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t Page 10-B?THE BRUNSWICK BEACON, Thursday, June 13, 1985 f . tihi ML | &S& %%.. ^ ?? ^l"r" A LINK FORMS at the weigh-in station (background) Friday as boats < Jimmy Pigott. SIIOKTY AM) JANICE CAISON show off the 3.89-lb. catch that won the $1,000 grand prize In the Shnllotte Point Volunteer Fire Department Flounder Tournament. The eouple shared the fishing expedition, but Calson laughingly snid the money's his to spend, slnee he caught the flounder. . u C.V. IXIWNING ol Kayeltevllle and William K. Ilavts nl Autrey vtlle claimed the $100 dally priie Saturday, with nine Ilsh. J? - r&BBSSlwr^r' w ^fMHpnnfw^ - ? "^MMIMlBLli I - -.. MK AND MRS. JACK RIMKR of Marlon. S.C., turned the ta*d*]T to tn the ftve ll?h wtth the greatest combined weight over checks Friday J / y 11 ,_ :hcek In past spotters Mike Potts and 1 Point 1 . With : 4 BY S'JSAN USHER it A Shallotte Point native used his ^ father's boat and his father's advice ^ last weekend to catch a $1,000 flounder, claiming the top prize in the 2nd Shallotte Point Volunteer Fire Department Flounder Tournament. Shorty Caison, a Point native who lives in Wilmington, was fishing with his wife Janice aboard the "Chub Drowner," owned by his father, Archie Caison, when he landed the winner. | His 3.89-pounder was only four one hundreths of a nound larucr ttian the ! third-place fish, and two onehundreths of a pound larger than the second-place fish. William Clyde Watts and George Delaney placed second, earning $600 for a 3.87-pound flounder that had led the field Friday. Boyd Walters of l.urnberton finished third, receiving $200 for a 3.86-pound fish. Fddie O'Briant of Shannon and soas Mati thew and Kevin, earned $100 for a 1 3.15-lb. entry. Mr. and Mrs. Jack turner of Marion, S.C., won Uie MOO aggregate prize for the five fish with the greatest combined weight, 10.78 pounds. i Daily catch prizes of $100 each A went to W. Bonnie Causey of F Shallotte, James "Pee Wee" Hewett and Wtllard Causey for 22 legal-size fish they turned in Friday, and to William H. Davis of Autreyville and [ C.V. Downing of Fayetteville for nine fish they weighed in Saturday. Davis' boat hud turned in one less fish than Causey's on Friday. Amy Williams of Shallotte won a wristwfltrh for n 9 R2.?vmnHnr rhn largest fish caught by a woman, while 10-year-old Mark l-ogan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Ixigan of Seaside, claimed the child's prize of a rodand-reel for a 1.67-lb. flounder caught aboard the family boat, the "Tweety Bird " A 2.12-lb. flounder caught by eightyear-old Matthew O'liruint was disqualified for the child's prize because d one boat could not claim two prizes. ' Caison didn't know it at the time, but he had secured first place 15 minutes after the fishing began 7 a.m. Saturday. "We caught it on what is known locally as Middle Ground Shoal, in the Shallotte Kiver," he said. "We had it at 7:15 a.in this morning. We Just rode him around all day." Mrs. Caison said she had hoped to catch one just as large, but didn't. In fishing the shoal. Caison said he was only following advice offered by y * uraameiit. winning WOO. Abcvt. Himrr \ catch >< deadline ttmr approaches. JAMES "PEE WEE" HEWETT, Willard Causey ai their catch of 22 fish. Motive Wins 3.89-Pound F his father over supper Friday night, year," he sail "He said the flounder dropped off the because the mo shoal at low tide and to try there." thwhile cause." "He says it; I do it," Caison added. Eighty-two boats entered the tour- , nameni, tip irom oo a year ago, said Co-Chairman Mike Potts, and 280 fish \ ? were weighed in, 220 on Friday and 60 on Saturday. Fish turned in Friday weighed an average 1.06 pounds each, he added. While catehes were lighter Satur- 3 day, at least one fishermen, Mrs. - n? *^3 Caison, said she thought the average V Py weight of those fish turned in was ; IPS greater. 1 Organizers also said they thought V most fishermen kept part of their ?r\ Jf Saturday catch to take home. The largest number turned in by a single boat was nine, compared to 22 on Friday. A change in wind direction brought rougher water Friday afternoon, Brunswick County Sheriff's Detectivc David Crocker said, but no . t-jaPS thunderstorms to interrupt the fishing. Crocker, along with the U.S. j?p Coast Guard out of Oak Island, pro- ' vided security on the water. Potts said a rules change offering -fi cash prizes for the largest number CLYDE WATTS turned in daily had encouraged ti?nal MOO by a i fishermen to turn in more of their that took second catch, which was served at a fish fry Saturday night at the fire station. Weigh-in was administered by rules committee members J.B. Harrison, Bob Hoff and Palmer Suggs, with tournament biologist Jeff Howe checking each entry to make sure it was ircsniy caught and met the state minimum length of 11 inches. At least three fish were disqualified because of size. A (graduate student in marine biology at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Howe said he had no freshness problems with any entry. He checked for four criterion: clear eye lenses; red or ? pink gills; firm flesh; and a "nice shine" in ihe coior of iiie skin. On Saturday evening, Potts said the tournament was satisfactory. , jf . ^11 "We're glad to have all these boats and we hope to have more nest ^ \ \ - V y |, Jfe EDDIE O'HKl. * claimed fourth * Wk a. \ % ' A 1 v-P ^ m Sure he does 1 sure*a>to^i "- *"' g?ve him a St h m wm, TEN-YRAR-OLD MARK LOGAN 1 woo tlx child's prist. rod and rod combination, by landing a l.fT-pooad flouodor . ^<J Wk BBRH STAFF PHOTOS BY SUSAN USHER ad Lonnle Causey shared the $100 daily prize Friday for Tourney Sounder d. "We're satisfied The financial results of the ney's going to a wor- weekend were not immediately available. ^ ?! *?- * ^ W J AND GEORGE DELANEY missed first place and an addimere two one-hundreths of a pound, with this 3.87-pounder prize. Ptob I 1 :\ J INT and sons Matthew (leftI and Kevin (right) of Shannon place and $100 with this 3.15-pound fish. I I = I Deserve a ST1HL ? ^-T> 011AVE0 JJ Ov^c^stoo* 1 'he world's greatest dad deserves a Stihi chain saw It's one ip him tame the tough |OOs This year give him the Best ? I. inc. OH Holden Rd. at Village Pt. 754-4334 STiHL M NUMBER ONE WORLDWIDE >
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