Just got back in town from Nova Scotia at midnight on Friday night. During my lay-over in NY, my buddy Matt calls and says, "Hey they got almost 50 boats in this Two Georges tournament do want to fish?" I said my wife will kill me, but get a hold of Nick C, gather up the boys, and lets ride. Driving home from the airport my stepdaughter calls and asks if I am fishing the Two Georges tournament, if so can I fish with you guys? We had a lady angler on the team now. Matt told me he'd be at my house at 3:30am.



The next thing I know, its 4am...and no Matt...I guess we're not fishing. To my surprise, I walk in my garage and Matt is outside with the boat already loaded and we are off to get gas, bait, and ice. By the time we get to my slip at Two Georges its 6am. We picked up the rest of my team, dipped the baits, and we are off. Next stop Jupiter!



Finally get up there and get the baits in the water. Team Tuppens is on one side of us and Pennyless on the other. Deep bait gets bit first and Nick C is all over it. We chase the fish down, Matt is on the gaff, and Nick looks back and says its a decent fish. Five minutes later Matt sticks him, with the fish going about 30lbs. We reset in the same spot same and the deep bait is tight again. My stepdaughter Chanler is on the rod this time and she gets the fish up with an 8ft shark on its tail. Fish comes flying under the boat, Nick reaches down as far as he can with the gaff and steals the shark's meal. Did a couple more drifts through that area and caught 2 more fish. Hunter, our junior angler, caught them both. One was about 8lbs and the other about 10lbs. Fished there for about 2 more hours with no bites, so we make the call to head offshore for dolphin on the way back to boynton. No Mahi's!



Get to boynton, put the spread out, but no bites for about an hour. The next thing I hear is a splash, two other guys on the boat, Nate and Jeff are doing back flips off my hard top. Its now almost 1:30, we are in 175ft of water almost straight off of boynton inlet, and they are just getting back in the boat from their swim. I hear Matt and Nick almost at the same time yell HOLY SHI** . I turn around and saw what was left of a huge explosion. Matt looks at me, and says, "Chip, a huge yellowfin just ate my flat." I asked, "Did you see the fish Nick?" He said, "its over 100lbs all day." We clear all the lines and we are off to a fight a fish of a lifetime....on 20lb. About 30 minutes into the fight, the fish pops up on the surface flying around all over the place with is big yellow sickle out of the water. What a sight to see! He did this 3 more times. Every time he would pop up we could only get about 25ft from him and he would go straight down, dumping about 3/4 of the spool every time. After about an hour and half we made the decision for Matt and Nick to switch to get a fresh guy on the rod. They are both amazing anglers. Nick is on the fish about 20 mins. and now I am starting to get worried about making weigh in. I call the tournament director tell him whats going on and make sure I can put two of my angler on another boat. Then I call Drew Kettlehut tell him to get my harpoon jump in my rambo and get out here. Drew says I will be headed your way in 10 mins. Now the fish pop up again throwing wake trucking off shore. I said to Matt get the 12 ft. gaff ready. I told the guys once we get about 30yds. away I am going to be on plane and try to get on top of him before he goes down. I told Matt any shot you get take it. Here comes the fish we going about 25 mph Nick is standing on the bow picking up slack. I start screaming STICK HIM MATT! STICK HIM MATT NOW!!! Matt reaches as far as he can puts the gaff in him get slammed to the gunnel. The fish pops up at midship throwing white water everywhere we miss our shot with the second gaff and the 12 footer parts in two. the fish swims away and Nick still has him on. This is when I lost TOTAL control!:hail I looked something like this guy.lol The fish sounds again about half a spool Nick is straight up and dn for about 15 to 20 mins and he finally gets him coming. Im on the radio trying to help Drew find us and I hear Nick scream 'I got color"! The fish is down deep doing a big circle and darts up to surface and then swims right under the bow about 5ft. down. Matt reaches down as far as he can and sticks him. I came behind him with the second gaff and we got him! We walk the fish to the back of the boat as we are sliding him over the rail as Mr. Drew pulls up along side of us. We take off to the weigh in and make just in time. Ended up with 1st. place kingfish and 2nd place female. What a fish to catch right here on 20lb its one we will never forget! I would like to thank my crew and team Nick,Matt,Nate,Jeff,Chanler,Sean,Hunter stick work. I will never forget this one. Congrats to all the winners of the tournament! Andy you did a great job running it. Tight lines!!

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