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Inshore Challenge: Welcome

Welcome to the fifth year of the Fisherman’s Post Newspaper Spring Inshore Challenge. We hope you'll decide to join us this year for a weekend full of activities. We’ll provide your food and drink both Friday and Saturday night, and then we offer numerous ways you can win some money (paying out 15 spots in flounder, 10 spots in trout, and a host of other prize category payouts).

The goal of Fisherman’s Post Newspaper and its sponsors has been to create a fun-filled, premiere inshore fishing event. We hope you catch fish, visit with old friends, make some new friends, and have a good time.

For your convenience, our tournament is structured with no check-outs and no boundaries, and the weigh-in will once again be at Wrightsville Beach Marina. And, as always, this tournament is the weekend before Memorial Day weekend.

This year we’ve continued on a popular feature of our tournament—the live flounder and live trout bonus payouts. Once again we’re paying out a $20 bonus for every flounder and trout weighed in alive that makes the leader board. Our sponsors have been quick to back this feature of our tournament, and we’re grateful for their support.

Last year over 90% of the fish brought to our scales came in alive. The trout were released and the flounder were either released or donated to local flounder hatcheries. This year we will once again donate some of the fish for stock enhancement and renourishment, and then release the others.

So by fishing in our tournament, you will be part of a larger, long term effort to help build up and sustain our local fishery.

And another nice perk of the Spring Inshore Challenge is the winners of the tournament are guaranteed a photo appearance on the Memorial Day cover of Fisherman’s Post Newspaper. Win our tournament. Make the cover. Guaranteed.

Our beneficiary is the Cape Fear Community College Sea Devil Club, the backbone of support for CFCC’s Athletic Program. The primary mission of CFCC Athletics is to serve the needs of CFCC students by providing quality student-athlete programs, each program being built on a foundation of integrity, excellence, and scholarship. Playing sports helped me grow as a person, and we’re proud to support the work of CFCC’s Athletic Program.

In addition to our participants, the success of the Spring Inshore Challenge lies in the efforts of our sponsors, supporters, and volunteers. Please let them know that you appreciate their involvement and dedication to the inshore fishermen of southeastern North Carolina.

Thank you all for your continued support of Fisherman’s Post Newspaper and the Spring Inshore Challenge. Please come up and say hello at the tournament.

Gary Hurley
Tournament Director & Publisher of Fisherman's Post