LIZELLA, Ga. (September 7, 2011) – Clint Barghi, of Friendswood, Texas, caught a redfish and speckled sea trout that measure a combined 51.75 inches in length to the win the IFA Kayak Fishing Tour Offered by Hobie Fishing event at Corpus Christi, Texas, on September four. The event, which operated out of Marker 37, was the previous of 3 normal-time events for the IFA Kayak Fishing Tour’s Texas Division.

Fishing in the Rockport, Texas, location, Barghi employed Berkley Gulp! bait underneath a popping cork to get benefit of the day’s windy conditions. His redfish, which measured 33.00 inches, won him the $ 100 Berkley Gulp! Big Redfish Award, which also integrated a $ 100 Cabela’s gift card, courtesy of Berkley, for catching the fish on Gulp!. For profitable the function, Barghi also took house a Hobie Mirage Professional-Angler Kayak valued at $ 2,499.

“The situations have been windy, which is just what we necessary, so I fished wind-blown shorelines with Gulp! all day,” Barghi explained. “This is the best-operate kayak series close to and I couldn’t be far more fired up to win.”

2nd-spot finisher, Chase Okrasinski, of New Braunfels, Texas, measured a 29.25-inch redfish and a 20-inch trout for a total size measurement of 49.25 inches to protected the $ one,000 second-place prize. Fishing in and about the Bird Island region, Okrasinski used best-water lures to target wind-blown shorelines and spoil financial institutions where boat traffic had concentrated bait educational institutions.

“The winds ended up northerly in comparison to the southerly winds I’m used to at this spot, but the boat visitors genuinely appeared to give me an gain as it pushed bait onto the particular spoil region I was fishing,” Okrasinski said. “I’m happy with my complete. Finding tournament trout this time of calendar year is tough.”

3rd-area finisher, Al Denham, of Bay Metropolis, Texas, won $ five hundred for his redfish and trout, which measured a blended 49 inches in length, employing Berkley Gulp! and tough baits for the duration of the occasion.

Fifth-spot finisher, Brian Weems, won the $ 200 Hobie Top rated Angler prize for obtaining the greatest spot of finish for an angler competing from a Hobie Kayak. Mason McWilliams, who completed 17th, won the $ one hundred Berkley Gulp! Huge Trout Award for this 23-inch catch, which also included an further $ a hundred Cabela’s present card, courtesy of Berkley, for catching the fishing on Gulp!.

Every single of the Cabela’s IFA Redfish Tour 18 regular-period activities will commence on Saturday with the IFA Kayak Fishing Tour Introduced by Hobie Fishing contested the next day (Sundays). In its second season, the IFA Kayak Fishing Tour Presented by Hobie will attribute 18 regular-period, catch-photograph-launch occasions across six distinct division (mirroring the IFA Redfish Tour format, place and scheduling) as effectively as very worthwhile payouts and expanded fishing possibilities for non-motorized fishing crafts.

The redfish/trout tournament will pay 20 spots (primarily based on a 100-boat discipline) as well as Huge Redfish, Huge Trout and Junior Angler Awards. The winner will just take house a Hobie Mirage Pro-Angler valued at $ 2,499, 2nd location prize will be a $ 1,000 and 3rd spot $ 500 Hobie cash. New for 2011, kayak anglers can take advantage of the Angler’s Benefit plan. Anglers who participate in the program can spend an added $ 25 entry fee, which is paid back at a hundred percent to participants, based on place of complete. Lucrative contingency applications added for 2011 include $ fifty prize to the group proclaiming the huge fish award in an IFA Redfish Tour occasion if the fish is landed with an EGO Web, $ twenty five prize for both the huge redfish and big trout in IFA Kayak Fishing Tour occasions a PENN reel for tournament-successful angler who competes with PENN reel.

The IFA Redfish and IFA Kayak Fishing Tours continues to draw redfish anglers from Texas to the Carolinas and beyond, providing anglers the possibility to contend in six different divisions, each and every providing a three-occasion regular time. Lower entry service fees for the one-day, normal-year tournaments enables anglers to fish shut to property and decrease bills, while even now getting a element of a premier inshore, catch-and-release redfish tournament organization. Groups fishing any a few of the IFA’s eighteen normal-period functions are automatically certified for a no-entry-charge championship occasion, pitting qualifiers from every of the six divisions for dollars and prize deals, as well as a shot at the coveted Overall Divisional Staff of the Yr Award for the 6 typical-year division winners.

For a lot more details or to become a member of the IFA, the quickest-increasing inshore fishing tournament series in the United States, go on-line to www.redfishtour.com or www.ifakayakfishingtour.com. To find out more about kayaking and Hobie Fishing go to www.hobiefishing.com.

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IFA Texas Division
Corpus Christi, Texas (Top rated ten)
one. Clint Barghi – 51.seventy five inches

two. Chase Okrasinski – 49.twenty five inches

3. Al Denham – 49.00 inches

4. John Kay – 45.63 inches

five. Brian Weems – 45.63 inches

six. Melinda Moudy – 45.fifty inches

7. James Tesch – 45.25 inches

8. Cody Phillips – 45.13 inches

9. Fil Spencer – 45.00 inches

ten. Cindy Hood – 43.13 inches

$ 200 Hobie Contingency:

Brian Weems

$ a hundred Berkley GULP! Huge Redfish Award + $ a hundred Cabela’s Present Card from Berkley:
Clint Barghi (33.00 inches)

$ one hundred Berkley GULP! Large Trout Award + $ 100 Cabela’s Gift Card from Berkley:
Mason McWilliams (23.00 inches)