OIB Fishing Team Breaks All Records!

Congratulations to the tournament team of the the Ocean Isle Fishing Center! It is hard to put in perspective the events and good fortune that the Ocean Isle Fishing Center tournament team had this past weekend while fishing the SKA National Championship tournament in Biloxi, MS.

The O.I.F.C. Team weighed the largest King Mackerel EVER weighed in the 19 year history of the SKA and quite possibly the largest King EVER weighed in any competition. And they did it on the grandest stage of all, the Southern Kingfish Association’s National Championship tournament.

The tournament format awards winners based on a 2 fish aggregate, and the record breaking 74.10 that we weighed coupled with a very respectable 44.03, made for an aggregate of 118.13 pounds, the highest aggregate total EVER in any SKA National Championship; and thus the Ocean Isle Fishing Center team is now the 2009 National Champion.

To take it one step further, the 74.1 shattered the Mississippi state record of 64 pounds, caught by Dan Abshire back in the early 2000’s. The sentiments of most of the tournament participants was that the event was no longer about winning the Nationals, it became about the fish.

The O.I.F.C. Team says they are truly humbled by the honor of catching such an incredible fish.