June 30 – July 1, 2012 – 2nd Place Firecracker Tournament!

Summer is here and that means tournament time!  During the last two years I’ve tournament fished on a 43′ Cabo, Last Chance, captained by Tracy Epstein and deckhand Ian Keinath.  Ian’s father Steve and good friend Bob were our anglers.  Fishing with Tracy and Ian is a nice break for me and a chance to win some big money.  On the first day the fishing was tough.  It wasn’t until 12pm when a small blue marlin showed up on our stinger.  Steve dropped the lure back and put a solid hook into the top jaw of the small blue.  Tracy backed down hard and we put a tag in the 200lb blue in about 5 minutes!  It was the first blue marlin tagged on this day and one of only 3 blue marlin caught on this day of 51 boats.  A big blue was killed by the Kona Blue and it would end up taking first place.   Day 2 proved to be just as slow.  We went all day without a bite and only 4 boats caught fish.  Since we tagged the first blue marlin that put us ahead of all the other boats that tagged only one fish and we took home just over $43,000!