This was written by Wayne Slusser(team finaddicts) and Tom Argue owner of boatlessfishing after I posted the pics of all the winning sharks from the 2010 Big Hammer Challenge on the boatlessfishing website last week. Tom Argue himself had invited me back into his site months ago only to once again delete my account .Tom I don't need you or your site .Thanks for another attack on shark fisherman again.That's what we get for trying to reach out to those on the boatless site and unite the land-based shark fisherman of Florida.I guess it proves never trust man with twisted envious hearts.
"Oh Willy.... Why did you start this???? Would you mind telling all of us about JD's Bull, and your Hammer and the nurse on the pier and all the lemons that were photographed out of the water (they were placed on the protected species list prior to your tournament). Or are you going to deny and attempt to cover this up too? Your 2010 Big Hammer Tournament had more shark deaths than all the tournaments combined over the past 2 years!!!!! Why is that? It's time to fess up Willy..."
Wayne Slusser
Captain Team Finaddicts
http://www.finaddictsonline.com
Fess up to what Wayne ?That Jd's bull died ,,,,,,it's a known fact that shark died.That my hammer died ?I told everyone that the shark died from the git go .About the nurse on top of the pier on the west coast I have no idea weather it died or not.We put together the best land-based shark fishing tournament in the world and some who call themselves shark fisherman go out of there way to bash us because a few shark died.What part of of "in fishing fish sometimes die" don't you understand?On the subject of lemon sharks being protected we are fully aware of that but when fishing from a beach a shark must be beached in order to safely remove the hooks measure ,tag and release a shark.Do you think that because lemon sharks are on the protected list that we will fold like Tommy did and not have our tournament any longer ,,,,,,,I don't think so!!!When the going gets tough the tough get going.Shame Tommy caved in to pressure and but i guess his heart is not in it,,,never really was.
Tom Argue of boatlessfishing wrote this
"No one posts DEAD Sharks Here this is my rule and a few of those sharks posted were dead with in hours of the release, it is public Knowledge.
Everyone here know this rule and it was posted in the SFSC site so sorry I will not allow the promotion of any Tourney that has a a unacceptable percentage of Shark Deaths."
"Thata all I have to say."
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-Tommy A-
click, click, click, Fish ON - Over, Under, Over, Under Get out of my Way. Sound familiar.
What percentage is unacceptable Tom ,,,,tell me?We had two sharks die out of over one hundred twenty something that puts us at less then 2 percent and that makes us Shark killers ?We are fisherman ,we fish and many of us hunt and in these sports animals will unfortunately die.Yours is an underhanded attempt to discredit ,this site ,it's members and anything related to the South Florida SHark Club. What is truly wrong with you people ?I know it comes from the envy you harbour in your hearts and it will eat away at your spirit till it devours you.They are envious because we have more shark fishing reports by far on this board and because we have more down to earth and solid shark fisherman on this site, and because we continue to fight while they have chosen to surrender abandon the Shorebound tourney and throw in the towel,,,,how sad. We fight for the sport and they choose to run and hide in the face of hardship,,,,,,real character you have Tom.
We work to protect sharks and those that choose to say otherwise are either bold faced liars or don't really know everything we have done to promote the tagging of sharks.Only by bashing us can they try and save face from what they are doing for Florida's land-based shark fisherman which is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!We atleast continue trying sometimes we fail or we fall short of our objective but we continue to work in the right direction.We don't surrender like Tom has we continue to fish,post our adventures ,and promote and protect our sport while all these other shananigans hide behind there groupie wannabe shark fisherman on there board.At 48 I can say that i have learned enough in my life to honestly say that I am a good judge of character and it truly saddens me to see such people saying they want to represent a sport when they can't even represent themselves and what do they prove by abandoning there Shorebound Tourney?That they are quitters,that's what they show with there actions.They have to live with themselves and I hope they find the courage to learn to fight for what they believe in someday.
Good luck Tom 'grow some balls', and good riddance Wayne you underachieving loser.
THIS WAS THE POST THAT ROUSED THEM UP
2010 BIG HAMMER CHALLENGE WINNERS
Award Categories
1 st place Biggest Shark -Ernie Polk ,Team Tooth Fairy -11 foot 9 inch TIGER SHARK
2 nd place Biggest Shark -William Fundora, Team Shark Fever- 11 foot 2 inch HAMMERHEAD SHARK
3 rd place Biggest Shark -Raymundo Muniz ,Team Dirty South Shark Hunters-10 foot HAMMERHEAD SHARK
4 th place Biggest Shark -Chris Salomoni,Team Shark Fever-9 foot 4 inch HAMMERHEAD SHARK
5 th place Biggest Shark -Raymundo Muniz,Team Dirty South Shark Hunters-9 foot 3 inch HAMMERHEAD SHARK
Biggest shark caught on 80 lb test -Raymundo Muniz 8 foot 2 inch HAMMERHEAD SHARK
Biggest shark caught on spinning tackle-Kevin Cabrera 5 foot 9 inch BLACKTIP SHARK
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Biggest non shark-Shad Loveless Team Shark Addictz 79 3/4 inch Goliath Grouper
1st place Team Champions – Most Sharks caught. TEAM SHARK FEVER -20 SHARKS
2nd place Team Champions – Most Sharks caught.TEAM HAMMER N THE PHENOMS-15 SHARKS
3rd place Team Champions – Most Sharks caught .TEAM HAMMER WRANGLERS-13 SHARKS
Beach,Pier and Bridge
Beach champions -Most sharks caught from the beach. TEAM Shark Fever-18 sharks
Pier champions -Most sharks caught from a pier .Tie 2 SHARKS TEAM Hard Hookers & Team Hammer Wranglers
Bridge champions -Most sharks caught from a bridge. TEAM Hammer N the Phenoms 3 sharks
BIGGEST OF EACH SPECIES
Biggest Hammerhead Shark
Will Fundora 11 ft 2 inch
Biggest Bull Shark
James Fuqua (Jd Hammer) 8 ft 10 inch
Biggest Tiger Shark
Ernie Polk 11 ft 9 inch
Biggest Lemon Shark Tie Chris Salomoni & Will Fundora 8 ft 11 inch
Biggest shark caught by a female(first place) -Christina Loveless ,Team Shark Addictz 7ft 11 1/4 inch Lemon Shark
Biggest shark caught by a female 2nd place- Amy Kelley Team Sahrk Addicts 7 ft 9 3/4 inch Nurse Shark
Biggest Shark caught by a Junior Angler--Coty Stefani Team Hardhookers 8 foot Nurse shark
Second Biggest Shark caught by a Junior Angler--Zach Howell,Team Bullbusters 7foot 10 inch Bull shark
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
wow will these guys are childish
were they talking about the nurses i caught from the pier?
They just need to grow up IMHO
i bet you my member ship to boatless will last about one day. they are gutlessfishing not boatless
Wow these people are some real tree huggers... Fish die everyonce and a while oh well its not the end of the world.. Its not like every shark we catch we kill... I hate tree huggers like that!! 
this is ridiculus,guess they have never had a snook or tarpon die after being released ,or how many grouper and snapper actually survive even after venting.fish die after long battles or being brought up from the depths.it happens .what a couple of pompus asses .
if hes talking about the nurses i caught,they all live...not one was stuck with a gaff,they were all roped....and were on the deck for MAYBE a minute...none of my sharks died.they all swam away
There starting to act like PETA
the more i think about this the more it pisses me off .do they not read anything on this site all you do is promote catch and release and conservation.it is really a sad that other fisherman would attach others when we have so many enemys that would like to ban fishing all together
they will eventually ruin it all for us
Post removed out of respect to Willy
As far all the kill for enjoyment, ego or hate, I want no part in it.
I gotta go with Hoogan on this one ,,,,,,,that tarpon in the picture looks like it will die from it's injuries and it should of been handled differently by the fisherman that caught it (he is a friend of mine)It should of been netted and released,beached and released or cut off(less favorable of options)It's a big catch and worthy but i will not promote the breaking of fishery laws ,,,,,tarpon may be killed only with the purchase of a tag (a way for FWC to make money on the fisherman)but it's the law.In conclusion I say please protect what you love and insure that our children and granchildren will have fish to catch in the future.
ps,,,tarpon may be abundant as are the Goliath grouper but there are laws in place to rightfully protect those species and we will abide by them .let it be known here and now that we promote conservation and condemn the needless killing of any gamefish that has laws protecting them.
William Fundora 9/22/2010
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
I agree with Will on this matter. I will not condone the killing of a species just because people dont think they are important, every species plays a vital role in survival of our marine populations. To kill a fish just because you dont like it is wrong. But i do agree that it is crap that you have to buy a tag to keep a fish. Thats just big brother wanting more money that they do not deserve.
Jellousy leads there thoughts. I hope they (boatless) read the last post we had on there behalf. I do not want my stuff on that website, now later or ever. They are a bunch of bleeding heart yanks that should do less computing and more fishing. To fish I catch atleast 50 ly, sigs, hard tails and pin fish. Then i take them and troll them behinde my zodiak alive, 
and enjoy watching as a king mackrell, jack crevell, AJ, bonita, baracuda, or small shark massacares there but. Imagine the fear in there little mindes as they are seperated from the school and are being attacked by a monster they have avoided there whole life 
. As i pull the fish in I put my Gaff aside there head and throw them in the cooler and laugh really loud while they try to beat there way out 
. I dont do all this for a meal or for money, I do it for bait, cause big sharks dont eat lures. If there ever was a cruel thing to do it is live bait fishing, and i love it. The point i am trying to make is if your heart bleeds so for one fish why does it not bleed for the rest. I kill any thing I can use for bait so that means i am not a tag and release fisherman. So let ya heart bleed for whatever ya want just hang up ya fishing pole boatless and stop the masacare. 
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