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Kingfish Tournament News Delosa’s / Marshall Law Tames Sarasota With A 41.07!
Kingfish Tournament News Delosa’s / Marshall Law Tames Sarasota With A 41.07!
| Delosa’s / Marshall Law Tames Sarasota With A 41.07! |
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Sarasota, Florida—Jim Breazeale, Kevin Grissinger, and Morgan Domingue had a great day on the water winning the 15th Annual Sarasota Sertoma Kingfish Tournament, the opening event of Division Six on Florida’s west coast.
“There was still a ground swell when we checked out,” said Breazeale who fishes the Delosa’s / Marshall Law. “But by mid-day it was great; seas two feet or less.” The team has a special spot they’ve been fishing and it’s paying off. This is not unusual, many teams have use this method on Florida’s west coast in the spring. In fact, last year big fish stayed in the same spot for a couple of months, providing many teams the sweet smell of success. “It was early afternoon when our 41.07 ate a blue runner,” Breazevile explained. “Kevin was on the rod as we chased her down. Before we knew it, the king had run around the downrigger line. Kevin put the reel in free spool and managed to keep her on. She sliced the downrigger line but when you have a winning fish it didn’t matter.” After hanging the king on the scale the team still had to wait for the rest of the 70-boat field to clear the check-in boat and come to scale. About 15 minutes after five, Tournament Director Sandy Blowers supervised the scaling of the final fish of the afternoon and then proclaimed Delosa’s / Marshall Law the tournament winner. Thirty minutes later Jim, Kevin, and Morgan were presented a check for $7,400 with family and friends cheering them on. “This win belongs to Kevin who kept that fish hooked up,” Breazeale told everyone within earshot. “He did a super job!” The Delosa’s / Marshall Law, a Mercury powered Yellowfin, now sits atop the points race in Division Six but they are not alone. Several good teams are not that far behind. Like the Delosa’s / Marshall Law team, Tim Wooten and Doug Clark are off to a good start with a second place 38.47 fishing their Suzuki powered Everglades named Never Satisfied. To everyone’s surprise they caught her in deep water out of John’s Pass. Did anyone expect to see fish from the north? “She hit a blue runner 70 feet down about 12:30,” Clark told me. “Tim worked her to the boat. We didn’t think she was a winner but we were really surprised with second place.” Steve Papen’s Lagerhead team earned third place with a 38.35. Ironically, this team earned fourth last year with a little smaller fish. Papen, Doug Speeler Sr., Brian Simmons, and Brandon Fraley, have showed great consistency and will probably end up being one of the teams that qualify for the Championship out of two Divisions. The story of the weekend certainly has to revolve around John McLay and Scott Ballou. They were to fish McLay's Sea Craft, named Outta Line, in the Class of 23 but they had fuel problems before they even left the dock. A quick call to Sandy Blowers for a boat substitution and they launched a 16 foot bay boat. “We were forced to stay close to home,” said McLay. “We fished the Egmont Hole.” The fourth place overall with a 37.40, and first place Class of 23 winning team, hooked up at 3 o’clock. “She hit a ladyfish off the downrigger,” McLay added. “We got her to the boat and headed for Marina Jack’s in downtown Sarasota. One of the top teams in the country, Jack Penny’s Penny Wise picked up fifth this weekend. Jack Penny, Jeff Silverthorne, Rusty Miller, and Stanley Asensio bagged a 37.02 fishing Jack’s Yamaha powered Contender. “We didn’t do much,” said Jack after putting a dock line around their forward cleat. They honestly didn’t believe they had a shot at any money but were pleasantly surprised. I truly believe they didn’t think their fish was as big as it was. The team is fishing really well, whether it’s Penny or Silverthorne at the helm. They had a tenth in Naples and a fourth in Marco Island, and now a fifth here in Sarasota. Remember, Jack and his team won Division Six’s Open Class last year, plus finished fifth on the Yamaha Pro Tour. Sixth place fell to Mike Rinaldo’s Never-E-Nuff, a Yamaha powered Contender. Lauren Rinaldo’s 35.51 earned her Top Lady Angler honors and first on the overall Division Six ladies division standings. On board were Kent Allen, Devin Sanderson, and Chris Weir. Seventh place, the final money spot in the tournament, went to the Woithe family, Bob, Susan, and Bruce. They caught their fish just before three o’clock, then Bob proclaimed that they were over 100 miles from the tournament site and immediately put their Yamaha powered Contender on the props. That’s tournament fishing! They made it, but as Bruce said after tying up to the dock, "we got one but she’s not much.” The 31.70 earned them the final money spot and gave Susan second place in the ladies category. Remember that Bob and Susan have won more titles than any other husband and wife team fishing today. They never give up. Jeffri Durrance had to sub his open class boat for his 23 foot Mercury powered Triton, a problem that worked out just fine. He and Todd Parrish, Jim Long, and Joe Bazenas, teamed to land a 29.02 at 8:30 in the morning. “We were 12 miles off New Pass when she ate a ladyfish in the prop wash,” Durrance told me. Rounding out the top three in the Class of 23 was Chris Workman’s Get Snookerd. His team of Michelle Jackson, Kevin Weber, and Jim Kurth scaled a 24.57. Michael Morris won the MERCURY MARINE JUNIOR ANGLER SCHOLARSHIP Award weighing a 27.98. He fishes on the Re-Hab. If you’re reading this article for reference pertaining to the upcoming events in St. Petersburg, it’s good to know that fish were caught close to home. Debbie Crisp caught and scaled a 31.59 fishing Egmont on the JayBird. Finally Brian Hasson’s Knot Me team report losing the largest king the team has ever seen and you know team mate Randy Keys has seen more than his share of good fish. “We lost her at the gaff,” said Hasson. “We don’t lose many fish, but I sure would have liked to have had her.” The fish are moving north setting up a great spring season for Division Six. Our congratulations go out to Sandy Blowers and his Sertoma volunteers for another great event. Sandy has done this event for the past 15 years and obviously does it very well, the fishermen keep coming year after year. A special thank you to Marina Jack’s, a sprawling marina in the heart of Sarasota. Good food and drink and a great atmosphere for hosting a tournament. Hundreds of people were exposed to our sport and had a great time to boot. |
| Last Updated ( Tuesday, 21 April 2009 19:32 ) |
