2015 King of the Beach Fall event booklet

$50,000 CASH 1st Place Overall GUARANTEED

November 5th-6th-7th, 2015

Table of Contents Meet the Old Salts................................. 5 Letter from the President........................ 7 City Manager of Madeira Beach............ 9 Schedule of Events..........................10-11 KOTB basics........................................ 13 Mad Beach Food Fest......................16-17 Article by Capt. Dave Mistretta Past winner.....................19,21-23,25 2016 Old Salt Calendar....................... 27 KOB Map & Sponsors.....................30-31 Article by Shelby Bachnik...............56-57 Area Resources Listing Apparel.......................................... 36 Auto Repair.................................... 36 Bait & Tackle Shops........................ 36 Charity Organizations.................... 37 Charters - Fishing........................... 37 Construction & Repairs.................. 38 Fine Art.......................................... 38 Jewelers......................................... 38 Lodging, Rentals & Real Estate....... 38 Marinas.......................................... 39 Marine Products............................. 39 Marine Sales & Services................. 40 Media/Press.................................... 40 Misc. Retail - Services.................... 41 Printing.......................................... 41 Professional Services...................... 42 Restaurants, Food & Beverage........ 42 Old Salt Fishing Foundation PO Box 8564 • Madeira Beach, FL 33738 (727) 216-6601 • info@oldsaltfishing.org www.OldSaltFishing.org Graphics: Amy Verdensky Photos: John Osborne, Amy Verdensky and Jim Alexander

Fishing for Hope offers anglers across the Tampa Bay area the opportunity to help 22,000 struggling families with food assistance during the holiday season. Our goal this year is to collect 40,000 lbs. of food.

Ways You Can Help “Sink The Boat” • Donate Online (we’ll purchase food from your donation) • Bring your food donations to the King of the Beach Tournament • Donate at the S.S. Hope drop off locations across Pinellas & Pasco Counties (see website) • Donate at the Fishing For Hope Event in Tampa - Nov. 21st at Metropolitin Ministries Holiday Tent (9am-1pm) 22nd Annual Fall Old Salt King of the Beach • Page 3

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The Old Salt Fishing Foundation is comprised of all types of people, their preferred angling methods and involvement in our events and tournaments. The 2015 Board of Directors would like to thank everyone, whether you’re behind the scenes volunteering, fishing and participating, or one of our sponsors and supporters. Our combined efforts keeps a 44 year old tradition growing stronger and stronger. It’s all of you, past and present, that make up this great foundation and the good works we do in our fishing community!

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Support family interaction & camaraderie through fishing, science, conservation and education.

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OFFER a highly competitive and exciting skill levels, ages and fishing styles.

EDUCATE anglers through our monthly meetings with informative speakers and interaction with other club members.

CREATE meaningful programs to engage youth in our community.

MAINTAIN the highest standards of honesty, integrity and sportsmanship in all that we do.

PROMOTE fishing the Gulf Coast open waters, Tampa Bay, and all Florida waters through membership, outreach and advertising.

INFORM members and non-members alike of conservation, environmental and fishery management issues that we currently face or will ultimately face in the future.

SUPPORT and show appreciation to our donors, sponsors for their generous contributions that assure the Old Salt’s existence.

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So, As I am sitting at one of my local watering holes I overhear someone mention a rumor about the King of the Beach. I obviously have to tune in. A few days later I hear it again, then the text messages start to roll in. At this point I could not (or would not) confirm or deny the gossip on the street. This rumor was so big it spread like wildfire through the fishing community.

So finally the announcement and confirmation that everyone was waiting for was made ... YES, a 1st place guarantee of $50,000, 50K, 50 Large, 50 grand ... whatever you wanna call that kind of cash. (It’s hard to keep a rumor mill down, especially when your own VP starts it!) This fall will mark a record amount of prize payouts for the King of the Beach.

All of the excitement has brought one main question from our anglers and sponsors: Why? Well, the truth of the matter is, it is for you (the angler) and our community.

We want to celebrate our great fishery and either bring people back or keep people fishing. We also want to showcase our area and to show our sportsmanship and hospitality to new and traveling anglers. It is part of the Old Salt mission to support family interaction & camaraderie through fishing, what better way than to have the largest and richest Kingfish tournament in the country.

At the King of the Beach it is anyone’s game. We have always been the leaders in making tournaments fair with equal opportunity. So when the overall prize goes up, so does the single engine 1st place prize. We are giving away a 300 hp Suzuki Re-power package valued at over $20,000 thanks to Mastry Engine Center and Suzuki. This now puts us over $150,000 in cash and prizes and a celebration party like none other.

There is more than $50,000 reasons to fish!

The excitement is building as the event is growing near to answer the question, “What does a $50,000 Kingfish look like?” It could be you that we crown our next King!

Tight lines & Calm Sea’s Tom Verdensky A special thanks to the fine city of Madeira Beach, our sponsors, past Presidents, past and present board members, committee members and volunteers, and of course our anglers!

This booklet is dedicated to a lifetime member Joe Sheehan Sr. aka Philadelphia Phil and all past and present volunteers.

The King of the Beach will not be the same without you.

We miss you and your photos.

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The City would like to thank the Old Salts Foundation for choosing our community to host their tournament with us and we hope everyone enjoys the new accommodations the City Centre has to offer. So with that, I ask you all to enjoy yourselves and be safe.

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Savor the Moment

By: Captain Dave Mistretta

Walking through the entrance to the KOTB captains meeting is quite an experience. You can feel it in the air. An event of extraordinary proportion is taking place. Local businesses bring their best, to publically strut their stuff.

Various restaurants squeeze together like a can of sardines their booths side by side, each trying to outdo the other’s dish. Various fishing and boating companies proudly display their products with experts eager to give you an earful. Nautical artists stand under their temporary tent galleries, hopeful to sell unique pieces of art. Bouncy houses set up for the kids. Venders strategically sandwiched between it all, diligently competing for business lines at every porta potty in the house. This place is jammed packed, full of people. You can easily find fishing teams huddled everywhere in clusters, flaunting their designer hats & shirts, plastered with every kingfish design you could imagine. Others, old schooling it, sporting their flip flops & board shorts. Some even roll off their boat, toting white rubber boats and foul weather gear many still smelling like fish. Numerous families stroll thru the event in amazement, trying grasp all that’s going on. Pinellas County Sheriff deputies in full force; everywhere you look, making sure it all runs smoothly. It always does. This place resembles a giant nautical state fair on

steroids, only waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better.

It’s the King of the Beach!

Now, add 1000 spectators, plus 500 lying fisherman to this mix. Also add the beer trucks with multiple taps flowing like a river; combined with the smell of so many different delicious foods, it’ll make your stomach growl. Then, add live music that rocks the entire complex and even across the entire bay.

Over top all the commotion, a loud speaker bellows, “ Welcome to the 2015 Spring King of the Beach”.

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That’s what I call one Wing Ding of a captains meeting. It’s TRULY a magical event.

This is the stuff in life that makes me tick. You can always count on bumping into someone you haven’t seen in years. It’s a 23 year long monumental historical event in the makings folks.

To me, this is like attending the Super Bowl of King Fishing, The World Series of Mackerel , and the Stanley Cup of Kingfish, all combined into one.

This is a big deal in the world of Dave. If you are ate up with the fishing bug like me, and many attending this event, you totally get what I’m trying say. The KOB is hands down the biggest kingfish tournament around. For years it’s held the title for being the largest kingfish tourney on the west coast of Florida. Around 400 boats; captains and crew giving their all to take home the crown.

The reason this event is so big: It all started 23 years ago. Local fisherman wanted a tournament that had decent payouts and could grow to unimaginable size. Who better to take hold of the reigns than The Old Salt Fishing Foundation. For years, this organized group of volunteers has supported many great causes. Basically, this is an organized group of fishing folks that have joined a club, simply wanting to give back to the community and have fun along the way. Now how about that folks! As the years went on, prizes got better and a lot of money has been raised for many good causes. The tournament grew to substantial size. This tournament has sentimental value of epic proportion from all angles. Thank you Old Salts for all you have done.

Our team has been fishing tournaments together since childhood, dating back to the 70s. This tournament brings us all together from our different lives. We reminisce about the past and fish harder than one could ever imagine. We have a ball. That’s what it’s all about. The entire day of the spring tourney , immediately after we caught the giant winning king, lifelong friend and team mate Rob Somers repeatedly kept saying , “savor the moment ...savor the moment....Savor the moment!! We don’t know when it’s going to happen again. By the way, Rob was the angler who landed our winning fish. He’s always worked the back of the boat, and hasn’t landed a big money fish in years. He was due, but always seemed to have his head buried in the live well looking for that perfect bait. He would more than often say,” It’s all about the bait”.

How true. We always joked that it would be the 50lber when it was finally his turn.

Today was his day. It was our day!

When we walked up on the stage and took the crown for the first time in 22 years, it was amazing.We finally broke, the at least 6 times, 2nd place curse.We didn’t get beat by a few ounces this time, like so many times before. The KOTB no longer eludes us.

We did it; teammates repeatedly announce to us on regular basis, savor the moment, savor the moment! We will savor this moment like a giant porterhouse steak. A 49.12lb. mouth watering kingsteak, to be exact. It was an emotional moment. The rest of this story will explain further why this crown has even more meaning. We are honored to hold the crown until the next winner goes onstage. Maybe it will be us again. You never know. Only twice in KOTB history has that happened. Why not?

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It’s all about the Smile I’d like to share our winning day, in the spring of 2015, with you - from start to finish so that I can further explain how wonderful this whole thing is..... called the “KING OF THE BEACH” Our day starts with winds 15 knots and gusty. Many of the boats opted to fish Egmont channel where the land protects many king spots. Many tournaments have been won in these protected waters of the Bay. That’s what makes this area unique from other locations. There always seems to be somewhere fishable in Tampa Bay, no matter the weather conditions.

We were thinking outside the box and decided to ruff it, We fished an area that was holding bait 9 days prior. Forecast said it would be calming as the day went on, so things looked promising.

Nobody had really got out much to scout, since the winds were pretty high for over a week. It leveled the playing field, since no one really quite knew where the fish were in the Gulf. It was a game of educated guesses and a little luck. That’s what makes a 400 boat tourney so interesting and that is why it took 22 years for us to win this coveted crown. It’s simply anyone’s game and that’s why we savor this particular day forever.

First set of baits out is when the big gal hit. She screamed off what seemed to be a mile of line as we went into full pursuit. Five minutes later and a bunch of salt water sprayed in our face we stuck the hog. The 61” sea monster just kept coming over the gunnels.

Our smiles grew right past our ear lobes. We all roared with excitement. My hands still stings from the high fives received from each teammate. You gotta love that.

Our state of mind once things calmed was, get back to work. There’s got to be a bigger one out there. If we stop fishing and go to the scales too confident, we just knew someone would beat us. Then, we are back to, yes another 2nd place finish. Even with this huge fish we could barely squeeze into our fish bag. We were obviously in shock. It was 8:00 in the morning and we had what looked like a fifty in the bag. So, what did we do? We fished harder for the remainder of the morning as if we didn’t have a hog buried in ice. Not once did we look at the beastly king. Did we want to? Heck yea, but we didn’t. Four straight hours, we trolled in pretty unpleasant sea conditions trying to get even a bigger fish. All the time wondering if someone had a bigger fish in his or her bag.

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Fourteen-year-old Josh Heavenridge landed an 18lber and didn’t even want to weigh it. He was thinking big after the beast we gaffed earlier. You got to love that kid. He’s a competitor. We finally convinced him to reluctantly weigh the fish. He won some wonderful prizes for 2nd place junior. Girlfriend Charlene was next on the rod next trying to nab a ladies trophy. She has been fishing numerous tournaments and her number hasn’t come up yet. That day it almost did. She’s a tiny little thing and did a great job, in the nasty conditions, but hooks pulled at the gaff. Her fish in twenties swam away. She was bummed. Dave Heavenridge pointed to the stuffed bag and shouted winner-winner chicken dinner! She laughed. We kept fishing. The entire time we kept wondering if we were still stuck in the curse of second place finish at the King of the Beach, again and for the 7th time in 22 years. Either way it somehow felt soothing. We were in a good place no matter what. We were grateful.

By noon the shock of what we had accomplished set in. It was time to get back to shore for precautionary reasons, just in case we had boat issues. Not once did we look at the fish for fear of disrupting even one ounce of precious slime.

All we had to do is open the tackle bag and weigh the monster with our 60lb Boca grip.

We opted instead for the butterflies in the tummy, mystery-like waiting game. Again savoring the moment.

Now, the hurry up and wait part of catching a big fish. Oh yes, this is quite a feeling to have a fish in your bag you know is bigger than the 42lber currently leading the tourney, once we arrived. We purposely avoided the excited anglers, since they thought they had the winner.

This is tournament fishing, folks. Fun but, it can be brutal sometimes. Who knows, we never weighed ours. Maybe we were too excited and over judged its size. We opted to keep quiet. We hung out under an old oak tree off to the side. Friends came to peek in the bag at its tail. All their responses were WoOWSA!!

On this special occasion we tried to wait till the end. I mean this was tournament fishing at its best. Big fish in the bag, first baits out landing it, extremely untidy sea conditions. It doesn’t get any better does it? Well, as you will read it truly does. Finally with 30 minutes left, we couldn’t take it and got in line to weigh. When Dave and Josh Heavenridge pulled that beast from the fish bag, I knew we’d won. It was truly an overwhelming experience.

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What happened later that day tops all of what we accomplished in the early hours of the tourney. As a team, we decided to donate half the $20,000 prize to our good friend /fellow teammate and very special person, Jon West. He was trying to soak in all the bad news he just received. It was the news that no one wants to hear. The doctor informed him that he had stage 4 cancer and needed immediate surgery and treatment. We decided that the money was great, but he needed it much more than us. Anyone who has experienced this trauma knows it’s financially impossible to keep up with it all. That’s what true friends are for.

After emotionally announcing his condition during our awards ceremony, something even more beautiful happened. Yes, it got even better. People started walking up and handing their checks to us, stating he really did need the money more than them too. For days, this kept happening from all directions.

Jill Foraker headed the Old Salt team to immediately start a fundraiser for JON, raising another 15k to add to all the generous offerings from others.

Captains gave charters, art work was donated… it was an amazing session of giving, rather than taking.

The fishing community stood tall and joined together to help a fallen fisherman during his toughest battle of his life.

I love our community and what this all stands for. People are awesome and the proof can be found in the crowd of fisherman congregated at all the KING OF THE BEACH tournaments. Just look around you at the next captains meeting and smile! You have every right to smile. You all, as a community, helped a fallen fisherman. I thank God every day to be able to be a part of all these kind gestures. And yes... miracles do happen.

Jon is in his final week of chemotherapy. It was a long brutal journey, but it ends with what i think is the first of many mirales to come. His doctor gave him the news everyone wants to hear during the tale end of his 4 month chemo treatment.

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2016 SCHEDULE OF TOURNAMENTS & EVENTS 26th Annual Johnny Kellar Inshore Tournament January 28th & January 30th, 2016 Old Salt Marine Garage & Swap Sale March 5th, 2016 23rd Annual Spring King of the Beach & Mad Beach Food Fest April 28th, 29th & 30th, 2016 6th Annual Bone Fishing Slam & Baddest BBQ on the Bone Festival June 16th, 17th & 18th, 2016 TRIPLE CROWN BILLFISH SERIES Yellowfin Billfish Classic July 26th - 30th, 2016 Crosthwait Memorial August 9th - 13th, 2016 45th Annual All Release LOOP August 23rd - 27th, 2016 28th Annual Inshore/Offshore Ladies Tournament September 8th & 10th, 2016 Rendezvous (Old Salt Retreat) - Location TBD September 22nd - 25th, 2016 23nd Annual Fall King of the Beach & Mad Beach Food Fest October 20th-21st-22nd, 2016 Special Needs Kids Fishing Day November 5th, 2016 Fishing for Hope Food Drive October thru November, 2016

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IT’S ANYONE’S WIN Something I always expect while kingfishing, and particularly during King of the Beach, is the waiting game. Sitting at the bow of my father, Eric Bachnik’s 21 foot Privateer, either basking in the returning spring rays from the unforgiving sun above, or enjoying the first hints of a slight fall chill. We have the radio going shamelessly on Dad’s favorite country station as he and my Uncle Ray reassemble lines and put on fresh lady fish, blue runners, etc. to offer (hopefully) a silvery and quick swimming passerby. As for myself, I am laid out along the old fiberglass deck of the boat taking up the place of where said 40 pound kingfish should be.

Last Spring, we manned these positions once again in hopes to bring “Shelby’s Dream” back to the weigh in with a full cooler. It was an interesting sight that day. After a long while of minimum action and almost no hookups, a fellow single engine bearing boat got the shot at a bent rod. Dad explained to me that it was a much respected kingfish angler, Jimmy Hasson, of Team Second Choice. We had a front row seat to see Jimmy effortlessly gaff the fat, healthy “King” and swing him into the boat in one motion while another crew member fought the second place- winning fish.

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We worked hard that day, put out the right sized ladies and blues, but didn’t get the lucky bite we sought after. It may have been frustrating at the time, but returning for yet another year of fishing I will remember Jimmy’s bite and remember we have a chance of catching a fish like this too.

With this, I offer advice for those interested in fishing this year: don’t let the size of your boat, or the amount of experience you have intimidate you. Most importantly enjoy the day of fishing, even if its slow, enjoy it with a smile. For, at the end of the day, the measurement of smiles will go far beyond the amount of pounds to hit the scale.

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