Fishing Tournament

The big to do was the fishing tournament based out of Grand Turk in June. Uncle Lionel, Clyde and Jeff headed up the Salt Cay entry.

I don’t know which was bigger, the betting pool or the prize money, but it was all a big deal.

Clyde looked like a tomato on Saturday night, I know I saw it. You could have read a book at night by the glow from his face.

Seems they caught a huge Wahoo and could have won the entire tournament on Sunday. But, the call of the Wahoo was too great, and they didn’t want to turn the fish over to the tournament. So they showed him off and took him home to Salt Cay and, in true island style, ate him.

Hard to win a fishing tournament and eat the trophy too I guess.

Anyway, this tournament had every major fishing affishanado out in their best boats. The favorite actually hit a coral head and wound up out of the hunt, literally. Some of the Provo folks, including Art Pickering and his group, came to Salt Cay to rest and rehab after the tournament. Though rehab is probably the wrong word.