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SALTWATER TEEN ANGLER OF THE YEAR IS ????

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Contributed by: Cammie Ward on 5/8/2008

May 4th, 2008

Today we held he fish off for the Saltwater Teen Angler of the Year. We meet at Jaycee Park in Ft. Pierce this morning at 6:30am. As the Teen's were drawing names to see what boat they would be fishing out of Teen Mentor -- Bob Wittbold came racing into the docks. When everyone got over to his boat he had caught a 32 inch -- 13lb. 11oz snook. With the snook in the boat it gave all of us hope that the fishing would be better than it had been this past week. With this in mind I had already listed11 different species on the fish list with the hope that the Teen's would catch a lot of different species and rack up the points.

After checking with several of the volunteers during the morning and getting calls from a couple of the Dad's I knew it was going to be a long morning. Helen Kinchen's dad -- Robert called to say that Helen had caught a mangrove snapper and 2 pompano but pompano was not on the fish list. He called again to say that Helen had caught a 24 inch and a 16 inch trout. Helen's big trout weighed 3lb. 15oz. Shane Surrency's Dad called to check the boundaries. I called Capt. Joe to see what Kalib Guttler had caught. After they found some nice size greenie's they went to the Rock Pile and Kalib caught a 20 inch grouper -- to short to keep and got broken off by two more. He also caught a short snook, a mutton snapper and a big jack but nothing to bring in for the weigh in. I called Capt. Al Bernetti to see if David Brasher had caught anything and at the time we talked he had not but, he did bring a spanish mackerel to weigh in. Dillon Roberts-Louria was on Bob Wittbold's boat and was happy to bring back his catch -- 2 trout and the biggest one was 1lb. 9oz. Tyler Moyher was fishing with his Dad and they didn't bring anything to weigh. Tyler Serio was fishing with volunteer Chris Nelson and Tyler S. brought back the most fish. He had 2 spanish mackerel and a mangrove snapper. ChrisMatthy said that he had pre fished the daybefore and only caught a few small fish and had nothing for weigh in.

After all the points were totaled and all the paper work was done -- I am happy to announce that the Saltwater Teen Angler of the Year is ------------------------------------------

David Brasher! David - age 14 attends school in Vero Beach at the Florida Learning Institute.

Here are the top three Teen Anglers by points

1st place - David Brasher- 180 points

2nd place - Tyler Serio - 175 points

3rd place - Dillon Roberts-Louria - 143 points

Their trophies and prizes will be awarded at the banquet in September.

We would like to talk all the volunteer's taking time to fish with the Teen Anglers. Also, thanks to the Dad's that have been there for every tournamentand have taken some of the other Teen Anglers on their boats.

Our new season will start in August when the new school year starts -- just keep checking your e-mail.

Congratulations too all the Teen Anglers and we hope everyone has a nice summer.

Keep fishing,

Cammie

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