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CHANDLER’S TWIN VEE TOP SKA TEAM IN MIAMI!
By Jack Holmes

Miami, Florida. Charles “Skip” Chandler and his Suzuki powered Twin Vee catamaran team of Ed Langel and Kadre Benton felt pretty good after day one of the Kingfish Masters held out of Haulover Park in Miami. They had scaled a nice 42.61 on what many were referring to as a slow day of fishing. But it was only half time.

Sure enough, on day two Ivan Souto, who builds boats at the Contender factory and a non-member, came to the scales as they opened with a great 59.96. Chandler was now second. Then late in the day, about ten minutes before the scales closed Native Son, another non-member team presented the weigh master with a 44.11. Chandler got bounced again. He would settle for third, but retained the status of being the number one SKA team.

“We made a run up to Boynton where we fished last year in this event and pre-fished,” Chandler explained. “We were fishing in sixty feet of water when at a little after eight she inhaled a big blue runner off the shotgun line. I grabbed the rod and after a few minutes I had her to the boat and Devin stuck her.”

After the general interview about how and where was over, I asked Chandler this question. “Last years big king came from out front of the inlet, same as this years big fish. Why did you make a good run to the north?” He leveled with me. “I grew up in North Miami Beach, went to school here, and started fishing when I was five. I still have a very good friend here that I grew up with. He still does some commercial fishing. I called and asked him before the event, where do I find a big king? His response, off Haulover Inlet. If you want a big fish, this is the place you’ll catch her.” He got good advice however even that is not always enough. He could have been there and still not gotten the 59.

You couldn’t have asked for better weather this weekend. Winds were east at five to ten knots and seas were two to three feet at best. You could have run to Cuba and back it was that pretty!

Ralph Hawkins came back to the Kingfish Masters with his Mercury powered Sea Craft looking for a win. After all he knows these waters as good as anyone. He bagged a 41.22 on day one, took fourth overall, which is second place SKA.

“A charter boat captain I know had caught some nice kings at the stink hole off Hollywood the day before,” said Hawkins. “The first bait in the water, a Speedo, got nailed. We were in 110 feet of water and I had just finished dropping her 95 feet down. At first I though she had gotten bit by a bottom feeder but then she took off.” Ralph went on to explain, “We were using twelve pound test so I thought this would take a while but we had her in the boat in less than ten minutes.” They caught a lot of other fish, all released because none rivaled the 41.

The Kerri-N-On picked up the tournaments fifth place slot thanks to a good second day, 39.28-pound king. “As you know the tournament had categories for Wahoo, dolphin, and the recreational TWT, so at noon we ran off Boynton to a deep water wreck,” said Jason Naumann, team Captain, who still didn’t have a good king for the event. “We set out a Captain Mark’s chum slick and sent a blue runner down 197 feet. To our amazement it got hit right away and it was our 39. Go figure!”

On board the Yamaha powered Contender team with Naumann were Gill Strelec, Sam Cory, Andy Lemmel, and John Beech.

Scott Lambeth, fishing with his son Adam and Month Peters on the Mercury powered Yellowfin, Sundance Kid, earned seventh place with a 37.69. On day one they came to the scales with two identical kings. “We had a great day, catching 13 kings plus two of those were good ones,” said Lambeth, who acknowledged that his son had caught the fish. “We fished the stink hole off Government Cut and caught one of the two good kings at eight o’clock in the morning. Amazing we caught the twin at four thirty, two miles apart. One hit a blue runner on the surface, the other a goggle eye off the downrigger.” Adam was the events Top Junior Angler and also picked up the $500 Mercury outboard Scholarship Award.

“We finally got the stink off the boat,” said Ralph Smith Jr., captain of the eighth place team, Knockdown. We’ve been looking for the leader board and finally got there.” The team of Barry Bichard, Zachary Bichard, Mark Odell, and Jamie Hedges, caught their 36.71 on the bottom using a ribbonfish at 1:45 on day two. Zack picked up second place honors in the Junior Division.

Katie and Molly Boyle were the events Top Lady anglers from the Head First team. Chad Roll, team Captain, also led Declan Jolowski to a third place finish in the junior ranks. “We fished right out front of the inlet and caught a 34.93 at 8:30 in 110 feet of water using a goggle eye,” said Roll who fishes a Suzuki powered Sea Fox.

Ron Mitchell’s Bandit also found the leader board’s tenth slot.

Steve Carman’s Reel Slick was in sixth place overall when the first day of fishing came to an end. Carman, Larry Vogt, and Paul Harnage, had scaled a nice 31.08 but as day two came to an end, they settled for first place Class of 23, a great weekend. This is their first event in Division 10.

Raul Hernandez brought his new Evinrude powered Bluewater to the event and won second place Class of 23. Raul, his son the Captain, Jon Paul, his daughter Kristen Lupola, and Melissa King caught a 21.11 on day one and hung onto second place when the event came to an end. A great way to christen a new boat.

Tony Albelo and his tournament team again put on a stellar event. Food and open bars all three days of the event kept anglers on site after the event ended each day for lots of camaraderie and fun. His new fish pole scale stand was the hit of the show. Congrats Tony!


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