Mexico Beach, Cape San Blas & Port St. Joe Florida
 We are entering the final weekend of the 2011 98 Real Estate Ling Ding and I would like to thank all of you for your support.  We think it's been a great first year and we doubled our goal of boats for the first year and ended up with 61 boats entered.  We will be having one last finale on the final day of the weigh-in this Saturday at the Mexico Beach Marina.  Mike from Prickly Pear will be smoking a whole pig and there will be free BBQ, cold drinks, and live music from 3:30 to 6:30CST.  We also have a handful of door prizes including 3 Penn spinning rod combos with Half-hitch rods.  Captains must be present to win.  Once the scales are closed at 5:30CST, we will have plaques and checks for all of the winners.  Thanks to Nate, Bill, and everybody at the Mexico Beach Marina for hosting and helping out with this event.  It should be a fun time and I hope you will come out join us.

There were fish everywhere early last week with most boats catching multiple fish.  By the time the weekend rolled around, the fish seemed to have vanished and it was a tough weekend of fishing.  There were a number of boats and anglers that covered a lot of water and didn't even see a cobia, including myself.  These tough conditions didn't stop 9 year old Joseph Farrell from catching his first cobia and winning week 4 of Ling Ding with this 32.05 lb winner caught on Saturday.   

There wass also a huge Spanish mackeral caught aboard the Triton and Captian Stan Norris.  This fish is almost twice as big as the previous biggest Spanish and they are in the lead at 7.06 lbs.  They had another 6 lb fish that day as well.     

 

 The overall leader of biggest cobia is still captain Jeff Mormon aboard the First Light with this 66.46 lb fish caught in week 2.

     

There are 2 more days of fishing left.  The seas are looking a little on the rough side this weekend and please be safe on the water.

I hope to see you Saturday at the finale and good luck to everyone.

Take care,

Zach Childs

Broker- 98 Real Estate Group

850-819-0833