27 pounds, 10 ounces, $10,750).
Team Hannon’s Cannon captained by Kevin Hannon of Seminole, Fla., finished highest in the points standings at the end of the 2005 season. The team earned 544 out of a possible 600 points after finishing this event in 13th place with a kingfish weighing 25 pounds.
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Rumble in the Jungle KMT 2005
Thursday, October 27th, 2005The 2005 Rumble in the Jungle, a king mackerel tournament sponsored by the Little River Inlet Saltwater Fishing Club, was just held on their rain date of Oct. 22. They had 117 entrants, 52 fish brought to the scales, and paid out $45,916.00.
The overall winner was “2nd Mortgage,” a 26′ Hydra Sport out of Pittsboro, [...]
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Jacksonville Speckled Trout Tournament 2005
Thursday, October 27th, 2005The 3rd annual Jacksonville Trout Tournament, held out of the Marina Café in Jacksonville on Oct. 21-22, had 24 boats this year competing for the heaviest trout and the heaviest 10-fish (trout) aggregate.
Brent Banks, from Jacksonville, NC, took top honors in both the big trout and the aggregate divisions. He had a nine fish total [...]
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Calcutta Wahoo Challenge 2005
Thursday, October 27th, 2005The 1st annual Calcutta Wahoo Challenge was held Oct. 20-22, with the weigh-in and tournament headquarters at the Morehead City waterfront. The tournament, which raises money for the Take a Kid Fishing Foundation and Hospice Care in Carteret County, attracted 69 boats in its inaugural year.
Most of the fishing took place between the 400 [...]
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Fall Brawl KMT 2005
Thursday, October 27th, 2005The Fall Brawl King Mackerel Tournament, hosted by the Ocean Isle Fishing Center over the weekend of October 14-16, treated its participants to something KMT anglers haven’t seen too much of this fall-light wind and calm seas. Even with the favorable conditions, however, most boats stayed in close. After a Saturday and Sunday of fishing, [...]