CFFF 1.5 Posted April 8, 2007 Posted April 8, 2007 Yesterday me and my fishing partner fished our second tournament ever. The day started out really crappy, I forgot to put the plug in the boat so we started out with some water in the boat, but the bilge took care of that. Then the weather was nasty I live in C. Fla and the weather saturday was in the 40's and winds up to about 30 mph. We started out in a spot where we caught fish the week before pre-fishing but didn't catch any, so we moved to a different spot and caught a few dinks, by 10:00 we had no keepers in the boat, then we started catching a bunch of fish most were sub 14" but we managed to put the 5th keeper in the boat 5 minutes before weigh-in. We were 12th to weigh in so we waited around for a little bit. From how everyone else was talking is sounded like we were the only boat to catch a limit. We get to weigh in and one of our fish ended up being 1/8" short so we get disqualified from the tournament. If the 5th fish wasn't short we would have taken 2nd and if we would have kept 4 we would have taken 3rd. There were 23 total boats in the tournament so we did really well for only this being our second tournament. Next tournament is next month. For anyone living in the area the tournament club is the Deltona Small boat club. The club is for boats 17' and smaller and engines of 40 hp or less, so it is good for people with smaller boats. It is fun but there is come competition also, if anybody wants some info about fishing it just ask me. Has anybody gotten disqualified from the tournament for having a short fish. If we would have taken 3rd place we would have won about $100. So it kind of sucks that we kept that fish, but there is always next time. Quote
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