Official 2010 Big Hammer Challenge Reports,Pics-Leaderboard

nice looks like you had some nasty weather over there or a lot of sand nice shark congrats will

CONGRADULATIONS WILL now you are the TOP DAWG and well deserved , Hard work and having the experience that you have obtained thru out the years has paid off once again, GOOD LUCK!! holding the lead ONLY 8 MORE DAYS LEFT> Now who's laughing at the joke that was pulled on you last month

CONGRADULATIONS WILL now you are the TOP DAWG and well deserved , Hard work and having the experience that you have obtained thru out the years has paid off once again, GOOD LUCK!! holding the lead ONLY 8 MORE DAYS LEFT> Now who's laughing at the joke that was pulled on you last month

ahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahah u got me there seawolf aaahhahahaahhahahahaahahahah

With one week left to compete in the 2010 BIG HAMMER CHALLENGE it's time to regroup,plan strategy based on good research and more importantly expierience.

I will make some suggestions to everyone that wants to target the big hammers right now because I really don't want to win my own tournament,,,,,,,,I'd rather have someone else be the happy winner.I allready own all the high end tackle i need.

SUGGESTIONS

IF YOU WANT TO SUCCEED PUSH YOURSELF TO PLACES YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN BRAVE ENOUGH TO GO.FIGHT WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT AND NEVER ,EVER GIVE UP.

Fish big fresh baits close to inlets or passes
Fish where there are schools of Tarpon
Fish live rays or barracudas close to inlets or passes
Fish a bridge or pier where you can chum with big bloody baits hanging on a rope(natural scent)
Fish where there is good movement of water combined with schools of fish(stay away from flat calm water)
Fish Palm beach and north (Martin county included) to Melbourne beach area
Fish Ft Desoto or Boca Grande
Fish Long Key or Bahia Honda bridge if possible
Fish Seven Mile bridge (incoming tide)
Fish Singer Island for a big bull or poossible hammer
Fish Key Biscayne for a BIG BULL

THIRD WEEK STANDINGS(LEADERBOARD)

Team Shark Fever
4/21/10
Angler - Snook Hunter
9 foot 4 inch Hammer

I met C Money 7 at the beach around 2. I was happy to skip out of work since the weather was warm and the sea was perfect for kayaking. Baits were deployed - Bonita, ray, King fish and bluefish. We sat watching the water with no shark action. Then I turn and looked at Carl and realized he has a bathing suite on and he is baking in the sun and I have a hat, pull over sweatshirt, beach towel wrapped around me and I have chills with the onset of perfuse body pain. I had an upset stomach all morning but nothing was going to keep me from the beach.

I decide I will stay to at least 6pm. I was disappointed that I was not going to make sunset; I was just to achy through out my body.

Carl landed a blacktip that was 59 inches. We did not bother with photos since it was not going to qualify. I started packing up at 5pm just after Carl landed his blacktip. We heard my 9/0 go off so we ran down the beach and get ready. Just to find out that we lost the fish and my 12/0 starts screaming. I have never seen line come off a reel this quick - unbelievable!!!!

I give the fish time to eat the Bonita head with a single hook, then I set the hook with the running man and the fight was on. I have a 12/0 with 500 yards of 100 braid as backing and then filled to the rim with 100lb mono. The drag was locked down and the fish would not stop. It felt like 15 min. of line going out. I burnt my forearm and inner leg on the very hot reel. We ran out of water so we started to pour soda on the reel. The fish would not stop and I had about 200 yards of backing left. We got the other pole ready so we can join the lines; luckily he stopped when I had about 100 yards of line left.

Everyone was screaming and we think we have a 12 to 15 footer on and was going to win the tournament. Carl cleared all the other poles from the beach and I went to work on the fish. Actually, the fish went to work on me. To make long story short. I had the chills, sweats, queasiness and aches. I wanted to cut the line about an hour to an hour and half into it. I even develop a huge blister from reeling on my right thumb.

Just a few minutes later coach Howard Schnellenberger comes over to see what is going on. He spouted off a couple of positive remarks that keep me going for another hour and a half. Team Shark Fever landed a foul hooked 9 foot 4 inch hammer. I fell to the floor in the fetal position for about 20 min. with chills, sweats and achiness. I left the rest of the work to the crew. I took very few photos and went home. I spent the last 36 hours in bed and just came back from the doctors. Diagnosis - Strep throat

Look at the photo above and you can see where the hook was set in the gut.

DAMN!!!!!! THAT IS A THICK BODIED HAMMER. NOW I KNOW WHY IT FOUGHT FOR SUCH A LONG TIME.I AM PROUD OF OUR TEAM AND HOW WELL THEY HAVE WORKED TOGETHER.I AM PROUD OF CHRIS FOR PUSHING HIMSELF THROUGH ALL HIS DISCOMFORT TO FINALLY CATCH HIS HAMMER.PROUD LIKE A FATHER WATCHING HIS CHILDREN TAKING THERE FIRST STEPS.THIS TEAM WILL CONTINUE TO STRENGTHEN AND BE A FORCE TO RECKON WITH.
AGAIN THANKS FOR YOUR HARD WORK, AND DON'T FORGET IT AI'NT OVER TIL THE FAT LADY SINGS.

THANKS ,,,,,,,WILL

Hey Will, just dropping in to say congrats on your hammer, and to everyone else who is giving their souls to fish the tourney, believe me I know how rugged and exhausting it is, finally got a chance to take a peak over after someone told me you landed a stud, awesome to see those scalloped hammers too! Good luck to everyone in the rest of the tourney and congrats from us!

Nice to see you guys on here Zach.I'd love to see everyone on here competing and being good friends and better representatives of this sport. God knows we need the real hard working top notch guys such as yourself to continue to do positive things.
I pray that one by one we can all forgive and forget the mistakes of the past and learn to love one another like the Holy Scriptures teach us
THANKS

Nice hammers !! Really nice . I just saw your 11'2" Will , awesome fish. Lot's a hard work paying off.

nice hammer guys

Nice to see you guys on here Zach.I'd love to see everyone on here competing and being good friends and better representatives of this sport. God knows we need the real hard working top notch guys such as yourself to continue to do positive things.
I pray that one by one we can all forgive and forget the mistakes of the past and learn to love one another like the Holy Scriptures teach us
THANKS

true words will!!!!!!!

2 more sharks for TEAM SHARK FEVER, 5foot6inch lemon, and a 5foot9inch lemon. some drunk guy on the beach helped me measure it, and the second shark i caught while fishing with jdhammer and his son jimmy, we had around 8 baits out mostly fresh ecept the one bait that got hit was an old frozen bonnethead, i couldent believe it. keep up the hard fishing evreyone, and good luck to all. pics comming soon!

Team Hammer & the Phenoms add 2 more lemons; 8'3 & 8'10

These two lemons were caught last night,Jimmy Fuqua landed the bigger one which was 8ft 10,and i got the 8ft 3 lemon.
I am really having a head ache with my other lemon pictures caught a few days earlier due to it being a roll up camera, i finally got them developed,but now i need to find a scanner, and i was wrong with the measurement now that i got the pictures of my lemon, it was actually 8 foot 4. so my teamate Jimmy Fuqua has the biggest lemon now with this 8ft 10.

Hell yeah, Will on the top. Nice hammer big game hunter! you desreve it. Its still slow here. we have caught a couple small 6' or so spinners. Killed some 30lb rays for bait. killed 10 or so. Planning on Ft Pickens next week if the weather allows. we have fished hard all month and came up with nothing worth while. over 60 big baits this month so far. We hoping for a big dusky. Water temp is 71. We are having a fair cobia season that i have missed.

nice hammer will it is nice to see jou get what you were tryng so hard to get you finally did it after seeing you fish so hard runnig all over till you did it good man good luck to the rest of the people that are going to try to beat you but it is going to be hard