Sunday, 5/22/11 … Professional Tarpon Tournament Series

Today was the start of the Professional Tarpon Tournament Series (PTTS).

The competition starts @ 7:00 AM and goes until 10:00 AM, with the first hour being the best.

Our team, Organized Chaos, hooked a small tarpon, about 100 pounds, right away. After fighting the tarpon for 10 minutes, the hook pulled out and we lost him.

Twenty minutes later we hooked another slightly larger fish, which we landed after a 22 minute fight.

Our team made a mutual agreement to take this fish to the scale because only a few fish were being caught. You are only allowed one weigh-in per tourney. You also get points for leader touches.

Out tarpon came in at 132 ponds and we were initially in 4th place. We got bumped downed to 7th place by the end of the tourney as other boats came in.

All in all, a good start to the series. We are in around 6th place over all in the points race.

To follow the series more closely go to pttstv on Facebook.

Fair winds and following seas,

Captain Joey Burnsed ~ call 239-472-8658 or email captjoefred@gmail to book a charter.

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