SSFFF Benefit Opening Day Fluke Tournament Absecon

[Gerry Zagorski]

OPENING DAY FLUKE TOURNAMENT IN ABSECON

New Jersey event will benefit the Save the Summer Flounder Fishery Fund


Absecon Bay Sportsman Center sponsoring the very first fluke tournament of the year on opening day, May 21, 2016

The "Take It to the Limit" Opening Day Flounder Tournament will benefit the Save The Summer Flounder Fishery Fund (SSFFF).


Entry Fee is $50 per boat. Of each entry $25 will go directly to support SSFFF, the accumulation of the other $25 will be paid out in cash prizes to the first three places. A Kayak division will run separately from the Boat Division and the Entry fee for kayakers is $25 half of which will accumulate to prizes, with prizes for first, second and third place. In addition to the cash prizes there will be tackle assortment prizes awarded to the first five places in both divisions, included are rods, reels, lures, eyewear and fishing tools from national manufactures.

Prizes will be awarded for the heaviest limit (total weight of five summer flounder, with all five fish weighed together. In the event of an exact tie, the boat with the largest single fish will be the winner. First place payout is 50%, second place is 30% and third place is 20%
Tackle prizes will be awarded in a similar descending order. Yamaha will be awarding a special jackpot prize of $1,000 to the Recreational Fishing Alliance member who weighs in the largest fluke of the tournament! Participants in the RFA/Yamaha lunker category must show a valid and current RFA membership card to be eligible.

“Since there will be no formal awards ceremony, there will be no door prizes as such but I hope to get enough to provide goodie bags for all tournament participants,” said Dave Showell of Absecon Bay Sportsman. This fun packed event will generate badly needed funds to help pay for the new summer flounder stock assessment model that SSFFF has commissioned. Weigh in will be all day at Absecon Bay Sportsman Center until 6 p.m. Boundaries will be from Little Egg Inlet to Great Egg Inlet and all the back bays easily accessible from those areas. The tournament will run in conjunction with the Absecon Bay Sportsman Center’s free "Customer Appreciation Grand Slam Tournament" and all entries will automatically be entered in this tournament; any of the other species, striped bass, bluefish, weakfish and black drum. caught by Take It to the Limit participants will qualify for additional prizes.


For information, visit Absecon Bay Sportsman Center at 81 Natalie Terrace in Absecon, call 609-484-0409, and be sure to visit www.ssfff.net.