A wrapup of briefs about this week's tournament. There was no denying it. For starters, the tournament, which sold out last year at the 1,000-boat limit, only drew 845 entries for its 20th edition. Also, the spectators were largely no-shows, at least on Thursday's and Friday's general tournament days.
Wahoo are usually deep-water fish.
A new wrinkle added to the tournament this year allowed anglers without accurate scales on board to gauge the weight of their kingfish on the spot. Jim Rosenberger, communications chairman for the tournament, took length and girth measurements called in by fishermen and applied the length-girth formula with a calculator to estimate weights. The kids ate it up during the junior angler tournament. Enter words describing a concept or keywords.