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Kissing the King!
The Fish Call HALL OF FAME will showcase biggest and best catches while fishing with me. The first full year for the HALL OF FAME is 2010 but earlier special catches are included. I will award one angler per year with "Catch-of-the-Year" which includes a free charter the following year. For up to date fishing reports, please become my friend on Facebook.
"Catch-of-the-Year"
2010: Billy Jordan 140-lb tarpon Sept. 10

 

2010


Billy Jordan and I with the 2010 Fish Call "Catch-of-the-Year" > 130-140 pound TARPON Sept 10, 2010

Billy did a fantastic job fighting this monster through a shrimper's poles and then jumping on the other side of the shrimper's boat. Congrats!!

Largest Redfish 2010 > 37 pounds Calvin Masoaka July 27, 2010
Clint Watts' first tarpon. This fish is significant becasue Clint has fished for and lost tarpon with me several times over the years plus it is the earliest tarpon we have ever caught and it occurred on my 40th birthday, June 17, 2010

My largest redfish ever on fly, 16 pounds Louisiana.
First tarpon in the Wando River > Alex Michaels, my nephew.

 

I.G.F.A World Records


NO, I will not take that rod! - 8/23/06
Greta with her 23.8-lb I.G.F.A World Record bonnethead (Girl's Smallfry and Women's 16-lb Line Class Records)

Pilar's 16.5-lb I.G.F.A WR shark (Women's 06-lb Line Class) - 7/24/06 (since beaten)
My 22.1-lb I.G.F.A WR bonnethead (Men's 06-lb Line Class) - 7/21/06

Calvin Masoaka with his very impressive 19.1-lb I.G.F.A WR bonnethead (Men's 02-lb Line Class!!) - 7/3/06
Ralston Smith with 20.8 pound I.G.F.A Boy's Smallfry World Record Bonnethead Shark, 2005 (since beaten).

Troy Beaver's I.G.F.A Boy's Smallfry World Record Bonnethead Shark - 17.5 pounds, 2003 (since beaten).
Guerin Waits is our future World Record holder but what species???

 

Other Great Catches

Hyan Furniss and I won the 2009 Charleston IFA Redfish Tour Tournament!!
Both reds fell for Gulp Shrimp very near Isle of Palms. We won a fully rigged Ranger flats boat which Hylan fishes in Wilmington, NC.

 

Youngest angler to land a tarpon on the Fish Call, my nephew Wesley Michaels age 8, Aug 2009
Wes fights fish his way, upside down! He landed the tarpon but didn't get the glory picture.

 

Yikes! Please don't break...
Largest fish ever caught on fly on my boat, 36 pound Amberjack!! (email me if this is you)

 

Tim Grinnings with his 170lb would-be state record tarpon!
"Catch of the Year" on the FISH CALL - 7/15/05

 

There is Nothing Like the First Jump!! (close-up)
One Second Later! (close-up)

The Landing - all three pictures from the same jump. (close-up)
Congrats to Christian Burns with Catch-of-the-Year 2003

 

Randy Stump with a 40 pound Black Drum
This One Bottomed Out the 60 lb. Boga Grip!!

 

Greta with the Croaker that Caught Tarpon #1
Steven's First Tarpon of the Day!

Hooked Up to the winning fish!
Steven Michaels and I won the 2003 Charleston Harbor Tarpon Release Tournamnet for the second year in a row! We landed 2 out of 5 tarpon hooked

 

The Catch of My Life, Pilar Ritchie Waits
The Waits Family, J.R., Pilar, Greta, and Guerin, surf a wave, Hard Rock Park 2008.

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