Official 2011 Big Hammer Challenge Reports,Pics,Leaderboard

I'm counting my numbers now will......

I got.......10ft hammer,9ft hammer,10ft1inch hammer,8ft11inch hammer........myself?

Dang,,, congrats to all. everyone in the BHC has done very well. I can say for sure that next year will be even better and bigger. Everyone here just proves that a shark turni's can be done in a fun, safe, and a really good way.
Congrats Will on a job well done, and to all the teams congrats on all your catches, very nice.

Will, thanks again for putting on the best land base shark fishing turny anywhere.

first year of dedicated shark fishing, and my first tourney so apparently theres a learning curve ... thanks to Will for putting this on, and congrats to the anglers that set the bar even higher for next year... btw the 48hour boca tournament is genius

Great tourney Will, my team didn't do as well as planned, but we learned a lot and ended up doing okay. I caught 4 sharks over 7 1/2 feet.

Thank you Will and everyone who helped put this site and tournament together. I had a great time doing this. Thanks everyone on my team that helped out and thank you Lake Worth Sharkers. Great job everyone that was in the tournament, everyone worked hard. I look forward to next years Big Hammer Challenge!

-Mike

Here are the winners of the 2011 BIG HAMMER CHALLENGE. Please bare with me i am still going through each and every page and each picture to determine The Winners.If i have overlooked ANYONE in any category PLEASE call me or send me a PM and I will review your request .

IF YOU HAVE A SHARK THAT HAS BEEN OVERLOOKED PLEASE POST BELOW AND LET US KNOW YOUR NAME ,TEAM NAME AND WHAT PAGE OF THE LEADERBOARD THE SHARK IS ON SO THAT WE CAN REVIEW IT.

Remember this is a month long tournament and it takes a lot of work to stay on top of every single detail to perfection. One change I have made to improve the Tournament's challenging nature is that "One shark alone cannot win the Triple Crown Category an angler must catch a minimum of two sharks winning in any three FIRST PLACE categories to win the Triple Crown".This would represent an angler purposely fishing for Triple Crown status by targeting different species or different line categories.Next year the Nurse shark will have it's own separate trophy because many have complained about them competing against more hard pulling sharks of equal size.

TOURNAMENT AWARD CATEGORIES

SHARK MASTER AWARD-

AWARDED TO THE SHARK HUNTER THAT CATCHES THE MOST SHARKS OVER 7 1/2 FEET LONG(most big sharks)
TIMMY SWAGGERTY -TEAM LAKE WORTH SHARKERS -4 sharks 10'1" hammer,10 ft hammer,9ft hammer,8'11" hammer-ALL 4 HAMMERS totaling 456 inches(thirty eight feet-total length)

THE HEART OF A CHAMPION SHARK HUNTER -TimmyT

Quote by Chris Cfronzek
""Lake Worth Sharkers. 3 Hammer weekend.
Fishing hammer infested waters. Tim got all three, only one that would take out bait in the awful surf"".

TimmyT the Lake Worth pier phenom hooked up during the 2011 Big Hammer Challenge

TRIPLE CROWN AWARD-AWARDED TO ANY SHARKER WINNING THREE SEPERATE 1ST PLACE CATEGORIES(one shark can only count for two categories-- Example Biggest Shark overall, and Biggest Tiger)You need a minimum of two winning sharks to win the Triple Crown
NO WINNER IN 2011

BIGGEST SHARKS CAUGHT

1 st place Biggest Shark -Winner will recieve Avet 80 Wide reel and custom rod

Rico Diamandi 12 ft 10 inch hammerhead -TEAM HAMMER WRANGLERS**Big Hammer Challenge Record

5 th place Biggest Shark -Trophy and a prize

TimmyT 10 foot hammerhead shark -TEAM LAKE WORTH SHARKERS

BIGGEST OF SPECIES ( BIG BOYZ )

Biggest Hammerhead Shark Award –Given to the Angler catching the largest Hammerhead shark - Winner will receive 9/0 and rod


Rico Diamandi 12 ft 10 inch Hammerhead shark TEAM HAMMER WRANGLERS ** Big Hammer Challenge Record

Biggest Lemon- Given to the Angler catching the largest Lemon shark-Winner will recieve a Gimbal belt
Josh Pryor's First Place 9'6" Lemon TEAM CLUSTERFU$K

TEAM CHAMPIONS BAD BOYZ

CHAMPION TEAM -FIRST PLACE-Most Sharks caught by a Team 1st PLACE- Trophy and Prizes
Team Picture

TEAM JURASSIC 24 SHARKS

CHAMPION TEAM -THIRD PLACE- Most Sharks caught by a Team 3rd PLACE- Trophy and Prizes

TEAM HAMMER N THE PHENOMS 14 SHARKS(total is minus 1 disqualified shark)
JD Hammer(James Fuqua),Shannon Bustamante and Kim Resto -not in picture -Jimmy Dean Fuqua and JD Fagan

LINE CLASS CHAMPIONS (50 & 80 lb test) AND SPINNING DIVISION CHAMPION

1)Biggest shark caught on 80 lb test - Winner will recieve Surf rod w Reel

the hard fight on beach reel broke


Mike Pinera TEAM PALM BEACH SHARK SLAYERS 9 FOOT 3 INCH ,,From the pier to the sand these boys can catch they sharks

2)Biggest Shark caught on 50 lb test-Trophy and Prizes
the catch
Joe Clausel -TEAM DIRTY SOUTH SHARK HUNTERS 8 FT 8 inch nurse shark

3)Biggest shark caught on spinning tackle-winner recieve Surf rod w Reel

Colby Uva TEAM BULL BUSTERS 5 FT 4 lemon shark

NON SHARK CATEGORY-rays,jewfish,tarpon,barracuda,sawfish etc,etc,etc

Scott Foster -TEAM PORK RINDS 9 foot inch Southern Ray

BEACH,PIER & BRIDGE CHAMPIONS

1)Beach champions -Individual Angler catching most sharks from a beach. Trophy and Prizes
Tied with 7 sharks each Jimmy Dean Fuqua -TEAM HAMMER N THE PHENOMS and Troy Coupel TEAM JURASSIC

3)Bridge champions -Individual Angler catching most sharks caught from a bridge. Trophy and Prizes


4 SHARKS Kevin Cabrera -TEAM DIRTY SOUTH SHARK HUNTERS (2 blacktips,1 lemon and 1 nurse)total is minus disqualified sharks

FEMALE ANGLERS
Biggest shark caught by a female(first place) - Surf rod and reel combo.

Isabel Medina TEAM DIRTY SOUTH GIRLS 8 FT 7 INCH nurse shark

Biggest shark caught by a female(second place) - Trophy


Erin Carter TEAM TOTAL RELEASE 8 foot 6 inch BULL shark

THE JUNIORS

Junior Angler 1st Place Biggest Shark - Surf rod and reel combo.(any angler less then 18 years old)

Rico Diamandi 12 ft 10 inch hammerhead -TEAM HAMMER WRANGLERS**Big Hammer Challenge Record

Junior Angler 2nd Place Biggest Shark-Prize

John Serrano 11 foot 9 inch hammerhead -TEAM PALM BEACH SHARK SLAYERS

Junior Angler 3rd Place Biggest Shark-Trophy


Coty Steffani TEAM SCREAMING SENATORS 9 FT 6 inch Hammerhead

HARD LUCK TROPHY

Kenny Lineberry -Team Shark fever
"Had an absolute monster last night!! hit the bait on the way in. I was packing up and reeling in the last rod and about 50yrds from the beach it just bent over and screamed. Went down to just less than a half spool. Fought back and forth for a while. It was a long battle. When he got to the wash and threw that absolutely massive tail up. We were all in aww. Not but a moment later it went slack. He swam off just as tired as I was. my heart broke. When we examined what gave, we saw that he apparently wound up in the leader and about 40' of my main line. and even past my 20' of steel about halfway up my 10 400lb was fray popped ... that was the one! I have been beat but not defeated. WATCH OUT!! I only learn from my heartache... TIGHT LINES GUYS"

Great job to every one in the BHC! So many amazing sharks were caught

I like the ideas for next year for the jewfish category and nurse shark! Competing against nurse sharks for biggest shark isnt ideal lol its the difference of reeling in a poodle vs a pit bull most other sharks fight harder

I can honestly say with this being my first year of shark fishing, i am SUPER grateful to the people that embraced me on this site and took me under their wing. I have learned so much in such a short period of time thanks to my team (SHARK FEVER) and from those of you around the site. I got the greatest gift anyone could recieve from this tournament, the gift of education in the sport. I must admit the pressure was immense right off the bat and expectations even more. I truly hope i will have more of an impact next year as my best outing was away from my teamates on some beach in the west coast catching 6 smaller Tippers. But to me its always those small sharks that help you develop the feel of when to reel/set-up etc.. Thats just me. If i take anything into the the rest of the year it will be this: 1)Fish consistently 2)Fresh bait 3) Mininum 130lb test 4) max length leaders(all steel and cable). TIGHT LINEZ always..

Nick Spera
9548021969.. For broward and PB fishing

simply amazing tourny this year will!!!many amazing fish caught along with my personal best hammer and current biggest shark my 9'6" hammer!!cant wait for next years tourney and congrats to all other outstanding teams!!!

Here's a pic of Josh Pryor's First Place 9'6" Lemon.

The mass of this fish is difficult to describe.

Any idea of #2 and #3 teams?

Will the Junior Angler 2nd Place Biggest Shark is jonnathen serrano with 11.9 ft hammer head

Congrats to Rico and the big win. I told ya, yall had it in the bag. Waiting to see if someone else catches a bigger one is a nail biting experience. Maybe what i said made it a little more comfortable.
Congrats John with palm beach slayers. Your fish should have won this tourny, just if the wranglers wouldnt have caught that monster hammer.
As for team tooth fairy we ended up with 16 sharks. 8'5" lemon 8' tiger 7'2"tiger 8'4" bull 8'2" bull and the rest were bulls over 6' and one black tip. I had to work 5 days a week so my time was limmited. I Work, fish, and compute with work and fishing taking priority over computing. I didnt want to drive to miami to pick up a trophy, so we decided to go big or not at all. We had a couple big chances but come up with much of nothing but a big bite print and a broke wire. We fished alot and enjoyed the competition.
Oh yeah, congrats to JD's team with that pig shark, I mean that bull shark that looks like a pig.

Congrats to all the teams that participated, enjoyed watching everyone catch fishing!! Great tournament Will.