Here are some good photos with great stories. The first is of my 15 yr old brother Dominic Salvatori. Throughout the summer tournaments over here on the Gulf Coast he kept telling me to "Put him on a Damn WAHOO". We used your service to locate prime areas approx. 150 miles off Bradenton (FL) and I put him on his first wahoo. He was awarded Most Outstanding Junior Angler for the Pete Turner Memorial Tournament for catching 4 of the 6 fish we weighed in, including his wahoo. I have also attached a photo from the midnight weigh-in of that tournament, after 40 hours offshore and 380 miles of running hard in a 25 footer we were happy to be home (left to right, Rocco Salvatori, Dominic Salvatori, and Brian Knuckles). The next photo is the entire Balls Deep Offshore Fishing Team (left to right, Kenny Jenkins, Dominic Salvatori, Rocco Salvatori, and Brian Knuckles) at the weigh-in of The Anna Maria Island Comunity Center Tournmament. We used your service to get on a nice Blackfin tuna bite 100 miles offshore. These were not the normal small tuna that we get in the gulf. They were all close to 30lbs. The last tuna was caught with 2 and a half hours until the end of the weigh-in, needless to say we had to hustle through rough seas but we made the weigh-in with 7 minutes to spare. We finished in 2nd place and my brother Dominic, who had just had a cast removed from his broken arm the day before (look at the photo and the soft cast he was fishing with and how he couldn't even hold his own fish after the fight) was once again awarded an Outstanding Junior Angler award for a 29lb 13oz Blackfin that was 3 lbs shy of the Junior World Record. Not bad for 3 Firemen and a Kid in a 25ft boat. I am so proud of our team and cannot even begin to describe the dedication that it takes for them to fish as hard as they do in a small boat like ours. We had an outstanding rookie season with 2 second place finishes and are looking forward to winning some this summer with your help! Thanks!
Rocco Salvatori
Captain of the "Balls Deep" |
