Great Double Diamond Sword

Check out our 1st swordfish day dropping. She weighed 327lbs at Light House Point marina. Our crew included SSC members Gerrard Weigold and Nick Froonjian, as well as Carl Weigold, Gary Froonjian, and Glen Rassmussen. Great fish on the Double Diamond. Hope to fish the Members tournament with you.

(Contributed by Gerrard Weigold)

Martin County Nautical Flea Market & Seafood Festival

MANY THANKS to our Club volunteers who sacrificed their personal time this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday to come out to the Martin County fairgrounds and man our booth in sweltering heat.

Cindy Mumford, Char Griggs, Sherry Simmons, Erika Long, George Federko, Fred & Pat Bartlett, Nippy & Sue Pauels, Andy & Dodi Kubiak, & Jodi Mills sold new memberships, a couple of hundred dollars of Club shirts, burgees, towels, & stickers to people who came by our booth. (Nippy & Sue even pulled double duty by working Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning! If you are looking for a Charter, think about I'm On Sportfishing.) Char & Cindy were thrilled to pick up several new sponsors for Club tournaments.

We love new members and new sponsors. Thanks to all of you for all your help.

August Steinhatchee Fishing

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Baylor & Breyer Bullock released these fine Redfish on their recent trip to Steinhatchee. Nice job, guys! Do you give fishing lessons?

(Pictures contributed by Brook)

SSC Has New Landlord

Congratulations to Mary, Butch, & Jan Bayley for their purchase of Finest Kind Marina. (Click on Ed Killer and Jim Turner's article from today's Stuart News.) Bringing these two marinas together seems to be a natural.

Stuart Sailfish Club moved its office to Finest Kind over a year ago. Joe Lehner and Ed Sellian are long standing club members and have been fine landlords. Butch and Jan also are long standing members and excellent club supporters, as well as is Mary who is a Lifetime Member.

2009 Junior Angler Tournament Results

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150 young anglers enjoyed the 32nd Annual Junior Angler Tournament on Saturday, Aug. 8. And, there were some fine fish caught. Many trophy winners, fun food, raffle winners...a great time for all. (Well, almost all...some seasickness was reported by some kids and adults!)

Christopher Roberts on Challenge released 4 sails to take Top Angler in the billfish division, and Mike Szary caught a 100 lb. wahoo, as well as taking 2nd place in kingfish division and 5th in barracuda division fishing on his grandfather's boat, Stashovich to take Top Angler in the meat fish division.

Thanks to all our volunteers and sponsors, including those from Stuart Sunrise Rotary Club for all your contributions and work to make this happen. And, thanks to the people who work so hard at all the kids organizations who come from as far away as Indiantown to see that many of these kids get opportunities that they otherwise would not.

Please see Stuart Sailfish Club Pictures (link on our home page) for an album of a couple of hundred pictures. And, please patronize our sponsors who contribute their funds (and sometimes TIME) to make this possible.

PLACE - CATEGORY - ANGLER - BOAT NAME - WEIGHT - RELEASE TIME
1st .. SAILFISH -- Christopher Roberts -- CHALLENGE -- 8:43/10:43/11:15/12:02
2nd .. SAILFISH -- Heather Hasek -- R-TIME -- 9:14/9:58
3rd .. SAILFISH -- Taylor Ashley -- FISH CLUB -- 9:47
4th .. SAILFISH -- Spencer Stevens -- SHARK BAIT -- 11:40
5th .. SAILFISH -- Kaitlynn Orlandi -- FAST EDDIE -- 12:53

1st .. WAHOO -- Mike Szary -- STASHOVICH -- 100.5 lbs.

1st .. DOLPHIN -- Katilynn Orlandi -- FAST EDDIE -- 14.75 lbs.
2nd .. DOLPHIN -- Austin Ashley -- FISH CLUB -- 8.50 lbs.
3rd .. DOLPHIN -- Harley Canada -- TOUCAN -- 4.65 lbs.
4th .. DOLPHIN -- Gregory Kusel -- ONE OF THE GIRLS -- 4.5 lbs.
5th .. DOLPHIN -- Savannah Hutlan -- CONTINGENCY -- 3.6 lbs.

1st .. KING -- Chris Blakeslee -- PROCASTINATOR -- 13.75 lbs.
2nd .. KING -- Mike Szary -- STASHOVICH -- 13.55 lbs.
3rd .. KING -- Chris Roberts -- CHALLENGE -- 10.25 lbs.

1st .. BARRACUDA -- John Kettle -- LIL PROFESSOR 2 -- 15.3 lbs.
2nd .. BARRACUDA -- Mark Smith -- NO NAME 30' Mako -- 9.35 lbs.
3rd .. BARRACUDA -- Kelsey Klett -- LIL PROFESSOR 2 -- 7.75 lbs.
4th .. BARRACUDA -- Josaha Hosen -- I'M ON -- 6.8 lbs.
5th .. BARRACUDA -- Mike Szary -- STASHOVICH -- 6.15 lbs.

1st .. SNAPPER -- Jordan Ashley -- FISH CLUB -- 1.2 lbs.
2nd .. SNAPPER -- Tim Witty -- SAFARI -- .62 lbs.
3rd .. SNAPPER -- Nautica Hill -- LADY STUART -- .62 lbs.

1st .. AMBER JACK --Chris Roberts -- CHALLENGE -- 20.5 lbs.
2nd .. AMBER JACK -- Trever Maine -- LADY STUART -- 3.0 lbs.
3rd .. AMBER JACK -- Irina Cruz -- LADY STUART -- 2.3 lbs.
4th .. AMBER JACK -- Kyler lInn -- THUNDER STRUCK -- 2.1 lbs.
5th .. AMBER JACK -- Jade Newman -- LADY STUART -- 1.2 lbs.

1st .. GROUPER -- Ray Collidge -- SAFARI -- .4 lbs.
2nd .. GROUPER -- Patrick Collidge -- SAFARI --.2 lbs.

1st .. BONITA -- Shane Davison -- CONTINGENCY --15.0 lbs.
2nd .. BONITA -- Michayla Roberts -- CHALLENGE -- 14.4 lbs.
3rd .. BONITA -- Kody Ashley -- FISH CLUB -- 13.2 lbs.
4th .. BONITA -- Dane Wehr -- WALKERS RUN -- 12.8 lbs.
5th .. BONITA -- RJ Macedo -- WALKERS RUN -- 12.4 lbs.

PEE WEES

1st .. SAILFISH -- Lindsay Carnes -- MAGOO -- 1:08PM

1st .. BONITA -- Kyle Beavers -- WALKERS RUN -- 10.3 lbs.

TOP ANGLER - BILLFISH DIVISION
Christopher Roberts

TOP ANGLER - MEAT FISH DIVISION
Mike Szary