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The Triple Tail Classic is now in the history books.\u00a0 This is the 5th<\/sup> consecutive year that this event has been held as a tag and release challenge for triple tail that benefits the Gulf Coast Research Lab.\u00a0 This year there were over 38 boats with over 90 anglers that participated.\u00a0 They came from Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Georgia.\u00a0 The event encompassed an area from Pensacola Bay to Biloxi beginning at 7am on Saturday morning and ending at 4pm.\u00a0 There were multiple categories for first fish caught, the most fish, the biggest fish, and the overall grand champion based on the lowest number of points.<\/p>\n I am proud to say that the Gulf Coast Fly Fishing team of founder Thomas Dempsey and his son Todd Dempsey tied for first overall for the grand championship which was awarded on a tie-breaker, bumping GCFF into second place.\u00a0 That being said, the event was considered a huge success.\u00a0 The Gulf Coast team was tied for first place and actually lost on a small technicality.\u00a0 But everyone had fun and the Gulf Coast team caught 4 fish out of a total of 36 triple tails that were caught during the tournament.\u00a0 All the fish were tagged for a research project that the Gulf Coast Research Lab supports as an ongoing project for the health and sustainability for the triple tail species.<\/p>\n \u201cThanks\u201d should be giving to Noble and Danelle Davidson for their continuing support and production of this tournament.\u00a0 \u00a0They work hard every year to make sure the tournament comes off smoothly.\u00a0 Despite living in Apalachicola, FL, Danelle\u2019s and Noble\u2019s tireless participation ensures that this is one of the best, if not the best, fishing tournaments that I have ever been associated with.\u00a0 Kudos to both of them.<\/p>\n Saturday evening finished with a band, Moe\u2019s BBQ, the presentation of awards and the congratulations of all the participants and volunteers.\u00a0 The Gulf Coast Fly Fishing club looks forward to participating next year and we\u2019ll see you on the water!<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery gallery_ids=”1274,1275,1276,1277,1278,1279″ posts_number=”8″ _builder_version=”4.25.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_gallery][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Triple Tail Classic is now in the history books.\u00a0 This is the 5th consecutive year that this event has been held as a tag and release challenge for triple tail that benefits the Gulf Coast Research Lab.\u00a0 This year there were over 38 boats with over 90 anglers that participated.\u00a0 They came from Florida, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"yoast_head":"\n