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Results of Junior Teen Anglers Fishing Tournament

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Contributed by: Cammie Ward on 10/4/2009

OCTOBER 3, 2009

What a nice morning we had for our Junior Teen Anglers from shore fishing tournament. The weather was perfect -- nice and cool, a slight breeze -- what could be better.

We had a total of 24 Junior's fishing today. We welcomed 2 new Juniors today -- Jessica Eastland and Kalani Walk -- Trevor's little sister. With 24 kids fishing today the poor fish didn't stand a chance. We had a total of 58 fish caught and released! I think this was a new record. We had 4 flounder, 1 grouper, 1 ladyfish, 4 puffer fish, 1 needle fish, 1 sandperch, 1 stingray,1 porgy, 1 jack, 1 spot, 3 rockfish and 39 snapper!! All of the fish were released.

The Juniors started fishing at 9am and by 9:30 we still didn't have a fish to weigh. When the tide started moving the fish started biting. There was a steady line of Juniors bringing their fish to be weighed. The brother and sister teams -- Laine & Leah Pruitt and Thomas & Taylor Roop keep coming back and coming back with more fish. Dylan Brewer has been fishing with us for 2 years and caught his first fish today -- a flounder and he also caught a snapper. Michael Rochedieu and Ashton Smith bothcaught their first fish today -- Michael had a puffer and Ashton had a nice size ladyfish. The two biggest fish of the tournament were a 2lb. 2oz. sandperch caught by Andrew Evans and a 9lb. 8oz. stingray caught by Robert Kinchen.

In the 5 to 8 age group

1st place - Taylor Roop - F. K. Sweet - Ft. Pierce

2nd place - Leah Pruitt - Fairlawn Elem. - Ft. Pierce

3rd place - Andrew Evans - Fairlawn Elem. - Ft. Pierce

In the 9 to 11 age group

1st place - Thomas Roop - F. K. Sweet - Ft. Pierce

2nd place - Laine Pruitt - Fairlawn Elem. - Ft. Pierce

3rd place - Dylan Brewer - Parkway Elem. - Port. St. Lucie

Biggest fish of the tournament went to Robert Kinchen - Morningside Elem. - Port St. Lucie for his stingray.

Our next from shore fishing tournament is scheduled for Saturday - December 5th at 9am.

A special THANK YOU to Tammy Ward for weighing the fish. Also, to the Teen Anglers that went over and helped bag oyster shells for the reef restoration program.

If you would like info on Junior Teen Anglers you can call 772-201-5773 or e-mail cward11605@aol.com or just go to the web at www.teenanglers.org

See you in December.
Cammie Ward

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