The 2011 Mercury Pompano Beach Fishing Rodeo is now in the record book and I wanted to take a few minutes to say thanks to everyone who participated, volunteered and supported us in so many ways.  It was another great year and we are already looking forward to 2012.

We have the best group of anglers anywhere and I hope everyone had as much fun as we did. Congratulations to Cappy Cheshire and his 65 pound winning king fish.   Cappy set the bar very high early on Friday and held on to win for the heaviest fish.  Congratulations to “High Gear”, our top boat. The team was hard to miss on the stage with Melanie’s hot pink boots!!  And congratulations to all our anglers for their hard work, good times and sportsmanship.

 

Thanks to all our great sponsors without whom we would not have a tournament.  I want to give a special word of thanks to our title sponsor, Mercury Marine.  I tried to go back and figure out how long Mercury has been a sponsor of our tournament but digging back that far through our archives (way before the computer age) was not going to happen.  Suffice to say it goes back over 30 years.  That is a record hard to beat.

Now it’s time to think about next year.  After a couple Miller Lite’s our committee came up with some  great ideas (and a few not so great!).  Seriously, we are always looking for suggestions to make the Rodeo even better and no one is more qualified to make those suggestions than our anglers.  I urge you to e-mail or call if you have any comments or questions.