Title: Get Hooked on Flounder!
By Jim Baugh
Reporting from the Flybridge
So what is new a top the Trojan flybridge? Well the key word is water filter. That's correct, a brand new 30,000-gallon water filter dedicated to our on board marine icemaker. I do treat the water that goes into the boat and clean the water tanks once a year. This type of regular maintenance helps insure clean drinking water while on board. A small water filter for an icemaker is an inexpensive solution that does not require large and expensive marine water purifiers. A small filter can be purchased for as little as $19 and the connections are only a buck or two. Our water filter installation went smoothly with the exception of blocking the interior fan movement with the filter itself. One I added more slack to the water line and repositioned the filter, the fan operated perfectly and cooling soon began. So now that I have some very clean ice for my delicious green tea, it is time to fill everyone in on what is going on over the next couple of months.
Get Hooked On Hampton Spring Open Fishing Tournament
May31st.
Sign up today!! This is going to be a good one. The Spring Open is a multi
species tourney with the largest cash prize going to the heaviest Flounder.
Other fish for cash placements include Cobia, Trout, Croaker, Rockfish, and
even a $100 price for the largest Oyster Toad. Over $3000 is cash will be
awarded and the largest over all fish winner will receive a FREE 4HP SUZUKI
FOUR STOKE OUTBOARD ENGINE. Each registered entrant will also receive one
Get Hooked On Hampton Spring Open tee shirt, there will also be many available
for sale at the tourney for other tourney participants.
The Tourney will be held Saturday May 31st, Blackbeard festival weekend. A
great weekend for the family, tons of activities, festival's, tournaments,
and a huge Block Party to celebrate the weekend events Saturday night on Queens
Way in downtown Hampton.
You do not even have to have a boat! Entrants may fish from a public pier
of bank that allows fishing. Fishing piers and Charter Boats are welcome and
can enter as a group or by individual. All entrants must be at the captains
meeting Friday night May 30th.
Early entry for the Tourney is ONLY $85.00 so sign up today. There is an entry
form in this issue of the Sportsman's, and they can also be downloaded from
the jimbaughoutdoors.com web site. Many retail outlets in the Hampton area
will also have plenty of registration forms on hand. For questions call 804-379-6643
or e mail at jbp100@comcast.net
It's Show Time!!
The efforts of our work for the past 14 months will be seen nationally on
The Outdoor Channel starting Saturday April 5th, at 4pm. Jim Baugh Outdoors
(JBO) will also be seen two additional times during the week on TOC: Wed.,
8:30am and Monday's at 1:30am. JBO will also air on the CBS affiliate WTKR
ch 3 Saturday mornings from 5:30 to 6:00am, and also will be providing local
fishing reports during the news. The local city channel in Hampton Virginia
(ch47) will also be airing a special block of JBO programs that are specially
edited and are commercial free. JBO will air four to six times per week for
the next three months. The entire 2003 series is also available on a new double
DVD set that can be ordered from our web site www.jimbaughoutdoors.com
What is new in the Jim Baugh Outdoors 2003 series?
Let's see, how about some segment's on: Artificial reef deployment, citation
Tog fish caught out of a sunken WW2 tank, monster Flounder, Croaker that are
to big for the bucket, cooking features from offshore Tilefish to quarter
pound Scallops, how to best bottom paint your boat, in-depth how too's on
rigging for trophy Flounder, pier fishing, how to bottom track for fish, and
to top it all off, an actual pirate wedding held at the Hampton Blackbeard
Festival.
It is defiantly one interesting series of programs.
Show Boat News
Jim Baugh Outdoors is in the process of purchasing and rigging out the new
30 ft JBO show boat that will be seen in principle production for the next
several years. Our first outboard rig will be twin 140 hp Suzuki four stroke
outboards. These engines will be featured on our program throughout the summer;
later in the fall the boat will be rigged with twin 250hp once available.
Marine Fabricators will be building the custom half tower that will be displaying
the 10 new Penn internationals. Fridays Marine in Saluda will be doing the
engine mounting and rigging. We plan on using Cooks Canvas out of Hampton
to rig out the boat with some nice canvas. In case you have not guessed, we
will be producing a lot more offshore programs during the 2003 shooting season.
What kind of boat is it? Is it new? Will it also have an icemaker with a filter?
Did you buy it at a trade show?
I get these questions a lot, except for the icemaker line. The answer is I
will let everyone know once the boat is in Hampton. We will also write a good
article on why we purchased the type of boat that we did and post it right
here in the Sportsman's. Hopefully we will have the new rig on display during
the Blackbeard Festival\Get Hooked On Hampton Spring Open Fishing Tournament
weekend. The new boat and our 36 Trojan will most likely also be on display
at this years Bay Day's on the waterfront in Hampton VA.
Mark your calendar for the weekend of May 31st today! The spring open tourney
and the Blackbeard festival is going to be a great way to kick off the summer.
For hotel and docking information, just visit our website at jimbaughoutdoors.com
or call the Hampton Public Piers at 757-727-1276
Wishing everyone dry bilges and light SSW winds.
Jim Baugh
Jim Baugh Outdoors TV
Jim Baugh Tournaments LLC
www.jimbaughoutdoors.com
Sponsored by:
Suzuki Marine, Hampton CVB, Sunset Boating Center, the Radisson Hotel Hampton,
Boaters World, the Venture Inn, Virginia Tourism, Marine Fabricators, and
Reel Jacket.
