Man Wins BIG Fishing Tournament Prize

I have never participated in a fishing tournament, but I totally get the folks that do.

The thrill of winning a competition of any kind is something that most folks crave at one point or another in their lives.

Put it to you this way, it’s the same reason why people cheer when their favorite sports team wins an important game.

We all love being the best at something, or cheering for someone that is trying to win on our behalf.

Which brings me to the Texas Star fishing tournament.

It is a competition that takes place off the coast of Corpus Christi, Texas. An amazing spot for some damn fine fishing by the way.

The way the whole thing works is that the competition organizers put actual tags on 126 redfish and your objective is to try and find them in the vast expanse of the fishing grounds.

Adrian Gutierrez recently participated in the competition and described the feeling of catching one of the tagged redfish.

“When you talk about emotions, I talked about that morning, I thought, ‘I just don’t want to have a heart attack if I catch a tagged redfish,” Gutierrez said.

Thankfully, he didn’t succumb to a heart attack. Instead he reeled in his fish about a mile from the boat dock near Laguna Madre.

“I looked up at the sky and I said, ‘C’mon God, put us on a fish. Uncle Rudy if you’re really up there… and it happened right after that,” Gutierrez said.

The tournament fishing area goes all the way along the Texas shoreline, approximately six hundred miles so to say that it was a one-in-a-million shot that he got one with a tag on it would be an understatement.

For this one in a million catch, he was able to take home approximately sixty thousand dollars’ worth of prizes, one of which being a 22-foot SVT Cat. I have to say, I might be rethinking this whole tournament thing after seeing that boat that he won.

I mean, if they are giving away boats…I mean, I could always use a new boat.