Official 2013 Big Hammer Challenge-Reports,Pics,Leaderboard

Awesome work Ladies! Very respectable fish! Love to see the ladies get involved in the fun!

WOW !!! what a fatty bull !!!! Congrats on that one!!! Gonna be tuff to beat that

So many GREAT cathces and releases...Fat bulls, massive lemons, a mako, a few wee big hammers and the elusive homosapien (Big Kenny - 6ft 1in). Congrats to all!!! Still a lot of time left in the BHC and the tide is about to turn.....beware and sharpen those hooks.

Diane great catch !! Massive bull. Way to go ladies !!!

team name : dirty south

catches for the night: 4

5ft 11 blacktip angler: jose clausell

7ft 11 lemon angler: Raymundo Muniz

5 ft 7 blacktip angler: Raymundo muniz

5 ft 1 blacktip angler jose clausal

teams total sharks as of today : 15

teams total sharks as of today 15

angler: jose clausal

shark #12 blacktip 5 ft 11

tail shot

angler: Raymundo muniz

shark #13: lemon 7 ft 11inch

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angler: raymundo muniz

shark#14: blacktip 5 ft 7

tail shot

angler: jose clausell

shark #15: blacktip 5 ft 1

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TEAM SHORT BUS SHARK CAMP
The pictures are not in their best quality, and may be even missing the secret item. Thanks Johnathan for your help.

Shawn Killian 7'7 Bull

Will J Fundora 8'4 Bull

team dirty south hooked up with there little sisters team hammer and the phenoms to do some side by side fishing.lol

team: dirty south

total catches of the night for team dirty south :1

8 ft lemon angler :Raymundo Muniz

total sharks as of today: 16

angler : raymundo muniz

shark # 16: 8 ft lemon

tail shot

angler: shannon bustamante

shark: bull 7 ft 2

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angler : shannon bustamante

shark tiger 8 ft 8

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sometimes you gatta let ur little sister beat u so she can feel good.....lol

yo big will nice bull bro!!!!! just remember "rene talking" shine da light on the line!!!! cheeesus...

Congrats to TEAM JURASSIC 8ft 10in Bull Shark-Angler Diana Coupel on that slob bull its massive, also big Ken congrats on another Hammer your killing those hammers man good job , Ray SHINE THE LIGHT lol

Will

Nice Tiger Shannon, I haven't got one in years

Will

CONGRATULATIONS TO DIANA AND HER DAD ON A FINE CATCH,
THAT IS A MASSIVE PREGNENT BULL SHARK.CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL TEAMS OUT THERE FISHING HARD PUTTING SOME EXCEPTIONAL FISH ON THE BOARD IN A VERY CONSISTENT WAY,LOTS OF HAMMERS BY GUYS LIKE KENNY AND OTHERS .TEAM DIRTY SOUTH IS IN THE LEAD FOR MOST FISHING LOCALLY LIKE NO ONE ELSE AND HITTING THE RIGHT BEACHES FOR THE BIGGER FISH AS WELL.NICE FATTY BULL LUIS AND A NICE LEMON BROOK OF TEAM HAMMERLIFE .BIG WILL YOU HAD ME WITH THAT BULL BY 1 /4 INCH BUT DYLAN KNOCKED US BOTH OUT WITH HIS 8 FT 8 INCH FOR BRIDGE CATEGORY.

WHERE IS THE ELUSIVE 10 FOOT BULL SHARK .OVER THE SEVEN YEARS OF THIS TOURNAMENT THE BIGGEST BULL SHARKS CAUGHT HAVE BEEN 9 FT 2 INCH BEAST AT BOYNTON AND 3 OR 4 NINE FOOTERS ELSEWHERE BUT I WOULD ENJOY SEEING A 9 FT 9 INCH 650 POUNDER BUT THOSE ARE VERY RARE .

EVERYONE'S DOING A GREAT JOB AND THE WEST COAST IS TURNING ON FIRE SHORTLY SO EVERY TEAM BETTER STAY FISHING HARD WERE NOT EVEN AT THE HALFWAY POINT YET

It is unfortunate that I have to make an example of the two sharks down below caught by a SFSC member but this problem has to nipped in the bud.Ray who posted the sharks or Shannon who caught them, I don't know whose Idea it was but Please don't have a Tiger shark that is clearly taping out to an approximate 8 ft 3 inch in your overall picture then taping out at 8 ft 8 inch in your tail Picture .Please don't have a Bull Shark that is showing 7 foot then being called 7 ft 2 inch. Your 'tail shot picture' must be consistent with your overall picture and it is clearly visible that the Tiger in question here is not 8 ft 8 inch.If there was a Formal Complaint filed on this catch by another Team whose shark was being beaten by this shark then we would be voting to Disqualify it or rectify the measurement. Your 'overall pic' dictates what you can claim as your total length it's that simple.

Lets AVOID DISQUALIFICATION OR HAVING YOUR SHARK REDUCED BY BEING CONSISTENT IN POSTING THE TWO REQUIRED MEASUREMENTS OF YOUR SHARKS TO BE SUBMITTED.

PLEASE DONT MAKE MY JOB ANY HARDER I'M HAVING A VERY DIFFICULT YEAR AND TAKE NO PRIDE IN MAKING AN EXAMPLE OF A FRIEND'S CATCH WHOM ALSO HAPPENS TO BE A SFSC MEMBER.THIS TEARS AT THE THREAD OF MY HEART BECAUSE WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE GOOD EXAMPLES NOT ONES SIDESTEPPING THE RULES AND GUIDELINES.THERE ARE OTHER INSTANCES WHERE THIS DISCREPANCY IS EVIDENT DURING THIS YEAR'S BHC BUT NOW IS THE TIME TO GET EVERY ONE IN LINE TO AVOID A MAJOR DISPUTES.

shark tiger 8 ft 8

tail shot

shark: bull 7 ft 2

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Team Huge Gear
Angler Rich Otts
Lemon Shark from Pier 7'10
Fight Picture

Shark (thrown tape measure away and made a better one for future catches)

Tail Shot

Team Huge Gear Angler Gene Gurewicz
5'6 Blacktip that was headroped up then released by tailrope, navarre pier style
Fight Pic

Shark (better tape measure)

TailShot

Weve fished countless hours with little results but beware hammers we are searching far and deep for you.

Been fishing the keys hard to still come up short of what we have been looking for but having fun just the same.My good friend Tyler Parker is one of the most passinate shark fishermen I know who reminds me alot of myself at his age 'absolutely nuts about land-based sharking'.He comes down for 10 days from Virginia just to fish in the BHC.He is in high school and does all that school work in advance just to get the days of to fish in florida on Team Shark Fever.What a joy to watch this young man full of enthusiasm for the sport and so willing to work hard to learn it's fine details in the search for monster sharks.We will be fishing hard looking for that one fish .

Team Shark Fever Angler Tyler Parker 9 ft 8 inch Tiger

the kid Tyler Parker is doing an awesome job and here he fights the Tiger I thought was gonna be a 10 foot Hammer because it pulled lots of drag on the Okuma Makaira and even charged the beach once

17 year old Dynamo and passionate shark fishermen Tyler Parker is a proud member of Team Shark Fever

overall pic

Tyler Parker 9 ft 8 inch Tiger

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good friends share the beach in RESPECTFUL FASHION 'Sharkers Comaraderie' and offer support for an underhanded Team

Sharkless days with beautiful sunsets are enough at times

Tyler Parker Team Shark Fever Bridge caught Nurse Shark

fight pic

FULL MOON NURSE SHARK

PROBABLY CLOSE TO 9 FOOT

BLURRY HEAD SHOT PIC -Nurse sharks count for Team totals ONLY

Fishing new spots that often times dont produce but are worth a try

the trusty old Toyota truck serves as home base and sometimes sleeping quarters

the gummies suck and chew and cause many a FALSE ALARM

WEIRD ADAPTATIONS OF THE ROD HOLDER the cooler serves multiple purposes

Fishing with family and friends helps heal the Broken Hearted

the girls get in on the snapper acton when the sharks are a NO show

the grunts keep the girls happy while we wait wait for dee munstah!!!

my mother and two my two cousins Angel and Alex with an undersized mangrove

my mother and I share a cold one on Long key bridge

the family that fishes together stays together

Will you are exactly right, Theres no denying on my part that the full length pictures are the actual length! 7 ft bull and 8 ft 2 tiger!! however with Big waves and having on a triple header at the time tail shots are off. I have no problem agreeing that those sharks are 7ft for the bull and 8ft 2 for the tiger!!!! I will be a lot more attentative in measuring next time, The triple header was madness with only 3 anglers and cost me to lose my biggest shark of the tournament which was burning my 16-0!!!

To all teams competing against me I apologize for the hiccup.