2008 Fair Haven Challenge Final Results

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Some very tough fishing in the Eastern Basin sure did try the nerves of a very high percentage of anglers during the 5th annual 2008 Fair Haven event. Team Striker with Eric Marcinkowski took honors with a 5 fish limit averaging just under 22 lbs. per King. Hats off to Eric and crew who stuck it out and worked mostly waters just outside the pack.

Team Liquid Plumber with Del Casterline always manages to be in the top of the mix, Del and crew knows what it takes to win and they always put themselves in position, Nice Job Guys !! Impressive box with an average of 19+ lbs. per King.

As Team Screamer pulled every straw out-a-the bag we had to pull we could only generate a total of 6 bites (one of which was a 9 lb. catfish on a Hammer fly), we were perfect landing each of 5 Kings that hit, but that was it, we could not upgrade and could not generate another strike, one tough event! Team Screamer was looking for the 4th win in a row but fell short to Del and Eric, Thanks Dave, Joe and Bart for another great experience on your team.

A youth on the team of Ace Charters took the big fish of the event with an outstanding King weighing 31 lbs. They won a cool $1100.00 in cash and a nice plaque. Ace also captured the 1st Annual Shane Zimmerman memorial award for his team taking the largest fish from all 3 Challenges and will hold the memorial cup for 1 year.

Only 3 teams took the tourney 5 fish limit, and many top dog teams of the over 70 entered left scratching their heads as the southerly winds were moving our temp's around by the hour, fishing was as tough as it gets !! Great job to each and every team who put a fish in the box.

Great job to Werner Stenger who stepped back in to move the event along, thanks to everyone else who helped, look for these Eastern Basin "Challenge" events to grow each year in numbers of participants as the interest continually grows. They sure are a tremendous amount of fun and truly worth looking into for a weekend of competitive fun, we see more and more repeat participants looking forward to each event.

Team Striker

Ace Charters Big Fish Jimmy Samia

Pictured with the team is Shanes' dad Lester Zimmerman

1) Team Striker 109 7/8

2) Liquid Plumber 96 1/2

3) Screamer / A-TOM-MIK 95 7/16

4) Beginners Luck 87 5/16

5) Play Pen 73 15/16

6) Little Tim 70 3/16

7) Sunchaser 69 5/16

Fish Chopper / Siggs 63

9) Christie 11 58 13/16

10) Fish Hawk 53 1/4

11) Going Deep 111 49

12) Fish Nutz 44 1/8

13) Sparks 43 1/4

14) Lucky Enuff 32 5/8

15) Defiance 31 9/16

16) Ace Charters 31

17) Fishfull Thinking 30 1/2

18) Grand Slam 29 3/16

19) Flash Five 27 7/16

20) Bandit 24 5/8

21) Cruz Con-Troll 22 7/16

22) Billy V 21 3/16

23) Patricia B 20 1/16

24) Team Doubled Up 19 1/4

25) Doolin Fish 18 15/16

26) Salmon Bound 17 7/16

27) Coyotee 14 3/16

28) Fish Heads 13 3/16

29) Sea Dog 12 13/16

30) Little Brown 12 1/16

31) Popeye 10 9 /16

32) Doghouse 7 5/8

Tom

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Fantastic job getting involved as always Tom! Everyone involved with the FHC should be proud of a job well done! I know we had fun

Tough fishing has been the theme for most every event this year, and this one was no exception. Boy....who would have expected it after the Niagara Pro Am?

Looking forward to a full tournament schedule next year