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Surf & Turf: Clay Powell’s Catch of a Lifetime!

I was out on Lake Marion in Santee, SC with a friend in my 22 ft. Chris-Craft center console fishing boat in the latter part of September 2004. We got out on the water around 7:00 and waited for a while. We weren’t having any luck fishing the bottom with live bait, so when the wind started to pick up and blow the boat around, we decided to move.

When I started to bring my line in, I thought I was caught on a stump. But when I pulled on it, it pulled back! It wasn’t until I got it up to the surface that I realized what I had. The catfish weighted 36 lbs. and was over 3 ft. long. It was the only thing I caught that day. We used the meat to have a cook out and fish fry here at the course.

Clay Powell
Golf Course Superintendent
Classic Golf Group, Inc.
Black Bear Golf & Country Club
Longs, South Carolina

Add comment October 15th, 2007

Surf & Turf: David Fenton’s Catch of a Lifetime!

I was on the boat Tailwalker with Captain Scott Walker out of Hawks Cay Marina in Duck Key, FL on May 11th, 2007. I was with my wife Jackiy and friends Jeff Grube and Carey Patton on a full day charter fishing in the Gulf Stream some 20 miles out.

We were sight casting to fish along a weed line when we saw this monster. We threw a google eye at him for bait and he hit and the fight was on. I used spinning tackle with 20 lb. test and the battle lasted about an hour and fifteen minutes.

The fish weighed in at 59.2 lbs. and measured 65″ from nose to the fork of the tail. The days take included our limit of 40 dolphin - 4 of which were over 20 lbs.

As you can tell, I was a bit excited!

David Fenton
Golf Course Superintendent
Quail Creek Country Club
Naples, Florida

Add comment September 4th, 2007