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| Mick Russell, Tom Ogle and leading angler Ellis Hamm |
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| Trent Calder with his 43.25-pound king mackerel |
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| Karen Poots of Team Final Approach |
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| Like a fine bourbon, FFM keeps getting better |
CCA's annual king mackerel tourney to benefit the MUSC Children's Hospital is being fished out of Ripley Light Yacht Club. The sea conditions were nearly flat calm today and plenty of feisty fish were biting, just not all of them king mackerel. Some boats had sailfish behind the boat, and others caught cobia and wahoo. When the weigh-in began on Friday at 2 p.m. it was Team Ripple Effect on a Freeman 33 that was first to weigh-in, and Trent Calder set the bar high with his 43.25-pound king mackerel. The next boat to weigh in was Sweet Sarah, and they trumped Calder's fish with one of their own that went 43.93-pounds at the scale. Ellis Hamm was the angler on the 23-foot Key West out of Beaufort that fed a pogie to the Day One leading king about 8:15 in the morning. Plenty of other boats came to the docks before the weigh-in was over at 5, but none overtook the top two kings! Weigh-in on Saturday is from 1 to 4 at Ripley Light Yacht Club.
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Oh, my golly! 43.25-pound king mackerel! That fish is more than enough for the whole village. LOL! Mackerels are really great fish to bait. They are very common in depths of 40 to 150 feet in principal fisheries, and they have great tasting meat!
ReplyDeletewow, that's such an amazing fish in the picture. really a great one. you impressed me by catching this much big fish, really a great job done.
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