GRATITUDE FOR OUR OUT OF STATE TEAMS

THESE TEAMS WORKED VERY HARD JUST TO GET TO FLORIDA TO FISH THE BIG HAMMER CHALLENGE AND THEY DESERVE SPECIAL MENTION FOR THEIR EFFORTS

TEAM PORK RINDS-WEST VIRGINIA,OHIO,PENNSYLVANIA

TEAM PORK RINDS--after a week of fishing, we are all back home and getting settled back into the real world....it was an amazing trip!!!

5'7 BT

7'5 Nurse

5'3 BT

7'9 Nurse

10'4 Hammer

Until next year, Team Pork Rinds is out, good luck and stay safe out there guys!

TEAM JURASSIC -LOUISIANNA,TEXAS

Team Jurassic hit the beach for 4 nights. Fished 3 different beaches. 2 camps each beach. Lot of moving looking for the studs. We finally found a sweet spot! We had a heck of Trip and headed home with some nice fish and several new personal best!

Team Picture

(Left to right)Greg Sowder (EastTennSharker), Howard Daughtrey (Docd62), Diana Daughtrey (Sharkgirl), Troy Coupel (LaSharkHunter), Travis Coupel (LaSharkHunterJr.)

Shark #1 5ft 11in Bull caught by Troy

Shark #2 6ft 9in Bull caught by Travis

Shark #3 5ft 6in Bull caught by Greg

Shark #4 5ft 2in BlackTip caught by Travis

Shark #5 7ft 2in Nurse caught by Doc

Shark #6 7ft 2in Bull caught by Travis

Shark #7 7ft 4in Bull caught by Diana

Shark #8 6ft 6in Bull caught by Diana

Shark #9 6ft 11in Bull caught by Doc

Shark #10 6ft 5in Bull caught by Diana

Shark #11 5ft 9in Bull caught by Greg

Shark #12 6ft 3in Bull caught by Travis

Shark #13 6ft 8in Bull caught by Troy

Shark #14 8ft 5in Bull caught by Greg

Shark #15 9ft 11 3/4 in Tiger caught by Doc

Shark #16 8ft 5in Bull caught by Troy

Shark #17 6ft 6in Bull caught by Greg

Shark #18 7ft 5in Lemon caught by Troy

Shark #19 6ft 10in Bull caught by Travis

Shark #20 6ft 1in Bull caught by Greg

Shark #21 6ft 9in Bull caught by Diana

Hope I didn't miss to many pics or mess up to many numbers....kind of hard to keep up with all this.

Took a heck of a team to put these sharks on the sand but every team has a most valuable player and think we all agree that more than half these sharks would never have seen the sand with out young Travis! Thanks Travis for all your hard work!

TEAM CLUSTERFU#K-

This year Team Clusterf*ck consists of Josh Pryor, Robert Pryor, Tommy Sneed, Mark Conner (charkbait) and Mark Duncan (madshark). You could call our trip "Banned of Brothers”, as we have all been banned from Deaver’s little site in the last year. This year’s BHC was a great experience. Thanks to Will and all you others who work so hard to make this happen.

Recognizing that the big challenge of an extended trip is making bait, we all started working to collect bait about a month before this trip. We started with about 300 pounds of rays and Jack Crevalles. After 90+ baits run in 5 days we finished with a half dozen small rays.

This year we truly personified our team name. I was fishing with a bad disc in my neck that forced me to a chiropractor and I got bit by a 5’4” Blacktip across my palm. I appreciate Mark Conner stepping up and kayaking all our baits after I got bitten. His skills are really improving, in the yak, and he really saved our trip. I’ll leave it to the others in our camp to fill in their experiences. Through it all, we managed to put a few fish on the sand.

Team Clusterf*ck loaded out – Mark Duncan, Mark Conner and Tommy Sneed

Robert and Josh Pryor

We set up two camps about 300 yards apart. Me, Mark and Tommy were east camp. Josh and his dad, Robert were west camp. This is the full team at east camp.

We got into fish almost right away.

#1) Mark Conner’s 95” Lemon

#2) Josh Pryor’s 76” Bull

#3) Mark Conner’s 82” Bull

#4) Mark Duncan’s 86 ½” Bull

#5) Mark Duncan’s 102” Bull – caught on 80# line

#6) Josh Pryor’s 67” Blacktip

#7) Robert Pryor’s 72” Blacktip

#8) Josh Pryor’s 114” Lemon – New Personal Best

#9) Robert Pryor’s 61 ½” Blacktip

#10) Robert Pryor’s 93” Bull

#11) Tommy Sneed’s 77” Bull – New Personal Best

#12) Mark Duncan’s 64” Blacktip – This is one that ended up with the front half of my left hand in its mouth.

#13) Robert Pryor’s 61” Blacktip

#14) Mark Conner’s 99” Bull

#15) Mark Duncan’s 65 ½” Blacktip

#16) Mark Conner’s 86 ½” Tiger – Mark was reeling in his last line with a Jackfish head that had soaked all night. We were rolling up to head home. On the way in, this Tiger hit his bait.