Fishing tournament breaks record...again

By CARL PHILLIPS
Island Breeze

Four hundred sixty-six fishermen entered the surf fishing competition hosted by Fish Across Texas and Kampgrounds of America (KOA) Saturday afternoon.

The group already held a listing as the largest surf fishing tournament in the world in the Guinness Book of World Records for last year’s contest, in which 417 fishermen competed.
A couple of dozen people were still standing in line shortly after 2:00 p.m. to weigh in their catches.

The biggest fish caught lay off to one side. It was a black tip shark about four feet in length, weighing 92 pounds, caught by Fred Calderas of Zapata. His fishing buddy, Chris Lara, came from Corpus Christi for the event.

Calderas said he caught the shark “about five to seven miles up the beach. I don’t know exactly, because my odometer doesn’t work.”

A large commercial trash bin was rapidly filling up as fishermen brought back plastic bags full of garbage from the beach. By the end of the day it was filled to overflowing, Danno Wise reported. “We won’t know how much it is until they weigh it Monday,” he said, “but I can tell by looking it’s a lot more than last year.”

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