The tournament will begin friday the 8th after the captains meeting at the Dania Pier Parking Lot (300 N Beach Rd
Dania, FL 33004) which will begin at 3pm and end the following saturday at 3pm (All posts must be submitted at this time for your fish to qualify for the tournament). All sharks for the tournament must be submitted to the forum in a thread that will be created for this purpose. The secret item will be decided at the captains meeting so if you are not able to make it because of distance, please provide a phone number so that you can be updated on any revised rules and the secret item itself.
Each team has a $200 dollar entry fee with a max of five people ($40 bucks a piece). At the end of the week we we tally up everyone's points. All of the money will be pooled together with a 1st place winner winning 75% of the cash money and a 2nd place getting the other 25%. You can submit your entrance fee to me at the captains meeting or by mail to Sharkinmiami at 1420 Brickell Bay Drive Miami, Fl 33131 Apartment 1001. Since there has been short notice about the tournament entrance fee's sent by mail can be recieved by Monday Jan 11th in order to qualify you for entry in the tournament.
Rules:
1 ) Picture must be taken of shark with the secret item which will be decided at the captains meeting and a measuring tape which is marked at every foot .. these markings and the secret item must be visible in the picture for your shark to count. To prevent disbutes please also submit a photo of the measuring tape showing the numbers of the total length of the fish.
2) Sharks must be released
3) Only landbased fishing is permitted
4) Teams may be comprised of 5 members max and only those members may touch the rod while fighting a tourney shark
5)You may fish anywhere in Florida
6)At the end of the week points will be tallied up and the prizes will be given out.
Point System:
Mako:1000 (epolk will like this one)
Tiger Shark: 900
Hammerhead Shark: 800
Bull Shark:600
Dusky Shark 500
Lemon Shark: 400
Black Tip:100
Sharks must be at least 5 feet and an extra 100 pts will be added for each foot exceeding 8ft. These measurements will be made in total length.
Please submit your team name and members so I can have an idea what we are working with at the moment also your please provide your phone number and adress so that I can call you if you did not attend the captains meeting and mail you your prize if you win the tournament.
Good Luck.
Colby Uva : Bullbuster Team Captain
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Im down but i need 2 get down with a team. i got the gear
colby i would love to do this i have my team, ready to pay and play baby!!!
Shannon bustamante
meir
hammer
johny fuqua
Sandra bustamante
We will take it easy and let sandra take AAron Bunches spot while he isnt down here.
Thats 200 dollars and 1 team already!!!!
Cmon Colby lets due this for february
SFSC -East Coast Events Coordinator
Id rather do it january for school stuff..cuz im off of school.. until the 19th.. but i could do it feb also. We should all sit down and finalize all of the rules .. lets get this thing goin!
Colby Uva : Bullbuster Team Captain
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I would love to enter and I have the gear, time and $$$$. Just don't have a team. I'm in Boynton Beach, if anyone is interested then drop me an email and we can work out the details.
thx
TEAM GETCHA GETCHA SHARKON
Jan 2-10 is my b-day week(6),I'm free to fish.Maybe we'll have some of that b-day juju.
jpolk:
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Colby ;contact willy and ask advice because he arranges tournaments like no other, and hes fished hundreads,so he knows everything there is to know. Thats why the Hammer Challenge runs so smoothly. To my man in boynton i think i got 3 or 4 people that could use you as there 5th man, finding a team for you between all os us shouldnt be a problem. You can also recruit some buddies from the piers and etc, to our web site, and join with them. Jan is also fine!!!
SFSC -East Coast Events Coordinator
To my man in boynton i think i got 3 or 4 people that could use you as there 5th man, finding a team for you between all os us shouldnt be a problem. You can also recruit some buddies from the piers and etc, to our web site, and join with them.
Sounds Great!
I will get started on it.
Thanks for the assistance
TEAM GETCHA GETCHA SHARKON
We would be interested in entering such a tourney but a couple of points.
I dont see the need for boats, how do you get an accurate measurement lengthwise on a shark while in a boat? That seems like a lot of work to get an accurate measurement of a shark with it on the side of a boat.
More then one angler can handle the rod during the fight? I really like the one person only per fight on each shark.
BlackTips can be really really solid on most of the east coast in January so you might want to think about keeping the other sharks at the same points and reducing Tips to 100 a piece at the most.
Just a couple thoughts.
i agreed with junochris no boats a lots of us dont have boats to go out to shark fish on the ocean but we can fish from the beach or bridges ,also i think we should do it on janaury, beacause is goin to be a little less wyndy thant februery and that is just my opinion ty 
I think that we can reduce the scores for the blacktip and also get rid of the score period for the nurses. As far as boats.. I myself will not be using a boat but we allowed it for tournament and it did not really affect the results as our the two teams that used boats did not catch nearly as many sharks as us landbased fishermen they lined each shark up against theyre gunnel and had it marked with measurements for each foot. I'm down to take boats out of the rules though it was added in last year to get a couple more teams on the roster. As far as only one person on the rod, I'm ok with making it a rule but I'm not sure if theres anyway to prove it. Oh and shannon yea I'm gunna talk to Will about all this.
Colby Uva : Bullbuster Team Captain
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As big of a fan as I am of land based shark fishing, I vote leave boats in. I personally dont own a kayak to paddle baits out, therefore for the time being I just fish from my boat. I dont think it would change the results much, seeing as you all seem to outfish pretty much everyone ive seen fishing from a boat, lol. But Id love to try to get in on this tourney, even if I'm in Jacksonville.
march and april has other tourneys so we will just have to rough it and fish jan or feb. i agree with every pointer cris had,and also would limit nurse numbers to 10 per team,after that they no longer count. you dont want a tea to win with 80 gummers.
SFSC -East Coast Events Coordinator
Alright so does Jan 8- Jan 15th sound good to everyone? I wana talk to a few people before we finalize rules. Also I think that we need to find somwhere sort of central to have our captains meetings because I feel as if our teams are somewhat spread out as far as where everyones fishing.
Colby Uva : Bullbuster Team Captain
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Hey what's up with this? I'm very interested & I already have a team put together.