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The Invasion has Begun! Pirates? NO. (Well, Some of you) I’m talking about the toothy pelagic predators that we have all come to love. That’s right, Kings and Macs, they are here in mass quantities. Like beat ‘em off with a stick kinda numbers! Bait you ask? Forget about it. Pick your favorite flavor or just drag them all. It’s everywhere. We are looking at an epic Spring run!! Come April 26, the Invasion will take place in beautiful Madeira Beach, as thousands of anglers of all skill levels and hundreds of boats of all sizes converge on this quiet beach town for the 19th Annual Spring King of the Beach. All hosted by the Old Salt Fishing Foundation. With it being sooo fishy, we expect record numbers of boats and fish being weighed in. As always, the King of the Beach is for everyone: with a 30 mile boundary, no check outs and 25 places being paid in the Overall division alone. We haven’t even mentioned Single Engine Division, Ladies, Youth and Spanish Mackerel! With cash prizes typically exceeding $70,000 it is truely an event for the whole family. The Old Salts listen to anglers feedback and last year we added a Spanish Mackerel funfish division as an add on or to fish separately as its own division. The response was overwhelming! So, what now, you ask? An aggregate? That’s right, an Aggregate! Not to Spring and Fall, but an aggregate weight of your King and Spanish Mackerel. Oh, and in true Old Salt form, we are gonna mix it up a bit. We are going to double the weigh of your Spanish! That’s right, Spanish2 (squared) times two, Spanish to the 2nd power. All right, enough of the math analogies .. It’s simple really. Enter the KOTB and add on the Spanish. Catch a King @ 25lbs and a Spanish @ 4lbs = 33lb total. Plus your fish qualify in ALL the other divisions as well. A threefer! For those following the math I think it would look something like this: (Kingfish + Spanish2 = $1000) What’s the $1000? The payout of course! Awesome. Thank your fellow anglers, especially Capt. Joe Maisano, for this beauty and Snapper’s Sea Grill for sponsoring it! That brings me to sponsors ... we couldn’t do it with out their continued support of our great sport and organization. Be sure to patronize them, thank them and let them know your fishing King of the Beach! Well, enough for me, I got a headache from trying to do all the math! come out and celebrate the fish frenzy, drag screaming, crowd cheering adrenaline dumping hysteria of the largest fishing tournament and party ont he West Coast ... King of the Beach! Tom Verdensky President, Old Salt Fishing Foundation
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ingfish tournament preparation requires planning and strategy. One of the questions to consider is do you pre fish? If the answer is yes, what do you do if you catch a monster the day before the tournament? Can you release the fish and then count on it to bite again the next day? If you don’t think a big fish bites twice, do you bring it in to show off at the dock? Some consider it bad karma to kill a big kingfish the day before the tournament. Opinions vary, and I have no definitive answer. I can, however, tell you a pre-fishing story that happened a couple of years ago to Capt. Billy Miller and me. It was the day before a Fall King of the Beach, and Billy and I had recruited my wife Debbie and his then-girlfriend (now fiancée) Ashley, to go with us and catch bait for the tournament. Typical of a fall kingfish tournament, the wind was blowing hard out of the north and when we got to Pass-A-Grille Pass, muddy water had made bait impossible to catch. Scrambling, we moved inside to look for mullet. With me driving and Billy throwing, we scraped up two mullet, a big bluefish and a couple of pinfish. The bait mission was floundering and our crew was getting bored. Billy and I reminded the ladies that fishing plans often change, so we headed out to the Egmont Channel in hopes of finding reasonable conditions. Ashley had never caught a kingfish, so we were hoping for a decent school – something in the 15- to 20-pound range – to salvage our day. Well, let’s just say, we more than salvaged the day. Five minutes after we set the baits, Ashley hooked a big king. I got a pretty good look at the fish and estimated it at close to 50 pounds. Flash back to that earlier question. It’s the day before a big tournament – do we keep the fish? Considering Ashley’s quest for her first king – and this one was a beauty – we decided to gaff the fish. We were all entered in a month-long kingfish tournament at Maximo Marina, so the decision was made. As soon as the big king came close, Billy hit it with a gaff. He called for backup and I sank a second gaff in and brought the fish over the side. After whooping and hollering we decided to go in and weigh the monster. On the scale at Maximo, it weighed 43 pounds! Not bad for your first kingfish. (We have since reminded Ashley that this is not the norm.) OK, so Ashley wins the Maximo tournament and about $250. Had we caught that fish the next day, we all know the rewards and untold satisfaction of winning the King of the Beach.
So do you keep a big one the day before the tournament and risk bad karma? That’s a case-by-case judgment call and normally, I’d say no. This time, Ashley’s smile made for an easy “yes.” Oh by the way, we never had a bite the next day during the tournament. Still, I recall that being one our favorite kingfish tournament memories.
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Becoming a King By: Capt Matt Morrison – Team Going Coastal
T
he King of the Beach Tournament is something our team has looked forward to for the past several years. This past fall was no different. We came up with a strategy a couple days before the tournament .... stay close to the beach because the weather conditions looked a little rough. Friday, before the tourney, was our day to catch bait. We had a little trouble because conditions were very rough for our 24 ft center console, but were successful in finding an area near our spot that was holding bait. Saturday we set off on a mission to execute our plan and headed to the mouth of Tampa Bay - going back to the spot where we found the bait. It didn’t take too long for us to get the ones we were looking for and then immediately headed to where we wanted to fish, which wasn’t far. Wind and tide were against each other and it was still pretty rough, but actually made for a nice drift for slow trolling live baits. Two rather large baits went in and the waiting game began. Maybe an hour went by and we got our one and only strike and immediately knew it was a big fish. The team instantly jumped to action. Bill took the helm and quickly started motoring toward the fish which at this time had almost spooled 300 yards of line off of my reel. I literally could see the knot on the spool. Brian had already cleaned up all of the gear off the deck and reeled in the other bait so it didn’t get in the way. Zeus stood patiently with the gaff knowing that it was going to be a while before this fish was boatside. The fight went on for 30-45 minutes and at some point my reel started making this horrible grinding noise. Once I got the fish close enough to where we could see it I heard someone on the boat yell “that’s a 50 pounder”. One swipe of the gaff and two of us pulling this beast in the boat I knew when it hit the deck that we had just won the King of the Beach! Team: Capt. Matt Morrison, Bill Russell, Zeus Castro, Brian Sanchez Spring King of the Beach 2012
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This Saltwater RODEO style tournament is open to all saltwater fishing enthusiasts....INSHORE or OFFSHORE. • FISH FOR OVER 20 SPECIES • EASY POINT STRUCTURE • WIN up to $7,500 in CASH
JUNE 14 & 16, 2012 Headquarters is located at Madeira Beach Ballfields (North of the Tom Stewart Causeway; 200 Rex Place)
Inshore Division
• Overall • Inshore Top Lady Angler • Inshore Top Youth Angler • Inshore Top Father/Son-Daughter Team
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February 23, 1939 - March 18, 2012 Dea, you will be sadly missed. A true Old Salt thru and thru. You were a mentor, friend, hardworking and level headed, spoke your mind and brought a smile even in the trenches kinda person. I can say without a doubt I am a better person by serving with you and the Old Salts is a better organization from your service to it for so many years. Fast boats, tight lines & calm seas. Your memories will not be forgotten! Tom Verdensky, President of the Old Salts
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