I thought I would share some of the great news down here in sunny Florida.
Over the weekend the first Tarpon tournemnt of the season started with the “Ladies Day” event which is part of the Professional Tarpon Tournament Series (PTTS). My team consist of my wife Amy, our friends Denelle Winnan and Melissa White. Tim White was the mate on the boat and we put together a pretty solid team.
The event is only 3 hours long and within that time we hooked 4 tarpon and the second fish we leadered and got a release for points. That fish was only around 60-70 pounds. Definatly not big enough to win the tourney.
About 8:30 am my wife hooked up with another tarpon. When she hooked the tarpon we were sitting right in the middle of about 10 other boats. The fish was running very eratic and makeing quick darts back and forth through the boats. After about 10 minutes the fish finally got out into the open and the fight begain. All three ladies on the team fought the fish that took us over 2 miles into Charlotte Harbor.
After nearly an hour we finially got our hands on the the tarpon. With no time left in the tourney we made our way to the scales. I told the ladies that this fish was probably going to be around 120-130 pounds and we knew the top weight was 134 at that time.
Once we made it to the scale we had the fish hoisted up in a sling for it’s weight and then we heard the news. Team Reactor Watches weighs in their fish at 135 pounds.
Needless to say everyone was very excited and maybe a little shocked that it tipped the scale at 135 pounds. With the narrow win over the 134 pound fish that was leading, we feel luck was finally on our side.
We brought that fish to the scale with only 10 minutes of time in the tournement.
Talk about your finish in the “REACTOR TIME”