Ride the Bull Kayak Fishing Tournament - 732 Anglers

No matter how you cut it, that's an impressive tournament with 732 Anglers!

Also, a woman fishing from a paddle board won!
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Kalley LeRoy bought a lottery ticket Saturday. It cost her $65, and her lucky number was 26.14.
 
That was the weight of LeRoy's winning fish in the fifth-annual Ride the Bull kayak tournament in Grand Isle. It was a remarkably light fish to win the event, especially considering the amount of competition.
 
LeRoy was up against 731 other anglers who had descended on Louisiana's only inhabited barrier island to drop down cracked crab, cut mullet and fresh white trout to the oversized denizens of Caminada Pass. The event shattered its own record for the largest kayak tournament in the world. Last year, 488 boats fished Ride the Bull IV.

http://www.nola.com/outdoors/index.ssf/2014/08/woman_fishing_from_paddle_boar.html

Damn, that's a big tourney!!!

That's it - I'm upping the GS entry fee to $65!   

Haha whata dick!

Wow...732 x $65 = $47,710!

Very cool article!!

Catch and release, big cash payouts, multiple prize kayaks!

From 75 entrants to 732!!!

The tournament had 75 competitors in 2009, 152 in 2011, 242 in 2012, 488 in 2013 and, of course, 732 this year. The 2010 Ride the Bull was canceled due to the BP oil spill.

Winner was a a cutie too!

 

 

Sincerely,

Jim

 

I like this anchor idea 

Sonny,

   They use a lot of automotive crankshafts for boat snchors in FL & LA areas since they hold VERY well on the oyster shell bottom.  You just match the size of the crankshaft to the size of the boat.