PAMCA 2007 Fishing Tournament Results
The PAMCA Bay and Offshore Fishing tournament was held on September 15th in Freeport TX. Hosted by our sponsor Water Damage Recovery and George Leos as the Gov’nr of the mansion. It was a pirate themed tournament and was attended by more than 50 fishermen and women.
The party started Friday night at 5:00 pm and continued till 3:30 am Saturday morning. We were playing indoor and outdoor games, eating fish, shrimp, crab cakes and stuffed peppers and mushrooms. The Gov’nr, who ran the Calcutta with jokes and laughs till midnight, visited us, then we drink grog and ale and had great conversation till 3:30.
At 5:00 am I went door to door getting everyone ready to fish. Everyone had assigned boats and locations and we were off.
We had a small squall called
hurricane Humberto hit earlier in the week that scared away some landlubbers,
but the old salts came anyway, knowing it would be a fun weekend. Because of the
cancellations Alex and I got to go out and catch some fish for the fish dinner
Saturday night. Alex caught the longest fish a bull red 41 7/8 inches long and
Bobby had our boat in the Calcutta so won 1st, 2nd and 3rd
place.
The weather started getting rough (6 to 7 foot seas) so we went in by 2:00pm to be there for the weigh-in. As we know it was a fishing tournament not a catching tournament so not as many fish were brought in as I had hoped. Many boats caught no keeper fish but a few did very well
For Red Snapper:
1st place went to Charles White of AAA plumbing with:
27 ½ inch and 11.4 pounds
2nd place was:
Regan Singer from the Frost insurance boat
18 ½ inch fish
3rd place was Shannon Wagner with Frost insurance 18 inch fish
Winners of the Trout contest were:
1st place Mark Salcido with:
19 ¾ inch 2.7 pound fish
2nd place Walter Pickett with:
18 ½ inch 2.1 pound fish
3rd place Michael Giacona with:
18 inch 1.8 pound fish
Winners of the Red Fish contest were:
1st place Frank Grimes guest of Water Damage Recovery
40 ½ inch 23.8 pound fish 
2nd place Joanna Hadjek Water Damage Recovery guest
38 ¼ inch 21.5 pound fish
3rd place Mark Salcido
27 ¼ inch 3.6 pound fish
It was decided by the tournament committee that we would split the pirate treasure (remaining prizes) between the pirates in attendance (fisher people) so all the scallywags got a ticket which were drawn from a Gander Mountain hat and everyone went home a winner.
Everyone said it was the best tournament yet and next years will be bigger and better.
Water Damage volunteered to be our host next year and we will have more participation from all our members.
PAMCA would like to thank, Water Damage Recovery, Frost insurance, Gulf States Plumbing, Commercial Boiler, Dependable Comfort heating and cooling, Pickett Plumbing, HAJOCA, and Gander Mountain for Sponsoring this years tournament.
Participants include Mark Park and Charles White from AAA plumbing, Bo from S+B Plumbing, Victor Hernandez from Zoom Plumbing, Brandon and Steve Jager from Horizon Plumbing, Mark and Brian guest of Water Damage Recovery, From Commercial Boiler we had Bobby Schmidt and his son Robert, Capt. Lynn Walker, David Fowler, Terry Jones and Chip McLarty, Boyer had Keith Moore, Mike Cook and Huntleigh Harris from HAJOCA, Frost insurance boat crew was, Shanan Wagner, Reagan Singer, Rob Garza, Bobby Dean, Randy Wade.
Gulf States had Jen Bachand and Steve Halverson, Insurance adjusters, Frank Grimes and Joanna Hadjek, John Cantu and Fred Cerville of John Moore Plumbing Company,
Jack Trice and Adam Lambert of L+S Plumbing and Walter Pickett Plumbing, Walter Pickett, Duston Green, Mark Salcido, Keren Havins, Jimmie Havins. Derrik McWhorter Jose Munoz, Jacob Goodrich, Ida Pearl McDonald and Joseph H. Baxter, Water Damage Recovery had George Leos (AKA the Gov’nr) Rick Leos, John Tyler and Joe Hale, and Alex Harper and Mark Harper PAMCA staff.
Unfortunatly we had 39 cancel due to weather or other obligations but they will want to be there next year after the fun we had this year. The committee is already planning for July next year to miss the storms. Sea you next tournament.
Mark
