Saltwater Fishing the Carolina Coast: 2010 IFA REDFISH TOUR NATIONAL TEAM OF THE YEAR!!!

Captain Rennie Clark and myself finished off the tournament season with the IFA Redfish Tour championships in Orange Beach, Alabama. We went down a week ahead of time to locate some fish and have a good time only to get one nice day on the water. The rest of the week we fought through 20-35 mph winds and cold weather...there was ice on the boat on the mornings of the tournament! The first day was epic out in Mobile Bay. We spent the day chasing reds in the 35-50 inch class busting menhaden as far as you could see. Ren was even lucky enough to hook a few Jack Crevelle's which is like hooking a truck going down the freeway. With the terrible conditions the rest of the week we gameplanned to stay close to checkout and hope nobody could cross Mobile Bay. The plan somewhat backfired as the postponed the tournament a day and allowed our competitors to get to the better fishing in Mississippi. We were surprised to find out we were 14th after day 1 and only trailed 1 team for the National Team of the Year award which is given the top finisher out of the 6 divisional points champions. The team ahead of us was making a grueling 180+ mile round trip so we decided to stay close again the 2nd day and just stay consistent like we had all year. The plan paid off as we weighed in 2 fish again and moved up to 13th place while the team ahead of us for team of the year did not weigh in. We are the first team from the Atlantic Division to bring home the Cabela's National Team of the Year award and a nice $5,000 bonus to our 13th place check. We will kick off the 2011 season in Savannah GA next March and hope to defend the Atlantic division title for a 3-peat!

Here are a few pictures from the trip and check out this Redfish action I caught on the camera...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIwiV_168qE