BABES ON THE BAY

5-18-2013--We had one new member on the Spice Gills team for the Jim Ehman Memorial "Babes on the Bay" fishing tournament this year. In past years each of the members has had a nick name i.e. Hot Spice, Princess Spice, etc. I forgot to ask about the name for the newest member but I know she replaced  "Old Spice", who still came to the functions but retired from fishing this year.  They easily caught 8 large reds and decided to go for trout because the stringer for weigh-in is limited to one red and three trout.  Trout were not as easy to come by.  They ended the day with only two trout.    I don't yet know where they placed overall.  Last year the team was 10th and we had hoped to move up but I'm sure they moved down due to being one trout short.The red they used to weigh-in was 27 1/2 inches long and weighed 7.88 pounds.  One member sent me a text that the red came in third in the cash pot for largest redfish, with the winner at 7.96 pounds.  You might know the cash pot only paid for two  places.

The bay was so crowed with about 1500 ladies in the largest women's fishing tournament in the world and assorted other people fishing that we just anchored up in the flats and stayed in one place while others chased the reds to us.  All the reds, along with a lot of hardhead catfish,  came on cut menhaden.  The team members always call hardheads "boy fish".

As usual the tournament sponsored by the CCA was a huge success and a lot of fun for all concerned.