This year the Awards Ceremony will be held at John U Lloyd State Park on HOLLYWOOD beach on Sunday May 3 rd 2009 starting at 12 noon and ending at 4 .The reservation has been made for the Pelican Pavillion which is the second closest to the Inlet.Here is a map of the State park which indicates the easiest way to get to the park and the pavillion.
The park is on the beach and next to Port Everglades Inlet .The scenery is beautiful ,the beach is clean and the pavillion we rented for the event is large enough to accomodate 60 people without any problem.There are bike trails,nature trails as well as kayak rentals and a beachside cafe.[img]
AWARDS CEREMONY PICTURES
THE TOURNAMENT TROPHIES AND PRIZES ON
DISPLAY
manning the BAR B Q as always Julio and his hungry admirers
good friends,the view, and the food made it all worth
our cook gets a suprise did not expect-that's what you get for feeding us like a good grandmother
chowing down and hangin out
the wife hard at work helping me as usual,,,,,,thanks honey!
Club members and loyal Miami Heat fans getting there daily fix
shooting the breeze, pre awards hang out
Team Apex's Mike and Kriss w family and friends
Shannon Bustamante and JD took the initiative to show some brotherly love and mix it up with Team Black Bart and Team Salttrash.com,,,,,,,,Thanks JD and Shann!!
Aaron Bunch jumped in also to make contact with the Palm Beach Shark masters
Mojo and the youngen's hamming it up for the camera
these two work for a sunscreen co. testing the product but so far it's not working
Team Finaddicts from the west coast drove across the state to claim there prizes,,,,thanks guys
Pete and Mellissa -the hardest working couple in the tournament
Kriss from Team Apex describing to me the feeling of catching a Big Hammer
Team Apex's Mike also smiling when recalling the thrill of a Big Hammer
THE WINNERS
Junior angler champion Kyle Bishop of Team Black Bart
2nd place biggest shark caught by a female 9 ft 8 inch Lemon-Mellissa Showman of Team Salttrash.com
1st place biggest shark caught by a female and biggest Lemon of the tournament-9 ft 9 inch-Mellissa Showman
Biggest Bull Shark of the tournament 8 ft 10 inch by Chris Bishop -Team Black Bart
Biggest Hammerhead Shark of the tournament 12 ft 2 inches -Shannon Bustamante Team Hammer n the Phenoms
Team picture of Team Hammer n the Phenoms
Bridge Champions with 8 sharks caught from a bridge- Team locked Drag's Rory accepts the trophy for the team
Pier Champions Chris Bishop with 8 sharks caught from a pier -Team Black Bart
Team picture
Beach Champions Team Salttrash.com w 72 sharks caught from the beach
3rd place most sharks caught -Team Finaddicts Capt Wayne and his team member girlfriend
2nd place most sharks caught Team Salttrash w 72 sharks total
1st place most sharks caught Team Black Bart w 76 sharks
Biggest shark caught on 80 lb test Team Apex's Mike Tobaras with a 7ft 6 inch nurse shark
5th place biggest shark caught 9ft 9 inch Lemon Shark Mellissa Showman Team Salttrash.com
4th place biggest shark 9 foot 11 inch Hammer Troy Webber -Team Black Bart
3rd place biggest shark 10 foot 7 inch hammerhead -Kriss of Team Apex
2nd place biggest shark 11 foot 1 and 1/2 inch Hammerhead Chris Bishop -Team Black Bart
1st place biggest shark 12 foot 2 inch hammerhead Shannon Bustamante Team Hammer n the Phenoms
GROUP PICS
A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL THE PARTICIPANTS WHO FISHED SO HARD AND GOT SUCH GREAT RESULTS.SEE YOU NEXT APRIL 2010,,,,,,,WILL
SOUTH FLORIDA SHARK CLUB -President SFSC-Founding Member est 1983 SFSC-Website Administrator BIG HAMMER SHARK TOURNAMENT -Founder Rene Memorial Sharkathon -Founder NMFS Shark Tagger
great pics!!
thank you [ WILL ] fore working so hard on the big hammer tourney lookimg forward to next year to help you and fish the tourney 
had a great time evan if i couldent get around so good
Wow awesome photos Will! Looks like everyone had a great time! Once again props to you on a great tournament!!
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Congratulations once again to all the winners, great pix and awesome job on the Tournament Will!!
I had a great time, it was nice to meet everyone from team apex,salt trash, black bart, reelemin, and all the others.
The food was great, especially the ribs and jumbo shrimps!!! The awards were awesome i like my trophies more than the 500 cash!!!!
This tournament had great competition,great great prizes, great food, and best of all outstanding down to earth people. I can honestly say that i went up against, and fished side by side with the cream of the crop when it comes to land based shark fishing.
This sport is not nearly as popular and big as it can get, so its up to all of us to stick together and have each others back so that one day we can have tournaments in the same breath as some of the dolphin,sailfish and tarpon tournaments.
I am a firm believer of releasing our sharks and some how coming together to petition some of these long line rules that are allowing these killers to rape the ocean of what little sharks are left. because if we stay quiet we will be a bass fishing group and there will be no more sharks.
We can always disagree with one another, may it be on boatless, on a bridge in person, on this website, wherever, however the arguing and fighting must stop. We have to work together since there are so few land based shark fisherman around, a group of 5 preaching good for our sport goes unnoticed, however a team of 150 + loud voices
getting together with NOAA and other organizations who notice the dangerously low shark numbers, will stir up controversy with these long liners.
A bit off subject but hopefully you will all agree, thank you Will for a great tournament and to salt trash and black bart, Next year i will try to give you a run for the beach numbers because that gap was to huge lol.
I will dedicate half of my full time bridge fishing, for some Miami beach - Jensen Beach fishing.
See you guys at the shore bound!!!!
SFSC -East Coast Events Coordinator