2021 Edisto Billfish - Home Run Scores Win; Inappropriate Takes Series

 

Matthew Summers, Matthew Avinger,
Angler Tommy Murray, Matt Araneo,
and Keelie Summers with winning 17.3 Tuna

The only question heading into the 2021 Edisto Billfish Invitational was how good the offshore fishing would be. But after an epic midnight weigh-in on Day One of a blue marlin that weighed 505-pounds, everyone found out that the billfish bite was on. After three days of fishing, each with an afternoon weigh-in for a dock full of fishing fans, the meatfish winners were decided. In the billfish division, Home Run wins the Edisto Governor’s Cup Tournament by releasing two blue marlin and two sailfish.

Fortunate Son with winning 35.9-pound Mahi

Home Run also won the Outstanding Billfish Conservationist Award for releasing the most billfish during the Edisto tournament. Owner Steve Mungo and Captain Grant Bentley and their crew are veterans of the Governor’s Cup Series. Second place for Outstanding Billfish Boat is Sportin’ Life out of Charleston, owned by Graham Eubank. Captain Mike Glaesner and crew released five sailfish to take second place. Third place boat Inappropriate also released five sailfish at Edisto, but due to time of release they finished third. However, Inappropriate did enough to lock up Outstanding Billfish Boat for the entire 2021 S.C. Governor’s Cup Billfishing Series.

505-pound Blue Marlin for Glazed

Though the Governor’s Cup Series stresses the release of billfish, it is OK to bring a blue marlin to the docks if it of legal size. The sportfisher named Glazed got hooked up with a blue marlin on Thursday afternoon during Day One of fishing. The daily weigh-in is scheduled from 5 – 7 and Glazed messaged the Marina at Edisto Beach that they were still fighting the fish, and thus they were granted permission to weigh the fish in later. Glazed ended up fighting that marlin for several hours and did not bring it into their boat until 9 p.m., setting up the drama for a weigh-in about three hours later, which is the typical time for a trip back from offshore.

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Winning 56.1-pound Wahoo for
Team Hay Fever

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2021 PGA Championship - Phil Mickelson Wins at Kiawah

Phil Mickelson wins his second PGA Championship at age 50, at the 2021 PGA Championship at the Ocean Course on Kiawah Island. The PGA Championship switches from Fall dates to Spring dates for the first time, which allowed for the Ocean Course to be in optimum shape before long hot summer days take their toll. Likely no one had Mickelson as the favorite to win, but his veteran savvy and his execution of the tee box allowed him to hoist the Wannamaker trophy once again. 

Phil Mickelson wins 2021 PGA Championship

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2021 Birding Journal Observations - May / June

Carolina Wren Family on Back Porch on June 6

 May and June brought below normal precipitation and below normal temps across the Lowcountry. Of course with variable weather patterns, some areas experienced wet spells, but that was hit or miss. For example, Tropical storm Danny came ashore on June 29, but only one area received drenching downpours. Backyard birding conditions have been very good for the most part. 

Baby birds are always part of the Spring equation, and I can usually count on bluebirds raising young in nest boxes and Carolina wrens nesting in hanging baskets. This year the wrens found their way into the back porch when the door was slightly open, and then they became a little frantic about finding their way out again. I observed four Carolina wrens inside the back porch, and could not go out the back door and allow them to enter the house, and compound the problem. Going out another door and walking around to open the back porch screen door was the winning solution to this first ever predicament.

Other observations include painted bunting, summer tanager, blue grosbeak, cardinal, mockingbird, brown thrasher, Carolina chickadee, blue jay, bluebird, red-headed woodpecker, red-bellied woodpecker, downy woodpecker, brown-headed cowbird, osprey, turkey vulture, swallow-tailed kite, bald eagle, blue gray gnatcatcher, and cardinal.

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Tropical Storm Danny with a bullseye on Hardeeville, but not much for anywhere else